just this once, everybody lives!

[sageprincess]

Characters: Everyone.
Setting: Anywhere.
Format: Party style.
Summary: Post-Ex Machina catch-all mingle.
Warnings: See individual threads.

[After a long, drawn out battle, the infiltration team returns to the residential portion of the Tower, weary, battered... but victorious. Some catching up is in order.]

Comments

[doctor_dismemberment]

[For a moment, Richtofen doesn't seem to understand he's being mocked. He blinks, opens his eyes wide, and leans in as if Reno is just speaking a language he has to try a little harder to understand. But then the displeased yelling inside his head startles him, and he leans back with a yelp.]

Ahh! Quiet! [He lifts his hands and grabs at his head, displacing his cap.] Go-- Stop-- Tell me the truth! Your face makes me sick.

[That last part was not strictly necessary for him to say, but he's rather incapable of keeping his observations to himself at this point. At least he'd try to focus on the topic at hand and not his seething hatred for everyone else when he was grasping for information before, but now he can't control himself. It'd worry him more if his thoughts weren't so scrambled by the incessant screaming in his brain.]

[midgarhorizon]

[Yeah, that's just a little disturbing. A little. If it weren't, he might have laughed because Richtofen looked so earnest trying to understand at first.]

Yeah yeah yeah, yours ain't pretty, either. Hearing voices, Richtofen? Can't say I'm really surprised. You sound like you're running against Ruana for most crazy bitch in here.

[Folding his arms, Reno holds off for another moment before shrugging. It's not like he couldn't find out anyway from someone else.]

Mission successful. We got the job done but Riki threw a whole bunch of his traps at us. I'm kinda surprised you didn't go down, you never seemed like the type to just leave it to us idiots.

[Reno pauses, with a calculating look-over of the man, and smirks.]

[doctor_dismemberment]

Who told you about them?! [Richtofen looks honestly surprised. He doesn't even make an attempt to deny it or change the subject, no matter how transparent his attempts to do so in the past always were.] Did they tell you? Can you hear them?

[A beat. They're supposed to be talking about something else, right? Riki. Yes, that's it. Reno answered his question! Praise be.]

Oh, good! Goodie goodie! [He lets out an uneven laugh.] Did anyone die? I was busy. I would have liked to see it, but there is much to do up here, you know!

[Like wander around in a daze and hunt monsters that don't exist anymore. And watch the countdown for hours at a time. Tick tick tick tick tick tick tick.]

But did they? Did they die? Haha!