The Monthly Meme #1 | Do I Know You From Somewhere?

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Welcome to Pumpkin Hollow's first Monthly Meme! This month's edition is "Do I Know You From Somewhere?", a Handwaved-CR meme!

Participation is optional and very simple: just follow the steps below to get rolling!

1) Post a top-level from your character's account, detailing the places that they're most likely to frequent. The library, the shops, your character's workplace, the seaside - you name it, there's probably someone who passes through there!

2) Check out your fellow Pumpkin Hollowite's posts, and see where they pass through. If you feel like you'd pass by there, drop a reply on there detailing how they very briefly cross paths! Are the feelings positive, like someone who you don't know, but would miss if they disappeared? Is it negative, like that one guy who keeps shoulder-checking you at work? Maybe it's as neutral as it gets. The world is your oyster!

3) Profit. You and your fellow islanders have developed a relationship, even if extremely surface-level! Now you can go into prompts with a vague familiarity and a distinct lack of that "I've never seen this person in my life" awkwardness.

Now go get some lovely new acquaintances, and have fun!

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QUESTIONS/COMMENTS/CONCERNS

[pumpkinhollow]

Angel

[graveling]

1. Can be found at the Temple or on its grounds at least once a week, because his body only heals when he's in a sacred place and the Temple is usually most convenient. If it's been a good week, it's only bruises and small scrapes from farm work, but if he's hurt more, he might be there more often. While he's healing, his wounds glow with golden light that feels absolutely holy.

2. If you're around Eddie's farm? Angel.

3. Currently on a lavish food budget for November, and like. Eat with him sometime. Suggest fun food combos. Watch him dip garlic bread in chocolate pudding.

4. Still volunteers with the fire brigade. Have you been on fire lately? Has a place you care about?

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[sunshinesally]

Sally has definitely met him from visiting with Eddie and having Eddie babysit. Gwen likes her Uncle Angel very much!

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[apocryphalarchivist]

Jon's not an amazing cook and likes to eat out, so with any of that lavish food budget, if Angel's been to any restaurants in town, they might have run into each other! Maybe they've even briefly shared a barside chat over some fried food. :]

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[thelatechrisfreeman]

[[OOC: Brain on fritz originally, couldn't words. Let's try this again.]]

Chris has had no personal fires, but I bet they've sometimes worked alongside Angel when other people have gotten hurt in fires. Chris doesn't enjoy the circumstances that bring them together, but working with Angel is a bright spot in such situations.

[300kgbackpack]

Angel almost certainly knows about Bobbin having started a collection of nails, screws, and other little things that can be stolen from Sam's work site out in the forest.

Cecil Gerswhin Palmer

[lasthumanvoice]

1. Nosing around as a newspaper reporter, like the nerd he is. Will chase you down for an interview. He shares Yorick's office in city hall and can be seen there.

2. Shyly discovering the joys of the library! Still very much on a hair trigger while in that building.

3. Recently, has been searching for an appropriate place for River to build a pizza oven. Do you have land on which a pizza oven can be built?

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[mister_morgan]

Arthur does, in fact, have a farm, with only a very limited amount of space allocated to crops (as he doesn't 100% have the hang of crop-tending down, he's better with the animals). The rest of that space? Nothing. But what it could be... he doesn't have a clue what a pizza is, but he's easy to convince to do just about anything.

[lovinglefthand]

Library buddies XD

Pomni

[jeveuxpartir]

1. She's working aboard the Mipha's Grace! And doing a horrible job, but she's really trying her best. As such, she can be seen on the boat, or around the docks!

2. Thinking about trying to poke into the Temple, but she hasn't gotten the nerve up yet. Right now, she just... stands across the church yard and stares for a while, before scurrying off.

3. A new wolfy buddy has her occasionally around the edge of the woods. Sometimes she picks flowers for a little glass bottle she's been using as a vase in her room. If you forage, you might run into her!

4. Re: her room, she's in the Oak and Iron! Maybe a roommate's seen her during her ins-and-outs.

5. She is, admittedly, kind of nosy. If she sees someone working outside on something, she might linger. You been getting up to any projects? Work outside in general? There's a solid chance she'll look at you briefly with her big ol' eyes.

Re: Pomni

[graveling]

Definitely there’s been eye contact while Angel visited the churchyard. Unblinking staring silent long uncomfortable eye contact.

