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Entry tags:
- *event,
- abby anderson: c,
- anakin skywalker: michele,
- ange ushiromiya: jelle,
- anna amarande: celene,
- ariadne: wizera,
- catra: pink,
- childe: bean,
- diluc ragnvindr: samuel,
- faolan: teresa,
- fern: pan,
- flynn fairwind: teresa,
- goro akechi: kei,
- izuku "deku" midoriya: tea,
- kaeya alberich: daisy,
- katherine pierce: jade,
- kd6-3.7: moz,
- lance: charley,
- luke skywalker: skyla,
- lumine: trix,
- luna lovegood: cheryl,
- luz noceda: pedro,
- manabu yuuki: elle,
- mebh og mactire: oggy,
- nehan: ray,
- orpheus: qv,
- peter graham: jhey,
- ryan akagi: billie sue,
- savage opress: vette,
- soldier blue: elle,
- stiles stilinski: charley,
- the medicine seller: greenrivers,
- tsume: shade,
- usagi tsukino: jax,
- varian: tf,
- wanda maximoff: jade,
- wei wuxian: tohma,
- willow rosenberg: lucy,
- winter schnee: mesi,
- wu: mads,
- yuri lowell: mads
Because one day, I'll leave you a phantom
OCTOBER 2021 EVENT
IMAGE DESCRIPTORS IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE
Prompt One
[Image One: Band playing on moving float with people in masks walking behind.]
[Image Two: Woman in gas mask and elaborate ballgown.]
Prompt Two
[Image One: Man looking away while creepy corpse-like woman puts hand on window.]
[Image Two: Two contorted girls crawling across floor with blood flowing out.]
Prompt Three
[Image One: Headless horseman with jack-o-lantern rearing on horse.]
[Image Two: Annabelle doll rocking on its own in chair.]
WELCOME TO THE BLACK PARADE
LONELINESS KILLS: THE CURSE OF CLOVERFIELD
LEGENDS OF TRENCH
CODINGPrompt One
[Image One: Band playing on moving float with people in masks walking behind.]
[Image Two: Woman in gas mask and elaborate ballgown.]
Prompt Two
[Image One: Man looking away while creepy corpse-like woman puts hand on window.]
[Image Two: Two contorted girls crawling across floor with blood flowing out.]
Prompt Three
[Image One: Headless horseman with jack-o-lantern rearing on horse.]
[Image Two: Annabelle doll rocking on its own in chair.]
WHEN: During the daytime every day of October
WHERE: Throughout the streets of Cellar Door and Willful Machine.
CONTENT WARNINGS: N/A
WHERE: Throughout the streets of Cellar Door and Willful Machine.
CONTENT WARNINGS: N/A
The Black Parade has begun in Trench. You will begin to see residents painting skulls and monsters onto their faces, even the ones who abide by practical lifestyles. By the first week of October, you won't see a single resident of Trench without facepaint or a mask of some kind obscuring their face.
"It's for the Black Parade," they say, "It's to keep us safe. You should start painting your face too. You should disguise yourself so they can't find you."
Who, you might ask? Anyone dangerous. It's vague and unsettling, but you think maybe they are onto something. Call it intuition or basic common sense. Stalls pop up all around Trench selling cheap masks and costumes. They aren't exactly Halloween costumes. There's less of a focus on becoming something and more of a focus on looking different than you currently do.
Then the Black Parade really takes off. Black and white confetti seem to fall from the sky and you can hear the distant sound of trumpets and drums. You can feel the earth give small tremors and Trenchies begin to flock to Cellar Door and the Willful Machine. They line the streets and you can see why: a literal parade is coming through. Stages are set with talented musicians rocking out, singing into wireless, floating moonlit mics. Incredible, giant puppets walk through the streets guided by a dozen talented Architects. Other people move about in stilted costumes, elaborate gowns. Some performers set up small, stationary areas to perform for smaller crowds. The sky is filled with massive and unusual kites. Find one among the many stalls or make your own!
