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crushed_pearls ([personal profile] crushed_pearls) wrote in [community profile] ph_logs2024-03-25 02:31 pm

The Old Fashioned Is Commonly Held To Have Been Invented In 1880

Who: Erin Peters and YOU
What: Settling in, dealing with things, making friends
When: Late March
Where: Oak & Iron, the woods, around
Warnings: Discussion of death & the ethics of suicide, trauma, whatever you bring with you




Gallery Style | Oak & Iron

Oak & Iron undergoes a few renovations, just a couple days' worth, to expand the bar area and add labels in Braille (thanks Gerry). When they're done, Pumpkin Hollow has a new bartender, a winged lass in a blindfold wreathed in the scents of sex and gunpowder. She quickly picks up a reputation for almost prescient service; good suggestions for drinks, never leaving a glass empty long, and a firm hand for when you're cut off. Though every now and again there's an odd dance where someone isn't cut off and instead drinks enough to, not to put too fine a point on it, fucking die - except they don't die, and instead just get normal drunk.

A rather extensive cocktail menu manifests too (thanks Magne, with your working eyes). It's cut up into various flavors, with the ingredients clearly laid out (thanks Max Maximum, with your knowledge of food allergies), but at the tail end of the menu is a change in theme; two sections labeled by nation instead of flavor. The countries in question are Gallery, and Japan.

Gangster Style | The Woods

Here's the needle Erin has to thread: she can't overload herself socially, but she also can't listen to the urge to isolate. So one day she goes out into the woods just at the edge of town and digs a pair of graves in the soft soil, leaving the dirt in a huge pile off to the side. You might find her out here, just laying in one, trying to listen to the sounds of the forest, but if she knows you, well, you might have been invited. "Six feet deep, best rest you'll get."

Tourist Style | Wildcard

Come get your bird lady.

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[personal profile] decohere 2024-03-26 10:34 pm (UTC)(link)
"Oh, sorry I interrupted," Ava knows how necessary it is to just get away sometimes, not be bothered by anyone else. Sometimes it's up on the giant golfball of the sports deck, and sometimes it's six feet in some dirt.
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[personal profile] decohere 2024-03-31 08:55 am (UTC)(link)
Ava takes the offered hand lightly in her own, her touch like static. And smiles gratefully. "It's easier when people say what they actually mean," she agrees. Because her anxiety loves to make a mess out of misinterprations.

"If it gets... bad enough. I'll... consider it, okay?" She knows it will. Inevitably. But. Part of her is hoping maybe... maybe the physics in this world is somehow kinder.