[Jaunt, week 3]

[cloudpotter]

[good afternoon travelers, there is a disgruntled ninja with an absolute killer migraine on your network. if you didn't know it was possible for a psychic voice to grouse, you do now.]

I'm not up to speed on his relevance yet, [he's never said hello before, he's not going to start now] but I'd urge anyone on the tail of Kinji's infiltration to use caution. He's capable of a psychic blast strong enough to incapacitate multiple people. We would have more information, but Katsuragi drove him away.

Comments

[carbonatedscientist]

...you're kidding.

[thornsofmalkav]

Man, everyone who bet you were blackmailing him must feel really dumb now.

[carbonatedscientist]

Honestly, it was more of a mutual disregard of ethics that let them work well together moreso than anything else.

[thornsofmalkav]

... there was a bet on that too. Well, technically it was 'They're Both Just Assholes' but you know, same difference. I bet on that one too, but my main chance definitely was 'They're Fucking.'

[carbonatedscientist]

[Why.]

So long as we're not expected to put up any sort of charade at the time being.

[thornsofmalkav]

Nah, I think you'll be fine. Especially since everyone now thinks you were fucking, but Corentin cheated on you with Dusty, so that's why you stabbed him in the back by telling the Admiral about all your mutual war crimes.

[carbonatedscientist]

Ah, I wonder if sordid rumors will help or hurt Katsuragi in court...if the court looks disfavorably on all of this, that might at least make the mortification worthwhile.

[cloudpotter]

--With Dusty? No, no: Americans aren't Corentin's type.

[thornsofmalkav]

... of course they aren't.

[Teaboo.]

[cloudpotter]

[Not Corentin's type. Yakumo's is, regretfully, apparently very much American Cowboy Wannabe-Ninjas.]

He had a much greater interest in Casper. [He doesn't know why he's arguing this, but it's the way Thorne thinks it at him that makes him feel like she doesn't at all believe him, and that means he has to double down.] Betting on them would have been a more believable outcome.

[at least, until Kinji gets deinfiltrated in a few minutes.]

[thornsofmalkav]

Oh man, so it really was a scenario straight out of a Devil Wears Prada fanfic.