You Wouldn't Pirate Spaghetti

Jun 22 11:41:15 <Melons>	After escaping the dreadest contest hall or whatever, Melanie drags Mirai back to the gym to find out if gym leaders are allowed to have any fun at all.
Jun 22 11:41:25 <Melons>	*dreaded...but dreadest probably works
Jun 22 11:46:29 <Melons>	And by that I mean see if she's actually there. Since like fun stuff is happening. So it would be really sad for her to be there.
Jun 22 11:48:04 <Aori_Radidjiu>	Kalili isn't at the gym at first, but before you can leave you see her coming along.  She's dressed in fairly normal clothes, a pair of short shorts and a tanktop.  She notices you and waves a hand in recognition.  "Oh, it's you.  You here about that egg?"
Jun 22 11:50:09 <Melons>	"Yep! I...kind of forgot to ask the important stuff last time...did you actually get to go see the festival stuff?"
Jun 22 11:51:31 <Aori_Radidjiu>	She brushes away a stray lock of hair.  "Sort of.  I went and helped set up some of the fireworks.  I got to see some of the last cute contests.  Missed the bikini contest, I kind of wanted to participate in that, but oh well, it's supposed to be an amateur thing anyway."
Jun 22 11:52:19 <Melons>	Staaaare. "...I'll have to tell ReSET that one got away..."
Jun 22 11:55:10 <Aori_Radidjiu>	"Oh, is this about the glow paint?"  She smirks.
Jun 22 11:55:28 <Melons>	Mel half-squiddles. "How did you..."
Jun 22 11:56:37 <Aori_Radidjiu>	"I heard about it.  It's pretty amusing~"
Jun 22 11:57:29 <Melons>	Ahem. "...I still owe them back for that...sowhatabouttheegghuh?"
Jun 22 12:00:18 <Aori_Radidjiu>	"Oh, the egg?  I've got it, just a sec..."  She takes off her top and shorts (still has a bikini on under them) and jumps right into the water in the middle of the gym. About a minute later, she floats up to the surface, egg in hand.  "Right here."
Jun 22 12:01:58 <Aori_Radidjiu>	She climbs up onto the dock and holds it up.  "Right here.  Figured I'd keep it somewhere where it wouldn't hatch."
Jun 22 12:03:21 *	Melons quickly looks at Mirai while blushing because OHMYGODWHYISSHEST-oh..."...th-thanks..." She carefully takes the egg with a large smile before looking back at Kalili with...it's somewhere between confusion and a glare, not a face many have ever seen her make. "...you're okay, right?"
Jun 22 12:06:51 <Aori_Radidjiu>	Mirai giggles a little at your awkwardness.  Kalili shrugs after handing over the egg.  "Hope so.  I'd better get to bed before I stop looking human, good thing it's cloudy tonight or I'd already be all fins."
Jun 22 12:07:58 <Melons>	"...I was a mermaid thing once...just...smaller..."
Jun 22 12:08:52 <Aori_Radidjiu>	She blinks.  "And...?"
Jun 22 12:09:17 <Aori_Radidjiu>	Mirai fidgets.  "I wish I could've seen that..."
Jun 22 12:10:28 <Melons>	"Half-technically you were the one that turned me into it...also now I'm something MUCH ug-...uh...nevermind, thanks for the eggy, we have stuff to do before we play bodyguard for an idol..."
Jun 22 12:11:36 <Aori_Radidjiu>	"Uglier...?"  Kalili frowns.
Jun 22 12:12:04 <Aori_Radidjiu>	"You still look pretty to me.  Just need to stop being so awkward."
Jun 22 12:13:02 <Melons>	"Oh..n-no that's...it's not...it's a different...thing...uh..."
Jun 22 12:13:23 <Melons>	6d6 Self-command v.; 4d6+4 self guile
Jun 22 12:13:24 <DiceMaid-9001>	Melons, Self-command v.: 16 [6d6=3,2,5,1,2,3]; self guile: 20 [4d6=4,2,6,4]
Jun 22 12:13:47 <Melons>	"It's...complicated...very complicated...and possibly impossible."
Jun 22 12:14:40 <Aori_Radidjiu>	"Different thing how?"  Now you've got her interested.  She's got her hands on her hips, waiting for you to explain.
Jun 22 12:15:25 <Melons>	"Um...er...I...suppose...eventually I'd have to..." Melanie hands the egg to Mirai and looks around for any other onlookers.
Jun 22 12:15:54 <Aori_Radidjiu>	Nobody's around the gym right now, partially because it's supposed to be closed.
Jun 22 12:21:16 <Melons>	"I...uh...so...on Jackknife...I caught...a god in my head...well kind of a god...like it doesn't have a REAL name...but...well..uh...we're kind of...the same thing now...so...l-let me just show you..." Melanie takes a deep breath before diving into the water. The immediate area seems to fragment for a split second: things appearing upside down when they shouldn't, holes in existence, random static, the usual shit. Below the surf
Jun 22 12:21:16 <Melons>	ace, the effect is magnified as the form of a huge bone serpent that slightly resembles Reeve in some respects rises from the pool, with Melanie awkwardly lying on its slimy tongue in a M͕̰̜̭e҉̩͉͎̗͖l̢̬k͎̙̖͎ín͉͚͓͜i̩͈̝.
