SCARAMOUCHE.

[awol]

uh oh stinky...

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[nascens]

[Emotional support harpoon gun is such a sentence to read...

Scaramouche will move to perch on whatever perchable surface is nearby, settling in for STORY TIME.]

I could tell that much. You look like you've seen better days. [Rigged game, though, huh. Sounds a lot like CARNIVALS.] I'm taking it the team-building didn't go well.

[awol]

[ he may perch. jingheng just settles in. ]

Not so much.

Had to solve some kind of bullshit mystery. Felt like trial but we only had 3 minutes instead.

[ he will just nurse his tea and makes a face. this shit sucks. zhanlu wake up and make him tea properly :( ]

[nascens]

[HELP his tragic tea...]

Three minutes? [HELP. Honestly that doesn't sound too bad in that it's better than NINE WHOLE HOURS OF HELL, but judging by how banged up these guys are... Maybe not.]

Would anything have happened if you didn't solve it by then?

[awol]

[ definitely not ]

To solve what happened to the USS Hephaestus. That's what they asked of us.

[ he frowns ]

If we didn't, then they would punish the four of us.

[nascens]

[The word is not familiar to him, so he's just like, yeah! Sounds fake and bad and pointless.]

I heard that you were allowed to leave without trouble at the end, so I'm assuming you managed to figure it out.

[awol]

We were... it was strange. Put us through our paces.

[ he hums ]

We solved it. Still didn't feel relevant to any of this.

[nascens]

Most likely because it wasn't, beyond just serving as a way to make your day a little worse.

[OR A LOT CONSIDERING HE GOT SHOT.]

[awol]

Guess Satan spends no expense, maybe I'll start acting flattered.

[ dryly ]

[nascens]

Don't be too flattered or he might decide you're worth a second shot.

[lol. lmao. get it]

[awol]

That was terrible.

[ he hated that ]

[nascens]

[he doesn't actually do this but the energy of the icon is there]

Hardly as terrible as what you just got back from, surely.

[awol]

Been stretched by a wormhole to death, honestly a few bullets aren't so bad.

[ the circumstances sure could have been better, but he's holding his trauma in by the skin of his teeth ayyyy ]

[nascens]

[HIS TRAUMA... GIRL HELP. He looks a little curious at that though. Does he know what a wormhole is?? Probably not.]

Is that how you ended up here?

[awol]

Yes.

I was trying to return home.

[nascens]

So much for that, I guess.

[FUCKIN RIP.]

But you did end up here after that, good as new, and you're probably going to have to heal those bullet wounds from scratch.

[awol]

Don't have nanite technology to help with that. Or relaxants.

I forget how slow healing is otherwise. [ he frowns ]

What about you?

How'd you end up here?

[nascens]

Nanite technology? [The way Sumeru probably has this in some form by a different name or something lord jesus.] Humans do heal slowly, though. How long do you think a bullet wound would take? A month?

[HE GENUINELY HAS NO IDEA. Hilarious. Also good question! He doesn't want to talk about it! So he just steals a page from Eto's book and shrugs.]

I made a miscalculation.