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[oohforeshadowing]

Let me get back to you, darling.

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[oohforeshadowing]

[Mmmm.]

And?

[hauntedcalamari]

[He's never been great at getting the recalcitrant to follow. Oh, well.]

And then it starts to drag a little?

[oohforeshadowing]

Thus returning us to the very beginning of this conversation, darling.

[And the mention of constant, worrying boredom.]

[hauntedcalamari]

The first time I was here I definitely let it get to me. Nothing really ever seemed to change. After I got over being alive, I kinda just coasted. Kinda sucks that it's even possible to be bored in a magic spaceship.

[oohforeshadowing]

That's inevitable, darling. Boredom, however, rates above several forms of excitement.

[hauntedcalamari]

Yeah, but with their absence comes the terrible responsibility of keeping yourself busy.

[oohforeshadowing]

Do you think I'm just laying around all day? For shame, warden. I'm gainfully employed.

[hauntedcalamari]

Gaining what?

[oohforeshadowing]

The inherent satisfaction of a job well done.

[yeah no they'd just be even more bored without it]

[hauntedcalamari]

That and a buck fifty will get you a cup of coffee.

[oohforeshadowing]

I don't know what a buck is, but I've been getting my coffee for free the entire time I've been here.

[hauntedcalamari]

I thought the idiom would translate pretty straightforwardly is all.

[oohforeshadowing]

Yes. I'm being facetious.

But I'm also being entirely serious, because there is absolutely no real value in doing anything here.

[hauntedcalamari]

Yes, I was agreeing with you. I mean, mostly. I'm alive and can spend a whole afternoon touching plants.

[oohforeshadowing]

Are you....trying to distract me with pity?

[hauntedcalamari]

I'm trying to commiserate with empathy, but they do look mostly the same.

[oohforeshadowing]

Trying. I can't empathise with something that deeply pathetic.

[hauntedcalamari]

The weird dead guy stuff I'll take to the other ex-ghosts onboard. I meant the part where it's boring here.

[oohforeshadowing]

Too late. You have absolutely disclosed weird dead guy stuff.

Well, if there's nothing else to gain from this conversation...?

[hauntedcalamari]

Not interested in becoming less bored brainstorming?

[oohforeshadowing]

With you? Not really.

[hauntedcalamari]

The plant touching thing is entirely a having been dead side effect. For the record.

[oohforeshadowing]

Understood.

Please understand my concern that it may have leaked into your ability to brainstorm what a normal person might find stimulating.

[hauntedcalamari]

I don't really aspire to normal. I do have more than the average experience spinning my wheels someplace nothing ever changes, though.

[oohforeshadowing]

You're starting to sound a little needy, darling.