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[ ...eheh. ]

You know I don't really like to count...

[ aka too many to keep track of. ]

[rhygret]

[ l a n c e..... ]

Might be a good idea to start. Noooot a lot of people are into the whole "being stared at by a dude" thing.

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Speaking from personal experience?

[ calling u out... ]

[rhygret]

Secondhand experience and a lot of company training videos from HR. With dozens of gruesome deaths as punishment.

[ You know how corporate dictatorships are ]

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Deaths?? Isn't that a little.. you know... extreme??

[rhygret]

Not when you work for Hyperion. [ It's said with a sarcastic roll of his eyes and a shrug. ]

You should have seen some of our bylaws. Strangulation, being air locked into space... I once knew a guy who stole office supplies. They never did find his body.

Buuuut that's what happens when you have a psychopath for a CEO.

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Geez, how the heck did you get by??

[ because you seem like such a nice guy, rhys... ]

[rhygret]

[ Looks Like is the important part of that sentence there, Lance. ]

A little smooth-talking, some handy adaptability...and a lot of sucking up to the people I wanted promotions from.

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Oh... You shmoozed.

[ well. he can appreciate that... as a fellow shmoozer, it's definitely an art and a handy skill to have. ]

[rhygret]

For three whole years. Almost landed the promotion of a lifetime too...

[ Rhys sighs wistfully. ]

Until my boss got shot out an airlock. And the guy who did it turned out to be sort of like a corporate rival? He demoted me to janitor, can you believe it? All worked out in the end though! I wound up head of my own company and he wound up innn...little baggies man that sounds really bad. I definitely did not kill him, for the record. I just had to, y-y'know. Clean him up when he...exploded.

[ This Is Normal. ]

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[ rhys???????????

ok the fact that this is all normal is kind of even worse ]

So.

This kinda thing just... happens. Around you.

[rhygret]

[ Don't worry about it Lance in fact don't even think about it, that's Rhys's happy coping mechanism!! ]

Not--not a lot, just...in the last year or so. Before that things were a lot more normal. ish.

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[ okay but what's normal, even.

lance leans back slightly, trying to rein himself in. he can't go judging now, can he... everyone's got their own worlds. this is simply what rhys' is like. he's sure there's aspects of his own that would weird the other guy out. it's fine. it's fine. ]

Well.. it sounds like a wild ride, anyway. And you came out all the better for it! So.. congrats.

[rhygret]

[ Totally Fine^TM. That's what Rhys keeps telling himself. ]

Right? Good things happen to not-so-great people after all.

[ ...He's supposed to be joking, but in this case it's also pretty true. ]

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[ lance shrugs at that, glancing back out towards the ocean. ]

You seem pretty great to me, man.

[rhygret]

[ this is such a bro moment. Rhys even looks briefly surprised until the look gives way to something much more sentimental. ]

Thanks man. Don't hear that too often, heh. Kind of sounds nice.

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[ fingerguns ;D ]

Hey, anytime you need a pick-me-up, you know who to go to. [ not that he's just anyone's yes man... he 100% believes in all his peptalks.

but he's pretty good at them, just saying. ]