146 DIAGNOSIS

[vicodincrutch]

 After the fact curse comment session--deal with it--starts here.

Who needs wings and a halo to be preaching their own words of wisdom and knowledge to the masses? I don't. Neither do you. In fact I'm slightly offended. Aren't angels usually that vessel of the big guy in the sky? I used to know a few that prove to be the extreme opposite so this is in limited interpretations. Maybe.

In any case, to assume righteous authority doesn't take much of anything at all. That doesn't make you right. It just makes you far more annoying then you already are.

But surely, surely you knew that.

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( Voice )

[confined_to_briah]

A very limited interpretation. ( Her tone is rather flat. )

[beyourarmy]

That's a bad use for wings anyway. They're better for flying.

[indecent_butterfly]

There are more than enough angels in the City without adding cursed addled ones.

( Voice )

[vicodincrutch]

An atheists nightmare either way.

[vicodincrutch]

Flying would be far more productive, that's for sure.

[vicodincrutch]

Just more people to ignore and roll your eyes at.

[video]

[riches]

Is there any reason a lot of people are suddenly sporting wings and a halo? You sound like someone who could fill one of the clueless masses in — help a girl out?

( Voice )

[confined_to_briah]

( Oh he's amusing. )

At least you didn't see god.

[beyourarmy]

Yeah. Kinda glad I missed most of that crap. Probably would've annoyed me.

( Voice )

[vicodincrutch]

[...or something.]

I'd know him if I saw him. Hard to miss.

[vicodincrutch]

I didn't. What's your secret.

[video]

[vicodincrutch]

[You asked. He'll tell.]

You've been sucked into a hell of an ant farm. This is the City. The ones who are holding the magnifying glass just to see what will happen are self described deities who inflict curses to make people act out of their minds.

[beyourarmy]

In missing it?

I was out of the City. Only got back that same night.

I've been told you can go to the Underground and skip out curses if you want, though.

[video]

[riches]

You weren't already edgy enough?

[vicodincrutch]

How nice to be you.

[Dripping sarcasm.]

That's because you trade curses for monsters. Seems about right.

[video]

[vicodincrutch]

Is that what you call edgy?

[Raised eyebrows.]

You haven't seen me snort anything.

[beyourarmy]

Oh. Right. Only those things are nothing to me.

Are you an actual human?

[video]

[riches]

[ Pft. Sassmaster, meet Sassami. But she's only teasing, since he seems okay enough for an older gent. ]

Uh oh, I'm making friends with the bad boys.

[vicodincrutch]

Nothing until you pick a fight in a cavernous space and there's a cave in.

...No. I'm the god of cunning and deduction.

[video]

[vicodincrutch]

[Thinking House is okay enough is a not very good idea over all. Oh dear.]

You haven't even seen my motorcycle yet.

Better not tell your parents.

[beyourarmy]

Still not worried, no.

So you're human? I can never tell around here. And never meet very many actual humans, either.

[vicodincrutch]

Blessed are the ignorant.

Weren't you listening? How are you still alive.

[video]

[riches]

[ Just going to skim over any parent-talk, welp. Also thank the spirits, another driver. ]

I've seen enough engines to know it takes more than a little shine to impress me. I invite the challenge, though.

[beyourarmy]

It's really hard to believe there's a god for that. Are you serious?

And if it helps, I'm barely alive. Been killed a couple of times.

[video]

[vicodincrutch]

[Noted. They're either dead or there are touchy issues. House sees. Squinty like.]

Shine? Please. Horsepower is where it's at.

So the date de jour is on wheels? All men are alike.

[vicodincrutch]

Clearly you've never studied mythology. There is. It's me.

Yet still alive. Interesting.

[Immortality is wasted on the stupid, he thinks. Very few people are actually smart in House's frame of mind. It's an unfair ranking.]

