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[At first the camera doesn't show Fay, since he hovers out of view for a moment, to the left judging by his voice.]

Ah, so... Something a bit unpleasant happened a while ago while I was helping out a friend here on the network. That is to say, not in the actual helping out - though it got a bit dramatic there for a moment - but I got another of those pulse-thingies back.

[An off-screen sigh, and then Fay sits down in front of the camera. Notice anything different? Well, probably if you've ever seen him before. He's wearing some cloth over his left eye.]

Or rather, one of those pulse-thingies took something from me. My eye, to be precise.

[He's still smiling, but it's clearly more a reflex than anything, because he certainly doesn't look happy.]

The vampire thing seems to compensate a bit for the loss, but I'm still not jumping for joy, you know? I should've expected it, considering I remember someone eating it, but... well, it's not the sort of thing you can prepare for.

So I'm just wondering... I mean, the whole point with these things has seemed to me that we're still supposed to get things we didn't have before, not... lose things that are kind of useful to have, right? So has this happened to anyone else?

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Now you have me thinking if I'm going to be losing body parts next.

How's your sight? Having lost half of your vision has got to be wonky for you.

Hopefully it won't be a trend. Especially if it involves eyes getting eaten.

[A wry little laugh, which is followed by a sigh.]

My depth perception went there for a while, I kept walking into things. But I think since my vision was already better than a human's, that's compensating for it.

I'd really rather not. [Fil sounds really uncomfortable here, like he's about to throw up.] Though I guess you don't really get a choice when you get these memories and ... body parts back or disappeared.

I'm glad it's not interfering too much with your daily life. If I suddenly lost an eye I don't think I'll be able to do my job any more.

[Fay can't exactly blame him, considering that thinking about it still makes him dry-heave.] No, we ain't exactly been asked if we felt like getting hit with all of this. So I guess we just got to make the best of it.

[He makes a sour little noise.] It ain't interfering as such, but my job kind of involves looking pretty, so it was a bit of a drag to have to go there with a damn patch on my eye. You don't wanna know what it looks like underneath. [Not as hideous as he makes it out. There's some rather neat scarring there, and mostly it just looks sunken.]

True enough.

[Fil has always been a bit of an optimist, but this is enough to even make him feel sombre. So he tries to bring the topic back to something less dour.] Are you a model then?

The eye patch can be a personal fashion statement of some sort? Decorate it with...feathers or something?

[Fay is a rather aggressive optimist of the "Don't let the bastards grind you down"-school himself, but some things are a bit too fucked up to deal with by ignoring them.]

[At least that gets some hearty laughter out of him.] No cigar, sweetie, I'm a stripper. Mind you, decoranting it ain't a half bad idea. At least that would make me look a bit less like a durn pirate.

[Fil is blinking rapidly at the declaration of 'stripper'. Sheltered that he is has never met one before.] Oh. Well, you could also have it match your clothes...different colour every day of the week? Or just turn it into half a mask like Phantom of the Opera?

[It actually feels really great to be able to laugh about something right now.] Maybe I should get themed clothes for work. I'm sure I could pull off "sexy pirate" or... well, "sexy phantom", I guess. [He is so amused by the thought.] But yeah, it ain't exactly the end of the world. And at least this is more easily explained away as an accident than turning blue or something.

[Fil is glad to be of service.]

Do your um...patrons..tip you? Costumes should totally earn you extra!

Even turning blue can be explained as an accident....you accidentally got dumped permanent blue pain all over you?

It's like working at a diner or something like that, I kind of get most of my pay from tips. But that's alright 'cause drunk, happy people are generous. Maybe even more so to pirates, you never know.

[He laughs easily.]

And I guess so, but you'd still be attracting looks, and that ain't healthy for us Numbers people. I'm counting myself lucky that the rest of my physical changes are easy enough to hide.

Well, you're the stripper I've ever met. But earning more money's good, no matter what your job is.

[Fil's grinning too now.]

You're way ahead of me I think. Or I wonder if I'm going to be lucky enough to skip the physical changes altogether.

Really? Well, I guess that shouldn't be surprising, but the kind of people I used to meet before this Numbers business were usually not the kind who were strangers to that sort of business. But I guess the world's turned ass over tit for all of us, huh?

[He grimaces, unseen, but there's a small exasperated noise to accompany it.]

Pray you will. Easy to hide as they are, it sure hurt like a bitch and a half to suddenly just change. Though I've heard the changes are gradual for some.

I'd say that the world's becoming bigger. There's more layers to it now then we knew before?

I've been duly warned.

You know, you're right. Fucked up and scary as everything is, there sure is a lot that I wouldn't know anything about at all if this hadn't happened. So I guess it ain't bad to be a little bit grateful.

[He makes a soft noise of amusement.] For what it's worth, huh?

That's the spirit!

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