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[drinkthebleach]

[Picture it: the grimy interior of an international pancake house, where all good culinary choices go to die in a semi-hygienic grave. One might ask themselves who in their right mind would hang out in such a place on a Tuesday afternoon by choice, aside from stoners and people on dates that they're trying to hide from their friends and the rest of respectable society.

Once the NV is propped up against something (presumably a napkin dispenser) that question is answered in the form of Pickles the Drummer, sitting alone in one of the faded blue and yellow booths. There's a pint of coffee and a giant stack of pancakes in front of him, slathered in butter and maple syrup. He lifts his eyebrows at the camera in response to well...everything.]

Guess this means I'm back for a while. If yer surprised, that makes two of us--I was out there tryin' to destroy that stupid piece of shit, an' it still puts me back in this place? I thought machines were supposed to be smarter than us. I've been here nine months, an' it's shaped up to have less IQ points than a fuckin' vibrator. I dunno.

Anyway, I'm glad that bein' killed was actually pretty brutal. Death, an' people gettin' murdered, that's the kinda shit my band always talked about. It's in all of our fuckin' songs. I mean, I'm a death metal musician, for fuck's sake, that's my bread an' butter right there, y'know? So it wasn't a huge let-down, that's all I'm sayin'. An' that's good: I don't wanna make no more job changes. It sucks.

But apparently the news came out an' said that I was some kinda menace, a while back. Now there's a strip club ten minutes away from my pal's apartment that won't let me back in 'cause they think I'm gonna set the girls on fire, or some bullshit like that. An' that's the fuckin' lamest part. [He rolls his eyes while delivering this hyperbole and takes a bite of pancake. And yes, being banned from a boobie bar is clearly the most inconvenient part about being gunned down by a group of Canadian robocops.]

So what else did I miss?

Comments

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[lockandkeyblade]

Waaiiiit a second. You're Pickles, right?

The one who tried to burn the baseball diamond?

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[drinkthebleach]

Yeaaah? [If Pickles didn't already know about the news article, this display of omniscience would creep him out.

Though admittedly it was still kind of weird having some baby-faced kid ask him about it.] That's me, all right. It wasn't really the baseball diamond I was mad about, though.

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[lockandkeyblade]

[Article was the reason he knew Pickles name. But the reason he knew about the incident? That's a whole other story. Sora was one of the Greeters who had to work on the field after it was all charred and crispy. Sorry Pickles, baby face is about to try and give a little lecture.]

You did it cause you were mad about something?!

Someone could've really gotten hurt if they hadn't gotten that fire under control, you know!

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[madeinoblivion]

Yeah.

I heard about it from the news...

That did look...pretty brutal. Yeah.

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[drinkthebleach]

It would've been way more brutal if they just let me go through with it--but dyin' wasn't so bad, I guess.

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[madeinoblivion]

You do remember me, right?

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[axetrid]

You're alive? Woah.

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[drinkthebleach]

I'd call it a miracle, but s' hard to see it like that when some douche bag machine brought you back.

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[axetrid]

Well, did you end up somewhere awesome like Valhalla? What was it like?

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[seaphonic]

You died?

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[drinkthebleach]

Apparently. That's the only explanation I got for what happened.

[brat_from_hell]

What's death metal like?

[drinkthebleach]

Oh. Well, uhh...have you heard any other heavy metal song, before?

[inthejunk]

Dude, you were dead?

[drinkthebleach]

I wouldn't lie 'bout that shit. ...So yeah, I died, pretty much.

[axemeaquestion]

Hold up. Hold up, hold up, hold up. You DIED?

[drinkthebleach]

[The shadow of a grimace crosses his features--so for a split second, Pickles almost looks like the kid that threw a baseball through the neighbor's window.]

If I say yes, yer not gonna hit me, right?

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[vinovidivici]

[ Oh it's that guy who the news said got shot six times. More importantly, it's the guy who crashed into his apartment while his tiny descendant was there! And he seems kinda skeezey?? Obviously that's the priority here. ]

You really going in front of everyone to complain about not being able to get into some strip joint? [ side-eyeing the video hard. ]

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[drinkthebleach]

[Skeezy? Probably. But pedobear he never was. Otherwise there were some truly horrible implications to Loki being his Best Bad Life Choice Friend Forever.]

Yeah. [Staring right back. Wondering what your damage is, bro.]

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[andr_ai_a]

Wow. After all that you managed to come back?

[Man, Users are terrifying beings. It makes sense though, they can have multiple lives in a game]

So how many more lives do you think you have left?

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[drinkthebleach]

[That slight widening of Pickles's eyes? That's him processing the very tanned, very hot lady on his NV screen.]

Believe me, I'm just as shocked as you are.

...I thought I only had the one. Wait--does the Core give us extra lives or somethin'? Is that why people keep comin' back?

[Reaction/Video] [Late as Crap but she would so react to this.]

[gavesugar]

[The sound Sheila makes is one of total, utter shock.

She's wearing black for you, Pickles.

And after staring at him for a long moment, she finally speaks up.]

Ye live?

[Video] (The party don't stop until Sheila walks in <3333)

[drinkthebleach]

[Of course Pickles doesn't immediately connect Sheila's black clothes to what happened to him (give him a break, he was new to this whole resurrection thing). Her look and sound of surprise was a little easier for him to catch, and respond to, raising his eyebrows at her.]

...Yeah.

[And then an attempt at humor to lighten the atmosphere.] Or a really fleshy ghost. I dunno.

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[hisoldgirl]

You're the second person here I've spoken with who mentioned dying and coming back. It's such a curious thing, considering humans aren't supposed to be able to do that.

Tell me: Has anything changed that you can remember between before your death and now? Loss of cognitive ability, delayed synaptic responses, sluggishness, a peculiar taste in your mouth?

<3 Welcome to the party! o/

[drinkthebleach]

[Loooongest time to respond.]


...My ass has been itchin' a lot. An' a few freckles on my shoulder I don't remember bein' there before, but y'know, could just be the weather gettin' warmer.