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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[tacosgay]

Yeah, though I feel like there's not really any winning when it comes to the whole "getting out of here early" thing, huh?

[atouts]

Not really. Signing the contract means you're stuck for now, even if it was all under questionable circumstances.

[tacosgay]

Which it was. Let me just make that much abundantly clear.

[atouts]

You wouldn't be the first to say so. So which was it? A game or the mirror maze?

[tacosgay]

A game. I was simply using a bit of magic to sort of... even the odds, you know?

[atouts]

Using magic to rig a game in a magical carnival seems like an incredibly poor idea, though I get the feeling you've heard that enough already.

[tacosgay]

Hey, the game was already rigged, alright? If anything, I was... counter-rigging it.

[atouts]

Are you sure you weren't just very bad at it?

[tacosgay]

Alright, my friend, I'm gonna have to ask you to dial that attitude back over there. I am not the only one who's had trouble with these games, okay, I know that for a fact.

[atouts]

Be that as it may, the option to walk away instead of cheating was always open to you and them.

[tacosgay]

Well, yeah, but somebody's gotta take them down a notch, right? Otherwise they'll just keep thinking they can get away with that shit forever.

[atouts]

And all that got you is stuck here. Congratulations, I suppose. You sure showed them.

[tacosgay]

You know...

[Oh my god. Taako has just decided that he doesn't like this motherfucker at all.]

Whatever, at least somebody showed 'em that we're onto them.

[atouts]

[ He's an asshole, it's true. ]

Of course. I'm sure they'll think twice about trying it again, as well, now that you're here.

[tacosgay]

Whatever, like you've never done anything in a fit of passion that you later realized miiight have been a mistake.

[atouts]

Not in recent memory, no. Some magicians actually are capable of keeping their magic to themselves, you know.

[ Not many, but some. ]

[tacosgay]

Huh. Sounds boring, if I'm being honest, my man.

[atouts]

It does and it is and it's actually preferable to the rest of what goes on here, to be quite honest.

[tacosgay]

Fair enough, I guess. You do you, I'm gonna do me. Which, I guess, involves... getting trapped in a magic carnival for over a year.

Oh well. Too late for regrets now.