we're all living under loaded gun

[amygdalae]

[Every week was bad, but this one? This one most likely has hit them all the hardest.

All well, almost all of them. Bruce certainly can't speak for everyone here... not that there's a lot of them left now.

Anyway.

Working with Speedwagon in the kitchen the two of them whip up a decent, simple fare of food just so that their stomachs won't go empty - Bruce knows that a lot of them won't have much of an appetite at all after what happened, and he can't blame them. He doesn't have much of one himself even after the food is done.

Once everything is set up in the dining hall a couple of hours later after everything that happened downstairs Bruce goes around to slip a notice to every body's room. (Everyone that is still alive, that is.)]

I know what happened was hard to take in. I feel the same as well.
If you wish to be alone I understand, but if you need company, or somebody to talk to... there is food in the dining hall made by Speedwagon and I.

I sincerely hope to see you there.

- B. Banner

[For Sigrun and Cherryblod respectively, he'll have the note along with a plate of some food from the gathering by their door.

As mentioned earlier, there's a small fare of simple, light food and snacks for everyone to eat if they have the stomach for it. For better or for worse there's alcohol too, although Bruce certainly isn't going anywhere near it. But if anybody needs that drink after what happened, he can't blame them for the need for it, either.]

Comments

[goodforsomething]

[Stan chuckles quietly.]

Yeeeeeah. Took me years to stop expectin' old enemies at my door. [.....] Didn't end up makin' a lotta friends in prison even without punchin' folks at random.

[cherryblooded]

That's prison for you. Not a good place to be social.

[He knows too many people who've been there.]

[goodforsomething]

Especially not in Colombia!

[It's not really funny, but Stan grins anyway.]

[cherryblooded]

...Probably funnier if you know where Colombia is.

[goodforsomething]

Eh...just think big drug trade and a lotta gangs. Prison in general's bad, but Colombian prison's worse.

[cherryblooded]

Ohhh, so it's like the Pitch World compared to other places, from what I've heard.

[goodforsomething]

The Pitch World?

[That sounds unpleasant.]

[cherryblooded]

Where I live.

[Yep.]

It's not as bad as it sounds as long as you avoid the parts demons live in.

[goodforsomething]

[Demons. Yeah, okay.]

Ain't that always the way? There's parts of Colombia that're gorgeous, right on the coast.

[cherryblooded]

[Don't get him started on demons, man, he has Opinions.]

My home's beautiful. And not demon-infested. You can't judge an entire world based on its reputation.

[goodforsomething]

[Don't we all?]

Pretty much everyplace I've ever lived had a bad reputation. You can't really know about it until you've been there a while.

[cherryblooded]

Do you live there because they have bad reputations, or do they have bad reputations because you live there?

[He's teasing.]

[goodforsomething]

[Stan laughs.]

Both!

[cherryblooded]

That's what I thought.

[It's funny. He's smiling, a little.]

[goodforsomething]

[Stan smiles as well. It comes easy to him, even when he's not feeling it. But Cherry must know plenty about con men.]

Yeeeeeah, Gravity Falls has its share of demons too, if you ask my brother. You got any advice on keepin' them away?

[cherryblooded]

They're really hard to kill - really hard. You can tear them into chunks and they'll show up again the next week good as new.

[If you want to know if that's from experience - yes.]

So the only things to do about them are seal them off somewhere or make it so that it's too much of a pain for them to hang around.

[goodforsomething]

Well, if there's one thing I'm good at, it's bein' a pain!

[cherryblooded]

There you go. Number one solution to your demon problems.

[goodforsomething]

I've still never really met the guy. Just read Ford's notes about him. He got really fucked up by the thing.

...I'd rather kill it, but I'll settle for whatever I can get if it shows up again.

[cherryblooded]

...You too, hm.

At least I was able to vent some on the demon that hurt my daughter, even if I couldn't kill him.

[goodforsomething]

......yeah. Me too, I guess.

[That's worse than having your brother hurt. He knows - all he has to do is think about that happening to Dipper or Mabel.]

It doesn't even look like much - just this little triangle guy. But he gets in your head. [Stan shakes his own head.] I should've been there earlier. Ford was half outta his mind when I showed up.

Was Lobco okay? [He still feels like he's talking about a seafood company when he says that name.]

[cherryblooded]

She's alright now. Still jumpy, but she gets out and about.

[Whatever's happening to their world aside.]

But for a few months after I rescued her she would barely talk. Could hardly get her to eat, even, and she wouldn't leave the house. Not that I blame her, after months of torture.

[goodforsomething]

...fuck.

[It's an expression of sympathy. There's no such thing as a good demon attack, but he hadn't quite been picturing months of torture.]

Well, uh...I'm glad she's doin' better.

[cherryblooded]

Thank you. Same for you and your brother.

[Demons are awful, is the important thing here.]

[goodforsomething]

Yeeeeah. And with any luck, it'll stay that way.

[...he hasn't told anyone this, but Cherry told him when his world went to shit.]

Last I remember, home wasn't lookin' too hot.