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[23:12] <Odin> AT AN UNKNOWN TIME, AT ALMAGATED STUDIOS RECORDING ROOM
[23:13] <Odin> "So you've all made some pretty interesting choices regarding the last few missions. Care to talk through a couple of them?"
[23:14] * Cazador gets aggressive. "You questioning me?"
[23:15] <Odin> "Of course! Vital part of the process here. For starters, the ghoul? Hell of a shocker having that show up, huh?"
[23:17] <Allie> She shivers, even with having long since left that underwater lab behind. "Ugh, don't even remind me. Like, I totally just wanted to not have anything to do with it after we got our stuff, but...well, probably the right people did the right thing."
[23:18] <Odin> "Even though a lot of people in the same situation would have agreed with you, Allie-cat.
[23:18] * Fomor frowns silently.
[23:19] <Allie> "Yeah." She shifts uncomfortably. "But then...I mean, I grew up here. I know what the water can do if you're unprotected, and like, here we are buried under a bazillion tons of it with only this fragile building left and our sub plugging the one hole, and...y'know, it scared the hell out of me."
[23:20] <Allie> "So like, if I met a ghoul on the streets here, I probably wouldn't have been so quick to just wanna, y'know. Pow." She points a finger-gun.
[23:21] <Cazador> "Yeah, I know the feeling, unfortunately. The Twins weren't that long ago. El Infierno was a bit longer, but...It's hard to turn your back on a victim, even if he's a fucking weirdo who won't stop talking about flesh."
[23:21] <Cazador> "Don't take that to mean I'm fuckin Robin Hood or something."
[23:21] * Fomor shivers "I guess..."
[23:22] <Allie> She nods an assent, though she still looks uncomfortable. "I mean, I'm a SURGE kid, so I kinda know what it's like to be something you weren't, and suddenly, too, but...not that bad. And not for that long." She looks down, fidgeting with her fingers in her lap, and her eyes are hooded.
[23:22] <Allie> "I found his nest, y'know."
[23:22] <Allie> "He scratched every day he waited into that wall."
[23:23] <Fomor> "...stars and stones..."
[23:23] <Allie> "Lotta stones, not many stars." She gives a ghost of a smile as she looks over at Chloe. "You saw his face when you un-froze him."
[23:26] * Fomor nods
[23:27] <Odin> "Right. Well, what about the plan to tie all of your contacts requests together?"
[23:28] <Cazador> "Ask that nerd, I didn't understand any of what he sent."
[23:29] * Allie rallies after the question, looking more animated. "Isn't that the craziest thing ever? Like, I'm not even sure how we're gonna pull it off. I mean, so far so good, but like, that's...a big plan. With a lotta steps."
[23:29] <Fomor> "Still, it should work...most likely."
[23:30] <Allie> "I mean, I hope it does, yeah. For sure. Just, like, there's a lotta places where it could go wrong. I hope it doesn't!"
[23:31] <Odin> "Mhm hmm. Well, I'm sure Mr. Producer would have creamed himself if he got a shot of you fighting the megladon, but are you glad you didn't?"
[23:32] <Allie> She scoffs. "Are you kidding? With how much Quadcore scared the shit out of me I don't know if I COULD have!"
[23:32] <Cazador> "I don't think my pistols work underwater. Sucker bet."
[23:33] <Allie> "Also yeah. I didn't bring my bow along, so that would have been bad."
[23:34] <Cazador> "Would a bow even be effective underwater?"
[23:34] <Odin> "Do I smell a return trip with depth charges?"
[23:34] <Odin> "And no."
[23:35] <Allie> "Yeah, not really. Water'd slow down my arrows after like, I dunno, five inches or something. I'da have to have had like a harpoon gun."
[23:36] <Cazador> "Rather not go back down there without a REALLY good reason."
[23:36] * Allie nods emphatically.
[23:36] * Fomor nods
[23:37] <Odin> "Right then. Cazador, I'm sure you're looking forwards to the upcoming violent spree against your hated enemies, what about the rest of you?"