Stalls hand out candied applies, foil-wrapped candies, and roasted pumpkin seeds by the bundles. Hot ciders are kept in barrels ready to be served up in tin mugs, with or without alcohol. It's a festive atmosphere that seems to go nonstop 24/7 throughout October but exclusively in these areas. It's a good place to go to avoid some of the haunts of October and to have a good time. Why not get involved? Make your own puppet, float, or costumes, and join in the fun. Chunks of the road are reserved for parades, but others have been sectioned off for people to dance and mingle about. You quickly learn that face-paint and masked/concealed faces seem to be a good way of avoiding the attention of beasts, angry Pthumerians, and other unusual creatures in Trench.
It's not a foolproof method, but October largely celebrates the safety of ambiguity and is one of the few times the practical and pleasure factions get along. Get your face painted up or pick out a costume - it's both aesthetic and life-saving! The Black Parade is held annually every October all October long and is considered a significant Trench holiday. Many people refer to the costumes specifically as "Black Parade" costumes and sentiments commonly exchanged at this time include: Have a blessed and safe Blood Moon; May your Seasons pass unseen; Bless the many faces of cleverness; May you go unseen by the blood; Blessed Black Parade.
QUICK FACTS
1. Halloween costumes you can buy at the store won't be available unless a character intentionally makes one. Most of the costumes in Trench are more or less eccentric make-up looks and unusual masks. They look a lot more like Cirque du Soleil costumes than Halloween costumes.
2. Characters can have multiple costume/face-paint/mask changes throughout the month. No one will be forced into these - but it is strongly, culturally encouraged for everyone's safety to dress up!
"It's for the Black Parade," they say, "It's to keep us safe. You should start painting your face too. You should disguise yourself so they can't find you."
Who, you might ask? Anyone dangerous. It's vague and unsettling, but you think maybe they are onto something. Call it intuition or basic common sense. Stalls pop up all around Trench selling cheap masks and costumes. They aren't exactly Halloween costumes. There's less of a focus on becoming something and more of a focus on looking different than you currently do.
Then the Black Parade really takes off. Black and white confetti seem to fall from the sky and you can hear the distant sound of trumpets and drums. You can feel the earth give small tremors and Trenchies begin to flock to Cellar Door and the Willful Machine. They line the streets and you can see why: a literal parade is coming through. Stages are set with talented musicians rocking out, singing into wireless, floating moonlit mics. Incredible, giant puppets walk through the streets guided by a dozen talented Architects. Other people move about in stilted costumes, elaborate gowns. Some performers set up small, stationary areas to perform for smaller crowds. The sky is filled with massive and unusual kites. Find one among the many stalls or make your own!
Stalls hand out candied applies, foil-wrapped candies, and roasted pumpkin seeds by the bundles. Hot ciders are kept in barrels ready to be served up in tin mugs, with or without alcohol. It's a festive atmosphere that seems to go nonstop 24/7 throughout October but exclusively in these areas. It's a good place to go to avoid some of the haunts of October and to have a good time. Why not get involved? Make your own puppet, float, or costumes, and join in the fun. Chunks of the road are reserved for parades, but others have been sectioned off for people to dance and mingle about. You quickly learn that face-paint and masked/concealed faces seem to be a good way of avoiding the attention of beasts, angry Pthumerians, and other unusual creatures in Trench.
It's not a foolproof method, but October largely celebrates the safety of ambiguity and is one of the few times the practical and pleasure factions get along. Get your face painted up or pick out a costume - it's both aesthetic and life-saving! The Black Parade is held annually every October all October long and is considered a significant Trench holiday. Many people refer to the costumes specifically as "Black Parade" costumes and sentiments commonly exchanged at this time include: Have a blessed and safe Blood Moon; May your Seasons pass unseen; Bless the many faces of cleverness; May you go unseen by the blood; Blessed Black Parade.
