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[heckblazer]

[ It's probably not a video he records or posts deliberately, considering his lack of technological competence. But there he is, slouched alone on a pub patio, moping behind a cloud of cigarette smoke. He's well into a bottle of...good Lord, flavoured vodka? Birthday cake, no less?

Well. It's not like lushes can be picky. ]

Huh. Didn't think I'd make it to see another one of these days.

[ He adds his cigarette butt to the mountain on the ashtray in front of him, and lights another, muttering softly between his teeth, ]

Happy fuckin birthday to ya, Johnny.
Useless twit.

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[storyseeker]

[Oh yeah. Definitely a butt dial, or fat fingering, or something. That or a pity party, but she's not going to come out and say that.]

Hey. You turned the thing on.

[heckblazer]

Well, shit.

...also how this stuff tastes, actually. Not much of one to turn back, though. Must stay committed to my idiom. Or something.

[ Yeah, there's some good old fashioned rambling. Have fun with that, sister. ]

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[catchacold]

Seems like my kinda party.

[He just has a beer bottle right now, cold enough to be frosted, but he'll hold it up anyway.]

Cheers.

[heckblazer]

[ He waves the bottle half-heartedly as if doing cheers through his device screen. ]

Well said. Also, have we met?

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[airshow]

Wow, cracking open the classy stuff, huh.

[heckblazer]

As if anyone's ever accused me of being classy.

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[glassfall]

[Okay, so Cinders isn't usually one to come up to a clearly inebriated stranger... but this is on video! So it's okay.]

I don't believe anyone is useless. And I'm sure there are other people who would agree with me.

[heckblazer]

[ That sounds suspiciously made up. ]

Having faith in me like that is a pretty high-risk thing, love.

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[lightinside]

Happy birthday?

[She thought that's what he said beneath his breath.]

[heckblazer]

[ Ugh why can't the do-gooders leave him alone ]

The first word may not be true.

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[am_i_a_monster]

Why not? Did you die and this place brought you back?

[heckblazer]

Nah. Usually I just prefer life choices that make me everyday survival dubious. Call it thrillseeking.

[ Really, you put one depressing video on the internet and suddenly everyone's a therapist. ]

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[divaricate]

Happy birthday. [A half second pause.] Do.. you want a tiny cake or something to go with all of that? ["All of that" obviously being the decidedly non-cake he has, as in the cigarettes and alcohol.]

[heckblazer]

Fine, thanks. Not like I've got much sense of taste after all these years of tobacco.

[zee_zatara]

[sigh]

I'm on my way.

[heckblazer]

Was it something I said?

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[heliophilic]

Pretty sure you're not supposed to drink that stuff alone, birthday boy.

[heckblazer]

It's my party and I'll day drink alone if I want to.

[beneathbluerafters]

They make cake-flavoured alcohol?

[heckblazer]

Not the point.

[acclimatized]

After seeing how much you smoke, I have to agree.

[ it's a joke. sort of. a disapproving doctor one. ]

Many happy returns.

[heckblazer]

Cheers.

[ And he just. Keeps packing away his booze. Where does it all go in a man this skinny? ]

The smoking tried to kill me once already. Tried.

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[kingsroads]

Is that alcohol any good?

[ said with a wrinkle of his nose. Like Klarion, Strange has the right priorities and those priorities are 'wtf birthday cake flavored vodka, that's nasty.' ]

[heckblazer]

Tastes like rubbish, but it does the job.

[ Fortunately, he's well enough into the bottle to not be chagrined. ]

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[uncledad]

And why's that? One too many tavern fights?

[It doesn't take much to translate birthday to nameday, which gives Jaime a better understanding of what this sad celebration is for.

Less certain of why it's been recorded, because by some miracle, he's not yet suffered his own accidental post, inept with electronics as he is.]

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[heckblazer]

[ Well. At least some more tolerable company was drawn by the sound of John's self-loathing. ]

Yes and no. You've seen my lack of self-regulation up close and personal, have ya not? Not exclusive to barfights.

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[purple_reign]

mind if I drop in?

[heckblazer]

if you must