Jun 22 12:23:56 <Aori_Radidjiu>	Kalili crosses her arms.  "And I thought I was fucked up.  Well, I'm guessing you don't have an association with the moon, so you don't have a forced transformation, at least...although I bet there's something or another that might lock you in that form, you should be careful."  Mirai is also seeing this for the first time, looking you up and down.  "Neeeeat..."
Jun 22 12:25:46 *	Hissori has quit (Ping timeout)
Jun 22 12:26:15 <Melons>	"...it's really fucked up that this isn't considered all that weird to either of you, you know..."
Jun 22 12:26:27 *	Hissori (Hissori@B13D49D1.97983050.5F3D2770.IP) has joined
Jun 22 12:27:41 <Aori_Radidjiu>	Now that you're actually IN your form, laying in the salivabath of notReeve's mouth is the most calming thing.  It's kind of like having that subconscious urge to return to the womb and be all fetal position actually fulfilled.
Jun 22 12:29:34 <Melons>	Melanie flips on her back, the tongue adjusting so she can look 'up' at the pair. "See that's the confusing part...it's like literally made from the unmade literal reality...so I have absolutely no idea what it could even be tied to."
Jun 22 12:29:37 <Aori_Radidjiu>	"It's my life.  Your form is certainly a bit weirder than mine, but eh, same difference."  Kalili shrugs her shoulders.  "I imagine you feel pretty different in that form, I know I certainly don't quite think like a human in my other form..."
Jun 22 12:31:20 <Aori_Radidjiu>	Kalili closes her eyes in thought for a bit.  "Altered places, then.  That which is not supposed to be part of this reality, or had something removed...would be my guess.  Murphy and Lecia gave me the lowdown with this situation, I made them explain what was going on after what happened a month ago."
Jun 22 12:32:25 <Melons>	"Ooooh, should have thought of that, they could fuck with places like they could fuck with people...hey Mirai, it's okay that I put on almost two literal tons of weight, right~?"
Jun 22 12:34:02 <Aori_Radidjiu>	She smirks.  "That's fine!  Oh, can you two seperate?  Is he flexible?  Why the bikini?  Are you feeling human?  How are you different?  Is your human body (not the skeleton one) still anatomically the same?"
Jun 22 12:34:16 <Aori_Radidjiu>	Oh, now she's getting excited, there's a glint in her eyes.
Jun 22 12:37:22 <Melons>	"Oh you really are more like m- um...I have no idea, I have no idea, I have no idea but after I woke up after meeting it I found I had waaaay more than just the one, I don't know what it should actually feel like to be human, I don't really know the extent of that, and..." She quickly glances at herself, sneeking a peek down the bikini, "I...well at least on the surface it seems I am...let's find out what happens if I try to lea
Jun 22 12:37:22 <Melons>	ve..." Melanie attempts to roll off the tongue into the water.
Jun 22 12:42:52 <Aori_Radidjiu>	You fall off.  You feel kind of...chained to the skeleton, but you could certainly move more away from it.  YOu don't think you'd be able to leave the gym, though, and the further away you move from it, the more uncomfortable the "link" feels.  You also don't feel incredibly comfortable like you did in its mouth, but you don't like, feel uncomfortable just being right near it
Jun 22 12:43:07 <Aori_Radidjiu>	It's also just as much a part of you as your main body, moving it feels like moving any other limb.
Jun 22 12:44:00 <Aori_Radidjiu>	And it also has sensation, although it's not as sensitive as your main body.  Your main body actually feels a bit more sensitive than your human body.
Jun 22 12:45:15 *	Melons flexes her bone serpent. Lewd. "Oh, neat, we're like the same thing but in different parts...a little...unwieldy...hmmm..." The tongue wraps around her waist and pulls her back up. What do I roll for attempting bonerMel form?
Jun 22 12:46:07 <Aori_Radidjiu>	Focus
Jun 22 12:46:16 <Melons>	4d6+4
Jun 22 12:46:17 <DiceMaid-9001>	Melons, 4d6+4: 18 [4d6=1,5,4,4]
Jun 22 12:48:07 <Aori_Radidjiu>	You manage to compress it easily, and it wraps around your body....a little haphazardly, it covers some parts of you better than others.  You've got the Melkini on still, so it's not like you're left exposed (not like the idea particularly bothers you right now) but it looks like some kind of bizarre fashion statement righ tnow rather than something coherent, kind of like Luna's thing
Jun 22 12:48:07 <Aori_Radidjiu>	with the weird overdress.  You'll definitely get better at that with practice, though.
Jun 22 12:49:07 <Aori_Radidjiu>	The bones are still excreting saliva, in fact a bit more densely over your body.  It doesn't feel as comfortable as the default form, but it's still fine.
Jun 22 12:49:28 <Melons>	...I can't imagine I float terribly well.
