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A DRINK TO SOOTH THE SOUL
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2024-12-15 09:20:53
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A crew were taking in the sights of the new city, but were having a bit of a problem. The place was a bit boring. Everything was too organized, and it seemed that every slice of entertainment was for a cheap thrill.

The crew was seeking some actual fun.

They considered a few locations.

First off there was a cozy bar rumored to have started in one of the "stunted" buildings nearby. *

There was also a neat ruins just outside of the city, wasteland diving was always fun! (if deadly!)

Lastly there was the castle. Some folks on the team had special access into it.*

Francheska
2024-12-15 09:22:11
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"...So how do you do, fellow 'girls'(???)"
Tinny
2024-12-15 09:23:06
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"!!!!!!" Tinny gave a toothy grin. Sure, she wasn't always what people considered a "girl", but she was MORE than happy to accompany these ladies on a trip to cheap thrills!
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2024-12-15 09:23:18
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"Wwwonderful!"
"That is... Good to hear."
Daisy
2024-12-15 09:24:10
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How's she doing? Frankly, terrible, exhausted, lonely.. A whole shopping list of misfortune. But that's what this should help with! As much as the issues are urgent, Daisy knows she needs a chance to clear her head before she can actually do anything.

"Looking forward to some time to relax, that's for sure!"
"I'm happy to get a chance to relax, too! (There's so much sand in my carapace right now.)"
"So excited!!! ....But..."
"This place.... Kinda stinks."
"It does!! I thought that was the appeal!!"
"Maybe for some people, sure!! But for this girls night, we need some real fun! Real adventure!!!"
"Oh!!! Jellifluff!!! Glad to see you again!"
"Oh- Hello fellow simp!"
"You can call me Zenith, but it's awesome that you came, too!"
"Real adventure?? On the glitter or blood scale?? I can find either. I'm willing to put in the effort to make this…. Girls night…… good."
"Hopefully no blood!!! Thank you!"
Daisy
2024-12-15 09:29:15
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"Nnnnno blood."
"Maybe blood!!"
"But what's adventure without danger nipping on your heels, beating that danger with nothing but your bare hands!!"
Daisy
2024-12-15 09:30:27
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"Also glitter takes weeks to wash out of my fur."
"Hopefully we will have a wonderful time- I do also hope Priscilla here does so too."
She motions to her Meg.
"So true!! Maybe we can get into a life-threatening situation after we hang out for a little while."
"Pppppleaseno- I get into enough of those without any help."
"Alright, any suggestions, gals?? I do have a hankering for some food and I know a place, but I wanna know what the rest of you think!!"
"Food sounds really nice!! I'm starving."
"Like. Really hungry actually. I thought we would be getting some kind of decent food.
"I think, personally, the more people the better. I love a crowd, and I love food, and I love trash."
Tinny
2024-12-15 09:32:58
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"I'm a loving person. <3"
Francheska
2024-12-15 09:33:08
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"I do not have any strong opinions on where we go.."
Zenith
2024-12-15 09:33:21
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"You know a place? Where?? I've been eating generic rations for too-fucking-long."
"I think I know a place... It was more a rumor... Well, we can all find out together then!"
Daisy
2024-12-15 09:34:36
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"Sounds like an adventure!"
"Am..I allowed to feed Priscilla person food?"
"Or will that do something strange like transform her into a person?"
"No clue!!! Let's go!"
2024-12-15 09:36:12
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And with that, Jellifluff and her group set off towards the rumored bar.

"I think megs are fine eating food, so you should be fine so long as you feed her grains!
... and bugs?? Bugs too, I think."

The crew heads to a tower in town that has barely grown 5 stories tall, much smaller than any other within viewing distance.

They all head in, and are quickly hit by the smell of wine, beer, and coffee.

[ Godot ~ The Fragrance of Dark Colored Coffee - Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney Trials and Tribulations ]
2024-12-15 09:37:41
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The holy interns crowding the venue uncomfortably look at the group with a sneer, but quickly return to their drinks and conversations. They're not interested in what the crew has to sell, physically or emotionally.

The bartender on the other hand takes a bigger interest.

