[SPADES NIGHT OUTSIDE THE HEART]
[they're probably getting sick of cards by now.]

MEMY5 - their-(previous-life/mundane-activities/roots)

hey, so

Go fish, Theo.

Aw shucks

What's up, Fiend?

i don't think anybody has really brought it up, and i'm feeling particularly curious today, so...

what was life for you guys like before... all of this?

Will you tell Barry your side?

don't count on it.

Knew you'd say that...

PART I - THE LIFE OF KIMBERLY F██████

Well, mine wasn't very... notable, really. I worked a rather dead-end job, which, saying aloud now sounds rather unfitting since I lean so heavily into my passion for investigations and the like.

I have- er, I guess had a roommate for a decently sized apartment... she was pretty nice, though a bit too worrisome at times.

your turn kim

Not now, Barry... story time.

fine i guess we can take a break from the cards

Ahem- as I was saying...

When I had some free time, which was rather sparse, I would take a look on internet forums detailing minor disappearances... nothing big of course, it was always something like a dropped purse or a forgotten keyring.

...I digress, my point being that I went around my local area and searched for missing items to return to their rightful owners... sort of like a vigilante, if that's the correct word?

You must have had a really good sense of direction for the area you
lived in

Haha, yes, actually!

My roommate would always joke about me being a personified sonar device... a bit of a strange comparison, but it was somewhat accurate I suppose.

As for the... interrogation schtick i like to do, that one came up after some more personal events of mine... not that I wish to delve into it now, but I would rather bring it up rather than leave it unmentioned to you all.

...but enought about me, uh... Theo, how about you?

oh god what have you done

PART II - THE MUNDANE ACTIVITIES OF THEO RIVERA

Well

In hindsight barry really was onto something when he called it what he did but

I was always more interested in the more supernatural aspect of things

Purely speculative of course until barry offhandedly mentioned the jouse one day

I had pressed him on it and he gave me an invite code to the forums and also introduced me to the owner

Ah, that's where you came from... I had been wondering about that.

About what you said with the supernatural aspect of things, what kinds of happenings caught your attention?

It was a bunch of dumb things

Some sort of strange happenings in a playstation game

Things like that you know

yeah
like

i remember one time where theo had came knocking on my door screaming about having solved an internet webseries

ah
good times

You could say that i suppose

That did happen though and i do remember being very excited about it

Especially since i had not seen anyone else talk about the deep running themes of that particular series

Very, very peculiar...

okay fiend you go next

hell no dude, losers first

the only loser i see here is you

i will End you

okay okay fine

Actually, I am interested to hear about this...

Barry, I understand we were never close before our reunion here, but even on the forums you would never talk about what you did or what you enjoyed... what's up with that?

well i assumed you wouldve at least like
properly read the falling out i had with him

i guess
i had always been so used to hiding myself in a shell in fear of
i dont even know
judgement or whatever

no that doesnt sound right

its
complicated

but thats why i never talked about it even to him

whatever
theres nothing i have left to lose right
so

...you don't have to say anything if you don't want to, Barry. We're not forcing you.

no no no

i should get this out before i come off like more of an asshole

rubbing my hands together like a fly...

Don't make him unconfortable, Fiend.

PART III - THE ROOTS OF BARRY LESKOMITZ

i had been working a job which i at least enjoyed but
aside from my time with █████ and theo my life was
[edited by autologging]
really
really dull

it just felt like the same few days repeating and
ugh

...ah

well, what kind of job were you doing

i worked at a flower shop

i had always been big into botany and stuff like that

the idea of having my own garden and being able to grow my own food was always very appealing to me

the job paid surprisingly well for what it was i mean
like

i applied there with the only thing in my pocket being a bachelor's in english

i dunno it was a really weird stroke of luck that worked out crazy well for me

outside of work aside from spending time with my only two real friends i just

didnt indulge in anything

no reading no gardening no nothing

i had always felt useless
like i was wasting the life given to me

and i guess those feelings of resentment toward myself only ended up making myself more afraid of showing who i really am to others

and
lashing out at the ones i care for

ugh
sorry to be such a downer about all this

I never knew

No, Barry, don't apologize for that.

I'm glad you felt able to share this with us, it truly means a lot.

i guess

don't you want me to go next?

you can tell me another time

i just want to lay down for a bit

wow... you're missing out on the crazy fiend lore right now...

Dont

fine... no special deets about being in the eye of the storm or whatever...

i suppose now that barry over there taking a snooze, should we continue playing cards?

I dunno man im getting tired of cards-

What.

♪ — chew-the-fat
original: 44bob - pittsbourne, lcbunny, caf

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