Jun 22 12:49:37 <Aori_Radidjiu>	No, you don't
Jun 22 12:49:52 <Aori_Radidjiu>	In bonermel form you sink like a rock
Jun 22 12:51:17 <Melons>	There's a big splash as Mel sinks like a rock. She quickly repurposes some of the bone serepnt back into fin/flipper like constructs to help her swim back up and crawl onto land, coughing up some water.
Jun 22 12:51:19 <Aori_Radidjiu>	Your size goes down from Huge to Medium, but you gain the sinker capability
Jun 22 12:51:30 <Melons>	6d6+1 Fear my legendary athletics
Jun 22 12:51:31 <DiceMaid-9001>	Melons, Fear my legendary athletics: 15 [6d6=1,5,2,2,3,1]
Jun 22 12:51:34 <Melons>	Or be mediocre
Jun 22 12:52:14 <Aori_Radidjiu>	You end up having to make it less dense in order to get up.  Muuuuch less dense.  I think you can make a judgement call abou that
Jun 22 12:54:02 <Melons>	Maybe I should have sacrificed for Growth to get Inflatable after all! Melanie lies by the side of the pool somewhere half between the two forms. "Lesson learned...any other questions?"
Jun 22 12:57:57 <Aori_Radidjiu>	Kalili shrugs.  Mirai !'s, and then kneels down by you and scoops up a tiny bit of saliva on her finger.  "Since it's livable, wonder if it's edible."  She licks it off her finger.  "...doesn't taste like anything...but it felt good on my tongue anyway, huh..."
Jun 22 12:58:46 <Melons>	"Your first instinct...was just...to lick it...gross."
Jun 22 12:59:04 <Aori_Radidjiu>	"I've shared saliva with you before~"
Jun 22 12:59:35 <Melons>	"Y-Yeah but...that's...this is...wh-whatever..."
Jun 22 13:00:40 <Aori_Radidjiu>	Kalili sits down next to you.  "Well, it's certainly interesting to see another kind of half...something."
Jun 22 13:02:08 <Melons>	"Different half though, if even half. My parents are both...normal..."
Jun 22 13:02:33 <Melons>	4d6+4 Fake having to cough out some more water while she wipes away a quick tear brought about from the earlier Melsquiddlingemail.
Jun 22 13:02:34 <DiceMaid-9001>	Melons, Fake having to cough out some more water while she wipes away a quick tear brought about from the earlier Melsquiddlingemail.: 17 [4d6=1,1,5,6]
Jun 22 13:04:38 <Aori_Radidjiu>	I'd roll Miraintuition, but eh.  Kalili gets up.  "Well, if this is all we're here for...if you have any problems with that, I'm here for you Melanie, but my gym is closed now, and I have some other things to do.  Do feel free to drop by some other time for...things.  Anything.  I'll be around."
Jun 22 13:07:12 <Melons>	"Huh...we've pulled a bit of a 180 from how we first met haven't we..." Melanie finds the serpent tongue lolling out of where the mouth seems to have ended up over her shoulder and makes a comically disgusted face.
Jun 22 13:10:22 <Aori_Radidjiu>	"I guess so!"  She smirks.  "Careful with the tongue, don't want it taunting people."
Jun 22 13:15:03 *	Melons DOUBLE PTTHTHTFTFT TONGUE SOUND ATTACK @ Kalili....oh, the serpent tongue doesn't have lips so it doesn't work. Mel pouts a bit after discovering this. "Alright...guess I should...uh...oh, hang on, I think I can feel it..." Melanie is engulfed in more static, returning her body and clothing to normal. "There we go...alright, we'll get out of your hair. Or...that's...a weird phrase...we're not bats...or anything that get
Jun 22 13:15:03 *	Melons s in hair...huh..." Melanie gets lost in thought before snapping back to reality and takes her egg back from Mirai, whispering a suggestion of tattoos to her as she does. "See ya next time! Unless we die horribly on this rig thing tonight."
Jun 22 13:15:06 <Aori_Radidjiu>	She sticks her tongue out back at it, in fact
Jun 22 13:16:00 <Aori_Radidjiu>	Kalili smiles and leaves.  "Yep.  Out of my hair.  Sure."  And off she goes
Jun 22 13:16:04 <Aori_Radidjiu>	It's just you two now.
Jun 22 13:17:27 <Aori_Radidjiu>	Mirai turns red.  "Wait, so you want them all over me like you?  Like, over everything?  Most everything, anyway."
Jun 22 13:18:55 <Melons>	"Uh...well..I just meant like...matching tatoos...on the arm or something...unless you want that...but...I mean...just one is fine..."
Jun 22 13:20:31 <Aori_Radidjiu>	"Oh, um, I think that might be better...not sure if I'm ready to have them all over...or have someone draw something on my boobs..."
Jun 22 13:23:05 <Melons>	"Well it's more like...sew-burning...kind of...than drawing...probably not as painful as these ones th- hey, did we swap personalities? You're picking by the way. I'm going to guess..." Melanie attempts to use her secret clairvoyance to find a tattoo parlor. And by that I mean she's going to go lead them into wandering about the area with the most bars.
