Burning Down the House

JAKE: Why dont you just captchalogue it bud.

DIRK: That's not the kind of freak I am. It's a hard line to walk, but a clear one.

DIRK: Do you think we could make Nepeta ship a dead fish with...

DIRK: What pairings are available for this one, Pets?

NEPETA: :33 < nothing good. nothing juicy.

NEPETA: :33 < real horsebeastshit.

NEPETA: :33 < maybe it could work if i had a better card for it but.

NEPETA: :33 < do you want to get r33ly invested in its blackrom with drumsticks?

DIRK: The piece of an instrument or the cut of meat?

NEPETA: :33 < the purrclawsion kind.

DIRK: Kind of out of left field, I expected meat.

NEPETA: :33 < right?

DIRK: I respect the subversion.

DIRK: So that's why. It's a big blob of flesh and tendrils.

DIRK: Doesn't play well in any of our decks.

JAKE: Well i guess thats hard to step to.

JAKE: Trolls had all kinds of wild animals out there dont they.

JAKE: I had heard of these but it was all kinds of cryptozoology batboy lives nonsense!

JAKE: The kind of thing youd see in an old universal movie.

JAKE: Say if you have all these crazy animals what kind of fantasy species exist??

JAKE: If your run of the mill plain jane animal is a mythical being by our human standards whats your fictional creatures look like??

JAKE: How do you scam someone by sewing a monkey to a fish and calling it a mermaid if mermaids are REAL?

JAKE: And ive played enough fiduspawn master to know those little guys are real!

JAKE: But pikachu was totally made up.

JAKE: So what the fuck dude.

NEPETA: :33 < oooh now THERE'S a juicy topic...

TAVROS: oh, uh, well,

TAVROS: um, we used to have,

TAVROS: hold on, let me p1ck a correct amount of human pref1xes,

TAVROS: the zoolog1cally dub1ous, would be,

TAVROS: crypto-theo-zoology??? 1s that r1ght,

NEPETA: :33 < rose is turning in her sl33p.

DIRK: That would be... the study of made up gods, right?

DIRK: What makes them gods?

TAVROS: uh, flagrant d1srespect for thermodynam1cs,

TAVROS: and l1ke all rel1g1ous bel1efs, k1nd of preoccup1ed w1th the rules of d1v1n1ty,

TAVROS: have you read, the gr1mo1re for summon1ng the zoolog1cally dub1ous,

DIRK: Oh.

DIRK: I think Rose was working on annotating that at one point.

DIRK: ... So there's no way in hell that book is real right?

TAVROS: well, 1t wasn't, 1n real l1fe, but, then the horrorterrors, turned out to be real?

TAVROS: 1n the game anyway,

TAVROS: wh1ch m1ght be real l1fe...?

JAKE: Well shoot now all we need to do is solve for combat philosophy and love and well have this whole meaning of everything figured right the fuck out.

Dirk: Get this thing to a vat.