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[changeitroundsome]

[31st - Open spam in the pub]

[Facilier knew it was only a matter of time before he got himself a permanent Warden. He'd done well to get this far, he supposed, at least it had given him time to stockpile gris gris in the unlikely event he'd ever get his powers back proper again. It wasn't that he especially disliked Kira, either, she rankled him no more than any other average shmuck on the street, and at least she tried to be tolerable.

No, what worried him the most was that now she has his file. His whole life, there for her to read and digest. For a man who lived by his lies, for whom the truth was something never truly spoken, where the con was everything, this was decidedly Not Good. Everything he built so far here could come tumbling down like a house of cards, and there was nothing he could do to stop it. It was almost like being home again, having other people be able to hold power over him, and he hated hit.

So, when any other poor soul of prohibition would be enjoying the first new years in a lot of new years getting as sozzled as humanly possible, Facilier spent the night with just one glass of wine, thinking. As tempting as the idea was to get hammered, he'd need sobriety for this. If he could just find some way, any way, to work this colossal pain in the backside to his advantage, he might make this a somewhat bearable partnership.

He'll be civil to anyone who comes by to see him, but his usual charisma is dimmed. ]

[1st - Private to Kira]

[After a restless night, Facilier knows he has to bite the bullet. If he stays silent too long, his guilt will be damning. Best get this out and done with quickly, like ripping off a band aid. When he talks, the ease and charm is back in his tone. He needs to bring his A game to this.]

So. Looks like the Admiral decided we'd be a good fit for one another after all.

Comments

[changeitroundsome]

And ya'll have the free will to decide that. Folks need to remember those things.

[maced_eggs]

Tell that to me warden.

[changeitroundsome]

Because the sobriety thing ain't enough?

[maced_eggs]

Got to be honest, hardworking. Hold down a steady job, they don't generally keep you on payroll when you smell like a sewer.

[changeitroundsome]

Seems like an awful lot to ask you to change about yourself.

[maced_eggs]

Not much different from reaping, technic'ly.

[changeitroundsome]

You got to be honest to be a reaper?

[maced_eggs]

No. Quite the opposite, actually. We're very duplicitous.

[changeitroundsome]

Good to know, I wouldn't want all the cards on the table, that much, if it was me.

[maced_eggs]

You ought to see us try an' trick the recently dead into going to their great reward. You can't force 'em. They have to go on their own. Makes for a lot of tedium unless you lie.

[changeitroundsome]

Not too keen to leave the earthly realm, I take it?

[A pause, then, carefully: ]

Do they all go on to a reward? Don't some of them go to somethin'...I duunno, nastier?

[This isn't a personal question at all, nope.]

[maced_eggs]

...I dunno. It all tends to look the same after a while. But I haven't seen too many bad places.

[changeitroundsome]

But there are bad places? They exist?

[maced_eggs]

I've seen bad things happen to people who've died. But it's not necessarily been a place. More like a state of being.

[changeitroundsome]

So it's more...their own heads?

[maced_eggs]

It's more...they're turned into something.

[changeitroundsome]

...Well, that's grim. [At least he stayed human. Squishier and more fun to torture that way, he expects.]

[maced_eggs]

I hope never to see something like that again in me lifetime.

[changeitroundsome]

Can't blame you, on that one.

[maced_eggs]

The Barge isn't so bad. I mean. So far as afterlives go.

[changeitroundsome]

I guess not. Least we can still walk around, mostly as we like.

[maced_eggs]

What, you mean as opposed to being chained down or something?

[changeitroundsome]

As opposed to bein' locked in a cell. That's how prisons work, right? That or bein' stuck to a chain gang, so yes, sometimes literally bein' chained down.

[maced_eggs]

Sounds bloody awful. You ever been on one?

[changeitroundsome]

They'd have to catch me, first.