QUICK FACTS
1. Halloween costumes you can buy at the store won't be available unless a character intentionally makes one. Most of the costumes in Trench are more or less eccentric make-up looks and unusual masks. They look a lot more like Cirque du Soleil costumes than Halloween costumes.
2. Characters can have multiple costume/face-paint/mask changes throughout the month. No one will be forced into these - but it is strongly, culturally encouraged for everyone's safety to dress up!
WHEN: October
WHERE: Everywhere
CONTENT WARNINGS: Psychological-based curse, feelings of intense loneliness, mental health.
WHERE: Everywhere
CONTENT WARNINGS: Psychological-based curse, feelings of intense loneliness, mental health.
It is said that the Blood Moon reminds Cloverfield of those he has lost over the decades. They say that the howling wind is actually the sound of Cloverfield's cries and there seems to be some truth to that. He can be seen wandering the Farther Shores and watching the moon. If you seek out Cloverfield and offer him comfort and companionship, he will bless you with a worn picture of a loved one or someone you miss desperately or even just a place you miss...Even if it's impossible for such a picture to exist.
Of course, not everyone will visit Cloverfield. Cloverfield's loneliness begins to curse the city of Trench. Sleepers will be impacted the most heavily as their blood will directly react to this curse. Sleepers who have a good sense of relationship may be able to avoid the curse, but those who often feel lonely or homesick will start to feel worse and worse as the days go by.
Eventually, their loneliness begins to manifest as a corpse-like version of themselves or the person they care about most. This corpse follows them around everywhere like a shadow. You won't notice your own Loneliness, but other people might, especially palebloods, Night Walkers, and Disciples. These corpses don't seem to care about anything or anyone and at first don't seem violent...But eventually, this Loneliness becomes consuming.
Once it does, you too will contort, and you and your Loneliness will soon be crawling about on all fours, blood floating out of you in thin streams. You'll be lost to your feelings of loneliness, stalking the streets with your Loneliness, looking for companionship. Of course, you're completely corrupt at this point, so your version of finding companionship most likely involves accidentally suffocating someone or other violent actions. Some people may never become violent once they are in the Final Stage, but the blood constantly flowing from them will create heavy blood pollution and may draw in far more dangerous creatures. You really don't want Lonely People walking around!
Better start some conversations - even if these Lonely People are creepy as hell. But, then again, they are just lonely. Hopefully, you will find peace of mind and find your people. Hopefully, you will banish loneliness...For the time being.
QUICK FACTS
1. This curse will impact people who are more isolated than others. Interaction with other people or animals will alleviate the curse and may completely stop it for some.
2. You can stop the curse at the corpse stage by confronting a Sleeper and opening up an emotional conversation about their loneliness. This may not always work, but the more the conversation works for the Sleeper, the more effective. The corpse will fleck away once the curse has been reversed.
3. Curses can continue to come back throughout October, but once you've experienced it once, it's less likely to occur again.
4. The Final Stage of the curse is the hardest to stop and most of the time, it's easiest to just kill the Cursed. It's easier to kill them than talk them out of their loneliness, but it is not impossible to talk them out of it. It requires dedication, patience, and some serious cleverness on how to survive a monster trying to kill you at the same time.
5. Loneliness can be widely interpreted once in the Final Stage. People should generally still look like themselves. How people act in this stage can vary from character to character and should be centric to how characters deal with their loneliness in general. If they're prone to shutting people out, then maybe their Loneliness is aloof and distant. If they're prone to clinging to toxic people, then maybe their Loneliness is accidentally violent. It's open to interpretation.
Of course, not everyone will visit Cloverfield. Cloverfield's loneliness begins to curse the city of Trench. Sleepers will be impacted the most heavily as their blood will directly react to this curse. Sleepers who have a good sense of relationship may be able to avoid the curse, but those who often feel lonely or homesick will start to feel worse and worse as the days go by.
