The Fish

[dishevelment]

Who: Anyone around Pride HQ
What: A weird fish has popped up in the lobby
When: After the South Vista Music Festival
Where: Pride HQ
Warnings: Carnies and MÄNTICORE




[It popped up one day without warning-- a little fish asking for money in order to live.

What are the folks in Pride HQ going to do?]

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i don't even know // Squalo // ota

[sharktrash]

[ At first he just glances at it and walks right past. It wasn't there yesterday, okay, it doesn't fully register -- ]

[ backtracks ]

[ and stares at it for a moment. ]

Holy shit. [ It starts in a startled whisper, but grows into his usual volume quick enough. ] Holy shit, Nemo, hang in there.

[ And he's turning over his wallet and shaking all the contents into the jar. ]

[ Is he drunk? High? Just finished a movie marathon that consisted of horror films and Disney fish? Anyone's guess, really. ]

[twoscompany]

[AT THAT MOMENT!]

Its not enough. It won't be able to sustain itself.

We will need to take drastic measures!

[...Also where the heck did you come from Garnet]

[sharktrash]

[ He almost jumps when she speaks, and turns his head toward her. She... she might have a point. ]

You're right.

[ A DRAMATIC PAUSE as he pulls out a gun. (A toy gun, one you use to "shoot" at the screen in some videogames, but with the cable severed it looks almost genuine.) ]

We're robbing a gas station.

[twoscompany]

[Hand coming down on Squalo's shoulder.]

Maybe not that drastic.

...

I hear Junkyard Carnival has a swear jar. Let's rob that instead.

[droppedthread]

[Ryuko wouldn't have noticed the fish but.

That's sure a thing she's seeing here.]

You're emptying your cash onto a fish.

[JUST. SO WE ARE ALL ON THE SAME PAGE.]

[sharktrash]

[ He almost jumps when she speaks, and frowns at her seriously. ]

Yes. He's going to die if I don't do anything.

[ ...is that his ID in the bowl? Sure is. ]

[worthlesspride]

Oh, that's cute.

[Tooru takes out some $1 bills and puts them in]

[iitrebel]

Go big or go home, man.

[It's a calm statement in comparison to how Artolo takes out all the relevant ID and cards out of his wallet... and stuffs the whole thing in there with all the money in its little leather gullet.]

[worthlesspride]

Are you doing that just to hide the fact you have no money?

[He does however put in a $10]

[iitrebel]

Wow. Wow! I am hurt. Shocked. Hurt and shocked that you would insinuate that me, a newly made rockstar, would be broke.

Rude as fuck to be honest.

[aka he neither denies or confirms that statement.]

[sailorlaughter]

[FILLING THIS THING WITH PENNIES AND QUARTERS pinkie where did you get that big jar of coins]

[iitrebel]

[Who even knows where she got it, but Artolo is fascinated to watch. Inevitably, however, all good things come to an end and even Pinkie's big jar of coins has to run out.]

[And that's when he makes his offer.]

Want to get more change?

[sailorlaughter]

Oh my god, totally! Let's go find one of those coin machines!

[ADVENTURE TIME, TOTAL STRANGER GUY]

[iitrebel]

[What better time to know total strangers than saving a fish from dying? ...Even if it's a plastic fish.]

Coin machines?

[HE IS INTRIGUED AND FOLLOWING]

And then there's this asshole

[variaboss]

[ The pizza is supposed to be here in like three minutes. And the chinese take out. And look who forgot their wallet. But oh wait... what's this. A fishbowl filled with money? SCORE He's just going to saunter over and reach right on in and take some. That should cover it and a tip. But what about the poor fish? Oh well, he feels this isn't the first goldfish he's killed being thoughtless. ]

Such asshole.....

[dishevelment]

[Don't think that the petty theft didn't go unnoticed. Koumei has been wandering through with his MP3 player throughout the day, checking on the newest resident of Pride HQ.

Sauntering up behind Xanxus on quiet feet, Koumei pulled out his paper fan with minimal flourish and smacked it on Xanxus' head with a light but firm Thwap!]

there are songs written in his honor

[variaboss]

[ It's totally not petty! It's for a good cause. The cause being delivery! He wants his msg damn it! ]

[ And now he's getting smacked with a fan of all things. ]

The HELL are you doi...Mei... Hey Mei. Pizza is almost here. They got two more minutes and that shit's free. Hope you like Meat Lovers.

[ He's totally acting like he didn't take from the poor fishie. ]

oh dear lord~

[dishevelment]

[Xan is met with another Thwap on the head-- one that is punctuated by a look of complete innocence.]

You're killing Nemo, [he said mildly, looking at the taller man from behind the protective screen of his fan.] He's become quite well loved, as you can see. You don't want to disappoint his patrons, do you?

[magic_to_do]

[Oh no!! The poor fishie! Trucy is quick to empty her pockets into the bowl, but it still doesn't seem like enough. So she's grabbing the first person to walk by.]

Hey! Do you have any money? We need to hurry or he'll die!!

[Clearly this is serious business.

Because we need to save the... plastic.... fish...]

[wounds]

[Genos jerks as he's grabbed. Grabbing fans? Yeah sure. Grabbing labelmates? Less used to that. Part of him wants to just leave it. It's just some silly plastic fish, right?

No, he's pretty sure it's a bail fund.

Considering his bandmates... How much is going to be enough for that fund...?]

Do you have any?

[magic_to_do]

I already gave it what I had in my pockets, but it's not enough!

[Enough for what? How much does a plastic fish need to swim in?]

We have to think about Mr. Fish.

[Do we?]

[wounds]

Of course we do.

[Or at least he does.]

How much more do you think it needs?

[scalpedsociety]

[Tosses a five dollar bill in there at first. ...But then remembers that she shares a label with Junkyard Carnival and MANTICORE, that five quickly turns into twenty-five.]

I don't have enough money for this...

[worthlesspride]

Don't give them too much. That will only tempt them with a false sense of security. After all, bail is only temporary.

Half of them would probably jump bail anyways. And then we'd have to deal with bounty hunters. Do we really want that?

[scalpedsociety]

It's bail money? Then I really don't have enough money...