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TDM #5 - Paradesium

Pumpkin Hollow Gazette March Issue

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Pumpkin Hollow Gazette

3/8/24 | TDM #5 - Paradesium
Content Warnings: individual CWs found per prompt in "Further Details"
Forecast: Partly cloudy with a chance of rain

WELCOME TO PUMPKIN HOLLOW!

By Yorick Aberdeen

The image?

Apparently the ferryman needed a bigger boat!

ACROSS TOWN - Since June of 16:53, a steady stream of new arrivals to our sleepy little town has flowed in by ferry, emerging from the fog. And it seems this trend is due to continue, as this March is due to be on record the highest number of new residents in a single month!

We are incredibly grateful for all of you coming to our home and filling it with life once more, even though the dangers of our local curse have significantly increased since all of you began arriving. This reporter isn’t complaining--- additional harm to my own person notwithstanding!

If you are a new arrival, please report to Town Hall at your leisure so that we can help you find work and permanent lodging. Or don’t! The Oak & Iron is happy to rent you a room for as long as you need. Best of luck to all of you, and as we say in Pumpkin Hollow, may your lanterns always be lit!

CHARITY DRIVE ENCOURAGES CULTURAL EXCHANGE

By Cecil Gershwin Palmer

The image?

One of the charming toys created during last year's Doll Picnic.

FESTIVAL GREEN - Preparations are underway for the upcoming annual Doll Picnic. A charity event sponsored by the Artisan’s Guild, this picnic is an Anwyllic tradition that was brought to the island and continued with love. The first Doll Picnic was organized by Dame Meredith Idlewild of the town of Glyn Rhuthun on Kora’s Haven, with the toys being donated to the local children’s hospital after a massive landslide engulfed a local school.

The Artisan’s Guild has baskets of material available for making dolls, including fabric, yarn, stuffing, buttons, and the like. However, tradition states that sourcing materials from the natural world (for example, acorn husks to use as buttons or deadwood to carve for doll arms and legs) results in the toys being blessed by Serrenai, who will watch over the children who play with them. The toys will be donated to local children after the picnic, including those who are ill or whose families can only afford necessities.

Newcomers are explicitly invited to join in the making of toys, and the resulting picnic. As a personal note: the locals have never heard of a teddy bear before. This reporter expects to see several, as we introduce our traditions to their traditions.

PLANTING SEASON BEGINS!

By Yorick Aberdeen

The image?

After a difficult winter, the appearance of spring's sprouts lifts our spirits.

NORTHWEST HOLLOW - The spring thaw is in full swing! That means it’s time for our local farmers to begin planting. Town Hall is offering a small reward to any of our newest arrivals who would be interested in assisting with planting season for farms less than a year old.

Anyone fresh off the boat interested in making 100 Brass should seek out Eddie and Angel Kasbrak, Arthur Morgan, Cèsar Salazar, Mairi Miann, Ylva Wolfsdottir, or Muriel and offer assistance with tilling and planting. We look forward to rewarding you for your contributions!

HOT SPRINGS OPEN FOR RELAXATION

By Yorick Aberdeen

The image?

Photograph provided by the Safety Board!

CRANE'S RIDGE - After a recent earthquake opened up a hot spring on the lower portion of Crane’s Ridge, a small portion of the Pumpkin Hollow Damage Claims Assessment Corps has been working to get the area cleaned up and safe for use by the general public.

Following its recent approval for compliance by the Safety Board, we are pleased to announce that Porter’s Spring is now available for public enjoyment! It can be accessed by taking the train to the North Station or by following the central trail out of Northwest Hollow, though the Safety Board does not recommend making this journey on foot due to its proximity to Lake Sal-Co-Penn. Enjoy!

STRANGE CAVERNS DISCOVERED BENEATH CRANE’S RIDGE

By Yorick Aberdeen

The image?

A small glimpse into this world beneath our own.

CRANE RIDGE - In addition to the hot springs, the earthquake can also be credited for a major cave-in in our Crane’s Ridge mines. A large tunnel was completely buried in rubble by the inexplicable natural occurrence. For the past several months, our mining team has been chipping away at the cave-in to try and regain access to the blocked tunnels in the lower area of the mountain.

