Bartending live

[noteablekiller]

Who: You
Where: The lobby
When: Day 87

[Codex is on camera, speaking to everyone from the lobby, it's obvious he's arranged chairs and set out glasses to facilitate some bar tending]

Did anyone receive fanmail they'd like to respond to? If so, come down to the lobby and use BARiTONES live, we'll be providing free drinks for anyone responding publicly to their mail.

Think of this as a way to encourage the sort of audience engagement you're interested in. I realize fanmail is often... invasive, but I'm sure most of you have fans you wouldn't mind hearing from again.


[You are free to assume you already got a drink from Codex and are sitting down to address mail, or to top level a comment to Codex and he'll respond!]

Comments

[purrrnicious]

[Shrugs!]

Dunno, whatever. A date, slavery, buyer's choice.

[shutthefoxup]

Hmmmm.... And if I win you'll need to help me with a live too then. Sound fair?

[purrrnicious]

Whoa, whoa, you couldn't get any more vague if you tried. What Live? What would I be doing, huh?

[shutthefoxup]

MY lives are taunting and grooming! What's the worst that could happen?

[purrrnicious]

People who say that pretty much turn out to be the least trustworthy.



[Considers, swishing her tail sharply before:]

Fine. But if you try to get me to do anything weird I can't promise not to scratch anyone.

[shutthefoxup]

[Holds out a hand]

Fair enough.

[purrrnicious]

[Takes it! She sure does have real claws.]

Pretty sure this is a bad bet for you, but I'm not gonna complain if you're willing to make it~

[shutthefoxup]

Eh, what's the worst that could happen? At least this makes things interesting.

Silver, by the way.

[purrrnicious]

Silver, huh? You can use "Kohime" for now.

[shutthefoxup]

For now, huh? Expectin' you'll get your real name back soon?

[purrrnicious]

Oh, no, I have it. It popped up in my first memory, I didn't have to wait long at all.

[shutthefoxup]

Ah, that's great! Congrats.

[purrrnicious]

Pff, okay. What for? Having a name isn't exactly an accomplishment.

[shutthefoxup]

No? I think it's an important thing to regain. And you had to work for those points to get those memories.

With so little to celebrate in this place, isn't it nice to celebrate little things that feel big?

[purrrnicious]

[Flattens her ears back...]

I've been here about a week. Guess I hadn't crushed those expectations of something better than a five-letter word to be happy about.

[shutthefoxup]

I've been here since day one, so I guess that makes sense.

[purrrnicious]

. . .How long is that?

[shutthefoxup]

About three months.

[purrrnicious]

How often are there games like that last one?

[shutthefoxup]

[Searching his brain please hold...]

Mmmm....about half....there've been about twenty games in three months and half of 'em have been "bad".

[purrrnicious]

[Makes a low rumbling growling sound. Not at him, but what he said. Or maybe at him, he's the messenger and that's the guy you shoot when you don't like the news, right?]

That many? And––what, people just die, and they just––they put up with it?

[shutthefoxup]

If you have a suggestion on what to do, I'd love to hear it.

[purrrnicious]

[Starts pacing!]

I'm not gonna bite it so a bunch of creeps watching from the sidelines can get their kicks.

Have we tried fighting them?

[shutthefoxup]

This probably isn't a good thing to discuss with cameras around. Remember, you're being watched everywhere except the dorms.

[purrrnicious]

[sry buddy way too agitated for your logic]

So what? What are they gonna do, kill me?

Oh wait. That'll happen anyway, right?