070 x 070 // video/action // 4th wall

[dignity_misery]

[ She's out and about, currently pausing in the park to note, ]

I don't know how many times this has happened, but I only see someone I'd actually want to about two out of ten times.

[ Sigh. ]


[[ooc; all the 4th wall all the time]]

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[offtouch]

Don't go to Vegas with those odds.

[dignity_misery]

I'm a very good card counter.

[ Vegas it is. ]

[offtouch]

Woah. Wait. You mean for real? Isn't that kind of illegal?

[dignity_misery]

Whatever?

[offtouch]

Is that because you think you won't get arrested or you'll be so rich that it won't matter because then--

[talking...too much...]

I've never been soooo...

[dignity_misery]

It's because I don't care.

[ And never much has. ]

[offtouch]

It's kind of important though if you go to jail.

[dignity_misery]

Not particularly.

[offtouch]

The record though. Also the food. Lack of real food....

[dignity_misery]

[ She bothers to give that some actual consideration because... Food. ]

I could always eat my cellmate.

[ RIMSHOT. ]

[phantom_limbs]

That seems about right. Not a bad record, actually.

[dignity_misery]

I suppose it could be three out of eleven now. Maybe.

[phantom_limbs]

Maybe I'm flattered.

Need company for a meal? I'm starving.

[Also, broke.]

[dignity_misery]

You shouldn't be.

[ She's evolved ever so slightly from the desperate needy thing that was very frightened of him, has tried on emotions and cast them back on and tried them on again. She's reached a rather even keel of apathy, not quite numb but bored with the struggle. Still convinced of her own unfortunate nature however: pathetic and broken. ]

But we can eat.

[ She's always game. ]

[phantom_limbs]

Good, it sounded like a lot of work.

[Being decidedly dead these days he's not putting as much effort into seeming so human. So it goes. Food, though-- is one of approximately three interests he's still up for indulging.]

Your choice. Since you're buying.

[dignity_misery]

How exotic are you feeling?

[phantom_limbs]

I'm up for anything.

[dignity_misery]

We're going underground then.

[phantom_limbs]

Fun.

[halves]

[r u d e]

... You killed the dog.

[That's what he remembers.]

[dignity_misery]

Gazelle brought him back, it's fine.

[halves]

[He can't quite control that exhale, a ha lost in the incredulity of a man who almost forgot just how absurd this place can be.]

Oh, good. Now I'm relieved.

[dignity_misery]

We're doing just fine.

[halves]

I believe you. [What choice does he have. He didn't care enough to stick around last time.] No, really.

Sorry it had to be me.

[dignity_misery]

It doesn't matter if it was you.

[ A vague little shrug. She had been more... emotional when he'd appeared. She's done a few more rounds of crash and burn since then, gotten bored and tired. ]

[halves]

No. Of course not.

[nothing really maaaaatteeeers]

Where's the dog now?

[dignity_misery]

At home, with the other dog.

[renege]

Don't you people lead such tragic lives.

[What's even more tragic? She's stuck here putting up with you lot.]

[dignity_misery]

[ R U D E ]

Yeah, we love to bitch and moan around here.

[renege]

[What a bored little sigh.]

Such is the privilege of the human race.

[Just give them a mouth and a mind to complain to anyone who will be all ears.]

[dignity_misery]

I'm a poor excuse for a human.

[renege]

I don't see why. You're just about as capable as the rest of them.

[Special snowflake you are not, even when you're at the bottom of the ground.]

[dignity_misery]

Capable of what? Complaining? That's exclusive to humanity.

[renege]

And what would be a shining example to counter your poor excuse?

action;

[othersdie]

[Just listening to Carla make a video post. That's not stalkery at all.

If he was stuck here, Justin wouldn't approach her. As it is, he... missed her? Or something.]

Is it two out of eleven yet?

action;

[dignity_misery]

Wouldn't that just fulfill your expectations.

action;

[othersdie]

I wouldn't expect you to want to see me.

action;

[dignity_misery]

Of course I want to see you. I have very fond feelings for you.

[ Or something! ]

action;

[othersdie]

Fond.

[Is that what they're calling it now.]

[brobeforehos]

Your odds are better than mine.

[warmaker]

So it's usual for people to just be dragged into some sort of weird story happenings around here?

[Who cared about who this woman wanted to see, really. More important was if this was all common, and if it was reversible.]

[dignity_misery]

Yes, that's the name of the game.

[warmaker]

Fantastic. Now how do you reverse the process?