Eventually, their loneliness begins to manifest as a corpse-like version of themselves or the person they care about most. This corpse follows them around everywhere like a shadow. You won't notice your own Loneliness, but other people might, especially palebloods, Night Walkers, and Disciples. These corpses don't seem to care about anything or anyone and at first don't seem violent...But eventually, this Loneliness becomes consuming.
Once it does, you too will contort, and you and your Loneliness will soon be crawling about on all fours, blood floating out of you in thin streams. You'll be lost to your feelings of loneliness, stalking the streets with your Loneliness, looking for companionship. Of course, you're completely corrupt at this point, so your version of finding companionship most likely involves accidentally suffocating someone or other violent actions. Some people may never become violent once they are in the Final Stage, but the blood constantly flowing from them will create heavy blood pollution and may draw in far more dangerous creatures. You really don't want Lonely People walking around!
Better start some conversations - even if these Lonely People are creepy as hell. But, then again, they are just lonely. Hopefully, you will find peace of mind and find your people. Hopefully, you will banish loneliness...For the time being.
QUICK FACTS
1. This curse will impact people who are more isolated than others. Interaction with other people or animals will alleviate the curse and may completely stop it for some.
2. You can stop the curse at the corpse stage by confronting a Sleeper and opening up an emotional conversation about their loneliness. This may not always work, but the more the conversation works for the Sleeper, the more effective. The corpse will fleck away once the curse has been reversed.
3. Curses can continue to come back throughout October, but once you've experienced it once, it's less likely to occur again.
4. The Final Stage of the curse is the hardest to stop and most of the time, it's easiest to just kill the Cursed. It's easier to kill them than talk them out of their loneliness, but it is not impossible to talk them out of it. It requires dedication, patience, and some serious cleverness on how to survive a monster trying to kill you at the same time.
5. Loneliness can be widely interpreted once in the Final Stage. People should generally still look like themselves. How people act in this stage can vary from character to character and should be centric to how characters deal with their loneliness in general. If they're prone to shutting people out, then maybe their Loneliness is aloof and distant. If they're prone to clinging to toxic people, then maybe their Loneliness is accidentally violent. It's open to interpretation.
WHEN: All October
WHERE: Everywhere
CONTENT WARNINGS: Ghosts, Themes of death.
WHERE: Everywhere
CONTENT WARNINGS: Ghosts, Themes of death.
Unfortunately, not everyone can gain control of their loneliness. As blood is spilled throughout Trench over loneliness, this blood pollution festers and begins to claim poor souls. Corruption leads way to beasthood and people lost to this find themselves transforming into familiar, legendary ghost stories of old-world lore. These Legendary Ghosts come out primarily at night. As the Black Parade established, anyone who keeps their faces disguised with make-up or masks will be completely safe from the Legendary Ghosts. Though if you go after a Legendary Ghost in a costume, you'll only be safe until you attack them. It's not a bad move for a sneak attack though!
...But those who forgot to dress up or felt like such superstitions wouldn't work...
Congratulations, you might come across the path of a Dullahan: a headless horseman carrying a whip made from a spinal cord, ready to throw basins of blood on you and draw in other beasts. Or maybe you encounter a far more subtle Legendary Ghost. Maybe you see a hitchhiker on the side of the road and decide to give them a ride, but when you look in your rearview mirror, they are no longer in your backseat. While most of these Legendary Ghosts are intending to harm you and spread more blood pollution, some just seem to be genuinely lost souls, lost to corruption, lost to their own failures and loneliness. In some cases, freeing them is protecting yourself and others, but in other cases, freeing them is just simple kindness.
