ic contact;

[deadtective]

"Well, you reached me, but I'm obviously not answering right now. Leave a message and if I'm not avoiding you I'll get back as soon as I can."

Comments

[iamtetsuo]

everything i could think of shut up

[So... three things. Maybe four.]

wht do you mean by a break?

[deadtective]

One of my powers is to turn off other people's powers. It's only effective like, sixty-feet feet around me, so we'd need to be kind of close.

I've babysat people with shitty powers before, it seems to work out pretty well.

[iamtetsuo]

people can do that??

if i said yes, it isnt gonna last right? and you better not be trying to pull something

[he trusts you for some reason, but there's a few limits]

[deadtective]

Apparently! The government's got null bracelets they slap on criminals too, but I think they work differently. Something about the nanites or some shit, I don't fucking know.

It only lasts as long as I'm using the power and near you. You wander off too far or I shut it off, you're back in headache city. I'm too lazy to do anything creatively illegal to you, just showing up to meet you is about all the energy I'm willing to spend today.

[iamtetsuo]

so that guy wasnt lying...

id like to know for sure what this is anyway. dont make me regret this

[deadtective]

You'll regret it, but that's got more to do with my personality than anything else. Where and when you wanna meet up?

[iamtetsuo]

heh if you think your worse than who i live with you got your work cut out for you

im at the arcade til closing and i dont really want to go anywhere

[He's bad at this remembering there's multiple cities thing]

[deadtective]

Oh, awesome. I get to prove you wrong on that count and kick your ass at pinball or what the fuck ever. Should be a great time.

[she's halfway out the door before the realization hits her and the followup text zings out.]

Wait, which city? We're fucking crawling in arcades.

[iamtetsuo]

nonah. i think it just has one. just get over here

it is so fucking on im the king at pinball

[deadtective]

Prepare for the coup of a lifetime, then.

[you wanna actionthread it up here or log, or just handwave? i'm fine with either!]

[iamtetsuo]

yeah right your going down

[Half tempted to say log just because I'm a weirdo it feels more official to me that way. And something as normal as playing pinball/arcade games in general with someone is too great a scenario to pass up]

[deadtective]

Man, that headache must be hitting your harder than I thought. You're hallucinating now!

[haha awesome! I'll toss up a log and edit in the link here when it's done then. c:]

[iamtetsuo]

[rrrgh. Hazel, you have no idea how accurate that really is]

have fun getting here in your goddamn sleep cause you must be dreaming if you think you can beat me

[Excellent]

[deadtective]

[that's her real superpower: being righter than she will ever realize about the worst things.]

Guess what? I've got insomnia! The only thing I'm experiencing is pure, unadulterated reality.

[here you go!]