week three | dates

[marriagebroker]

Here we go again.

You all better kiss.

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[phenomerom]

[ Rom's gaze remains even as Aventurine speaks, but a sharp eye might have clocked the way his brow lowered ever so slightly, jaw setting just a touch. A 'spiritual parasite?' Not something he's new to -- he's dealt with his fare share of hauntings and possessions. But ... ]

... perhaps we're using different terms, but there is no spiritual parasite of the sort I'm used to. [ A soft exhale as he rests his elbows on the bartop, casually leaning against the surface. ] Unless it's buried so far deep that even I -- [ yes he isn't above using that pompous language, 'even I,' because his spiritual sensitivity is something he's confident in ] -- can't sense its influence. Your aura seems stable as well.

[gamboler]

[ Hmm...interesting. Very interesting....maybe there is some merit to his self-proclaimed gifts, then. Aventurine claps his hands together in polite applause, chuckling lightly. ]

Well done! It was a bit of a trick question, you see. That particular parasite is no longer attached to me, so thought it might make for a fun opportunity to test your skills. You are the real deal, aren't you?

[ Or, at the very least, he can read auras well. ]

[phenomerom]

[ A trick question ........... ]

Don't tell me you doubted my abilities, Mr. Aventurine? I'm a little hurt ...

[ So he says, except it really doesn't sound convincing at all when it's delivered mostly at a deadpan. After all, the sleaziness of his image is mostly by design; the less people are able to tell whether he's the real deal or not, the better for his larger scheme. ]

But you must have been going through some extraordinary circumstances. Most people who can't see such things aren't able to self-diagnose in such specific ways. Usually, it's just 'something feels wrong' or 'I think I've been possessed.'

[gamboler]

[ Even if he had been a total charlatan, he can respect the hustle. Schemes are just tools of the trade — any trade, really — and there's a time and a place for them to serve their purpose. As Rom seems to have been upfront with him so far, he doesn't see any reason to withhold answers to his questions, even if they may not go as far as Rom would like them to. ]

You can say that again. That parasite was put on my as a sort of...punishment for "transgressions" a particular scoundrel believed I was guilty of. He was right, but I wasn't guilty in the way he thought, so it still didn't seem very fair.

[ He's out here spreading the gospel of haterism against Sunday even in other worlds. Get bent, Sunday. ]

However, I had an encounter with another individual who was able to cut me free of that sentence with the edge of her blade. Suffice it to say, I feel no lingering effects from its presence.