Pokey Minch

I'm going to be honest you're really not making me want to challenge your dad on this any less.

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Save it for after he's gotten used to us being whatever we are.

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I make no promises on that. Who knows how heated paperwork challenges could get at this dinner.

Bonnie and Clyde is a descriptor I'm pretty fond of, I'll be honest.

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He'll literally throw away half of what you do and make you do more paperwork. He did that for the last two people I dated when I was like eleven to twelve.

Bonnie and Clyde would be cool, minus the whole shot to death thing.

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See though. That's part of the game. And I could play that forever. It's something to do at least.

Well gee, you just want to take all the fun and romance out of it, huh?

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[Well, the spiders are pretty, so Eliza doesn't mind too much. And she does smile a bit at Pokey's reassurance.] Well...I don't really mind you recording that stuff. But...thanks for the offer. I...did you see anything about what happened on the ghosts' side? [She thinks there wasn't any, from what she skipped through, but she's not 100% sure.]

Edited Date: 2017-10-14 06:41 am (UTC)

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You could be spending that time with me instead. Kind of more pressing than boring 'So you want to date my daughter' paperwork.

When you find a cool couple who weren't killed in a really dramatic and painful way, we'll talk.

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Got that right. Have to admit, paperwork isn't as good a kisser as you. I'm a charmer, I know. Don't swoon too hard over me.

That's going to take awhile because that's literally just about every couple ever.

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Ghost's side?

[That wasn't something Pokey was expecting to hear. The hell is a ghost side.]

'Fraid not. Or, I dunno. I can kind of make a guess what 'ghost side' would mean, but if you don't want to talk about it, that's fine too.

Mostly, I just want to make sure you're okay.

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[She smiles a little at his reassurance.] It's pretty much what it sounds like. Us people who died...could still watch our friends, and we were mostly restricted to the same part of town they were. And we could only interact with the world in limited ways. [She pauses.] Well, the thing I want to tell you about first is actually kind of a funny story-did you see the marshmallow scene?

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Have you been kissing a lot of paperwork in your free time? You have so many hobbies you haven't told me about.

Swoon, suuurrreee. Nerd.

I'm sure we could figure out one famous cool couple who didn't die dramatically or tragically.

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Sure have. Got to get my practice in somehow before I show you how it's really done.

Don't have to impress me. It's okay. You can get a little faint, I won't make fun.

Name one. There isn't one.

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Glad you haven't gotten too many paper cuts on the lips at least. That would kind of suck. Maybe kill kissing for you.

Keep dreaming on that, dweebazoid.

~~It could be us you know, maybe.~~ I'm going to really dig up someone, I swear.

[Even with her aggressive cross out on the first line, Pokey can probably still read it. Whilst Lili continues trying to play 'cool'.]

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Kill kissing? Hard to do that when I've barely just begun. If my lips got tore up, they'd just get back to being smoother than ever a few days later.

You can try. Maybe you will when we're like old and gray, and then you can brag.

[Yet again he doesn't mention the crossed out words in one of her letters. Still, he can't help but smile at them.]

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[Shit. It's not like he didn't know the girl had died during the thing. Obviously, she had, and here she was now. In a way, he knew that was just the nature of these places. Death was more temporary displacement then permanent, despite how it looked during that show.

Still, to watch something as a ghost in one of these places. That was surreal.

He can talk about, think about that later. Right now he's being asked something else.]

Yeah, I remember that. Why do you ask?

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[She grins as she recalls it.] That was all me. I was just going to stick one on that guy's sword, but then he had to start cutting up those poor marshmallows. So throwing more at him turned out to be a good way to mess with him and get some of my friends to laugh.

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[Pokey smirks at that, then laughs. Alright, he didn't really expect that from Eliza. Pranks seemed to be something someone as honest as her usually wouldn't engage in, which makes it even funnier.]

Okay, that one wasn't bad. That was a pretty good one. Not sure I would have used marshmallows, but it worked.

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[To be fair, she didn't mean it as a prank at first.] Well, there was this...giant dollhouse that appeared in the town as well, and I tried to use one of the dolls to communicate with my friends, but I think I just freaked them out. [She giggles a little. It was frustrating then, but she can kind of see the humor now.] It's a good thing we could send messages once a week, so I could explain what was going on... [Her face gets a soft smile on it.] And Zack ended up bringing one of the dolls to my room so we could kind of communicate with that...

[Pokey might have seen that scene as well.]

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psycheslantern

Hey dude quick questi()n

I'm putting t()gether s()me basic d()cumentati()n ()n h()w we handled the cl()ne sickness ()utbreak s() that Zephyr's friends have s()mething t() refer t() if they have the same pr()blem cr()p up in their realms - there's n() reas()n t() assume that we're the ()nly place with Facility cl()nes

D() y()u have any ()bjecti()n t() me namedr()pping y()u? I'm n()t putting in actual schematics ()r pr()gramming n()tes ()n the nanites - J()hn thinks it's best we keep the specs ()n th()se under wraps - but I am menti()ning that we used them and that we can pr()vide a limited supply if needed, and I'd like t() credit the team

Thanks
Psymagus Waspfire

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Hey, if you want to give a shout out to how great I am, I'm not going to object. I think holding the actual programming notes back is a little over kill, but I can get why we'd do that.

So sure. Feel free to put me down.

Pokey Minch

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psycheslantern

Like I said, the secrecy ab()ut the nan()b()ts was J()hn's call, but since he's seen these things run am()k and I haven't, I'm willing t() c()ncede the p()int t() him

And haha, well, if there's ()ne thing I've learned in my sweeps ()n the transuniversal abducti()n circuit, it's that it's damn near imp()ssible t() predict when s()me()ne's g()ing t() c()me ()ver all paran()id ab()ut pers()nal deets. Figured it was better t() check in bef()re I went and ann()unced t() the multiverse at large that y()u're here. I'm n()t actually l()()king t() piss pe()ple ()ff m()st ()f the time ;)

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[Pokey nods at that.]

Watched the DVD a couple times, yeah.

You did good, with what you were handed.

[He isn't sure what else to say in regards to things like that, with Eliza's own death or the situation as a whole. It's awkward for him still, and he wishes he was one of the people he'd known on his own journies. One of the people who'd know for sure how to respond.]

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Okay. I can get behind that. You don't know when the person you're talking to might go crazy over the idea of having you tell others about them. I appreciate it, but otherwise, you don't have to worry about that for me.

I don't have much reason to hide anymore.

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[Eliza blushes, looking quite flustered.] Thanks. I...I just wanted everyone to get out of there alive, especially after we learned about that spell to bring back the dead. We ghosts could do a bit more, so I did my best.

[She looks a bit awkward.] There were...some less happy bits. Especially when we ghosts had our meetings, since that meant people were kind of stuck with their murderers. I punched the jerk who killed me when he arrived, at least. As hard as I could.

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