[Video] It's worth a shot.

[material_guy]

[The bar is not in the best shape compared to the usual videos; the wall has a fresh set of dents and cracks, and periodically a slim girl in a simple black cocktail dress wanders most perkily through the background with exorbitantly heavy looking arm fulls of scraps of wood, brick, upholstery, and other remains of what was probably furniture at

Comments

[Audio]

[material_guy]

---You're pretty quick to believe it.

[material_guy]

Well, that's useful for me! I appreciate it!

[stripping]

You did seem strange. I presume this is Envy? Naoto mentioned him after our incident on the cruise ship, so...

[material_guy]

Eh? You had a run-in with that fucker on the ship, too?

[stripping]

I meant my incident with you.

[material_guy]

Oh. That was really you.

I apologized back then already.

[killerbaseball]

Hmm. I followed the post that you speak of.

I have seen worse.

[material_guy]

Aa. Nothing too damaging considering what a chance it was, but it's still a pain in the ass on top of everything else.

[killerbaseball]

Everything else?

[material_guy]

The deal was a flop and there's enough property damage [Vague hand motion to the scenery] that I didn't get around to noticing that last post went public or that "I" said anything to anyone 'till someone pointed it out. S'what a guy gets for tryin' to keep things comfortable for his hostages, I guess.

[phoenix_temple]

Is everything all right?!

[Video]

[material_guy]

Not exactly. But, we've got two State Alchemists on hand and we're workin' on gettin' the cash to rebuild. Actually, [Missing the point of her question, he glances around idly from his perch on an offensively green, blood smeared pile of wood and shredded fabric.] since we're in the middle of renovations, it might look a little worse than it did when the damage was all fresh...

[phoenix_temple]

Is anyone hurt? I can help.

[material_guy]

Nn? Iya, since Envy's who he is, getting into a twenty on one bar brawl with a guy who might be any one of us would've made it messy, and I can take him by myself, so I had them clear out... But then those two showed up and... Anyway, everyone here's basically okay.

Rrr... why're you offering to help, anyway?

[truthinfortune]

You, sir, ought to be ashamed of yourself! How could you possibly claim to have tried to cheer Winry up when you were trying to take us both hostage?

[material_guy]

I felt I could do both.

[truthinfortune]

No! You don't understand anything about her, do you? She didn't enjoy being taken hostage before, what makes you think she'd enjoy it any better this time around?

[material_guy]

She didn't enjoy lunch and a walk around town?