theflashyfool | IC inbox @ Golden Peacock

what else are you meant to do with them if they're being aggressive?

good. GOOD. it sounded weird but they were convinced.

(Luffy might be feeling a bit better, but good luck sleeping tonight Buggy.)

i took a look at them. they all looked normal to me. but when i turned my back on them it felt weird so i checked them again and they'd changed places.

(They probably didn't but memory is a fickle thing during times of high concern....)

Yeah, well, don't worry about it. We'd know if we're being digested, you know?

[He sounds confident! But he's kind of still spooked.]

I mean, maybe you just didn't remember how they were?

Do you still feel like you're being watched or whatever?

would we? have you ever been digested before?

(No, the thought is stuck firmly in Luffy's head now. Someone please save him from himself.)

they moved! and i could swear some were different pictures too.

yeah, everyone said it was the paintings.

Well, no... but it's gotta hurt, right? Your body would be breaking down!

[No, he doesn't want to think about this, nope. Dammit, Straw Hat.]

You're probably just stressed out!! Why don't you go take a bath or something and relax?

Or whatever rubber boys do.

And if the paintings WERE moving, it could still be a trick or whoever runs this place moving stuff! I mean, look at how we're messaging each other, right? No letters, no snails, no news coo. They've got stuff we don't, so who's to say they can't have magically changing pictures too?

i thought that unless it makes us sleepy and we're just dreaming.

but you're probably right :)

i don't feel stressed! why does anyone find a bath relaxing? relaxing is food, a good meal! meat!

that's true, maybe they're like our watch things and doing the same thing.

So you think we're just sleeping through being digested??

If that was the case, then would we go to sleep every night?

[For fuck's sake, Luffy.]

Well, I'd agree with you on a good meal being relaxing. Food is always good. And drinks.

Exactly. See? Probably not ghosts.

what if

us going to sleep here is really us trying to wake up?

(Luffy inflicts 9999 psychic damage on himself.)

more food than drinks. lots more.

think they'd let me have a painting instead of this watch?

[CAN HE STOP.]

Stop worrying your stretchy little brain about things we'll never know for certain, Luffy. Right now, just keep your focus on an exit.

[Buggy doesn't need this shit in his head, you little jerk.]

Now you're making me hungry.

Why would you want a painting instead of the watch if you think they're watching you?

i am worrying about an exit, but if we've been eaten there's only two ways out.

don't worry i'll find it.

(He's not even sorry, Buggy. Luffy will probably sleep just fine tonight.)

the breakfasts here are free, "all you can eat" but that's a lie. the rest we gotta pay for, but i have some i've been saving.

(wat.)

look. a watch is always watching us yeah? so if i change it for a painting it's always watching but i can leave it in my room and shut the door so it can't watch anymore.

... Please, you really don't need to put that mental image in my head either. What a shitty way to go, am I right?

[Hah, he at least makes himself laugh.]

I've noticed. They start getting greedy after a while. What do you mean you've been saving food? Are you hoarding it in your room?

[Luffy, what the hell, buddy.]

Unless the painting just follows you? You said they move. Then you're just being stalked by a creepy painting.

you can't hear it but i might have laughed, maybe you are funny sometimes.

i think all the food here should be free because they brought us here without asking. but they said something about a "limit". pancakes are great! i'm not HOARDING it. we just gotta pay for food so i'm just sharing my loot with everyone down here.

how can it follow me if it's stuck to the wall? duh.

I'm hilarious, Straw Hat.

I'm not inclined to disagree. Least they could do is feed us... we already have to buy other things on top of it. So you're feeding people?? Generous of you I guess.

[And not pirate-y, Luffy.]

You just said when you turned your back on on the ones watching you, they changed!

sometimes.

i've heard people higher up get their things for free. and it's not generous, i'm already stealing it, i just grab a bit more.

yeah they changed faces not places. if i get one i can turn it around so it faces the wall and leave it there.

You should bring me something to eat for entertaining your monster digestion nonsense, you know.

Just steal one and take it to your room then. Test it out. No need to give up your watch... how else will you tell us all about your ghosts?

why? you're a pirate, steal your own.

the watch won't come off anyway. and i don't like the paintings but

i have an idea.

I just told you why you should!

... What's the idea?

but it wasn't nonsense, it was an actual theory put out by someone else on the network. i'm not feeding you if you think it's all nonsense.

the idea? top secret.

Fine! It's not all nonsense. But it's also not exactly pleasant to think about, is it?

Right. Well, try not to be digested doing whatever it is you're doing. I'm sure your crew would be pissed.

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