[ Hey, hey, listen. That's exactly why he said it. The line-faced non-nonsense response wins a wicked little giggle from him. This too is an amusing response to his murder clown LARPing, he finds. ]

That's a shame. It's polite to warn you ahead of time.

[ In truth, Nikolai had come to investigate everything at least a little bit. But despite claims that would say otherwise things are never truly simple nor straight forward when he's involved. ]

Why did I come here? Well that's simple. It's 'cause it seemed fun!