It's okay, really, he has his own Leeroy Jenkins partner in crime himself — who ironically does occasionally go by the name Leeroy. He's used to having to be the tempering voice of reason in situations like this. He is also, unfortunately, almost just as likely to be furiously anti-authoritarian enough to stomp right through the list of rules and break every single one of them out of spite, depending on the delivery, but right now he's leaning more in the direction of caution. If he figures out who made the list and decides they absolutely suck as a person, that may change. He's got decent 'fuck around, find out' instincts. They're still calibrating here.
"I don't know, maybe?" He shrugs helplessly, gesturing absently outward with his knife without even really thinking about it. "It could be one of the big three. You know, aliens, gods, or cultists."
It does occur to him that maybe Bucky StrongJaw might've been being sarcastic about that whole aliens thing, but depending on your definition of the term and how familiar you are with cosmic horror, it isn't actually inaccurate. There's a fine line between alien and monster, and the Venn diagram seems to overlap somewhere around Eldritch.
"I don't know anything about this place in particular, but- weird is kind of... what I do. There's basically a nonzero chance that if I'm involved with a situation, it's because that situation's- inherently fucked up and not normal, somehow." A beat, and then, "I realize now that I'm hearing myself that probably sounds insanely egotistical, but I don't mean it like that. I just mean- I'm, like, magnetically drawn to fucked up shit, and ominous, foreboding rules lists are textbook fucked up shit."
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"I don't know, maybe?" He shrugs helplessly, gesturing absently outward with his knife without even really thinking about it. "It could be one of the big three. You know, aliens, gods, or cultists."
It does occur to him that maybe Bucky StrongJaw might've been being sarcastic about that whole aliens thing, but depending on your definition of the term and how familiar you are with cosmic horror, it isn't actually inaccurate. There's a fine line between alien and monster, and the Venn diagram seems to overlap somewhere around Eldritch.
"I don't know anything about this place in particular, but- weird is kind of... what I do. There's basically a nonzero chance that if I'm involved with a situation, it's because that situation's- inherently fucked up and not normal, somehow." A beat, and then, "I realize now that I'm hearing myself that probably sounds insanely egotistical, but I don't mean it like that. I just mean- I'm, like, magnetically drawn to fucked up shit, and ominous, foreboding rules lists are textbook fucked up shit."