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« on: August 11, 2012, 03:41:25 am »
A human walks in. He's relatively unremarkable, apart from the massive jagged scars on his cheeks. He has long scraggly hair, a long nose, and sunken eyes dancing with the fire of madness. He sits down in the chair with the stealthy ease of a predator. "Well hello there," he croons, looking directly at you. "What a nice audience! They didn't tell me I'd be getting one," he purrs, an unnaturally large grin adorning his face. "You wanna know how I got these scars?", he asks you, in the type of tone that tells you that he'll tell you even if you say nothing. "It all started out as an adventurer. I had been yearning for a chance to make a name for myself in the world, but more importantly, to spread smiles all around! I love smiling, can't you tell? Anyway, I had traveled to a village a fair bit away from my home, and I asked if there was anything I could do for them. They told me to go kill someone! Can you imagine! Me, a murderer?" He shakes his head at the thought. "But I was told that they were bringing unhappiness to this village. So I decided, what tha heck, I might as well try to talk them out of whatever they were doing. So I travelled to their camp, and approached their leader, who all of a sudden, called out 'Prepare to die!' How rude. I couldn't kill them, as I would die if I remained there. So I went back to this one castle I passed on the way to the village, and invited some soldiers to come along with me. Than I went back to the bandit camp and let my mercenaries do their work. No one survived except me, oddly enough. So I went back and reported my 'success', and they seesed impressed, but still not smiling. So I asked them what else I could do to make them happy. You know where it goes from there. They'd tell me to kill something, I'd hire someone else to do it, but that stopped when I realized something: these people that I fought wanted to die. They charged into battle against me, never smiling until they were dead. So I obliged them. Eventually, I got noticed among the nobility. They seemed unbearably grim, so I asked them, 'What can I do to make you smile?' And they said, "Kill this dragon.' So I travelled to the lair of the beast, the last dragon in the world, to kill ti for a smile. When the deed was donw, and I'd informed the nobles of my victory, they still stayed grim. 'You may go now,' they said. Imagine! All I wanted to do was make them smile. So I asked them a question. 'Why so serious?' He didn't respond, so I asked again. "Why so serious?" He turned to me, and I guess I must have been moving towards him, because he gasped and backed away." The man stands up from the chair and slowly begins walking towards you. "I'd worked so hard to get them to smile, but they weren't doing it." A knife flickers into the man's hand. "I just wanted to make him smile. So I asked again: 'Why so serious?' He tripped over something and fell backward. I crouched over him, and decided that if he wasn't going to smile on his own, then I'd make him smile." He's closer now, the knife flicking back and forth between his hands. "So I took the knife..." He holds the knife up... "And I asked again, 'WHY SO SERIOUS?!'" He's shouting now, but he doesn't seem to notice. "Let's put a smile on that face..." He reaches up to you, pulls you through the wall, holds the knife up to your cheek. "And then," he giggles, "I made him a happy face. On his face! Then I realized I was frowning. Now that wouldn't do. So I took the knife...and now I'm always smiling!" He bursts out in laughter, cradling your terrified head in his lap like it's a dog. He abruptly ceases his laughter and looks to you, confused. "Why so serious?"