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[elegance_guaranteed]

[This is the expression of a child who just got what he wanted for Christmas, set on a face that would have been suitably boyish if his eyes had not been quite so unnerving. One was a dark grey marble and the other, unnaturally pale with a tiny pinhole pupil. An indistinct feeling of discomfort generally accompanies those who stare at him too long.]

A new scrying stone in my pocket and a new sword? I do hope that everybody's Hogswatch was as happy as mine.

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[regretel]

[Though Ange finds this guy's eyes particularly creepy, she still maintains an expression of general, absent disinterest.]

I'm not sure what Hogswatch is, so I can't say I had a good one.

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[elegance_guaranteed]

Don't know Hogswatch? [He seems strangely delighted by this.] The name 'The Hogfather' means nothing to you, then?

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[regretel]

No, it doesn't. [She crosses her arms.] Should it?

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[elegance_guaranteed]

Maybe yesterday, or the day before.[He cocks his head a bit to the left, smile intact.] You don't have to worry one pretty little hair on your head as to shoulds or should-nots when it comes to this particular subject anymore, though.

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[regretel]

Why not "anymore"? Doesn't that mean I should have been worried about it before?

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[thepalehorseman]

[Well, this one looks interesting. Death will regard him a moment before speaking up.]

At least somebody looks happy here.

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[elegance_guaranteed]

Oh yes, sir. I think I'd have to try quite hard to be anything but happy, given these circumstances.

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[thepalehorseman]

[Manners are definitely a plus here. Not many called him sir when they should.]

Nothing wrong with that. I'm sure you will have plenty of opportunities to remain quite excitable here.

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[elegance_guaranteed]

Is this a very exciting place, then? Or does it just have interesting people?

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[thepalehorseman]

I suppose a little of both. If different sorts of beings as well as completely random events please you then you've come to the right place. I personally find it all boring.

[He shrugs.]

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[kunsel]

[Shiva, you're one creepy SOB, aren't you? Kunsel decides to stick to the tried-and-true text for this one.]

Same old sword for me, but maybe that's because
I've got no clue what Hogswatch is. Special time
of year for watching pigs or something?

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[elegance_guaranteed]

[A short burst of delighted giggling escapes him. He thinks his successful assassination has brought about complete memory loss for a worldwide holiday. This is his greatest accomplishment to date.]

Something like that, yes. Something very much like that.

[No need to go spoiling his victory by rekindling belief in The Fat Man.]

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[kunsel]

And new swords and scrying stones are given out
for that, huh? Well, if that's the kind of thing
you're used to, you're going to fit in like a
dream in this place. Welcome to Wonderland.
Everything is a little weird here.

[elegance_guaranteed]

Well that's good to hear. [He looks simultaneously manic and thoughtful.] Very... comforting. It's good to fit in.

[kunsel]

Yeah, that it is. I guess everyone needs some
solidarity sometime, huh? Anyway, my name's
Kunsel. What's yours?

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[no_nonsense]

[Of all the things Susan was prepared to see when she opened her network book, the cheerfully unhinged visage of Jonathan Teatime was not one of them. She'd never snapped a book closed so fast in her life. A moment later, expression torn between horrified denial and seething anger, she reopened it.]

No.

[This was not an exclamation of panic or dismay, and was most certainly not something that should be mistaken for 'Oh, no.' Plainly and simply, this was Susan telling both Teatime and the universe at large that this, all of this, was absolutely unacceptable. She glowered.]

You need to leave.

[It didn't occur to her until after she'd said it that it was both a) impossible, and b) something everyone else had been attempting to do for some time now.]

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[elegance_guaranteed]

[Her rejection does nothing to dampen his good mood. He smiles and cycles through two complete blinks before replying.]

Susan! I've been looking for you.

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[no_nonsense]

[Her face couldn't actually become any more grim or unamused so, quite inadvertently, Susan had no visible reaction to that chipper piece of information.]

No.

[Unfortunately, until she took a moment and thought this through, that was all she had to say. Susan hated repeating herself, it was something that bothered her to no end, and it didn't stop bothering her just because Teatime bothered her more. Satisfying as denial was, in the short run, it wasn't a good overall approach to life. So, as she resigned herself to his presence being reality, she narrowed her eyes and took a silent moment to absorb the situation.

'Why are you here?' wasn't likely to be something he would answer even if he could, and he couldn't. Nobody had that particular tidbit of information. 'Why are you alive?' was similarly useless. 'How did you even get here?' was a bit pointless to ask, given that she already knew, but it did raise another question.]

Did you get found by a magical glowing deer? Or did you just drop dead and pop up on the lawn?

[elegance_guaranteed]

Magic deer? No, no. Nothing so exciting as that.

I just followed you is all.

[no_nonsense]

You most certainly did not.

[At least, she really, really hopes he didn't. Then again, he'd been dead, and there was no telling what he believed in or where that had sent him after he'd left his corpse.

Oh dear, did that make this Teatime's hell? No, he was manic (or rather, he was a maniac), if anything this was his heaven.

No, Susan couldn't be having with that line of thinking. It was time to change the subject, and drastically.]

I assume you're using the new stone to talk to on, but who was fool enough to give you a new sword? It certainly wasn't the Hogfather.

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[So, on the one hand, Greed has had enough of people with creepy mismatched eyes to last him a lifetime. On the other hand, he can be really nosy sometimes. So:]

Everybody's what?

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[His grin widens to show more teeth. The expression doesn't seem natural, but then, few of his do. ] Why, Hogswatch. A defunct holiday to celebrate an entity that doesn't exist.

[Doesn't exist thanks to him and he is endlessly proud of this.]

[appealingavarice]

That's a weird holiday to have.

[Mildly creeped out Greed may still be, but he's also very unimpressed by the actual content of this guy's statement.]

[elegance_guaranteed]

Completely pointless and forgettable. [Teatime agrees in a chipper little chirp. Greed's nonchalance is welcome. The last thing Teatime wants is for people to ask too many inconvenient questions and start believing in the deity that he had worked so hard to inhume.]

[appealingavarice]

[Greed is not exactly the religious type anyway, but he does think it's weird how happy this guy is about something being pointless.

But he doesn't actually care all that much, so with a visible eyeroll and a dismissive "hm", he moves to turn off his radio-thing.]