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@prom.argentum

[mercurio]

hey sup are you still at the party?
i'm not sure i'm heading back to the apartment

just in case you expected a bodyguard on the way home lol

i'm kinda tied down so i can't tell you in person

[verselet]

[With loud music blaring, strobe lights flickering against the sleek surface of the bar, trying to ignore a man who is all-too-eager to buy him a drink or three-]

I'm still here.

[regret]

Where are you going?

[mercurio]

hideki's place
hey can you take some of the food back home

[verselet]

This inordinately crowded and very loud party wasn't celebration enough?

[Why go back to Hideki's place? Is Prompto even sober enough to remain conscious for how many more hours he plans to celebrate?

Is he seriously asking him to carry food back to the apartment?]

You're asking me to carry food back on my own to the apartment.

[mercurio]

yeah it was but we gotta do a thing so it's kinda like
you know something we been wanting to do

it's hard to explain

[cain forced him to drink a lot of water so at the most he's BUZZED. it's fine.]

and! well! you don't gotta!! just in case you got hungry

[verselet]

I

hold on

[Another attempt to shoo away the persistant man trying to buy him a drink, pressing the cane against his chest to put some space between them as he drafts another reply.]

That's no explanation, beyond just saying that you had planned this from the start. If that's the case, I'll take my leave now.

I'll be fine where the food is concerned. I've had enough for the night. Should I expect you back within the next 24 hours?

[mercurio]

[?? holds on]

it wasn't planned from the start it just kinda happened
but it kinda was planned from the start? i just didn't expect tonight to happen like this
hideki is very much the type of person who gets what he wants

thanks for coming along with me!!

i'll let you know when i'm heading back
hopefully soon i'm tired lol

[verselet]

What was planned from the start? The start of what?

[???

Were V not so worn out, he might say it was nothing to be thanked for, coming out here tonight. But of weak constitution and not made for parties (in general), pressing away at a drunken man who’s about to go stumbling backwards in a laughing crowd, he isn’t feeling quite as generous now.

So just a—]

Remember when I said you might regret this night in the morning?

[mercurio]

it's a secret thing! i can tell you later if you want
and yeah i remember, it's gonna suuuuuuuck in the morning

you gonna make it back okay? do you need me to send you the map location again?

[verselet]

I see. Then if you feel up to explanations later, you can tell me whenever you return.

I’ve marked the location under “favorites” on my map. I’ll make it back one way or another.

[Save him, public transportation.]

[mercurio]

yeah, for sure!

[does public transportation run so late...]

lmk if you run into any trouble i know you're still pretty new to the city
but you'll be fine!! you got a cane and all!!

[verselet]

[Does this city ever sleep? If not, then save him cyberpunk Uber.]

Not my number one choice of weapon, but it’ll do for now. If I’m not there when you get back, please be certain to mourn your roommate.

[mercurio]

if you're not there when i get back then i'm definitely making an embarrassing post on cooltalk to help find you
you don't want that to happen

[don't give away your cooltalk secrets, idiot]

also you gotta show me how you'd use a cane as a weapon because lol ?

[verselet]

Sounds funny to you? I promise that it’s actually very possible. But as I said, not exactly preferred.

Cooltalk? That’s an app, right? I heard it mentioned several times tonight.

[mercurio]

like i said
show me some time even if it's not the preferred method

it is! tons of influencers were at the party
it's just a bunch of pictures and networking with ppl
ohhh man plz don't get lost in the city forever i wanna show you it!!

[verselet]

Fine. I will.

[A glance behind him at the man pushed away from his cane, who is indeed now on the floor. He's laughing, though, and not making any attempts to stand up. V takes that as a good sign, and leans an elbow back onto the bar.]

You could just send me the link. Give me something to scroll through while I'm making the walk.

[mercurio]

[please leave and spare yourself, v...]

what
you'd rather look through cooltalk than poems??

[verselet]

[he's Fine]

Do you think all I do is look at poems every hour of every day?

[I mean... he does give that impression, fair.]

[mercurio]

uh yeah?

anyway, first before you access anything you need to create your own account!
just download the cooltalk app and follow the process

[verselet]

[Create his own account...

V isn't one for social media, or the heights that technology can reach in general, but this is... relatively simple enough. A bit of fussing with his implant and he's found the app to download, and in a blink it's installed and requesting him to set up an account.

A pause.]

Do you have suggestions for an account name?

[mercurio]

how about sick.poetry.memes

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

[verselet]

[...]

Is that a serious suggestion?

[mercurio]

i was buying myself time to think of something
it's hard when i can't think straight ok

how about inkverse or something like that
cuz of your tats and poems

[verselet]

[There's no reply.

Until a few moments later, when Prompto receives a link sent his way: a freshly-made Cooltalk account, with absolutely nothing uploaded to it. The username? "inkverse".

It was as good of a suggestion as any. Better than the first, at any rate, and V has very little investment in actually... keeping this up to date, so.]

I should be able to see yours, now.

[mercurio]

awesome!
i'm gonna follow you

i'm _promptography

[rip]