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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.

Comments

[abhorrently]

The lightness drains from her face a little, and there's a serious cast to her eyes, though her tone remains gentle.

"All of this...is it any strain on the current stores?"

If there is a need, she can't imagine that the others wouldn't leap at a task to do, a chance to help in a concrete way to make sure that there's no risk from their own arrival. There has to be something to do about it.

[lightconductor]

He waves his hand dismissively.

"We're out of the worst of it," he says. "More mouths to feed also meant more hands to work, and the weather has warmed. We also had a blessing of an everlasting sweet potato." Watson grins, because how can you not grin about an infinite root vegetable? "We're already rebuilding, and frankly we've probably earned ourselves a bit of a celebration. Still, there will be work ahead of us, as well, to keep this from happening again."

[abhorrently]

An everlasting root vegetable. She finds herself smiling along with him.

"I can only speak to myself, but I know there are others who'd also feel as I do, that what we can do to help we'll do gladly."

It might be reckless to promise this so swiftly, but settling in, she feels a little reckless. Twitching with the desire to leap into something, now that they're unleashed onto a new world.

[lightconductor]

Watson lets out a contented sigh.

"I can think of worse afterlives than this one," he says. "It is, at least, never boring, and the company is first rate. I'm glad to hear other people want to help improve things even further."

[abhorrently]

She holds her tongue with an act of will. This is no afterlife - but what does she gain from insisting on it to someone who has seniority?

"It's the very least we can do, if we're to live here. Don't be surprised if you get a rash of volunteers soon asking what they can do for others, even beyond employment."

[lightconductor]

And yet even if he can't remember his own death, he knows people who can. He doesn't know what else to call it.

"I only hope this is a better place than the one you came from," he says.