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WHO: Sampo, Caelus, Noctis, and Gilgamesh
WHERE: Inside Gil's teapot, mostly.
WHEN: Just after the mid-month zodiac post
WHAT: Sampo having Noct and Caelus come stay over while things in the city aren't so hot. Chaos probably gonna ensue.
WARNINGS: Just general nonsense of four chaos goblins in one house.



[ 'Meet me outside of Poundland' isn't exactly the best sentence to say to ANYONE, and yet it's a sentence Samuel had to use today. Thinking back on it, he really wonders why the owners of this establishment decided on fucking THAT for the name of their store, but.

It did fine for a meeting place--especially given the 'place' he was staying was hidden in plain sight in the shop nextdoor. The shop that, in Undertown, many had wonderings if it was the front of some money laundering group. Which was hilarious.

Sampo can be found waiting--looking enough like "himself" to be recognizable, but with a mix of grey and blue hair instead of his usual ruffled brown.

He'll wiggle his fingers when Caelus and Noct finally approach, before throwing his arms out wide with a bright smile. ]

My friends! You. Uh.

You weren't followed, were you.

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[illucesco]

[Gilly? Noctis stares at Sampo for a second like he’s trying to figure something out with his very sleep-deprived brain, before he visibly gives up and decides to just leave that be for now.]

She’s cute. [coming close to give Mimi lil headpats.] This Jing Yuan hunkering down with his friends as well?

[anyprice]

Yep! He's hanging out with my buddy Cold Dragon Young and Bladie. Out on some pirate ship, no less. Where I'm. Uh. Noooot welcome.

So Nyannyan dropped Mimi off, here.

Temporary roommates, ahehhheh.

[illucesco]

There’s a guy named Cold Dragon Young? [Wait wait hold on.] Pirate ship? I think I’ve seen the owner around. Asshole cuts in front of me at Central Perk all the time. Did you piss him off?

[Depending on when this is happening, somewhere in Kaisou while he’s dumping a phone and wallet, Edward Kenway sneezes.]

D’you think Jing Yuan will let Gil keep Mimi forever? [She is so soft and so cuddly.]

[anyprice]

Ehehahah. Well. No. That's just a cute nickname I came up with him. It's Dan Heng.

As for the pirate guy, well. I sold him this awesome coffee-slash-rice cooker gadget that he definitely mishandled and ended up permanently fusing it to the coffee side. It's not my fault he didn't disengage the switch in the back while the heating element was on! That's totally not on me.

He lifted my wallet during the whole trade-off, and we've been enemies ever since.

Haha.

Ehehh.

[ his face goes back down in mimi's side. She flops over, purring. ]

I think Jing Yuan would burn the teapot down trying to get her back, if we tried to keep her.

[illucesco]

The guy whose stabbing kicked this all off?

[Does everyone he knows just know each other via supernatural means, jeez.]

…Sam, I think he’s actually from the Golden Age of Piracy. Do you think a pirate from, what, the 1700s knows how to work a microwave? [Guy seems like a really shitty pirate, at least, but not a half-bad pickpocket. Dang.]

Oh. [Boo.] Yeah, I guess we have to hand her over. [He sounds so reluctant.]

[anyprice]

That's the fella. He was a ... friend of mine, from a past life.

And look! It's not my fault he doesn't know how technology works! Even if he's a byblow from another world, he should learn how to read an instruction manual.

...

I mean, he can read texts, right?

[ huff. ]

Dunno. Maybe I'll get my own cat, now that I don't gotta' be on the run anymore.

[illucesco]

…you think he’ll be fine?

[Since the woman who killed him is now dead.]

He’s on the network, safe to assume he can read texts. But the guy’s a pirate, those are not known for being patient and reading manuals. [A pause.] Hey, it could’ve been worse. He seems kind of a shitty pirate to me.

[rude.]

Like a Maine Coon?

[anyprice]

[ hm. ]

From what I saw, on the network? He got hit with the same thing I did. Whoever that lady was who attacked him? Killed him.
But something saved him.

I can't help but to wonder what his 'price' is gonna' be.

[ the laughter only wanted fun and games. but... ]

Mmmmaybe.

Or maybe a calico.

[illucesco]

…let’s hope it doesn’t turn out like his boyfriend back in January.

[That had been a very, very bad week.]

Or a tabby.

[anyprice]

....Whhhaaaat happened in January. His. Er. Boyfriend is Blade, huh?

Can I be honest? That guy scares my nuts off.

[ Hm. ]

Tabbies are good.

[illucesco]

Yeah? He should. [He pauses a moment. Then:] He got possessed back in January, and people died in the process. His friends went and got him out, so he’s not possessed anymore.

[Noctis pauses, and lets out a breath.]

I don’t know a whole lot else about it. I was just at the portal with my medical kit waiting for them to come out. You might do better asking Dan Heng.

[All he had them was an Oshawott, the ability to warp, and the Engine Blade.]

Tabbies are great. I had this ex who had a tabby who was the stupidest cat you ever saw. Still miss the cat more than the ex.

[throwmoreswords]

[ called, from the next room ]

That's what he thinks!

[illucesco]

Hey, you’re rich, could you buy the cat off him?

[throwmoreswords]

You cannot buy what the other party will not sell, my friend.

[ as he wanders into the room with a bag of chips, a particularly bastardous little smile on his face ]

Which is why you obtain something and then refuse to return it. Possession is most of the law.

[anyprice]

NyanNyan will tear the door off your friend's store trying to get Mimi back and you know it.

[throwmoreswords]

And then Nyannyan will die by Devil Mauling and Mimi will have to stay with me on account of being an orphan. Win win.

[illucesco]

[to the cat:] What do you think, Mimi? You wanna ditch Jing Yuan and hang out with Gil and Sam forever? I’ll feed you treats every day.

[anyprice]

[ Mimi is staying in her own lane. she's giant. she's purring. her ear flicks. she gives no other indicators. ]

Do you speak cat?

Also please don't let your doorman kill Nyannyan, I'd miss the guy.
And the money he makes me sometimes.

[throwmoreswords]

Nyannyan takes his fate into his own hand if he impugns Vergil's store.

[ big ol' shrugs, baby ]

[illucesco]

[Wait wait, a brain cell has been activated.]

—wait, I thought I recognized the guy, wasn’t he the one who took hours to finish a fight in the fae realm?

[anyprice]

Ooh, that's right, that's right!
He summoned Gil to his side and everything!

[illucesco]

And then like two other people had to show up to put a stop to it. I remember that—‘cept past me was in charge so it’s fuzzy around the edges.

And I think I was trying to sleep.

[anyprice]

... IS THAT what happened?!

You were acting totally whacko, that entire time! You said you didn't know me, and kept talking about some KINGLY DUTY, I was getting pretty angry at you.

[illucesco]

Yeah, so, don’t eat the magic salmon, it does shit to your head.

[Anyway moving past that and talking to Gilgamesh—]

I passed out halfway through that last fight, why the hell were they so determined to keep going?

[throwmoreswords]

[ this is going to take more potato chisps than Gilgamesh is currently in possession of ]

You ever heard of the Cain instinct?