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[thelatechrisfreeman]

Depending on how horrible a job she's doing, maybe it's a good thing that when the boats come in, there's a medical practitioner waiting on shore just in case.

Chris and Pomni meeting up when they have to bandage her hand at the start of shore leave?

[lovinglefthand]

First Aid would almost definitely try to make friendly small talk with her if he catches her staring while he's refueling at the distillery XD

Chris Freeman

[thelatechrisfreeman]

1. Guess who's discovered a love of baking bread? If you swing by the Winterbottom Clinic in the mornings, you might be lucky enough to grab a sweet roll from the covered basket that Chris brings in most days.

2. Or maybe you like to go to the entertainment venues in the evening? If they play music you can dance to, Chris just might be there having fun.

3. There is a possibility, particularly on their days off, that Chris could be wandering around outside of town while accompanied by Rowan the Phantump. The fact that both beings can be seen with glowing red eyes sure is odd! Dare you ask?

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[mister_morgan]

Dr. Winterbottom's an aging gal, and while she's got plenty of folks around to help her now, Arthur got roped into carrying heavy things for her when he first got in and never stopped since, and he by no means can resist the siren song of a fresh sweet roll 😌 He's probably tried to catch Chris to pass his compliments to the chef whenever he's able!

"Slasher Face" Jean

[restingslasherface]

1. Working! Jean serves aboard Mipha's Grace, though increasingly they're also getting their seaweed farm up and running (the next business upgrade should make it independent of them). They've also recently moved in with Zelda and Mort.

2. Jean gets their coffee at the Oak & Iron every morning they're not on the ship. Every. Single. Morning.

3. This!

4. Jean can often be found at the Library, doing research. They take extensive notes, including drawings.

5. Last but not least, Jean tries to catch Grace Holloway performing whenever budget permits.

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[thelatechrisfreeman]

With Chris going out to dance every so often, I'm sure their paths cross while partaking in what nightlife the village has. 🙂

Chris asks after Jean's pretty friend the first time, meaning Mort... and likely gets responses about Zelda and Mort both, yeah?

[lawes]

Rachel, too, grabs her coffee at Oak & Iron every morning! She normally takes it to go, on her way to work at Town Hall, but they'd probably eventually recognize eachother in the wild as two of Pumpkin Hollow's morning coffee freaks. Jean isn't there every morning Rachel is, but they become a familiar face that she'd likely end up associating with her morning routine.

Sam Porter

[300kgbackpack]

1. Are you of the Medical Staff persuasion? Then Sam will have at least stopped by a clinic to drop off supplies and paperwork. He's efficient, thorough, and usually polite. Not good at maintaining eye contact.

2. Have you received a parcel in the last two months? You've at least seen Sam put them on your porch/in your mailbox/handed it to you at home.

3. Do you go out into Lockwood Forest? You've probably spotted Sam carting heavy loads of building materials, tools, supplies that would allow him to refurbish one of the abandoned cabins out there. You may have also seen him stop and take a nap on the ground by a tree.

4. Sam does sometimes take a day off! When that happens, he usually ends up at the Beach. When it's warm out, he sits with his shirt off, or with the simple starter shirt on with its sleeves ripped off. Sun's out guns out.

5. In almost all instances, you will see an infant with him. He will have introduced her as Lou. This baby has a ridiculous amount of personality for a kid that's only officially like four-ish months old.

6. DO YOU HAVE A SPECIAL ORDER or perhaps just messages for your friendly neighborhood packmule mailman? He will be setting himself up a proper inbox soon but for now, he checks the bulletin board every morning.

Bart Torgal

[theresalwaystheview]

1. OAK & IRON! Bart lives here for the time being. He can often be found at a table writing, drawing, sometimes talking himself through some problem or other. He doesn't always remember to eat, but is grateful when he's reminded.

2. The library! While he favors in vivo research and information gathering, not everything can be gleaned just from living day to day here. He's got an ever growing list of things to find in the library, and will regularly be checking out as many as they will allow him to. A lot of them will end up in his room at the Oak & Iron. All of them will have neat little linen bookmarks bristling from between the pages.

