[Voice]

[shinra_finest]

[There is a bit of a heavy breathing in between his sentences, his voice low, and in spite of his words, anyone who knows him will know that he is everything but amused.]

And a Carnival, now, huh?

Figures.

What's next? Goin' to offer us candy? Can barely wait.

Comments

Turk Filter

[wellsuited]

Reno! Guess what I won!

[Yeah, guess that explains where she's been.]

Turk Filter

[shinra_finest]

What?

[Still doesn't sound amused. Sorry Elena.]

Turk Filter

[wellsuited]

[She flips on the video to reveal a big purple stuffed...something before her blond head peers around the body of it. She looks as smug as she sounds.]

No one could even touch me in that game! It's all that Turk training.

Turk Filter

[shinra_finest]

[Ack. If only this was some other occasion you would be seeing such a grin followed by a tease right now. As it stands there is only... silence.]

Amused?

[Dry.]

[ voice ]

[lonestray]

Maybe candy laced with poison.

[ voice ]

[shinra_finest]

Sharp.

Private

[heresygrenade]

Know much about psychology, Reno?

Private

[shinra_finest]

Don't think we've done enough of that?

Private

[heresygrenade]

Just thinking. The natives like to talk about the mist like it's some entity. Then there's that church, right? Dedicated to what? The mist? Something controlling it?

Point is this: studies conducted on my world suggest that hitting people a few times before giving them gifts makes them like you more, not less. Intermittent reinforcement.

If something is controlling this shit, might be trying to endear itself to people. Couldn't say if it's aimed at us, but it's certainly worked on the native population.

Private

[shinra_finest]

That's because they aren't very smart. That and they were born here, you know, they don't know any other reality, just the shitty place that this is. Can't want something other when you don't even know it exists-- It's all a matter of info, if you don't have it, you'll just keep on doing the same wrong choices 'til you do.

Really fancy that the twins or entity or whatever thinks we are that easy to control too - Only means they have less of a brain than what I was givin' them credit for. [Pause, and with it, his walking comes to a stop, too. When he talks again, having caught his breath, his voice is lower, not a whisper, but closer to one than before.] They are giving us the silence treatment. [And it's working. Until he just couldn't take it anymore, that was.]

Voice - Private

[i_love_squats]

Out on a run. Why? What's up?

Voice - Private

[shinra_finest]

Just asking.

Voice - Private

[i_love_squats]

[His voice softens a little, and he treads carefully.]

What's up?

Voice - Private

[shinra_finest]

[His own is lower, breathing caught up now that he stopped walking again, not nearly as heavy as before, but not as soft as normal either.]

Finished the last package. Should be home in a few hours. You?

[the2nd_kira]

Carnival?

[shinra_finest]

Yeah, some kind of party started. Gotta fancy when they try to buy you like that after gettin' you stuck here - Really smart.

[the2nd_kira]

That doesn't sound like Misa's kind of party though...

[shinra_finest]

Heh, same here. Not now.

You like concerts, right?