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[orangetoughguy]

accidental audio

[Look when you're trying to learn how to use this device thing there are going to be mistakes. This is one of them. Beep beep. Click.]

"I thought he died."

"No, he didn't die. They don't do that kind of shit. It's Happy Days."

[Beep of a button being pressed. Slurping a drink.]

"Well he disappeared."

"Yeah, they call it college. At least in TV land. Either way, after a while it didn't matter."

[More shuffling...and maybe the crinkling of a wrapper...then:]

"You seriously watched Happy Days?"

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[orangetoughguy]

Fuck.

[Maybe she can hear the smoke streaming out of his mouth when he says that too.]

[eiremagic]

That's why I gave yeh a packet of food, yeh know. No money, no place to stay, at least I didn' want yeh to starve.

[orangetoughguy]

Yeah, I mean thanks for that.

[More bridge pinching.]

You got any idea where a guy can get money around here?

[eiremagic]

Usually people get jobs. Unless yeh're underage.

[orangetoughguy]

What is it like dollars? Yen? What? I doubt credit extends this far out.

[eiremagic]

No, they're these bright colored coins. They look like play money.

[orangetoughguy]

...Are we talking like red and gold and blue and green shit?

[eiremagic]

Yeah, those.

[orangetoughguy]

Sounds easy to spot.

[No implications here.]

[eiremagic]

And fuckin' easy to lose, too.

[orangetoughguy]

Got any idea what's what? I won't work for fucking pennies.

[eiremagic]

Yeah. Red's the smallest, like a piece of cheap candy. Orange is most common, probably like a dollar or somethin'; next up is yellow, that'll usually buy yeh a pack of fags. Then green, that's worth two yellows, then blue worth about 50 oranges, then violet's about a hundred oranges, and indigos, those are worth the most, about 500 oranges.

Me rent's two indigos a month, for example.

[orangetoughguy]

[He's writing this down as fast as he can while she talks in that heavy accent.]

Rent. That's a motherfucker.

[eiremagic]

Well, there are a couple of shiteholes yeh can get away with not payin' rent on, but I've lived in enough of those in me life.

[orangetoughguy]

Seen'em.

[He mentions off hand. He and White have been driving a lot, to the point of running on empty.]

[eiremagic]

Yeah, they're not all that conspicuous. Have yeh been walkin' around tryin' to find a way out for the past few days?

[orangetoughguy]

No, not exactly. From the sound of it it's a waste of fucking time.

[eiremagic]

Yeah, to say the fuckin' least.

[orangetoughguy]

You go through this too? When you came around?

[eiremagic]

I was fresh out of the Troubles, when I came about. No one from me world is here, and I wanted to shoot everyone I saw.

So somethin' like that, yeah.

[orangetoughguy]

Sounds like you pulled through anyway.

[eiremagic]

I've been here two and a half years, yeh know.

If I didn' pull through I'd be mad.