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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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[A beat.]

Not unless I have to. [Even if they hurt to use.]

You're not going to use them again, right?

[Noctis do not test your cousin. He has had a rough month-and-a-bit, okay? Do not test him. Dying because of some grumpy Jesus figure is one thing. Dying from your own stupidity is another!]

[Oh shit he's serious.]

No. Not unless something very bad happens. [Like a daemon invasion, or someone from the Black Order showing up to throw their weight around, or whoever killed Sam decides to finish the job, or some giant horrific monster shows up in the middle of town or—]

Can't promise I won't ever use them again. [Because he would in a heartbeat.] I can promise I won't bring them out for anything but emergencies.

[He'll take it.]

Big emergencies, like yokai or something. Okay?

Fine. Okay. Just—yokai or Black Order or something.

That's fine.

[For now.]

I guess maybe if that one guy tries to kill you, too. That counts.

Pretty sure he's not gonna try and kill me again. I yielded, we're even.

[He really, really wants to ask what this guy's deal is. He won't, but he wants to.]

That's good, I guess. [He sighs, flopping back down.] Are we really in a teapot?

We're really in a teapot. With wi-fi, thank god.

And video games. I think we might end up killing Sam's...whatever that guy is if this didn't have wifi and video games.

I was a little bit worried he wouldn't have video games, the store seemed really old-timey.

[A pause.]

I know the guy, sort of. He probably still has a photo of me at thirteen, sleeping with potato chips stacked on my head.

Yeah, I think I remember him a little? But I didn't know he was that close to Sam.

[He didn't know anyone was that close to Sam, to be honest.]

[ someone has been listening at the window, and was probably going to playfully interject to find out what the fuck that bit about hurting yourself was NOCT but

now they're talking about Him and he's gone back to being a nosy lil eavesdropper, tense and silent at the window that overlooks the pond outside. ]

I think they were roommates back in college, that’s why they’re so close now.

[Oh shit hey that’s Sam in the window. Noctis pushes himself up to wave at him, and call out:] Hey, get out here! The pond’s nice.

Sam went to college?

[Ouch, Caleb. But Noct spots Sam, apparently, so he just waves without getting up.]

[ crraaaaaap, he was caught. He makes a little 'hiiieek, hee' noise as he tries to duck down, but. He's being waved at. It's too late. Sigh!!! Time to put a leg over the window and hop out to join the pair. ]

That's so mean. Of course I went to college! I went to college on scolarship [ he puts a POP on the P noise ] and everything. Business Degree! I just. You know. Was uh. Forced to drop out. Lllllong story. So boring!

Dad paid him a lot to babysit me. [He pauses a moment, reflecting.] Honestly he maybe should’ve paid more, when I think about it, I was a little shit.

[Young Noctis was a lonely kid who needed to be socialized more, and also a little asshole gremlin child.]

Yeah, you were. [So was Caleb.] And Sam just never seemed like a college guy to me, that's all! I'm not calling you an idiot or anything.

You were both brats. But you were my brats, so you're so lucky that I'm such a nice, easygoing guy!

[ he's gonna plop down to sit near them, crossing his legs. ...his feet didn't leave a single blade of grass out of place. ]

I always wanted to be a business guy. Sell and trade, maybe own some sort of shop.

I kind'a got there. Halfway.

I might’ve been a brat but you were more trouble than I was. [Only because he was nerfed by chronic pain and also being a Sleepy Bitch.] Remember when we went to the arcade and you wandered off because you saw something someone left behind on a bench?

[~~Pepperidge Farm~~ Noctis Remembers.]

You did okay, Sam. Anyway, trust me, running your own small business can be such a hassle. I gotta sit through so many pitch meetings.

Yeah, and it was a vintage Tamagotchi and I still have it, thanks. But I was otherwise a perfect child.

[He's a bit of a hoarder. Oops.]

And hey, maybe you can try to open up a shop now that you're back?

Pitch meetings that bad, huh? Gotta' admit, there sounds like there's a lotta pains with it. I'm so used to living this life, It's weird to start thinking I can go back to something normal.

Compared to hopping between worlds, opening a store seems... so mundane, yanno?

Is it still alive? Did you bring it here?

[Because he has not seen that Tamagotchi in a while.]

Everyone’s a creative or a tech guy running on caffeine and fumes so. Yeah. [Meetings are a special kind of hell and Noctis cannot sleep through them because they’re important. Anyway.]

Could do both. Set up a shop, sell something from another world.

[He did not, but he's not saying that.]

He's just complaining because it means he can't nap. Also, don't you do that already, Sam? I think I saw someone on the app saying you did.

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