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[shiromadoushi]

Has anyone seen any sign of those Grues or black dandelion puffs or whatever you want to call them or anything they've possessed at all today?

I haven't seen any sign of them since Monday...

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[secondcomingof]

[ Yo dawg I heard you liked meta so I put some stupid meta jokes in brackets that are utterly unfunny. Deal with it. ]

...I was about to say "is still just as thorned", but I suppose that works just as well.

[shiromadoushi]

[[Just wait until Bakura runs a D&D game in your game so you can game while you game.]]

Rose thorns are just an irritation. And turn this whole thing into a bad metaphor for falling for something pretty and getting pain for your troubles.

[secondcomingof]

[ That was a bad joke and you should feel bad for making it. I still laughed. ]

You could argue that life is simply all one bad, collective metaphor. A chain of cliches, occurring one after another.

Pretentiousness aside, however, I haven't seen any sign of your "Grues", either. The less to worry about, the better.

[shiromadoushi]

Life needs a better writer.

As long as they aren't going back for even more back up, I agree. Would be nice to have passed phase one so simply.

[[Now if he could only figure out what sort of experience points he got and when he would level up...]]

[secondcomingof]

...heh. Agreed.

[ Good thing there's no video here. It would've given his brief, flickering smile away. ]

Somehow I doubt we'll be so lucky. Just consider it a reprieve from the madness and be glad.

[shiromadoushi]

[[He'd have flashed a small victory sign if he knew~ Okay, maybe not. He's not that much of a smug jerk. Yet.]]

Time to regroup and get organized?

[secondcomingof]

I won't be able to assist too much, unfortunately. I'm in a bit of a hot spot at the moment.

But yes. It's not a bad idea to consider our next move.

[ Emphasis on our. They'd all seen how acting alone turned out and that was not a path Casval wished to retread. ]

[shiromadoushi]

Time to make it "our" move. Even with this, we're pretty scattered. And even if you're on the run, you can still help out, since you can reach everybody.

Kind of a shame that the one in we had there had to be used up so swiftly.

[secondcomingof]

Callous words coming from someone so young.

[ But he admires the gumption, and Bakura's also right. ]

I'll do what I can... as soon as I can safely confirm there's not snipers sitting outside my window right now.

[ Because this is a distinct possibility. He sincerely wishes he was joking here, he would've even found it funny with all that gallows humor he drowns himself in.

But he isn't. ]

[shiromadoushi]

School's doing a fundraiser. I can come by to sell you crap you don't want and check it out.

Won't even make you buy anything for it.

[secondcomingof]

...did you miss the part about the snipers, or are you just feeling particularly suicidal?

[shiromadoushi]

Any sniper who'd kill someone selling crap door to door so he can go on the class trip out in broad daylight is an out of work sniper.

Unless you're under some sort of quarantine.

[secondcomingof]

I'm a dead man as much as Mr. Vigilante is, for all I know. I'm not exactly keen on taking any unnecessary risks here.

[shiromadoushi]

So some other way to check things out without looking like I am, then.

Can always mail you one of those nanny cams or something and hope the postman actually reads which end of the box is up so you can at least get a view out your front door.

[secondcomingof]

While the thought is appreciated, you underestimate the... equipment I already have access to.

They're not the only ones with sniper rifles.

[shiromadoushi]

Took some of your work home with you? Smart move.

Let me know if there's anything I can do, okay?