pc catchall for junpei (crashout)

[uncurtained]

IM PUTTING THE TIMON GIF IN HERE LATER YOU CANT BEAT ME

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[crashout]

[There's another drink.]

There are all kinds of ways people could be watching us. Moles, tracking devices in the clamshells, hidden cameras...you can't trust people in a situation like this.

[He's a ray of sunshine, isn't he?] Until we start looking closer, we're never going to know.

[uncurtained]

...Sounds like you've thought pretty hard about this.

[There's more she wants to ask, but she holds off.]

I'm guessing opening those doors might help, but...

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[He doesn't reply. He doesn't want to reply, and even though he's told two people that this kind of thing isn't new to him, over the course of the day he's grown more frustrated at everything that he's just. Aggravated.]

But what? [And yet he's still keeping up this conversation, so Beck is keeping his interest well enough.]

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I'm not exactly an expert in breaking down doors or picking locks. So, unless you've got another idea...?

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If it was just about breaking the door down or picking the lock, anybody could get into these rooms. There's something we're missing. A puzzle of some kind, something that we need to take a second look at. That's why I'm waiting for people to clear out.

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[She looks like she wants to ask something else, but she takes another drink instead.]

Well, we've got time, I guess.

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[Too much time. It makes him nervous, sort of, but he seems calm and aloof on the surface even if his fingers tap the glass in his hand.]

So how do you kill time in a place like this? Besides the obvious.

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I'm not exactly an expert on how to waste time in a kidnapping.

[But, hm.]

As awful as this sounds given the situation... Icebreakers?

[crashout]

[...hah.] Icebreakers. What counts?

[uncurtained]

Is never have I ever too overdone, or too junior high?

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We have a book called Sex for Dummies sitting in our belongings. I think we're past the point of being too junior high. [But he hesitates.] ...a caveat though. What if you don't want to answer?

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[She shakes her head.]

No penalty. I'm not that much of an asshole, promise.

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[...that, at least, gets a small sort of grin.]

Okay. Guess I'll start then. Never have I ever played Never Have I Ever.

[uncurtained]

Really? Not a party games kind of guy?

[She takes a drink.]

Never have I ever... cut my own hair. Starting off easy, here.

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Not a party kind of guy. [That would, like, imply having friends and stuff. But at the second question he takes a drink.] The haircutting wasn't recent, but it happened anyway.

[Hum....] Never have I ever...held down a job for more than a year.

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I guess you don't seem like it. Not in a bad way or anything, just... I can't really picture you at a rave.

[She takes another drink, cupping her face with her free hand as she looks at him.]

Something's gotta pay tuition. What about you? Bad luck, or something else?

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[He wonders if that's something he would have done if his life had proceeded normally. It's a cute thought, maybe.]

Something else. [No, elaborate. Use your words.] I didn't really care about the ones I had, so I've changed a couple of times.

[Tuition. So she's in college, okay, he can figure that part out. She's a little older, so grad school? Sure.] I was thinking about changing again before I came here.

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Yeah? What did you want to do next?

[She pauses to think.]

Never have I ever broken a bone.

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[...hah.] Classified.

[But there's a drink.] When I was a kid, I broke my wrist because I jumped out of a tree.

[He's at least easing into this conversation, so that's nice.] Never have I ever had a sibling.

[uncurtained]

Ooh, mysterious. Wait, you jump out, not fell out? What happened?

[Another sip!]

Clyde and Anya. At least I'm not the only one who didn't luck out in the naming department.

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Nothing happened. I was just...y'know. A kid. [Stupid, he means. But...huh.]

I can't say I'm envious of any of you. I'm not surprised you go by Beck.

[uncurtained]

Sounds better than Guinevere, that's for sure.

[She shifts slightly, drawing her knees up so her legs are tucked in front of her on the chair.]

Never have I ever been on TV.

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[It's easier to say, too, but he's leaving that alone. She's getting more comfortable and he's...still leaning, but kind of settling to perch on the arm of a couch. He's getting there.]

That's a negative for me, too. [A tilt of his head.] Never have I ever had any of my writing published.

[uncurtained]

[She looks down at her glass, then towards him.]

How are we defining published? Widespread circulation, or school newspaper level?

[crashout]

Let's say read by a general public and not a classroom full of people. [So yeah, school newspaper would count.]