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[brotimaeus]

This slime is becomin' a fuckin' inconvenience.

[As if illustrating his point - by not really doing so at all - Richard flicks a shuriken over one shoulder and sends it to the other side of the room where it embeds itself into the wall, quivering. A few marks on the paint nearby might show, to the well-trained eye, that a few of the same have already been stuck there and subsequently melted down the wall the following day.

Richard doesn't look particularly impressed.]

And people are getting echoes from it, yeah? I can't be that unlucky.

[He slips a thumb and forefinger up along the bridge of his nose to pinch it, lifting his shades up slightly.]

Tony, check your goddamn pockets when you're comin' back in here, there's enough of this stuff hanging around the house already.

[A beat.]

And bring a box.

Comments

[dictator_ko]

It multiplies?! There's already too much of the gross stuff. Pointy stuff? Like that ninja star thingy you had just now?

[brotimaeus]

Yeaaaah, don't try cuttin' it in half. You'll just end up with two of it.

[He glances back over his shoulder.]

Mm, that stuff. And swords, daggers, anythin' else you can think of.

[dictator_ko]

I've just been avoiding the stuff since I stepped on it. You can get that sort of thing? I just got a dead stuffed cute critter.

[And a horrible memory, but she's not going to mention that. She doesn't like talking about her past life memories.]

[brotimaeus]

'Parently so. Think I'd rather this over dead things, though.

[He's not so keen on his, either, spotty as they are.]

One thing I'm wonderin' about it all is what's the fuckin' point. Pun not intended.

[dictator_ko]

It's both pointless and gross.

[brotimaeus]

This kind of shit happens for a reason though, yeah? Has to. So what's this for.

[dictator_ko]

I don't know and I don't care. Whoever or whatever's behind it has to stop it.

[brotimaeus]

Not thinkin' at all about who or what might be behind it? Reminds me too much of things I don't wanna start reliving.

[dictator_ko]

Well, what's there to think about? There isn't exactly any evidence or anything. Just gross slime everywhere.

[brotimaeus]

And... nothin' about mysterious slime that turns into things dependin' on who touches it sounds at all like evidence to you?

[dictator_ko]

What's it even evidence of? Other than that there's weird icky goop that turns into stuff? I don't see anything saying "Hey, this is who created me!"

[brotimaeus]

When was the last time that anythin' weird that wasn't echoes happened to us?

[dictator_ko]

I dunno. I'm new to this whole Numbered weirdness. I guess maybe the alien invasion?

[brotimaeus]

Yeah, a year ago. You saw the news reports before it, right?

[dictator_ko]

Yeah, I saw them... A lot of crazy things.

[brotimaeus]

Yeah. That kind of shit is just what I'm worried about.

[dictator_ko]

That'd suck if it happened again. The alien invasion sucked.