Definitely not Kiki's Delivery Service

[myironeyes]

I've noticed a number of absences at dinner.

I'm not affected and I'm not interesting in asking you questions.

[The first is a lie: he can do that, when not asked a direct question. The second is mostly true, except by implication, because he might ask questions anyway. Like this one.]

Which of you are skipping meals to avoid encountering people during this flood?

[Anyone who answers yes - and even some of you who don't - are going to get food deliveries from Trainspike Hedgehog, here.]

[OOC: feel free to through up a spam response to him knocking, if you want that instead of a network thread.]

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[video]

[neuropathy]

[ Fulfilling the spirit of the flood if not the letter, Nathan just ...ruefully raises a hand. ]

[video]

[myironeyes]

[He can hear that it's on, someone breathing, but nothing else seems forthcoming.]

...my sight doesn't actually work on these screens. You have to say something.

[video]

[neuropathy]

[ Nathan feels these things should better accommodate the vision-impaired. Such as with closed captioning! He sighs, which at least has enough of the timbre of his voice to be recognizable before he speaks. ]

Sorry. 'f you're takin' names sign me up.

[megamind]

I am avoiding everyone on the barge and not coming out for meals.

[myironeyes]

What is your cabin number, and do you have dietary restrictions?

If you say it out loud I won't have to get one of my neighbor to read it.

[megamind]

Eight-six, vegetarian.

[sickjoke]

I don't normally eat in the mess at all.

[myironeyes]

Do your quarters provide you with the means for adequate nutrition?

[sickjoke]

I got leftovers in the fridge.

[to_dust]

That's a shame. I'd have liked a straight answer out of you.

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[private]

[myironeyes]

You're in luck. I lied.

The effect only applies to direct questions. Try it.

[For all his bluntness, he was a spy, once. He is actually tricky when he wants to be. Which is to say - not particularly, with C'Rizz.]

[voice ; private]

[walkingmeltdown]

Present and accounted for. [Said irately since, yes, that was a question and so he had to answer, after all.] Why, what do you care?

[It literally hasn't occurred to him anyone would be helpful enough to bring 'round to all the self-created shut-ins.]

[voice ; private]

[myironeyes]

When I was a child, my brother and I rarely had enough to eat, and occasionally risked real starvation. Now I'm responsible for the dinner shift, and I don't like people going hungry. I also understand the desire for privacy.

What's your cabin number?

[That's Marsh: spiky and helpful.]

[routemistress]

I should've known you couldn't see the screens; Marsh, I am an idiot, please forgive me.

Is there anything you'd want to ask me?

[myironeyes]

If it were truly troublesome, I'd have mentioned it.

[This is such a flagrant lie. Not that it really even occurs to him. he shakes his head.]

If I haven't asked you something already, it's because I haven't thought of it, or I don't really want to know.

I know you'd tell me most things. And I wouldn't want to make you if you wouldn't.

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[synchronous]

I am. Why do you give a shit?

[ If there's one thing worse than invasive questions from people he knows, it's invasive questions from people he's never talked to. ]

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[myironeyes]

I often went hungry as a child.

Now I am the supervisory warden for the dinner shift, so I feel obligated to see that people are taken care of, and I don't like people going hungry when there is enough food to go around.

private

[persecutioncomplex]

Are you going to do that for everyone? What you've done for me.

[She doesn't know what it meant that he's left her things, and doesn't want to ask: it's just appreciated.]

private

[myironeyes]

Not for everyone. And not every flood.

[bodilesswarrior]

I am. I don't mind answering, really, but I want some control over the context.

Besides, I've got a lot of food stocked up in here. [Holdover from No Man's Land.]

[myironeyes]

Do you have anything fresh?

[O_O you need fresh fruit and veggies, Babs. Brood brood, cluck cluck.]

[fireincarnate]

You're going to make deliveries, aren't you.

[myironeyes]

I am responsible for dinner. Yes.

[this_corrosion]

I am and it's none of your business.

[myironeyes]

Dinner is my business. Do you want some or not?