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 [Bertholdt writes his number down in the corner of a page he's editing, without thinking about it. He had gotten a headache from staring at the computer for so long, and was now curled up on his couch in his apartment, the flip side of the manuscript he's working on visible to the network, as well as all of his red pen edits and small notes. His handwriting is cramped but neat, small block letters that are easily readable, even mirrored. He doesn't seem to notice what's going on at first, too focused on what he's doing, but when he pauses to pushes his glasses up his sweaty nose he blinks and stares at the paper. He flips to the next one and finds that the same thing is happening.]

[It takes him a pretty long time to actually say anything while he's trying to figure out what's going on, and even then it's just:] 

... What? 

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[thorny]

Only when they deserve it. (*´・ｖ・)

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[hollowleg]

lets be real, no one here yet has met your super duper high standards and I doubt such a person even exists</font

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[thorny]

I'm sure that somewhere in this wide world is someone else who can achieve my criteria, but I don't come here searching for them. That would be as pointless as looking for a fish up a tree.

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[hollowleg]

i was attacked by catspiders and a bat-mosquito.

fish up trees are coming, mark my words

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[thorny]

And I'm certain that you'll be the first and only person to see them.

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[hollowleg]

I will take one alive

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[thorny]

Now, now, no need to get upset. Everyone here is already very aware of your delusions, there's no need to exert yourself over them.

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[hollowleg]

look, I know for a fact that you had an encounter with a mutant animal -- you talked about it on this network! So don't pretend like you don't believe me.

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[thorny]

Oh, I'm quite certain that there are several fantastical creatures skulking about this lovely wreck of a city - it's the existence of treefish that I'm questioning.

Although considering who I'm speaking with perhaps I should be questioning the veracity of any of your supposed encounters.

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[hollowleg]

no no there's a manga about this by Junji Itou. It's called "Gyo", where these weird little spider leg things attach themselves to fish and make zombie fish and that includes sharks and that's kind of what I'm picturing.

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[thorny]

And this is supposed to increase your credibility how, exactly?

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[hollowleg]

look let's not fill up the poor new guy's notebook with this. i'll find a fish up a tree and get back to you

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[thorny]

There isn't exactly anything of worth on the notebook to begin with, but if you insist on beginning your foolhardy adventures up public trees then I'm hardly going to stop you.

Do try not to fall out of too many, won't you? You can't afford to lose any more brain cells.