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[busternaut]

@flyguy54

username

@YOUR USERNAME

name

Dearka Elthman

age

21 years old

hometown

Februarius City, PLANT

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Comments

@lc.jule (during spouse swap)

[coordination]

Dearka!!

Where are you right now!?

[busternaut]

[Dearka sends him back a location pin: the address matches up to one of the listings they'd discussed looking at.]

Should I not be? I thought you said it'd make more sense to split up and look at places separately, so we can root out all the inexcusable ones faster.

[coordination]

Yes, you should be!

What you SHOULDN'T be is with someone else. Are you!?

[ Someone sounds like a jealous s/o!!! ]

BECAUSE I AM!!

[busternaut]

[Hoo boy... No sense in lying:]

Yeah, Jamil's here.

Why, who are you with?

[coordination]

HUH?

I'm with the other one!! [ The other one... Yzak please, ] Are they trying to pull something!? Neither of us asked to do this with someone else!

[busternaut]

["The other one"...]

I know, but maybe it's not a terrible idea to just go along with it?

At least this way we can kinda test drive two places at once.

Plus, I dunno about yours, but this place has a lock like the rooms in the Valentia, where it's keyed to your specific person... Which I guess we could work around only one of us having access, but it could get annoying.

[coordination]

Still! If I wanted to test drive this with another person I would have just done that with you!

This is obnoxious! I'm going to give this landlord here a piece of my mind when I can contact him again! Making a mistake like this...

[ FUSS FUSS FUSS!!!

And even though he's still BIG MAD ABOUT THIS, once his disdain is made very clear, he can at least focus on the goal a little better. ]

Coming and going would be a nightmare if the lock works like that.

[busternaut]

It would be.

And anyway, I'm thinking... It can't hurt to take the opportunity to get to know some of these guys a little better, right? Especially by themselves, I mean, they're usually attached at the hip.

[You're one to talk, Dearka.]

Point being, we ARE all basically on the same apocalypse stopping team, at the end of the day. Maybe let's just make some lemonade out of this.

[coordination]

Yeah, obnoxiously attached at the hip.

[ POT, KETTLE!!!!!!! ]

But, I'm well aware of the importance of camaraderie between our allies. I'd just like to do that on my own terms instead of ending up in a ridiculous situation like this!

He's already acting like an excited child talking about sleepovers!

[ HELP HIM!!!!!! ]

[busternaut]

[Oh boy...]

I mean he is... Younger than we are...?

[But not. THAT much younger. Oof.]

Just play some truth or dare or something until he tires himself out.

[coordination]

Younger? This guy is like a TODDLER!!

He's 'not allowed' to touch even simple kitchen knives! Unless Jamil is supervising him.

[busternaut]

[...........]

I mean

I don't know if I'd trust him with a knife either???

[like. have you MET Kalim, Yzak???]

Delivered on December 25th

[queenofkur]

[ For Christmas, Dearka receives a book titled:

"How to Confess to your Crush"

There is a letter with it. ]

Dear Dearka,

It is unfortunate I have difficulties speaking for long, or else I would have told you many a thing myself. As I find myself unable to, hopefully this book shall help you in my stead! It is an instructive book which I have read myself, even if I most certainly do not have a crush and would never confess even if I did!

Merry Christmas!
Ereshkigal, Goddess of Death and Queen of Kûr

i'll say dated before kelesis

[coordination]

Dearka people keep giving me money???

[busternaut]

Huh. And uhhh... You haven't been spotting people, have you? Buying strangers coffee? Collecting IOUs?

[coordination]

No! Why would I do that!?

[ Like, without an actual good reason, anyway. ]

[busternaut]

I dunno. To share the milk of human kindness?

OK actually I know I just said it, but man, have you ever wondered where the hell that phrase comes from? I just realized I don't actually know.

[coordination]

Shakespeare.

It refers to one who's compassionate because they were nurtured well themself. But it's not a compliment in context, because it's telling Macbeth that he's too kind to commit regicide.

[ 🚨 NERD ALERT 🚨 ]

[busternaut]

Oh

Yeah ok now that you say that it does ring a bell. Huh.

You're a nerd for being able to pull that out of thin air though. FYI.

[coordination]

SORRY FOR REMEMBERING WHAT I READ

[busternaut]

Cool guys try to live their lives unburdened by the memories of every little thing they ever had to read in 4th grade literature class.

[coordination]

Cool guy, my ass.

Anyway! This is weird! And a couple of them offered me more if I let them touch my tail!

[busternaut]

[WTF. That IS weird... But instead of saying so, he'd rather just:]

Well, did you?

[Let them touch??]

[coordination]

OF COURSE I DIDN'T

I'd never be that desperate for money!

And who knows what kind of freak reasons some people might have to want to do that!

I'd wonder if this was some sort of joke, but I'm actually getting the funds transferred to my account.

[busternaut]

Come on, you think people would seriously come up to you and ask to touch your tail because of some barely disguised weirdo fetish? Here? In the repression capital of the universe?

...How much money have you gotten so far, anyway?