In one of these tunnels, however, the team discovered a shocking surprise as the rubble was removed! Apparently, just beyond the mine walls, there has been an entrance to Hepogaia--- a subterranean nation running below our own fair country and many others. It seems that this particular portion of Hepogaian territory is also trapped within the barrier. Brief attempts at scouting by the Safety Board have noted a plethora of subterranean wildlife, both familiar and unfamiliar. This incredible new environment, hiding just out of sight beneath our island, is so full of wonder and splendor that it has earned a fitting name--- “Paradesium.”

A recent ecology study and expedition run by Pumpkin Hollow’s own Dr. Elias Coldwood has redirected their efforts to this new location, but those interested in exploring and scouting out this fantastical new discovery independently are encouraged to pack thoughtfully and travel in groups of two or more! Any information obtained during excursions into Paradesium would be appreciated by the Pumpkin Hollow Board of Safety.

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Further Details...
Charity Drive

The Doll Picnic Charity Drive will run throughout the next two months during our TDM, and there will be an event later on involving posing the dolls for a picnic. Once a photo is taken, the children will be allowed to come picnic with their new toys and take them home after!

There is absolutely no way this could possibly go wrong. Absolutely no dollmakers will be jumpscared or attacked by possessed dolls. None at all. (Okay, maybe some of them. But it’s fine. It’s for a good cause.)

[Mod Note: you can just make a doll without it coming to life and trying to kick your ass, that part is optional. Also the dolls will be blessed at the picnic and rendered unable to attack children.]

Planting Season

Any brand-new characters will get 100B extra on their stipend if they submit an AC-length thread with one of the existing farmers on their first Activity Check! This will be available regardless of whether the character qualifies for normal bonuses, but can only be redeemed by those who app in.

For reference for new players, threads are considered AC-length if they are ten tags in length (meaning 5 of your own tags and 5 from your partner.)

Hot Springs

Porter’s Spring is a perfectly normal and safe hot spring! However, you can encounter any number of perils on your way there if you decide to travel on foot, allowing new players to revisit some of our earlier events.

Check out our bestiary (pending update to new format) for more information on creatures such as Brutoks, the River Walker, and the Pine Devil, or stumble on Lake Sal-Co-Penn for a nasty surprise! Brutoks may also steal personal items from spring-goers on occasion. Don’t chase after them alone unless you want to be turned into a tree!

The Tristitia

In addition to the creatures in the wild, in town after dark characters may also encounter the Tristitia, Pumpkin Hollow’s newest cryptid.

She is a wraith-like spirit which haunts the island. Wearing tattered black clothes and colored all in shades of gray, she appears as a woman who walks around weeping with a caved-in chest, covering her face with her hands. Harmless if given a wide berth, but if she is set off, she will take out her desire for empathy for her grief on her target. She does this by embracing them and drawing out their own grief and trauma, leaving the target catatonic before she fades away, temporarily assuaged.

Into Paradesium

Crystals, golden with light and raw magical energy, cast what looks like sunlight down into the cascading cave. For every foot lower that the ground curls down from the entrance, the trees stretch ever-higher, carrying the raucous cries of animals unlike the surface of Marrow Isle had ever heard.

A jungle, so lush with life, sprawls ahead of any brave enough to venture into it. But what is there to see?

For Paradesium specifically, the bestiary has received a significant update. Creatures featured in prompts have their links to the accounts by Dr. Coldwood and his team marked with stars for easy location.

Below are multiple prompts for some encounters to be had in the jungle, but feel free to create any of your own encounters with any of the creatures listed! If the descriptions are short, feel free to write the creatures' behaviors however makes sense.

Welcome to the Jungle

Swallowed by dense canopies and noise, the jungle is quick to swallow any who travel within it whole.

Eyes are quick to find you, however. Perching in the treetops are a variety of small wyverns in vibrant colors, heads tilting as they try to comprehend what you could be. They squawk, chatter, and some of the bolder ones draw closer - if you sit anything aside and leave it unattended for too long, some even bolder than that will pilfer it, taking the object into the trees to admire with its companions.

