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Mingle - Emergency Potluck
Pumpkin Hollow Community Bulletin
WELCOME POTLUCK
Greetings, residents! Those more observant sorts among you may have noticed a large influx of very crowded ferries. In order to welcome our new residents en masse, Town Hall is holding a potluck in Town Square. Please bring a dish if you are able and make a new friend!
All of our newest arrivals need only bring themselves. We look forward to welcoming you all into our community, and may your lanterns always be lit.
This event is open to all! In light of our new influx of prospective players following the Great Sail Migration, we've decided to offer a small public event to tide everyone over until the TDM this weekend.
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"Start where you start and we'll make our way from there."
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She goes to reach in her pocket and stops herself. "...I'd kill a man for a smoke," Erin mutters. "...The Mask is just gone at home, Gilbert. Gone and done. The Lost walk among the blind, and the blind see."
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"The boat I've heard so much about," and by heard he does mean eavesdropped about, "and... how? Why? To what end?"
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It is.
"As for the Mask, no one knows, or if they know they're not talking. It's been just me. There were Lost on the ship but they were Masked wholly, and this is the part of the story where you get real upset about me, 'cause I tanked attention off them by being real open."
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Gilbert places his head in both hands.
"I would like you to time two minutes before you speak again, so that I may look back on this moment as the last before I was inflicted with a permanent headache."
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Always can trust one of the musical types to have perfect timing. It's why he asked.
"Alright. I'm braced. Proceed with headache infliction, at your leisure."
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"Hm. Bad. This will make keeping us concealed... difficult."
In the same way that Kilimanjaro is a bit of a steep hill.
"Pledges, the courts, the mask, iron, oneiromancy... Is there anything you didn't tell them about? Please tell me that you didn't tell them about the Neighbours."
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It's almost a plea.
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A long, deep, whistling breath.
"I'm not anyone of any rank, Erin. I don't know what to do to clean this up. I'm good at making phone calls and getting people where they need to be, and that's about it. But it can't... the cat can't stay out of this bag. I have-" a person to protect- "we have to corral this."
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"I'm not planning on popping any tricks in front of anyone. I'm not a children's birthday magician. Especially nothing they're going to see. But you understand that we might not be able to 'go stealth', right? The dots are there, and begging to be connected. I'd really feel better if you could at least talk to your people about not blabbing to every Tom Dick and Harry they meet."
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She's thinking about something. Thinking hard.
"...One more, but I'm gonna have to make a request about them."
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He finally lifts his head up again, gesturing with one of his hands.
"Go on, I'll hear it."
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"...They're a youngblood, been hard done by. One I've offered my friendship and trust to. I'm in a bit of a spot here, 'cause the thing is...I'm breaking that trust to tell you how to recognize them, and I'm doing you wrong if I don't. So I'm gonna ask, son of December, that you give them your grace and patience, maybe see what you can do to look out too. Play along if they're trying to prank you. I don't like it, but..."
What is there to do?
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"I'm sorry- are you actually asking me to go along with being pranked?"
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Beams wide.
"It's a good thing we've all had such well-adjusted lives with copious friends and places where we fit, isn't it? So we can indulge this single poor sod, extending forth the hand of generosity! Wonderful! Good show!"
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"...Be kind to her, please."
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Which is not an answer. Not yet, anyway.
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Pinches the bridge of her nose, and sighs.
"...Sorry. I'm. Freaking out. A bit. A lot. Not your fault, shouldn't be your problem, but here we are. I'm trying. Trying what I don't quite know."
She looks back up, steadier. Not even keeled, but steadier. "...My manners are gonna take a bit to come back. Not your fault there either. Not really anyone's."
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"I don't tolerate being yelled at. Ever."
Not anymore.
"You aren't going to demand anything else out of me. If I give you a no, then it is a no. If you ask me to do something, and I agree to it, it's on my terms. Are we clear?"
This much has been the gift of Winter to him, so far.
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(Let him talk.)
Yeah. Yeah...
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He's not letting anyone make demands of him like that. Regardless of the intention. Regardless of anything.
"I will owe her the same courtesy I owe anyone and no more."