Group Intro

[oi_theoi]

Who: New kids
When: Day 37, Still morning
Where: Shrine apt
What: =Dbb!

[A new day, another batch of traumatized/angry/none of the above strangers]

[Terry!Batman | Kida | Celty | Simi | Tyki]

Comments

[hydralize]

Yeah . . . I don't know about everyone else, but I just want to finish with this building as soon as we can so we can move on already.

[fortuneforyourdisaster]

Do you know what's beyond this building or is that all kept secret?

Or actually why this place was overgrown to begin with?

[hydralize]

Just rainforest as far as we've been able to explore yet. And . . . [shrugs] Some kind of apocalypse where nature flipped it's shit and destroyed the natives completely.

[fortuneforyourdisaster]

This place seems merrier and merrier as the details unfold.

[hydralize]

[dryly] It's a fucking party.

[fortuneforyourdisaster]

Quite.

Do you have a cigarette?

[hydralize]

. . . [pulls a pack out of his pocket and holds it up so Tyki can take one]

A couple of the gods offer them in exchange for animal parts.

[fortuneforyourdisaster]

[You are his new bestest friend!]

So I've heard. I was warned about the god of gambling.

[hydralize]

The woman? I haven't dealt with her much . . . What warning did you get?

[fortuneforyourdisaster]

No I believe it was a he. Something about betting too high was the warning.

[hydralize]

He's the one I get my cigarettes from though . . . He'll make you put a fair value on them yourself—for me it's the brain or hands of a monkey per pack. He's no trouble when it comes to that.

[fortuneforyourdisaster]

Brains of a monkey for a pack of cigarettes?

[Okay. He hadn't actually gotten as far to see the trade sheet.]

[hydralize]

You're gonna end up paying for most things like that. Sacrificing animal parts to them is pretty standard.

[fortuneforyourdisaster]

[And messy.]

Do I dare ask what happens to the animal parts after?

[hydralize]

Don't know, don't care.

[fortuneforyourdisaster]

Fair. And I'll pay you back for this [the cigarette] once I get a better lay of the land.

[hydralize]

Ah . . . Thanks.

[fortuneforyourdisaster]

Surprised?

[hydralize]

A little.

[fortuneforyourdisaster]

Now why is that?

[hydralize]

Most people don't worry about repaying one cigarette.

[fortuneforyourdisaster]

Most people don't have to dig brain matter out of a monkey's skull to get them either.

[hydralize]

That's true.

[fortuneforyourdisaster]

How did you go about adjusting to this place?

[hydralize]

I have my people here. That's all I need to give myself a reason to keep going. . . . That, and it manages to be less of a shithole than the last place I was.