"Bizz boys."
"You know you aren't welcome in these parts."
"We're no boys!!"
"Hic! Y-Yeah get out interns! Hic!"
Francheska
2024-12-15 09:38:49
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"...We're girls."
"It's girls night out!"
"Bizz gals then, whatever."
Jellifluff
2024-12-15 09:39:11
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"Oh.. You're.. That guy! Bizz's coworker… Erm…"
Jellifluff struggles to remember the name.
"Zipp! Zopp?"
Daisy
2024-12-15 09:39:55
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"Frankly, I'd prefer to have absolutely nothing to do with that gameshow. At all."
"The name is Zapp. Zapp Killstar. You gonna order a drink, or just stare at my pretty face?"
Tinny
2024-12-15 09:41:30
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"…." Tinny likes staring.
"I didn't quit. I'm just taking a few days off while I wait for this shit to blow over."
"Then I'm out of here with my paycheck."
"Oh! I mean... well- good on you!"
"... Do you have drinks for Megs?"
Francheska
2024-12-15 09:42:46
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"Or do I have to resort to staring only? I cannot drink.."
"We got water, wouldn't risk anythin' else."
"Ah water. She'll have water if it's no trouble. Thank you."
Daisy
2024-12-15 09:43:48
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"Do we really need to get into all the drama of that mess? Show sucks. Stupid city sucks. All this weird, uh. Creepy turning-people-holy machine sucks."

[She pauses, looking at the holy interns around the room.]

"...sorry."

The holy interns hiss.

Jellifluff
2024-12-15 09:45:12
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"Yyyikes!"

Jellifluff backs away from where they're gathered.
"HHHEYHEY- I SAID I'M SORRY."
Francheska
2024-12-15 09:45:51
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Cheska protectively holds an arm over her Meg. Nuh-uh, not today.
"No fighting in the bar, you folks know that."
2024-12-15 09:45:27
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The holy interns shuffle and shut their mouths.

"Whooooo cares about anything! Hic! We're all trash floating in the wind, man! Hic!"
"I don't know how he got drunk."
Tinny
2024-12-15 09:46:46
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Tinny and her Numbskull extral start eating bar napkins. Wow! How tense was this scene! Tinny Loves trash!!
Jellifluff
2024-12-15 09:47:04
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"Aw, now don't say that! One man's trash is another gal's treasure! Just look at Tinny!"
Francheska
2024-12-15 09:47:17
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"I think... They need those..."
"Er, yeah, not here to intrude or anything...! Congrats on breaking away from the whole... everything. Love the atmosphere you have going here."
"I'm the trash AND the treasure!!"
Zapp
2024-12-15 09:56:11
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"Stop eatin' those napkins! You think those grow on trees?"
"Those are works of art you know!"
"Well...they used to be."
"They could also be flesh! Hic!"
"... could I get a coffee?"
Tinny
2024-12-15 09:59:31
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"!!!!!" Tinny elbows the Numbskull. They reluctantly let the napkins slide out of their maw, half gnawed.
"A…apologies?"
"Wait what- why would you turn art into something to be thrown away!?"
"I'm not even gonna touch on the flesh part."
Francheska
2024-12-15 10:03:12
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"Fellow girl Tinny, I suppose you must be hungry?"
"Starving, if you could imagine. An endless void that cares not what goes in, only that the pit be filled, which it never can be."
Tinny
2024-12-15 10:03:34
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"So yea!"
"Oh you poor sparkly girl, Do you want anything to eat off the menu?"
Zapp
2024-12-15 10:04:10
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Zapp pours a coffee and slides it over. He didn't bother asking how she'd like it. He just assumes to make something that's a slight sweet taste.
"Don't ask me why I'd make art to be thrown away. I'd never do that."
"Some folks feel differently about art."
"Art is worthless shit! Hic! Like me! Hic!"
"HA! Yeah!"
Francheska
2024-12-15 10:05:06
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"...Oh."
Curiously, Jellifluff goes over to look at some of the "napkins".
"Noooo! No no no! Everything's worth EVERYTHING! That's how it works! if everything isn't worth everything It wouldn't be here!!!!!! Nooooo!"
Daisy
2024-12-15 10:06:22
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"Art's not worthless. It's the only way some people have to speak out."
"Some folks just see art as somethin' to use. Eh. I guess art can be anythin' you want it to be. So who am I to judge if some machine wants to turn art into a city."
"Ain't no one say art is worthless."
"Actually I did, Hic!"
"He's drunk (somehow...) don't listen to him."
"...yeah fair enough."
Zenith didn't care, she didn't even know the set had coffee.
She.... she's pressing the mouth of the cup to her wrist.

