IC Contact - Duplicity

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[scarrystories]

Yeah, it's a whole mess. Apparently they were satanists, there was some kind of ritual thing, she survived, they didn't.

Anyway, she needed hugs.

[understood]

That's horrific.

[scarrystories]

Yeah. She kinda struggles like, getting her mind around the fact that the man she loved also tried to kill her, and then there's Daniel, her fiance's brother, who's here and also all sorts of messed up.

I kinda like him, but he doesn't like himself at all.

[understood]

I— sorry, where does the goat come into this?

[scarrystories]

Human sacrifices were very uncommon. There was a chance when someone married into the family that the newcomer would be sacrificed, but it happened once every... I don't know, 30 years? What they did sacrifice regularly was goats, so apparently one of the dickheads compared her to a goat.

[understood]

[ His eyes flash. ]

Not one of the men who are in Duplicity?

[ SOMEONE NEEDS A TED TALK ON COURTESY ]

[scarrystories]

[ Andy walks over and kisses his cheek. ]

No, no, she'll tell me if any jerks show up.

[understood]

[ Fraser tilts his cheek into it and then hands Andy a plate of delicious breakfast. ]

I'm glad you could be there for her.

[scarrystories]

I got her a snuggie.

[ He takes the plate and kisses Ben again. ]

[understood]

A what?

[scarrystories]

A blanket with sleeves.

[understood]

You mean, a sweater?

[scarrystories]

No, it's more like a wizard robe worn backwards.

[understood]

Oh. I see.

[scarrystories]

I got a stupid headband from when I was in middle school, by the way. It belonged to a bully I beat up.

[understood]

...

A bully you beat up, or a bully whose attempt to beat you up was turned back on him?

[scarrystories]

I bully who beat up other kids and I openly challenged. I got suspended, but I made sure to keep one good punch and all the kids backed me up, so he got suspended for much longer.

[understood]

It's not something you look back on with any fondness, I take it.

[scarrystories]

I was a massive shit, so no, not really.

[understood]

[ Fraser pats his shoulder sympathetically. ]

I got a basketball, myself. I thought perhaps we could set up a hoop.

[scarrystories]

You got basketball trauma?

[understood]

I wouldn't call it basketball trauma. It actually took an embarrassingly long time for me to figure out what it was supposed to represent, although I see the logic in retrospect.

[scarrystories]

You wanna tell me about it?

[understood]

[ He really doesn't. ]

Well, you see, Andy, I failed to prevent a number of deaths, in a series of events that a whimsically inclined narrator might choose to tie together with basketball as a motif.

[scarrystories]

... I don't see, no.