3. The Forest! That in vivo research happens a lot out here. His notebook isn't exactly the nicest, it barely counts as a notebook given how many loose pages he's stuffed into it to supplement the amount of pages it originally came with. He can generally be found taking extensive notes and drawing intricate diagrams.

4. The Clinic(s)! While he was more or less given the all good by First Aid after his initial worry of bringing an offworld infection to Pumpkin Hollow, Bart is still going to be in and out at the Clinic for the occasional checkup to make sure that he's not taxing his reduced lung capacity enough to hurt himself. He will also be there providing a helping hand when necessary. Hope you like your nurses chatty.

[graveling]

Given he’s working at the clinics, Bart has been shown Angel’s file and given instructions about ‘if a corpse is hurt, what do?’

[lovinglefthand]

1. The clinic, the clinic, the clinic. First Aid spends easily three-quarters of his time here or more; he even sleeps in one of the store rooms. He keeps regular appointment and walk-in hours, and I'm always happy to handwave a consultation.

2. The distillery. First Aid makes a brief trip out there every morning to refuel on filtered ethanol. He doesn't have a mouth, so he has to siphon the fuel through an intake normally covered by a panel on his side. It looks exactly like a car refueling.

3. The library. There were so many books back home that this nerd wasn't able to read, because they were too small and hadn't been digitized. He's making up for lost time now.

4. Eddie's farm! On First Aid's rare (Chris Freeman-enforced) days off he can often be found out at Eddie Kaspbrak's farm, visiting and seeing how the greenhouse is coming along. They're going to try and grow penicillin, it's very exciting!

[graveling]

Angel definitely does casual small talk when FA shows up on the farm.

Eddie Kaspbrak

[batteryacid]

You want to know something hilarious? When I originally contemplated adding Chris to the setting, I figured that they'd be the cryptid just off doing their own weird thing.

And now I realize that it's Eddie -- he just stays on his farm most days and does his (decidedly less weird) own things.

1. Eddie is pretty much always on his farm. He used some of First Aid's investment to make sure the greenhouse is larger than normal. The general upgrade allowed him to hire two part-time farmhands to assist in the non-specialized farming (and sometimes the milking of Greta Goat, since it will be a cold day in hell before Angel gets to do that). (I feel like Eddie initially intended her name to just be "Greta" but she's become Greta Goat.) Despite all the busy bustle on E. Kaspbrak Farm, all friends are welcome to visit!

2. Eddie still has lessons with River on the Green, so if you feel like watching him slowly getting his ass kicked less and less...

3. Library buddies? Eddie does a lot of reading on farming techniques (because duh) but he's also finding the fictional offerings of this new world entertaining. Feel like discussing books with him?

4. Someone may be eyeing the pennyfarthing bicycles on offer for the express purpose of figuring out a way to convert this fore-wheel driven thing into a rear-wheel driven bicycle as he's more familiar with...

[lovinglefthand]

I haven't had time to actually write the thread (and idk how interested you are in just rping out a bunch of small talk) but First Aid would definitely come by to check on the farm, maybe once a week? And he could help with heavy lifting, treat the small injuries people typically get from doing farm work, that sort of thing. He likes Eddie, and he'd be excited to see the farm grow <3

Lord Erik Osborne

[lordoftheozarks]

[500 years late to this]

1. Erik is a night owl so you probably won't see him up or around until 10 am unless there's something happening. Most mornings assume he's snoozing in his home (in his ugly pink pajamas that he still hasn't replaced.)

2. When not engaged with a current client in his home, you can find him going about town trying to drum up business for himself. He has better than human hearing/sight/smell so sometimes he'll just walk around taking in everything and seeing if he catches any useful bits of gossip. (If you ever want him to overhear something, toss me that link. I usually will ask before I have him just KNOW something unless the event was somewhere very public.)

3. He pops into the Oak & Iron at lunch and dinner rush times to see if anyone is around for a chat or more. And he tends to spend evenings in the pub or other entertainment establishments trawling for clients as well.

4. Surprisingly, he does attend sermons at the temple on a regular basis, but he never eats at the meals. He always stays for a word with Degas if he can.

5. Late at night if he's free, he can be found in the woods or on the edge of it, and sometimes in the cemetery. If asked why, he'll say he's just enjoying the night air. He never seems too concerned with being attacked.

6. He has certain homes he frequents often enough to be routine, River's, Lucas's, and Chris's too, probably.