Jun 22 13:25:35 <Aori_Radidjiu>	She pouts.  "Well, if someone said to you 'Go burn on an image all over your body that'll stay there for the rest of your life' you'd be a little nervous too!"  The bars are pretty stocked tonight, with men and women alike in swimwear or other revealing setups havin' a good time.  There are a few tattoo joints around here, and Mirai notes the location of them, but decides she'll go on
Jun 22 13:25:36 <Aori_Radidjiu>	her own to pick, since y'know, she wants to surprise you.
Jun 22 13:27:25 *	Melons goes to awkwardly sit in a bar while she waits.
Jun 22 13:29:19 <Aori_Radidjiu>	Mirai starts to go over to it, then turns around and grabs you.  "Tomorrow.  I'm not making you wait out here."  She starts draaaaagging you away.  "I know where to look now anyway, I can get the tattoo while you're at the rig or something if you want me to get it right away, though~"
Jun 22 13:29:50 *	Melons is instead awkwardly grabbed.
Jun 22 13:30:09 <Melons>	"But...I thought you got matching tattoos at the same time..." IsnothingIthinktrue?
Jun 22 13:31:18 <Aori_Radidjiu>	"Oh...you mean for the both of us?  I thought...I whoops"
Jun 22 13:32:07 <Aori_Radidjiu>	"Somehow I didn't think you meant identical ones, more like complementary..." She lightly hits herself on the top of her head.  "Ooooookaaaaay."
Jun 22 13:33:09 <Melons>	"Yep. I mean, complementary could work, but still generally each of us at the same time. Or it loses its magic. Which isn't real magic. But I hear it's a thing normal people do. Well not average normal people, but the more interesting normal people."
Jun 22 13:34:51 <Aori_Radidjiu>	"Okay, well, I already have an idea what we could get together~!  But...I'm uh...a bit achy right now...don't want to do it when I'm not my best.  I was thinking of waiting a little bit.  Tomorrow?  Probably won't fix itself completely by then.  Maybe the day after..."
Jun 22 13:35:43 *	Melons puts her nose to Mirai's with a blank expression. "Not flaking, are you?"
Jun 22 13:36:38 <Aori_Radidjiu>	She pouts and puts her hands down, fuming a little.  "Noooooo!  I...well okay I was considering it, but I think I need a little time to decide whether I really want a tattoo or not.  It does sound fun, I'll give you that!"
Jun 22 13:37:23 <Aori_Radidjiu>	"I guess it's just...considering we're doing it matching, it's like we're getting married or something..."
Jun 22 13:38:27 <Melons>	"Oh it's fine if you don't want to, I was just getting your Gogo- ah...I...didn't...really see it like that..." OhgodIdon'tevenremotelyhaveenoughforarealringwhatissheimplyingwhatisthisIdon'teven.
Jun 22 13:40:12 <Aori_Radidjiu>	"I mean, that's something permanent we'd share together, it's more binding than even a ring would be, and I mean, I do really like you, but we've been together for a little over a month and I had never thought we'd always always be together...it'd be nice for this to work out and us to stick together forever, but I hadn't thought it was gonna' go that way..."
Jun 22 13:42:01 <Melons>	"L-Like...you...I...that last part...you don't...see it working out long term...?"
Jun 22 13:42:59 <Melons>	No tears or anything yet, but Melanie's breathing is pretty shallow and quick.
Jun 22 13:44:26 <Aori_Radidjiu>	"It could, it's just that I'm not unsure how stable this relationship is!  Some people date for a couple years and end up breaking up, some people date for two months and then end it there, it's hard to gauge whether this relationship would work out long term off of just one month!  I still really like you, you're a great person Melanie, it's just that I'm not sure what me in a year will
Jun 22 13:44:27 <Aori_Radidjiu>	think!"
Jun 22 13:50:57 <Aori_Radidjiu>	*sure
Jun 22 13:58:00 <Melons>	"I'm not...I'm not a great person...I'm not even a good person...I might not even be a person anymore. I need...I need you...to be very, very specific...with your words...you said it would be nice for this to work out...and that it could...but...but I'm not so naive to think that everything will always just be perfect...I mean...I did already fuck up...and...you didn't...it terrified me that you weren't more angry. I need to k
Jun 22 13:58:00 <Melons>	now...do you...is this...am I what you want...or...or would it just be nice if it worked out...?" Her eyes are getting that teary glaze.
Jun 22 14:00:59 <Aori_Radidjiu>	Her eyes open wide and she starts opening her mouth, closes it, then opens it again.  "All right, give me a sec, gotta' think about how to put this specifically..."