You may meet a ghost bride who is waiting eternally for her wedding by one of the shrines in Cassandra. Maybe you meet a ghostly scholar at the Archives in Gaze. The spirits range widely and seem to haunt every corner of Trench - including your own homes. The only real way to deter a Legendary Ghost from your home is by heavily decorating your home with things like jack-o-lanterns, fake blood splatters, fake gravestones, and various other death-centric decor. This seems to repel Legendary Ghosts as they see it as a reminder of their own fate. Some are angered by the decorations while others are terrified by them and seem incapable of telling the difference between real blood and fake blood.
QUICK FACTS
1. These corrupt souls can be saved through blood rituals/magic/ghost banishings relying on blood artifacts. This will usually put the soul to rest - it will not bring people "back to life."
2. While it is mostly Trenchies turning into these beings, Sleepers can also be transformed into Legendary Ghosts. We provide a general outline, but the idea is that people are turning into legendary ghost stories so you can play with your own ideas/canons.
While Trenchies cannot be saved, we leave it up to you if a Sleeper could be brought back to themselves or if they will have to "die" to be cured of their Legendary Ghost status.
3. You can use famous Legendary Ghosts from around the world. We gave a few examples, but have fun with this! The Legendary Ghost-like creature you go with should generally be "ghost-like" / have to do with death specifically. They do not need to be exclusively evil/violent spirits, but many are.
...But those who forgot to dress up or felt like such superstitions wouldn't work...
Congratulations, you might come across the path of a Dullahan: a headless horseman carrying a whip made from a spinal cord, ready to throw basins of blood on you and draw in other beasts. Or maybe you encounter a far more subtle Legendary Ghost. Maybe you see a hitchhiker on the side of the road and decide to give them a ride, but when you look in your rearview mirror, they are no longer in your backseat. While most of these Legendary Ghosts are intending to harm you and spread more blood pollution, some just seem to be genuinely lost souls, lost to corruption, lost to their own failures and loneliness. In some cases, freeing them is protecting yourself and others, but in other cases, freeing them is just simple kindness.
You may meet a ghost bride who is waiting eternally for her wedding by one of the shrines in Cassandra. Maybe you meet a ghostly scholar at the Archives in Gaze. The spirits range widely and seem to haunt every corner of Trench - including your own homes. The only real way to deter a Legendary Ghost from your home is by heavily decorating your home with things like jack-o-lanterns, fake blood splatters, fake gravestones, and various other death-centric decor. This seems to repel Legendary Ghosts as they see it as a reminder of their own fate. Some are angered by the decorations while others are terrified by them and seem incapable of telling the difference between real blood and fake blood.
QUICK FACTS
1. These corrupt souls can be saved through blood rituals/magic/ghost banishings relying on blood artifacts. This will usually put the soul to rest - it will not bring people "back to life."
2. While it is mostly Trenchies turning into these beings, Sleepers can also be transformed into Legendary Ghosts. We provide a general outline, but the idea is that people are turning into legendary ghost stories so you can play with your own ideas/canons.
While Trenchies cannot be saved, we leave it up to you if a Sleeper could be brought back to themselves or if they will have to "die" to be cured of their Legendary Ghost status.
3. You can use famous Legendary Ghosts from around the world. We gave a few examples, but have fun with this! The Legendary Ghost-like creature you go with should generally be "ghost-like" / have to do with death specifically. They do not need to be exclusively evil/violent spirits, but many are.
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[Being fake cheerful is about 80% of the difficulty of this job. The girl who hails Akira the moment he gets to his feet bears a tray of cakes and doughnuts and -- outside of the fact that her face paint is beginning to smear -- appears extremely excited to see him.
On the inside, she's already considering a career change.]
I can tell you're hungry for more snacks, aren't you? You can't have that much cider without some doughnuts to pair! Here, try a sam -
[...Lysithea, on the whole, tends to be a keenly observant person. It does not take a keenly observant person to note that this boy is wobbling back and forth in place.]
- ple.
...Are you sick?