Mmmm... caffeine
"In fact, this city? It's powered by art. It's the most important shit around."
"But, I don't know man. Err, gals. I don't particularly like it....like this."
"It's all very odd to me-"
Zapp
2024-12-15 10:12:09
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"Guess it's just not my type of art," Zapp shrugs with a huff.
"Yeah. It's. It feels fake."
"It's fake art. But...."
"Fake art, is still art."
"I suppose so- But I am but a lvl 0 art critic so I do not trust my opinions on it"
"Let me tell you this. Art critics are fake."
"Ah- Like giraffes... I see."
"They're just judgmental assholes who can't put what they want on the canvas, so they gotta beat up everyone else."
Tinny
2024-12-15 10:13:54
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"Art! That's a funny one! Crayons on paper, made to be worth more cause….. cause of the time spent? The soul!? What's that even mean!! Who knows! I love crayons! Papers even more! Who decided how paper works!? I love you!"
"It's strange, you'd think a place powered by art would be joyful! But…"
"It's a little, soulless."
"Ah- Like me- That is sad?"
Daisy
2024-12-15 10:15:07
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"..."

[Daisy fidgets with her bag. She feels like she's seen this before. Not here, but before.]
"I've been soulless my whole life! Hic!"
("Most people are soulless, but I ain't goin' to get into religion at a time like this....")
"Gotta say, I almost miss those stupid moments Zookeeper would hold out those stupid capsules and attract artists to draw whatever they wanted."
"Had soul in them. Now, the artists are runnin' out of ideas. Drawin' the most soulless shit they can to pay for a capsule or some other item."
"Oh... Is it money now?"
Daisy
2024-12-15 10:16:25
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Daisy sighs.
Zenith is definitely listening. Turning art into currency? People making art to survive? Yeah that's fucked. (This coffee is SO GOOD.)
"Art has always been money to some folks.....but it's been set to the extreme."
"I'm getting paid in pictures, how am I gonna feed people's art to a machine that's just goin' to rip it apart to fuel itself to make this....weird unbreakable metal?"
("Speakin' of which, that coffee costs one art.")
"I've felt the same. I've wanted to stop trying and just sing whatever makes people happy, but... I can't, at the same time. Doesn't feel like it'd even be worth the effort if. It didn't bring some kind of joy."
Zapp
2024-12-15 10:17:52
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"I feel you. Feels like all this art is to just fill the space, not give a person a thought in the world."
Zenith
2024-12-15 10:18:35
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"OH, RIGHT. Yeah, let me-" Zenith looks for art in her pockets.
Francheska
2024-12-15 10:19:05
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Cheska looks for something to draw with and on.
"Gods- godsbless. This is- art isn't a currency! That's what money is for!!! Why would you pour your heart into something, only for it to be used to get a stupid knickknack or something?"
"Shouldn't have poured your heart into shit in the first place! HAHAHAHA! HIC!"
"..."
Francheska
2024-12-15 10:20:32
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"...That was rude, Mr. Drunk."
"I agree, that's not very nice! Haven't you ever put your heart into something? Ever had all that heart paid off?"
"Let me tell you here. Art's always been money."
"Zookeeper, he's just making it more extreme."
"Honestly, I almost respect him. He's honest."
"Too honest."
"I'm honest too and no one likes me! Hic!"
Francheska
2024-12-15 10:21:34
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"I am almost a little concerned for him.."
Zenith
2024-12-15 10:21:49
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"...Shit, dude. Wanna talk about it?"
Tinny
2024-12-15 10:22:06
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Tinny never got why people spill their hearts out within a few minutes of meeting each other.
Maybe the peoples she's met have all been really damn sad.
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2024-12-15 10:22:15
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"There's nothing- HIC- to talk about! I'm just a COOOOOBRA ALL ALOOOONA IN ROCOACONAAAA"
"Just...leave the drunk robot alone."
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2024-12-15 10:24:39
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"Sure thing."

Zenith checks her pockets for art.
"Yeah. I may be biased, but people don't get that honesty isn't everything."
"Honesty and money will get you everythin' you need."
Daisy
2024-12-15 10:25:51
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Daisy bites back a snorting laugh.

"All honesty's gonna get me is closer to a grave."
"Okay..Also will this cover my friend's coffee?"
2024-12-15 10:24:21
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She slides Zapp a scrap of paper!

