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[alwayskayaking]

Duplicity Inbox

You've reached Tim Stoker. I'm out at the moment. Leave me a message and I'll return your call soon.

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[permanentlyexhaustedbird]

I don't think I could give away enough for it to matter. I don't have access to all of it anyway.

[singinghuntress]

But I am~! I'm only using words and not hunting you down. That should count for something.

[alwayskayaking]

Because you're a teenage or something like that?

[alwayskayaking]

[Read.]

end?

[permanentlyexhaustedbird]

Yes, exactly. I was years off of being a legal adult at home.

Sounds good

[alwayskayaking]

Well, at least it's given you some experience with being frugal.

[newstatusquo]

Never much had a chance to play it anymore.
I have a lot of skills that have nothing to do with my Pride Ring form. CEO and powerful Overlord kind of took over everything else.

[alwayskayaking]

Maybe you can take it up again here.

ATTN: TIM STOKER

[duplicitymods]

❝

DUPLICITY CITATION No. 19726 Violation: Illegal Dominant on Dominant Relations Fine: 1 Week Realignment Payments must be received within 30 calendar days, or debts will be handed over to the Remittance Facility.

❞

[newstatusquo]

You know, I might just at that. Gotta do something to keep myself busy.

I didn't get this notif! Understand if you'd prefer not to pick back up /o\

[sixfeetofdirt]

"Well, that's - something to look forward to, I suppose?" Astarion furrows his brow. "I did manage to return home briefly and...tie up some loose ends, so to speak. Unintentionally, I hasten to add. The same may happen for you."

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[rogueinladysclothing]

[Amelia's been fretting for hours. She's been telling herself lie after lie as her messages bounce back to her and she can't find Sasha anywhere. She should go find Tim to ask this in person, but if she does that, if she sees his face...]

Tim, why isn't Sasha answering any of my messages?

[She's not ready for this. She will never be ready for this.]

[alwayskayaking]

Good luck.

That's okay! It happens and I'll back tag into forever!

[alwayskayaking]

"Maybe. I dunno. I want to kill that bastard, but I also don't want to risk not being able to come back to this place." He takes another sip of his drink. "I know a lot of people hate this city and there is a lot wrong with it, but for me? My life has gotten better since arriving here. Would you go back home if given the chance?"

Re: That's okay! It happens and I'll back tag into forever!

[sixfeetofdirt]

"Gods, no, absolutely not. For a plethora of reasons, but most pointedly - well. Back home, a monster hunter could take a contract to end my life, and there would be nothing to discuss. I could have told him that I'd only ever fed from animals and it simply wouldn't matter. There, I am nothing but a pest to be eliminated, because of something someone else did to me."

He sips his wine.

"...Whereas here, when I first arrived, I was able to work quite profitably at a club where patrons paid me to bite them."

[alwayskayaking]

[Tim doesn't mean to ignore her message. He's busy talking to the city and then eventually getting drunk and heading to Agnes to inadvertently giving her the answer to her question.]

[alwayskayaking]

Tim takes another sip from his own glass. Delaying his response as, truthfully, he knows there's a part of him that would still be happy if every vampire and supernatural creatures would just drop dead.

"People do tend to get off on that sense of danger. I wish I could even say I'm surprised to hear that they paid for you to bite them."

[sixfeetofdirt]

Astarion chuckles.

"Truth be told, there's an element of that even back home. It was just a surprise to see it right out on the street. Regardless, that was just a first impression. I've been able to make a life for myself here that simply wasn't possible at home."

[alwayskayaking]

"Yeah? I always worry admitting that I have no interest in leaving to a submissive. I know things for me are typically much easier than anyone with a mark on their throat."

[sixfeetofdirt]

"I said what I said, darling." Two centuries of torture and sexual slavery. "This city would have to be infinitely worse than it is to even be equal to what came before."

[alwayskayaking]

"Well, then how about we drink to that?" He holds out his wine glass so Astarion can clink it if he wishes. "Screw our old lives and cheers to our new lease on life."

[sixfeetofdirt]

"'Life' is a bridge too far, perhaps, but - certainly a new lease on something," Astarion chuckles, and touches his glass to Tim's. "Cheers."

[alwayskayaking]

"New lease on new experiences?" He offers as a replacement before saying cheers and taking a sip of his own drink.

[sixfeetofdirt]

"To new experiences," Astarion agrees. "For one thing, is this the first evening out you've had with a vampire?"

[alwayskayaking]

"Not... exactly the first." The wince Tim gives before his answer probably gives away that it wasn't exactly a good evening out.