voice testing so hard

[donthitme]

[Gob is very nervous, and very fidgety. He wrings a white rag in his hands -- the one he uses to clean the bar with. How'd he get that here anyway? Ah it doesn't matter.]

I guess I should be grateful. [Even though he says that, his tone is gloomy and solemn.] It's better here than workin' for Moriarty, right? I just hope people treat ghouls here better than they do at home.

[Especially since a lot of people here have crazy super powers. Oh my god he's so nervous..!]

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[donthitme]

[What was that grimace, did he believe him? NO it was a joke!! He didn't mean -- ahhh he's just standing there for a moment with his mouth hanging open like he wants to correct himself.

Too late. He's changing the subject. Good, good.]

It's Gob.

[brothertragedy]

[He seems rather uneasy. Nobori's starting to feel sorry for him.]

Gob, sir. [He nods in acknowledgment.] It's a pleasure.

It wasn't very nice of me to put you on the spot like that. I hope you'll accept my apology.

[donthitme]

What? You're apologizing?

[Excuse him, as he is genuinely shocked by the apology. He's met smoothskins that were nice to him before, like that 101 kid, or confessor Cromwell and mother Maya, but he still wasn't used to it.]

[brothertragedy]

Of course. As long as you pose no threat to me or anything under my care, there's no reason to be rude.

[donthitme]

Huh. Well, apology accepted, in that case. You're not so bad, smoothskin.

[brothertragedy]

You're too kind.

... is that a common word for us, wherever you're from?

[donthitme]

Smoothskin? Yeah. That's what us ghouls call humans. You know, because your skin is smooth. Guess its a way to combat being called "zombie" or "shuffler".