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]

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!

[tacosgay]

Well, I've apparently been drafted into working as a line cook, so I guess I'll be wasting my exquisite cooking talents feeding you chucklefucks for the next year. You're welcome, by the way.

[fortuneglass]

As long as you don't poison me~

...By the way I'm one of the tailors! And also a scout. But mostly I'm a tailor, so I might have to make your clothes if you didn't bring anything extra~

[tacosgay]

[That... actually seems to hit a nerve. He's quiet for a few seconds before he answers; when he does, his tone is just a little bit less smug and certain.]

Yeah, well, don't worry about that. I left all my poison back home.

[Har har. It's a joke that isn't really one at all.]

[fortuneglass]

[Oooh. Erm.

Well he sounds significantly less like an asshole right now, so that seems to be ah... ...A touchy matter.]

...Um...w-well...

...On a better note, we all get a discount here... A-Actually, maybe I should treat you to something as a welcome~ One of the rides, especially~ [SPECIFICALLY ONE OF THE RIDES THAT MAKES YOU THINK OF HAPPY THINGS, YES....]

[tacosgay]

Oh, yeah? Hey, look at that-- a real perk in the middle of the bullshit.

[He recovers, though he's still just a touch off from his previous energy.]

[fortuneglass]

Yeah~~

Do you like...swings?

[Please say yes that's the happy one-]

[tacosgay]

Swings?

[He sounds just a little bit incredulous.]

I mean, sure?

[fortuneglass]

Yeah!

It's the swing ride; basically, you sit in a swing, right? But then the ride raises the swings up real high and starts spinning-not so fast that you get dizzy, but fast enough that you sail through the air at an angle....

It's really nice, and not the same as flying or anything at all, so it's fun..~

[tacosgay]

Eh... sure, why not. There are worse ways to waste a few minutes, I guess. It better not fuck up and sling my ass across the fucking continent, though, or I'm gonna blame you specifically in my will. Which I'll write as I'm flying into oblivion, I guess.

[fortuneglass]

Wonderful~~

Ahh...hmmn. Where are you right now though, so I can show you where it is...

[tacosgay]

I'm in my trailer, darling, off work for the moment. Well, I haven't really started yet.

[insidescoop]

Ah, yeah, we normally have a few days to adjust to things, even if it's performance week...

What number are you in?

[tacosgay]

[Insert number here because it hasn't been OOC assigned yet oops????]

[insidescoop]

[The OOC Struggle...]

Okay!

I'll be there soon enough~!

[And so she will. But in the form of a black and orange humming bird the size of a large pigeon. FAST TRAVEL.]