 "un/finished") |
FERN |
Ooo slang part the second |
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FERN |
i think we just shared electrons, because i'm feeling a covalent bond between us |
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LANCE |
Pidge, I need your help. I gotta send a meme to Chloe but ... |
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DIPPER |
Hey Varian. You know those crazy alchemy bombs you used... |
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PETER |
Hey Varian, this is Peter. Um, Peter Graham. |
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USAGI |
Soooooooo~ How'd the date go? |
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MAKO |
Varianβ Checking in. |
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SHIRO |
i think one of us put a chicken patty in my toaster |
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EDDIE |
Hey. We need to talk. |
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MELIUS |
π»πΎ. πΌ ππππ πΎπ πππππ πππΎππΉ πΆππΉ πΎπ πΎπ πππ ππ½πππ |
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EDA |
Hey, kid. I... owe you an apology. |
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LUZ |
Valentines |
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MAUL |
I have a proposition for a project I think you'll be interested in |
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USAGI |
I LOVE YOU |
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FERN |
DUDE you still have your bandana! |
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BUZZ |
Morning. I heard from Fern you wanted to go out into the blizzard. |
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FERN |
dude your profile changed |
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USAGI |
Ruby told me about the breakup. |
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GLITCH |
Varian, I'm gonna go live somewhere else for now |
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MAKO |
A "nerd" is somebody smart... |
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MAUL |
Gifts |
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FERN |
heeyyyy quick question |
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FERN |
Christmas is coming up!!! |
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CHLOE |
god who the FUCK ever thought emojis were a good idea??? |
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KRISTOFF |
Varian,It's getting colder so I thought you could use this |
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FERN |
heyyyy Variable |
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RAPUNZEL |
okay not to put you on the spot but... |
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EDA |
Potion time |
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NEO |
Dude, I can mine antidote shit here! |
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GLITCH |
Got this in my basket. |
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EDA |
hey smart kid |
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TEN |
Hallo |
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ADAM |
Hey, k-- uh, Varian. I just wanted to check in |
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USAGI |
I'm sorry I worried you and fainted on you yesterday. |
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AMARA |
i lived, bitch |
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NEO |
Debatably good news, asshole |
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USAGI |
Hey Varian! It's Usagi |
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OSCAR |
I'm sorry, Varian. Tell me what you need |
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FERN |
a dark past huh |
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MAUL |
Varian. I am in great need of your assistance |
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FERN |
Varian VARIAN I CAN EAT FOOD |
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USAGI |
How much moon essence do you have? |
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USAGI |
VIVI-KUN, VIVI-KUN GUESS WHAT GUESS WHAT! |
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RICHIE |
well I promised |
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FERN |
A TOTALLY INCOMPLETE LIST OF OOO WORDS 'N SLANG |
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GLITCH |
VARIAN ARE THERE BUGS IN THE WATER?!
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USAGI |
To help with restless nights and the... |
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VIRA-LORR |
Little alchemist. I have a gift for you. |
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MARTIN |
Hi, Varian. This is Martin. I wanted to reach out... |
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USAGI |
Hi Varian, sweetie! I have a question for you. |
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GLITCH |
varian I need to talk to you. it's important. |
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USAGI |
I need you not to panic after what I tell you. |
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FERN |
dog you have so many vests |
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IRONHIDE |
HONK HONK |
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USAGI |
... I'm sorry I couldn't help you better, Varian |
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EMERALD |
Hey, V. Not that I care that much or anything... |
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FERN |
tell me when you're alive |
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FERN |
Varian i stabbed two people |
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AMARA |
hey weirdo i have something for you
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FERN |
is the Rapunzel in town your Rapunzel? |
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PENNY |
Salutations!! You do not know me, but my name is Penny Polendina |
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YANG |
Hey, is this Varian? I think we've met once before. |
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FERN |
hey can we talk |
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FERN |
you told ruby |
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MAUL |
Surviving another year is always an occasion worth celebrating |
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USAGI |
Hey I wanted to apologise |
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USAGI |
VARIAN-KUUUUNNN!!!! |
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FERN |
birth |
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MAUL |
Look what just arrived for me. |
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KATHERINE |
Do you want to get paid to make more purple goo things? |
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FERN |
ok i know you're good with plants but what about animals |
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FERN |
dog interested in means girls or guys |
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She's quick to dash and use her semblance to cross the street and try to do a lap around the house. Trying to see if there was a window he hadn't barricaded or blocked that she can get in. She figured any back doors would already be plenty booby trapped.]
