Beep Beep we're going to Sparby's

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Once everyone's in the dick limo and they've watched the Fantasy Sweet burn down behind them (dodging the flaming debris once the pressure builds up enough inside to make the whole thing go nuclear), it's off to the nearest fast food planet.

Which...is about five lightdays away.

Luckily for you, you have your very own Personal Artistic License to keep you entertained. So PAL bounces around the back of the limo, sitting in every lap that will have him, as he tells the story of Kip from the day he hatched as a tiny, impressionable smeet to present.

Sparing absolutely no detail.

Especially about the part where Kip failed his navigator's exam because he stopped at Then-Foodcourtia and crashed the ship into one of the greasy pustules that had sprouted on the planet's surface, destroying the aircraft and boiling his instructor alive in the fiery grease of hell.

So now there's a dick limo parked in the Sparby's parking lot. For anyone who had Arby's or Arby's-adjacent restaurants on their home planet... The menu's not much different. Everything meat-based is 100% beef, the milkshakes look delicious, and of course there are turnovers (apple, cherry, and chocolate).

Which... well, catch Kip and PAL in the corner shoving milkshakes and turnovers in their faces tbh.]

Welcome to Sparby's, Survivors.
You earned it.

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[daughterofthemark]

Thank you!

[Unmovable object, meet unstoppable force.]

[imnotfat]

Hmph.

[There's always a spunky girl survivor in every murdergame he sees, apparently. By now Togami has decided fate intentionally makes that happen]

Since you're here, I must ask: how did several of the other participants end being...attracted to your overseer? I still don't understand why anyone would do that.

[Enlighten him, he begs, why'd anyone want to get laid with the person who's in charge of the mutual killing game]

[daughterofthemark]

He was trapped in the same situation we were, even if he did not face precisely the same danger. I'm certain you have seen for yourself how bonds can form under such circumstances. And he was handsome, as he presented himself to us.

[Of course, then it turned out everything was lies, but Arianna's memory seems to have chosen to be selective about that at the moment.]

[imnotfat]

I can assure you everyone who survived in my group did...bond with the overseers, including me, as much as I dislike to admit that. But nobody felt the urge to engage in such activities with them.

[He shudders to think that if Bolton and Jamie had been single someone would have tried to make a move on them. Not that anyone was Bolton or Jamie's type, that much he's sure of]

[daughterofthemark]

--I can assure you that the same is true of that majority of our group!

[NOT THAT SHE BEGRUDGES THE EXCEPTIONS THEIR BEING-EXCEPTIONS BUT]

[imnotfat]

That's a relief.

What's going to happen to your overseers? Are they coming with us?

[daughterofthemark]

Sir Kip has come with us. Dame Cece has left to attempt to revive our fallen.

[imnotfat]

Kip Larimer is...

[Dead, supposedly. Togami looks around. He doesn't see Kip Larimer anywhere]

I don't see him.

[daughterofthemark]

He is no longer using his disguise. That is his true form.

[She gestures toward the small green creature who is probably eating an excessive amount of dessert or something.]

[imnotfat]

...

[Oh. Oh, that's...well that's certainly a development. Togami's really hoping that Kip guy won't be a hassle to deal with]

And the robot? Is that your season's AI?

[daughterofthemark]

Yes, that is Lieutenant PAL. Though it seems we never truly knew him before.

[She still doesn't know what an AI actually is, but she's heard it in reference to PAL once or twice.]

[imnotfat]

...I can guess that. I don't remember seeing that tin can in any of the episodes we have watched.

It's less...impressive in this form, that's for sure.

[daughterofthemark]

Is that so? I think he's cute.

[imnotfat]

Machines like those aren't meant to be 'cute', but I guess as long as he doesn't cause trouble then his presence will be tolerated.

[Besides, who knows, this PAL may be useful]

Do you know what he can do? To help us all, I mean.

[daughterofthemark]

...are you certain of that? He does seem to match Sir Kip.

[That sounds ORGANICIST, Togami.]

He seems to be quite a storyteller.

[imnotfat]

Storyteller...I suppose that may be...useful for something. Depending on what tales he has.

[daughterofthemark]

He knows much about Sir Kip's life!