Here's to Another Year

[butterflyfactor]

Layla had found herself suddenly grateful for her excess of time on the island. It allowed her, two days before the fact, to pull together a fairly elaborate mystery starting with an unsigned missive in a mail box in the morning. It lead the protagonist on a lengthy trail across the island's various locals, forced said protagonist to interact with

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When Brodie had gotten the invite in his mailbox, there wasn't a question of whether or not he'd attend. Even if he DID feel like he'd known Madrox better before he disappeared and came back all bearded and MOPEY, he still wasn't about to miss the guy's birthday.

Plus, Layla was hot, and far be it from him to say no to a hot chick.

He'd brought a shirt as a present; it was the closest thing to fucking tolerable that the clothes box would give him. Brodie was mostly hoping the guy wouldn't get all serious about it and would appreciate it. Either he would and they'd both have a good laugh about it, or he wouldn't and he'd have ANOTHER comic book idol fucking pissed at him. Only, this time it'd be less SNIKT SNIKT MOTHERFUCKER and more EXPLODING PEOPLE FROM THE GODDAMN INSIDE.

Or maybe he'd just be all whiny and bearded and monologuing at him. Sometimes, it was hard to tell.

[howmanylives]

"That for me?" asked Madrox, hands shoved in his pockets as he tried to peer around Brodie's shoulder to get a look at what he was holding, though the guy having a couple of inches on him made the approach trickier than it might've been otherwise. "'Cause, I mean, if it is, really, Brodie, you shouldn't have."

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"HEY," Brodie said, holding the poorly-wrapped bundle just out of Madrox's reach. "You're supposed to wait for me to GIVE it to you, remember?"

Nontraditional island circumstances aside, some customs were fucking NECESSARY. It's not like there was a gift table or anything.

[howmanylives]

"Yeah, sorry, I got impatient," he said with a shrug, not sounding particularly apologetic in the least, though he did have the good sense not to try prying the gift out of Brodie's grasp. He grinned. "So, are you gonna give it to me already or not?"

[segaboybrodie]

Brodie rolled his eyes, but he wasn't all that annoyed. It wasn't like he wasn't going to hand it over eventually anyway.

"Alright, alright," He groaned, then handed the bundle over. "Happy birthday."

Though with the fucking sliding timelines, he didn't know which one it actually WAS.

[howmanylives]

Giving the bundle a tentative squeeze -- Clothes. Definitely clothes. -- Madrox proceeded to tear off the wrapping, careful to not let any of it drop to the ground lest there were any more explosive oriented environmentalists hanging around. As he shook out the shirt to get a better look at the thing, he let out a bark of laughter, then gave Brodie an arched eyebrow.

"That's priceless. I mean, even barring the no economy thing, that's still priceless."