rupert

[unrecked]

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[unrecked]

[He sobers just a little, more for Rupert's sake than his own.]

Shark tried to attack Lup. I had to pull her back and toss her toward the shore, so it grabbed me and took me under.

[agleam]

But Lup wasn't...

[ah. no, he gets it after a second.]

I cannot believe you keep trying to act like you aren't a good person.

[unrecked]

[He is RESIGNED, but still petulantly sort of rolls his eyes. He's accepted his fate from Rupert.]

I was a lifeguard! It was my job!

[agleam]

Uh huh. I'm sure you were forced.

[he would sound amused if this were not about Death]

[unrecked]

Maybe I just don't want innocent blood on my hands. That's not how I live my life.

[This is an attempt to deflect, but it just keeps adding points to Rupert's pile.]

[agleam]

Dastardly.

[the teasing is creeping into his voice...]

[unrecked]

Hey. If I wasn't so banged up right now, I'd noogie the top of your head into your brain.

[He is trying! To be mean!]

[agleam]

Absolutely not, I need that.

[still amused, like a brat!!]

[unrecked]

[GIVING HIM A LOOK. Is this karma for all the shit he pulls on everyone else...? Help him.]

[agleam]

Is there a problem?

[little shit]

[unrecked]

I can't believe you would come to a beat-up and frail man [jason] to get on his last nerve.

[This is all delivered so dryly.]

My trauma. My injuries. My mental health. I'm being bullied.

[agleam]

Do you want to talk about it, then?

[which part is he referring to]

[unrecked]

[Yeah?]

Which part?

[agleam]

...Well, I meant the bullying, but all of it now that you mention it.

[unrecked]

You mean after I was a sexy, beach-running lifeguard who got taken out by a shark?

[agleam]

Jason...

[unrecked]

[His turn to be amused.]

I woke up on a dating game show and had three opportunities to figure out which three bachelor contestants behind the curtains were brain scrambled or fake before they got beheaded.

[agleam]

...That's horrible.

[concern once again!!]

[unrecked]

Not as horrible than if I hadn't been able to figure out Yuri wasn't the fake when the other two were Cloud and Sylvain.

[agleam]

I'm glad he didn't get beheaded, but... It must have been hard to go through. That's all I mean.

[unrecked]

[He sort of shrugs. Has he ALREADY compartmentalized all this so he doesn't have to think about it? Maybe...]

We had a lightning round because the skeleton audience didn't like our answer to go back to the hotel.

[agleam]

Lightning round...?

[unrecked]

They dropped the floor out from under us and put us in... dunno, somewhere underground. We ran into an injured girl, someone Yuri knew.

Apparently, when she sighs, it draws monsters to her. So that's how the underground portion went.

[agleam]

...I'm guessing this place made her sigh somehow no matter the logic involved?

[unrecked]

Yeah. It brought out some kind of big lizard-looking monster. I grabbed her, we ran. The only way down was a dead-end tunnel, but there were two doors waiting for us. One back here, one to some... mansion. We could see Harrow and Hua Cheng.

I gave the girl to Yuri and told him to go to the hotel, but he followed me when I went through the other door. The monster had been charging something in it. Turns out? Thing had a nice beam cannon. It got our backs as we went through.