#ibabblealot

Hiya, @ibabblealot :> Hope I can help you find some good refs!!

First is Manny's room!

Here's shots of the apartment building the Riveras live in.

Rodolfo's room:

Living room shots:

It was while you were grubsitting the clownlets. It had been a while since you hung out with anyone that wasn't a clown

And you had to do ALOT of bargaining with the others for them to let you technically out of their sight for a few hours.

All 3 of you were catching up while the clownlets had decided to practice some tricks off of your old home/hideout/watchtower.

Stelsa was acting like more of their grubsitter than you were, fretting here and there about them not hurting themselves.

Tyzias made a few jokes about her not needing clown blood on her hands when she was already a rebel.

It was chill.

And then you messed up.

Tyzias was asking about one of your new clown friends and how she hasn't seen you wandering around like you used to.

You forgot where you were due to the relief of seeing 2 of your favorite legislacerators and started going on and on about how Chahut was gonna end up killing you one of these days with how much she was jumping around on the quad grid.

Tyzias, being the good friend that she was, offered to help hide you if you decided to break up with her and lay low.

"Heh, I wish it were that easy. I'd probably have broken up with all of them by now if it wasn't for the whole 'captive' thing, am I right?"

Your small chuckle was met with a furrowed brow and concerned sip of water.

"I'M SORRY, WHAT." Stelsa also chimed in.

To your credit, you did try to hide it and backtrack.

But they were both trained to needle stuff like this out of their targets.

As you struggled to come up with a decent lie, they piled more and more evidence on that disproved it.

Stelsa even pointed out how it made sense that they only ever really saw you with clowns anymore. Never that rainbow of friends you had before.

So you had to tell them.

Stelsa was more freaked out than Tyzias, fretting/worrying over them being rough or just outright abusing you for fun

Tyzias hid her concern better, inquiring more and more about how the logistics even work? Were they being monitored right now?

You explained you managed to bargain your way into this meeting and that they did put a tracker grub on you. Though you wouldn't be surprised if there were some of your diamonds in the area, "just in case" as they would put it.

Both interrogate you about escaping, and you refuse, telling them that the caste knows who they are(part of their conditions) and that you were fine.

If anything you had a whole bunch of influence now. You could go a long way in getting more of the clowns to convert to a not-as-murdery-sect. You were making good progress already!

You also offered to maybe start planting seeds of rebellion within the community with Tyzias' help.

It was a hard pill to swallow for both them, finding out their alien buddy became something of a quad-slave to highbloods.

Bold of you to assume i work until my answers are perfect. Lol i usually have to edit my answers seconds after posting sometimes.

Lucky for me we seem to be on a similar wavelength in terms of clown nonsense.

Though if you really want me to get crazy, ask for quadrant tables with the clowns in relation to the reader like marvus <3 reader <> chahut <3< marvus. Or ask about Xadnam because it's fun to insert myself🤣.