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[ It's rhetorical, the question. He isn't quite sure how to take that, but he'll take it as a compliment all the same. ]
Don't worry, I used to run a club. My standard for drinks is at least just as high.
[ No it isn't, these were Zaunite drinks. ]
If they aren't to your liking, I'll owe you. How about that?
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[Boogied out on the floor...]
[A little noise, not unlike a soundless huff of a laugh.]
Sure. And if that's the case, rest assured, I'll come to collect. You'd better be ready.
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[ Please! Verg, could you actually imagine it? Silco????? That man would get beat to hell on the dance floor. ]
Rest assured, however, I'll be quite ready if you do.
[ sir? Sirs?? ] Though I would much prefer that we simply have drinks that we both enjoy, hm?
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[A little pause - maybe that statement does also dance itself over a line. Or two. How odd, to wander into such relatively new territory. Malkuth - that was a regular part of it all, answering to her own bait. Here, it feels a little novel to throw something out and see what it brings in.]
I could go with that. So one has to ask. What drinks do you enjoy?
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[ Vergilius having that out of pocket actually does startle him a little. ]
As for drinks, I'm a simple man. [ He is not. ] I prefer whiskey, and despite my taste in cigars — good whiskey.
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[Heh.]
[Whiskey...sounds right. Silco himself just LOOKS like a whiskey man.]
The strong stuff. I suppose you have a tolerance.
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I don't think there's anything we have where I am from that doesn't require a tolerance. [It's easier to talk about Zaun, than himself, but his phrasing leaves plenty of room to take a double meaning from. ] We are a hard people, by necessity. I'm sure it's not a surprise, is it?
[ A beat, and then: ] I can assure you I have drank some things that would make your toes curl. Whiskey is an easy drink comparatively.
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Not a surprise at all. Though.... [A little nod of the head - now that's another thing to think about. Drinks to make the toes curl.] You got me curious about what kind of stuff hits harder than whiskey. Absinthe?
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[ He says with a sigh that sounds dismissive. ]
No, more like some kind of back alley bottle that they won't tell you what's in them, but it's quite possible that there's either mushrooms or some sort of growth involved. Couple that with some river water and, well, whiskey seems tame by comparison.
[ Silco may seem stuffy now but his secret wild youth.... (Rattling my CAGE, fortiche...) ]
Then of course, there's what I make, but I don't drink it. Supposedly it packs a punch.
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[Mushrooms. No, he could see that. Sometimes, you have to make do.]
Sounds like some stuff you get on the Backstreets. Sometimes...you can't get the good stuff, so you make better stuff.
[The last statement makes him blink though - what HE makes?]
Oh? Tell me. Hobby, or bussines?
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[ Which, coupled with the kind of display just put on... Verg is a smart guy, he can put two and two together. ]
Some people [Silco ] would liken it to bottled power. It's a shame I can't bring it to the masses here. They could use a little control in their lives when it comes to to kaiju.
[ shimmer is designed to be effective on fucking cops not monsters ]
me like can i spell
[Now that makes his eyes widen a little, turning to put that lighthouse-like gaze upon him. Bottled...power?]
Power in what way? Permanent?
LMAO I did not see it 😌
[ It is but like he'd ever know. ]
No, the closest we may get are mechanical limbs powered by Shimmer. Most people injest, but it can only last so long.
[ Also if it was permanent how would he get addicts???? But he's wise enough not to say that. ]
It lasts long enough, of course. Makes us a little less of an easy target for an enforcer on a bad day. [ or when you need guards for your factories, or people who just want a little taste of something powerful... You know. Normal reasons. ]
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[But no, a business couldn't be well run on something truly permanent, he supposes. Something...drinkable? It seems like it, given he brought it up with the alcohol question.]
Have you tried it yourself?
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In a way.
[ Don't ask how, verg. You don't want to know. He rubbed his fingers together, remembering a time when he'd been able to dispense it by touch. Sometimes, he imagined he could still feel the bite of it against his skin. ]
Long before it was made for public consumption, of course.
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Don't tell me you used yourself like a guinea pig, Silco.
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Hardly. I had too much on the line to foolishly throw it away.
[ Revenge.. Besides, he had stupid teens to drink the experimental version instead.]
It was simply used for something else then. More... Therapeutic.
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[That scar over Silco's eye, and the eye itself, as red as blood, lingers in his vision.]
Pain relief?
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Not quite.
[ He's on the right track, though. ]
This [ He points at his scar, two fingers tapping against the bottom of it, ] wasn't quite as stable as one would think in the past.
[ Or shouldn't be now but thanks to whatever LILITH put in him, it's at least not growing. ]
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[Well, he thought it was a scar. Damage. Done and done. But here, it seems like there's something still of a threat here.]
[He stops to turn to face him, now. They've moved away from the scene of their crime, in the dark alleyways. He again memorizes the haphazard crevices, the violent lines.]
....Will it turn into something bad, Silco?
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[ A pause, and he stopped as well. That's... Not a question he expected, and it's obvious in the way he tipped his head in thought. ]
I can't imagine that it has. Before I came here, it was... Nothing. [ to be fair, in Kenos he was mostly grown from a rock? Don't worry about it. ] It hasn't deteriorated thus far, either.
[ A twitch of his lips, at the thought. Really? It's a possibility he hasn't considered, being in Kenos for so long. Would it start growing? Singed's special formula certainly had kept it inert, but. Without it? Silco hasn't been even considered it. ]
It shouldn't.
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[His hand, grizzled, scarred, twitches up, hovering a little. As if to touch. But he doesn't, still staring.]
What is "it"?
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He wondered which one Vergilius was. ]
It is what happens when an open wound finds itself exposed to the river Pilt, and all the toxins therein start to meld with open flesh and blood.
[ He paused, considering his words more carefully than usual. ]
I was drowned in that river, on that day. It is a reminder of many lessons I was forced to learn — survival most of all.
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[Silco was almost drowned, and suffered for the rest of his life for it. For factors out of his control. Another mild twitch of his hand.]
[His tone is sincere:]
I'm...sorry that happened to you.
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Why? [ His tone still bitter, but there's a soft wheeze of a laugh. ] Without the lessons I learned, or the drive it gave me, I never would have gotten as close as I've been to grasping everything that I dreamed of doing. Without this —
[ He pointed to it, that scar, like a rotting, stringy thing. ] — I would have never learned to become what I had to, to find a path forward for Zaun.
I thanked him for it, the man who did this to me. Right before I drove a knife in his back, to thank him for the lesson.
[ A twitch of a smile. ] In the end, my argument for the future of Zaun won. I would give more if necessary, to make that point and put us on the right path.