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[oversleeps]

[ when the feed clicks on, marduk is in what appears to be a ruined building near the edge of town. there's snow on the floor and holes in the walls, but he's not wearing a single scrap of winter clothing. more importantly, he doesn't look especially pleased to be doing this. ]

Recently, one of the locals here went missing. Don't ask me what his name was, I'm not the one who gives a shit. I'm just here to solve the mystery.

He's missing because he's dead, and he's dead because I killed him.

[ he pauses here. it looks like it's for dramatic effect, but really he's just trying to figure out how to end the announcement. ]

Most of you would call that murder, wouldn't you? Can't remember if you all figured out what to do about that, but-- if you want retribution, you can come and get it.

[ good enough. the video ends there. ]

Comments

[oversleeps]

[ well tbf humans are gross tho ]

Certainly have. [ he pauses then, falling silent. he's still not sure how to feel about being a creature of myth, now that the initial wave of interest has passed; if only tempest remembered any of them.

this shit is going to bother him forever. ] You do this often? Hang about strange murderers you find on the network? [ because if so, girl, you need a real hobby. ]

[hyanaimne]

[she opens her mouth to answer his question, then pauses to actually think about it. Just how many people is it now? She isn't sure. It wasn't that she went looking for that type, but she seemed drawn to them all the same]

Not particularly. They just turn out that way down the road.

[oversleeps]

[ the fact that it gives her pause just makes his eyebrows raise. wow. ]

I wonder what that says about you.

[hyanaimne]

That I am a terrible judge of character, most likely.

[oversleeps]

Most likely. [ heh. ] Works out in my favor, though.

[hyanaimne]

Ohh? And why is that?

i thought i sent this tag before but i didn't. im sorry. i suck

[oversleeps]

I ended up with the pleasure of your company, didn't I? Besides-- if everyone here was a good judge of character, I'd be shit out of luck.

hdu!!!!!!!!11

[hyanaimne]

I think you would be, yes. Amusing, isn't it? How bad the people here are at that.

WEH

[oversleeps]

It makes sense, in a way. How else would they expect us all to work together?

[ here he glances off to the side, out one of the windows. ] Not that anyone's done a good job of that.

[hyanaimne]

Ah, very true. They do an admittedly terrible job, at times.