Reptilian hunters with bright, keen eyes, the Plommon, consider you with much of the same interest. This interest increases tenfold if you happen to feed them.

If the prying eyes are no bother, then the forest's bounty is ripe for tending and taking. Bananas hang off trees, colorful citrus fruits catch light on their waxy peels, and bulky cocoa beans are jostled by movement in the branches above them. Even the broad leaves of the plants prove extraordinarily useful, whether you're looking to come in and quickly leave, or intend to push further within.

Wherever you go, those curious eyes follow you. Perhaps even out of the cave, should your attempts to shoo an adventurous creature away. What an odd way to gain a new team member.

Down a Few Notches on the Food Chain (CWs: Potential for death, gore, or animal death)

Unfortunately, not all can be pure bounty and new friends in a place like this.

With the cavern sprawling widely and massively, there are many significantly larger creatures in this space, and some seem to be keen to take up opportunity for new prey. As you explore, there's a new feeling of eyes upon you, and the silence that overtakes the surrounding trees spells nothing good to come.

Any one of the massive predators in the wood has you in it's sights.

Escape is difficult, but manageable, as is fighting back. Creatures can be challenged, and hides, bones, and other spoils can be claimed from them, should there be success! If not, this is a good opportunity for familiarization with the Death page.

The silkhide chimera specializes in persistence. The longer and further you go, the more exhausted you'll get. A break is an opportunity that it will be keen to take.

The greenstalker excels at ambushing and high-speed pursuit. At top speeds of 30MPH, your party will need strategy and skill on their side to keep this beast at bay. (Or, alternatively, a source of fire.)

The elephant raptor does neither of these - the beast's sheer length of reach does all it needs to. Water and mud soften the sounds of the gargantuan creature's approach. Stay alert, and be sure that you hear it before it's upon you.

Safe travels become more difficult to manage, the further in you go. Deep, rumbling snores tell you that there's a chance you're just getting to the greater threats this paradise has to offer...

Fragments of the Past

Through great distances traveled, this "uninhabited" cavern begins to show signs that may speak to that not having always been the case.

Ruins of homes, crumbled bricks and tiles, can be found at the deepest reaches of the cavern. These dilapidated buildings, though worn with time, tell a story: the people who left his place, one that could be identified as a stenholm to any familiar with dwarvish culture, did not leave it on good terms.

Essentials were clearly taken with them, as the ruins of this place lack tools or clothing. Valuables are still scattered throughout, however. Large objects with too much history to have been left behind by indifference dot the collapsing homes. Ritual circles still waft radiant energy from them.

In the remains of a temple, an altar stands, cracking with age and covered in plants as the cavern reclaims it. Old candle-stands have rusted with age, but still stand, undisturbed.

Just before the altar, folded onto its side (as best as one can be, when only pieces remain), lies a skeleton. The clothes are tattered remains of stained whites and dulled blues, and the wildlife have cleaned flesh from bones, but it's remained undisturbed by time.

There's a quiet sadness to this place that lingers, even with the people who inhabited it so long since lost.

Should you linger too long, however, there comes the distinct feeling of not being alone.

Clair de Lune(CWs: Long-term isolation, extinction)

Golden eyes of a human face follow your every moment, and the moment you lock your gaze onto them, the face emerges from the darkness, partially covered by spilling dark hair.

What follows this face, however, is not a human face - but, rather, a feline body with sprawling, grey-flecked wings.

There's a long, tense silence, as it emerges fully. Standing easily at eight feet tall while on all fours, the size of this creature becomes more and more apparent as it emerges from the dark of the collapsed wind.

Unlike the other animals of the cavern, though, there seems to be an anxiousness to its look. The lion's chest rises and falls with short, nervous breaths.

And then, in a hushed, woman's voice, hoarse from disuse, it speaks.

"Who are you? Why have you come here?"

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The Sphinx is a new NPC available for characters to interact with, should they delve deep enough into the caverns to find the stenholm. She's wary of all the new faces, and tends to be somewhat flighty, but seems cautiously interested in what new humans being in Hepogaia have to offer. For the sort looking to understand this place, it's people, or intend to trade, she can be communed with.

