[What are the suit effects if not just compulsion by another name? Truly, we are all vampires at the end of the day.]

[Aak's shoulders do come down. Charlie's rapid-fire speech does actually follow the flow of his reactions. His brow furrows, like he's going to object to being called suspicious, and then the conversation's moving past it. The corners of his mouth drag down as he waits for a pause.]

[Do you?]

Well, yea. [Since pretty much day one he's been trying to get all the tools he usually used back. And, you know, if someone really didn't want him to buy something it does make him wanna buy it.]

But not sandals and shades. I saw what they're paying out for that scavenger hunt, dude, it's nothing worth running around for.

[He shows some restraint in not immediately listing the contraband he'd actually be interested in. Not yet.]