toyska | catchall; artemy

[HEWWO ARTEMY we are in the kitchen!! Childe is cooking... let's say some version of stroganoff since there is beef here. It is probably not the same meat you'd use for steaks but whatever. He looks up from his cooking and gives a friendly nod in greeting.]

Artemy, right?

[ yay kitchen time, artemy meandered in here as he's been making the rounds to explore what is likely their new home for a while yet. you can't blame him for following his nose when he picked up someone actually cooking.

huh. ]

That's right. You go by Childe, yeah?

Restaurant not doing it for you?

That's right. [It's funny to think that he doesn't really need that name anymore, but he's so used to it now... old habits die hard

At the question, he laughs and waves a hand.]

It's certainly better than what we had before, but I'm not eager to eat mystery food just yet. [Granted the ingredients could also be sus but you gotta draw a line somewhere]

Was the food so untrustworthy in, ah... "Superhell?"

[ time to watch the julia childe make his stroganoff, leaned against the counter, giving him space, but still conversational. ]

[NOT JULIA CHILDE]

It was the drinks, mostly. Though, some of those were our doing--part of the plan to win our lives back.

Right - Alex mentioned that the Hell she was from was a place full of different bars.

[ damn ]

So you all had to bring yourselves back from the dead... How'd you do that?

It was an offer on the table from the start, actually. It was originally only for a select few, but out of kindness or spite, some of our group decided to raise the stakes and extend the terms to all of us.

Raise the stakes, huh? So there was a bet or a gamble involved with it, then?

A drinking game--hell's version of one, anyway. Nothing so simple as a few glasses of wine.

[Hello Artemy!! Let us go to the murder museum... looks at the blood painting exhibit. Unfortunately he thinks it's kind of funny.]

They really aren't holding back, are they? [THIS IS SO MORBID]

[ WHY THE MURDER MUSEUM CHILDE WHY. artemy just looks kind of immune to the shock of it all, more likely wrinkling his nose not because he's disgusted by this but disgusted by the ever-present (probably) cheese smell. ]

Usually museums are for things people want to recall. Right?

[Why not!!! It's important to check out all the new areas... or something]

Are they? I thought they were for anything significant. [...Looks at the cheese.] I don't know about this, though.