[23:39] <Allie> "We'll need to be really careful with that...but it'll be nice to show Cazzie that I'm good for something other than running away or being the cheesecake," she grins.
[23:39] <Cazador> "Didn't think you had that much work in you. Though the new tits aren't helping with that perception."
[23:40] <Cazador> "Why'd you get cut on anyway."
[23:40] <Fomor> "I'm..." She nods "Those people need stopping."
[23:41] <Allie> "...I wanted to," she replies, her smile fading a little bit. "And I don't have a lot of work, but what I've got's all bio, no chrome stuff. Mostly it's magic."
[23:43] * Cazador shrugs. "Your body. But I known girls that started going to the doc at 16 for shit like that. It wasn't ever enough. What they needed was something that a tit doc can't give you."
[23:44] <Fomor> "Can we talk about something else?"
[23:44] <Cazador> "What do you want to talk about then?"
[23:44] <Allie> "Nah, I know. And I'm done with that part. No other plans. Besides, if I started looking like some of the girls at school, the ones who get like the balloons under their skin, right? Well, that'd just look silly, now, wouldn't it?"
[23:46] * Fomor rolls her eyes "I'm sure the producer would be happy as long as it boosted ratings."
[23:46] <Allie> "I'm not in it to make him happy," she retorts. "I mean, yeah, he probably would, but..."
[23:46] <Odin> "Indeed. Speaking of which, how are your lives adjusting to the show? With such a hot product, surely there's been some bleed over into your lives."
[23:47] <Cazador> "Not much, besides homeboys asking me if I'm gonna forget where I came from, or asking why I'm hanging with so many elves."
[23:47] <Cazador> "For that second one I don't even know the fuckin answer."
[23:48] <Allie> "...School's...okay," she allows. "I'm keeping up my grades. Somehow. I don't *think* the profs are going easy on me, but like, it's not like my classes are easy, either." She shrugs. "Being recognized on the street...that part's kinda fun, I hafta admit."
[23:49] <Fomor> "...I've been mostly careful to avoid looking like I do on the show. Most of the time when I go out I use my original hair clour and different coloured glasses."
[23:50] <Cazador> "That does remind me though, I need a chat with the Producer sometime. Apparently this ain't the first time he's picked up one of my teacher's students. I need to ask him if he was fuckin stalking me."
[23:50] <Allie> "And I live alone, if you don't count the sprites." She adds the last part under her breath. "So it's not like I got a roommate that gets all bothered by camdrones or anything."
[23:54] <Fomor> "Your teacher?"
[23:54] <Cazador> "Profesor Hernandez, best gunslinger in CalFree."
[23:54] <Fomor> "...right." She nods
[23:57] * Fomor sighs "Anyway, we've got a lot of things to do...I've never been involved in a gang war before. What are these Crosses like?"
[23:58] <Odin> "Well then. Any direction you want to see the show go?"
[23:58] <Cazador> "Worst sonsofbitches you've ever seen. Like those fuckin...whatever the Germans were goin by like a hundred years ago. Anything that ain't white and round eared and tall they want to put in the ground."
[23:59] <Allie> "I know this one! It's, uh...the Nazis."
[00:00] <Cazador> "Yeah, them. Anyway, they've been fighting with my boys in San B as far as anyone can remember. Actually that reminds me." She pulls her shirt off.
[00:00] <Cazador> "I finished up this shoulder the other day!" She points to her left shoulder blade, which has a few finished rows of crosses.
[00:00] <Fomor> "...for killing some of them? I don't quite understand your tattoos."
[00:01] <Cazador> "Each one of those is a kill. I'm like, third on our boards, mostly cause shooting is cutting into my fighting schedule."
[00:02] <Cazador> "Shooting like camera shooting for the show not...you know what, you fuckin got it."
[00:02] <Allie> She grins, somewhat sheepishly. "It took me a second."
