[Elegante | 032] Drunk and Disorderly - Audio

[teethofneedles]

There's the sound of glasses or bottles clinking together before Karis' slurred voice finally comes over the comm, "...I hate this boat." Liquid is poured into a glass and gulped down, "...most of all I hate all of you fuckin' breathers. Fuck it. You're all... so... alive. And you don't even know what you fuckin' have. Fuck alla you. Yeah."

She pours herself another shot and gulps it down, "They say.... they say that you don't know what you have 'til it's gone. Well. They're fuckin' right. Damn alla you to the fuckin' nether. Hope this fuckin' boat sinks so I get to watch you all drown. Fuckers. With your breathing and your eating and your damn feelings. Fuck it."

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[brynkitten]

Bryn had been at the piano playing a nocturne from Chopin when she heard Karis over the comm. After a moment's thought, she picked up her own and flicked it on.

"As one of the breathers...yeah, we suck and take important shit for granted."

Karis sounded wasted and irritable, but instead of being smart and staying away from the pissy undead woman, Bryn wanted to go see her. It had been weeks, after all.

"Mind one for company or is this a solo binge you're on?"

[teethofneedles.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, well fuck you too." Karis mumbles, speech a bit slurred. There's a period of silence, broken only by clinks and the sound of gulps, "...don' care. You can come up here if you want."

[brynkitten]

"That wasn't supposed to be a 'Fuck you' but a 'Yeah we suck and you're right.'"

Bryn was on her way to the bar as she spoke into her comm.

"And yeah, I want to. M'on my way..."

[teethofneedles.livejournal.com]

"Fuckin'..." She trails off into illegible mutters, with the occasional word of Gutterspeak coming through.

"...fine. Fine, whatever. You can come see the wreck I've turned into. Fuckin' boat."

[brynkitten]

Bryn was halfway there...almost there...She half-jogged the rest of the way to the bar until she hit the entrance, and walked up to the bar where Karis sat.

"Hey..."

[teethofneedles.livejournal.com]

Karis slumped. She had a few empty bottles of booze and a shot glass in front of her. As Bryn approaches she's shakily refilling it again and raising it to her lips.

"Hey. Wotcha want, kiddo? Take a look at me. Look at this. Fuck."

[brynkitten]

Holy fuck was she going to finish off the entire bar tonight? Bryn took a seat on a stool and leaned an elbow on the counter. Close up, she could smell the alcohol on Karis' breath.

"Would say I'm here to see you but I don't mean it the way you seem to..."

[teethofneedles.livejournal.com]

It certainly looked like she was trying to. She knocked back the shot then tried to grab the bottle for another refill and fumbled it, cursing as it slid out of her grasp and clattered onto its side, alcohol spilling over the bar.

"Shit!"

She glanced at Bryn blearily as she tried to pick it up (and succeeded that time), pouring herself another shot, "...then why are y'here? Huh? Huh?"

[brynkitten]

Bryn grabbed a shot glass for herself and poured some of whatever Karis was drinking.

"Why? Because I missed you, you fuckin' idiot," she replied with an indignant look. "Why else?"

She lifted the shot glass, gave it a bit of an extra heft in cheers, and downed it. Bryn kept a hold of the bottle so if Karis wanted more she'd pour for her.

[teethofneedles.livejournal.com]

Karis made a half-hearted grab for the bottle and then just shoved her glass at Bryn and waited for her to fill it, "Yeah. Bet you did."

She blinked, yellow eyes unfocused, "...ngh."

[brynkitten]

"Yeah, I did." Bryn filled up Karis' glass, and then her own. "With all those breather feelings of mine. Watch out, they're contagious," she added with a smirk.

"So why're you drowning yourself from the inside, hm?"

[teethofneedles.livejournal.com]

"Can't drown. Don't needa breath." She nodded sagely and drank down the shot.

"An'... I'm drinking. Because. Because. Because I can. Because I wanna forget all the shitty shit that's happened to me on this stupid boat. Because there's nothin' else to do. Because everything has gotten ten times more confusin'."

[brynkitten]

Bryn drank her own shot and refilled both glasses again. "Didn't mean it literally," she murmured.

"The shit's not gonna go away. You know better than I do. So what's gotten confusing? That stuff's manageable sometimes..."

[teethofneedles.livejournal.com]

"...wha'ever..."

She drank again.

"...you know what I mean, Bryn... Bryn... the whole... alive... dead... alive... dead thing and my friends are leaving an' gone and they took her away from me right when I found someone and this is just fuckin' bullshit..."

[brynkitten]

"Yeah I know...s'full of bullshit."

She sighed and rubbed her forehead a bit, then drank her shot, considering.

"You still have me and your friend Ter, yeah? Not goin' anywhere..." Bryn didn't refill Karis' glass this time, wondering if perhaps she might try to ease off the booze for a bit. "This'll pass...this shit. Things'll get better."

[teethofneedles.livejournal.com]

"...hit me again." She shoved the glass insistently at Bryn, "And it's fuckin' bullshit. Fuck the captain, man..."

[brynkitten]

Bryn sighed a bit to herself but refilled Karis' glass, and only Karis' glass this time.

"Don't wanna fuck th'captain," she muttered, then laughed. It was a poor attempt at a joke but she didn't know what else to do.

[teethofneedles.livejournal.com]

Karis tossed it back, then shoved her glass forward again.

"Yeah. Well. Fuck him. With a rusty fucking broadsword."

[brynkitten]

"Oh, well, get me one and I'll see what I can do," she replied with more of a laugh this time. "Or should I give you the honors?"

[teethofneedles.livejournal.com]

"Rather do it myself. Fucker." She slurred and tossed back another shot. Keep on drinking, Karis.

[brynkitten]

"S'what I figured," she replied with a yawn. "In the meantime, you planning on just sitting and drinking for the duration of this trip? Maybe at some point you'll sober up and come to deck fifteen with me?"