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HELLO

"You've reached Elysium! Lost? Need an ear? I'm your guy! I'll get back to you as soon as I can."

GOODBYE

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inventory bc i don't know where else to put this:

cursed chihuahua papers

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[tindery]

[ anyway tobari will lean back against the counter, letting his gaze rise up to the ceiling. yuma's answers... ]

... so he's actually seven?

[ don't focus on that ]

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[ Just for that, Tobari is getting pelted with a marshmallow. Do these cookies need marshmallows? No. But Elysium's been snacking on them all the same.

Don't just name his au self like that… jk. ]

I'm going to be so real with you. I think he might be.

[tindery]

[ okay he rolled a 6 so it nearly gets him in the fucking eye. annoyed: ] Don't make a mess.

[ DON'T WASTE FOOD. he'll pick it up from wherever it fell so it isn't forgotten... fallen soldier

anyway, ]

How the hell's that supposed to work?

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Haven't you seen how these places reset? It's like they go back to never having been touched at some nebulous part of the day.

[ So he says, but he is demure and mannerly and still makes sure to clean up after himself… he would've picked the marshmallow up. ]

I wish I could tell you. The more you talk to him, the more you'll just get it. All he has is his work. I asked him what he enjoys doing, and the answers were along the lines of the same: work and training.

I tried suggesting some hobbies. [ a slow roll of his shoulders. ] I'm pretty sure pushing any harder would have been counterproductive.

[tindery]

Doesn't matter.

[ stay demure and mannerly! but hm... yuma... sweet yuma and all that you've gone through... ]

It's probably something better to experience instead of just suggest in theoretical. Guys like that won't deviate unless you literally trip them into it, and then they realize an hour later they might've actually liked it.

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True, true. It's like how someone's room can tell you a lot about them. How they live doesn't necessarily affect you, but it speaks to their character all the same. But you sound experienced in dealing with these people. Or rather, I get the sense that whatever you do back home has you interacting with all kinds of people on a regular basis. Am I wrong?

But yeah, the most effective way to get him to engage with anything would be to frame it in terms of progressing his shard, I think. For better and for worse.

[tindery]

The shards are probably some of the most convincing thing for people here—no surprise, given the fact that it's what they all agreed to even be here for. So it must mean something.

[ but that question.... ]

I wouldn't say I'm much to compare to a friendly social butterfly like you.

[ tobari is well aware that he's a grouch who can be hard to approach on purpose ]

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No, but I think you're perfectly capable of nosing into someone's business and producing results when you're up for it.

[ Which… he's suspecting may be more often than this guy is willing to admit? Tobari… you checked up on him. And now you want to check up on others? You are failing step one of being a fake idgafer so bad if that's what you're trying to be. ]

We have different approaches. [ He shrugs. ] It doesn't mean one is any less effective than the other, but I have a feeling you might succeed where I can't. Or, it might just be one of those job that needs two people on totally opposite fronts.

[tindery]

[ tobari really wants to be a dgafer so bad but he's so fucking guilty about literally being unable to leave people alone

but because he is still trying, he's just going to respond immediately: ]

Don't try to drag me into some tag-team effort to be a pain in the ass to someone else.

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Too late.

[ Just says this. Ominously. ]

After hearing all that, can you really say you're fine with leaving him alone?

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Yes.

[ is it sincere? of course not. but he can larp indifference ]

I'm not someone who needs to get involved in everyone else's issues when there's enough people like you around here.

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You don't think a single guy to twenty-four others is a pretty rough statistic? Have a heart.

[tindery]

Finish the work you sign up for.

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Don't get involved next time.

[ The oven dings! ]

Pleasure working with you.