intro | day 104

[tacosgay]

Listen.

[The voice that comes over the public channel is... odd, and new to most folks here. He pauses for a bit, as if that's the entire thought-- but, sure enough, he follows it with an obviously annoyed question.]

So we're just kind of... here, because they say so? Like... this can't be legal, can it? Has anybody tried talking to the fuckin' police about this?

[As he speaks, he gets increasingly irritated, his voice breaking.]

I'm gonna be real with you guys: I've got half a mind to just kinda magic my way out, except I'm pretty sure the Ringleader or whatever would come after me. Is that a thing?

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[insidescoop]

[Too late. There is a brief silence, and-]

You did then!!

No wonder you're in debt!!

[tacosgay]

Son of a bitch.

Listen, if they didn't want us to try to fix the odds with a little magic, maybe they shoulda made their games actually fuckin' winnable, you know? Not my fault I tried to fix a rigged system here.

[insidescoop]

[Even wORRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRSE!!]

You CHEATED!?! That's almost just as bad!! Maybe even worse, since it's Faerie laws!!

[tacosgay]

"Cheating" is a strong word. I was just trying to give them a little taste of their own, you know?

[insidescoop]

That's not a taste of their own, that's breaking the rules.

And anyway, it's not that horrible here!! Time won't even pass where you were before, so there shouldn't be anything to worry about!

[tacosgay]

Well, yeah, okay, maybe, but you can't just keep people here for whatever reason, that's kidnapping! Like, this place isn't its own jail!

[insidescoop]

You broke fae law.

[So yes. Yes they can.]

[tacosgay]

Hey, I've broken all kinds of laws before. Nobody ever tried to fucking kidnap me before. Except for that one place, but that was a real, actual jail.

[insidescoop]

You're not being kidnapped though! You broke the law, so now you have to pay for it! And that means working it off for a year and a day, according to the rules!

You can argue about not knowing that would happen, sure, but you shouldn't have been cheating in the first place after all!!

[tacosgay]

Okay, but, like, most places, they catch you cheating, they just make you pay a fine or something, right? They don't hold you prisoner until you atone for your crimes against carnies or whatever! I'm not the only one who thinks this is ridiculous, right?

[insidescoop]

...I think you're missing the 'Fae' part here, and that's sort of important you know!

They have a whole different 'law system', she's really really nice compared to what others would've done!

[THAT MUCH, Carly knows by now.]

[tacosgay]

Yeah, see, I usually try not to talk to fae. At all, in general. Mostly because I have no idea where you even find 'em.

[fortuneglass]

Well, you found one.

...So that's what's happening now, I guess!

It's really pretty cool though~ The work is really nice, better than the jobs I had back home at least, and you get to see all sorts of things, and learn all kinds of new things, and bring back everything with you after the contract is over!

I'll be able to fly when I go home!

[#Priorities]

[tacosgay]

Yeah, see, I get to do and see plenty back home. I think I'm good on the whole "seeing new things" and all front.

Well, that's good, good for you, I guess.

[insidescoop]

You're still not going back until the year is up though.

You might as well find something you like here!! Otherwise you'll just be miserable for a whole year, and that's not healthy!

[dorkypantsuit]

The games are winnable.

If you can't win without cheating you just aren't very good at them.

[tacosgay]

Uh, cool opinion, thanks for your input... [Spoken in just the pissiest voice imaginable.]

[dorkypantsuit]

Its not an opinion if you've seen people win at them. That makes it a fact.

[tacosgay]

Cool! Still didn't ask for your thoughts. Bye-bye.

[dorkypantsuit]

Wow, wardrobe's got themselves a real winner this time. I can tell you're really going to go places here.

[Like, to jail, or involuntary transformation station.]

[tacosgay]

Buddy, from the sound of it, nobody here is going anywhere, so you may as well get used to me.

[dorkypantsuit]

From the sounds of it I think that might be a bit harder for you than it is for me.

[tacosgay]

Ehh, I give it a D-. You tried on that comeback, but I can tell your heart just wasn't in it. Good try, though.

[dorkypantsuit]

[And that actually makes him laugh.]

Well what kind of comeback would you come up with?

[tacosgay]

Oh, I don't want to make you feel bad by showing you up. We've only just met, after all, and it's been going so well up 'til now.