To interact with her, comment on the TL provided from beastsofthehollow with her icon, and if the initial introduction isn't your speed, feel free to encounter her however you like!

closureisformovies: (snark)

Alice Dyer | Magnus Protocol | Current player, new character

[personal profile] closureisformovies 2024-03-24 05:53 pm (UTC)(link)

Working Nights

For Alice Dyer, a part of the process of settling into her new circumstances is once again learning how to live under the wrathful shine of the sun. Working nights for going on a decade does interesting things to your internal clock, things that only become a problem when you're suddenly thrust back to live amongst the day-walkers.

Which means that on any given morning, in the Oak and Iron, there is a tall, groggy woman with killer bedhead trying not to fall asleep in her breakfast, or otherwise milling around trying to wake up.

"Please tell me this place has invented coffee already. Because if it hasn't I might just have to resort to draining the lifeforce of the next person I see who looks like they have normal vitamin D levels."

In the evenings and nights, however, she is much more awake and alive—terms and conditions apply. Which is, if anything, almost worse, because it means being awake after curfew when going outside feels like just giving the universe an invitation to make her into a throwaway victim in a horror movie all over again. And she's had enough of that for one week, thank you very much.

So she's stuck inside and, refusing to also be stuck in her bedroom, can be found sitting around the public areas of the tavern with a pint, if it's early enough, or trying to occupy herself with a book or something until she's tired enough to sleep.

Hot Springs

Sometimes, Alice does manage to drag herself to something resembling full consciousness, and on those days she bothers trying to get to know this place a little better. Which in this specific case involves becoming very acquainted with the hot springs, where she can be found relaxing by sinking into the water anywhere from chest level to her chin.

Not naked, she's sacrificed the dryness of the basic underthings she arrived with for comfort for now, but hey. This is actually pretty nice.

Wildcard

Meet her somewhere else around town or so on.

crushed_pearls: (Default)

Working Nights | Evening

[personal profile] crushed_pearls 2024-03-24 08:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Alice, your bartender tonight is a tall bitch with wings and a blindfold. She's been using the braille labels on the bottles and kegs all night, relatively new additions after some, shall we say, renovations, and she provides the requested pint with a knowing smile. "Chin up," she advises, "if I've got your accent pegged, going to strange islands and telling the natives what to do should be awakening ancestral memories."
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[personal profile] closureisformovies 2024-03-24 09:13 pm (UTC)(link)

Alice laughs bubbles into her first sip of beer, but still successfully swallows without choking. "Oooh, nice one. Kind of low hanging fruit, mind you, but you made good use of it. Turned it into a proper jam, very smooth application."

The wings are a kind of a lot. This whole place is kind of a lot. Oh, sure, Alice has read and heard a constant stream of weird and fucked up stories for the last decade working for the OIAR, but even if they're maybe (maybe) real, you don't exactly run into people with wings and all this other stuff in a dusty government basement.

Alice hmms for a moment, then, "Any relation to mothman? Brother? Cousin? Best mate from uni?"

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[personal profile] crushed_pearls 2024-03-24 09:26 pm (UTC)(link)
"Girl you must still have scurvy from Her Majesty's Royal Navy if you think I'm from Mothman country," comes the mock-offended answer. She slips into a flawless Virginian twang as she continues, "Comrade Mothman keeps himself below the Mason-Dixon, doin' the Lord's work terrorizin' them Neo-Confederate types that infest the beautiful South. I, on the other hand, am from Lovecraft country."

A tentacle snakes its way out of Erin's sleeve, shiny with slime and rippling with every movement, to push a glass of whiskey down the bar to a local. The lass in question stares at said glass in polite horror while the tentacle recedes.
Edited 2024-03-24 21:29 (UTC)
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[personal profile] closureisformovies 2024-03-24 09:52 pm (UTC)(link)

Alice's jaw actually drops, leaving her looking rather gormless for a while there as she continues to process her new reality. Then, finally remembering how to shut and move her jaw for the purposes of speech:

"...the jokes I could make right now are so very not appropriate."

