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[symbiotastic]

Hey. [Waaaaave.] It's Brock again. Edward Brock, Jr.

So, I'm uh... [He makes a show of looking around his cell, then shrugs.] Stuck here. In a cell. Even though I was, heh, under the influence of [And now he drops the friendly act and sounds TOTALLY PEEVED:] MUTANT SUPER DRUGS! I mean, come on, give a guy a break! I can't be held

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Hello from another cell Eddie.

[expectremorse]

...That was you that I saw.

HOWDY

[symbiotastic]

[ASSUMING HOFFMAN'S CELL IS ACROSS FROM HIS-- you get Eddie pointing a finger at you and chuckling.] I have no idea what you're talking about, buddy.

Re: HOWDY

[expectremorse]

[Let's say it is! Hoffman folds his hands across his chest.]

So the big monster that you say Rex turned you into...wasn't...

Okay.

Could be wrong. I was riding a bit of a power trip. [He shrugs it off.] How'd you like the happy nanomite brigade?

[symbiotastic]

Okay, so you might've seen me, I don't know, I mean, a lot of it was-- [He slaps his palm against his temple lightly.] fuzzy.

[expectremorse]

You were pretty badass.

[And scary] Pretty fucking bad ass.

[symbiotastic]

[EDDIE JUST GRINS, and you can see some tendrils crawling up his body... then he quickly goes back to normal before anybody else can see. DOOP DOOP, NOTHING TO SEE HERE.]

You think so?

[expectremorse]

You scared the hell out of me.

[He's not ashamed to admit it. Too bad it was just the nanomites. RIGHT?]

Too bad it was just the nanomites.

[symbiotastic]

Wow. Never thought of myself as a scary guy before.

Ohhh yeah. Shame. [He leans against the bars now, all casual-like.] So. What're you in for? How'd you wind up in a cell? Not the brainwashing thing, I mean. Specifically.

[expectremorse]

[Hoffman is fresh off his conversation with Dick Grayson. Grayson has basically pointed out he's scum. So his filters are down.]

I killed people. A lot of people. I'm starting to re-evaluate my motives in doing this. On the one hand...it was punishment. They were all bad people. On the other?...

After awhile it got easier. Then it got fun.

[symbiotastic]

Heeeey, buddy, nothing wrong with a little fun. [~So innocent, Eddie~] At least someone had a good time.

[expectremorse]

[Hoffman smiles a very very very dark smile]

I think that's the conclusion to this little lesson. Between being..[he makes a face] manipulated and the stuff that happened before hand...I think that's definately the lesson.

[People are just making it easy for him to resolve that people on this boat are his for the taking. They haven't seen him work yet.]

So what are you in for?

[symbiotastic]

[He leans forward and tilts his head to look down the hall of cells, trying to spot the supervising warden. When their back's turned, he lets the symbiote out to expand and grow over his body, stopping short of his face. Smiling with a mouthful of fangs now...]

Guess.

[expectremorse]

[Hoffman is...shocked to say the least. He does inch back a a few, but he regains his composure quickly and leans forward]

How many people did you kill?

It's a guess. You have that kind of power, you use it. Just a guess though.

I'd use it. [he grins]

[symbiotastic]

[One. By accident. God, Eddie sucks. So he'll just talk about Barge murders.]

I played tag with a warden yesterday. He lost.

[expectremorse]

You like playing games?

[Good Eddie. Hit on the key point. Hoffman likes games. He has many planned. D:. People keep trying to tell him he should, so why not oblidge them?]

[symbiotastic]

What's life without games, buddy? [He laughs, then spots movement out of the corner of his eye-- ACK. POTENTIAL WITNESS. Sensing his desire to shoo it off, the symbiote retreats back under Eddie's clothes. Back to normal now.] Anyway. I am all about maximizing the fun.