Memory 8 (Game 114) - Introducing the Count to family and friends

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This is a SUPER dialogue heavy scene and the exact dialogue wording is not overall THAT important so I'm not going to transcribe the whole thing. It is essentially just an introduction of various characters and Albert's parents. This is what happens (watch me do this entirely from memory for a scene spanning two separate episodes, my life is sad):

What it is:

- Lucien is a playboy and has a position of power in government (unsurprising that he has friends in high places). Albert introduces Beauchamp to Maximilien as a journalist. Beauchamp pumps Albert for questions about his dad and the upcoming election race.
- Albert, Franz, Maximilien, Lucien and Beauchamp hang around Albert's guest room waiting for the Count to arrive. Lucien and Beauchamp engage in idle gossip about the Count, throwing around thinly veiled insults about his character, his lineage, his intentions and so forth. Albert scolds them by retelling them the story of how he was kidnapped by bandits in Luna and rescued by the Count (and Franz).
- Albert waxes lyrical about how awesome the Count is to them.
- Lucien teases him about being a virgin :|.
- The Count makes a DRAMATIC ENTRANCE. He then introduces Franz, Maximilien, Lucien and Beauchamp to the Count.
- Beauchamp immediately starts interviewing the Count. Albert looks on with awe at the Count and his speeches about ~traveling the vast galaxy~.
- They have tea together and Franz and Lucien try to interrogate the Count further, but he simply trolls them. (Which Albert fails to see entirely. The Count is soooo mysterious!)
- PEPPO IS SERVING THEM TEA, WHAT?!!!
- After tea, his friends leave in Lucien's car. The Count stays behind.
- Albert ganks Peppo into a side corridor to confront her about what the hell she's doing in his house playing maid!! Peppo teases him by saying she followed him at first, but then changes her mind and replies that it was just a coincidence. She quit the bandit gang and came to Paris, and there "just happened to be an opening here." Albert tries to tell her that she can't stay, but Peppo brushes him off and threatens him in the same breath, saying "Let's just agree to keep each others' secrets," before walking off.
- Albert then goes to find where the Count wandered off to while he saw off his guests and finds him in his room. (NOT SUSPICIOUS AT ALL.) Looking at a painting of his mother. He explains that his father hates that painting and nearly had it thrown away in a rage before Albert placated him by hanging it in his own room. (NOT SLIGHTLY OEDIPAL AT ALL, ALBERT.)
- While waiting for his parents to appear, Albert then takes the Count on a grand tour around his house and their art collection. IT IS HUGE AND VERY EXPENSIVE.
- His parents finally appear! Introductions are made! They retire to dinner! Now for the important part of this memory!
- Dinner is mostly the Count and his father engaging in Grown Up Talk, but most specifically his father talking about his ~awesomeness at the Janina Campaign~ and how he and Mercedes are in no way related to a rough place like Marseilles, in fact they have very noble blood that can be traced back to the roots of an "Ancient Catalonian family". (Which Albert all knows to be a lie, now, thanks to a later memory.)

What he took away from it:
* This memory very obviously takes place months before the election scandal.
* Now he knows why he owes his life to the Count, even if he doesn't recall the entire event clearly.
* Still gay for the Count. More about the Count's ~mysterious character~.
* Definitely a virgin.
* His close male friends' full names and positions.
* Art appreciation... :|a?
* MY FATHER IS A LYING LIAR FACE RRRAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRR

What this means:
+ HATE DAD
+ LOVE COUNT!!
+ Mixed feelings on mother :(a...
Basically more of the same old same old.

Taken on: Day 186