anonymous text;

[duplicitousringleader]

So who else is pretty sure that those high-minded idiots are all as good as dead?

Volunteering to do what these administrator bastards say? Giving up their energy? They're toast.

So, to the rest of you who have some brain cells to rub together... what should we do with the place now?

Comments

anonymous text;

[duplicitousringleader]

And you sound like a real brat. Didn't your old man ever teach you to keep your nose out of the adults' business?

[averytinyparticle]

[Whoa whoa whoa--hold on there a minute. Quark has to pause. Was that just a figure of speech, or...]

I'm not a brat!

[And come to think of it, nobody else really ever calls him that, either. Curiouser and curiouser.]

Is that you, Mr. Dio? Nobody else would say such mean things to people like they thought it was all funny!

anonymous text;

[duplicitousringleader]

Whoaaa now. Dunno who this "Mr. Dio" is but let's not get our wires crossed here. I've got way more style than anyone who'd be acquainted with a brat like you.

[averytinyparticle]

[Of course, now Quark's way too suspicious to let it slide. He can practically hear this text in Dio's voice, now.]

You mean style like wearing a weird circus costume and a top hat and having hair like a girl?

[duplicitousringleader]

I mean style like if you look at me you'll just know I outclass each and every one of you peons.

[averytinyparticle]

So you're a princess?

argh just assume anon text until otherwise stated because I fail

[duplicitousringleader]

Whatever floats your boat, brat.

[averytinyparticle]

You don't sound very princess like, though. Princesses wouldn't call people names. Unless you're princess of the jerk kingdom, where all the citizens are jerks and you're the biggest jerk of all.

[Quark ponders this for a moment.]

Which must make you a really ugly princess.

[duplicitousringleader]

You're calling people names too. "Jerk," "ugly." I bet your parents are real proud of you right about now.

[Oh wait, Quark doesn't have any.]

[averytinyparticle]

I'll grow out of it, I think. I'm still just a brat, right?

[By that logic, it was expected of him.]

What's your excuse, being an adult and classy and everything?

1/2

[duplicitousringleader]

Yeah, you'll grow out of being a brat into being a grumpy old curmudgeon like your old man.

2/2, action

[duplicitousringleader]

[...WELL SHIT. He sure just fucked up there.

There will be no more responses on the network and he'll be stealthily sneaking away from the network terminal and back to his room now, yeah.]

[averytinyparticle]

I just knew it was you, Mr. Dio!

[Biggest jerk in the planet. How could Quark mistake him?]

You just wait until I get back up to our dorm!

[Not that there was really much Quark could do, and he wasn't exactly prone to violence. But, hey, he could certainly modify Dio's "style" with the scalpel he had hidden in his pocket.]