Pulp 013 Declan Fry and Sofia

[11:34 PM] Declan Fry: waves.

[11:35 PM] Xho: Sofia: She's very pretty.

[11:36 PM] Declan Fry: She is. You're quite lovely too. This seems a good looking crew in general.

[11:38 PM] Xho: Sofia: Thank you! They are, aren't they?

[11:39 PM] Declan Fry: So what do you do here, Miss Sofia?

[11:40 PM] Xho: Sofia: Usually I bite people and drink their blood. Sometimes I eat cake!

[11:40 PM] Declan Fry: At least you can still eat cake, right?

[11:41 PM] Xho: Sofia: I do like cake. People are nice about letting me take their blood, though. I drank two Thule people yesterday, though.

[11:42 PM] Declan Fry: Do bad guys taste better or worse?

[11:45 PM] Xho: Sofia: It depends on what they've been eating, really. These ones tasted like sausage.

[11:47 PM] Declan Fry: So where did this whole fight happen?

[11:47 PM] Xho: Sofia: On the beach! It was so pretty, the moon was out and everything.

[11:49 PM] Declan Fry: Sounds like a scenic location to fight nazis.

[11:50 PM] Xho: Sofia: It was lovely! And then people started throwing iceballs and things.

[11:50 PM] Declan Fry: Sounded like a pretty violent snowball fight.

[11:53 PM] Xho: Sofia: Casper likes ice.

[11:53 PM] Xho: Sofia: And everyone shot at everyone. I got shot a little too, but I didn't mind.

[11:54 PM] Declan Fry: You must be a fast healer. I've been shot once, I didn't like it at all.

[11:55 PM] Xho: Sofia: Oh, vampires don't mind that sort of thing. Where were you shot?

[11:55 PM] Declan Fry: In the shoulder. This was about a year ago or so.

[11:55 PM] Declan Fry: pats his shoulder.

[11:55 PM] Xho: Sofia: Did it hurt a lot?

[11:57 PM] Declan Fry: A bit. The worst part is that you can feel the bullet ripping through you when it happens. That's not one of the things they talk about in the books.

May 22, 2021

[12:00 AM] Xho: Sofia: Oh! That's true, but it's not as bad for me now that I'm not alive, I think. Why did they shoot you?

[12:03 AM] Declan Fry: Oh, they were bad men trying to kidnap a bunch of kids in London. It was a whole... thing. It's fine now.

[12:04 AM] Xho: Sofia: That's terrible, I like children. Sometimes they play with me.

[12:08 AM] Declan Fry: So.... you said you had been part of this for 800 years? How did that happen?

[12:09 AM] Xho: Sofia: Six! The Society dug me up and they were going to kill me. But I asked them to please not do that and we had cake instead.

[12:11 AM] Declan Fry: How about before that?

[12:12 AM] Xho: Sofia: I don't remember before that much. I think it was bad, though.

[12:19 AM] Declan Fry: nods. "I understand.  Things are better now, I hope, though?"

[12:20 AM] Declan Fry: Friends, cake, Nazis to eat?

[12:21 AM] Xho: Sofia brightens. "Yes! People are nice to me. And I don't have to do anything I don't want to do."

[12:25 AM] Declan Fry: Seems like a good deal. It's mostly been me and my assistant, but it's good to have more friends, right?

[12:27 AM] Declan Fry: It's generally frowned upon, yes.

[12:28 AM] Declan Fry: I've never liked that trick, honestly.

[12:28 AM] Xho: Sofia: Why not?

[12:29 AM] Declan Fry: It asks a lot of the audience. A bit too much.

[12:30 AM] Xho: Sofia: It does?

[12:31 AM] Declan Fry: If I do a card trick for you, there's all kinds of ways it can go. you don't know where to look. If I tell you I'm sawing a lady in half.... you already know the magician isn't actually sawing a lady in half. So you know it's a trick from the outset and you spent the whole time looking for the seams of the trick rather than taking it in.

[12:32 AM] Xho: Sofia: Oh, I see! That's true.

[12:33 AM] Declan Fry: Also there's some creeps who just want to see a pretty girl get sawed in half and I refuse to cater to creeps.

[12:35 AM] Xho: Sofia: Why would they want to see a pretty girl sawed in half?

[12:36 AM] Declan Fry: Because they're creeps.

[12:36 AM] Declan Fry nods.

[12:36 AM] Xho: Sofia: Oh. ... I don't think I understand but I suppose I'm not a creep!

[12:51 AM] Declan Fry: No. And that's a good thing.

[12:52 AM] Xho: And we can stop there for the night. Sounds good?

[12:52 AM] Declan Fry: ((Sure!))