ataraxion | video. forward dated to the 17th.

[Let it be known, Marty drops his comm before he finds a body - there's a sharp clanging noise as it bleeps on video, recording a muffled, panicked voice as the video points to the ceiling--]

Hoooly shit -- holy shit, holy shit.

[There's the sound of feet scuffling, a soft plunk of something liquid being displaced, shoes squeaking. All the while, the nasally mantra of curse words and mumbled confusion continues for a little bit.]

Hey--are you--??

He's dead -- jesus. [A deep breath.] Awww maaan... Sorry, dude, that blows.

[Suddenly the device is picked up, showing Marty's confused face; it's video? He looks back, swallows hard, places his gun out of camera back into his belt as the screen catches what appears to be blood and a man's leg in the corner of the screen, in said man's passenger room. That would be Manfred Von Karma. Marty had stumbled upon his corpse, and it's all history from there.]

Aaaahm -- there's. Uh. There's a fuckin' dead guy up here; he like, just died. There's no pulse or anything, I checked, but I don't think -- he hasn't been dead for a long time. Maybe we should lock our doors? Everybody should probably go inside their rooms? Who the hell do I talk to about this?

[He seems thoroughly disgusted by his knee, looking up, exasperation and anxiety bleeding together.

Not quite as panicked as he could be; he's been around some fucked shit. But still -- this is bad. This is really bad.]

Gaaaaah, I touched blood. Fuck. Sorry.

((OOC: Part of Edgeworth's murder mystery plot! See post 1 and post 2 in the ooc comm for details. Marty's gonna be taken in and questioned as a possible key suspect in the crime until Edgeworth steps in to 'confess', don't mind him. People who might find him on the scene are totally okay for action instead of video, or whatever.))

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Let's go with space fruit. It just bounces and rolls everywhere. No teeth, no claws, no gleaming eyes. Just fruit.

[NOD NOD]

Space fruit it is. That sounds better.

[he's pretty sure he could handle space fruit in a fight]

Which fruit is the squishiest? Kiwi? That one is named after a bird, or was the other way around. I can never keep this stuff straight in my head.

[It's the fuzzy fruit, that's all he remembers. ...one of the fuzzy ones.]

[Someone is dead and we're talking about fruit.

This is Marty's life.]

I, uh. Kiwi's pretty squishy, yeah.

[Like blood and guts.

He wrinkles his nose.]

I prefer oranges, personally, — y'know?

[If Marty thought this was weird, he just has to wait a while and know Davesprite longer.]

I like apples better. But oranges are good, even if they're annoying to peel. Ever had one of those chocolate oranges before?

... Chocolate -- oranges?

Nuh-uh.

[Hey, it's at least a way to focus his thoughts elsewhere. He can appreciate that much.]

Okay so, this one chocolate company thought, you know what would be sweet? Chocolate and oranges. Hey let's take this a step further and make it look like an orange.

Another guy went, hey let's make it so you have to hit it against a flat surface to break it into slices! Then they all came together and bam, chocolate orange.

Season releases of new flavors and combos all the time. Like Mint chocolate, orange.

... [Okay, yeah, it's minutely helping.] Is that s'pposed to make people feel less guilty that they're eating a giant ball of chocolate?

Dude, they're so distracted by the fact they get to hit something to get a treat, they don't even think about it. [Just as he planned.] One little smack delivers you a world of amazing flavor.

Too late they go, oh shit that's a ball of chocolate. But by then it's already being digested and can only feel orange remorse.

[A sort of sad laugh at that. He's leaning on the wall, resisting drawing his knees to his chest. That'd look lame, and he wasn't about to go around being even lamer than usual today.]

We should figure out how to make some.

Hell yes. I'm up for this venture into the kitchen. We can test run our results on the network masses.

Sounds -- sounds like a good plan.

After all this shit settles, we'll do that.

It's a plan. [He leans back a little, and pushes his shades up a tad.] I'm Davesprite by the way.

Hey, Davesprite. Weird name.

I'm Marty.

It should be Marty, it comes with a complicated story. Maybe I'll tell it sometime.

I approve of story time, so that works for me.

Yeah? Well, for now I sum it up to shenanigans and call it a day.

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