The drugs don't work (they just make it worse?)
Looks like...a lounge in hell...somewhere the really high-ranking demons go or something. Doesn't it?
Hah. Good description. Velvet booths, dim lighting, threatening amorphous shapes in the shadows... ...extraordinarily lewd holograms as centerpieces...
Actually, those react to thoughts. The lewd part is your fault.
...oh. Is this better?
Rather. But who is it?
You haven't met Kitarrien yet? He's kind of new...well, compared to us.
Sometimes it feels like bedrock is new compared to us. He's a cutie, isn't he?
I rather think so, even if he doesn't.
Love the freckles...why doesn't he think so?
Oh, you know, elves are supposed to be svelte and graceful and not, apparently, rather chubby and a bit of a klutz. Or at least, that's what his dad always thought. Bit of an anal-retentive, as I understand. Can give a kid a complex.
Ah, yes, few things are more powerful than the opinion of a parent...often to the detriment of the child.
Indeed. His boyfriend is a sweetheart, at least. Oh, it's changed again.
I thought as long as we were going through the new arrivals, you might as well see Thazranir.
Good grief, does he do his hair with TNT?
I think the point is more that he doesn't do his hair at all... He's not exactly at home to aesthetics. Not that he needs to worry too much with a body like that...
Yes, I can't help but notice you've chosen to display him without his clothes on.
Oh...clothes. They just get in the way. Although that is quite a nasty scar on his leg...no wonder he limps a bit.
And his shoulder. He's really been through the wringer, eh?
You could say that. He died once, that I know. Bit of a cynic, but I can't really blame him, all things considered...Lost his wife and child in the first war, lost his faith in the Light and had to quit being a paladin, wandered aimlessly for awhile, became a pirate, died in a battle, was resurrected but the ship had sunk so all his friends were gone, wandered aimlessly some more, took another lover, watched that lover die slowly of addiction...
Good grief, he should sue the universe.
Indeed. He's a good man, though, stoneface and all...loyal as hell. The kind of person you could scream at and punch if you needed to get it out, and he'd still stand by you and take care of you afterward...probably without any change of expression.
Ugh...hi you two. Got room?
Hey, Damon. Have a seat. Have a drink.
Don't mind if I do... ye gods, it's been awhile, hasn't it?
Huh. Just a bit. Even for you, which is surprising...I mean, you're a guy... Us girls, well, we're lucky if we get a paragraph a year...
No need to be bitter at me. I haven't seen any action in ages either.
Well, true enough. We're just discussing the new arrivals...since we have nothing else to do...
Oh, the elves?
Mainly elves, yes. Although Rescher finally found her proper form.
Spacegoats for the win.
They do have nice asses, I'll give them that.
Oh, Damon, have you seen Kilroy around lately?
Er...which one?
The human one.
There really has been extraordinary divergence there...Kilroy and Kilrroy have become quite different people on the whole.
It's not a bad thing...although they do seem to feel rather awkward when seeing each other, which is amusing.
Shit, I'd feel pretty awkward too around some elf that I used to play...
Interestingly, Ligeia has remained basically the same.
Well, I guess a raving psychotic sadistic bitch is at home in any company?
You oughta know, Sinead! ...ow!
Hush, you, or next time it won't be above the belt...I'm not like her...
No...in all this space, I think there is only one truly worse creature...
Eh?
We do not speak of it, for fear of waking it...
If we were anywhere and anyone else, I'd call you a crazy superstitious hippie.
Well, but we're not.
To which I must accede.
Glad we've got that straightened out.
You never answered my question...
Oh, right...Kil hasn't been about much...he's probably wallowing in misplaced guilt.
Well, that sounds relatively normal for him...
And Hex? What of the changling?
Is this an audit?
I think we need one.
Hex is only nominally sane at the best of times... I honestly haven't seen it about at all. I suspect it's shut itself up somewhere.
That could be problematic, if it's not sharing with the rest of us.
Tell me about it...I hate when people keep secrets around here...I mean about what they've been doing, not about their pasts. That's kind of in vogue, apparently.
And yet you've never done it much.
That's because my past is a joke wrapped in a lie. Pasts are for wussies.
Er, quite so. Jorryn? Anyone know how she is?
A bit upset about her lack of action and lack of social life, which goes against her generally cheerful nature, so she's kind of out of sorts just now.
At least she may get a chance to do something about it one day. If she can find someone to put up with her...eccentric-ness.
They say there's someone for everyone. I personally don't believe it.
Kilrroy does.
That's because he's terminally optimistic, which ironically may make it true for him.
Anyway, back to the head count. Are any of the Pernese still hanging around?
Aside from the fact that I still think Kilroy should join the harper hall... Well, there's that prettyboy...I forget his name. Starts with an S.
Sylaen. I can hardly believe the kid is still around... He never really got a chance to live, you know?
I know...I'm glad he's still here, though. The Pernese are fascinating.
Nikita, too. The runner. And Aliss.
Ah, of course. Excellent.
Man...I'm really getting tired, guys...
Yeah, same. Although I think you have it worse...at least I don't have anyone to miss...
Well, but there's...you know...
To hell with him and all his kindred. Let's call it a night.