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He was expecting her semblance, of course. Varian's not the greatest ground fighter, but he's a damn good strategist. All the doors and windows are closed tightly. Except one, it's only partly open, easy to pull open all the way. It looks like it was forgotten in a rush to close everything up.
That or it's a trap. ]
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She's not surprised to only find one window easy to get into. The initial note they received said no breaking and entering so she didn't really want to risk getting the authority upset with them because of a game. So the open window would have to do.
She makes a jump for it and manages to get a hold of the ledge. With minor effort she pulls herself up and opens the enough that she'll be able to get in.
She's seen the booby traps he's set up in here before so she hopes she's going in ready. Instead of touching down on the ground she'll activate her semblance one more time, shooting forward in an attempt to land on a table or couch. She wasn't sure what room she was going into.]
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Why would anyone booby trap a couch? That's a good question, maybe you can ask Varian later. You know. After you deal with the ice.
This is fun, right? This is how you have fun.]
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Her feet touch down and she hears the ticking start, she tries to adjust herself to get off but she's fighting against her own momentum that brought her there. As such she's a little slow to get off and is sent flying across the room again. She let's out manic cackle and directs herself to land on her feet. The problem is now that the floor is coated in ice and her boots don't have the best traction in the world. But that's why she has a giant scythe, she pulls out Crescent Rose and manages to drive it into the floor. This buys her a chance to stop and steady herself. Her silver eyes dart around looking for any other traps that might have been triggered along the way.]
Come on, is that all you've got?
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There's a creepy sound coming from one of the rooms in the house. It's getting closer and closer to the living room- what can it be? Thankfully, it's not a full-scale automaton (he doesn't really want to build his murder robots any more) but it IS a creepy-ass spider robot about the size of a small dog. It stops short of the ice, as a hatch opens up on its back, firing an alchemical bomb towards her. It's a stick bomb at least- so, you know, not lethal. ]
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Her smiles only fades briefly because that is some creepy nightmare music coming out of the weird spider robot. Her eyes narrow as the hatch opens up and she makes an awkward jump in the air to try and get it before it can attack. She couldn't build up a run so she points the barrel of Crescent Rose behind her and fires off a shot to push her toward her spider. She didn't get enough air to completely avoid the sticky bomb and she feels the cling and trap her boots together.
Still she sails through the air and adjusts her scythe and stab the pointy end right into the spider. Hopefully she didn't completely destroy it so Varian can still fix it.
Still moving around was going to be awkward with her legs trapped like this. She tried to glance around and see if any of that formula was just laying around to get rid of that before she carried on.]
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Cresent Rose's scythe clunks into the spider, creating a fairly sizeable hole in it. The music dies off slowly and tinnily, somehow making it creepier than normal. A little spindly spider leg waves at her as the poor spider dies a death. Avenge it. (It's fine, Varian can totally fix it).
There is, indeed, a little vial of white liquid. She might just be able to reach it if she tried to hook it with Crescent Rose. Weird how it's just the right distance away, isn't it? It's almost pre-mediated. ]
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She gives the spider a sad little frown as it gives it's little wave. It had a cool look to it and she hopes to see it up and running again one day.
her eyes fix on the vial and jeez it's awfully convenient that it's just in reach of her scythe like that. She's can either hop to it or hook it with her scythe. She's smart enough to know that Varian probably has something up his sleeve but she also doesn't know exactly what that might be. And she's probably going to need her legs to get further into the lab.
