03 | I apologize

[alephbet]

Characters: Aleph, you, and special guest Mara!
Setting: Any floor of the tower. Any.
Format: Starting with action brackets, will match anything.
Summary: Aleph lets his demons out and about sometimes. This includes Mara.
Warnings: Mara is a giant green penis in a chariot.

[During your stay in the tower, while going about your daily business, you run into this. It nods its... head... in acknowledgement of your presence.

What do you do.]

Comments

[alephbet]

Yeah.

But it still gets old.

[skullphones]

...Guess it does.

Everyone must rag on you all the time because you're the [jazz hands] Savior, huh?

[That's reputation he doesn't tend to think about. The reputation of being a responsible adult who has to care for others... Beat wants no part in that, thank you very much.]

[alephbet]

Right. If there's anything I like about the tower, it's how everyone else treats me.

[skullphones]

Like a nobody. Yeah.

[He stuffs his hands in his pockets. That seems to be the default response whenever he's forced to do more thinking than he anticipated today.]

[alephbet]

It's an improvement. [Shrug.] I didn't get your name?

[skullphones]

Beat. 'S Beat.

[alephbet]

Mine's Aleph. Nice to meet you.

[skullphones]

You too. [And have a hand to shake.]

[alephbet]

[Shake!]

Strange way to meet someone.

[skullphones]

What, complaining about a giant dick monster? I'll say, but you kinda have to expect the unexpected 'round this place.

[alephbet]

That's what I hear.

[skullphones]

Mhm. You know I got jumped by zombies my first week?

[alephbet]

How'd you do against them?

[skullphones]

I took 'em out eventually.

[He had no weapons and an idiotic hero-complexed kid to look after, so he ran.]

[alephbet]

Congratulations.

[Aleph believes him.]

[skullphones]

Why thank you.

[SUCCESS]

How about you? Got any good monster stories that, uh, don't involve Greenie over here?

[alephbet]

Name a god up to and including the big one, I've probably run into them at least once.

[skullphones]

I didn't mean in magic dick-demon land where you come from. That's cheating.

[All he can claim in that department, too, is that he met a psychopath with a god complex. Though the psychopath in question did do a good job of turning into a giant white cat monster with like three different types of halos, so it's kind of the same.]

[alephbet]

Oh. Then not a lot, sorry.

[skullphones]

Yeah. I guess whatever you find here is kind of lame in comparison to 'every god, ever'.

[alephbet]

It's still worth taking seriously, just not worth panicking over.

[skullphones]

Yeah. Get too scared of an enemy, any enemy, and you're good as dead.

[alephbet]

That's true anywhere you go. Well, anywhere I've been. [What is a non-dangerous world like?]

[skullphones]

Yeah. Some people just have it way too easy. [Beat wouldn't know -- he hasn't lived in one for eight years.]

[alephbet]

I don't mind if people get to live peaceful lives. I just wouldn't know what to do with myself in one.