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I'm not sick. [ His words are pretty clear. He gives himself a brief mental rundown, and decides that he's less "chaotically drunk" and more "lightly inebriated", which is probably because the ciders aren't that strong and he's been eating the entire time, it's just that he's --
you know, like 17. And has not actually had alcohol before. ]
I'm a little drunk. The doughnuts might help. [ No reason for Lysithea not to be able to finish her pitch, after all. Akira has worked enough customer service jobs that he has endless sympathy for the grind. ]
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[Lysithea tsks as she staggers over with her comically large amount of doughnuts, casting a critical eye.]
This isn't a good time to be inebriated, you know. The parade is the less dangerous portion of the town right now, but it's still October.
You'd better have something to soak up the alcohol.
[A doughnut wrapped with a napkin is passed his way.]
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On the other hand, this place is already pretty unusual, so...
He accepts the doughnut, regardless, taking a bite pretty immediately. ]
--hey, this is really good. [ He devours the entire thing, albeit at a pace that isn't quite fast enough to be considered rude. ]
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[Lysithea sniffs lightly, though a faint hint of red has crept into her cheeks behind the paint.]
But do pace yourself. You're going to make yourself sick.
[She holds out a second.]
You can have more, but I'm going to need to start asking for something in exchange. ...Anyway, October is a month of devilry. There are things crawling the streets of Trench - and I believe corruption is beginning to spread.
It was even worse back in Deerington. At least the parade areas are mostly protected.
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I don't have a lot to offer unless you're really into coffee beans. [ Which, actually, the doughnut would go really well with. ]
I haven't gone too far off the beaten path yet, so I haven't encountered a lot of... corruption. It sounds dangerous. [ 50/50 on if he could handle himself if he absolutely needed to; lower odds if he was still drunk. ]
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[She blinks. This is not a request she had anticipated.]
I... suppose there's no harm in showing one person. But keep it to yourself - I am trying to keep my operations profitable. Coffee beans for doughnuts actually sounds like a perfect trade.
You like it that much?
[The red color deepens.]
Corruption isn't a thing you encounter. It's a thing that happens to you. For one reason or another, your mind gets... off-kilter. It happens to everyone sooner or later.
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He may have eaten a few coffee beans in despair, which he doesn't recommend anyone do. ]
It's a deal. [ That said, the corruption explanation lines up with the bare-bones explanations he's been given already. ]
Kind of like... distortion. [ He doesn't think the metaphor entirely carries, because the specific brand of things he's used to has no place in a world where everyone was a squid, but -- he gets it. ]
There's no way to prevent it? Huh.
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[This sounds vaguely sarcastic, even if Lysithea doesn't really intend it to be.]
As corruption develops, it becomes more difficult to restore the damaged mind. But the same sorts of things that help calm people down are generally effective, from what I read. Support and such.
[At this point, Lysithea decides that she's been a good enough seller that she deserves a reward and begins to eat the doughnuts she's holding herself.]
What is 'distortion'?
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So, like... power of friendship, that sort of thing?
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[munch munch]
Thaph -- excuse me -- That could be related. It's a malady you're familiar with from your world? I'm trying to pin down more precise notes about corruption, but it seems to manifest in a variety of different ways.
I think I started to experience it last month. It was like the gears of my mind got... stuck. All I could think about was how overwhelmingly despairing I felt.
Well, anyway. It's October, so -- like I said... be careful. You don't want to be stumbling around right now. ...And you're a little young, aren't you?
[says the girl who looks thirteen]
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I'll be careful. I'm seventeen... I'm pretty good at taking care of myself. [ He doesn't sound offended at all by it, even though Lysithea parses as someone considerably younger than himself. ]
I'll be unstoppable once I can make doughnuts.
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[She says, waving around a pastry in warning and distributing a cloud of powdered sugar.]
If you're new here, you should be cautious about these things. It always -- what's the right way to say this? ...Well, something awful is going to happen sooner or later, and it's a sobering experience for everyone. You never quite believe it.
My first October...
[She trails off thoughtfully.]
