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The one where you have me tell people and just shrug at it?

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[ cal's little expression in that icon is creepy in miniature BUT YEAH ]

It...felt like what would be easiest for everyone.

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[Cal's little expression in every icon and yet, Dirk loves his fucking puppet.]

We should go on a road trip in a direction we've already covered, and just point-blank refuse to acknowledge anything we see that isn't a cool new animal to make friends with. Plot shit? Fuck that. Nobody's home. Sign me up for a new squideel friend.

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[ dave hates u cal. also, he considers the suggestion in silence for a few minutes. ]

Maybe Naoko has a fetch quest?

[ that seems innocuous enough. ]

For weird animals. Or like, more items she wants. Hopefully not undergarments?

[splinten]

We could ask her. Put in a request for non-undergarments. I think we brought them a fabricator or somethin' anyway.

[That could be okay. Something silly and relaxing, for them, totally refusing to see anything important.]

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How long?

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How long do you want? And looped or not.

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[ a pause of sheer confusion. ]

We can't do it unlooped?

[ because. dirk would miss out on things and people? what? ]

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...We can't?

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People would miss you.

[ obviously? ]

Well I guess a day or two unlooped wouldn't matter but I was thinkin' more like - [ a week? ok no that's too much. scale it back. ] uh, I don't know.

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I'm allowed to take a vacation with my brother. More than a day or two. I'm wary about missing, like, an entire month partly because I think the base might explode behind our backs, which would be unfortunate, but there isn't an issue with some vacation time.

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[ it appears dave is completely stymied by either the idea or the logic here so give him a minute to gape at dirk like he grew a second head. ]

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...If you don't want to, looping is also okay?

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I don't...I didn't think it was an option.

[ continued staring ]

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It is an option? It isn't a problem to do that.

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I just always figured it wouldn't be okay.

[ this feels like a stupid misunderstanding. ]

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It is. [He does sort of understand it. It's the thing about prioritizing Dave, and how he never thinks he is the priority.] It's super okay. When we actually get to our new world, I was thinkin' it'd be nice to do a longer trip some time? Like a month of fraternal travels across the planet, hitting up as many tourist traps as possible. This place doesn't actually have kitschy shops for us to hit up but it's a thing I thought would be nice eventually.

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I...didn't know that was a thing you wanted. [ he barely managed to stick to asking dirk for an evening that was his. more than that seems unfair. ] I wouldn't be opposed?

[ it sounds like a question more than an answer. ]

[splinten]

Okay. Okay, cool. I'd like that. Sweet.

[Dirk's good at social stuff.]

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So...how long do you want a roadtrip to be?

[ dave doesn't want to pick Wrong. ]

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[Dirk stares for a moment, dead silent.]

Are you as scared of picking the wrong number as I am.

[He bets it's yes.]

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It's your turn.

[ so. yes. and he means he gave an under-guesstimate of when movie night could end last time they had to do this?

and then dirk fixed it but. he gave the answer first? ]

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[God. He is done for. He stares at Dave in a certain blank terror.]

We could. Start it at one week? And if we decided that was wrong we could adjust it, even if not that time maybe the next time we did a road trip. Upwards might be cool. A week feels like it could be a good start though. If you wanted?

[he's so smooth you could slip on him]

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And do you want that to be - looped? Unlooped?

[ one week? seems to pass muster? ]

[splinten]

[He feels like he keeps facing traps??? THIS IS WHAT THE FEAR OF BEING QUIZZED FEELS LIKE ISN'T IT.]

I thought. Unlooped. Might be cool? But I'd be okay with looped if you preferred it.