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Alvin will have acquired his own little carrier pigeon to send messages, so he'll have one stationed at the main carrier pigeon place that will come and find him.

In the meanwhile, this is the entry for any private messages that are delivered via the carrier pigeon system.

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[opportunitycosts]

[But then she's loose!

And he is definitely stepping back when she jumps onto the ground—fucking hell he's acting as if he's afraid of the—well she is considerable in size, really. And has giant ass tongue. AND CLEARLY HAS A VERY STRANGE PERSONALITY okay he has legit reasons to be cautious here.]

Oh, now she's acting all cute.

[Dry voice is very dry.]

[gottacatch]

[ Much innocence, very beautiful. ]

You're scared of her. [ Scared, cautious-- whatever you like. ] Whatever she does she knows you're going to be wary of her--that's the kind of games she plays. Haven't you noticed that by now?

[ And while they're mind chatting, a faint black smoky tendril will slip down the side of the desk and crawl over to the gun-thrower, nudging it over to Alvin.

There you go. There's the toy you wanted. ]

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I'm not scared... But I am wary. And I know she's playing that game—[Speaking of, he's going to just eye her before walking over to take the gun. HE IS WATCHING YOU GENGAR ANY SUDDEN MOVEMENTS AND HE WILL SO GRAB YOU.]—but I'm at a disadvantage here. Not like I can go full throttle in my own office.

[gottacatch]

She's not going to attack you! I've told her, she's not allowed to lick up anyone's energy unless they go after her first! [ Very firm rules here, Alvin!! There's a frustrated sigh on Red's end, more felt than audible. At least Gengar was behaving calmer now, making gun claws at Alvin and every other way, but nothing more than that. ]

Do people really use those things on ghosts? What's super effective about fire against ghost types?

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[Wait.

What.]

Hold on—lick my energy?? Is that what she was trying to do???

[gottacatch]

[ ALVIN. ]

I just said she wasn't!

[ She has no idea what's going on, but Gengar will still bring out a small portion of her tongue to waggle side by side. Blehhhhh. ]

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Yeah but she just seriously tried to shoot her tongue out at me! Her eyes got weird, too.

[Here, have a replay, Red.

He's not panicking, let's be clear on that. However. It's understandable that his brain may have switched into a mode where he's considering Gengar more like a wild animal or monster, and is now factoring all potential threats of said creature.]

[gottacatch]

[ Show him the replay, and he still sees the same thing he did before- ]

She's playing. She does it because it looks spooky! [ How has this guy apparently had three or four visits and not get what Gengar is like by now. ] What were you trying to do jumping at her?

[opportunitycosts]

[Oh sure, make him look like the bad guy.]

You call that playing? [Clearly not convinced.] I was just trying to grab her so she wouldn't do anything else!

[gottacatch]

She won't let you. [ Just sayiiing, bad guy. ] Are you going to keep talking to me or her? She's not doing anything.

[ Except looking dramatically bored, the tip of her tongue still hanging out but her mouth and eyes slanted. Bleeehhhhhh. ]

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[You feel those arrows of irritation, brat? Because they're being sent your way.]

Yeah, yeah fine. I'll deal with her and send her home. But you should pay more attention to what she gets into. You're her trainer, aren't you?

[Implying part of this is Red's fault for not training her well.]

[gottacatch]

[ Oh, you want to go that route, do you- ]

Yeah, I should've been more careful with those stupid things. [ He can actually accept that. ] But people shouldn't be handing them out in the first place. [ Ugh, now he's feeling all sorts of annoyed. ]

I don't know why she'd go and take one to you. [ Mhhrrr. ] Gengar...

[ And whatever you two, Gengar is stiiiill going to take that sluggish walk towards the door. This is boring!!! ]

[opportunitycosts]

[Well, he really doesn't blame Red too badly. And really, he can deal with most of Gengar's pranks. Just this time... You gotta admit, it was more than over the top.]

Well not like you could have known. [Easing off some of that irritation.] I have the thing so I'll see if I can figure out who gave it to her. In the meantime—

[...Oh no you don't young lady.]

She can understand me, right?

[And going to call to her. Not angrily, but. Well he can't make sudden movements.]

[gottacatch]

Yeah, she should. [ Which, you know, makes him really wonder how those 'three or four' meetings with Gengar really went in the past with Alvin if he has to ask...

Her face doesn't perk up, but she does stop, raising her pupils to him. Whaaaat, she's busy being miserably bored here. ]

[opportunitycosts]

[Usually he was able to just "give up" so she had the win and trundled off on her own after her lovely visits. Plus they were never like. This extreme. Freezing his office? Annoying, but he won't die. Jumpscare? Also annoying, but after the first one or two times he can kind of expect it and not be as phased. BUT A FLAMETHROWER??]

All right, I'll see if I can work something out with her before sending her home.

[Maybe he can bribe her. Or you know. Look if she wants to have fun, he doesn't mind "playing" with her a little but she has to learn to tone it down some.]

[gottacatch]

[ If only Red knew she had only visited his offices the amount times she had been told in the past! Alas. ]

Just send her outside. I'm nearby.

[ Which is home! ]

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Got it.

[And cutting the feed.

...All right Gengar. He's giving you a bit of a worn out look, but he's just going to point blank ask her if she likes coming over here and if she wants to continue coming over to, uh. Visit him.]

[gottacatch]

[ She makes him wait, but the edges of her mouth eventually return to their natural state, and the tongue poking out wiggles like a cat flap as she makes an exaggerated shrugging gesture.

Shruuuuugg! ]

[opportunitycosts]

[Oh, well, if she doesn't care that much then she doesn't actually have to come by anymore, right? He doesn't actually have to give her any attention because she doesn't really want it, right?]

[gottacatch]

[ Another shrug!

And she'll start heading to the door with a wave and a sound quite like bleerrrgh. Bye bye! ]