Kind of makes you wonder about the food, right? Somehow it seems weirder than the magically restocking convenience store did.

[ covers his mouth for a second to bark like a chihuahua. ugh, can this please stop already??? ]

And I guess the games might be either more or less rigged than usual...

Oh, games like this are always rigged. Some more than others. [ he's curious now. ]

I doubt they'd poison us. But.... there could be something in there. Rage potion? Something embarrassing.

[ watches him trying not to bark like ok. ]

Ugh. Yeah, honestly now that you say that, I think I'll be more surprised if it doesn't.

[ god knows this place can't fucking get enough of making me look like a jackass. ]

… Are you particularly worried about people thinking you’re rude when you’re in a high stress, high tension situation?

Uh, rudeness is not the primary concern, no, though it is one of them.

Worried about people’s reactions to the rudeness?

That's closer.

Don't just shrug at me.

[ my whole selling point is that i have enough of a filter to exist as a functional member of society and am good enough at lying to make it seem like i'm not a completely useless piece of shit but now everyone is going to know just by being in the same room as me!!! this is like an attack on me personally!! you think any of those honest, unpretentious idiots are going to spend this week suffering like— christ stop fucking thinking this shit in front of people totty what is WRONG with you

goes into a barking fit halfway through that while attempting to say something to drown it out ]

[ just watches this like i see. ]

I am highly not qualified for this.

[ there’s issues here, totty. ]

You can function fine by balancing just enough of your unfiltered nature with the charm to make it work, you know.