scawwy ✦ karlach cliffgate

[recession]

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[recession]

Great.

[ Repockets this memo then. ]

...It'd be nice if that were it, wouldn't it.

[ablazement]

It'd be nice.

[she says, softer.]

I think it'd be nice for both of us to have something nice to think about.

[recession]

[ Is it nice? ]

...Sure. Any answer... any clear path forward would really be nice around now.

[ But he's said that for. Weeks. ]

[ablazement]

[silence for a moment, as she looks over towards the ocean.]

Well. We haven't got one yet, but I'm working on it, and I know you are, too. [firmly. maybe a little aggressively. like she'll make it true.] And until then, until we've got something, I want to try to live. Not just survive.

[recession]

...Sure.

[ Working on it might be a bit generous, given he's got nothing to work with but. It's very 'here's where I would put our plan, if we had one' energy. He just looks out at the ocean 2 with its quiet waves. ]

That sounds like a plan.

[ablazement]

[yeah she's got fuck-all as well, but this is her self-appointed job and she will die trying to make it work.]

Okay.

[she takes a deep breath.]

So - in that, let's go do something fun. See if we can find some good food, and then put our feet in the ocean, and have a good fucking day, yeah? Just one, if we can manage.

[recession]

...

I have to go walk in the water?

[ He ended up not walking in the water at all during island time. Actually he has not wandered into the water in any location. ]

[ablazement]

[help she snorts, tail flicking.]

You against that? I guess you don't have to.

[recession]

I'm not going to put up a huge fit against it, but just thinking about the sand, and how I'd get my socks back on without it being dirty.

[ I need you to understand he is a clean and somewhat prissy boy and has been deeply unhappy with their accommodations and situations this past entire month. He really would like to be genuinely clean and comfortable one of these days! ]

[ablazement]

I could bring a towel!

[city boy... she tilts her head.]

It's more about making you happy, so if you don't want the sand, you haven't got to. But I think finding good food can stay. And I heard from Suguru that there are showers here, so I can stand guard for you later.

[recession]

[ Don't think sand and water's going to do that. The sentiment's nice though. ]

Why do I need a bodyguard to shower?

[ablazement]

So there's no surprise attack spiders or something! I'm not going to look.

I don't know, I feel better when I can take a second to not be looking over my shoulder while I'm trying to relax.

[recession]

[ That wasn't part of my concern. Should it be? ]

The spiders were last week. And they left us alone.

I'll be fine to take a shower on my own.

[ Though do whatever you want tbh it's funny. ]

[ablazement]

[makes a face at him.]

Alright, but if you get eaten by shower spiders, it's not my fault.

[she glances out to the boardwalk.]

I hope they have food with spices. Or flavor.

[starts to wander off in that direction]

[recession]

[ ...Spiders... shower-spiders. Beetlemen and babyfaced worms. They just eat each other. ]

Our standards really have fallen... Don't just go meandering off on your own.

[ Following after her, albeit at a default slower pace. ]

[ablazement]

Catch up then!

[she says over her shoulder to him, teasing, but she does actually slow down to match pace with him so who is the sucker really]

I want to win some of the stuffed animals they've got here as prizes. Add them to my army of one I've got already.

[recession]

...? You had one?

[ He knows she has like. A carved figurine or something. He's not totally sure if she means that or something else. ]

They can't be that hard to get, can they... nobody is manning the stalls.

[ablazement]

Oh, yeah, did I never show you Clive?

[thank you for this explanation karlach. also she gasps but in a like, fake way.]

Are you suggesting we steal the prizes?

[recession]

You haven't.

...Already on my list of crimes, practically. Not like I can tell you not to -- there's no law enforcement here.

[ablazement]

He's a bear. I'll show you when we get back to the village - War convinced me to get him, if you can believe it.

[she leans on one of the counters, looking into the booth, and then:]

I sort of want to try to play, though! Never have before.

[recession]

...I might.

[ Believe that War convinced her. War's hilarious. Daan's looking over the counter, seeing a lack of a tray or anything. ]

They're just going to have to deal with a free play. I haven't got any shillings.

[ Gestures then. Go ahead. ]

[ablazement]

[war is convinced that if they are dismissive it will dissuade karlach from deciding they are best friends, and they are wrong

anyway, i've decided this one is one of those bean-bag toss ones, so she picks one up, aims, and throws, trying to get it into one of the holes. it seems like it's going to go right in, but it catches the side wrong and falls off, and her tail flicks.]

... If I miss two more, I'm just hopping the counter, that was bullshit.

[huff.]

[recession]

[ I'm sure you surely know who War is by now and I think that's funny. ]

Faires are not your friend.

[ And sometimes they have clowns in it. ]

[ablazement]

[I DO AND IT WAS A CRIME DONE TO ME SPECIFICALLY]

I'll show them by eating all of their drumsticks.

[still amused by the fact that they both have murder clowns in these canons. she throws another bag - this time, it makes it into one of the holes and she immediately hops the counter like:]

Fuck yeah! Winner!

[PRIZE NOW]

[recession]

[ In my not-defense I am genuinely unsure if a single canon I've played from so far DOESNT have at least one murder clown.

He approaches the counter when she wins, peering in. ]

Good job.

[ What she grabbing. ]