Ruby City Mailbox/Inbox

[oathshackledbird]

You have found the Mailbox/Inbox of Diarmuid Ua Duibhne, owner and teacher of the training school, Spiral. If you have business with him or the school, please feel free to leave a message and he will get back to you as soon as possible. Considering his abilities, that might be quicker than you think...

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[earlybird]

I heard you met Grayson.

Did it go alright?

[ Your opinions on Grayson. He wants to know them. ]

[TEXT]

[oathshackledbird]

I did. He wants to go camping. Want to join us?

[Well, that's an...interesting answer.]

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[earlybird]

Camping? Why?

For surveillance?

[ Why else would anyone go spend several days out in the woods if not to scout the area? ]

[oathshackledbird]

Surveillance will be part of it. There are a lot of things you have to do when you are camping in a woods that has monsters living in it.

[Diarmuid grins to himself.]

It would be terrible if your partner in crime got eaten by a dragon...

[earlybird]

If he let himself get eaten, he'd deserve it.






...But fine. If it's for surveillance.

[oathshackledbird]

Wouldn't you even feel a little bad? He's a nice guy. A little bit like me, in fact. If it happened, it's probably because he was protecting someone.

[Maybe even you, Damian.]

For surveillance and a few other things. I am hoping 'fun' and 'relaxation' will also be on the list. Do...you know how to do those things?

[earlybird]

[ He'd feel terrible. You're a bad man, Diarmuid. ]

I wouldn't. Not even a little. Not a single bit.

[ Extremely terrible. ]

And no. I don't. What is this...'fun,' you speak of? This 'relaxation?'

[oathshackledbird]

[He believes you, Damian.]

Well, if you won't feel bad, I guess I will just have to feel bad. It would be happening on my shift...

[Except, he totally doesn't.]

I guess if you want to find out, you will just have to come along on the trip. I hear there might be some training too. That will make it so it is not all bad, right? Maybe we can even surprise Dick a bit, since he doesn't know about all my neat tricks yet.

[earlybird]

[ You had him at training, Diarmuid. ]

-Tt.- I already said fine, didn't I?

...he doesn't know about the vanishing thing, does he?

[ He really hopes he doesn't because that would be hilarious. ]

[oathshackledbird]

No, not unless one of the few people who has seen me use it has told him.

[Just for the record that would be Damian and Saber, though any servant might mention that they all have spirit form.]

So...why are you so worried about if my meeting with him went okay?

[earlybird]

[ Grayson is in for a terrible surprise real treat, then. ]

I'm not worried. Who said I was worried?

He can be obnoxious, that's all.

[ It wouldn't matter if his two favorite people in his very small world didn't get along well. ]

[oathshackledbird]

Really? He didn't seem that obnoxious to me. Just...sleepy.

[Considering they very quickly started talking about important topics, there seems to be little chance of them not getting along...]

Well...he did seem pretty insistent about adding a highwire to my school, but I can't say I have much problem with that. Just...no elephants.

[Sorry, Dick.]

[earlybird]

'You can take the boy out of the circus, but you can't take the circus out of the boy.'

Believe me.

I know about the elephants.

[oathshackledbird]

So...embarrassing story time around the campfire should probably be one of the things that happens...

[Lucky for Diarmuid, there is really no one to tell embarrassing stories about him, though his legend is another thing all together.]

[earlybird]

I have so many about him. Grayson is a walking disaster.

[oathshackledbird]

Oh, is he now? Care to give me a preview?

[earlybird]

-Tt. One time the morning after patrol, he was eating cereal on the couch, fell asleep, and spilled the cereal all over himself. Pennyworth had to send him back to bed.

[oathshackledbird]

Oops...

[Of course, how many times have you done that while watching My Little Pony, Damian?]

Well, at least he didn't fall asleep on patrol and fall off a roof or something...

[earlybird]

[ Wow, rude, like once never. ]

Oh, he's done that, too. Sometimes we'll be waiting hours on a stake-out, and I'll have to grab him by the cape.

[oathshackledbird]

[Excuse the delayed response. Diarmuid needs a minute to stop laughing at the mental image.

Okay, well then...]

Why do the villains fear you two again? You're...cute.

[earlybird]

Cute?

[ He is aghast. They're not cute. ]

Hardly. You just haven't seen us in action. If you saw us fight, really fight, you'd know.

[oathshackledbird]

Oh, people can be deadly fighters and still be cute. They are not mutually exclusive.

[Sorry, Damian. Try again.]

Though, I would really like to see you both go full force someday. I am sure you would like to see me do the same.

[earlybird]

[ Rude, Diarmuid. Rude. ]

We're not cute.

You'll see. We'll get that chance sooner or later, and you will be intimidated.

[ He'd like to see Diarmuid in the field, too, come to think of it. Him and Saber both. ]

[oathshackledbird]

Impressed? Maybe. Intimidated? Not likely. Sorry.

[He's faced down armies of 800 plus men, fought a giant cyclops, and hunted monstrous animals. Little intimidates him anymore.]

But what is so wrong with being cute? It's not a bad thing.

[earlybird]

It's offensive!

People don't take cute things seriously.

[ Totally not puffing up at his phone in affront. ]