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[mrsklover]

[The message starts off with nothing but darkness for a few long seconds. It's quiet and still until, finally, a groan comes through. Another one follows behind it and the video shifts to show it apparently just pressed into the dirt.]

Fuck...

[The video turns again, whipping around as the person holding the comm seems to drop it a few times before finally righting it, camera facing the wrong way.]

How does...fucking... Shit...

[It falls again but then is lifted back up, turned around, and at long last the owner is shown: Richie Tozier squints at the device almost like he's in pain. Which...yeah. Sort of.]

Uh... Hey everyone... [He scratches his head.] You ever get the feeling like you missed something? Or a few somethings?

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[plate_builder]

Exactleh wha Ah think he needs.

[Mini, who had of course spoken, nodded at Richie in approval.]

Don't give him more allies. I do my best, and I like being busy. It's better than... feeling useles.

[mrsklover]

Wow, you're just doing the therapist's work for them, aren't you?

[ Richie gives Mini a little thumbs up. ]

I'll tell you the plan, Mini. We'll get him out and and about. He can't fight us both.

[plate_builder]

[Reeve rolls his eyes. Richie, he does not have time for therapy, thank you very much.]

Wonderful. Teamed up against. And with Mini and York now getting along it's only going to be worse.

[mrsklover]

Excuse you: Mini, York, and me. You're fucking doomed, dude.

[ Richie beams and gives Reeve a nice punch in the arm. This is gonna be fun, he can tell already. ]

Maybe I can recruit Eddie, too. You met him? Great kid. Reminds me of me at his age.

[plate_builder]

[Reeve sighs.]

This is going to be like when Stephanie and Brigitte chose to adopt me, isn't it?

[The girls had insisted on coming over to his place in the Iteration to make sure he wasn't working all day, to give him meals, to chide him off to bed.]

[mrsklover]

Who and who? Is this part of the orgy that definitely didn't happen?

[ Richie wiggles his eyebrows, clearly never going to give this up. Not when it is so entertaining. ]

[plate_builder]

[Reeve cringed at the very idea.]

More like they adopted me as a foolish uncle. Dear lord I would never see them like that.

[mrsklover]

My mistake, my mistake.

[ He pauses a second and then smiles. ]

But there was totally an orgy. Or almost-orgy. I'd bet my glasses.

[plate_builder]

[Reeve actually looks a bit green at the suggestion.]

Absolutely not. If Alistair and Di Vinci had asked I would have, but not the girls. They were family.

[mrsklover]

[ Richie barks a laugh ]

FINALLY! I knew you could let loose and have fun. Now. Di Vinci... Are we talking about the painter, the turtle, or something else?

[plate_builder]

He was an inventor from a place called Florence I believe. Very charming. He ended up very enamored with my friend Alistair.

[But this is ancient history Richie!]

[mrsklover]

That...uh. Yeah that sounds like Leonardo. But in your universe I guess he was a twink.

[ Richie pauses and thinks a second, face scrunched as something hits him. ]

Huh. Did you notice that like. The percentage of gay people here and whatever is super way high? I'm kind of jealous my universe isn't like that.

[plate_builder]

Twink?

[It wasn't even his universe, and Reeve hadn't quite known what to do with him.]

Is it? Intriguing. And also useful, given how few women there are.

[They were unlucky like that.]

[mrsklover]

[ Richie snorts. ]

Yeah, I guess that is true. Could you imagine if everyone was fighting over like the same two girls? That would be insane.

[plate_builder]

Exactly. In addition, there is less concern about children in this manner.

[Which, after the few that had been here, Reeve found as a relief.]

[mrsklover]

Ugh. Can you imagine more babies? How many did we have here? Too many. Fucking babies.

[plate_builder]

[No, he didn't think he could. There weren't people who were suitable to take care of them. Not because they were men, but because they were just a bit so... unreliable.]

There were three. Sansa's child, then the two from that Padme lady.