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We don't keep our memories from here when we're home.
But yes, you DID do all the hard work. I mostly bitched about being hungover.

Since that's the case, tell me what the presents were.
A game console perhaps? I can't believe I didn't get one after moving out of Heropa.
If I didn't get one back at home, I'm definitely getting one here.
I could kill people for all the rubbish I've put up with until going to jail.
Anyway, it's like I'd said. If you tell me what we got each other at home, we'll just outdo ourselves this year, in this world.

Edited 2016-01-28 14:58 (UTC)

I did indeed get you a game console at home: a Playstation.
I've been asking around here to see what sort of game consoles would be best because honestly, I don't have the slightest idea where to start.
Suggestions?

[ Dorian has not roomed with anyone who remotely plays video games, congrats Toby he is 100% out of his depth right here ]

Do they have Playstations here, or something that serves as an equivalent?
Watch it have a ridiculously embarrassing, cheap knockoff brand name. Playcenter. Enjoystation.
I still want it anyway, so there's that. Anything with shooter games sounds perfectly fine.
Anyway, what did I get you as a present?

Edited 2016-01-29 01:36 (UTC)

Funconsole!
As for what you got me? [ you got dead, NO WAIT, NOT SAYING THAT ]
The sad thing is, I got pulled here before I could open my presents. And yes, 'Dorian why didn't you shake the box or peek in the wrapping or open it while I set up the Playstation?' Well, the answer to that was I was hungover on Christmas Day and it simply didn't enter my mind. Happy Christmas?

Wellllllllll like I said, my boss was a defense lawyer.

turns out, people have all kinds of reasons why they do things. It doesn't make them right or anything, but that doesn't mean those reasons don't mean anything at all

i hope things work out

Isn't that cute?

[Though by the deadpan delivery from Chilton's line of a mouth, the sincerity behind the sentiment was in doubt. Toby's story continuously looped back to Dorian Gray. That was something to track certainly; it somewhat reminded Chilton of how so much of Baltimore looped back to Hannibal Lecter. There were certain men, he noted, who had the significant trademark of an infinite loop.

Where else was that symbol seen? Above the Magician's head in a tarot deck?]

What would you do, Tobias, if Dorian was ever exported out?

[The psychiatrist wanted to target that codependency.]

dessert wow
fancy

fine but you owe me a favor

Funconsole gives me this idea that players get kind of physical with it.
Wait, you really got hungover on Christmas Day? Well, did we plan on staying in?
Damn. How am I supposed to outdo myself if I don't know what I'd given you?
I imagine you aren't exactly interested in a Playstation.
But then again, I still have other things to work with here.
I don't quite know the circumstance back home.

So, if your boss was a defence lawyer, what did you do?
I mean, were you some sort of intern or a clerk perhaps?
Anyway, I understand. And think it's important to place some value on one's reasons or motivations.
Moreover, this is a place with so many different types of people.
Surely there are others among the imPorts facing similar plights and fearing what discovery might mean for them.
At any rate, I hope things work out not only for myself, but others as well.

Yes, I really got hungover on Christmas Day, go ahead and make fun of me.
We did plan on staying in but we ended up going out a little bit.
(and don't ask me about what happened when we went out, I got pulled here before we could actually do something)

[ he is a DAMN LIAR ]

[It's clear Chilton doesn't quite buy it, but why would anyone? While arguably more of a realist than Dorian, it didn't take Toby too long to accept it. What with Ivor's appearance, dealing with the siren, falling for the trap set by Victoria Lowell, and Toby's love bringing Dorian's portrait to life... There's no doubt Dorian is surrounded by strangeness, and Toby seems firm in his conviction that Dorian's contract with the tarot cards had revived him.

If the doctor hadn't asked a follow-up question, Toby might be trying to insist upon the story's likely veracity. But the question proves a proper diversion, as this isn't the first time someone's brought it up with him. Indeed, what would Toby do if Dorian were ever exported out, returned home to where he may or may not still have a Toby.

He pauses, opens his mouth like he's going to answer but doesn't say anything, and shuts his mouth again as he thinks. It takes some time before he answers, and it's clear he's uncomfortable with this train of thought.]

...I'd. Ah, well. I'd have to carry on, undoubtedly. It's not like I'd really have a choice. [From what he's heard, there's no real way to control the Porter, right? It brings people here when it wants to; it releases them when it sees fit. As frustrating as the thought is, imPorts are, for the most part, transients, are they not? Dorian's been here for, what, one and a half years by now? And there still may be others who haven't seen their homes for even longer...