[00:03] <Fomor> "I did, yes." She nods. She plays idly with her unloaded hand crossbow. "I guess you plan to have the entire arm filled after these jobs?"
[00:03] <Allie> "And here you'll get to do both kinds of shooting!"
[00:03] <Odin> "So combining the two, think you're going to go up to second, or first?"
[00:03] <Cazador> "As for the show...dunno, but I'll just leave if I start hating it."
[00:03] <Odin> "And as for Fomor and Allie, either of you going to get a tat after you take them?"
[00:04] * Allie shrugs.
[00:04] <Allie> "I dunno. I mean, Cazzie's look kinda awesome, but...I dunno. I don't really see me and ink getting along well. What do you guys think?"
[00:04] <Cazador> "I HOPE first, but L.D. has a pretty commanding lead. He cheated."
[00:05] <Odin> "Cheated?"
[00:05] <Fomor> "...I'm not sure I'd look right with a tattoo..." She bites her lip. She doesn't even have her ears pierced.
[00:06] <Cazador> "He's gonna fuckin kill me for telling the story this way, but basically when he was learning to drive he forgot to put his car into parking brake and parked it on a hill. It rolled backwards and nailed two vans of those bastards pushing into our territory."
[00:06] * Allie giggles.
[00:07] * Fomor giggles along with her.
[00:08] <Odin> A camera drone cocks itself at you. "What." Jones says.
[00:08] <Cazador> "So yeah, he's been up two dozen on me and Marcus ever since."
[00:09] <Fomor> "If you like, I'm sure Quad would let you borrow her van. It's uparmoured."
[00:10] <Cazador> "Oh, but realtalk, y'all gonna have to behave yourselves when we go in. Fair skin and pointed ears ain't so popular in my hood."
[00:10] <Cazador> "Too many refugees from El Infierno still kicking."
[00:10] <Allie> She nods seriously. "I'll try not to do anything you don't tell me to do, kay?"
[00:11] <Allie> "Although..." She gestures at the cat ears atop her head. "Do these still count as pointed?"
[00:11] <Fomor> "Right. Anything I shouldn't do in particular?"
[00:11] <Cazador> "Probably talk."
[00:11] * Cazador shrugs at Allie. "Probably close enough. Caucasian ain't doing you any favors anyway."
[00:12] <Allie> "Yeah, that's probably enough right there. That's okay, I got enough of the weirdo looks when I was in high school."
[00:14] <Cazador> "Anyway, let me do the talking, and try not to act like real smug or elfy."
[00:15] <Odin> "What is "Elfy?"
[00:15] <Allie> "I don't really act like either one." She frowns. "Do I?"
[00:15] <Cazador> "Like...a fuckin elf, I dunno."
[00:16] <Cazador> "It's one of those things like I know it when I see it."
[00:16] <Odin> "When's the last time you saw it?"
[00:17] <Cazador> "Every time I'm around Fomor."
[00:17] * Fomor nods "...hell's bells...this isn't going to be easy."
[00:18] <Cazador> "Hence why I said probably don't talk."
[00:18] <Fomor> "Right. Should I also not use magic?"
[00:19] <Cazador> "Not a bad idea, at least not for like random-ass shit. They'd probably be okay with turning some of those Nazis to rock."
[00:19] <Allie> "Yeah, that...that was a pretty impressive trick."
[00:20] * Fomor nods "As you saw...it's not permanent. I need to focus on it. So it won't be killing them." She sighs "If it helps? Fomor comes from Formorians...the enemies of the elves."
[00:20] <Cazador> "So you're like your own enemy?"
[00:21] <Fomor> "...It's something my Sister used to call me a lot." She shrugs
[00:21] <Allie> "Ouch." She winces in sympathy.
[00:21] <Cazador> "What, Quaddie?"
[00:22] <Fomor> "Not her." She shakes her head. "My older Sister."
[00:22] <Cazador> "Shit, you got another one?"
[00:23] <Fomor> "Yes. She's less than..." She pauses "No. She's a bitch. That's more accurate."