Jun 22 14:07:42 <Aori_Radidjiu>	"You're definitely someone that I want, and would love to spend all my time with, but I don't know if you are that way, since as you've admitted a few times, you're a bit...unstable.  I'm perfectly okay with you, at least, I definitely am now, maybe I won't be later, but I think for the immediate future I'm definitely okay with you, but I know you might not always be okay with me,
Jun 22 14:07:42 <Aori_Radidjiu>	and I'm okay with that, and if you ever want to leave our relationship for a while, or try something different, or you just...you know, I start offputting you with how okay with things I tend to be, then I won't hate you for breaking up with me, definitely.  But for now I definitely think we can stay together.  Just because I don't think we might be able to stay together long long term
Jun 22 14:07:43 <Aori_Radidjiu>	doesn't mean we can't end up staying together for that long, or a few years or whatever.  I definitely didn't see us breaking up before I got all my badges and all, while I'm living on the ship."
Jun 22 14:13:13 <Melons>	"This relationship...to you...is it...would it be...exclusive? Or just...basically good friends...that have...you know?" She wipes away a few tears on her cloak and looks down to see how her feet are holding up.
Jun 22 14:14:49 <Aori_Radidjiu>	"I'm not too big on exclusivity, but I haven't really done anything with anyone else...besides Knox, but you were there for that.  Are you?"
Jun 22 14:16:00 <Aori_Radidjiu>	"Just really really great friends who do things together and have fun together and yes share their bodies with each other~"
Jun 22 14:18:25 <Melons>	"I don't...like...completely open...I mean...if there are other people but we're...together..maybe but...but just...open is way too much for me to handle...I don't...I don't want to feel like I'm keeping secrets from you...and I don't want to feel like I have to get your permission for anything...and...I might...one day want a kid...or two...but...if that isn't a dealbreaker...I need to know now so I can see if...something else
Jun 22 14:18:25 <Melons>	is."
Jun 22 14:19:46 <Aori_Radidjiu>	"Wanting a kid?  That's fine, I'd want one too!"
Jun 22 14:21:32 <Aori_Radidjiu>	"...not at 17, of course, but later.  You get the idea."
Jun 22 14:26:09 <Melons>	Mel takes a deep breath and pulls her hat down over her face a bit. "My tattoos...they're...I killed three pokemon to get them and some of their power. By my own hands. The first was one of the shadow Kadabra that ambushed us on Jackknife...the broken god thing was in my body at the time and tied it up, but when I got back I...finished it off...and then killed an Oddish. That's...why I...have this new smell...just pulled it righ
Jun 22 14:26:09 <Melons>	t out of the ground. The last was...earlier today. I got a free Volbeat for signing up for the bikini contest. It...was why I signed up at all. I crushed its head in the bathroom not long before the contest started. That was when I let the godthing combine completely with me to take away the pain...both physical and emotional, I'm definitely not doing anything like that again. But...my ghost stuff in general...the way I empower
Jun 22 14:26:09 <Melons>	my pokemon generally requires putting them through a fair bit of agony...and...I'm going to try it out on this egg before it hatches. I probably won't do anymore after that but...it's...that's what I've done...and that is why I am a contemptible human being...or whatever I am now."
Jun 22 14:27:35 <Aori_Radidjiu>	Mirai just gives you a hug.  No words.  Only hugging.
Jun 22 14:29:59 <Melons>	Melanie immediately flinches at the contact, expecting...well a punch...or hell even a stab...or strangling...or I guess it would be the right place for someone to attempt to drown her...
Jun 22 14:30:52 <Aori_Radidjiu>	"You haven't killed any people, right?  I mean, people kill Pokemon all the time for food and stuff..."
Jun 22 14:31:42 <Melons>	"But...but it wasn't for survival! It was pure selfishness and curiosity!"
Jun 22 14:32:06 <Aori_Radidjiu>	"You consumed their essence, that's like eating them.  Just in a different way."
Jun 22 14:34:06 *	Melons melts into Mirai's arms, giving up on convincing Mirai that she's a terrible person. "...how...how hard is it to deal with me e-exactly?"
Jun 22 14:35:32 <Aori_Radidjiu>	"Well, the hardest part is when you're outright trying to convince me you're horrible.  Listen, you probably didn't kill them the most humane way, but it's not like you did something against nature, or against your kind.   Just...promise me you won't outright kill any Pokemon that trusts you, or...well, I guess your type shifts are almost used up, and the last one should be painless,
Jun 22 14:35:32 <Aori_Radidjiu>	yes?"
Jun 22 14:38:04 <Melons>	"...I did already fuck up and piss off a Poochyena with an especially painful seeming type shift...which I'm still trying to figure out how to make up to it...but yeah, I think the Totodile will be fine...a-any other problems you wanted to address?"
Jun 22 14:40:27 <Aori_Radidjiu>	"What was that conversation with Luna?"
Jun 22 14:40:40 <Aori_Radidjiu>	"I'm your agent?"
Jun 22 14:41:56 <Melons>	"She wanted me to join her show and be a camwhore or something...but...uh...well I mean...if it pays decently...I could use the money...and...well I wanted you to have the final word...and I panicked..."
Jun 22 14:42:55 <Aori_Radidjiu>	"I'm okay with that!"
Jun 22 14:45:21 <Melons>	"...oh, and I helped Auriga win the bikini contest and she wants to pay me back and I have no idea what she could even do so I told her to ask you..."
