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[skaterbrain]

[Alright, the experiment was weird, but he survived and now he has a more pressing problem. This...egg. The very egg that he's had strapped to himself in a backpack for the last month. Wtf does he do now?]

Anybody know how long it takes for babies ta' come outta eggs?

[For the action inclined, Beat's out around town, just rolling on his skateboard to avoid going to school with the egg in its backpack.]

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[skater-brain.livejournal.com]

Man, I'm 15 and dead, how tha' hell'm I suppose ta' have a baby-baby? Use yo' head, yo.

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[all7seas]

Dead? You're dead?

[Fifteen-years-old aside.]

You don't look so very dead, boy. Look alive to me.

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[skater-brain.livejournal.com]

[He shrugs and the camera might pick that up.]

Yeah, well, this place kinda made it so people can see me. S'like the entire place's got a decal on it, yo.

voice

[all7seas]

So you're a ghost, then? Or is it that you've been brought back to life?

voice

[skater-brain.livejournal.com]

Uh...guess so...? Never really thought 'bout it.

voice

[all7seas]

Well WHICH IS IT? Ghost or life? Highly different things, those. Myself, for example: died...once. Before. [Not counting the Luceti death.] There are a few others here who've been dead but are alive now....

voice

[skater-brain.livejournal.com]

I dunno! I neva' won the Game, so I ain't alive, but I ain't full dead neither.

Still kinda go in n' out sometimes, but s'long as I focus I ain't goin' nowhere.

voice

[all7seas]

Soooooooo UNDEAD, then? You don't smell funny, do you? You don't drink the liquified innards of others?

voice

[skater-brain.livejournal.com]

I AIN'T NO ZOMBIE!! [Oh my god, so many people ask him this akfj;aja;]

An' I take baths, aight?! I ain't gross!

voice

[all7seas]

Oi! Didn't mean to rile you up like that, mate! Take it down a few notches. I've had run-ins with zombified sorts all too recently and I wasn't keen on a repeat.

[He reaches up to rub at the mark Blackbeard carved into his chest. Ugh. Zombies. He was very nearly on his way to becoming one, he thinks.]

I just had to ask is all.

voice

[skater-brain.livejournal.com]

Aight...Why you meet up wit' zombies, huh? Don't they smell bad?

voice

[all7seas]

Erm.......no one on the Queen Anne's Revenge smelled particularly not-bad, now that I think about it. You don't notice when you're amongst 'em and smelling bad yourself. But the zombified ones smelled different. Dark and cloying magic clung to 'em. Fresh dirt. Smelled like fresh graves.

voice

[skater-brain.livejournal.com]

Well I ain't smellin' like dirt, aight? I shower in the mornin', yo.

voice

[all7seas]

Settle down, settled down--we've already agreed you're not a zombie. 'S a good thing in the end, lad. More better to be not-dead than to be undead, I'll wager. What was the price?

voice

[skater-brain.livejournal.com]

The price a' what?

voice

[all7seas]

Of coming back? Of being not-dead? Must be some kind of price paid, mustn't there?

voice

[skater-brain.livejournal.com]

Oh.

[Right.]

I dunno. Neva' found out.

voice

[all7seas]

I don't wish to pry, of course. Just...curiosity, you see. I have it.

voice

[skater-brain.livejournal.com]

Naw, s'alright. I jus' don' know it. Suppose ta' be somethin' important or whateva', but I dunno. You gotta pay to play the Reaper's Game and if you lose, tha's it, yo. Lights out.

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[all7seas]

[And that sounds something like how ordinary life is, to Jack Sparrow. But:] Enjoy being here while you can, then, I suppose.

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[skater-brain.livejournal.com]

Guess so. ...can't really, but guess I'm gonna hafta.