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So what do you say now.

As nice as he looks when he smiled, or rather I smile now, he really wasn't as nice when I saw him at the bar of his hotel. I watched him a bit, his rather arrogant demenour and I was curious to know if this impression was acsurate.

So I decided to have a little fun, looked around and quickly had an idea, following one of several waiters as he went to a provate sector.

"Is there any partition available today?" I asked and he luckily responded positively.

"Great, may I have a look?"

Of cause I could. And of cause I had no real interest in using it as intended. In fact I gave him a shot the moment he stepped into the small, rather tasteful room stocked with a comfy seating area and a low table.

He sank towards the seats immediately with me closing the dooer while already opening his belt. I didn't want to waiste any time.

So a few minutes later I stepped out of the separee with my new look again, checking my waiters outfit for any mishaps.

"Perfect" I smiled to myself.

When I got to his seat, positioned directly at the bar, he had a rather full glass infront of him, possibly something like an old fashioned.

"Anything I can serve you with" I asked non the less, having quite some good ideas of that in the back of my mind.

He looked at me halfeyed, with an expression of slight unpleasancy.

"I don't think so" he replied, giving me no doubt as of how much he seemed him self abough a waiter like I was at that moment.

'Evidence no 1' I noted in my mind and went away for that moment.

'Let's see what the restroom has to offer' I thought.

The restroom was empty, so I looked at myself in the mirror. The waiter was quite cute even though rather towards average. I just wanted to slide fown his pants out of curiosity as the door opened.

An older guy entered.

'Well then...' I thought, following him to the stalls where I hit him with another shop as he reached for the door.

He was quite average, greyish hair, not particularly habdsome, but not unpleasant to look at either.

Quickly I got out of the waiter and into my new didguise, bringing his sleak, grey suit in order and starting the reversed conversion for the waiter before I left.

I looked around. The guy I slipped in probably wasn't alone. But I didn't plan on stealing him away too long, so I didn't bother too much.

I went to my suspect again, placed myself on an empty chair close to him and told the bartender to give me what he had.

I nodded over. But my guy just gave me a slight look.

When my drink was ready, I toasted towards him. "Rough day?"

"As rough as any" he answered rather short-noted. Of cause this isn't to be blamed in and of itself.

So I tried to enhance a conversation, tried to politely go further, show interest, provide some friendly pasttime.

It wasn't very fruitful and of cause this is absolutely tolerable, but, I gotta say, all the time my first expression of jim beeing arrogant and rather negative in attitude wasn't exactly counteracted, even concidering him having just a bad day and simply not beeing in the mood for a conversation.

This especially got fortified when I finally decided to leave.

I just gave him a short "Well, I'll head off. You have a nice evening" when he kinda exploded.

"You know what? You old fuck of a loser? I couldn't care less if you'd leave or if a pit would open under your ugly self, eating you up into the botomless hell you deserve"

I froze. Even though I kinda tried to annoy him on purpuse bye bindung him into a meaningless chat, this wasn't what I expected at all.

So I stood there, looked right ahead until I gave out a little sigh of amusement about myself on beeing surprised like that when he added "so fuck off already!" In a tone that only I could here, barely showing the true self he just revealed in his handsome face.

And as I turned away to leave there was just the sight I needed, even if I hadn't thought of that before.

A promising girl was heading towards the restroom. And I knew, this would be just the perfect next step in my little game.

So I followed. This would be risky.

Luckily, the doors to the restrooms were hifden from the main area. So when I got to the girls door I could open it without added risk after maning sure that I was alone.

I peaked in at first. Nobody. Just the closing door to the stalls.

So I got in, rushing to the ndxt door to have another peak. And as I just saw the back of that girl I took my chance, rushed in and aimed for her side with the shot I had pulled out the inner pocket of my suits jacked.

She already was about to get into one of the stall when I hit her, leading for her to instantly go down. So I followed, grabbed her bye the hips and locked the stall behind us.

Minutes later I stepped infront of the mirrors of the first room.

She was perfect! How lucky I was, especially in getting her alone. Even the stalls were empty.

So now I could check her out a bit, me, in this very unusual, female form. But this would be worth it, that I was sure of.

She wore an elegant, yet casual grey dress, hugging her nice body the right amaount of sexy without beeing vulgar. Her face was quite allueing, pearcing, kind eyes, lush lips, secy, but aproachable and her figure... well, lets say, there was quite the nice shapes to explore.

So I left, hoping, that my suspect was still there. An involuntary smile emerged on my face when I saw that guy still holding on to his drink with the seat besides him still empty.

'Act three' I thought, crossing the room to let myself down on that seat I had just left merely 10 minutes ago.

I just lifted my hand towards the bartender when he raised his voice.

"Martini?" He asked with a casual look to me.

"Martini" I replied with a polite smile, playing his not really subtle game. This was exactly the thing I had expected from him. But to be honest, I did grant him a bit more finesse that what he played on further.

"What brings a beautiful lady into a bar alone"

I really had to push hard to contain myself. Such an asshole, such a predictable douchebag. But this was exactly what played in the game I was playing myself.

So I gave in, played the nice, interested girl, looked at him in just the right amount of aw, laughed in the right moments, and held his gaze just the right amount to build tension without beeing too easy.

And it worked. When he finally got off, suggesting another drink in private, I could barely contain the feeling of success.

