( graveyard: we're cursed..........3 )

[nodo]

[ since there's more of us now, let's set up a scene...ish. we're at the beach! hooray!! it's our government mandated party game!! hopefully everyone is going to be well behaved because law won't give two shits. he's already arranging this for some reason unknown to man. indulgences? indulgences....... everyone get your sins in. taps on watch???

of course there is booze because there is always booze. law does not perceive the meth. (if there is any.)

NOW!! EVERYONE. TWO TRUTHS & ONE LIE. ]

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[kokytos]

[ He's just chillin', I guess. In a beach shirt-button up, and long pants. Wow, he's showing arms, that's the most amount of skin you lot will get from this guy, apparently.

At least he's got a pina colada, even if he's just staring at it. ]

I once fought a robot controlled long-distance by a vampire.
I've been put in jail in Hellsalem's Lot.
I've gotten completely wrecked at a celebratory drinking party.

[touchups]

[The nerd that wears sweatshirts even in summer i see... Also frilly umbrella drinks club.

Mahito looks like he's giving this some serious contemplation, curiosity gently rolling along with his General Chill Vibes as he taps his chin. Absolutely hate that the first isn't even that weird to him considering Mechamaru, and he just personally loves the idea of Steven being thrown into jail because it's hilarious, so:]

...You don't seem like you'd put your guard down long enough to get wrecked, so - that one?

[kokytos]

That one's true, actually. Dr. Estevez had a long day and we offered to accompany her drinking.

We were.

[ The dread that wells up here as he remembers. Yeah. Steven. Dread. ]

Not prepared.

[touchups]

Woah! ...Wow. [THE DREAD.] You must've really been suplexed under a table, huh? Wish I could've seen it.

[TRAGIC.]

Pleeease tell me the jail one is true, too.

[PLEASE IT'S SO FUNNY.]

[kokytos]

[ He looks so dead inside. God, holy shit. ]

Yeah. It turns out, for someone who looks like a young teenager a good amount of the time, she has a beastly alcohol tolerance.

[ ANYWAY. ]

No, the jail one is the lie. I haven't been put into jail yet, though not for lack of trying because the local Lieutenant wants to keep me down.

[touchups]

[He's just laughing about it... IT SOUNDS HILARIOUS.]

Good for her! I'm glad. Bet you had the worst hangover of your life the next day, huh?

[Reaching out to pat his arm... Still finding it hilarious. God bless. Anyway, there's just a little bit of a brief pout.]

Wow, really? It'd be funny to see you in jail. Tell me more about the mecha!

[kokytos]

[ BEHOLDS YOU HARDER ]

The jail in my city is a massive maximum security place called Pandorum Asylum, I'd really have to fuck up to get sent there.

The mecha was a whole thing. We were working to avoid a drug deal between two extremely violent organizations that planned to spread it across the city, and one of the dons we were confronting had a blood breed -- that's our term for our world's vampires -- in his employ. Turned out that it wasn't the real body, and just telekinetically controlled by them from somewhere else.

[housewolf]

[Immediate confusion? There's so much here that he actually doesn't even know where to start.]

[kokytos]

[ I'm so glad they could just mutually confuse each other with their chaotic lives. ]

[housewolf]

The jail...?

[But he is still radiating confusion.]

[kokytos]

There you go, you're right.

I've never been put into jail in Hellsalem's Lot yet, though not for lack of trying. [ LIEUTENANT DANIEL LAW. ]

[housewolf]

[The vampire robot is real?!]

You live a really interesting life.

Can I hear about the robot?

[kokytos]

That's one way to put it. [ He is so exhausted, and yet. ]

Right. We were tracking down a don to prevent a deal between two very violent criminal organizations to spread more drugs throughout the streets, and it turned out one of them had a blood breed in his employ.

I was the only person present who could deal with one of them, so we fought... and when I finally took its head off, it turned out to be a robot controlled long-distance by a blood breed, while my coworker was dealing with the real body.

Horrifying, really, since I really thought I was going to die and it wasn't even a vampire proper.

[sistocracy]

A vampire with a robot! Oh, I hope that one’s true.

[kokytos]

It's true. [ Ding ding ding! ]

It was crazy to think that blood breeds could infuse their power into inanimate objects and fight just about as effectively as if it were in the flesh, but it happened.

[sistocracy]

What an unusual technique. I know a little vampire magic, but I can't imagine doing something like that...

... in no small part, perhaps, because robots haven't been invented yet.

You won, though, right?

[kokytos]

I did, in the end, but it was a tough fight.

[ He really thought he would die that fight. ]

Vampire magic, huh? What kind of things can you do? Other than turn into bats.

[sistocracy]

Oh, not that much. A few small, stylish techniques. Nothing as flashy or dangerous as, say... pyromancy, or blood magic.

[some vampires are very extra! and apparently, certain humans, too. steven.]

[kokytos]

[ Don't perceive him. ]

The blood manipulation is actually a skill elder blood breeds can use. It's fighting fire with fire, really.

[holeful]

Surely it's the second one?

[Steven is a good man he'd NEVER go to JAIL.]

[kokytos]

You have it. What's your logic for picking that one?

[ Not exactly because he's a good man and not for want of Lt. Law trying, but you know. He's never been to Pandorum. ]

[holeful]

I don't know why someone like you would be arrested. Didn't you say Libra works with the police sometimes?

[Sometimes Fukuda does have a brain.]

[kokytos]

We do, but we're also a liability because we're not aligned with any side. In other words, we're not beholden to the police nor the American government, so we're a bit of a wildcard... and sometimes, the police or government don't like that about us.

Lieutenant Daniel Law is the one we work with most often. He's not shy about expressing his disdain for us, and if we weren't the only folks who could deal with certain dangers, he'd be more than happy to put us in jail probably.

[ But he hasn't yet, because he can't. ]

[holeful]

Haha, well, my instinct was still right! It's funny that the doctor is the second Law you've worked with...

[A beat. He really is amused though not as amused as his tone actually suggests?]

Actually, it's funny that there's a detective named Law, too.

[kokytos]

[ It used to be Law but more recent translations are suggesting his name is Lieutenant Lowe instead and I'm over here like. Don't do this to me... ]

Yeah? Nominative determinism at its finest, isn't it.