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Post by Greenie on Jul 24, 2008 23:26:36 GMT -5
Mia just cackled, a bit too evilly for their current situation. Paperwork was hardly the time to be sadistic, but he had to do something to prevent himself from mashing his head into a solid object. "Yeah, I'm done. We can always talk about someone else's sex life.." He suggested, then rose an eyebrow in Aph's direction. "Been anywhere interesting lately, brother-of-mine?"
At the mention of Varestes, his scowl quickly re-emerged. "Varestes, damn him! I swear, next time I see him I'm going to.. I dunno, find someone to conjure up paperwork to drop on his head. And he's not really that creepy, he's just.. lazy. And apt to not be here, ever." Mia said with a sigh, then shrugged. "He leaves Lysaras in a hole a lot.. nothing I can do about that right now, though."
The ferret just gazed innocently over at the otter. "That's just the start. I know so many things you don't know I ever knew, it's crazy man!" Mia said excitedly, then paused and back-tracked to making sense. "What I mean is, don't bother trying to blackmail me. My walls have ears, bro. As for feeling worthwhile, we'll accept that helping me do paperwork is acceptable for making it up.. for now."
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Post by Shinigami on Jul 24, 2008 23:48:01 GMT -5
"No," he said, short and clipped. And that was a little case of blue balls speaking there, because dammit, he hadn't gotten laid in forever, and a little bit of rubbing was not going to make that tension go away. "What about you? Or have you been reduced to romancing your office supplies?" he sneered.
At the frustration, he quieted a bit. "Hey, calm down. You and Vessie help her out a lot just by doing these jobs, if nothing else. She knows she can rely on our family, after all." Except for Quinn, who couldn't be relied on to do anything except for what you weren't expecting her to do.
"Shut up. Just...shut up." He batted a balled up scrap of paper at Mia's head and glared, then turned his attention to the afore-mentioned paperwork. ...Suits, it was boring. Though once he got into the rhythm of it all, the whole paperwork thing started to flow a little more easily, until he was flipping through and writing out the paperwork like a good little secretary.
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Post by Greenie on Jul 25, 2008 7:27:05 GMT -5
"No?" He asked, his face a mask of pure, faked innocence. It tended to be obvious when Aph had gotten laid (somehow, he managed to jingle less) so Mia knew it'd been a while. As for himself, he had had that one night a while ago, but it wasn't something he wanted to talk details about at the moment. Damn, it was his own fault for bringing it up, too. "My office supplies are sexier than my hand, at least," Mia sneered right back, "But I keep busy, don't worry yourself over me." The ferret said with just a hint of 'leave it alone'.
"Our family except for Quinn. And Saethre. And Chiari. Really, Vessatha and ourselves. You need to get ranking up, Aph, and get in here.." Mia sighed, and trailed off. It was a subject they'd persued numerous times, but Aph persisted in bothering with piercings and not ambition.
Mia simply grabbed it and batted it back, though he'd been tempted to eat it to prove some sort of gross point. "It's not my fault you take.. interesting people.. to the bar just down the road. Not my fault at all, now is it?" He grinned toothily.
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Post by Kiki on Jul 25, 2008 8:07:59 GMT -5
Greenie and Shini receive 1 token each, to be redeemed in Ashwin's Shoppe.
This will automatically be added to your recorded totals in the shoppe.
Congratulations, and keep up the good RP!
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Post by Shinigami on Jul 25, 2008 10:03:21 GMT -5
There was a very distinct smirk now. "It's not all that hard to be sexier than your hand, Mia." And that had been far too easy. He didn't feel like getting stricken with whatever it was that his brother had up his sleeve lately in terms of 'Drop the subject' hints, and so let his attention turn away from that part of the conversation. Well, only after one final smirk at Mia.
"I know, I know," he sighed. "And I have been working on it. It's just...I can't quite figure out how. I don't want to be stuck a Nine for the rest of my life or anything." And it was hard to focus on trying to figure out how to up his rank when what he really wanted to be doing was finding another way to add another piece of metal on, sliding under his fur and his skin to hold him still.
"Look, she didn't even mention the bandersnatch to me when we started off, much less the peanut butter," he said flatly, without looking up from his paperwork.
[ooc: I have no clue what happened to him, but I'm amused.]
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Post by Greenie on Jul 25, 2008 15:12:46 GMT -5
"Hey. Hey. Watch it." Mia replied, his eyes narrowed. He placed his paw in front of his face and wiggled it suggestively, then made kissy faces at it just for effect. "My hand is damn sexy, and sexier than your hand." The ferret then actually kissed his hand (aww, how sweet) and went back to doing paperwork with it, since that was a tad more productive than being silly.
"I'd help you if I could.." Mia said, ironically less than helpfully. "But I've never jumped a rank, so I have no idea how it's actually done. Did you ever ask Vessa about it? She jumped a few.." He shrugged. Being born a Jack had meant there was little work involved with getting into the Courts, other than presenting himself and then working his ass off. Vessatha had been born a seven, if he remembered right--or was it an eight?--so she'd be a better source to ask.. even if neither of them actually wanted to ask her about it. The woman tended to eye them suspiciously, and purposefully tell them something vague such as "go figure it out yourself, and by the way, do you eat, ever?"