So we left the bar, talked, laughed on. And when he came close in the elevator, stroking my side, I wasn't that surprised, taking a nice, quite skillful kiss while we ascended.

His room was quite average. But I didn't see all that much as he aproached me the moment we got in, pulled me in to lead his hand over the thin fabric of my dress.

His big hands felt quite good, his left hand on my neck to give me another kiss.

So we made out, drifting towards the room until he pushed me onto the bed. He really wasn't a bad lover which was certainly a welcomed bonus.

But when he started to feel inbetween my legs I decided to stear this into the direction I intended.

And I did it quick.

With one move I brought him onto his back.

"Hmm, a girl that knows what she wants" he said with a smile.

"Oh well this certainly is very, very true." I replied, reaching for my neck before adding some other words.

"You really shouldn't have be such a prick to those that don't fit your type" I said "shouldn't you"

Those last words, though, didn't sound all that girly anymore. In fact he seemed to recognize that tone very well, widening the eyes while trying to get off under me.

But with this, he didn't come very far. While opening that girls shell in my neck I had placed my other hand besides him.

So now it was nothing more than a push to the shot to give him what he deserved.

Echidna is located on the frog planet, so I guess it would make sense if she offered Choices that related to frog breeding. Maybe she needs to 'approve' the nascent universe, just like she did the Scratch.

CG: WHAT WAS SHE EVEN SAYING TO YOU, I CAN'T UNDERSTAND A WORD OF THAT HORRIFYING GIBBERISH. GG: i can understand her just fine!

It’s reasonable to assume that only the Denizen’s designated Player can understand their speech.

That would probably prevent any Player from completing a Quest that wasn’t assigned to them, which was one of my suggestions for ways to ‘break Sburb’, a million billion years ago.

CG: I STILL DON'T REALLY GET IT. CG: WHY MY DENIZEN WAS SUCH A NIGHTMARE WHILE YOURS APPARENTLY GIVES YOU GUTTURAL PEP TALKS IN SOME BYZANTINE MONSTER LANGUAGE. GG: we already talked about this GG: echidna and i have an understanding now ;) CG: OOH, VAGUE BULLSHIT, IT'S THE EXACT FUCKING THING I CAN'T GET ENOUGH OF. GG: well maybe if you werent in such a grumpy hurry all the time you wouldnt have killed your denizen so quickly GG: you might have actually learned something!!!!!!

I'm willing to bet that Karkat shot first, aggroing his Denizen before it had even opened its mouth. Just like Eridan and his angels, the possibility that this NPC wasn't an enemy simply didn't enter Karkat's head.

...granted, the Consorts do to tell you that your Denizen needs to be slain, so the messaging is a little all over the place. Perhaps the game straight-up lies about how the Denizens work, in order to test the Players in some way.

After all, a species which shoots first and asks questions later might not have an ideal temperament to rule over a universe...

...so maybe Sgrub ensures that they can't.

GG: did you ever talk to kanaya about it? […] GG: her situation was very similar to mine

If the kids needed to activate their frog, then so did the trolls. It sounds like Kanaya, at least, had the wherewithal to listen to her Denizen before immediately popping a Fraymotif.

CG: I THOUGHT SHE KILLED HER DENIZEN TO LIGHT THE FORGE OR SOMETHING GG: it doesnt sound like you got the whole story

An irregular island

  This image, courtesy of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS), captures the glow of distant stars within NGC 5264, a dwarf galaxy located just over 15 million light-years away in the constellation of Hydra (The Sea Serpent).

Dwarf galaxies like NGC 5264 typically possess around a billion stars — just one per cent of the number of stars found within the Milky Way. They are usually found orbiting other, larger, galaxies such as our own, and are thought to form from the material left over from the messy formation of their larger cosmic relatives.

NGC 5264 clearly possesses an irregular shape — unlike the more common spiral or elliptical galaxies — with knots of blue star formation. Astronomers believe that this is due to the gravitational interactions between NGC 5264 and other galaxies nearby. These past flirtations sparked the formation of new generations of stars, which now glow in bright shades of blue.

And she has no problem respecting it, either - but that makes perfect sense for Kanaya. As a fellow Space girl, she's probably just as sick of Time bullshit as Jade is.

CG: I HAVE STUFF TO ATTEND TO HERE. MY TEAM IS FALLING APART. CG: AND I CAN'T FIND GAMZEE ANYWHERE. I'M WORRIED HE MIGHT HAVE WANDERED OFF SOMEWHERE AND GOT HURT. GG: aw GG: well… GG: youll find him

Ouch.

See, this is why it’s hard to blame Vriska for being evasive about Dad. Jade’s in the same position here, and Karkat does ‘deserve’ to know, in some abstract sense – but what can she really say?

If she tells him about Gamzee now, the timeline would doom itself – and even if it didn’t, it wouldn’t actually help Karkat’s situation. He’d just feel even more helpless than he already does, powerless to prevent Gamzee’s inevitable breakdown.

GG: she says youre important to consult on the matter, but the you from her time is too busy CG: BUSY WITH WHAT?

...don’t worry about it.

GG: she is opening a memo

Oh, now this is a trio with some serious comedic potential.

Karkat’s angry, Kanaya’s calm, and Jade can match energy with them both. Bring it on!

It’s a little hard to click on this last image; I kept getting inadvertently sent back to Rose and Dave’s conversation.