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[ No it—

Oh.

OH. This is a joke, one Mako still doesn't fully understand. He takes another few minutes to keep looking for the word troll, this time checking out a few definitions deeper until something clicks. ]

Yeah. This thing is full of them. He's all over the place.

[Jesus fuck he is laughing so hard. He's never been so happy Chuck is out on patrol because he's howling like a lunatic and it's scared the dog oh god- fuck- wheeze it hurts!! Bahahaha!]

You've never noticed that before? Everywhere you look there he is. Lurking under bridges, demanding troll tolls, making you solve riddles. It's a nightmare!

[ Mako, meanwhile, is just happy he finally got the joke. He hates not getting things, which is why he is just... reading an entire wikipedia article about trolls, now. Hence the time between his carefully-crafted replies.

Why do people like this nerd, again? ]

It's the riddles that get me. Can't have a whole conversation with him without at least three. I don't know how you do it.

The trick is to ignore the riddle and give him a little tickle right in the gooch. Really get in there deep. He loves it.

Somehow I think that will get me punched right in whatever my gooch is.

Do I want to know what a gooch is, on that note?

You don't know about the Gooch?

And you don't know until you try. If you're good at it he'll grant you a wish.

How am I supposed to try if I don't know what I'm aiming for? You have to set me up for success here.

I'm surprised you haven't looked it up. Gooch is the home stretch between your nuts and backdoor :)

I did look it up and I thought, apparently too nicely, that you must've been talking about something else. There is no way I'm tickling that on anyone.

Especially at dinner. That's probably rude.

Lolol and here he was just expecting you to tell him to go fuck himself.

Nah, it's a traditional Australian greeting. He loves it, he'll bend right over.

You get hyperbolic when you're lying.

R u d e

That's what gave it away?

Among other things, but mostly that, yeah. It's like you're really trying to sell it.

Well damn, I'll have to up my game.

I'm not a very good liar

Honestly? Me neither. Bit me in the butt a lot when I was a kid, too. I think it's a good thing. You can't trust someone who's good at lying.

Very true. I've decided to take it as a compliment.

I'm also terrible at poker but it is what it is.

It's basically a compliment.

But games like poker aren't about lying, they're about reading other people. You don't have to be good at bluffing. Just figuring out when other people are. We should play sometime.