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[osreborn]

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[enigmaestro]

How gory do you want the details?

[osreborn]

How gory ARE they?

[enigmaestro]

Trigger warning: torture.

[osreborn]

Torture never needs a warning.

[enigmaestro]

Clearly someone isn't as keen on Rumblr as I am.

[osreborn]

No.

Get on with it, dear.

[enigmaestro]

You're on Rumblr. Your image and name, I mean. And oh -- the speculation!

I love it.

But yes, really, I think I've one-upped you on the whole "forcibly fitting a malleable protege to my own design". It was a dire breakdown, beginning with the blood discoloration.

I suppose you merit a nod of mention in regards to that.

[osreborn]

What is Rumblr? Why should I care? I know I'm on the internet. It's the price of fame.

Ah.

And you're obviously very proud of yourself.

[enigmaestro]

It's a social networking system based on the concept of blogging. I've researched it thoroughly. [RESEARCHED HIS OWN HASHTAG MORE LIKE]

He folded so beautifully, when I took more severe punitive instigation. You'd have loved it. I reconstructed C17H26O4 to target the CaO I exposed him to.

[osreborn]

Interesting technique. What did he do this time?

[enigmaestro]

Oh, that was but one phase.

He committed a grave sin. Tried to humiliate me.

[osreborn]

Oh, do tell. I can't wait to hear this one.

[enigmaestro]

Funny.

Luckily, not everyone throws a scene in Metricog. Just you and Eridan.

[osreborn]

What did he do, Nygma?

[enigmaestro]

I'm leaking gossip at my own leisure, Norman. I'm more keen to make you riddle it out than just GIVE you "personal time" material.

[osreborn]

I don't need "personal time" material that involves your delinquent of a "protege" in ANY fashion.

[enigmaestro]

You could always mentally edit him out and focus on me.

Which I assumed was your intent.

[osreborn]

What did he do? Get to it already.

[enigmaestro]

He wasn't obedient. We'll leave it at that.

You're well aware of what it's like, aren't you? Dealing with disobedient people even now.

[osreborn]

Of course. But the punishment has to always fit the crime, I like to think. In some way or the other.

[enigmaestro]

He responds well to psychological trauma along with pain. I see it as a collective response, you know, he was growing wayward. But it's all fixed now.

I like to think I have a better handle on my proteges than you do.

[osreborn]

I don't have any handle on your proteges, don't worry.

[enigmaestro]

Why must you feel the need to be cute?

[osreborn]

It's fun.

[enigmaestro]

I ought to wrap you up in ribbon with a bow.