Random Dialogue

One X5 hurries past another X5 in pursuit of a female. Notices friend and grasps his shoulder, big grin in  place.
“Strike out with the ladies, ____?”
“Nah, this chick’s warming up to me, man! I’ve already got two numbers; if I play my cards right, I might just get the other five!”

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“Dude, sometimes I wish we could get high. It looks like  it could be fun.”
“Well, scientific discoveries claim that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain as marijuana.”
“So you’re saying that if we eat enough chocolate we’ll get a buzz?”
“Either that or you’ll go into a sugar coma and die.”

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Keely launched into yet another in-depth explanation of something no one really cared about.
Mena to Lianna. “The girl can’t carry a conversation to save her life…and, dammit, she won’t. shut. up!”
Dillon to Mena: “Here, let me try.”
turns to Keely
”Do you actually listen to yourself when you speak, or do you find you drift in and out, too?”
Mena stifles a laugh upon hearing this.
“Whoa. What’s with the attitude, 395?”
“Can’t help it if I prefer the straightforward approach.”
“What’s that supposed to mean?”
“It means that you’re boring and no one here cares about the plight of the silver minnows in Lake Ponchatraine. Please, would you just shut up.”
Keely’s mouth is open in shock, speechless, affronted, walks off
Lianna to Dillon “How come you never said anything before?”
Dillon shrugs. “This isn’t Manticore and I no longer have to worry about being reported or stabbed in the back. I should send a fruit basket to that White guy.”

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mocks in whiny sing-song
“That’s what it’s all about.”
rolls eyes
“I don’t get it.”
“Get what?”
“The Hokey-Pokey.”
“Me neither.”
“Okay, that was random.”
“Most of his thoughts these days are random.”
“Hey, buzz off. All this stuff is confusing – and mostly pointless.”
“I’ll give you that.”

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Kendra is showing Taffy around the Market Street.
“So, what kind of things do you use to take the edge off while you’re, you know, in heat?”
“What do you mean?”
“Well, you said you can’t be with your man, so what do you use instead?”
“There’s an instead?”
“Um, how can I put this politely? On the corner of Euclid and Bower, there’s a store that specializes in…adult recreational toys.”
“Say what?”
exasperated
shouts
“Vibrators, dildos, ya know?” blank stare “Fake penises.”
“They sell penises as toys?!”
mother of young child looks horrified and hurries her son away who has begun pestering her with related questions.

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narrows eyes and smirks
”I laced the officers’ oatmeal with laxatives.”
gasp of surprise, though hushed
“Why on earth would you do that?”
breaks out into big grin when one of the staff walks by, drawing companion’s attention
“Russell’s on janitorial rotation today.”

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”You know what I’m going to do, _____, just to show you there are no hard feelings? I’m going to sleep with your wife.”

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“Well, what’s the slop du jour?”

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“Quiet, will you? The man is trying to be dull. Go ahead, _____, dull away.”

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“It’s a very difficult job and the only way to get through it is, we all work together as a team. And that means you do everything I say.”

(another mutters) “All hail teamwork, hurrah.”

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“Well then, your sympathy and my money should get together and do business …”

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“It’s showtime.”

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A group of X5s show up in what could be enemey camp. One asks another, “How do we know which ones are friendlies?” The other holds up a bandana decorated like the american flag, “Let’s run this up the flagpole and see who salutes it.” Shakes his head, stuffing the cloth back into his pocket. “Don’t be stupid, ____, we treat them all as hostiles unless they prove to be otherwise. And if they don’t, we kill ’em. Now get into position.”

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