Escape 016

[prefers_chess]

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[As the video switches on, the Network at large is treated to the sight of a good-looking young man chilling out near the Fountain, surveying the area with a careful, calculating look on his face. As a matter of fact, he looks something like this: ]

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hey there big guy :) meet big guy :D

[coffeenspeed]

Well I'll be damned...

oh hey

[chessmastering]

Will you? How unfortunate. That's not a very uplifting perspective on the afterlife.

Cala likes Rudy all grown up :D he's pretty :D

[coffeenspeed]

Dude, it's a figure of speach.

I suppose you don't recognize me...?

innit he, though? <3

[chessmastering]

I am offended at the presumption that I would forget the man who attempted to enforce a curfew on me so many years ago.

Anthony.

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[ms_marycontrary]

[Staaare.]

...Rudy?

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[chessmastering]

[Why hello there, tiny staring lady.]

Ah. Still around, Merry?

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[ms_marycontrary]

Well, yes...it hasn't been a day since I've talked to you last, I think, but now you're like--

[She gestures towards him.]

--this.

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[chessmastering]

It's the wonders of time travel.

[chosered]

It is like you never left. Considering you've only been gone...well, less than a week, at least.

[chessmastering]

The wonders of time travel.

Hello, Kenny.

[chosered]

Hello.

How are you?

[chessmastering]

Older. Wiser. World domination's coming along well.

The usual.

[Action]

[laughs_forever]

[Hiii again, Rudy. Mike is smiling at you and your almost-smile. He is also noticeably drinkless.]

They only had diet. Diet everything. Eugh.

[He swings his backpack off his shoulder, unzips a section of it and digs into it to demonstrate how there is money in it now by pulling out a colourful coin.]

I did manage to get into the apartment and get our back-allowance out of it, though. Yours is in the front part.

[He starts to unzip that bit so as to pass over Rudy's money.]

[Action]

[chessmastering]

[That almost-smile was obviously at the sight of your arrival, Webster. But don't tell anybody that, it'll ruin his street cred.]

And the trials escalate, it seems. No never-ending pasta bowl, no adequate beverages...my, it's like Alcatraz all over again.

[He reaches for his own backpack, digging around to find a compartment to hold his own cash.]

Was it the same as you remember?

[Action]

[laughs_forever]

We'll get the pasta bowl eventually. Two lunches. Sounds like a pretty good deal to me.

[Mike laughs, and then begins the arduous task of shovelling the inconvenient coin-money into Rudy's bag. The deities really need to make the switch to colourful PAPER money. Seriously. Makes all the difference.]

Exactly the same. Well. Smaller.

[Action]

[chessmastering]

Are you really attempting to extort two free lunches out of me, merely because we've ended up transported through time for this one?

[He holds his bag open, attempting to assist in the transfer.]

I would certainly hope so.

[wetworking]

[normally she would be saying this to a woman- but o grab bag]

... Not bad.

[chessmastering]

[Uhhhhhhh. Well, it's certainly not the first time random people have hit on him, and sadly it's probably not going to be the last, either. Le sigh.]

Thank you for noticing.

[wetworking]

[Hopefully the people who hit on him who are not Hazuki have more tact than she does]

Need to borrow a shower during that six hours?

[chessmastering]

[I dunno, he's known some very persistent girls.]

I'd have to find a tuxedo first.