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[theweakhavepurpose]

[The video opens on a pile of wood, sticks, shrubbery, and chunks of what might have been siding, all piled into a very obvious pyramid surrounded by rocks.]

So everything has sucked recently. Back home in Montana, when shit got rough we'd always get together and have a big bonfire. Get drunk, make s'mores, all that stuff. It didn't make things better but at least you forgot about it for a little while.

Worth a try right?

[He sounds like he's honestly asking. He's trying really hard to be positive for once.]

I've got some graham crackers, chocolate, and other things for roasting. No marshmallows though so if anyone wants to come through in the clutch it would be appreciated.

I'm lighting this up tonight at dusk, so if you want in, be there. I've only got so much to burn and it might not last more than an hour or two.

((OOC: Feel free to use this like a log and make top levels and do action things. Go forth and get some bonfire mingling on!))

Comments

[toiletseat_girl]

No, no, hell no am I staying here forever. I'm going to a different world.

[theweakhavepurpose]

What like go back with someone else?

[Tinya kept mentioning that but he kind of thought it wasn't possible.]

Is that something the Door will do?

[toiletseat_girl]

Yeah, with Peter. Or wherever he decides to go. I'm not picky.

[she plans to browbeat Sorrow into making it possible, if necessary]

If it can take us from point A to point B, it should be able to send us to point C if we wanna.

[theweakhavepurpose]

I mean I guess that makes sense. But what'll happen to us back home? Do we just disappear?

[He kind of likes the idea of Jacob forever wondering how Pratt escaped from the chair he was duct taped to while locked in a bunker underground.]

[toiletseat_girl]

I don't know and I don't wanna know. All I do know is that I'm leaving behind a clusterfuck and I don't want to watch it in action. So I say, pick a world and go with it.

[yes, do it for nothing but sweet, sweet revenge]

[theweakhavepurpose]

Maybe I will.

Tinya has been telling me about the future, where there's all this protected wilderness and wolves and stuff. Sounds way better than starving to death back home.

[Though that's a pretty low bar.]

[toiletseat_girl]

Tinya? Don' know 'er.

But seriously, quite literally anything sounds better than what you'd be going back to. Being taped to a chair and being forced to watch nothing but The Jerry Springer Show for twelve hours would be better than starving to death. Not by much, but ehhhh. You take what you can get.

[theweakhavepurpose]

Well I've got the taped to a chair thing down. And there is a TV but... it's definitely not playing Jerry Springer.

It'd be an improvement.

[It's playing back Jacob torturing him on a loop so he can watch himself suffer while he suffers. Duel action suffering. Jacob is very efficient.]

[toiletseat_girl]

Ugh, seriously? You definitely need to world-hop. Yours sounds like it sucks.

[wow. that is like an ultimate douchebag move. deserving of a punch in the face]

[theweakhavepurpose]

It didn't used to.

But yeah, it does now. I guess I should. Somewhere that no one knows me. That'll be kinda nice.

[toiletseat_girl]

Then, you know what I say? Go with this Tinya chick to wherever she's from and start over. Life's way too fucking short as it is.

[theweakhavepurpose]

And I'm dead anyway so it's not like it matters if I disappear.

[toiletseat_girl]

Definitely. It's the ultimate "fuck you" to those who'd make you suffer. And they deserve like all of the fuck yous.

[theweakhavepurpose]

[He actually gives a little smile.]

They'll spend the rest of their lives wondering how the hell I escaped.

[toiletseat_girl]

[she smiles back]

Yeah, can you imagine the mindfuck that would be? They'd eternally be like what the fuck? And the best part is, they'd never figure it out.

[theweakhavepurpose]

And I'll be somewhere else not even thinking about them.

Okay I like this plan.

[toiletseat_girl]

Exactly! It's a great plan! Fuck 'em!

[theweakhavepurpose]

What's gonna happen to you back home? Anyone going to freak out that you've vanished suddenly?

[toiletseat_girl]

[she shrugs] Not really. My family thinks I'm dead. And the other Reapers can do just fine without me. My boss will probably be pissed, but as far as I'm concerned? That's a bonus.

[theweakhavepurpose]

Has anyone in the history of humanity actually liked their boss?

[toiletseat_girl]

I'm pretty sure the answer to that question is "no." No one in the entire history of ever has liked their boss. That's because being a boss requires being an asshole. And nobody likes an asshole.

[theweakhavepurpose]

But the perks must be nice. Get to order people around, make your own hours, not do as much work.

...Yeah I should never be in charge. I would definitely be an asshole.

[toiletseat_girl]

And a much higher paycheck than anybody else.

So would I. It's cool. I know I'd go mad with power.

[theweakhavepurpose]

I was bad enough making the probie get me Starbucks, if I had any real authority I'd have people waxing my car and doing my dishes.

But the money would be nice. I want one of those stupid expensive curved tvs. Just to have one.

[toiletseat_girl]

And I'd make 'em do all my work for me so I could screw around on the internet all day. Those Kirk/Spock fanfics won't read themselves.

You must be from later than 2003 'cause I've never even heard of curved TVs. But now I know I want one.