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[equivo]

Before we all head into the labyrinth, I figure we should have a level playing field for making calls about risk.

If you die here, apparently you don't stay dead. You're down for two days or so, then you resurrect wherever your body happens to be. So it's probably a nice gesture, if you see a corpse in the maze, to drag them somewhere not totally inconvenient to wake up.

The temporarily dead also come back fully healed of injuries, but the penalty is some kind of personal loss. Think scars, tattoos, a digit, possibly more intangible qualities, etc. I have no idea what the rules are on that, so if anyone has any useful speculation, consider the floor open.

In fact, if anyone is familiar with this kind of thing back in your universes, you're invited to share with the class. The more we know about resurrection in general, maybe the more we can figure out about how it works here. Bonus marks if you have first hand experience.

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Tim Drake is definitely the coolest Robin

[equivo]

Come on. How much worse can it be than parachute pants and frosted tips? At least cloaks are comfortable.

I was going to say I was just curious, but you've sidetracked me with the family crest. Specifically: you have a family crest? Are you a feudal lord?

[mostdangerousbird]

I don’t think frosted tips are UNcomfortable.

And no. There’s no title or Drake Manor. Most old English surnames have crests and mottos.

[equivo]

They're uncomfortable for me to look at. I'm mildly allergic to douchiness.

I can assure you that where I'm from, they absolutely do not. Not ones anyone gives a shit about, at least. Don't tell me your family does the whole genealogy thing.

[mostdangerousbird]

I'm going to need you to define clothes douchiness, or am I say if I keep my hair black and my pants tight?

I don't think anyone ever did a genealogy. My adopted father has a pretty detailed family tree, but that's the Waynes, not the Drakes.

[equivo]

Emo gets a tentative pass if you don't try to make me listen to your music.

[ It's not like he can rag on Tim's style after inadvertently being slightly shitty about his apparently probably dead parents. There are lines, and 'making fun of an orphan's family' is one of them. ]

I guess it's not so terrible knowing where you came from. My family never really got into that, but I don't think we hail from a particularly illustrious lineage.

[mostdangerousbird]

My hair’s not black because I’m emo. If I dyed my hair, I’d do something more fun.

I don’t think lineage matters. It’s the person who matters.

[equivo]

Since frosted tips are out: like what?

And I agree with you on that. Anyone who gets too invested in whatever their ancestors were doing in Scandinavia however many centuries ago is usually telling you that they don't have fuck all to be proud of in the here and now.

[mostdangerousbird]

Something bright, like blue or red.

I can understand wanting to have an idea of where you’re from, but I also don’t think matters in my life what anyone did 300 years ago in the old country.

Unless I’m related to a pirate. Then it matters, and I’ll work it into every conversation until I die.

[equivo]

[ Tim not yet beating the emo or scene kid assumptions. ]

That's cool. Very counter-culture.

If you leaned into the pirate thing, hypothetically, you could match it to a parrot. Which you'd obviously have to get in honour of the long departed Captain Drake, exploded by the Spanish crown.

[mostdangerousbird]

I don't think I can pull off counter-culture. Looks like it's staying black.

RIP Captain Drake. It's a better way to go than scurvy. I can't name the parrot Captain though.

[equivo]

You think you can pull off the Candyland con, but not blue hair? What would Captain Drake think?

And you can name the parrot Captain if you're not a coward.

[mostdangerousbird]

Obviously? The Candyland stuff is numbers and shuffling. Blue hair is a lifestyle choice every minute of the day.

I'm not a big fan of captains.

[equivo]

Let's agree to disagree on how much being the Candyland hacker guy is a lifestyle choice.

That's an oddly specific thing to not be a fan of. Do you feel like elaborating on that, or is this a mysterious, unmentionable secret situation?

[mostdangerousbird]

Oh, I see how it is.

Some rogues use Captain in their moniker. That's all.

[equivo]

Am I supposed to believe you keep that approach strictly to board games?

And I see. Line of questioning retracted.

[ 'Rogue' might not mean the same thing in Tim's universe, but Krouse gets the gist. Bad associations. ]

[mostdangerousbird]

If I didn't, I wouldn't answer the question.

[equivo]

Like you're not answering the question right now?

[mostdangerousbird]

I’m answering the question. It’s not a straight answer, but that wasn’t in the stipulations.

[equivo]

Of course. That definitely convinces me you don't rules lawyer outside of the confines of gaming. I've been defeated by your impeccable logic.

[mostdangerousbird]

Rules lawyering is excellent training for my future corporate life.

[equivo]

From the game board to the boardroom, huh? I guess all those hippies and mom and pop shops should be quaking in their boots at the prospect of Corporate Pirate, Drake Esquire.

[mostdangerousbird]

The goal is to specialize in fields that don't see a lot of mom and pop shops. I don't want to be a jerk about it. I want to have the money instead of the corporate pirates so I can fund the community.

[equivo]

So the dream job is more corporate privateer than pirate. Respectable.

If I may recommend a community outreach strategy, you could start a program for teaching undereducated youth about game theory and nautical history. God knows there are enough pirate themed games to work with.

[mostdangerousbird]

I'd be happy with a string of community centers giving kids a safe place to go after school, free dinner with no questions asks. LGBTQ+ friendly drop-in spaces and shelters for teenagers. It's not as small as it sounds.

Not a lot of nautical history in South Jersey. There's only so many times you can talk about the concrete ship and the Cape May bunker.

[equivo]

That doesn't sound small.

I've known a couple of people that could've used something like that.

[ He doesn't know if the world Tim comes from will let things work that way. Maybe it would. It'd be nice to think there's at least one universe where it's possible. ]

And forgive my nautical ignorance, but a concrete ship sounds like it has some intrinsic design flaws.