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@volkvolny

[reznikolai]

[At a late hour, Liem receives a photo featuring one Constantin d'Orsay striking a pose with...a bag of ice balanced on his head? The background reveals a scene of drunken revelry, with blurred others crowding around one of the many bars set up along the beach.]

He is so crazzzyyyyy! I love this man!!!

[sterngaze]

[There is definitely a moment where Liem just looks at this message, trying to puzzle out why it has landed in his inbox. It doesn't surprise him at all that Nikolai and Constantin would end up getting drunk together, but he is not certain why he has been chosen to receive updates on their revelries!

In the end he decides it was probably a misfire, but he also suspects that the destination of the message was never especially important to begin with. More importantly...]

Make sure to acquire water in liquid form as well. You'll thank yourselves for it later.

[reznikolai]

An excellent suggestion!

If we bring it with us it will melt eventually and it will be like having a waterskin.

[sterngaze]

Except that waterskins have an opening for drinking from. If you tried to open that bag and drink water from it, most of it would likely end up on the ground.

Also this plan requires you to lug around a sack of ice while you wait for it to melt.

[reznikolai]

You forget that you're talking to an engineer. Surely I can devise a method of opening the bag without spilling all the water. 💦💦💦

We'll make a game of it! How fast can we get the ice to melt?

[sterngaze]

[Only a drunk man could propose a game like that and think it was a good idea.]

Just as long as you actually drink the water in the end.

Why was Constantin balancing ice on his head in the first place?

[reznikolai]

Yes mother we'll be sure to drink the water. 💦💦💦

[Please stop using that emoji.]

Because he has a taste for fine hats of course. 🤠

[sterngaze]

Please, it's Father. 🕍

Did you get a fine hat for yourself as well, for solidarity?

[reznikolai]

Sorry FATHER.

Why a chapel?

This is an excellent point. I'll have to look for one so we can math. 🤠🤠

[sterngaze]

You could grab a bag of dried fruit, and then you'd have snacks to go with Constantin's eventual beverage.

[Fashionable and functional! Okay, maybe not the first one.]

I couldn't find a little picture that looked like a priest.

[reznikolai]

Surely we can find a more stylish snack than dried fruit.

Are you a priest? LOL now I get the joke...

Did I know that already? I don't think I knew that already.

[sterngaze]

[Excuse you Nikolai, dried fruit is a great snack. It's also not made of anything bizarre, which is more than he can say for a lot of the foods he's seen around here.]

I don't think I ever mentioned it.

However, my username has been Father Talbott the entire time we've known each other. So that one might have been on you.

[reznikolai]

[He stares at the username on the screen for a long moment. So it is!]

Oh I think sober Nick oak knew that

Nick laid

Me

[sterngaze]

That's fair. I'm sure there are plenty of things sober Nikolai knows that drunk Nikolai doesn't.

Yes, I am an ordained priest with the church of Abadar. I would be happy to tell you more about it some time when you aren't three sheets to the wind.

[reznikolai]

Sober Nick pal is a very smart fellow!

How do you sound so sober Lime?

Father Lime

[sterngaze]

Hahaha, yes that's me. Father Lime. Minister of many a cocktail.

What you are not seeing is the painstaking amount of time I have to spend typing and retyping these messages so they are error-free.

That is because I am not busy gallivanting about town in the company of a handsome, hat-loving gentleman.

[reznikolai]

LOL! That's your name from now on.

I'll tell Kostya that you think he's handsome. 🤠

[sterngaze]

By all means, though that's hardly a revelation. Also, what interesting nickname. Unless Kostya is also an egregious drunken misspelling.

Does anyone ever actually call you Nick, or is your phone chronically unable to arrange the letters of your name properly?

[reznikolai]

He is pleased nonehteless.

Kostya is short for Contsantim of course. 🤠

I've been called many things but never Nick. It wouldn't be the worst epithet I've been given.

Alina calls me Kolya. That's my favorite one.

[This fact seems highly relevant at the moment...?]

[sterngaze]

Indeed? Is it your favourite because it's the one she uses?

[Damn, Liem, just come right for him.

He doesn't even know this woman, which somehow makes it easier to ask such a bold question.]

[reznikolai]

Respectfully, Father Lime, it wouldn't be the same coming from you.

[sterngaze]

[He's going to take that as a yes. He makes a mental note about this, although he's sure to have forgotten it before the hour is out.]

I wouldn't dare to co-opt your lady friend's special name for you.

Perhaps I will call you Nick Pal instead. Nick for short.

[reznikolai]

[Lady friend............. Ah, he rather likes the sound of that.]

And perhaps I will happily accept!

text; un: dorsay

[takeroot]

[At a definitely middle-of-the-night hour, a message pops up from one Constantin d'Orsay. It is a link... to an internet quiz result. The link boasts the title 'Which type of Gembonded is your ideal match??' and it's definitely very legitimate. This is, indeed, happening right now.

Good evemorning, Liem.]



The cheek! Do you think I should be offended? I am bordering on it!

[sterngaze]

[There is a distinct pause as Liem squints at this web page, just really taking it all in. W-what is this... gemQuiz? Where did Constantin even find this?]

Are you debating the accuracy of the claim, or objecting to the fact that whoever wrote this was clearly either drunk or borderline-illiterate?