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[frankengambler]

[Compared to his previous broadcasts, Kaiji sounds more than a little reserved. He looks it too, although not necessarily because he's more relaxed judging from his ruffled hair and the bags under his eyes. For once, he doesn’t have a cigarette in his mouth, his attention apparently taken up by flipping a coin. Every now and then, he pauses to

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[madeinoblivion]

I didn't need a job or even munny, really, until I got here.

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[frankengambler]

... are you serious? What kind of magical world did you live in? [he tilts his head then leans in a little closer, looking him up and down] ... oh, I get it. You're just a kid. You lived with you parents?

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[madeinoblivion]

A world inbetween. It wasn't even really a world anymore.

No. I didn't have parents, and I'm not a kid.

I lived for a little while in a castle.

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[frankengambler]

Ah- shit... [gently] I didn't know. Sorry for your loss. Must've been to-

A castle?! What the hell-?! You royalty or something?

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[theyallwantme]

I was a student at an academy for magicians.

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[frankengambler]

[He's trying to keep the disbelief off of his face but it's hard work.]

Academy for magicians. Okay. So what, you get a PhD in Magic at the end of it?

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[theyallwantme]

Depends on what magic you're studying. I'm trying to get my degree in Summoning.

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[frankengambler]

You're being totally sincere, aren't you? [Kaiji blinks, the sarcasm leaving his voice altogether. He shakes his head.] Damn. You mean like summoning demons and things like that?

[Maybe if he'd gone to a magic school he might've done better. At least it would've been more interesting...]

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[cruelwonder]

I worked at an orphanage... The same as here. I've only really been working for a year, though. I can't say I'm used to a "career" of any sort.

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[frankengambler]

An orphanage... sounds like pretty heavy stuff to me. [he rubs the back of his neck] You got dragged here from a century or two ago, right? Were orphanages really that screwed up back then?

... how're you settling in, by the way? [hesitation and then he adds:] How's Rabbit?

[Not that he cares or anything.]

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[cruelwonder]

It is, in a way. But it's manageable. Things back home were-- [Disastrous.] It was worse there, unfortunately.

I'm fine. He's doing all right. [She smiles.] The earthquake gave him a bit of a scare, I think.

[frankengambler]

You read pretty scary shit about it, y'know? [very delicately] ... were you...? Did you live in one? You don't have to answer if it's... it's none of my business anyway.

[For someone who was worried about going mad "again", she seems well adjusted enough. Not that it would be a good idea to ask about that; Kaiji's blunt but he's not completely tactless. He's already being pretty nosey as it is.

He's thankful to move back onto a less uncomfortable subject.]

You seem to be doing a better job of it than me. [a weak laugh] Can't blame him. It gave me the jitters too and I don't have a weak heart.

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[littlepwny]

Cleared the sky! And I did it 'coz -- that's what pegasus ponies do.

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[frankengambler]

"Cleared the sky"? [have a very incredulous look] What does that even mean?

[He's not sure what kind of job he was expecting from a flying blue-and-rainbow talking pony but...]

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[littlepwny]

What's it sound like? I cleared the clouds from the sky. Or, if we need rain, I bring 'em in.

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[frankengambler]

Wait, I've heard of something like that before- a cloudbuster, that's what it's called! You're a living cloudbuster! That's... [deeep breath] ... that's pretty cool. Can you still do it here?

[antedupmyheart]

I generally did what suited me best at the time.

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[frankengambler]

Hmph. Bet it paid like shit though, didn't it? You can't have it both ways- it's either something well-paying or something that suits you.

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[antedupmyheart]

I'll admit it wasn't often the best-paying. But it was enough to live on.

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[frankengambler]

Yeah, that's always how it goes. What type of job did you look out for?