ADOLPHE

[foreverphantom]

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w0, saturday

[foreverphantom]

[ welcome to your new room, adolphe! your roommate is already here

there is a chair toppled over in the corner, next to a potted plant and a small pile of random items from the store. Your roommate, sitting on the naked mattress, is newly outfitted and wearing a variety of spiked bracelets (and yes, also wearing shoes on the mattress), as he smokes a cigarette.

if there is a window, it is not open. ]

[chrysanths]

[ The first thing that hits Adolphe when he opens the door is the smell of cigarette smoke in which he attempts to wave away, but that's sure not happening. This is like, all the things that Adolphe doesn't want inside a room. Thank you, he's already going insane.

Anyway, he goes to open the window that's between their beds for ventilation. He won't comment on the outfit, because he feels like that's above his pay grade of existence. ]

Could you at least have the decency to smoke outside?

[foreverphantom]

Nnnnnope. [ pops the p, and exhales some smoke right in his direction

and then immediately starts up a hacking cough ]

[chrysanths]

[ Adolphe waves away the smoke again. There's a scowl sent Dan's way as if to say "you totally deserved that". ]

What is wrong with you. Seriously.

[ What's wrong with everyone here!! ]

[foreverphantom]

It's a long list.

[chrysanths]

Yeah? I got all day.

[foreverphantom]

Seriously? You too?

[chrysanths]

... What?

[ That he got all day?? He doesn't see anything wrong about this. ]

[foreverphantom]

Apparently no one here has anything better to do.

[chrysanths]

[ He sighs. ]

Not like you do either. Besides, we're all dead. What is there to do?

[foreverphantom]

Usually? A lot more.

[chrysanths]

[ ...........?????? ]

Don't make it sound like you've been dead multiple times.

[ Because it's concerning?! ]

[foreverphantom]

You asked what was wrong with me, and now you don't like the answer?

[chrysanths]

[ He just. Closes his eyes for a moment. Adolphe can put two and two together, but like. What the fuck. ]

What kind of messed up place...

[ He feels a headache coming on. ]

[foreverphantom]

I agree. Normally there's a whole Zone to explore and we at least get to be ghosts. Instead we're still stuck as humans.

[chrysanths]

No, that's--that's not the problem. You're saying that you died multiple times and that's normal to you? And all you can think about is exploring a place? And being a ghost??

[ HUH ]

[foreverphantom]

Well, dying multiple times isn't really normal, but after the third one it really loses its shock value.

[chrysanths]

[ ................. ]

What do you do that gets you into those situations, kid?

[ It sounds really rough?? And this guy doesn't look older than 18??? ]

[foreverphantom]

Die in freak supernatural lab accidents, mostly.

[ i just remembered he's smoking so he takes another drag of the cigarette. his face puckers with distaste. ]

[chrysanths]

[ .... okay, ALL THAT ASIDE ]

You shouldn't force yourself to smoke if you don't like it.

[foreverphantom]

I thought--[ starts hacking up a lungful ]

Ugh. I thought this was supposed to feel good. How do people do this when they have lungs?

[chrysanths]

I don't know. Never smoked. Since it doesn't feel good, stop smoking. Throw it out the window.

[ It stinks and he hates it!! He's not here to explain how smoking feels good for people, because he actually doesn't know. ]

[foreverphantom]

[ puts the cigarette out against his mattress first, and only then throws it out the window

followed by the rest of the carton ]

[chrysanths]

[ good boy ]

Do you want this instead?

[ He holds out a can of soda. It's a coke equivalent. ]

[foreverphantom]

Why would I want that?