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May Mini Event - You Just Missed Him
Concept and majority writing for primary event provided by Nimbus. Please shower them your praise and adulation for their work! Thank you!
Pumpkin Hollow Community Bulletin
Yorick whistles pleasantly as he hangs up a new main announcement on the central bulletin board in town. There is an advertisement posted, bearing bold lettering. It reads:
For Health's Sake!
To ensure that proper care continues to be available for all in our growing community, we are pleased to announce a drive to increase supplies for medical use. No contribution is too small, and anything is appreciated. If you want to contribute but are not sure how, ask! Additionally, please see an attached list of dates and times at which various courses on first aid will be available. CPR is a highly valuable skill--- save lives! Please direct all inquiries to Cpt. Johnathan Tuttle.
The signature of one Captain Tuttle emblazes the bottom of the flier, along with that of Mayor Poe to indicate her approval of the project. There is also a date and time listed.
When did the ferry come? Why hasn’t this Tuttle gentleman been at any other events, like the job fair? (Wait, was he at the job fair? Suddenly you’re not sure.) If you ask Mayor Poe, she’ll tell you she can’t remember when she signed the paper but she remembers it happening, and she remembers that “John” (a surprising amount of familiarity from Hellen) stopped by a few days ago with it. What did he look like? What do you mean, what does he look like? Everyone knows what he looks like. But if you somehow managed to miss him, he’s a tall, fair-skinned man with auburn hair who looks like a soldier.
The rest of the people around town will all say the same. Dahlia, Neil, Degas, Yorick, Ambrose, Juniper, Dottie down at Empty Pockets, even Mr. Pennyburrow--- they all met him at one point and describe him the same way. He evidently came by recently, but you just missed him.
If you need something signed by the Captain, leave it with Dahlia. It will be signed in a timely manner, always just a bit before you come to pick it up. Anywhere you’re told you can find him, he just left. Oftentimes the reason he’s missing is to address an emergency, and the victims of said emergencies always recall the exact same man described by Mayor Poe having rescued them. You begin to feel like you probably have seen him, and your mind is just playing tricks. Surely you must have, right?
And of course, right as the drive is set to begin, all medical personnel in town (including the retired Agnes Winterbottom, the folks working at the apothecary, and even Anders, the local veterinarian) will wake up with a gift basket. They’re simple things containing mostly fruit and wrapped pastries, perhaps a book or candle or other small, pleasant item, each one incredibly thoughtful as if he knows the recipient personally. There is a signed thank you card in each one, with the same signature.
Captain Tuttle. Who is he? You must know, lest you go mad. Spend the days leading up to the charity drive investigating, or confront him at the drive itself--- surely there’s some way to see him!
Bonus Activities!
Speed Dating
Looking for love? On one of the days leading up to the healthcare charity drive, town square is set up with tables for a speed dating event! Entry costs 10 Brass per person, and all proceeds go to help the charity drive.
When you sit down with your partner, you will have 10 minutes to each discuss one icebreaker question of your choice. Here’s a list of ideas:
1. What is the best gift you’ve ever received? What did you love about it?
2. What is something that you’ve tried once but will never do again? Do you regret doing it?
3. Do you find it more fulfilling to create things that are practical or things that are beautiful?
4. What is the strongest animal or monster that you think you could defeat in unarmed combat?
5. Do you have any pet peeves?
6. Describe your dream home.
7. What is your most prized possession that you have ever owned? Do you still have it?
8. How do you prefer to spend a rainy day?
9. How would you describe your clothing preferences?
10. What is the dumbest thing you’ve ever spent money on?
11. How long do you think it would take you to realize that you were permanently cured of hiccups and would never have them again?
12. What is something that you wish you could be good at immediately?
13. If you could have a magical item that performs one function that is customized specifically to your needs, what would it do?
14. If you suddenly had infinite money, what’s the first thing you would do with it?
15. Between the two, would you prefer to go to a black tie formal party or a silly costume party?
You can also pick your own topic, if you have one! To participate, please reply to the speed dating toplevel below and tag out to at least one other speed dater. You are strongly encouraged to seek out those with fewer tags to keep things even. You may tag out as many times as you would like. Please include your age and preferred age range in your comment title and speed date appropriately. Have fun!
Town Council Elections
A member of the Pumpkin Hollow Town Council is retiring in a few months. Elections are opening for one new member! Interested in getting in on your local government? Start your campaign here! On the comment below, create a flier (either through formatting or just a narrative description of how it looks) with your information! In the title, put your name, age, and length of residency. The flier itself should discuss your experience, your values, and your ideal policies.
