quietmounds | (no subject)

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WHAT In person or texting, I don't know, I'm not your boss
WHERE Wherever you'd be at night
WHEN Day 1, night
NOTES aj said i was allowed to make a new post

[So, you've survived your first—or fiftieth, or five-hundredth—day in Quiet Mounds. Tonight, it's raining—or, it's not. Maybe you're trying to get used to your new, quiet apartment. The electricity is buzzing in that way that's hard to ignore, a silence so loud it's deafening, in that poetic sort of way.]

[Or maybe you're one of the sad sacks still working at the 24/7 joints. Or their why-am-I-even-up-this-late customers. You're the reason why capitalism does this to people, you know.]

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I hear people can't die here. So it's really just a torture room.

Or a hobby room, I guess, if he's as much of a sadist as he acts like.

[pauses, then pulls out his phone and scrolls thru it]

You are dead serious. I can't even tweet about this. Do you have a picture? Are you pulling up a picture of a torture room?

No. I haven't actually been back there.

[pulls up this exact photo. Including all of the bodies.]

What about him?

Iii. Do not recognize him.

Obviously, he's from my world. I'm asking if you think he's hot, too.

Nooo, not really. All the bodies and blood and implicit active murder kind of kill it for me.

That part is normal, I guess.

[puts his phone away]

So you finally met the boss.

Look, Jack is objectively hot, and was not actively covered in blood when I ran into him. I'm not an idiot.

Do you think when he takes off his mask there's just like, a hole with teeth?

Edited 2017-05-12 06:58 (UTC)

If you mean a human skull, yes.

You could ask him to show you.

Absolutely not. Also, why do you just have a photo of some guy soaked in blood on your phone?

He's a terrorist we were trying to capture.

Also, he's about fifty, loves killing people, and is really cheerful about it. I thought he might be your type too.

Damn. You have more of a sense of humor than I thought, boss, you're really coming for my life here. Serves me right. I do like cheerful, older men with dark pasts, but I'm pretty firm on "not an active sadistic murderer."

So inactive sadistic murders are still on the table?

Uwah, if we're playing twenty questions, what's your type?

Edited 2017-05-12 07:18 (UTC)

I don't have one.

You didn't answer the question. Which probably means the answer is yes.

I bet Jack is the type to give a promotion to someone who sleeps with him.

Edited 2017-05-12 07:24 (UTC)

[I.]

You're not wrong, but anyone who'd try it would be an idiot.

And while I could certainly look the part of a gorgeous young gold digger, my heart wouldn't allow it. I'm going to build my success in the world the right way.

By working sixteen hours shifts at a coffee house for someone who threatens to torture his employees?

Uh, big words coming from my direct supervisor. I'm at least as confident in my ability to not get tortured as you. Also, my kid drank an entire gallon of milk in one day. The whole thing. Just sucked it down.

Don't assume we have the same motives. I'm not very interested in 'building my success in the world the right way'.

And what's milk got to do with it?

Expenses! Right now I'm interested in making as much money as possible, as fast as possible. Without dating someone who will eat my skin if I break up with him. Maybe that mask is that guys ex boyfriend! We don't know.

I guess kids are expensive. But you don't even have to pay rent. He can't eat your entire paycheck.

I want to save up.

For what?

Geez, are you that worried? If I think I can't handle the job or the owner, I'll bring the issue to my manager. I won't bail out on you without proper notice, that's just rude.

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What would I be worried about? I'm just trying to figure out why money is so valuable to you in a place like this.

I mean, you're obviously in over your head. You get shaken just by looking a picture of an actual slaughter. Have you ever even seen someone be tortured?