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Apr. 30th, 2014 09:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
maced_eggs[Spam for the Dining Room, Morning]
[Last night, Mason, Grim Reaper, age 27 and dead for the last forty years, shucked off his muddy, blood-stained clothes and fell asleep on a couch in his Union Jack underwear.
This morning, Mason, still dead, wakes up on the Barge.
Mason's never been much of what anyone might call "consciously aware", or "observant." For example; he fails to observe he is not in his home when he wakes up. He fails to observe that all of his clothes have gone missing.
What he does observe is that he is bloody starving, and needs a very, very large breakfast to erase the nightmare of the day before. So after failing to observe that he is completely pantsless, Mason shuffles out of his room and off to find food.
Which is why, still half asleep and very nearly naked, is a man barging through the breakfast bar gathering up as many miniature cereal boxes in his arms as he possibly can. He doesn't merely stop when they're all gone: systematically, he goes around to every table he nears and plucks them from unsuspecting eaters when he guesses they're not looking.
Arms loaded with cereal, the mysterious, nearly naked man attempts to make a retreat.
He doesn't yet have the capacity to guess where he is at the moment, aside from the completely unhelpful "Not at home." But at least there will always be Fruit Loops.]
[Last night, Mason, Grim Reaper, age 27 and dead for the last forty years, shucked off his muddy, blood-stained clothes and fell asleep on a couch in his Union Jack underwear.
This morning, Mason, still dead, wakes up on the Barge.
Mason's never been much of what anyone might call "consciously aware", or "observant." For example; he fails to observe he is not in his home when he wakes up. He fails to observe that all of his clothes have gone missing.
What he does observe is that he is bloody starving, and needs a very, very large breakfast to erase the nightmare of the day before. So after failing to observe that he is completely pantsless, Mason shuffles out of his room and off to find food.
Which is why, still half asleep and very nearly naked, is a man barging through the breakfast bar gathering up as many miniature cereal boxes in his arms as he possibly can. He doesn't merely stop when they're all gone: systematically, he goes around to every table he nears and plucks them from unsuspecting eaters when he guesses they're not looking.
Arms loaded with cereal, the mysterious, nearly naked man attempts to make a retreat.
He doesn't yet have the capacity to guess where he is at the moment, aside from the completely unhelpful "Not at home." But at least there will always be Fruit Loops.]
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Date: 2014-05-12 09:26 pm (UTC)And the job doesn't pay. That's why you steal dead people's stuff.
Now me, I'm fine with cash. Never ever take credit cards. An', y'know, sometimes if they have no relatives I'll squat in their house for a couple of weeks. Whatever works.
Cars are trickier. Never take cars, cops look for cars.
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Date: 2014-05-12 09:56 pm (UTC)[Now that is crappy.]
I don't understand. How does it work? You still have to eat, and sleep and everything else like when you were alive?
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Date: 2014-05-13 12:56 am (UTC)Yes, yes, yes, also yes. And we can't fly or walk through walls, though I should like to have done that at one point or the other.
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Date: 2014-05-13 02:59 am (UTC)Can you quit? Do you have to go, I don't know, to purgatory or something?
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Date: 2014-05-13 04:06 am (UTC)It's a gruesome thing.
And I don't actually...know what happens after you die. I know what happens after I die. But I haven't been allowed to go on. Not yet.
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Date: 2014-05-13 11:20 am (UTC)[That's horrifying.]
But one day you'll get to move on and find out?
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Date: 2014-05-13 11:53 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-05-14 01:03 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-05-14 02:57 am (UTC)What the fuck would I do if I'm alive as opposed to when I'm dead?
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Date: 2014-05-14 11:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-05-14 12:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-05-14 06:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-05-14 06:37 pm (UTC)But being on the ship's a little better than being at home, I think.
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Date: 2014-05-15 12:16 am (UTC)[He holds his tray out to Mason.]
Here, just take it. The food's probably all cold, but it's your if you want it. Just, promise you're going to go get some pants on after this, okay?
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Date: 2014-05-15 02:47 am (UTC)Pants. Yes. I will go get some pants. You've got it.
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Date: 2014-05-15 11:29 am (UTC)[He's just going to shake his head and leave Mason there to finish his foraging.]
I'll see you around.
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Date: 2014-05-15 11:45 am (UTC)[Yep, absconding with that tray]