Promote your story with the dialog game (but sfw only)

[Leyelle]

Here's how it works: someone starts off making a statement AS their MC, then someone else replies as their own, MC, XYZ, to create a crazy, chaotic conversation. (be sure to stay in character, and post the link to your story beneath your line)

I'll start and set the scene:

In a coffee shop at the intersection between worlds:

Alicia: Ohhh, I don't actually really care for coffee. Do you happen to have green tea, or maybe chai?

(feel free to be another customer or even a barista, let's go!)

(Art by Mariel Leister)

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[CarltonIsaac]

[KevinReijnders]

Alicia: Ohhh, I don't actually really care for coffee. Do you happen to have green tea, or maybe chai?

Kyara: "What do you mean you don't drink coffee!? How are you even awake without caffeine???"

Zack: "Some people get a full night's sleep Ky."

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[Leyelle]

@KevinReijnders Ooh, I love that

Alicia: Well, if you consider this awake...it's a little more like walking dead.

[KevinReijnders]

Alicia: Well, if you consider this awake...it's a little more like walking dead.

Kyara sits down on the seat next to Alicia, after ordering herself a coffee, extra strong.

Kyara: "See, that's why you need a daily dose of caffeine."

Zack sighs.

[Leyelle]

Alicia: no that's...yeah I'm good. I like you're hair though. to Zach is your girlfriend always like this?

[KevinReijnders]

Alicia: no that's...yeah I'm good. I like you're hair though.

Kyara: "Why thank you, I like to keep it short and practical."
She laughs as she flicks her hair. Soon after her coffee arrives and gets distracted by it.

to Zach is your girlfriend always like this?

Zack's face turns bright red.
Zack: "Uhm, we're n-... she's not my..." He composes himself and scrapes his throat. "Yes... unfortunately she's always like this."

[Leyelle]

(this is about to just become the two of us lol, I love your art though)

Alicia's chai tea arrives, but the waitress seems to start when she sees her.

Waitress: Wait a minute, haven't I seen you somewhere? You're a model, aren't you?

Alica: stammering N-no, I'm not a model.

[KevinReijnders]

((Oh I'm sure others will eventually join in and before you know it we're all talking to chickens ))

Kyara nearly chokes on her coffee hearing what the waitress said.
Kyara: "Wait, you're a model!? And you didn't tell us!"

Zack: "Explains why she's dressed so fashionable."

Kyara gives Zack some mighty powerful side eye.

[Leyelle]

(Lol, yeah, waiting to see the Friar Chicken cast up in here)

Alicia: waving her hands nervously No-no, I'm not a model. I swear. I've just done a very small amount of modeling. My boyfrien- Ex-boyfriend... is a photographer.

[KevinReijnders]

((Then the real chaos can begin haha.))

Kyara: "Well if you did modeling before, and clearly got your work out there (she says gesturing to the waitress) then you must be a model. That's just math! Isn't that right Zack"

Zac sighs and rubs the bridge of his nose.
Zack: "N-no Ky, that's not how math works."
Zack turns his attention to Alicia
Zack: "You said your ex was a photographer. I'm guessing that's part of the reason he's your ex?"

[Leyelle]

(BTW I'm digging your dialog writing skills. I'm writing a romance rn for the competition, but I write a lot of comedy and I love the way you write character dynamics and make it funny, really killer.) (my brother thinks that line is mean to all photographers lol)

Alicia: Yeah...we broke up over a disagreement concerning a big shoot he had me model for, "Bed of Roses." But it was honestly all too complicated in the first place. My boyfriend didn't like one of my friends and he didn't like my boyfriend. BUT that was a while ago I'm...fine now. with forced brightness How'd you two meet though? Are you like LARPers or something? Those are some pretty funky goggles.

[KevinReijnders]

((Thanks a lot! I've done a lot of these sorts of text RP's in the past, I used them to try out my writing skills.
And lol, the way we used to make fun of the photography department back in college would make even me believe that was the intent ))

Kyara: "Yeah, I wouldn't want to lay in a bed of roses neither. Those thorns would really hurt I'd imagine."
Kyara signals a waiter and orders some pie.

Zack: "I don't thinl that's wh- urgh, never mind." He turns his attention back to Alicia. "Anyway, sounds like you're better off without him. If he doesn't like your friends... well that sounds like a big red flag to me."

Kyara: "Yhou swaid it pwhal." Kyara begins mouth stuffed with pie. She swallows the chunk. "Aaah, delicious. But no, If I dated a guy that didn't like him (she says gesturing her fork towards Zack) I'd show him the door right away!"

Zack: "Haha, yeah that's true. Lots of guys tried to get with her back when we both worked in the factory. That's also where we met btw."

Kyara: "I was security." She says nudging Alicia, pointing at herself.

Zack: "Anyway, she always chased people off who looked down on me."

[Leyelle]

Alicia: Eh, well boyfriends can get touchy when you have a male best friend. My grandmother had a morbid little saying "Two living men never slept under the same roof." But I don't see why anyone at your factory would look down on you. You seem like a pretty smart guy. Were you new to the line of work...? Which was what...exactly?

[KevinReijnders]

Kyara: "Sounds like you've been dating a lot of insecure assholes."

Zack: "Ky!"

Kyara: "What!? It's true though! It's the same type of guy that looked down on you. Thinking they were so much better just because they were SenSec and you just an assembly line worker. You know what they were? Jealous, jealous that I'd rather spend my time having fun with you, than enduring their creepy advances."
Kyara takes another bite of her pie.

Zack blushes a bit, he turns his attention back to Alicia.
Zack: "As for as, it's as Ky said, I worked the assembly line in the factory and she was part of SenSec.. uehm, Sentinel Security that it is. It's a sort of police force of our city. But we don;t work there any more, not since the euhm... the accident." Zack says, looking down to his mechanical left arm.

Kyara also looks at it for a moment, her expression turning somber. She looks to the side.

[Leyelle]

Alicia: hesitates I know a little bit about accidents. My friend Kattar and I were in a crash a few months ago. He was driving me home from my award ceremony and well, I guess I wasn't the only one having a horrible night and was sort of intoxicated. He hit us pretty hard. I got out with just a few scars...but Kat...trails off staring into her tea It must have been really hard for you guys.

[KevinReijnders]

They sit in silence for a moment...

Zack: "I'm sorry about your friend..."

Kyara's somber expression shifts to frustration
Kyara: "Argh, look at us bringing the mood down!" She slams her hand on the table and shoots up. "Now we'll need something a lot stronger than coffee or tea!" She signals the barkeep "Say barkeep, we'll order whatever party in a bottle the house recommends" she says with a big grin on her face.

Zack sinks his face into his hands, but the keen observer will notice a secretive smile on his face.

[Leyelle]

Alicia: suspicious Wait a second, how old are you kids?

[KevinReijnders]

Zack: "Seventeen."

Kyara: "Eighteen, why'd ya ask?"

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((Don't be afraid to join in everybody, it's fun!))

[Leyelle]

Alicia: So what exactly are you tryna order? I'm not about to let you kids go and destroy your brain cells.