VIDEO. UN: LOKI

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[ the sound of the wind storm hollows dully against the cave walls. Loki's squidge, Bacon, can half be seen crawling in the confines of his tacky green jacket and over his knee from where he sits, sometimes ducking and squeaking when a particularly large gust hits. to keep it from screaming, Loki offers his fingers absently, which the little squidge pulls on with its pudgy arms before ducking low again. ]

Hello there, it seems like we'll be waiting this out for some time considering the weather-type circumstances. While we're all rotting away, etcetera etcetera, I thought we could amuse ourselves with a game. A little bit of team bonding funtimes, so to say. [ he twists a dark nailed hand in the air, gesturing. ]

Soo—oo ... it's called Two Truths and a Lie. How do you play? Glad you asked, it's simple! Give two true statements about yourself and add a lie to the mix, shake it up then toss it out there and see if your team members know you well enough to spot the lie.

Usually this is done with copious amounts of alcohol, but we're lacking at the moment. [ pause. ] But—ah—you could always enjoy the satisfaction of being right. It's not like we're doing much else.

NOTE | Feel free to threadjack if that's your thing!! :****

Comments

[longtempered]

[Well, to be fair, it is true that Shizuo doesn't put much effort into following the news at all...what with his preference to avoid too much television or internet or even radios, and the fact that he picks up word of most local goings-on by word of mouth anyway. Really, with all the weird shit that tends to happen in Ikebukuro, who's to say that this kind of 'ghoul' thing couldn't crop up too? He certainly couldn't say for certain one way or another.

Altogether they might as well be the same Tokyo's anyway, as far as he's concerned--and so Shizuo opts to treat this news as such.]

Throughout, seriously? Damn, then that's a pretty big spread... [A faint, sympathetic sort of grimace.] Well, like I said, I don't think I've heard of them. But now I might as well keep an eye out whenever it is I get back home, so I'll keep that in mind...and it sounds like you guys really have your work cut out, in that case. ...Uh, it's good you haven't been eaten yet or anything...

[ex_adept136]

[His smile at that last comment is a tight one, only barely registering any passing resemblance to a smile at all. Haise could say that he wouldn't be very appetizing to ghouls, which would be true, but that wouldn't preclude any of them from eating him.

In Cochlea, incarcerated ghouls were fed a "stew" made of ghouls that had been done away with, in point of fact]

Ah, I'd put up quite a fight if the attempt was made, I can assure you...

[It's what he's trained for, not to mention being a half-ghoul himself]

Most predation cases occur at night or in instances where an individual is lured out alone. Just to be safe, it's good to keep those things in mind.

[longtempered]

[Well, that...certainly is quite the not-smile over there. Entirely too late, it occurs to Shizuo that maybe he could have said that a little less...bluntly....because the sentiment had been a sincere one, but. Maybe that'd been phrased pretty lamely after all, everything considered...

Haise responds before he can attempt something towards an awkward apology, though, and so in the end it doesn't really matter. Especially with an assurance like that, ah...]

Right...guess you're the expert on these guys anyway, so you'd be the most prepared out of pretty much anyone else, huh?

[It's a mildly dry response in turn, but he thinks he can understand the gist there. And the advisory that follows gets another slow nod too.]

Ah, this kind of shit always seems to really like happening at night, doesn't it? Underhanded bastards, by the sound of it... [Sneaking around and messing around with people like that...but well, not much to do about that.] Not exactly like people ought to wander around town alone if they can't take care of themselves to start with, too. But I guess not everybody's got common sense like that...thanks for the advice, anyway.

[ex_adept136]

[An expert...if only he could comment on that. Though Haise supposes he knows about as much as anyone else does, aside from how it feels to be a ghoul. In the brief span of his memory, he's done his best to live a human life, because that's what has always been presented to him as the ideal. As a normal, pleasant existence.

If he were human, he wouldn't have to live with the constant, nagging fear of becoming useless and being discarded. That, he'd suppose, isn't the normal ghoul experience, but he has the same technical knowledge as any other Investigator at his level, if not more.

He does his best to smooth out his expression into something more placid, aware after a delay that he must've come off more pensive than he'd meant to be]

It's the least I can do. We endeavor to keep everyone safe, but you'd be surprised how many people don't exercise caution and end up targeted as a result. Sometimes...you'd never imagine that you were dealing with a ghoul.

[Ironic for two reasons, though Haise is only aware of one.

As for the other...he is where he is because Ken Kaneki never imagined a cute girl who liked the same books as him was a ghoul]