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 Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2017 6:01 pm
[ Noah AMA ]Noticing Noah, the anger drained right out of Al and his features. He slowly leaned over to incline his head and bump foreheads. "Sorry," mostly about the Rep thing but also the recipes and the not thinking. It was true. "You're right. I'm still trying and getting better at it all the time," at least it was something he had been working on. He's been getting calmer with age but slips still happened from time to time, albeit far more rarely. "I'm sorry I even asked you that. It was an unfair question," he'd admitted before gently running his fingers to take the ringed hand and hold it with fingers intertwined. "There was another question, I was just... surprised and ashamed that I'd never thought to ask, "what are your goals - like, where do you see yourself in the future as your main dream?"
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Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2017 6:02 pm
[ Rep AMA ]Rep rather obviously lost interest in the middle of Al's rant. "Face it, the fact you aren't likeable is your own ******** fault. No amount of whining, kicking, pissing and moaning will change it. Try and blame me, it just makes it even more ******** obvious how self centred you are. Wah, wah you didn't give me receipts of the hundreds of times I was shitty, therefore I was clearly never shitty." He laughed. "And I talk to plenty of people like ******** adults. Actual adults, no little self righteous little ******** preteen pissbabies who think that people who genuinely have had it up to HERE with them are "playing games". Christ."
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Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2017 6:21 pm
[ Lysander's AMA ]
Lysander looked ready to end his turn, but seemed no less angry with the things Roswell had revealed under the same influence. Roswell didn't blame him. He, too, should have gotten rid of the ring much sooner, if he'd been able to wrench it off his finger.
"I wouldn't have wanted to come across as some rejected party, or make you out as someone who's been anything less than respectful, of our personal and business relationship. We are friends," Roswell said, "and you do care for me, don't you, sir?"
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Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2017 6:31 pm
[ Lysander's AMA ]
Lysander tensed up physically, enough that he clenched his hands and didn't manage to get the ring off quick enough. He had been hoping it would end before he had to make any further fool of himself, had been counting on getting away with minimal humiliation. Instead Ros had to just keep right on prying and asking emotional questions.
There was a moment where he fought the compulsion to comment with everything he had, enough that he found himself summoning his weapon to hand in a flash of shiny purple steel as if fighting against some sort of assailant before it vanished again and he snarled.
"Obviously." he said. "I love you."
And that was that. He took off the stupid ring, tossed it in the sand and moved away from the other man. "That is NOT true." he said as he went. "And no, I don't care about you, because obviously it most certainly does not go both ways. This is the most unprofessional day of my life."
[Merric AMA]
"Forgive me though Merric, but fair is only fair I think." Lysander said with a sigh. "Just a bit of mutual fun, if we are all going down, it might as well be together."
He shrugged. "Are you gay?" he asked. "And who would you think was more attractive, me or Roswell?"
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Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2017 6:57 pm
[ Lysander AMA ]
"Life Division," said Merric, in answer to Sam's question. It was a casual enough thing to discuss, something that most certainly was not the convoluted and confusing conversation that was already going on between Lysander and Roswell. It was something simple he could focus on. "I'm particularly interested in the sciences here, though I'm afraid I haven't done much research on them yet."
He felt quite a bit sorry for Roswell - well, both of them, really, because Lysander clearly wasn't pleased with the turn of events, either. Merric opened his mouth, possibly to say something, but whatever it had been going to be was forestalled by Lysander himself, the ring disappearing from his finger.
Merric slowly closed his mouth again, cleared his throat, and tried not to look too bemused at this turn of events.[ Merric AMA ]
It had been, so far, an extremely enlightening evening, if only because Merric was still sort of reeling at everything that had been revealed, most of which he hadn't expected in the slightest. He was still trying to comprehend everything from Lysander and Roswell's fight, to their feelings for each other, to Roswell's past in enforcement, and everything else in between.
It took him a moment to realize that Lysander was asking him a question. Merric stared at him.
And of course, before he could think too much on it, the ring answered for him.
"Maybe. I'm not sure yet, I haven't really had time to focus on that, uh, area of my life just yet, but possibly? Probably. As for who's more attractive, well you're both rather appealing in your own ways, I think you, Lysander, have rather nice hair and eyes in particular, but Roswell has a sort of business casual appeal that's very nice and please for the love of St. Peter ignore everything that I just said."
Merric's jaw snapped shut as a faint pink flush of sheer mortification and mingled outrage - mostly at himself - crossed his face.
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Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2017 7:50 pm
[ Lysander AMA ]
This had not been the answer Roswell had been expecting. He had meant for that to be an easy question to provide some understanding of their working relationship. Lysander wasn't heartless. It wasn't fair to leave the people here with that impression.
However...
He felt himself going red again. Well. Fair was fair. He'd said it too. And of course they cared for each other. He'd...known that anyway.
"S-sorry," he said, "I...hadn't meant. Sorry, sir."
He followed Merric's lead with answering Sam's question.
"L-Life division, yes, and I hope there's some paperwork to be done soon, because," He cleared his throat, "surely there is only so much pet shop maintenance time wasting available."
