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?

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?

3

[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.

2

[sunshinesally]

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

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.

3

[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. :]

Re: 3

[graveling]

Definitely. Angel putting malt vinegar and hot sauce on everything and anything. Jon realizing this is a hungry corpse.

Re: Pomni

[graveling]

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

[graveling]

Sally has come to pick up Gwen at least once and found Angel lying on the ground with her tucked up on Angel’s chest, the infamous quilt cozy around her.

Re: 3

[lasthumanvoice]

Avast, pizza be upon you. Cecil will teach Arthur about cooking it and share the first pie with him.

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?

[jeveuxpartir]

oh 100%, they've definitely got a very strong "oh heyyyyy you!" type of awkward familiarity from across the church yard

1

[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!

[thelatechrisfreeman]

Might just be that compliment earns Arthur his very own basket full of sweet rolls dropped off by his front door. 😁

[mister_morgan]

a truly high honor to get the first pie from the oven! he's going to be so puzzled but so, so delighted

[mister_morgan]

Hands down, best day of his afterlife, and a very quick and easy step for Chris to get some Cowboy Loyalty and probably a favor later down the line their way 🐎

[apocryphalarchivist]

Catch him trying not to think about zombie movies from back home and shoving those thoughts aside because that's rude!!! But also telling Angel that there's not a lot that a nice melted butter sauce doesn't go good with, peak for comfort foods!

[graveling]

Melted butter has a weak flavor. Angel needs stronger flavors in order to taste. Which has an interesting set of implications in itself, doesn't it? Someone ought to make a study of him...

[apocryphalarchivist]

Starting a study for a very pressing report, "The Living Dead 101, Which Flavors Work and Which Ones Don't"

"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.

4

[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.

1

[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?

[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.

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.