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featherduster) wrote2023-06-15 02:30 pm
featherduster) wrote2023-06-15 02:30 pm
[someone is ignoring the trench and just sending a ghost across to knock politely on the door]
[ Expecting this, so he pulls the door open with no fuss ]
Yo! What's up?
Yo! What's up?
Ah--well. I wished to say thank you properly, and also to talk. Would you mind a walk?
[the ghost also puts a covered basket down in the doorway before retreating back into the ether]
[the ghost also puts a covered basket down in the doorway before retreating back into the ether]
Thank me . . . ? Sure, a walk is fine.
[ Taking a peek under the cover before safely relocating the basket inside and hopping the trench ]
[ Taking a peek under the cover before safely relocating the basket inside and hopping the trench ]
[it's a bunch of fresh peaches (what did you expect), a couple more honeysuckle flowers, and also a sealed milk bottle of weird goop labeled GOOD FOR ONE NEW LIMB (WE HOPE). DO NOT DRINK. DO NOT TOUCH WITH BARE SKIN]
Charon waits for him to be on a level before nodding and turning to walk out of the Bluebell meadow proper, quiet for the moment]
Charon waits for him to be on a level before nodding and turning to walk out of the Bluebell meadow proper, quiet for the moment]
[ HEY CHARON???????
He'll puzzle that one out later, it's fine. Falling into step with him, patting literally every sheep they pass along the way. ]
He'll puzzle that one out later, it's fine. Falling into step with him, patting literally every sheep they pass along the way. ]
[they are so much littler than you, Minuet. watches this in fascination]
You have been inordinately kind, these past days, and I have met that poorly. It did not seem right, to continue on that path, or to let it go unacknowledged and unsaid.
You have been inordinately kind, these past days, and I have met that poorly. It did not seem right, to continue on that path, or to let it go unacknowledged and unsaid.
[ Hmmmmmmmm actually not sure what to do with gratitude. wtf. ]
To be fair, I did shoot your new guy and all, so fair's fair.
To be fair, I did shoot your new guy and all, so fair's fair.
The two are separate matters. We begin to fall into an unfortunate pattern where kindness and consequence are conflated, due to tensions in the moment; I'd like to head it off.
...
But also, please do not shoot him again if he is not attacking you.
...
But also, please do not shoot him again if he is not attacking you.
Don't worry, don't worry, I never attack from the same direction twice.
I'm satisfied for now anyway.
I'm satisfied for now anyway.
Interesting how unclear which of those points you were addressing.
[he is less needling and just observing it this time though. there is a tone difference.]
[he is less needling and just observing it this time though. there is a tone difference.]
[ lmao ]
Regardless, no more gunfire near Lily barn. ☆
Regardless, no more gunfire near Lily barn. ☆
Regardless.
...it's appreciated. My world has guns, and ship's cannon, but they are very, very rare.
[i had to look this up and apparently guns were developed for proprietary use by like one single assassin's guild ever so WHATEVER, SUIKODEN]
...it's appreciated. My world has guns, and ship's cannon, but they are very, very rare.
[i had to look this up and apparently guns were developed for proprietary use by like one single assassin's guild ever so WHATEVER, SUIKODEN]
So you normally fight with . . . swords? Or--
[ uhhhhhh what do you call the giant fire boat ]
Spells?
[ uhhhhhh what do you call the giant fire boat ]
Spells?
[ after the wolf and dumbasses have gotten infodumped by Stormy, before the meat and tea date ]
[ anyway someone was watching last night's fiasco from the lighthouse. and you'd rolled out of Bluebell as a bird BEFORE Styx had arrived and worked his illusions, so
here's a catcube, ringring ]
[ anyway someone was watching last night's fiasco from the lighthouse. and you'd rolled out of Bluebell as a bird BEFORE Styx had arrived and worked his illusions, so
here's a catcube, ringring ]
[ "Meat and tea date"....... ]
Yo.
[ Very casual
Ordinary day at Bluebell, nothin goin on ]
Yo.
[ Very casual
Ordinary day at Bluebell, nothin goin on ]
Yo!
You didn't eat Fantasia, did you?
[ this is now before the Fantasia talk too ]
You didn't eat Fantasia, did you?
[ this is now before the Fantasia talk too ]
[ HE ALMOST HANGS UP ]
. . . What are you, some kinda stalker?
. . . What are you, some kinda stalker?
You're telling me that you wouldn't look out the window if a series of deafening midnight howls woke you up?
Relax, I didn't tell anyone. I didn't even leave my room.
[ friendly astral chats with Zenith and Fantasiawolf don't count. and yes, the control center is his room now. ]
Relax, I didn't tell anyone. I didn't even leave my room.
[ friendly astral chats with Zenith and Fantasiawolf don't count. and yes, the control center is his room now. ]
[ Mmmmm .............
"Relax, I didn't tell anyone" sounds distinctly like the preamble to a blackmailing ]
Fantasia's fine, nobody got killed.
"Relax, I didn't tell anyone" sounds distinctly like the preamble to a blackmailing ]
Fantasia's fine, nobody got killed.
[ snickers. paranoid, much? ]
What'd you do, sit on him until dawn?
What'd you do, sit on him until dawn?
.......... Did Bluebell's magnet spell not work?
Thought about it, but holding a spell for eight hours is way more tiring than just sitting on him.
That's fair.
Anything you want to share regarding the wolf situation? If it's all the same to you, I'd rather not wake up to being attacked by a wolf without knowing how or why it happened.
Anything you want to share regarding the wolf situation? If it's all the same to you, I'd rather not wake up to being attacked by a wolf without knowing how or why it happened.
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