>>5388036Feeling your grip on your captive audience slip, you decide to take things into OVERDRIVE! Sniffing a few times to emulate something resembling a sob, you give it a second before really getting in there!
There’s… there’s a LOT of things you never wanted to do, you continue, things you would’ve outright refused if you could! Like this one time back at Good Boy–y’know, BEFORE it churned out skeletons–you were almost done cleaning this vat, right? Must have taken you hours just to get down to the metal!
“HAH! I know how THAT feels!” Laughs Talbot with a knowing grin!
DON’T INTERRUPT! So you were just about finished when you saw it: this big ole’ RAT CARCASS melted over the nozzle at the bottom of the vat!
“A RAT in the VAT? What’d you do about THAT?”
Honestly, you shrug, you didn’t do anything. Apparently it caused a huge BONE SPILL the next day and hurt a few people, you think, but-
“Hey, YEA, I saw that on the news!” Roars Eddie in excited disbelief! Holy CRAP, that was YOU?”
N-never mind, okay!? The moral is that you can’t always get what you want… and, like, sometimes you HAVE to clean up the melted rat from the vat because… because even though it sucks in the beginning, at the end you might find, like, a bunch of friends… and they help clean the rat up and buy you lunch afterwards!
The mild confusion on everyone’s faces is slowly replaced by something resembling gratitude… and maybe happiness?
Look, you conclude, slamming the bottom of your fist into your open palm, it’s been a long journey, and no one’s coming out without an asskicking–looking at you, Art!
“Screw you, Stan!”
But it all comes down to this moment, you hiss! We win or lose it all in the next hour! Maybe longer than that–lord knows /qst/ is slow–anyways, make me proud, you command as you sweep your hand across the crowd, make YOURSELVES proud!
You probably hold your pose for a minute or so before anyone starts clapping, and when they do it’s… well, it’s not BAD…
“Hey, it was a good run, kid!” Ly praises as you motion Pete over to you, “But I coulda’ swore I heard somma’ dose lines before…”
N-no, you stammer, those were all you!
>CONTD. 