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CLOWN PRINCE

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CHARACTER NAME

CALLISTO REGULUS

CIVILIAN NAME

CEDRICK PORTER

TEAM

BRIMSTONE

HOUSING NUMBER

016

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Comments

@ typhoon

[photosympathies]

what do you call a knight who’s afraid to fight?
sir render!

( Sorry, Callisto. This is happening. )

1/2

[uncourteous]

[ vash...


you truly have not learned, he sees. ]

[uncourteous]

-2 points.

Compared to your grand total of -5 for your last attempt, it does appear you are improving. But clearly not enough for you to keep trying.

1/2

[photosympathies]

oh c'mon!!! i even tailored it to things you knew!!!
but wait wait, i have more.

[photosympathies]

how do princes like their jokes?
in jest.

[uncourteous]

[ he supposes he did cater it to what he knew of him…

… and admittedly, he does see the irony in the latter. ]

You do realize jesters tend to avoid looping royals into their jokes. After all, it could easily be misconstrued as an attempt to make a mockery of the crown. What do you think of this?

[ is he joking or serious, it’s very hard to tell through text.

but as if to make it clear, he adds a: ] The best I can do it start you off on a 0.

[photosympathies]

an 0.
okay. i can work with that.

and if not cowboys or royalty what do you want jokes about? i'm an easy guy, i can tailor.

[uncourteous]

Is that not for you to figure out?

I thought they mostly focused on common life topics, or gossip from foreign kingdoms?

[photosympathies]

oh.
i don't know any foreign kingdoms.
but common life topics!!
uhhh.
we gotta have some, right?

[uncourteous]

I would hope so. You are living a life, are you not?

[photosympathies]

okay.
hmmm.
do u know baseball?

[uncourteous]

According to the mind library, it appears to be a type of sport?

If it's sport, I would prefer hunting.

[photosympathies]

i've been hunted for sport does that count?

[uncourteous]

If that was part of your attempt, congratulations. I did find that a bit funny.

[ lol. ]

I'm more curious on how you found yourself as prey, however.

[ ????? vash??? ]

[photosympathies]

listen, sometimes you get hit over the head when you're having a drink and you find yourself out in the desert with no pants and no weapons and there are some guys in trucks chasing you.

( Did he put himself deliberately in harm's way? Absolutely. They never went after anyone again so. )

[uncourteous]

The fact that you could consider this remotely normal is ... admittedly, astounding. Hearing this, I am more surprised to hear you are alive and well.

Is this all from one mistaken identity?

[ is that what he said? ]

[photosympathies]

nah.
not that time.
they were just real weirdos with a sick sense of fun, i guess.
they did it to people before me.

[uncourteous]

You have terrible luck. Or perhaps, it stems from your overly trusting nature.

Is it that the land you come from that's the issue?

[photosympathies]

maybe a little of both? either way they didn't do it again so it worked out.

i guess. lot of hungry people on no man's land. lot of desperation. people do strange stuff to survive.

[uncourteous]

Men will do anything upon desperate times. There's no telling how far they go to survive. ... It's almost as if they believe their lives to truly be that worthy.

Why does it sound as if you've forgiven them?

[ surely that can't be the case.... can it??? ]

[photosympathies]

...

it's not the worst thing that's ever happened to me? and they're in prison now. i made sure everyone else got justice.

[uncourteous]

[ vash!!! ]

That is hardly the point. Your foolishness truly knows no bounds, it seems. Not even I could have predicted you would be this careless. Keep this up and you won't have any such forgiveness left in you. After all, corpses have no capacity to forgive, nor feel anything else but the cold soil.

[photosympathies]

you know that almost sounds like you care! maybe i'm winning you over after all.

i haven't met anyone i can't forgive yet though. people usually have their reasons. nobody's cruel for the sake of it.

[uncourteous]

I am merely offering advice as your crown prince.

So you are implying it is fine for those to be cruel as long as they have an excuse to do so? Isn't that rather backwards?

[photosympathies]

i didn't say it was fine. i'd prefer people weren't. it's really hard to try and get everyone to realise we shouldn't be tearing chunks from each other. but there's not a lot of sympathy in the desert. sometimes people are desperate for it.