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[applebough]

[ Right. That makes sense. Yuri looks around again and wonders while her hunger goes into a different category... ]

Have you dealt with an actual vampire before?

[roseoftexas]

[ doth she hunger for teen girl vampire lit of the 2000s? ]

Nope. They're not real back home.

[applebough]

[ I think she should read the twilight series as a treat. or watch the movies ]

Oh. That's probably a good thing... one less thing to worry about. I never personally dealt with one, but the way my coworkers described it didn't sound very... pleasing.

[roseoftexas]

[ you've said that and now you have trapped yourself in a contract with me to accidentally get them watching twilight in the rec room. butt dial a movie. ]

Wait, you actually have them in your city?

[applebough]

[ you think i wont but i watched enough njsj watchalongs for it ]

It was one of the subjects that my company had to look after for energy harvesting purposes.

[ nosferatu was technically unused for lobcorp, but i'm doing it anyway ]

I wouldn't say that they're common, though there were more cannibals than vampires.

[roseoftexas]

[ it's time. tw*light time. ]

Energy harvesting from vampires?

[ that's... new.


and then she mentions cannibals and he just Looks at her like. girl??? ]

[applebough]

It was from any abnormality...

[ She turns to look at Shu looking at her like. What??? ]

... Is something wrong?

[roseoftexas]

Cannibals.

[ he'll... go back to the abnormality thing in a second. ]

[applebough]

... Yes? There was a backstreet district full of them.

1/2

[roseoftexas]

[ huh ]

[roseoftexas]

And that's just... normal. In your City?

[applebough]

... Yes. They're known to have restaurants full of delicacies, but it's heavily implied that they're made from human meat. It's normal to an extent. I don't eat human flesh...

[roseoftexas]

[ ........... ]

I hate that I can't say that doesn't happen where I'm from-- but not to the point that someone would open restaurants with an open enough rumour that the meat was human. It'd be a locked down secret if there was.

[applebough]

There are particular chefs that were trying to discover new flavors and such... and thus, human meat cuisine.

[ That's how she knew of it, anyway. ]

... Rodya pointed this out, but we don't have a law that prosecutes people for murder.

[roseoftexas]

...

That sounds like someone taking a passion a bit too far.

[ oh. ]

You don't?

[applebough]

[ Yuri has a small, wry smile. ]

People will do anything for their passion, as long as they can make it come true. There are notable ambitious people.

And we really don't. I thought the Eudora crew were being merciful when they sent Blade to the brig.

[roseoftexas]

There's always people that take a goal or passion too far. [ still. somehow eating people makes him go ?! the most. ]

You thought they'd just off him, like-- [ he snaps his fingers. ]? Seems like they follow the kinda of rules we have back home. Killing someone's against the law. It doesn't stop people, but there are consequences for it.

[applebough]

[ Yuri nods. ]

There really aren't any consequences for it back in The City apart from assessing your threat level...

[ The City sucks!!! ]

[roseoftexas]

Threat level.

[ the city sucks!!! ]

You kill someone and they go "oh well now you're 20% more of a threat than before" and that's that?

[applebough]

Only if they're a well-known figure or if the person they kill is in an authoritative position.

[ Otherwise, go wild? Kill all the people you want. ]

[roseoftexas]

...



[ ...... ]

No wonder you were eager to stick around for another tour.

[applebough]

Mm... there were janitors for that purpose specifically as well.

[ 📣 THE CITY SUCKS ]

I would say that it's a part of it, yes.

[roseoftexas]

[ thinks about the warp train with a far away traumatised gaze. ]

... You still feel that way?

[applebough]

... Scien offered to hire me as a research assistant. He told me to go to his home world where there would be another Scien there. After providing certain proof, I would be able to work there with lodging.

[ ... ]

I still have seven weeks to consider it, I suppose... but I will definitely not return to The City.

[roseoftexas]

[ he blinks at the "and there would be another Scien" like how many of this man are there. ]

Seven weeks is plenty of time to decide what you want to do. You already know you're not going back, so that's the biggest part out the way.

Then it's just considering if you want to do research, or try something else.