AUDIENCE: ZUKO

[retellers]

Comments

[cuedoves]

I was already planning to talk to her. I just like to get my information from multiple sources.

Your rules are pretty complicated.

[retellers]

They're actually pretty easy to follow along, they're just more of a frustration than anything.

[cuedoves]

What happens if you remove your mask?

[retellers]

Oh. At this point, nothing.

I couldn't remove it for you though.

[cuedoves]

What's the rule about it?

[retellers]

[ they blink. ]

What do you mean?

[cuedoves]

Do you have rules like we do? You guys said "protocol" before....

[retellers]

We do, yes.

... but um, we would prefer not to unmask to people who don't really make the effort to talk to us.

[cuedoves]

... I thought it was breaking a rule or something to do it?

[ also nts to show the diary page next tag before i fuckin forget ]

[retellers]

It's more that... it wasn't a blatant rule, but it was implied enough that we weren't sure if we'd be punished for it if we just took them off right away.

[ ... ]

And um, I'm sorry, but we weren't going to take the risk just to speak to you without a mask on...

[ getting shocked hurts. you can deal with the masks. ]

[cuedoves]

Oh, uh... I wasn't asking you to. I just wanted to know how it works.

[ awkward back of head rub!! finally he will get to the point and show wabbit this ]

Seeing this made me wonder. Do you know anything about it?

[retellers]

[ awkward.

but they will look at it to read. ]

I've been shown this... but I didn't write this.

[cuedoves]

Do you know who might of, or where it came from?

[ finally i can respond to my 23809283092832th other thread with you ]

[retellers]

No... I think it sounds a little like Fox, when they're not speaking to participants.

[ without the customer service voice. ]

[cuedoves]

... Does he talk differently with you guys?

[ stop misgendering zuko ]

[retellers]

I... wouldn't say differently, it's more that...

[ hm. ]

They sometimes show that they're tired, a little more often.

[cuedoves]

Even without memories?

[ take a fucking nap, fox. ]

... He does seem tired.

[retellers]

[ they just nod. ]

I... get along best with them. I'm not sure if I can say that we're friends, but I do want to look out for them.

[cuedoves]

He's pretty annoying.

[ thanks zuko ]

... but me too. I think you'll do a better job than me, though.

[retellers]

... I don't know. Maybe. There's a lot I'm not allowed to talk to them about, so there's only so much I can personally do where it actually counts.

[cuedoves]

Really? What are you not allowed to talk to them about? Aside from like.. who's on whose team, and all that stuff.

[retellers]

We can't really talk too much about the competition since we're supposed to be rivals. Which... wouldn't have been a problem if things went the way it was supposed to.

[ aka, if there was no murder. ]

[cuedoves]

.... Yeah.

[ murder ruins everything ]

But you can talk about other stuff, can't you? Or... explore together, or something.

[retellers]

We can, but... things got a little awkward after the murders started happening, I guess.

[cuedoves]

... I guess you could always try talking about other things to get his mind off of it?

[ zuko awkwardly wingmaning the npc friendship ]