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[personal profile] crushed_pearls 2024-03-24 09:57 pm (UTC)(link)
"Can't think of a good hole to fit them in?"

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Working Nights/Morning

[personal profile] tisnotthehouse 2024-03-24 08:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Hey, Alice. Darling Alice. Sweet, kindly Alice.

Maybe check your surroundings before making jokes like that.

Tarantulas, currently in humanoid form and sitting at a table nearby, hisses and clutches some kind of blue muppet in a onesy to his chest. It squeaks and starts pulling on the fur growing out of his chin -- what's left of it, anyway.

"Try it and see what happens, bloodbag," he snarls. The clawed tips of his eight spider's legs are now all pointing directly at Alice. Will she advance, abjure, or abscond?
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[personal profile] closureisformovies 2024-03-24 09:34 pm (UTC)(link)

Alice is reeling up to a rather offended, and somewhat confused, excuse me? before she actually looks at the source of the snarl and oh boy. The confusion stays, but the offence gets replaced quickly by a healthy mix of surprise, alarm, and good old fashioned 'oh, shit'.

Okay. Play it cool, Alice. Shuffle back a notch nice and subtle like. She holds up her hands defensively like 'whoa'. "Easy, mate, I can't actually drain anyone's lifeforce. If actually being able to do that's a perk of waking up in fantasyland then I must've missed a memo."

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[personal profile] tisnotthehouse 2024-04-09 04:42 am (UTC)(link)
Tarantulas sneers at the newcomer, looking her up and down -- but her backtracking at least seems to be sincere, and he does like to style himself as a calm and rational sort of being...

In any case he doesn't really want to interrupt Dawn's breakfast with a brawl, so he sniffs disdainfully and says, "I'd be careful with jokes like that, if I were you. There's people of all different stripes here; it doesn't do to make assumptions." Especially when a child's safety is on the line, hm? Think of the children, Alice.
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[personal profile] closureisformovies 2024-04-11 05:23 pm (UTC)(link)

"Yeah, well, where I come from people are all the same kind of normal stripes with the occasional splash of polka-dots, so I'm still getting used to all the weird and wild stripes going on in these parts. Usually the weirdest thing I see on a day-to-day basis are the stragglers from stag and hen-does in all their drunken glory."

The wall of humour she tries to place between herself and anything serious doesn't come down easily, what can she say. Ugh, she is far too sleep deprived for all this.

"Honestly even if I could do anything like that I wouldn't go around warning people. Seems like a good way to get people to y'know, stop you from draining their life force."

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Wildcard

[personal profile] lasthumanvoice 2024-03-24 11:28 pm (UTC)(link)
It's a day when Alice has managed to human during afternoon hours. Cecil is also humaning this afternoon, doing so at a public park with a picnic basket, a blanket, a notepad and a thoughtful expression. Look, someone bought the fucking awesome grocery package for himself after the famine and is treating himself to a whole roast chicken and some potatoes and an assortment of dried fruit and cheese and wheat crackers (or is that wheat and wheat byproduct crackers?)...

Might, perhaps, a new person on an Oak and Iron budget be looking to make friends and secure a nice meal for herself?
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[personal profile] closureisformovies 2024-03-25 12:04 am (UTC)(link)

Alice takes pause a little ways behind Cecil when she notices the picnic set-up, squinting from her short distance at both the food and at the bloke parked beside it. Eventually she just shrugs to herself and approaches.

"Careful, you've got the look of a man that's going to think so much he forgets he's got a veritable feast waiting for him."

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[personal profile] lasthumanvoice 2024-03-25 12:36 am (UTC)(link)
"Careful, you have the look of a mooch who's going to end up sharing in the feast." Cecil's not Chester or Norris, but imagine if he was the voice reading incident reports, all buttery and smooth like that. Wouldn't that be something?
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[personal profile] closureisformovies 2024-03-25 01:27 am (UTC)(link)

Definitely a radio voice. Or an ASMR voice. One or the other. Either way it would be nicer than Norris's whiny little voice, in particular, reading out the reports. Alice huffs a laugh, "Can't tell if that's actually an invitation or if the choice of the word mooch is a subtle hint to take a hike."

