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[legendarymadman]

Despite the most recent blow to his mental health, Geoffrey feels ready for this. He feels more than ready for this, in fact. It's been too long since the last one, and he's itching to direct again. And so before anything can happen to put it off again, he writes up a notice and tacks it up on the bulletin board.

William Shakespeare's

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[self_named]

Duo had been borderline manic in his activity since the beginning of September, feeling the need to be in constant motion, doing maintenance on every building he'd ever done (which had to annoy some of the inhabitants), messing around with William's printer if only to test the limits of the man's patience, and generally living out of doors. There was probably a joke in their somewhere about living with wolves, since he ran with a full blown pack of them, due to various owners of his pups disappearing and leaving the tribe behind.

But he still knew how to shower.

Finishing off his braid and letting it drop to swing just past the small of his back- it wasn't getting like visibly longer, but it was kinda getting a little longer, it seemed- still damp but at least free of leaves and twigs and crap, he pulled up short and backpedaled to look at what the councilman-director guy was posting. Duo'd seen them all, heck, loved them all. He and Polly had always

[legendarymadman]

"How many gods did you have to offend to get stuck undercover in high school English?" says Geoffrey, appalled. It seemed like unthinkable torture. "At least they taught the good stuff, apparently. Have you ever performed it?"

[self_named]

"Once," Duo said, quirking his head to one side. "On my desk. Well, on a lot of people's desks. Before I got sent to solitary. I mean, study hall, but you know." He flashed Geoffrey a quick uneven grin.

"It was pretty awesome."

[legendarymadman]

Okay, not the sort of performance he was looking for, but experience is experience. "Well, if you're interested in auditioning," he says, "or just showing up and checking it out, the information's on the notice." Frankly, he can use as many warm bodies as he can get. There have proven to be few people on the island Geoffrey can't beg, bully or coerce into helping him out.

[self_named]

"...y'know what?" Duo said, wheels turning visibly behind his eyes, which were brighter for the prospect of behaving strangely in public with an excuse, an excited shine those close to him would have known meant some kind of trouble, "Yeah. I will totally audition for this. This is awesome, and I am gonna audition for this." It was the weirdest damn thing. He'd never even thought about it, but it was hitting him now. Polly would have loved that.

He looked over the notice some more.

"I know Duck's your boy, but if you need anything else built, I can do that too. I'm Duo, by the way," he said, offering his hand.

"We've both been here for like fucking forever but it's probably been like a year or something since we were introduced at a goat party or whatever."

[legendarymadman]

Geoffrey thinks the auditions are, at the very least, going to be a very interesting time.

"Well, you're right, that's definitely Duck's department," says Geoffrey, "but he might need some extra hands. And don't worry, you're pretty memorable and I'm not old enough to start forgetting yet."

[self_named]

Duo blinked, then grinned broadly up at Geoffrey.

"Awe! If I wasn't jaded beyond the point of being capable of embarrassment, you'd just about make me blush."

[legendarymadman]

"Well, making a person blush is much preferable to making them take a swing at me," says Geoffrey, "so I'll take it."

[self_named]

"Uff," Duo mumbled, "tell me about it. Cracked ribs and dislocated jaws, right? When all you're doing is being personable! One harmless practical joke and some people just fly off the handle." He made a 'what can you do' gesture that involved an all over shrug with a quick, dismissive throwing up of the hands.

[legendarymadman]

"Well, I'm pretty sure I didn't dislocate my jaw, actually," says Geoffrey, "but I wasn't being a complete asshole at the time, for once, so it was completely uneserved."

[self_named]

Duo scratched his cheek.

"I never thought I deserved it," he murmured, then shrugged and stuck his hands in his pockets, back to grinning, with a vaguely shit-eating edge.

"Guess I'm not one of the few people immune to my own charms!"