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[There you are, in the Battle Dome. Trying to mind your own business and do a good day's worth of training. But this guy's too bored to let you do so in peace. As you train, he will sneer and smirk through the observation deck, as if aware of some fatal flaw in your training regimen that is invisible to you. Every time you look up to him, he's answering your latest move with a scoff or a small laugh. Sometimes even an indifferent shrug. And after your big show stopper? A yawn.

Whether you try to approach him or not, Jade Curtiss casually saunters over towards you when you're finally throwing in the towel. He prods his glasses up his nose before assessing you in person, showing every possible visible sign in his face that he is disappointed with your performance.

But he speaks in a casual, almost sing-song manner.]

My, my. Done already? And here I thought this facility was supposed to be used for challenges!

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[Jade sits up in bed, impatiently poking at his journal while wearing just his signature bathrobe. It's been a week already since he came here - and since his peers from his world had to endure his tests to prove they were not replicas. Or in some cases, prove they were the same replicas he knew.]

This is Colonel Jade, Third Division, Malkuth Imperial Forces. I've been here a week now, but some matters are still pressing on my mind.

So! Tell me, Luceti. How would you rate the quality of the local hot springs?

Player Name: Gore
Are you new? Nnnope
Character Name: Colonel Jade Curtiss
Character Fandom: Tales of the Abyss

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Loki Laufeyson. Well now, your credentials speak most highly of you. As do your intuitive skills. In another life, I'm sure you'd be an ideal travel agent.

It is definitely helpful to know that the hot springs are actually hot. Does your helpfulness know any bounds at all?

[He speaks in an oddly playful tone which blends with his sarcasm.]

Colonel Jade, Third Division, Malkuth Imperial Forces, I am most flattered by your compliments and your impressive sarcasm. If I would have a multitude of thumbs, and I mean more than two, of approval they would all have risen for you.

The position of a travelling agent does befit me greatly. But I wish to become a secret travelling agent and and I want my milk shaken, not stirred.

Such praise! I suppose I should feel honored. But it might do you well to find a less limited method of rating your approval, unless you can find that way to increase your thumb count.

Secret, eh? That may make it difficult for you to find business. But I'm sure that others will be nothing less of accommodating of your milk preferences!

Most definitely! After all, it is a great honor I have bestowed on you. I am the trickster of Asgard, therefore I am able to conjure a multitude of thumbs. So please do not fret about my thumbs, Colonel Jade, Third Division, Malkuth Imperial Forces.

Aye, secret. Loki Laufeyson, international man of mischief. Like that, you see?

Honor from a trickster? I'm afraid something doesn't quite match up correctly. At the same time, I can now sleep better at night knowing that you have a solution for your thumb dilemma.

Ah, so you speak of becoming an agent of espionage. Of course, that path would require you to possess any degree of subtlety at all. I'm afraid that I come to doubt that ability of you thus far.

What a sharp deduction and I would have complimented you on that if it it wasn't so terribly predictable. I would not call it a dilemma either, as they say on Midgard 'it is part of the package', you see?

All part of the package.

How could you assume such a thing when we have just met? My word, so judgemental.

The trickster package. I see. Does such a package come freely from birth, or must one do something to earn it?

A mind like mine merely sorts such things out much more quickly, that's all.

I am not sure. Perhaps, it is a combination of both. To earn the title of trickster one has to be extremely tricky, after all.

And how does a mind like yours differ from a mind like mine?

This is true. It would be a shame if it should prove to be a false title.

A higher level of intelligence.

My title is most definitely based on truths.

I am impressed. Allow me to congratulate you. Congratulations!

I see. Do you understand the irony of saying such regarding a title based around the telling of lies?

There's no need to congratulate one for something that comes so naturally.

Of course. But you do not have to lie to trick a person, you see?

Oh, do not fret, I am fond of congratulating others on having a high intellect. After all, brains beat brawn.

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