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[personal profile] lasthumanvoice 2024-03-25 01:51 am (UTC)(link)
"Some of my best friends are mooches! And interns. Almost every intern we ever hired was a mooch." Including him back in the day, of course. He gestures to the blanket with a broad, shameless grin.

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Morning

[personal profile] when_a_grids_misaligned 2024-03-25 12:18 am (UTC)(link)
"Is that something you can actually do?" asks a pale, equally bedheaded brunette with a plate of pancakes. They're probably safe from being drained for their sunshine juice, but it would have been a fair question in the freehold and the crowd around here looks to be equally weird.
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[personal profile] closureisformovies 2024-03-25 12:33 am (UTC)(link)

"Pfft, I wish. I'd have spent way less on the big food shop every week if I could just go up to some sucker in the street and steal the nutrients right off their bones."

Someone doesn't yet realise how much saying something like that is just asking for trouble, coming from a world like hers.

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Morning, Oak and Iron

[personal profile] graveling 2024-04-03 01:00 am (UTC)(link)
"Well, at least I know I'm safe from being drained."

The comment comes from the walking corpse at the next table over. Pallid, neither breathing nor blinking, and stopping for a meal after delivering eggs from the farm. Normal vitamin D levels definitely don't apply.
closureisformovies: (surprise)

[personal profile] closureisformovies 2024-04-03 01:29 am (UTC)(link)

"...jesus, mate, no kidding. I've known chronic basement dwellers with more colour in their face." Okay, even she probably wouldn't have said that so baldly if she weren't sleep and caffeine deprived. "You look as much like death warmed over as I feel. No offence."

Yeah, about that Alice...

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[personal profile] graveling 2024-04-03 01:39 am (UTC)(link)
Angel stares for a VERY LONG MOMENT without blinking. Like, clearly making the point about what she's just said, in silence.

"None taken."
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[personal profile] closureisformovies 2024-04-04 12:15 am (UTC)(link)

...

"—okay look I'm new to all," she gestures broadly around to indicate everything about this world, "this. Are you, like, forreal dead?"

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Morning

[personal profile] notinflictthem 2024-04-09 10:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Guess who else is hungover and looking like death warmed up, trying to keep his face out of his sausage and beans.

"If we didn't have coffee here I'd have marched into the temple and committed deicide in my first week. Don't drink the chicory stuff if anyone offers it to you though, they'll tell you it's just as good but they're lyiiiiing."

Turns his head a little.

"Are you cute or is it just the angle my head's at."
closureisformovies: (snark)

[personal profile] closureisformovies 2024-04-10 01:56 am (UTC)(link)

"No coffee substitute is ever as good as the real thing. Eveeer. I've tried 'em all trying to add a little spice to my life and they're all about as good at keeping me conscious as the King's speech after eating my own weight in turkey."

Which is to say, absolutely not at all. God she needs to get her hands on some of this actual caffeine. She needs her bean juice.

She pops a morsel of food into her mouth and then leans her head on her hand, tilted. "And see I dunno, personally I'd go for smoking hot but maybe the angle your head's at is dulling the edges of my raging sex appeal down to 'cute'."

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[personal profile] notinflictthem 2024-04-10 02:05 am (UTC)(link)
Hawkeye makes a noise like a kettle whistling, followed very quickly by a chorus of "ow ow ow ow ow" as he sets off his own hangover with the volume of it.

"Teach me to try and be classy for once. If my brain wasn't trying to escape through my sinuses I'd be sticking my tongue so far down your throat I could give you a tonsil exam with my eyes closed."

The whole 'king' part will get addressed later, because as far as Hawk's concerned, the current monarch of England is still a lady.
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[personal profile] closureisformovies 2024-04-12 12:09 am (UTC)(link)

Alice laughs vibrantly, despite the sleep deprivation leaving her with all the energy of a bouncing battery. "Easy, tiger, even if your brain was firmly anchored, I like my alcohol fresh and not absorbed through the sheer power of hangover breath. Maybe we can revisit that beautifully vivid imagery when we don't both look and feel like corpses risen from their shallow graves by the allure of things we can only have in life. Like hot breakfast and bean juice."

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