[video]

[riches]

[ House, let her marry you? They can have beautiful wheelie-ing babies. ]

Seriously for a minute, do you know somewhere that sells bikes or even mopeds for a fair price? I'm going crazy without my own automobile.

[beyourarmy]

You do anything special, other than make snappy remarks at people?

Yeah, I'm pretty lucky.

[To be fair, most people he knows think Setsuna an idiot anyway.]

[indecent_butterfly]

This One prefers taunting instead.

[video]

[vicodincrutch]

[Why else would she brush off a comment like that? She is old enough to be on her own. Most women of her age would be straightforward and want to immediately say that they're old enough etc etc. HMMMM.

...wheelie-ing snark babies.]

There are a few dealers. As a whole there aren't many cars or motorcycles here because it's not very big. There's a busy body spider woman who owns an auto shop.

[Feel free to interpret spider woman however you like.]

[vicodincrutch]

It's chaos magic. I really cannot expect someone like you to understand.

[Sometimes even House doesn't.]

Sure. Call it luck. Sounds better than "waiting for the big one."

[beyourarmy]

Try me.

Huh? What is "waiting for the big one" supposed to mean?

[video]

[riches]

[ Giving him a wrinkled nose at the spider woman comment (woman-who-is-a-spider, really?) she brushes her hair aside where she's leaning over the communicator in public. Yay, cafes. ]

I'll keep window-shopping for now, I guess.

[ She does have the look of a sophisticated young lady to all those nosy people taking note picking and choosing how to politely forge through the chat like she's used to being in the lead. Or at least really, really wants some wheels. ]

My name's Asami. It's nice to meet another motoring enthusiast, you're right about this place being somewhat dead-on-its-feet when it comes to progressive transport.

[video]

[vicodincrutch]

[Lots of Cuddy-like vibes. And it's not just the hair. He is in his office and freely takes a bite of a sizable danish.]

Greg House. I'm a doctor. [Not a mister. Ever. Ha.]

It's an urge that needs to be satisfied.

[He can accept and respect that. As to the spider woman--could be her demeanor, all spiney and plotting (one can never tell in this place) House appreciates her love for the machine. It's a real league of women. Uh oh. If he's not careful some people might catch on that he likes them.]

More evidence that the goal is not to keep occupants completely happy.

[vicodincrutch]

What's your expertise?

[vicodincrutch]

Ancient secrets. If I told you, I'd have to kill you.

Waiting for the blow that's the last one, the last charge into battle, the final poke at the light socket.

[beyourarmy]

I don't think you'd have an easy time of that.

Nah. I plan to have a nice quiet life when I get back home. No more of that.

[video]

[riches]

[ Urgh, give her your dessert. ]

But we're to be kept safe if we have such competent doctors in attendance, evidently. Now there's a conundrum — miserable but healthy. Let me know if people start physically regressing to their teen years, too.

[ Yenno, the younger half of the scale. ]

( Voice )

[confined_to_briah]

I know that for a fact.

[indecent_butterfly]

Depends who is asked. But One is a devil, comes with the job description.

( Voice )

[vicodincrutch]

He looks like.

Hold on a second.

[sending image......download.]

[video]

[vicodincrutch]

[No. A thousand times no.]

Torture is their aim. The curses are a sophisticated and sometimes fun form of torture.

[Teen not diapers. Got it.]

That has been known to happen from time to time.

[vicodincrutch]

It's the principle of the matter.

I hope there is enough wood where you are to knock on.

[video]

[riches]

Are you finding being part-bird fun?

[ So much (unsure) when she wonders whether to believe him on the latter. ]

( Voice )

[confined_to_briah]

( A snort. )

Close, but you forgot the beard.

[beyourarmy]

Principles alone aren't going to kill me.

...good point. I don't have the best luck with peaceful quiet times.

[sympathyforme]

Think it's pretty much the same as with any other thing. Don't need to be a politician to be a corrupt bastard, but it sure gives me more reason to despise you.