kazoo 19 - video [cw; alcohol]

[secondconflict]

[Kerry's brand new to the train and already feels stupidly raw given everything his first day made him confront. He looks tired when he starts the video.]

So the shop's the best place to buy a drink, ya? I just arrived here but could really use anything that dulls the senses. Problem is, don't 'xactly got the cred yet to start tossin' it around on somethin' like that. [As someone who has spent the last five decades with enough money to get whatever he wants, Kerry finds this very offputting, but he's trying not to seem like a rich bitch right off the bat so he still just seems tired more than annoyed.]

Any way I can set up an IOU or somethin'?

Oh, um, name's Kerry, by the by.

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[yondu]

I got a bottle of vodka I ain't cut into yet.

[He doesn't even question it.]

I'll pass it on to ya.

[secondconflict]

You're my new favorite person, choom.

[yondu]

No problem. I'm in 1:B or I can take it down to you, if'n ya tell me where you're at.

[He's chewing a toothpick right now, so Kerry can be sure he's getting it from the classiest blue man.]

[secondconflict]

I'll come to ya. [Because if he's being offered booze, he could at least have the decency to pick it up.]

I'll be right there.

[yondu]

[Guy sure sounds like he needs it, and Yondu was paid a kindness when he showed up. Might as well pay it forward.]

[He grabs the bottle and goes out in the hall to wait. So when Kerry gets there, there's a guy with a big ol' cybernetic implant sticking out of his head waiting on him, holding that bottle of vodka.]

Hittin' ya hard, huh? [He asks when he sees Kerry coming.]

[secondconflict]

[Kerry has his own cybernetic implants but his look a little more on the fashionable side rather than being intimidating. He doesn't seem surprised at all by Yondu's blue skin either. He chuckles in a slightly dark way as Yondu brings up how terrible he looks.]

Fuck me, I must look like total shit.

[yondu]

Seen a lot worse. [Yondu shrugs, not judging.]

You need some company or you havin' one of them 'alone drinkin' moods?

[Because he's been there and he'll not fault a man for feeling the same.]

Just gonna hit you with two people.

[zombiemessiah]

I wish I could help ya, friend. I owned a bar and club before I came here. Just the lack of company is killin' me.

[He wasn't much of a handout guy, but he often found himself doing to against his better judgment and in even more troublesome cases than a guy needing a drink.]

[secondconflict]

Never owned a place like that but frequented plenty. Too bad you couldn't bring it with ya.

[zombiemessiah]

Too bad it wouldn't work here. Too many kids.

But the people here? Clients would have been out of this world. Literally, in some cases. It would have been great havin' some of these guys in a place where they could cut loose....

...Though maybe some of them outside.

[What with the waterworks and the super strength and the party gods.]

[secondconflict]

Think everybody could cut loose from time to time.

Know for sure I wouldn't mind it right 'bout now.

[zombiemessiah]

Sounds like our best chance to do something like that's gonna be on the job.

If you're into that whole saving the world thing. I'm hit or miss, myself.

[secondconflict]

Folks are what are worth savin,' world's gonna do what it wants to do.

[Video]

[gentle_jim]

Now that -- that's a mood.

And since I'm apparently not allowed to enjoy myself around here... [grumbling]

Guess I could spot you. You know, out of the goodness of my heart. Or whatever the hell is in my chest now. Gears? Whatever.

[secondconflict]

'ppreciate it. And, uh, not to pry but sounds like you been put into a synthetic body? Was that against yer will?

[He's wondering if this stranger is like Lizzy Wizzy who had no say in having her mind moved into a mostly cybernetic body because her label refused to allow her to die.]

[gentle_jim]

Ehhhhh. Didn't exactly ask for this specific body, but it's a helluva lot better than no body. So yeah, thanks again for that, Train Babe.

[He looks up and blows a kiss.]

'S what happens when you die and wake up on a freakin' disc drive because the stupid scientist who was making your new body died before he could finish. Idiot.

You got some cybernetic shit going on yourself too, huh, pal?

[secondconflict]

Got one or two implants. [Or more, he's not one to count.]

There many folks here with some chrome?

[gentle_jim]

Wouldn't say many. More like a couple.

There's one guy who's got a ton, so you could say he's got the market cornered by himself.

[secondconflict]

Yeah? What guy?

[bakegarasu]

I can spot you. What kind do you like? Not specific brands, types. The store gets weird like that.

[secondconflict]

Thanks so much, man. And honestly? I woke up in another dimension to find I'm stuck on a train with my ex. Not in a place to be picky.

[bakegarasu]

No problem. ... Ex, huh? Sounds rough.

I can swing by the store and then... where are you right now?

[secondconflict]

In my cabin, but I'll meet you there.

[He's not going to say anything more about V for now, unless he's asked about it.]

[bakegarasu]

I'm in Sleeper 1, so it won't take me too long. Standard car and luggage are both pretty quiet, and luggage already smells halfway to a bar.

[People smoke in there, and it's an almost comforting scent to him.]

[secondconflict]

Let's meet in luggage then? [If people smoke in there, maybe he can see if he can bum a cig too.]