GREGOR

[frotag]

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[frotag]

Yeah. We fought a giant apple, and when it died, it blew all its juice and guts on us. [ UGH ] I know it sounds really freakin' stupid, but that's literally what happened, man.

[verminous]

No, that, uh. That sounds about right.

[...

takes a drag of his cigarette.]

Heard you were in the City.

[frotag]

[ turns to look at him ]

Yeah, capital C.

[verminous]

...sorry. Whatever you had to deal with, that-- seems like it was something we went through, before.

[so it's got to be from them in some way, probably.]

[frotag]

...kinda figured, when we saw the other guys with arms like yours. But c'mon, man—you know it's not your fault that something pulled some shit from your memories to fuck with us out.

[ he raises his head to look at gregor with a quiet determination in his eyes. and, well, speaking of eyes... surprise! he has both! but his left one seems to glow faintly at the outer edge of his iris. ]

[verminous]

Still-- not anything you ever should've had to see.

[a little shake of his head, there.]

...say, was your eye always like that?

[frotag]

[ a headshake right back. ]

The apple stabbed me right through it and my brain—fucker got me and Necchan in a two-for-one. I ended up getting a replacement at the medbay once I woke up.

[verminous]

...ah, you really did go through the wringer. But if you died in the middle of fighting it, then-?

[he assumes they came back.]

[frotag]

Like five times, man. Felt like my arm was gonna get yanked right out of its socket by the third!

[ he is going to assume in kind that he does not need to explain what the fuck he's talking about. ]

[verminous]

-that many?

[bro what did the city Do to you.]

[frotag]

[ I DON'T KNOW, TEEJ, WHAT DID THE CITY DO TO HIM? ]

Give or take. Everything started blending together after a while. [ . . . ] And you and Rocchan do that shit for a living?

[verminous]

Yeah. We do. Just... part of the job at this point.

Well, some parts of it don't get a lot easier, but you get used to 'em.

[frotag]

Oof.

[ deadass does not know what else to say to that 🧍‍♂️ ]

[verminous]

... figure it probably makes more sense that we're, ah. Pretty used to some of this mess. This is basically us being on break, y'know?

[frotag]

[ he's about to sit with the idea of that, the idea that this interstellar ass ripoff they're currently living in is just an interlude for gregor and rodya, but then, ]

—Hey, wait, hang on, can you explain why the fuck the bus eats people?!

[ UNANSWERED QUESTIONS REMAIN ]

[verminous]

You'd have to ask Faust, she made the thing.

Best I can do explaining that is... the fuel that part of it needs, it can only make out of people. Company that used to produce it went under, so she had to make a machine that could create Enkephalin itself.

[yeah so about throné's titty enkephalin. that comes from people. it was people all along.]

[frotag]

[ he still hates it, thanks! ]

And . . . okay, what the hell is Enkephalin, besides basically being liquid dynamite?

[verminous]

Liquid dynamite? The hell were you doing?

[HOW DID YOU FIND THAT ONE OUT. help.]

But it's an energy source, basically. Fuel. Former L Corp discovered it-- used to be a major energy supplier 'til they went down, and nobody's really taken their place yet.

1/2

[frotag]

[ he is ignoring that question completely, because the cogs are turning. ]

. . .

[frotag]

WAIT, LOBOTOMY CORPORATION IS A REAL THING?! LIKE, THAT'S ACTUALLY THEIR REAL NAME? I THOUGHT I MISHEARD THEM LIKE WITH THE EXORCISE-EXERCISE CONFUSION LAST WEEK! NO WONDER THEY GOT FUCKING SHUT DOWN!

[verminous]

[ICHIBAN DIDN'T DESERVE THIS I'M WHEEZING]

Huh? Yeah, that... was always their name...

[what's wrong with it.]

Nobody shut them down, though. They kinda shut themselves down? Not sure what happened there, but when it did-- whole City lit up for a few days straight, then went completely dark for a few more, and they found out all of L Corp's facilities had been buried and sealed underground.

[frotag]

NO, SHUT UP, CAN WE GO BACK TO THE LOBOTOMIES AND THE BUS EATING PEOPLE

[verminous]

Uh... Faust said something about Enkephalin being extracted from the brain and spinal nerves...?

-oh, shit, that's probably why it was Lobotomy Corp, wasn't it? Little bit on the nose-- I mean, not like they were telling anyone where Enkephalin came from, we never knew that before we worked for Limbus, but...

[frotag]

GREG MY DUDE I THINK WE NEED TO HAVE A CONVERSATION IF I CONNECTED THOSE DOTS IN TWO SECONDS BUT CLEARLY YOU'VE BEEN OKAY WITH IT FOR TWENTY YEARS

[verminous]

We didn't know about it for that long! Enkephalin was just an energy source they discovered! What, you think we knew we were lighting our cigs with lighters full of brain juice?!