So she risks it and tries to hook it with Crescent Rose and shove the vial toward her. Once she gets the vial in the scythes touch she'll let herself fall back onto the floor. Just in case he's going to have anything come flying out at her.]
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It was smart of her, to fall back. There's a fft-oing of a spring as an alchemy ball launches across the room, hitting the opposite wall and smashing. Unfortunately for Ruby, it's a smoke bomb, so the room swiftly starts to fill with pretty magenta smoke.
There's a noise from the kitchen that sounds like (and, if she investigates turns out is) a portly raccoon pulling himself through the catflap to try and rummage around for food. Is he part of the trap? No. He wants no part in this madness. ]
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She recognizes the sound of Ruddiger trying to get in. She had been here enough times to know what that sounded like so she chooses to just leave him be for the moment. She will start to blindly fumble her way through the house to try and find her way to wherever Varian is hiding.
She's got the pointed bottom of Crescent Rose's in front of her, using it as a lead to poke around for any door or something she might bump into. The blade and gun barrel at her back.
She chooses to refrain from any smart comments until she stumbles into something else.]
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There's the excited bark of a captured corgi coming from the depths of Varian's basement. Honestly, he's just getting all the treats and belly rubs so he's the least tortured prisoner ever. But in the narrative, he's clearly being tortured.
The stairs leading down to the basement, however, are for sure rigged with bubble bombs. Because obviously an enclosed basement is the best place to rig an unbreakable bubble prison, obviously. ]
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She hears the bark and her eyes go wide. She does her best to sound concerned and reassuring but hearing her pup in good spirits always warmed her heart a little.]
Just hold on, Zwei! I'mma coming.
[She arrives at the stairs and the smoke makes it hard to see just where any traps might be set up. She doesn't doubt that there are traps though. She doesn't really have any other options so she makes a leap down the stairs and gives Crescent Rose another shot to propel her right down. She throws her feet in front of her in preparation for a rough landing.
Because jumping right into the middle of all this is clearly the best idea, right?]
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There are plenty of bubble bombs, all of which drop down, exploding on the stairs and leaving a trail of bubbles in their wake. At least she missed those, as they float on upwards and cluster on the ceiling- it's gonna take forever to get them down.
Now, some people might think a trapdoor might be an excessive boobytrap to have in their house, but Varian isn't most people. There's a clunk under Ruby's feet as the floor gives way and... yeah he legit just dug further under his house to make a trapdoor because that's the industrious person he is.
At least this one doesn't lead to a creepy catacomb filled with a horrific Apathy. It does have more sticky trap in there though, so she might want to avoid that. There's a tiny, sticky-free ledge, for her to escape to if she wants. Because Varian's a good sport.
Varian himself is chilling on the other side of the basement. Honestly, he could have pulled a good villain look off if he wasn't busy petting Zwei and telling him he was the best boy. That kind of scuppers the old image of the kid who drove fear in the hearts of Corona. When he realises Ruby is you know, in the room, he does at least attempt to salvage some dignity again. He moves to sit down, Zwei hopping onto his lap so he can pet the corgi like the worst bond villain ever. ]
We meet again, Ruby Rose.
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She doesn't have any time to celebrate avoiding the bubbles because the ground quite literally falls out from under her feet. She's really thankful there are no Apathy waiting down there because that is something she never wants to see again in her life. No thank you.
She manages to hook Crescent Rose on the outside of the trap and plant her feet on the led to avoid landing in the sticky trap. The ends of her cloak aren't as lucky and she feels a tug as she tries to pull herself up. She sighs and pulls it over her head and let's it fall gently into more goo. Another victim to Varian's heinous crimes that she would have to avenge.
She pulls herself up out of the trap and just stands there grinning like a dork as Varian gives Zwei the love he deserves. Once the scene is set back up she'll narrow her eyes into a glare and point a finger his way.]
