Boasts

[can kill a man with one kick]

[causes severe brain damage just by existing]

[broke Weft's brain]

[ate all the grapes at a party once]

[once ate an entire banquet alone]

Including the dishcloth and/or table?

That's between me and the banquet.

>.>

<.<

...What happens in the banquet, stays in the banquet.

Anke: I think the people over here are a bit shy about boasting... [mentally prods Nico]

Nico: Well, for one thing I'm afraid someone might ask for the whole story, which wouldn't be thought out yet, and knowing your writing habits, chances are bad it'd ever be finished.

Anke: Well, thanks. [sighs]
Pity. There's stuff like you teaching a trickster god poker...

Nico: ... Considering I only found out who he was after he'd fleeced me, that's not much to brag about. [still more amused than sour]

I'm officially a good storyteller, but this is possibly only when I'm (a) in tandem with a fantastic storyteller or (b) dazed from forgetting to sleep and from being manipulated by an attention-seeking succubus.

I'll just be good and not ask for the whole poker story, then...

Nico: It wasn't much, anyway, we just -

Daaren: Nico, remember I told you you should learn to keep your mouth shut, because you sometimes talk faster than you think, and it goes further than you intended?

Nico: ... Right. Thanks, Suitov, very obliging. ^_^

Daaren: Sometimes you're surprisingly stupid.

Nico: Good you're around to think for me, eh?

Sylvie: ... Oh dear.

Suitov: This way, we can make up our own version of what happened.
...Ishtar, you have a vivid and off-kilter, not to mention very unlikely, imagination.

Ishtar: [laughs] Really, when someone says poker, you should know what I'll automatically think of.

Suitov: I try not to theorise about your mental state, in case it's catching.

Ishtar: Well, I'll go on believing they were playing in the belly of a whale, and you can't stop me.

Suitov: [mock smoothness] Heaven forbid that I should ever try.

Ishtar: [purr]

Actually, in the belly of a whale - greater aether whale, more precisely - I met an insectiod priest of some or other god of war, and we played something resembling domino.

Suitov: I want to meet this whale.

Ish: Insectiles always remind me of someone I know. <3

I just got compared to him by Weft

Hey!

I said that about that look he gives himself in the mirror. Not the part where he can sing.