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Post by Victor von Doom on Nov 20, 2011 23:38:00 GMT -5
Doom extended that hand to him approvingly.
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Post by Tybalt on Nov 21, 2011 0:02:14 GMT -5
He couldn't believe he was being offered this. He was cowering like a dumb child, nearly naked, and this great lord was offering his gloved hand. He took it, looking like he'd curl up like a spider at the slightest implication.
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Post by Victor von Doom on Nov 21, 2011 8:11:24 GMT -5
He clasped his hand firmly, and left him to finish dressing himself.
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Post by Tybalt on Nov 21, 2011 21:47:58 GMT -5
Tybalt was actually too shocked and - he didn't even know what it was - humbled, really, to move and dress himself for a few minutes.
Then he collected his thoughts and pored through for clothing that fitted him.
After he'd finished, he peered out of the doorway for Doom, dressed in fitted pants, a functional but very scuffed pair of boots (one of which had a morbid reminder of its past owner on the inside of the ankle, a very brown bloodstain, but Tybalt could hardly complain about that), an undershirt, and a lined jacket that was also oddly fitted with a mandarin collar and two belts.
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Post by Victor von Doom on Nov 21, 2011 22:17:19 GMT -5
Victor had been waiting patiently, slipping into what passed for a kind of meditation for him in the meantime. (This consisted of accounting for past wrongs, which he remembered too well to be entirely comfortable with, and matching each with their logical opposite objective. How few of the larger ones he had actually managed to achieve ought to be infuriating, but he had a firm belief in his own capacity to fulfill them.)
"You have found everything to your satisfaction, Tybalt?"
Doom spread his hands and lifted his head approvingly, but after being in a still posture for so long the effect was that of a mountain shifting.
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Post by Tybalt on Nov 21, 2011 23:13:21 GMT -5
"- yes, my lord."
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Post by Victor von Doom on Nov 21, 2011 23:14:43 GMT -5
"Good, good. These things suit you."
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Post by Tybalt on Nov 21, 2011 23:16:13 GMT -5
He looked down critically at himself.
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Post by Victor von Doom on Nov 21, 2011 23:25:02 GMT -5
With slightly less restricted mobility, he'd have nodded thoughtfully.
"You won't be immediately armed, of course."
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Post by Tybalt on Nov 21, 2011 23:26:16 GMT -5
"- ah. Yes. That is understandable. I can fight without a weapon, my lord-"
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Post by Victor von Doom on Nov 21, 2011 23:37:21 GMT -5
Doom turned a bit, looking him over thoughtfully from the side. He was picturing him with robotic enhancements, among other things.
"Doing so you are unlikely to prevail against most of your opponents here. It'll only be temporary."
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Post by Tybalt on Nov 21, 2011 23:43:18 GMT -5
"I would rather lose than not fight," said Tybalt in a rather surly tone.
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Post by Victor von Doom on Nov 22, 2011 0:29:24 GMT -5
How stirringly dedicated. Unfortunately his scars spoke it to being largely true.
"It would undoubtedly be best to fight and win. The personal weapons you were found with were -- formidable, however, have you grown attached to any of them?"
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Post by Tybalt on Nov 22, 2011 0:31:52 GMT -5
He looked a little troubled at the thought of never having any of his things returned to him, even though he was by and large not attached to any of his personal belongings. "....no, my lord..."
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Post by Victor von Doom on Nov 22, 2011 0:38:41 GMT -5
"Are you certain? You'll be permitted some kind of belt knife, once you've shown you won't skewer any of your fellow guards with it."
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