Jun 22 14:48:06 <Aori_Radidjiu>	"Uh.  Huh.  Not sure.  How do you feel about your stuff with Knox?  He seems to like you."
Jun 22 14:51:13 <Melons>	"I...just want to be friends...like...bros, you know? Anything more is...too much to deal with...and now we're finding mind controlled members of his old crew and I have no idea if I'd be in the way of something one of them wanted if I DID want to take it further...so...also the fact that he's literally full of poison is fascinating and horrifying."
Jun 22 14:52:49 <Aori_Radidjiu>	"You could set her in his way~!  I dunno'.  It didn't sound like he had any kind of exclusive agreement with any of his crew..."
Jun 22 14:53:43 <Melons>	"Oh I meant more like...he might be okay with it and some of them may have SEEMED to be okay with it...but...they might have been more...like...me?"
Jun 22 14:55:15 <Aori_Radidjiu>	"Or they might be dead and he might be looooonely."
Jun 22 14:56:19 <Melons>	"Are you...really trying to...get me to...after what...I...that...words?"
Jun 22 14:56:41 <Aori_Radidjiu>	"It's up to you!"
Jun 22 14:56:59 <Aori_Radidjiu>	"Do what you're okay with."
Jun 22 14:57:11 <Melons>	"You're reallyreallyreallyreallyreallyreallyreallyREALLYREALLYREALLYREEEEEEEEEEEEEALLY not making this easy!"
Jun 22 14:57:55 <Melons>	Melanie quickly looks around in embarrassment, forgetting they're totally in public.
Jun 22 15:02:24 <Aori_Radidjiu>	She shrugs.  "Life is about tough choices!"
Jun 22 15:04:47 <Aori_Radidjiu>	"You have time to think about it all, anyway!  So, are you gonna' take Luna up on her offer? Isn't she still at the boat?"
Jun 22 15:04:48 <Melons>	Melanie snorts a chuckle and smirks at Mirai. "Why can't you be a paranoid, vain, possessive bitch? It would be sooooo much easier to have any idea what you were thinking...if you...if we...if there was someone else you wanted...to pursue...since you're not big on being exclusive...would you...how would you handle it with me being me?"
Jun 22 15:05:05 <Aori_Radidjiu>	"I'd ask you if it was okay."
Jun 22 15:05:12 <Aori_Radidjiu>	"And if it was I'd go on with it"
Jun 22 15:06:05 <Melons>	"What if...what if I said yes but you didn't think I...oh...I suppose we shouldn't keep her waiting toooooo long...someone has to do her job for her..."
Jun 22 15:07:01 <Aori_Radidjiu>	"I'd hold you to your word and probably get a little mad at you if you went back on it.  If you're not sure on something, just say no, please."
Jun 22 15:07:17 <Aori_Radidjiu>	"Don't be wishywashy."
Jun 22 15:08:48 <Melons>	"Hm...suppose you wouldn't be okay with being locked in a tower guarded by Reeve?"
Jun 22 15:09:00 <Aori_Radidjiu>	"Nope."
Jun 22 15:10:33 <Melons>	"...fighting extradimensional void horrors and trying to stop realitybending assholes is way easier than relationships..."
Jun 22 15:11:37 <Melons>	"...and suddenly every magical girl show made sense to me..."
Jun 22 15:12:12 <Aori_Radidjiu>	"Hyup!  Anyway, let's go~"  She starts draaaaggin' you back to the ship
Jun 22 15:12:25 <Melons>	"Oh, right...oh, you need sunglasses, all pimpslashagents have sunglasses~!"
Jun 22 15:12:50 <Aori_Radidjiu>	"I'd be okay with that!"
Jun 22 15:15:15 <Melons>	run ship.exe
Jun 22 15:18:52 <Aori_Radidjiu>	Luna is on the deck, sitting on a chair that overlooks the water.  The moon is starting to actually be visible, now.
Jun 22 15:20:21 *	Melons glances at the moon, thinking briefly with concern for Kalili, and slips up behind Luna. "What's your real name? Did your parents didn't actually name you Luna, right?"
Jun 22 15:22:14 <Aori_Radidjiu>	Luna smirks.  "Oh, you want to get the dirty on me?"  She gets up and walks up to you, direct eye contact.  "It's Louise.  My brother's actual name is Lucius, he's the one who started the stage name thing."
Jun 22 15:24:47 <Aori_Radidjiu>	"My turn.  What's your freaky thing?  You're a bit different from a human, aren't you?"
Jun 22 15:25:11 <Aori_Radidjiu>	"You weren't that way when we met before, but something happened, it seems!"
Jun 22 15:25:34 <Melons>	4d6+4 "W-What? I don't know what you mean..." Melanie is obviously a little shaky, making for one hell of a hard Guile roll.
Jun 22 15:25:35 <DiceMaid-9001>	Melons, "W-What? I don't know what you mean..." Melanie is obviously a little shaky, making for one hell of a hard Guile roll.: 16 [4d6=1,3,2,6]
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Jun 22 15:29:46 <Aori_Radidjiu>	5d6+2 Occult
Jun 22 15:29:47 <DiceMaid-9001>	Aori_Radidjiu, Occult: 27 [5d6=6,5,6,4,4]
Jun 22 15:29:54 <Aori_Radidjiu>	"Yeah you're not fooling me."
