Voice || Paranoia, paranoia, everybody's coming to get me...

[recognize_an_opportunity]

[When he turns on his communicator, he eschews video and only posts voice, his tone sounding more than a little on edge.]

Given the recent... developments... the hours of operation at my casino, Lucky's, are going to change quite a bit. For better or for worse, we'll be following curfew. We'll open earlier in the day to compensate for it, although I don't know too many people who like to gamble in the mid-afternoon.

[A pause.]

That should have been obvious, but seeing what's been happening to people around the City, I thought I'd make it crystal clear, yes? I can't shake this feeling that everything we say, everything we do, there's somebody listening. It's...

[A longer pause, where it sounds like he's practically holding his breath.]

Did anyone hear that? I think someone's watching me.

[[OOC: Paranoia was never a large leap for this one to make, anyway. He's only slightly paranoid now, but will grow more so over the day. Have... fun?]]

Comments

[deadmanbusiness]

[Oh. Hell yeah it is. And this is why Theo is paranoid normally. They really are watching him and they really are out to get him.]

Yep. Well, after the second time I was kidnapped by the age of six, he decided that would be the best way to keep track of me.

I don't know why people keep on trying to kidnap me, it never ends well for them.

[recognize_an_opportunity]

Kidnapping you to here seemed to have worked out so far.

[Cynical? Definitely.]

[deadmanbusiness]

It's the first time I've been kidnapped across dimensions like this. No one back home has that ability yet.

[He's not too worried. Eventually they'll find him. Eventually they'll get him back home.]

[recognize_an_opportunity]

And hopefully nobody back home will ever develop that ability.

[deadmanbusiness]

I dunno. It'd be pretty good for me!

[recognize_an_opportunity]

What, you mean if you wanted to kidnap people?

[deadmanbusiness]

Nah. They could come here. Kidnap me and take me back home. Then my father and fiancee would find them and probably kill them in a horrible manner.

But I'd be home.

[recognize_an_opportunity]

Remember what I said about not saying incriminating things? That sounds pretty incriminating.

[deadmanbusiness]

Or threatening.

Would asking for the 25th off be less incriminating?

[recognize_an_opportunity]

I won't ask why you need the 25th off. I don't want to know. You can have it.

[deadmanbusiness]

It's nothing horrible.

Just my birthday.

[recognize_an_opportunity]

Happy early birthday, in that case.

[deadmanbusiness]

I hope it'll be!

[recognize_an_opportunity]

How old'll you be?

[deadmanbusiness]

Twenty-Nine.

Does that make me old?

[recognize_an_opportunity]

I don't know about old, but I'll be twenty two pretty soon, and I've been feeling old lately, so maybe.

[deadmanbusiness]

Really? When's your birthday?

[recognize_an_opportunity]

July 4th.

[deadmanbusiness]

That must have sucked horribly.

[recognize_an_opportunity]

What, as a kid? It wasn't so bad.

[deadmanbusiness]

I guess it's not as bad as Christmas or Halloween. You got fireworks every year.

[recognize_an_opportunity]

Probably not here.

[deadmanbusiness]

No.... weeeeelll...

Actually, considering the City's tendency to follow American holidays when theming their curses, you might actually get something like fireworks.

[recognize_an_opportunity]

I expect it to pass with little fanfare, even if there are fireworks. I'll be at work, as usual.

[He doesn't even seem upset about that. In fact, he seems almost pleased by it.]

[deadmanbusiness]

You're going to work on your birthday?

Even my father takes off work on his birthday... or what ever day he's declared to be his birthday. It's hard to know with calenders changing so often.

Come on. Not even drinking or something fun?