003 | Maybe You Should Lay Off the Sauce

[eyesofaserpent]

[He'd been surprised how few drinks it took to get him drunk. And of course in the drunken wallowing, he'd forgotten he'd lost all his powers and couldn't sober up at will, like usual. Cue a staggering Crowley slamming open the door to the bar.]

Where in the bloody... bloody hell are my sssunglasss--- sssun--- ssshadesss?!

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[collector]

[Braxiatel was going to go in there. He is a bit surprised by the slamming.] If I may: being inebriated doesn't usually help one search.

[eyesofaserpent]

Tried lookin' before I drank...

Even went back to my world... Jussst found thisss bloody crosss...

[He held up a silver cross that was clean and perfect, certainly not something that belonged on his world.]

[collector]

[Braxiatel holds his hand out to look at it a bit closer] May I?

[eyesofaserpent]

Have at...

[He clumsily thrusts the cross into Brax's hand.]

Bloody thing ssshould be burning me. Ssshouldn't be able to touch at all... Account of... Of... [He waves his hand vaguely.] of being holy and ssshit...

[collector]

Which begs the question: why doesn't it? [The slurring, backwards as it is, is almost a comfort to Braxiatel, who is very fond of a number of the reptilian species of the universe.]

[eyesofaserpent]

Probly to do with my powersss being misssing... 'M not a demon anymore or sssome ssshit. [But he's still hissing away despite being essentially human right now. Old habits die hard.]

[collector]

Ah, yes, of course. The sunglasses. It's a shame you don't have a sample. We could make a scanner to look for anything with a similar atomic signature.

[eyesofaserpent]

Sssample? Wotcher mean sssample? Of the sssun--- ssshadesss?

[stillshinigami]

[He shouldn't laugh. He won't laugh. He just simply believes that seeing a man who had come off as a bad ass so effortlessly and has insane biblical powers drunk off his ass is incredibly amusing.]

You alright, Crowley?

[eyesofaserpent]

[Crowley leaned heavily on the door frame and gave it a half-hearted glare.]

Not really... 'M weak... And my sssungl--- ssshadesss're gone. Poof. Disssaport--- Disssisss--- Vanissshed.

[stillshinigami]

[Suffering succotash? Duo moves over and offers an arm to lean on.] C'mon. Let's get you somewhere to sit.

Sunglasses, huh? You're not the only one whose missing something around here.

[eyesofaserpent]

[He eyes the offered arm a bit suspiciously for a moment before finally nodding and moving to lean on him.]

You're misssing sssomething too?

[stillshinigami]

Yeah. [He helps him on and starts walking him towards something. Anything to lean on.] You live next door, doncha?

Yeah. I am. Doubt I'll ever get it back. I barely got it back the first time I lost it.

[collector]

Yes. Ah, well. No point bemoaning it. The best you can hope for is refraining from getting inebriated and instead asking each person you come across on the Plane.

[eyesofaserpent]

I sssuppossse...

[eyesofaserpent]

Wasss it impota-- import--- ssspecial?

[He sags into a chair.]

[stillshinigami]

Yeah. The old Father Maxwell gave it to me.

[eyesofaserpent]

Huh.... Sssorry about that...

[stillshinigami]

As much as I'd like it back I just don't know how I'm gonna manage to sneak back into that base to find a little silver necklace, you know? It's pretty small, and that place is pretty well guarded.

[eyesofaserpent]

You lossst it on sssome bassse. Sssmart.

[He sniggered a bit drunkenly.]

[stillshinigami]

Shut up, Crowley. It was Zero G.

Coulda easily fallen off in transit.

[eyesofaserpent]

You were wearing it? Mussst of been a bad classsp.

[stillshinigami]

Musta. It's like... almost fourteen years old, so I wouldn't be surprised.

[eyesofaserpent]

Sssorry, man.

[stillshinigami]

No. It's fine.

Guess it's just Murphy's Law or some shit. [Just a front. He's actually pretty damn upset about it.]

What are cross necklaces anyway? A dime a dozen, right? Every bleary eyed wanna believer has one.

[eyesofaserpent]

A crosss?

[His brows furrow a bit and reaches into his pocket, fingering the necklace he'd found.]

[stillshinigami]

Yeah.

[eyesofaserpent]

You know... I found sssomething when I went back to my world. I didn't find what I wasss looking for, but I found thisss.

[He pulled the necklace out of his pocket.]

[stillshinigami]

[His eyes bright up at the sight of it and he reaches for it, turning the cross over. Sure enough, the little rampant lion is on the back.] Well I'll be damned.

[His face hardens ever so slightly.] But how the hell did it end up in your verse?

[eyesofaserpent]

No idea. Probably the sssame way my bloody glasssesss are missing.

[stillshinigami]

So this place is just messing with us.

A mass scavenger hunt, or what?

[eyesofaserpent]

Sssomething like that... [POUT]

[stillshinigami]

[Duo pats him on the shoulder.]

No worries man. Look. How about this. Any time this machine thing throws some shit at us, you watch my back, I'll watch yours.

[Wouldn't hurt to have an ally, right?]

[eyesofaserpent]

[He looks him over a moment, thinking it over. Finally he nods.]

Sssure.

[stillshinigami]

Awesome.

[Duo heads over to the bar and grabs a glass of water, then returns.] Here. Try this.

[eyesofaserpent]

[He eyes the glass of water a moment before taking it and downing it.]