Not only that, but even if Toby decides he'd rather end things without Dorian, he'd only come back again. The nanites would see to it, no doubt, whether he sits in the sun and waits to die, or gets his throat torn open by a werewolf as it had been a few weeks before.

Still, his brows crease as he frowns. Dorian had been able to carry on without him for thirty years, and then some.] ...I guess it'd take time, but I'd just. I'd have to build a life without him.

Edited 2016-02-04 14:04 (UTC)

Isn't it just?
Sometimes a tiny cup of flavoured ice.
Other times, a tiny cup of a single flavour of ice cream.
Fancy for prison, but hardly like anything I see in adverts.
Heaven forbid they spend any more on prisoners.
It might seem less like punishment that way.

And yes, I do owe you a favour if you do this for me.
You have my word.

It is like a second death, isn't it? Losing him like that, remaining here while he's back home and acting the amnesiac to your time spent here. [Chilton grinned, briefly, his smile like a blade. Casually he waved over a waiter, fully prepared to take care of the full tab.] Tragic.

[He could always claim that he didn't say this out of unfettered cruelty; it wasn't as if Chilton had no romantic attachment inherent to this world, he was situated in a similar position. That was a comfortable fact to recline against.]

But I am glad we have been able to talk about this, Tobias. I think you have insight into the grander scheme of things. And a spirit of resilience, well, that is necessary. [The psychiatrist tilted his head to the side, his eyes widening for theatrical effect.]

It is rather difficult to teach resilience as a coping mechanism.

[And Chilton would not consider himself a teacher.]

You'll give me a call, won't you? If something... Flares up.

[He took his credit card out from the wallet in his breast pocket, surrendering it to the wait staffer.]

If anything gets too magical?

the punishment is craving 🍦 fr the rest of the day
after you get yr 2 bites
they know what theyre doing

we have a deal then

I helped him investigate and with his defenses!! so I was always at the defense bench with him

but yeah I think that's true! I noticed that, lately... if everything worked the way my world did i could judge people like that, you know? but it doesn't. I mean, we don't even have vampires where I'm from. Like, real ones.

I think if you work hard you can make something better out of this!! I believe in you!

[ Hi Toby, did you miss the most beautiful person in the world? ]

I heard you are a free man. Jail must have been difficult without my face.

That is so very laughably you. It's fine, I'm sure.
No, you know what? I'll laugh anyway. You just can't hear it in text.
Oh, damn. Did you at least know where we were going to?
Or was it something I planned, like a surprise Christmas treat?

Oh, I see!
I guess that also explains why it was so weird for you doing the show when you first arrived.
Are you still doing it, Millennial Mysticism?
No vampires in your world, wow. Are there any kinds of supernatural beings there?
Also, thank you. You've been really helpful since we first met, even if Dorian hadn't heard the message.

God help us all, I'm becoming predictable.
And it was something you planned. All I knew is that we were going out.

[Oh no, there's that face and that voice. It sets something stirring inside Toby, but he'd never want anyone to know that. Unbeknownst to anyone else, let alone Dorian, Toby's thoughts have often been plagued by the magnificent Jinseok Jin. And here's the man himself, gracing Toby with his presence.

Then, Toby shakes his head and wonders why his thoughts have sunk that low. Still, he'll keep his composure to say...]

Sorry, do I know you?

Ah, so that's how prison works here.
Hm, I think it's actually working.
Really, dessert's the only part of a prison meal that's worth having.

Great. Pleasure doing business with you.
Or whatever you'd like to call it.
Thanks for calling the hotline often, by the way.

The end of the world now, is it? How dramatic!
Dorian Gray: predictable. The man who never changes and yet never stays quite the same.
Quite the paradox.
Anyway, so it was something I'd planned. All right.
Well, nothing I can quite do about that now, so I'll just have to think bigger and better than my future self!
Should be something exciting and perhaps involve some degree of risk, I think.

If I'm to be remembered as anything, better a paradox than hyperbole.
And this trip sounds wonderful already. I LOVE a degree of risk.

Well, you are that, too. Excessive.
Hardly the sort of man who does things in moderation.
It's not like there's really a halfway with you.
And I know you do. How have you not taken on "The Gambler" as a proper superhero or supervillain nickname?

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i cannot believe how long ago this was actually supposed to happen, LOL

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that's a good point!

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voice, because he's one of those reflectionless/imageless vampires dammit

is it ok to assume she's been dialing up his phone at ImPorted Pleasures? i'll edit otherwise

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