[ Merric AMA ]
Roswell, who couldn't believe (but could sort of believe) Lysander's question (because Lysander could be extraordinarly petty), was nonetheless a little curious. For vanity reasons. But it didn't stop him from saying, "Sir," in a disapproving fashion.
Merric's actual answer just lead him to self-consciously adjust his self-made cut-offs.
"I don't know about business casual," he said. "I mean, I've done what I could with what I had one me, summer-beach-lost-island-wise, but I don't know how the Howells managed."
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Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2017 8:01 pm
[ Noah AMA ]That was a pretty easy question. "Promoted, I hope, and with some projects of my own. Maybe working on my gardens project." Noah paused, looked at his hand, and freed it to take the ring off, passing it on to whoever took it next. He'd answered a few questions, and gotten off pretty easy, without being forced to say anything really horrible. He could be done. "You didn't really need me to have the ring on for that," he said. "I'd tell you anyway."
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Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2017 8:03 pm
[Lysander AMA]
Finally free of the ring, Lysander moved to leave without a word to anyone else. He was done.
[Merric AMA]
"Hm. Just those things?" Lysander said. "Guess I need to work a bit harder. Flattered though, and I will never bring it up again."
He really should have known though that Merric was probably gay, the guy dressed really well.
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Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2017 8:20 am
Kammy was doing her best impression of a wallflower jujitsu, huddling somewhere near the fire without saying a single word, because this gathering of hunters have proven what she had heard from the runic hunters back on delta was true: they were all ******** insane.
She was not a social butterfly. Large groups of strangers had her feeling awkward. This group had used a ring to ask the most awkward and personal questions of everyone resulting in lots of shouting and embarrassed faces, leaving her tempted to just find a nice quiet cave to sleep in. But there was no quiet place to hide here, and she wasn't about to wonder away on a deserted island by herself. Plus she needed to maintain some level of socialization and make more friends. Even with crazies.
It wasn't like she didn't want to talk. She just didn't want anyone to ask her such probing questions, and with so many strangers around she found it hard to talk.
She did see Sam was here, but she was busy taking notes on some other hunters and her awkward levels were off the charts.
So she sat there, casting glances at people and looking away when she felt they might look her way. Was she putting on the ring? ******** no she liked her skeletons in her closest kthx. But maybe she might ask some questions, find out something?
Or maybe not, she didn't want OP people getting pissed at her.
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Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2017 8:36 am
[ Merric AMA ]
He was staring at the ring, trying to figure out how on earth his mouth was working before his brain did, because it seemed very evident by this point that he was talking nonsense.
Merric's still somewhat outraged gaze went to Lysander, then slid sideways to Roswell again. "Well, I mean, both of you have your strong points, and I'd say that you've done very well in spite of the lack of supplies here on the island, Roswell, and for the love of - "
He made an exasperated noise in the back of his throat. "This is ridiculous. How does this even - "
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Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2017 10:58 am
[Kim AMA]
Kim rubbed her head wishing she had never put the dang ring on. Here is a shocking thing, she had actually learned something important. Touching some things is not a good idea. If she hadn't touched the ring she wouldn't be feeling like she was. She felt like.... She didn't know how she felt, but if she had the words for it, it likely would have been that she was feeling like she needed to make major life changes.
She took a deep breath and closed her eyes. "Sorry everyone. I.. have been a jerk, a little kid and I do need to be a better person. I really will try harder."
Kim gains +10 experience in taking accountability.
Kim then took off the ring fast.
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Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2017 1:35 pm
[ Sonja AMA ]
'No shame' should have been her middle name. Sonja didn't think she had much to keep a secret and this did seem far too much fun to pass up! With a flick of her fingers, she slipped the ring on with a hidden smirk.
"Can't be all that bad."
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Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2017 2:57 pm
[ Peyton AMA ]"Okay. Then, why are you always up in our business all the time and take every chance you can to take pot shots at me?" He asked in earnest. He honestly didn't quite get it. If she was really so over Noah, then what the hell.
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Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2017 3:48 pm
[ Peyton's AMA ]She blinked at him, as if she didn't quite believe he was really asking her that. Like he'd just forgotten all the awful things he'd said to and about her, and though he wasn't the solely responsible, he had a very large hand in causing her a great deal of stress and pain. Which was the answer. "You've never held your tongue where I was concerned. Saying awful things whenever the chance presents itself." Her expression was incredulous. "You might not have stolen Noah, but you certainly weren't subtle about wanting him, and whether or not you think what you did to get him was romantic or not, it was incredibly thoughtless and disrespectful, and the both of you handled that whole business terribly." A cold look was shot at Noah, but he it didn't linger. She wasn't really mad at him anymore, and he didn't go out of his way to talk s**t.
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Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2017 4:36 pm
[Peyton's AMA]Noah took a breath, but just exhaled after a moment. There hadn't been a way to handle the breakup well, in his opinion, but it was true that he'd done a pretty shitty job about dealing with it and he'd been a jerk, and he didn't want to start the argument up again. It was a painful subject, and he might not be ashamed of who he was dating, but he was ashamed of how it had gone down. He nudged his foot against Al's, giving him a sideways, pleading look. Please let it go, he tried to project.
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