For the last time, or at least until the next for the last time, Varian.
[She takes a step forward for dramatic effect.]
This doesn't have to end in anyone getting hurt. Release my precious pup and you can still walk out of this.
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Okay, he's actually a little sad about the cloak. He likes the cloak. Still, sacrifices have to be made in the path of darkness and that's just one of them that's fallen this day. Farewell, adorable cloak. ]
Oh-ho! Brave words from someone not holding the prisoner.
[Zwei barks happily. Clearly, he is suffering greatly here. ]
I believe I still have the upper hand!
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He does have a point and despite all her heroic posturing she knew it was true. It's why she hadn't made a direct move on him.]
I'd never stoop to such a level. You can ask Ruddiger, he's upstairs chewing on apple cores.
[He adjusts her grip on Crescent Rose taking a slight step forward.]
It doesn't matter what you throw at me, I'll pull through.
But what's it going to take for you to stop this madness?
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Ruddiger! My greatest henchman, I'm betrayed.
[Ruddiger doesn't give a frosty shit. He's staying upstairs, ignoring all this.
Also, shit. He didn't think of any terms because he'd honestly just been having a good time setting off all his booby traps on her. ]
Uhh.
[Give him a second, he's thinking.]
I- definately have terms which I for sure had prepared in advance.
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[She snorts. Then smiles. It was pretty clear he didn't have any terms set up. She'll prop up Crescent Rose and just leans against it for now.]
Do you need me to give you a minute? Are they written down somewhere? I can grab them if you need me to.
[She glances around looking to try and see if she can make out any final traps between her and Varian.]
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[Okay this is embarrassing. He raises a finger into the air.]
NO! No- I've- I've got it. Good terms, too. Really dastardly ones.
[There aren't any final traps. Because he's not about to fire any right at her face. ]
I demand a great sacrifice for you! [yeah he is absolutely winging it] Um. [Shit. Why doesn't he ever think anything through?] A... plate of your favourite cookies?
[Wow. Fucking flawless.]
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[Just leans a bit heavier against the scythe. She looks down at the clock on her fluid and just smiles.]
Okay. okay. I believe you.
[She doesn't believe him but it's freakin' adorable.
She's got a semblance, she wouldn't be afraid. But they're actually down in his lab now and things are more volatile there and it makes sense.
Oh wait- they're starting again.
She stares a little deadpan at the sacrifice she definitely didn't bring any cookies with her because they're winging it at this point.]
Really? Like right now? Because I didn't bring any wi-
[She stops herself because that's breaking character. Instead she steps back, clearly aghast at this steep offering he was demanding.]
-I mean-You fiend! Where am I supposed to get such delicious treats on such short notice?
Not to mention the personal cost! It cuts deep, villain
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This is ridiculous and he knows it, but that's the best part. He gives a shrug, slipping back into an act that once upon a time genuinely wasn't one, patting Zwei idly.]
That's for you to be concerned about. Until then, the dog is mine.
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How could someone make her choose between two of the greatest loves in her life.]
You're a monster, Varian. A monster.
Fine... You'll get your cookies.
Just don't be too rough on Zwei while I'm gone.
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An acurate estimation, Ruby.
[He sits back, giving an idle, dismissive wave of his hand.]
I make no promises. My mercy only lasts so long, I'll have you know.
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You'll get what you're after, Varian. Then you'll get what you deserve.
[Which will probably be a round of applause for his job at this, because wow. She hasn't had this much fun in awhile.]
Then I guess I don't have a moment to lose.
[She rises back up to her feet and turns around. She doesn't start to move and instead turns to look back and give Zwei one more thoughtful look.
Then it's her turn to improvise. She could go and just get some cookies and come back but that means game over for now and that's no fun.
She turns her attention back to Varian.]
I assume you'll be accompanying me personally. Or at least sending your trusted minion. Y'know. So I don't get up to any funny business while I'm gone?
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