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[impure_tale]

I see it's this nonsense again. [Leer] I always did enjoy an audience.

As it is, there is little reason that business cannot continue as normal, just because we have a few additional listeners.

[Look who is being forcefully "normal" -- for him, anyway. It has nothing to do with the transmissions.]

Richard Riddick, it is high time we sat down and had a little discussion about port.

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[wontturntofoam]

Are you some kind of professional performer?

[Narrows eyes. You don't look like a professional performer, Marquis.]

[impure_tale]

At times, though it has been some years since I last graced a stage. I prefer to write.

[wontturntofoam]

What kind of performances do you do?

Books trouble me. I like performances better.

[impure_tale]

Dramatic ones, naturally.

[wontturntofoam]

I have seen two different kinds of performances - three, if you count Karaoke - and they have all been quite dramatic, while also being very different from one another.

Be more specific!

[impure_tale]

Specifically, cherub, I mean plays.

[wontturntofoam]

[Cherub! That sounds nice, so you get a little smile, Marquis.]

I saw a play once. I didn't really follow what was happening in it, but there were wolves and the hero fell off the stage at one point.

What plays were you in?

[impure_tale]

Several that I wrote myself! But others. Simple trifles, many not remembered now.

[wontturntofoam]

Do a speech from one! Act at me!

[impure_tale]

[He chuckles]

I remember very few, dearheart. It has been years. One forgets these things, especially when writing. The memories are left behind for new inventions.

[wontturntofoam]

[Dearheart! Most people give him horrible nicknames, but yours are all good!]

Read me one of your new writings then? Dramatically.

[impure_tale]

[He laughs] I should warn you that their contents are not for everyone.