[superhell pcs] thancred

[voidshift]

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[onlythans]

[oh boy we're at the NEW BAR what could possibly go wrong at the NEW BAR with all its NEW SIGHTS and NEW SOUNDS and NEW BEVERAGES

anyway Thancred comes rolling in a little bit later in the afternoon, smelling of french fries and that unique Eau de Food Court.]

Well. Someone's in a cheerful mood.

[But over he goes, not one to turn down some company, and finds himself a cheap beer of his own. For the moment.]

Have you been out exploring all of our new locales?

[voidshift]

I have. Some weren't really worth bothering with, honestly, and the... balls are a pain to deal with, but I suppose I'll take it. Beer seems less terrible, marginally.

[he sips at it, taking his time.]

[onlythans]

[Ah yes, the horrifying ball pit entrance to this place. Someone's 100% going to die in that and we're going to have to go pit diving for a corpse, just wait and see.]

I found myself at the carnival, for a time. I don't recommend the games; they're all but unwinnable by design.

[...]

I could also do without all the skulls and skeletons.

[voidshift]

Ugh. I'll make sure to leave it alone, then, I only went in briefly.

[local man sees house of mirrors and Hits The Bricks.]

It's still more to see, at least.

[onlythans]

[doesn't he mean his roommate sees the house of mirrors and requires a mirror intervention? obvs. it's his roommate who shouldn't be around them clearly.]

Indeed. It's hard to complain, considering where we started.

[ponders]

Acquired a secret admirer, have you?

[voidshift]

[oh, yeah, definitely the roommate and nothing but the roommate.

he blinks at the question, though, glancing over-]

Have I? I don't believe that... oh.

[rynlan reaches up, briefly touching the necklace chain.]

This is... something I owned, before. Showed up yesterday.

[onlythans]

Something of yours? Above and beyond just what was given to you when we first got our rooms.

[Well. That's...unsettling.]

How do you suppose it came to find itself here?

[voidshift]

There was a note with it. Courtesy of Satan, 'for being smart enough'.

[he makes a face, but-]

It hasn't turned out to be some sort of trick yet, so it seems to be fine.

[onlythans]

Ah. Well, congratulations on your brilliance, I suppose.

[He waves a hand, not exactly dismissive, but almost self-mocking. He does not appear to have any such gift. Judgments about his own intelligence therefore follow naturally.]

It's something sentimental, I gather.

[voidshift]

[fortunately, he likes thancred enough not to say anything in response to that-- but the last remark gets a smile from him, smaller than usual. slightly bittersweet.]

...it is. I'm not sure why I didn't have it in the first place.

[onlythans]

Because this is hell, presumably. Why should any of us be afforded luxuries?

[voidshift]

Why, indeed. But better late than never.

[he lets his hand fall from the chain and takes another pull from his drink, a little more subdued.]

[onlythans]

...Ah. I've something else to tell you, following on a previous discussion of ours.

[He glances away a moment.]

It seems our personal demons are denying being the ones to give Barnes the information he dispensed a few days ago.

[voidshift]

Are they? That's not surprising, exactly, but- what did they have to say about it, besides that it wasn't them?

[onlythans]

Precious little. They suggested as an alternative that he made it up himself. Or got the idea from the fliers that have been tacked around.

[voidshift]

[hm. one ear flicks.]

It's definitely not impossible for him to have killed based on something he just thought was true, but making it up?

[onlythans]

Aye, it does seem rather uncharacteristic of him. Though his profile did mention "getting in over his head".

[He shakes his head.]

It still doesn't warrant one death. If he were so worried, he simply would've poisoned the lot of us all at once to whittle the numbers.

[voidshift]

And then he'd have been here alone, with a few weeks to wait and only our personal demons for company.

...still, going after a few that way would have been a better idea than what actually happened.

[onlythans]

Ah, yes. Left alone with one's personal demons. Not a life I'd recommend to anyone — but for the span of a few weeks, it could be done.

[He's joking. Probably.]

[voidshift]

Maybe so. I don't know, he seems like he might snap in that situation.

[onlythans]

Ah, you don't like them. What's your grudge? Color me curious.

[voidshift]

Don't get me wrong, I'm fine with most of them in small doses. Blue braided my hair last week.

[but- he hums.]

They're still-- well, you know. Here to torment us. Talking to them can be just as infuriating as it is interesting.

[onlythans]

Well. We've been inconvenienced, certainly, but as torments go...

[Oh. Oh.]

The only one of us here I'd describe as tormented is — would have been, Barnes.

[voidshift]

...do you think that has something to do with why he'd be pushed so far?

[onlythans]

If it does, it certainly bodes ill for the rest of us.

It means any one of us might be targeted next. And potentially succumb.