999 CAST MEETING (TNDG DAY 2)

[keybroad]

[Lotus wakes up in the sci-fi set along with some of the others. She goes off on her own to get dressed in a Star Trek teal jumpsuit. She comes back with two cinnamon rolls. She sits on her bed and claps her hands. The bracelets on her arms jangle and should get a decent amount of attention.]

So. We should all talk as a group, I guess.

[She proceeds to begin eating the cinnamon rolls. Both are apparently for herself.]

Comments

[jinglebros]

What about those of us who've already admitted they couldn't afford shitty things like a class?

[snakenoeyes]

A club, then. That wouldn't need to be paid for.

[jinglebros]

Works for me.

[ Thumbs up! ]

[keybroad]

A club works great for me too. It could be at a community center in Tokyo. Most of us live near there, right? So a public place where people of all ages could gather.

[jinglebros]

You'd have to say I didn't show up sometimes, but that ain't hard.

[keybroad]

I somehow don't have trouble imagining this.

[exequte]

What should it be a club for, then? We still need to decide that.

[keybroad]

Well, there are a couple different things it could be. Charity probably doesn't make sense if we're not rich ourselves. Not something with a heavy subject that would make people ask more questions.

Art? Exercise? Any of those sound good?

[snakenoeyes]

Visual arts should be avoided. They'd be rather difficult for me, you see.

[keybroad]

I do see. That's a good one.

We could do, like, tai chi? Something that stretches your own body in one place, so it wouldn't be as hard for you as a competitive sport like baseball.

[bookmarking]

[Clover spreads her feet and stretches her arms out as though she's ready to take flight.]

Tai chi works...?

[exequte]

We could also always say we're volunteers for something. Or if whatever we choose doesn't fit for everybody, then old neighbors or friends?

[It's not even a lie for like literally half of them]

[keybroad]

Old friends isn't so good. We don't know everything about each other.

[exequte]

I didn't say that everyone had to be, but Jumpy and I are old friends, and everyone knows that Santa is my brother. He and I know Snake, who is Clover's brother. It can explain a number of the relationships if what we decide on doesn't fit one person for some reason, even if it fits most of us.

[keybroad]

I mean... you're not wrong, but when you put it that way... don't you see that Seven and I are in a pretty awkward position? He and I don't know the rest of you or each other that well at any time in the past and we never have.

[exequte]

True, but that's why I said it didn't have to be everyone. If most of us were part of a club that the others wouldn't necessarily fit into, there's reasonable ties to the group through one of the other members for most of us. That frees up the options a little.

[unexpectedboner]

If you're worried, just say we're neighbors. It makes sense to know the other people in your neighborhood...and their parents, for that matter. Then Lotus and Seven don't have to seem like creepers.

[keybroad]

...

[still doubtful but you know what. Life will go on.]

I guess trying to make Seven not seem like a creeper is already a lost cause.

[unexpectedboner]

Right! He's a bodyguard, and you're a mafia don! ...Donna? Whatever.

[keybroad]

[Warming to it a little]

I hacked into the database of his restaurant business and saw that he was laundering money, but I don't want to turn them in... I want my slice of the pie.

[unexpectedboner]

Right! Though you kinda sound like a villain, now. Maybe you want to use the money to help kids or give to charity or something, a real Robin Hood story.

[keybroad]

Well, yeah, I was just joking around. Of course our cover story shouldn't involve any of us breaking the law. I mean, that's kind of the whole reason we have to omit swathes of the whole truth in the first place.

[unexpectedboner]

Though it's not like all of us broke the law to begin with...

[shrugs]

Either way, I think we should just keep things vague. Harder to notice the holes in a story if it's already like Swiss cheese.

[exequte]

Actually, one of the easiest ways to be caught in a lie is not to have the details you need ready. You don't want to go out of your way to share information you don't need to, but you want to know what your answers will be.

[unexpectedboner]

I guess. Just seems like a better idea to just change the subject before getting asked how good Seven is at crane pose.