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[featherbeaned]

Who: Idols! Monsters! Monstrous idols ...?
Where: Anywhere, everywhere
When: 298. early morning

[What are you up to?]

Comments

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

It's not alarm.

They are perfectly capable of handling themselves.

[vitainmorte]

So, just... circling back to "fascinating," I guess...?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

You seem to find that word offensive. Someone else treat you like a display piece?

[vitainmorte]

No.

I guess that's why it's so baffling-- I can't see anything about me that would be described that way at all.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

You're quiet without being wishy-washy. How about that?

[vitainmorte]

... I don't think being raised with manners is particularly unusual?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Have you talked to the people around here?

They are people pleasers and pushovers or unapologetically themselves with very few in between.

[vitainmorte]

I've talked to plenty, and few have been terribly rude.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

That's a far cry from having manners though.

[vitainmorte]

I've found little to complain about, either way.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

So then normalcy is your defense mechanism?

Novel, but not entirely unrelatable.

[vitainmorte]

My defense mechanism is usually a gun.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

That's also normal.

[Wait]

What kind of gun?

[vitainmorte]

Smith-Jennings 1st model repeating rifle.

It's not what I'd prefer, but I don't think we can get anything more modern.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Not without a little help from science, anyway.

[vitainmorte]

[ stares at him for a moment, expression neutral. ]

... and how would I supply ammunition on a custom piece when all that can be bought is for older models?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Who said a gun had to fire bullets?

[vitainmorte]

[ brow knits... ]

What else would it fire?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[As if it was obvious:]

Lasers.

[vitainmorte]

[ squints... ]

And how effective are lasers as lethal weaponry...?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Are you seriously asking me that?

[vitainmorte]

Lethal lasers where I come from are laboratory equipment, military-grade weaponry, or radioactive, to be fair.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Watch some sci-fi. It's called a phaser.

[Or whatever Hell Star Trek calls them]

[vitainmorte]

[ a little testy; ]

Those don't exist where I'm from, that's why I'm asking.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Then yes. Lasers can be lethal. And expedient and precise.

Anything from a lab or a war machine is probably as slow as hell.