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[vampirella]

username: elvira

has anybody seen a change of clothes somewhere in this dump? would love to have an option besides what i died in

black preferred but as long as it isn't hot pink i'll consider it

Comments

[vampirella]

thanks for the heads up.

( he doesn't know her, or that a simple thank you is out of her usual vibe. but, Carmilla does not appreciate being forced into things she doesn't like, especially sex. she does appreciate the warning enough to say a word she usually avoids like the plague. )

shockingly low to put shit in the food, considering how little of it is around

[softheartedshizun]

It's the least I can do.

[How many people would be familiar or expect these sorts of tropes? It wasn't every day you found yourself in another world, being a veteran of that scenario he had to help others.]

It's extremely contrived but the favorite of lazy authors trying to work around their terribly ooc plots.

[vampirella]

that's a very meta way of putting it, but sure

( she reads ... a lot ... . .. .. .. so she gets what he means, even if that's a bizarre way of putting it. )

it make sense they'd stack the game in their favor. just means we have to be smarter than they think they are.

[softheartedshizun]

True, with all of us here surrly we can devise a plan to safeguard our selves from their desires as well. Machines are only so capable.

[vampirella]

sentient ones are a bit more tricky but considering we already know what they want, hopefully we can outmaneuver them.

[softheartedshizun]

When they're smart enough to talk... it really is a problem.

But, there should be a way to work around it. They don't seem too overwhelmingly in control of this world.

[vampirella]

tell you what, if i see them doing anything else suspect, i'll let you know, if you do the same

[softheartedshizun]

Sounds like a deal.

[vampirella]

you got a name or would you rather go by ... peerless cucumber

( ok she's heard worse usernames, but that's still a weird one. )

[softheartedshizun]

[Maybe he shouldn't have defaulted to his internet handle where he would have to interact with people IRL as well....]

Shen Qingqiu....

[vampirella]

( to be fair, she also defaulted to her favorite internet handle. it's just that it's less embarrassing, because Elvira is Awesome. )

carmilla. thank god i don't have to try and say 'peerless cucumber' out loud with a straight face

( to be honest she'd probably just run with a condescending pet name, anyway... )

[softheartedshizun]

[Don't rub his shame in his face so casually!]

It looks better on bulletin boards.

[vampirella]

i'm sure. what kind of message boards were these, inquiring minds want to know

[softheartedshizun]

Web Novel sites and review and fan forums.

[vampirella]

so it's some kind of reference? i'm relieved, i thought it was some weird euphemism

( cucumber, eggplant, same difference, right? )

[softheartedshizun]

Yes. Of course!

[He can't admit it was exactly what she had thought, a stupid dick joke. But! No matter what he would be glad that he wasn't the hack of an author known as Airplane Shooting Towards the Sky!]

[vampirella]

( she's been around the block for three centuries. she has a good sense for dick jokes. )

must be some cucumber

[softheartedshizun]

One could say peerless....

[vampirella]

i hope you got some pictures of it, beautiful things like that never last

[softheartedshizun]

Two worlds away and another life.

[vampirella]

guess all you have now is the memories

but sometimes those are just as good

( still talking about vegetables. obviously. )

[softheartedshizun]

It doesn't really matter.

[vampirella]

oh yeah?

if it's that forgettable it couldn't have been that perfect

[softheartedshizun]

What can be said of things from a lifetime ago? Let us instead focus on the here and now.

[vampirella]

( oh buddy, you are barking up the WRONG tree. she's been obsessed with the same girl for nearly two hundred years. despite the fact she's dead. )

lifetimes ago, huh?