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[umadrobin]

[ There's a new face in Exsilium today. Or at least, a new mask. A black mask with a prominent white skull, with a red X in the center with its right leg extending over an eye, seems to be juggling a black and red knife in one hand. ]

Y'know...

[ The obviously young man begins. ]

First, I wasn't happy about being brought here in the middle of ripping off the mayor's reelection campaign funds. But this?

[ He says, flinging the knife into a nearby wall. It lands perfectly, with obviously practiced precision into a small slit in the wall where this same knife had been thrown before... only to disappear in a flash of smoke and reappear back into the same hand he threw it with. ]

This I can get used to. Especially if I'm gonna get paid to do the same shit I've always been doing. Gotta ask, though.

[ The masked face gets way up into the camera, leaning into it. ]

Don't tell me these little freedom-fighters brought me, but not the Titans.

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[umadrobin]

[ Somehow, that doesn't sound like sarcasm to him. At least, not entirely. ]

What do you mean?

[flightlessbird]

These weapons are supposed to be special, I think? I cannot remember where I left mine, but I have heard that. So maybe yours can be used for sandwiches and you have not learned it yet.

[umadrobin]

[ Now he's interested. ]

They said the weapon 'evolves.' I thought it was bullshit. You're saying they actually can?

[flightlessbird]

That is what they said. And if they want us to fight for them, I do not know why they would lie.

[umadrobin]

Everybody lies.

[ He loves that show. For serious. ]

[flightlessbird]

[ considering that one for a moment...! and she nods. ]

Yes, that is true. But not about everything.

[umadrobin]

Still. Only one way to find out how well the knife works.

[flightlessbird]

Yes! Kill things with it.

[umadrobin]

[ Killing? He raises an eyebrow about that. But... he is going to have to fight evil armies, isn't he? ]

There's that.

[ There. Neither yes, nor no. ]

[flightlessbird]

I have a gun. I am not sure what it does, or how to use it, but I have it.

[umadrobin]

You don't know how a gun works? You're kidding, right?

[flightlessbird]

[ brightly: ] I know it kills people.

[umadrobin]

You point it at someone and pull the trigger. And then hope they're not like anyone from my world.

[flightlessbird]

Why? Do people not die in your world?

[umadrobin]

Oh, they do. Some much, much easier than others.