Jun 22 15:30:22 <Melons>	"...what gives it away?"
Jun 22 15:31:34 <Aori_Radidjiu>	"Something about you makes my senses tingle, like you're not supposed to be here, or you're breaking something!  There's also your eyes, they go kind of weird sometimes, and eyes are the most obvious place to look for supernatural involvement!"
Jun 22 15:33:07 <Melons>	The 'not supposed to be here' bit evokes a brief, sad stare. "...surely you're familiar with Jackknife?"
Jun 22 15:34:12 <Aori_Radidjiu>	"I've been there, and...well, I can't fight dreamthings.  It's out of my element.  I'm sure I could learn to do so, but..."
Jun 22 15:35:00 <Melons>	"Shouldn't need to anymore."
Jun 22 15:35:13 <Aori_Radidjiu>	"You got rid of it?"
Jun 22 15:35:26 <Aori_Radidjiu>	She adjusts her glasses, looking you over more closely.
Jun 22 15:35:47 <Melons>	"I gave it a home."
Jun 22 15:36:04 <Aori_Radidjiu>	"...you?"
Jun 22 15:36:51 <Aori_Radidjiu>	"So it's you, now?"
Jun 22 15:36:57 <Melons>	"Used to just be in my head, which was a little comforting and crazy, but now we're..." She holds up both index fingers and pushes them together.
Jun 22 15:37:39 <Aori_Radidjiu>	She nods.  "Show me, then."
Jun 22 15:38:35 <Melons>	"...in due time."
Jun 22 15:40:05 <Aori_Radidjiu>	"Ah, I guess it's my turn to give you something, then?  Ask away."
Jun 22 15:42:22 <Melons>	"Oh, we're doing a thing...uh...um...I didn't...I wasn't...fuck now I look even stupider..."
Jun 22 15:46:05 <Aori_Radidjiu>	"Well, at this point none of us owe each other anything, so we could stop here.  We don't have to jump into this headfirst, after all!"
Jun 22 15:46:27 <Melons>	"That would be considered a dive more than a jump..."
Jun 22 15:47:56 <Aori_Radidjiu>	She walks up to you, closer now.  "So.  Do you want to be on my show?"
Jun 22 15:48:08 <Aori_Radidjiu>	"You don't have to give me an answer now."
Jun 22 15:48:36 <Melons>	Mel instinctively takes a few steps back. "...what's in it for me?"
Jun 22 15:50:39 <Aori_Radidjiu>	"Money, fame, services, and maybe you'd enjoy doing it, who knows.  Plus there's the whole investigating weird stuff, you can get some cool Pokemon in my line of work!"
Jun 22 15:52:32 <Melons>	Melanie turns to her 'agent' briefly before looking back at Luna. "...sure."
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Jun 22 15:55:31 <Aori_Radidjiu>	"Cool.  Now, if you're planning on keeping your current job, I guess I'll have to stick with you guys for a while, and I'll have to get you your costume...or maybe we can tailor what you already have, and we also have to make sure to test how compatible we are for certain kinds of fanservice, and hmmmm...you got any ideas for the showwwww~?  I actually do most of my own work, I've hired
Jun 22 15:55:31 <Aori_Radidjiu>	a separate cameraman sometimes but otherwise I've done it all myself!"
Jun 22 15:58:14 <Melons>	Melanie blinks a bit and looks at her witcheries. "...do I not look dorky enough already?...and...fanservice...compatability...what...ideas...I've never actually seen a whole episode so I don't...really...know..." OhgodwhatdidIagreeto?
Jun 22 16:02:14 <Aori_Radidjiu>	"Miss Agent, I need you to make a judgment call for me, okay?"  Mirai points to herself, and Luna nods and then Mirai nods.
Jun 22 16:02:24 <Aori_Radidjiu>	Luna pulls you into a hug again, although only with one arm, and geeeeently guides your arm on the same side to be behind her.  "Do we look good when we're doing symmetrical docking?"
Jun 22 16:03:54 <Aori_Radidjiu>	Mirai cheeks flush red, but she nods.
Jun 22 16:04:35 <Melons>	"...docking?" Presumably there is an urban dictionary equivalent. "...we don't...w-what?"
Jun 22 16:07:50 <Melons>	"...this is...th-this is just ridiculous..."
Jun 22 16:08:47 <Aori_Radidjiu>	"It might be something to end an episode on, or we could release a photo of us doing that...you okay with that Melanie?  I understand that you're not as shameless as I am~"
Jun 22 16:10:10 <Melons>	"I...but...er...why would it ever happen organically?"
Jun 22 16:11:46 <Aori_Radidjiu>	"A lot of people do poses for pictures that might not be organic!  And also, it's a good way for both of us to address the camera at once real close, if we both face in the same direction.
Jun 22 16:12:35 <Melons>	"I don't know...w-wouldn't I have to be as...bubbly as you or something?"