"Right." Mia said flatly, then rolled his eyes. "Just like she didn't mention the pineapple, either. I'm supposed to believe that?" He snorted.
[[baha, me either, but it's awesome]]
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Post by Shinigami on Jul 26, 2008 21:30:53 GMT -5
Aphasia snorted at that. "Uh-huh. I'll let you have your happy little delusions, then." Then he waved his free hand at Mia. "And besides. Everyone knows otter paws are sexier than ferret paws. The webbing is fun to play with during sex. Real erotic-feeling." He smirked at that, flashing the purple webbing between his fingers.
"Vessa would just look at me oddly and say something weird, you know that. I mean, with the odd eyes and everything," he said almost fatalistically. "And Quinn's going to be even more useless than normal." He shook his head, rather certain of that. "Sae might be able to help with things, though. I think I heard somehing about her ranking up a bit?"
He flinched, and then shuddered at the mention of the pineapple. He didn't want to remember the pineapple. At all. Instead he focused on the paperwork again, then paused to frown down at it. For a few seconds he looked it over, then turned the paper upside-down, then sideways, then what was supposedly right-side up again. "...okay, what does this say? I mean, is it even writing?"
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Post by Greenie on Jul 26, 2008 21:44:38 GMT -5
"Oh, ew," Was all Mia said, in a highly disgusted tone. (Complete with a foul look, too.) "What is wrong with you? I don't want to know that! Knowing that makes me think about Quinn and I don't want to go there!" He waved his paw fruitlessly in front of his face, as if in an attempt to get the images to go away, then just gave up and let his head fall onto the desk. "I hate you," Came out, albeit muffled.
"Yeah," He agreed, then shrugged. "Quinn would probably lick you instead of answering. Or give you a cookie." Mia said, then snorted and rolled his eyes. He couldn't remember the last time he'd gotten a complete - or even spoken - answer from her. "Sae? Yeah, she did. She bounced in here rambling about waking up as a 10 and there was this thing on her chest.. that made the entire market start puking. Er, you could ask her if you want, I 'spose she's your best bet.." He shrugged. Sae was come-and-go when it came to her coherency; some days she was as bad as Vessatha, and others as worse as Quinn.
The ferret went back to his work at the silence (with a smirk) and didn't look up until Aph started shuffling the paper around. He poked it down to his eye-level with a paw, then slowly raised an eyebrow. "... that would be because it's written in the Diamond-house. At least, I think it's Diamond-house. It's definitely not Spade-house. Why we have it? I don't know. Pitch it!" The ferret said, then grabbed it and tossed it into the trashcan with a flourish.
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Post by Shinigami on Jul 29, 2008 20:41:10 GMT -5
"I have no idea what you're talking about," he said blandly. "I stopped listening the moment that you even thought about one of our parents in an instinctive effort to save my sanity. Was any of what you said important?" Aphasia then offered his brother a sweet smile that declaimed any effort he may have made in order to drive his sibling insane. It was fake as hell, and both of them knew it, but it was the thought that counted, right?
"You know, I never know what Quinn will do in response to a question. I don't think she's actually spoken coherantly to me once in the past five years," he said reflectively, then paused and stared curiously at Mia. "She's got a summons? Well, of course she does, if she's a Ten now. But it sounds like whatever it does is pretty appropriate for her. Nasty and creepy." Suits, some times he wondered how he and Mia had apparently lucked out and avoided getting the insanity genes of the family.
Then again, he thought, looking at his piercings, maybe said insanity genes were just expressed in different ways from the rest of the family.
"What is a document in Diamond-house doing here?" he asked, looking after the document. "Maybe we should get someone who knows Diamond-house to look it over and see if it's important or something?"
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Post by Greenie on Jul 29, 2008 20:56:53 GMT -5
Mia gave him a level look. "You are the worst liar, ever." He stated, then rolled his eyes. It seemed to be habit when he was around his siblings, eyerolling. They just said the stupidest things. "Anything that comes out of my mouth is bound to be more important than what comes out of yours," The ferret said with a snort. "You're talking about webbing and shit, geez. You should listen to yourself," he then grinned to alleviate the exaggerated self-importance. All in good fun.
"I've stopped asking her questions." Mia said bluntly, then shrugged. "If I absolutely need something from a parental unit, I go to Vessatha, or borrow someone else's mum. It's generally a safer bet." He had no qualms about pretending he had other parents; his embarrassed him rather thoroughly. "Yeah, it's this cute little mome that can make you puke. Kind of like Sae, I agree. It definitely suits her." Mia elected not to make a comment that both him and his sister had gotten less-than-elegant summons; he still found Zombie highly amusing, but at least his wasn't quite as gross.
Mia just shrugged. "No one here reads Diamond-house, as far as I know. Generally only Diamonds do - and this is the Court of Spades, in case you've missed the boat - so if they left one of their documents here, it's kind of their own fault."
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