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Riiight, him and Quentin are the only ones who haven't seen them. Given that Wendy is standing right there, staring down at your group like a riled up meth addict, best to keep with your previous cover story. "I killed an anomaly. These sprouted. Like, I dunno, some vile gift from it?" You shrug.
Wendy flashes a wild thumbs up.
Clover and Quentin glance at each other before shrugging in unison. One doesn't really have any room to talk with weird mutations and the other just seems used to being friends with weird animal people. "That tracks." "NOT MY CUP OF TEA. INVEST IN SOME WINGS."
"hey look if you want to huff casey's pheromones that's your prerogative but don't drag me into this."
Quentin blinks a few times and for a split moment, the corpse he's piloting sprouts a light blush. "WAIT NO-" Before he has any time to say anything more, your train finally arrives. Clover grabs you by the antlers and drags you over to the train in a hurry before you have any time to react. Your other allies quickly rush over to catch up with you and soon enough, the six of you board the train.
The train's fucking crowded. Your party is barely able to get enough seating for the six of you to squeeze together at. You're currently sandwiched right between Kiara and Clover now. Kiara is waving her hand at you like a flailing arm tube man from a G-Corp Dealership. Clover glances down at you with thinly veiled shame. "Sorry. Just didn't want you to miss the train.
"Hey, hey, it's fine. Just please don't grab them if you can avoid it that felt weird." Your antlers are still tingling and not in a good way. Bad, bad memories from when the Admiral grabbed them. "Anyways! How's it been at your casino? It's been a week and some change now since I've checked up." You begin to fiddle with the ECLIPSE TALISMAN and the ECLIPSE SILK you found...
>-ECLIPSE SILK
>ECLIPSE TALISMAN UPGRADED! IT NOW GIVES +1 WILLPOWER AND ALLOWS YOU TO REROLL 3 WILLPOWER OR RESTRAINT DICE TWICE PER MISSION.
"Sorry, sorry, first thing I saw. Whoever you're dating must be luck-"
"ANSWER THE QUESTION HOLY SHIT."
"Sorry!" Clover raises his hands up in mock surrender. "It's been going good, actually! It's been rough trying to adopt the new ideas into how I normally ran things but profits have been increasing without anyone being harmed!" He flashes a thumbs up and a giddy, child-like smile. "Hell! Had enough money to take all of my pals out! Marla, Star, Casey, Kana, Clyde, Cera, everyone!"
Huh, two of those names don't ring a bell. Must've been friends outside of the casino business. "Oh, really? Good!" You can't help to smile at how giddy he is. "I was kinda worried that even without my efforts, you wouldn't be able to bounce back. Glad you're still kicking."
"Yep. Though, this kind of exploring stuff is more up my alley anyways. It's fun playing a character in front of some rich folks but to actually show off my skills in the field?" Clover lets out a low whistle. "That'll be real nice."