Midnight Pals: Barbarian Bros

Poe: [stripping to reveal his swimmer's physique] so while i'm telling this story, i'm just gonna swim a few laps here in the potomac
William Hope Hodgson: please feel free!
Hodgson: [muscles bulging as he does crunches] do you mind if i bench press this enormous weight while i listen?
Poe: Not at all!
Lovecraft:

Lovecraft: you know, guys, i consider myself quite manly myself
King:
Poe:
Barker:
Koontz:
Lovecraft: heir to a great tradition of barbarian machismo
King:
Poe:
Barker:
Koontz:

Lovecraft: yeah you know i'm kind of like
Lovecraft: a xanthochroic Nordic warrior
Barker:
Poe: clive
Barker: i literally have nothing to say edgar
Barker: i am speechless

Barker: so howard
Barker: you think you're like some kind of reincarnation of heroic barbarism?
Lovecraft: yes i
Lovecraft: ohhhh
Lovecraft: you pushed the air at me too hard when you talked just now
Lovecraft: i'm having the vapors :C

Lovecraft: it's not fair, edgar and William are so swole
Lovecraft: all the guys think i'm a wimp
Sonia Greene: oh you're not a wimp howard
Greene: you're just incredibly physically weak
Lovecraft:
Lovecraft: i dunno, that's not really making me feel any better

Greene: would you like to play xanthochroic Nordic warlord?
Greene: would that make you feel better?
Lovecraft: yes please

Lovecraft: grr! boo! look at me! i'm a xanthochroic Nordic from the damp forests of Germany!
Sonia Greene: oh my! My teutonic hero!
Lovecraft: grrr! snarl!!!
Lovecraft: ohhh
Lovecraft: i'm out of breath from all this growling
Lovecraft: give me a second i have to sit down for a second

Greene: oh my manly teutonic warlord
Greene: here drink this hot blood from the skull of a cursed, effeminate celtic foe!
Lovecraft: yes! yes! i am the chalk-white conqueror!!
Greene: drink some more
Greene: keep drinking

Sonia Greene: so sometimes howard likes to RP that he's a teutonic barbarian and i'm his effete celtic foe
Angela Carter: and you're in that?
Greene: it's ok
Carter: Sonia
Carter: i think it's time that someone asked
Carter: what is SONIA into?
Greene: well gosh i mean i'm into the same stuff as everyone else i guess
Greene: like what if howard was fat

Carter:
Greene: i just think it would be interesting
Carter:
Carter: ok
Carter: ok actually yeah i can see it