"Oh- Cheska- you don't have to do that...!"
Hng. Tinny is hungryyyy. They stopped eating napkins for a whole FIVE minutes.

"M,,menu. Please. What's is on it."
"Thanks, this art is sweet, it really is."
"Sad to put it into the machine later."
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2024-12-15 10:26:51
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"I hope the machine will at least think it's tasty.."
"From your art, will bloom another floor of a tower. It will be beautiful, but sad."
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2024-12-15 10:27:07
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"Hey did....did you guys know I could do this?!?!" Apollo rattles his tail.
"It didn't do this before!"
Francheska
2024-12-15 10:27:45
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Gasp!
"I did not. I know nothing about you. I wish I could do that…"
"VERY cool!"
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2024-12-15 10:28:24
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"Uh....starting to realize why he's actin' drunk now."
Francheska claps
"Oh?"
"Well, atleast I know where the screws are loose now!!"
"???"
Daisy
2024-12-15 10:30:56
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"Okay, if someone can do this, then why in the hate of the gods aren't people getting food."

Tinny is handed a menu. Instead of there being food items, there's just picture of art. The artist's name is mentioned on each one. Apparently these food items are all converted from art.

1. A picture of a crying notail.
2. Two caborhunds on canvas
3. A digital artwork of 11 lines, turned into a simple folded art piece.
4. A duck smoking a cigarette
5. Submit your own artwork to consume

Tinny
2024-12-15 10:30:08
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Choices choices.
"What will…. This get me…."
2024-12-15 10:31:58
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"Okay never mind."
"Mmm Are these things that people eat?"
"It's… its you. If you couldn't tell. I think I'm pretty good at it. I like crayons."
"I'm gonna take this, but I ain't tossin' it into the machine. This shit is mine, and the machine can take it over my dead body."
"!!!!!!"

"Oh that delights me! Thank you!"
Zenith takes a peek at the menu.
"... so we're, literally just eating art?"
"Art is turned into buildin's. Art is turned into floors. Art is turned into food. Art powers everythin'."
"Basically, that coffee I served? That was part of someone's artwork."
"It just got turned into coffee."
Zenith
2024-12-15 10:37:30
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"..."
Daisy
2024-12-15 10:37:43
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Daisy leans down to Concord and ruffles his head.

"Hey buddy, could I have a cherry? I just. I really can't get behind eating art."
"...Could I get one of these? For my Meg?"
"I tried to remember what salad looked like-"
Jellifluff looks over Tinny's shoulder to read the menu.
"Number three does sound kinda refreshing..."
"So the art........ tastes like food.... but it's paper..."
Zapp
2024-12-15 10:40:11
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Zapp sighs. "You know how you turn "money" into food? It's the same shit. Watch."

Zapp takes the picture of a salad and holds it up.

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2024-12-15 10:41:06
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"Order up, asshole."

A robotic hand comes from the wall and grabs the artwork. It disappears soon after.

Fortuna rolls a 20 sided die. A 14 is rolled.
2024-12-15 10:41:58
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It comes back, dispensing a meal of tubuchick meat with a side of salad and a glass of water.

Zapp
2024-12-15 10:42:10
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"That's how the machine works."
Francheska
2024-12-15 10:42:48
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"Oooh.."
"Makes sense...!"
She doesn't get it.
.... but she's still going to order food that tastes like food.
"That's. Something alright."
[Daisy picks up her snake and holds him close. She doesn't trust any of these buildings now!]
"Thank you kind sir."

She gives the salad to Priscilla
"I don't like it. Too fake. I like drawing. But I don't like drawing for…. Wall salad."
"I'll stick with trash!"
"..........The trash is art too. What part of "everything is art here" did you not get?"
"The shit in the trashcan used to be part of someone's art once."
"Usually I'd disagree, but that might be the better option here!!"
"BLEAUGH!!!"
"Anonymous robot arm food it is!!!"
"What will this get me?"
2024-12-15 10:45:26
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Fortuna rolls a 20 sided die. A 12 is rolled.
2024-12-15 11:37:14
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The machine takes the artwork. It returns soon after with a fluskal served up on a plate.

