SLUMBER PARTYYYYYYYY

[stormsoff]

OKAY YALL JUST TOSS UP A TOP LEVEL WITH WHAT YOUR CHARACTER IS DOING DURING THIS LIBRARY JAMBOREE AND GO NUTS! THREADJACK YOUR HEARTS OUT. Remember that you can PC during the PC if you want a one-on-one convo!

LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOO

Comments

[burningrescue]

Yeah, but I'm not aiming to actually hurt Lio, or anyone. Just trying to sort some things out that need to get sorted.

[stormsoff]

How is fighting sorting anything out? Every fight just starts more fights! How do you not get this? What part of "knock it off" do you not understand?!

[burningrescue]

Hmm. I think this is the kind of thing you'll understand when you're older. Some things can't be resolved with only talking. Sometimes you need to show how passionate you are with your fists.

[He seems. Serious about this? Okay.]

It's between me and Lio.

[madburnout]

[bro i am like right here still]

Shut up and stop spewing nonsense for once, bastard!

1/2

[stormsoff]

LIO. [ isaac snaps his name, and there's some real venom there. ]

[stormsoff]

[ Isaac takes a deep breath, but despite himself his lungs are shivering with the force of his anger, all the adrenaline still pumping in his veins

to Galo: ]

Look, if it's something between the two of you I don't care. But you need to recognize that you're hurting everyone else acting like this! Can't you at least consider the rest of us?!

[burningrescue]

[Screwing up his face, like he's a kid getting scolded and resents it.]

I'm not hurting anybody else. But fine. If that's how it's gotta be...

[stormsoff]

You will if you keep doing this, dude. You need to realize that.

[ A HUGE SIGH. ] That's all I'm asking. Thank you.

[burningrescue]

[Sulky! At being yelled at by a kid! Going back to his cool firefighter books that he can't even read.]

[madburnout]

[ Lio’s instinct to a scolding is to yell back, but, it’s Isaac and he doesn’t actually feel like blowing hot fire in his face. Also screwing up his face like a kid, but he raises his hands in a “i’m done” gesture, climbing off of Galo. ]

[stormsoff]

[ praise jesus. somewhat tiredly ]

Thank you, Lio.

[madburnout]

[yea yea youre welcome he'll just be off back to sitting in front of the fire. at least he seems much calmer now?]

[stormsoff]

[ ............................ jeez.

Eventually Isaac will join him, hobbling over with his pool cue (wherever that went during all the excitement) and leveraging himself to sit beside the other. ]

You ok?

[madburnout]

None of my bones are broken.

[Not that he would feel if they weren't. Also, he gets that Isaac is asking, like, emotionally, but he doesn't know how to answer that one.]

[stormsoff]

... not what I meant, dude, [ he murmurs, but he has this feeling Lio knows. So he'll just sigh. ]

Well, good. It's good things never got that far.

... what's the deal, Lio? With you and that guy.

[madburnout]

[He's probably still hanging around, but, y'know what, it's fine, he'll shit on him here.]

He is a loyal dog of Kray Foresight. Foresight is a monster, who jails the Burnish and uses them for his experiments. He holds them as prisoners now, while I am stuck here. Useless. I will make him, and anyone like Thymos who stands in my way, pay for it. I do not want his help. Thymos is ignorant, but I thought -- [He pauses again, stopping short.] He pisses me off.

[stormsoff]

[ Isaac listens quietly, because there's obviously a story here, and Lio is

his friend,

so.

He'll stay quiet even after the other finishes, pensive. ]

... I mean, I'm not gonna claim I understand everything about what you just said, but it sounds like you've got a good reason to be mad. I don't blame you for that at all, dude. I ... I know how it is, feeling useless being stuck here, unable to help...

[ His gaze drifts to the fire, but he'll shake his head and look at Lio again. ]

Like I said earlier, I'm not gonna get between whatever you guys have going on. But you gotta understand why I don't want either of you to get hurt, right?

[madburnout]

[Wow! If only Lio understood the concept of friendship. He's doing his best. In the best display of friendship he knows how to do, listening and not being a huge shit when someone expresses a single concern about him being hurt. He just sets his jaw and nods, once, in understanding.]

I always have good reason to be mad.

[Do you, Lio. He does seem much calmer than earlier though. Getting out the Fight Juice has lessened the most impulsive of his behavior right now. He will probably be Feelin' all this the instant he has that sensation back though, so, that'll be fun for everyone.]

And I don't intend to hurt him. He-- [He doesn't know how to phrase "He was right about something."] There are things that cannot always be said with words.

[stormsoff]

... yeah, but being mad isn't always a good reason to pick fights.

[ there's a fairly subdued tone to his voice when he says that. ]

I know you two think you need to talk with your fists or whatever but ... violence just begets more violence, and it never solves anything.

[ that's the voice of experience talking. ]