i love the smell of BE=DE in the morning

[wotanon]

Who: BAD END=DEAD END & you
Where: far enough away that the hotel is safe, close enough to be heard
When: Day 434, afternoon

[Wherever you are, your phone buzzes with the notification for a Live. Should you check the broadcast, it's just an overhead view of some anonymous building in the city. The roof is covered with a few mysterious dark boxes, as well as words spray-painted in red:

YOU'RE FUCKING WELCOME
VENGEANCE VENGEANCE VENGEANCE IN THE SEVENTHFOLD DEGREE !!!

In the distance, a few small figures dash away . . .

. . . Just as every single box EXPLODES with a very audible series of booms, throwing masses of brightly-colored paint splattering all over the remainder of the building, all the surrounding buildings and road, and probably any passersby within a couple blocks, too.

Also, the explosions collapse the entire roof and top floor of the building, sending paint-splattered rubble flying to the ground as well. Watch out!

The broadcast then helpfully zooms in on the paint-splattered culprits of this mayhem—the entirety of BAD END=DEAD END, who didn't quite manage to outrun their crimes.]

* * *

[If, for some reason, you don't check the broadcast—perhaps because you have more important things to do than watch every live that happens in this godforsaken city—then your day is interrupted by a series of distant, but very loud, explosions. Maybe you should check that out?]

[OOC: Hosts: 450 points + 450 units participating bonus (10 atm) + 200 for the Art theme, because Art is a BANG!
Everyone else: 300 points + 100 for the Art theme]

Comments

[temperedinpride]

It usually is in your case.

[polydegmonsprice]

Don't make assumptions.

[temperedinpride]

[He just pats his arm.]

Enjoy yourself, there are plenty around who would enjoy getting on your nerves to no end.

[polydegmonsprice]

You say that like it's a comfort.

[temperedinpride]

Is it not?

[polydegmonsprice]

It is hardly as though I recall being a-- fan of being bullied?!

[temperedinpride]

Perhaps not, but I wonder if it is a quality you need to remember? Some parts of our personalities seem inherent despite amnesia.

[polydegmonsprice]

...I do seem to have much in common with Hades. So I doubt it is necessarily something that needs remembering, being one's own self.

[temperedinpride]

It is less what you may have in common on the surface and more the company I have known him to keep.

But how have you taken to life here so far?

[polydegmonsprice]

...I got overwhelmed at first, so I've been a bit scarce, but... It isn't terrible here. For the most part, of course.

[temperedinpride]

Have you had a chance to look around? Or simply been in your dorm?

[polydegmonsprice]

Mostly Taisho, but I have done some investigating elsewhere.

[temperedinpride]

Anywhere that interested you?

[polydegmonsprice]

I found the museums to be of particular interest.

[temperedinpride]

Ah yes. Art and culture are quite fascinating, even from an alien species. Perhaps more so.

[polydegmonsprice]

Right. They are peaceful, too.

[temperedinpride]

Well, your arrival was a bit more hectic than might have been ideal.

[polydegmonsprice]

It was, perhaps, slightly too much. I've settled since, I think.

[temperedinpride]

For better or worse you will be dealing with a myriad of expectations. Though you should take advantage of that to make your own demands.

[polydegmonsprice]

Such as?

[temperedinpride]

If others have expectations of you, you are free to find things to expect in turn. Make demands while you may.

[polydegmonsprice]

Hm.

[temperedinpride]

Well that is merely a suggestion.

[polydegmonsprice]

One much like what Hades gave.

[temperedinpride]

And what did he suggest?