Well, never mind. Anyway, I guess seventeen can handle itself. I don't suppose you have a cure for 'distortion'? It might be useful.
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Those take a little more than friendship. ]
I'm not a stranger to unfortunate things happening. [ He says it with a smile that doesn't quite meet his eyes, letting his gaze slide away for a moment before he looks back. ]
Better to enjoy what you can if something bad is coming, right?
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[Lysithea ponders briefly.]
Are you referencing some sort of supernatural ability? My magic isn't as effective as it's supposed to be, either. Trench seems to dull down my most powerful techniques.
But the cause of corruption seems like it can be many things - coming into contact with the wrong creature, dwelling too long on regrets or mistakes, wandering into a bad part of town... Positive support is always important, I suppose.
[With curiosity, she glances at him during the space of time when he looks away.]
That's why I'm selling doughnuts, of course.
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[ Even if they all arrived, there's no guarantee their powers would work... it's a whole Thing, isn't it? Akira definitely prefers the eating portion of being here. ]
Well, the doughnuts are doing a great job.
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Perhaps the general, non-magical strategies will still be helpful, though. I think what I needed earlier was just some perspective - or at least, someone to snap me out of the early fixation. It can probably get much worse than that.
[Lysithea swallows the last of her doughnut.]
Thanks.
I'm trying out something new here. I'm not really a creative -- I'm more of an academic, but...
There's always room to try different things.
I think I'm done selling for the day, anyway. The parade is slowing down, and I'd better get to work on tomorrow's batch.
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I'm not exactly an academic, but I like being helpful. [ Realistically, helping people is one of the best ways to forge friendships, he's found -- but he also just likes feeling like he's making a difference, even if it's small. ]
I'm hoping when it comes down to it, I'll figure out a way to help with the "corruption", too, even if it sounds like a pretty complicated problem.
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...Don't offer help unless you really mean it.
[And Akira finds himself looking down the end of a wooden spoon.]
Because I'll take it.
[Somehow, she makes this sound like a threat.]
As for corruption, I think it's going to take a little bit of research, a little bit of magic, and a lot of inconvenience and unpleasantries.
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Staying busy is the best way for me to avoid corruption. [ He says this very matter of factly, because Akira is an absolute professional at using an extremely busy schedule to keep himself from letting the Bad Thoughts (tm) get him. His schedule has been shockingly open since he arrived, but he's starting to fill it already -- it's nice. Comforting. ]
So we'll take it from there, since it works out for both of us. [ He stands up, considerably more steady on his feet than he was earlier. ]
I can help you carry those, if you want.
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Well, alright then! Welcome to the... team of... bakers run by Lysithea.
[She pauses.]
I just realized I don't actually have a name for my organization yet. I should probably rectify that in the near future. Here you are.
[She hands him the doughnut tray with alacrity.]
I just need to break down my stall and then we can head back to baking headquarters. I must say, this is the first time I've had anybody offer their services so quickly after introductions. You're a very open-hearted sort, aren't you?
Are you still drunk?
sorry, i was out of town for a hot minute!
I don't think I'm drunk. [ He flashes her a smile, and he doesn't seem to be very much under the influence when he takes the tray -- he's still a little pleasantly tipsy, he thinks, but all his balance is back to normal. He could probably do a backflip, if it wasn't for the tray of doughnuts, which he refuses to sacrifice. ]
I like being helpful. It's a good way to get to know people.
no worries! I think we can wrap this one up here actually!
[She can't think of any suitable word that starts with L.]
Lbakers.
[...]
We'll work on it.
Come, I'll show you the kitchen and the operations, then. And you can help me with tomorrow's doughnuts. It's not difficult, but it is a bit time-consuming, so we'd better get started soon.
[She has adopted that 'we' rather quickly. But with the cheer that comes from making a new connection, Lysithea leads Akira back towards her stall, whereupon the scene fades away on the two new acquaintances.]