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[toldyouso]

[It's a new guy who some people might recognize from the Cancerverse field trip, except he's now clean-shaven and doesn't look like he's just come from spending years wandering around a hell dimension.]

Very serious question: what's the best bar around here?

[Pete doesn't need a drink. He just wants a drink.]

[private to Rich]

Pick up the phone, man.

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[sir_vancelot]

[The cursing gets a raised eyebrow. Which...yes, is probably similar enough to Major Victory's that it only reinforces the similarities.]

[Still, he sighs and rubs at his eyes.]

Great. That's just what everybody needed. Though there's obviously a close enough world to the one I met came from if he's still Major Victory and used to be an astronaut. [A moment.] He was an astronaut, right?

[toldyouso]

How should I know? He was at least a thousand years old and traveling in space is totally normal for most societies.

[Pete has thoroughly shaken off his Earth roots. Mentioning that someone goes into space is like talking about how they ride in cars.]

[sir_vancelot]

Probably an astronaut, then. At least, that's how the version I knew ended up being a thousand years old.

[There's a joke there about how Vance is always the old man in his friends groups, but probably not the right time for it.]

That's actually why he looked me up when he was on Earth at the right time. To stop me from following that same path. Instead of being an astronaut, I ended up a superhero.

[toldyouso]

I've been an astronaut and I've been a superhero and trust me, you shoulda stuck with "astronaut."

[He's such a ray of sunshine.]

[sir_vancelot]

[That gets a sardonic smile off of Vance.]

Sometimes, I agree. Especially when I was younger. These days? Well, I've been lucky, I guess. The people I know because of it outweighs the made most of the time.

[toldyouso]

Are all of Rich's Earth friends like this?

[Because most of his space friends are asses like Pete.]

[sir_vancelot]

[There's a clear moment of thought going on there as Vance scratches the back of his neck.]

Well. Not all of us?

[True, the main one he's thinking about is dead, but still.]

[toldyouso]

So most of you, then?

[sir_vancelot]

I can't claim that I know ALL of Rich's friends but...yeah. Probably.

[toldyouso]

That explains so much.

[sir_vancelot]

[It's...difficult to know how to take that.]

Rich is a good guy. He tends to draw good people to him.

[toldyouso]

[Take it as indirectly giving Rich shit for being a Boy Scout, because Pete's relaxed and smirking.]

Look, if I say something nice about Richie where he can see it, I'll never live it down.

[sir_vancelot]

Ah.

[It's not like he can't figure out what's happening. People deflect. But Vance still smirks.]

I can say it as much as I want because I have blackmail.

[toldyouso]

Man, the only thing I've got on him is that Nova Corps uniform.

[This is unfair.

But seriously, the helmet is a disaster.]

Plus his tendency to run off solo and try to die heroically, but he's proud of that one.

[It's fine, Pete usually finds a way to tag along.]

[sir_vancelot]

Believe it or not, the uniform used to be worse at one point. I mean, at least the Nova uniform has the excuse of being an actual uniform. If he has to make his own choices? It's kinda terrible.

[There's a grimace that crosses Vance's face at the rest of it.]

I kinda wish that he wouldn't do that, but...well. We call him Buckethead for a reason.