VOICE.

[veryhuman]

This rabbit saw a body flee. That means there is still life within them, right? Right? Yes... the life within that person still wishes to ...

[ Silence.

A softer, warmer voice -- but still sounds very much like the one that was just talking, only slightly muffled -- comes over instead. ]

I apologize. A person got a little excited and now he has gone to sleep. That is... for the best, I think.

Life is much better when we are smiling with one another, but the way that he smiles...

Anyway, why don't we talk about what makes us smile? Joy is best had when it is shared with others, isn't that how that saying goes?

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[veryhuman]

Indeed, I was.

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

What brings you joy?

[spah]

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

I like workin' with my hands. Buildin' things.

[He'd ask himself why he's even entertaining this guy but, well
he's had dumber conversations with worse people]

[veryhuman]

What do you build?

[ :) ]

Could it be weapons of mass destruction?

[spah]

They could be.

I invent things. Usually weapons, teleporters, prosthetics, whatever comes to my head.

[veryhuman]

Prosthetics?

[spah]

Replacement hands, legs, arms, you get the idea.

[veryhuman]

I see, I see.

You want to fix what has been lost.

[spah]

Nah.

I just like havin' a robot hand. Lotta parts of the human body can be upgraded, same as a machine.

[says man who cut off his own hand for fun.]

But I don't mind providin' for people either.

[veryhuman]

What about a head?

Could you give me a head?

[spah]

Hm.

[Give him a second, he's genuinely thinking about this for some goddamn reason.]

A head would get a helluva lot more complicated. I'd probably need your brain. Ain't impossible, though. I know a fella who put another fella's brain in a pumpkin.

[veryhuman]

Why a pumpkin?

[spah]

Halloween.

1/3

[veryhuman]

[ Excuse him, he is going to use the search engine. ]

[veryhuman]

[ ??????????????????????? ]

[veryhuman]

Halloween?

[spah]

[Oh.

This is one of those types.]

It's a holiday.

[veryhuman]

[ A holiday where you put the brains of people into pumpkins. ]

How horrifying.

[spah]

Sure?

[Engie's just assuming he's talking about the fact that Halloween is generally spooky.]

[veryhuman]

Is there a reason for it?

[ Some sort of symbolism in putting a brain in a pumpkin? Is it a sacrifice to a greater, unfeeling entity that shall devour the world? ]

For such chaos as Halloween?

[spah]

What - oh.

[ok he gets it now

jeez dude he can't explain all of this to you]

No, it's - the brain-in-a-pumpkin thing was a one-time kinda thing the guy I knew did. And people put pumpkins out on Halloween. Regular pumpkins. That's the joke.

[veryhuman]

[ ... ???????????????

!!!!!!!!! ]

Ah, I see. That is the kind of joke he would like. Such as tying dead bodies wrapped in white sheets by their neck to be like teru teru bozu.

[spah]

[............. what.]

Okay. Sure.

[veryhuman]

Little dolls made out of paper.

You tie them up outside your window to wish for there to be no rain. You have to tie them up the night before the day you want good weather, however.

His joke would be to tie a real person up... for their spirit would definitely want for there to be good weather... so that people could find their body.

[spah]

Better punchline, I guess.

[mmmMMMM]

[veryhuman]

I suppose.

[ Ufufufu. ]

I'm sorry. I don't know how to carry on conversations well.