"... listen. If a single drawing gets me a meal in this hellscape, I'll take i-"
"FUCK."
"Is that a godsblessed fish."
"You gonna eat that, or…."
"Oh- Zenith you may have the steak.. I think that is far too raw"
"TINNY-"
"KIDDING. KIDDING."
"Unless…."
"And it's looking at me-"
"I can't eat that!!"
"............"
"... but I'll...... still take it."
"I still haven't eaten anything......."
Francheska
2024-12-15 11:41:20
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Francheska holds out the tubuchick steak to her fellow girls in crime-
.... Zenith accepts the tubuchick.
"I remember we're supposed to tip people so I suppose you may also have this."
2024-12-15 11:42:34
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"Thanks for the art sweetie. I won't let any dumb machine eat this one."
"Ooon second thoughts. Hey, Concord... cherry for the fish? I'm not sure how that poor thing is eating in the walls."
"The. Machine. Produces. Shit. From. Art."
"That man was just born."
Francheska
2024-12-15 11:44:43
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"A BABY!"
"Aww!! Happy birthday, Lunch!"
"Oh no!!! We didn't even get to have a baby shower!!!"
2024-12-15 11:46:17
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"NO. HAHA NO NO NO. DON'T LIKE THAT NO NO HAHA NO."

The fluskal accepts the cherry anyway.

Fortuna rolls a 20 sided die. A 16 is rolled.
2024-12-15 11:46:00
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It likes it quite a bit!

"Life from nothing! Nothing from art! Oh, horrid!!"
Francheska
2024-12-15 11:47:09
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"...I think it's a little neat if not weird.."
"Anythin' you can buy with money, you can buy, or well, create with art."
"Lllooook. I. I guess there's some things that are good about this but I draw the fucking line at playing gods with this machine. This is. It's weird!!!!"
"Feed the machine, why don't you. Where are you getting this paper from. You didn't even offer me any to eat and I'm hungry. You have paper and I'm such a hungry little guy. This is so sad I'm crying I'm weeping."

They say all of this in a deadpan manner. They are not crying nor weeping. Just staring.
"I am so so sorry fellow girl- What do you want to eat?"
".... do you want some of my paper?"
"PAPER. WAX. THE ELEMENTS REAL. GIVE ME THE PHYSICAL! AAAAUGH!"
"Papers, please!"

Zenith hands Tinny a piece of paper.

Paper shredder noises.
"... nice."
Daisy
2024-12-15 11:50:27
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"Good snake, thank you!"

Daisy looks at the fluskal again, and then the rest of the crew.

"Does anyone. Uh. Want a fish????"
"I would offer to take it but. I think you would object on…" she makes air quotes. "Moral grounds."
"...Would the fish be a good friend for Priscilla?"
"Sure! I'm fine with it being raw, too!"
"Fish are great friends, probably!"
"Probably?"
Tinny
2024-12-15 11:51:32
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"Hear that folks? The lady wants the boy raw! C'mere lunch, you remain unroasted!" Tinny makes large arm gestures towards Jellifluff. To her, creature! To her!!
"curse the gods I'm not letting you all eat a baby fish"
"Not again-"
"Pspsps fishie!!!"
"Don't worry y'all! Raw means alive!! We're all raw versions of ourselves!! Until we make the effort!"
"Okay then."
"...Effort to become cooked?"
"Yeah. I mean, otherwise, you're just gonna be raw. Which is fine. Unless you wanna be cooked. Then it's not????"
"I don't formulate sentences right! Don't trust me!"
"... I think we're alright not being cooked right now."
"...Cooked means dead? So does that mean that one screaming man on that show was angry about the food being alive?"
"Yeah, I don't really know what's being said, I just really want this fish right now!!!"
"Pretend I never spoke! Who's getting cooked?? Not you! It shouldn't matter! FISH! NOW!!!!"

Her grin! Does not! Falter!
"If you eat the baby please tell me so I can cover Priscilla's eyes and look away"
Zenith
2024-12-15 11:54:31
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"...Can I get the fish's sibling with this?"
2024-12-15 11:54:53
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Last edit: 2024-12-22 13:09:49
Zenith rolls a 20 sided die. A 5 is rolled.

The machine takes the artwork and delivers a slightly burnt piece of fluskal.

"Cooked at birth."
"...."
2024-12-15 11:56:23
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"......."
"What the fuck."
"Dibs. Dibs dibs dibs. I don't care if it came out of the wall it's CHARRED."
"I'm so sorry for your lost lunch baby"
Zenith
2024-12-15 11:57:06
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Last edit: 2025-11-17 05:19:53
"...All yours, buddy."
"Sleep well, Dinner! May you find peace, if you were ever conscious enough to have the concept of it!"
Ah nomnomnomnomnom
Daisy
2024-12-15 11:57:59
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Last edit: 2025-11-17 05:20:15
Daisy attempts to pick up the living fluskal. She trusts this building less every second.
"Sure is. A shame. This machine could be used for good. But who can tame a wild tiger? More likely to get fed into the machine........"

