[network] Event: Lavender's Green, Part One; Morning 192 [open]

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[mrcreamsicles]

for now isnt all that comforting

[awwnoun]

No, it's not, but it's something. And listen, if I can, if there's anything that's in my power to do here, I'm not gonna let anything bad happen to you.

[mrcreamsicles]

[For Clint, at the least, he holds back the snap he wants to give.]

its a nice thought
but were all stuck separate from each other so i dont think theres much

[awwnoun]

You never know. [ If there's something he can do in here, something that he can trade or press a lever or whatever - he'll do it. Nobody else is going to get hurt. ]

You wanna come on audio?

[mrcreamsicles]

no
id ask you to swap to text if i didnt know about your hands hurting
the noises outside are bad enough without trying to talk over them

[awwnoun]

[ Sigh. He switches from audio to voice-to-text. ]

Here, this should help
Unless you want to hear my voice, but I won't kid myself and say that's better than listening to the assholes banging their heads against the walls

[mrcreamsicles]

youre not actually typing that out are you
dont hurt yourself for my sake

[awwnoun]

No, I'm voice to texting
It's fine, DS

We're gonna find a way out of this.
At least we can talk to each other.

[mrcreamsicles]

[There is a good pause before he answers again.]

i know youre trying to help by saying that but its not really working
optimism is basically als whole deal and he couldnt get it into me either

[awwnoun]

Okay well
Would you rather I tell you it's gonna be okay
Or tell you to stop being a brat

I'm scared too, man.

[mrcreamsicles]

clint im trying to be nice here
ive snapped a ton at everyone else ive talked to
i know youre scared
im just tired and trying to not take it out on you

[awwnoun]

Don't worry about being nice to me, then, be nice to everybody else. They're panicking. Fighting's not gonna help.

If you're quiet the noises aren't quite as bad
If you wanna talk about stuff to keep your mind off this until we can get out, we can

[mrcreamsicles]

[He'll stop when they quit bugging him about things he doesn't want to talk about, or projecting issues at him like Steph did. Not that he's much better.]

tell me about the place you lived before this

[awwnoun]

I lived in this apartment in Brooklyn. It's a really nice place, actually, and the neighbors are all great. We had this

[ He stops, and the message stops for a second. It's okay. He just... he's just remembering Gil. ]

Thing we'd do, I guess. Everybody would come up to the roof and we'd hang out and talk, and this guy we called Grills, he was a good man, would make burgers and stuff for us all, and it was kind of like a potluck once a week. There's some good people in that building. Real good. We had to defend ourselves from the track suit Draculas here and there but we kicked their asses all together.

[mrcreamsicles]

[That... actually sounds nice. They never had anything like that on the roof of the apartment building he lived in.]

youre going to need to explain track suit draculas to me
are you telling me your apartment was literally under siege by a bunch of fashion challenged vampires

[awwnoun]

Ha no they're regular guys
Mafia, Russian or Ukrainian I think
They wanted to own the building for drug stuff so they raised the rent and tried to get everybody to futz off but I didn't let them
I bought the building from them and got their leader deported and he wasn't exactly happy about it

[mrcreamsicles]

but did they actually all wear track suits
i need to know these vital details

[awwnoun]

Yep
All of them
They were brown with yellow stripes it was awful

[mrcreamsicles]

no wonder you guys kicked their asses
all that ugly and i bet not even one of them had a sense of irony about it
you did new york a service that day

[awwnoun]

Nope not a single drop of irony
But yeah we kicked em out
Not without... losses, but we did it
They're all such good people, I'm glad I know them

[mrcreamsicles]

it sounds nice
we didnt have that back in houston
didnt really know the neighbors
they lived downstairs and did their own thing
the roof was just for training
then sburb equipment
then a bunch more construction since sburb is about building your house up huge

[awwnoun]

If you ever get the chance to come visit then you can come up and hang out with everybody
I think we're probably weird in having everybody know each other
Most people in New York don't pay much attention to each other

[mrcreamsicles]

never been so i wouldnt know
rose lived up there but just in the state not the city
she was out in the fucking woods with her house parked on a waterfall

[awwnoun]

Parked on a waterfall, what?

[mrcreamsicles]

her house
it was built on top of it
so that the water went under it and came out a waterfall on the other side
happened in the game too because her land was full of rain and oceans and junk in bright ass blind yourself iridescent colors