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[oohforeshadowing]

Let me get back to you, darling.

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[hauntedcalamari]

I've admittedly just been to a couple different versions of the one, but that does seem like it shouldn't be a tall order.

[oohforeshadowing]

You'd think! And yet.

Fortunately, I do seem to have washed up on a ship where I don't need to pay rent and can't die.

[hauntedcalamari]

Not dying is nice.

[Ben has never paid rent.]

Sure sucked the first time, anyway. And I can't complain about the accommodations. It might be just personal preference whether you'd rather be caught between nations in conflict or just disorganized angry people with knives and magic powers.

[oohforeshadowing]

Well. Maybe you keep antagonizing people with knives et cetera, darling, but some of us can lead a quiet life.

[Incredibly quiet. Too quiet. God they're bored.]

[hauntedcalamari]

I feel like that would work better with major political entities than knife dudes.

[Also when knife dude is your brother...]

[oohforeshadowing]

Why? In my experience, 'knife dudes' are less likely to get knifey with you if you just stay out of their way.

[hauntedcalamari]

Comes down to scale, I guess. It's personal for the knife guy, and a nation-state doesn't seem that likely to notice you.

[oohforeshadowing]

Have you never encountered knife people who are also extremely loyal to their government?

[hauntedcalamari]

Worst of both worlds?

[oohforeshadowing]

Absolutely terrible. But, again, not really a problem here!

[hauntedcalamari]

Which... can be nice for a while.

[Little bit of a leading comment, maybe.]

[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.