Zapp looks at the holy interns.

"Than survive...."
"Maybe I could get something for the poor baby- It just lost a sibling-"
2024-12-15 12:01:05
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Francheska rolls a 20 sided die. A 20 is rolled.

The machine takes the artwork, then comes out with a whole tallgoat. It has to lay down just to fit in the building.

The ground shakes.

"OH!!!"
"New tower."
"Just from that piece of art..."
"THAT WAS SO COOL."
Tinny
2024-12-15 12:03:43
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"Ehhehe… heh…. Who uh. Who ordered breakfast over here, and why is he bringing cataclysms. I don't like it." Tinny presses himself against the doorframe. Earthquake alert.
"Art is a powerful thin'."
"The machine is cool."
"Just......"
"It ain't makin' us do anythin'."
"But I see it in your eyes. You want to feed the machine more art."
"How many animals can I get it to pop out?"
"That's how it starts."
"You need it. You want it. You gotta have it."
Daisy
2024-12-15 12:06:03
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Last edit: 2025-11-17 05:22:04
Daisy wrings the strap on her bag. She's seen this. All of this.
Well, she hasn't seen it, but she's had this same story told to her. And it doesn't have so happy of an ending.
"It's a powerful tool, but power never ends well."
Francheska
2024-12-15 12:06:14
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Last edit: 2025-11-17 05:22:24
"...I wanted it to give the baby something. But I think this goat is cute.."
"You want to feed it some more?"
Zenith
2024-12-15 12:06:54
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Last edit: 2025-11-17 05:22:49
"Yeah, not gonna lie. But then your voice got all freaky. I'll cool my jets."
"Can't stop what you want to do."
"But you keep feeding art into the machine, you'll lose yourself....."
"Guys. Please."
"I really don't think any of this is a good idea."
"....I am satisfied at the moment."
"Strange how....an anomalous machine ain't even changing your head."
"Just a simple machine. It's us who feeds it, it just pays the bills."
"Thanks for the art crash-course. Machine-feeding time is over."
"…"

"Playing god is too good! Nope! Nope! Girls night out! The night is OUT! Let's go Karaoke. Please. Girls… girls just wanna have fun; right?"
"Thank you very much for your service Mr.Zapp Killstar."
"Anyway! I think you deserve a tip, too!"
2024-12-15 12:12:58
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It's Zapp!

"It... It really is tempting, huh? Just some art... That's all it needs."
Francheska
2024-12-15 12:13:22
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Last edit: 2025-11-17 05:24:00
"...........Fellow girl, your tone worries me"

As Zapp grabs the tip the machine tries to take it away.

"Aye! Ain't yours, back off!"

The machine retracts its hand.

"That all you folks want? Cause if you don't mind, I got a robot to fix."
Apollo is on a table rattling his tail at a horde of holy interns who pat him, as if trying to understand his motives for existing.
Cheska nods her head "I wish you luck on repairing Mr.Screwloose"
"The machine's offering us more than my employer does! I can see why it's tempting... but I can hold off for a while."
"This has frankly opened up more questions than answers for me, but I'm not one to overstay my welcome."
Tinny glances at Apollo.

They give a quiet "get home safe" to him as she looks at the rest of the girls. Time to go?
"By the way, if Bizz asks about me tell him......"
"Nevermind."
"See you folks later."
"Tell him "nevermind, see you folks later!" Got it!"
Francheska
2024-12-15 12:16:23
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Last edit: 2025-11-17 05:24:50
Tell him 'Nevermind'. Got it, thank you again."
"Aw, alright. I hope things work out between you two!!"
Daisy
2024-12-15 12:16:54
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Last edit: 2025-11-17 05:25:11
Daisy bows her head. "Thank you for your time. I'll likely be around in the area a bit longer. I don't really intend on going back to the... set, I guess."
"A shame. It was nice meeting you, ah, Zapp! Zapp Killstar."
"Thanks for letting us stare at your pretty face."
"Anytime."
GIRL'S NIGHT COMPLETE
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