AUDIENCE: ZUKO

[retellers]

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week 3, sunday

[retellers]

[ zuko will receive a message telling him to go to the emporium.

they will see tiger sitting on the counter. they have one of those giant novelty lollipops. ]

[cuedoves]

.... Hey.

[ waves ]

I'm not complaining, but do you know what happened with Emet-Selch?

[retellers]

No fucking clue.

[ they look thoughtful. ]

I'm sure someone does, but... pretty sure they won't admit it openly.

[cuedoves]

.... Yeah, we couldn't even get someone to confess seeing a chameleon kigu.

[ sighing. ]

People were getting hints about things, are there other powers or items around that we don't know about...?

[retellers]

[ there's a nod. ]

Right. So, what happened today was most likely something done by another person here.

[cuedoves]

Where does that kind of thing come from? Do you know?

[retellers]

[ they tap their chin ]

I think that there are more things that people aren't sharing that the general population don't know about.

[cuedoves]

Yeah. [ he figured ] I get why.

... I just want to know those things. [ sulkily!!! ]

[retellers]

Oh my god, you big baby.

[ sulky.... ]

There's not really much I can say because of the whole can't out people rule. I just get to overhear a lot of interesting conversations.

[cuedoves]

I'm not a baby! If you were in my shoes, you'd want to hear, too!

[ he is definitely a baby ]

What about the... powers or items or whatevers? Is it a bonus for killing people?

[retellers]

What? Oh, no. That's just from getting nova. The other teams have been getting them for a while now, but since we suck, we didn't get shit until now.

[cuedoves]

Yeah, I know. I'm trying. [ he's trying!!!! ]

Is it something you guys can give them?

[retellers]

What do you mean?

[cuedoves]

Special powers or items...?

[ he doesn't know where else they'd come from ]

[retellers]

Mm... it's more like the Realm is rewarding people for certain things. Like how people got items from their little adventures? We're not physically handing anything out.

[cuedoves]

So, murder, adventures in memory clusters.... what else is being rewarded?

[ something else occurs to him ]

-- Hey, did you get a memory back?

[retellers]

[ they shrug at the first question!!

but at the second there's a slow nod. ]

Yeah, I did.

[cuedoves]

... At least something good came out of all of this.

What'd you remember?

[ wow zuko you can't just ask an amnesiac what they remembered ]

[retellers]

[ they just give him a long look. ]

Getting shot and dying.

[cuedoves]

... Seriously?

[ that's rough buddy ]

[retellers]

Mmhm.

[ they slide off the counter. ]

Pretty fucked up.

[cuedoves]

[ he nods but he's pg rated so he can't say fuck. ]

[ what he does say instead, is: ]

... I'm sorry.

[retellers]

[ that makes them pause. ]

Well, you know what they say--the hot ones are the first to go.

[ who says that ]

[cuedoves]

I've never heard anyone say that.

[ he doesn't even know what tiger looks like ]

Hot or not, it's really screwed up.

[retellers]

It's definitely hot.

[ tiger wants that to be clear.

... ]

But there's no point in moping about it.