Jun 22 16:14:27 <Aori_Radidjiu>	"No, that'd actually be bad, it'd be better if you were different, and if you scowled at the camera a bunch!  You're a natural foil to my camera personality, so it shouldnt' be difficult."
Jun 22 16:15:49 <Melons>	"I...suppose...what else...would I have to do? Is it not mostly just smiting ne'er-do-wells?"
Jun 22 16:16:18 <Aori_Radidjiu>	"Yeah, I do plenty of that, I'm sure you're good at that as well~"
Jun 22 16:16:59 <Melons>	"Wait...you said photos...there's MORE than just the videos?!"
Jun 22 16:18:17 <Aori_Radidjiu>	"I have a gallery of pictures on my site of me in various dresses and outfits and poses, but you don't have to do that if you don't want, probably just need one or two just to show that you're there..."
Jun 22 16:21:36 <Melons>	"How much...of the fan service stuff do I have to do?"
Jun 22 16:23:15 <Aori_Radidjiu>	"Hmmmm, only as much as you're comfortable with.  I'm sure that having someone who doesn't do as much of it might actually help attract a wider demographic,  I picked my current one because I knew they'd all be extremely loyal once I racked them in.  Now they're eating out of my hand."
Jun 22 16:23:58 <Melons>	"Hm...is there anything...I absolutely shouldn't be doing while on camera?"
Jun 22 16:26:02 <Aori_Radidjiu>	"Hmmm...uh, no nip slips, no calling me 'Louise', and if you develop a separate persona (you dont' have to) stick to it.  Um...why do you ask?  Is there something you had in mind?"
Jun 22 16:27:13 <Melons>	"Oh when I get mad I uh...kind of...swear like a...sailor...which I guess I kind of am?"
Jun 22 16:27:58 <Aori_Radidjiu>	"This isn't an all-ages show, so you'll be fine.  That actually makes you a better foil to me, I never swear on camera!"
Jun 22 16:29:38 <Melons>	"And it's...safe to show my...uh...other form?"
Jun 22 16:30:19 <Aori_Radidjiu>	"I can't judge that without you showing it first."
Jun 22 16:30:26 <Aori_Radidjiu>	"To me, that is."
Jun 22 16:32:57 <Melons>	"Hm...not really comfortable using it yet anyways...so...I guess...we're...partners now?"
Jun 22 16:33:19 <Aori_Radidjiu>	She offers a hand. "Sure!"
Jun 22 16:34:10 <Melons>	"Oh...you're one of...those...people..." Melanie gives the spaghettiest hand shake.
Jun 22 16:34:59 <Aori_Radidjiu>	She shakes, an eyebrow raising. Her grip is pretty firm.  "What, is there some other way you'd rather seal the deal?"
Jun 22 16:36:19 <Melons>	"Back home there's...more...bowing...and less blazing hatred of the sun."
Jun 22 16:38:27 <Aori_Radidjiu>	"Oh, all right then!"  She lets go of your hand and backs up a step, and then her torso down without bending her knees, doooown until she's nearly at a 90 degree angle, then snaps back up.  "That good?"
Jun 22 16:39:26 <Melons>	"Well...we did...already..shake...so it wasn't..I...okay."
Jun 22 16:42:28 <Aori_Radidjiu>	"Anything else?"
Jun 22 16:42:48 <Melons>	"Um...you scare me and I don't know why."
Jun 22 16:44:27 <Aori_Radidjiu>	She smiles, putting her hands on her hips and thrusting her chest forward confidently.  "Do you want to hang out for a while, then?  I'm more than willing to iron it out with you!  Have any preferred hangout activities?  Want to eat out?  You want something closer?  Further?"
Jun 22 16:46:24 <Melons>	"I...okay..whichever...I should feel comfortable to die a horrible death with you in a spooky rig."
Jun 22 16:47:22 <Aori_Radidjiu>	"We're not going to die a horrible death!  We're both exceptionally competent young women and we won't be alone!"
Jun 22 16:47:33 <Melons>	"...it was a joke."
Jun 22 16:47:54 <Aori_Radidjiu>	"...oh."
Jun 22 16:51:15 <Aori_Radidjiu>	Ahem.  "And then after we'll clean off in a hotspring and scrub each other clean to get the icky oil off~"
Jun 22 16:51:52 <Melons>	Ohgodthat'st- "...you know where a hot spring is?"
Jun 22 16:54:45 <Aori_Radidjiu>	"...it was a joke."
Jun 22 16:55:02 <Aori_Radidjiu>	"But they have hot springs at Mt. Abalone."
Jun 22 16:55:12 <Aori_Radidjiu>	"Which I guuuuuuesssss isn't that far."
Jun 22 16:55:38 <Melons>	"...huh. Well...lead...the way...I guess...you staying here, Mirai?"
Jun 22 16:56:04 <Aori_Radidjiu>	She nods silently.  Seems she's really getting into the quiet agent persona.
Jun 22 16:56:22 <Melons>	Dork.
Jun 22 17:00:01 <Aori_Radidjiu>	</mini>