Elections will be held in September. Both PCs and NPCs will vote, so you will need to appeal to the townsfolk in general as well. Good luck!
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"Ah, I see," says Anzu; he looks at Valdis closely, somewhat ill at ease with being suddenly lost for words (but not with Valdis herself, just with not quite knowing the right thing to say).
Cautiously (for fear of prodding too much and driving Valdis to silence), he asks, "had there even been joy in it for thee? Or is this, ah, something pursuing thee from thy birth?"
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Anzu cocks his head to one side, and looks at Valdis very seriously from under lowered lashes eyes.
"I believe that memory's a treacherous thing, and no matter how sharp one's mind remains, no knife is so sharp as to cut fog, nu?" he says, softly. "I heard stranger things, darling. Ah, would'st thou believe me if I told thee a colleague of mine's old enough to forget the exact century of her birth? A life harsh enough or long enough to forget one's beginnings is not so unbelievable."
He's assuming head trauma or a life best not remembered (or maybe, if Valdis has been really unlucky, an unfortunate encounter in the Silver). Not anything like the rare near-immortality of some unlucky nephilim.
"And in any case, Valya, dear, if thou wish'st to lie, there are lies more flattering. Few people lie to make themselves look more fallible."
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"The exact century? I unfortunately have a similar issue, though it's more that there was no actual birth, and many lives since then."
Valdis does offer a smile though.
"Who is Valya?"
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Anzu cocks his head to one side, and looks at Valdis very seriously.
"There are many ways to come to walk the earth, nu?" he says. "And only so many ways to leave it. Most die. Few merit entering Paradise without death. And there are people who might manage neither ... I've met a number. It's, ah. Part of my job, nu?"
And he smiles, and clarifies, "thee, darling. Where I was raised, few ever use their full forenames in conversation. Nobody's called me Anzu before I came here."
(OOC: apologies for taking so long to get back to this! still interested in continuing, if you are.)
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She sighs softly in regards to names.
"I was not always Valdis, and I have lived by many names, so I supposed one more isn't a burden. Does it have a meaning?"
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"My job," Anzu says, musingly, drumming his fingers on the table as he thinks. "Nu. I am a physician. And since ah, in the world I was born, it is quite clear when a soul departs the body, and when a soul subsequently fails to move on past the place of death, I am called on to ensure that the dead move on, the living bother not the dead what stay put, and ghosts ... ah. Ghosts move on, if they so choose. And since much supranatural matters are quite opaque and their categories fluid, part of my job is to be physician to the undead and those what never lived in a true sense, and those what linger suspended between life and death, but not due to illness. Though, ah. Since I'm a koschey, I see plenty of the latter, too. And a koschei is one what attends directly to matters of birth, and matters of death and dying and prolonged illness."
He pauses, and looks at Valdis, head cocked to one side.
"I have spoken to one claiming to be the Angel of Death," he says, softly. "But I know not if the wight spoke truth." He shrugs. "I've spoken to idols claiming to be gods, too, but feh! That one, he lied for sure. He were mere marble and the hubris of his builders."
But a fear mixed with distaste comes into his eyes. He relishes not speaking of Apollon, even after all the years between then and now.
"Valya is a diminutive, nu?" he explains. "A nickname. Though it's the nickname for both Valeria and Valentina, too, it means merely what thy name means ... but in a fond tone."
He pauses, and then adds, "like'st thou thy present name, darling? Or prefer'st thou the old one?"
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"I doubt you can create fondness from a name that means Dead Goddess, but nonetheless, it is mine and I have embraced it. I am no longer the being who carried the name before, so it would make no sense to reclaim it, nor do I desire to."
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Anzu nods with understanding.
"Sometimes a prior name applies not," he says. "Few are like mine husband, blessed to have always been right in part."
He doesn't necessarily think Valdis is talking around a deadname in the gender sense ... but he does get the sense it's a matter just as fundamental to who she is.
"As for death and the dead, many quite exemplary people I have known were dead by the time I had spoken to them for the first time," he says. "And I'm always honoured to make acquaintance of the immortal and the long-abiding both. I suppose my family's rather convoluted descent does predispose me to judge not things what are none of my business."
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"You are most certainly one of the more interesting people I have met in my many lifetimes. You understand without fear or awe. I appreciate that. Most people tend to deny, or be shocked, or suspicious. Even some of my dearest friendships began with utter dismay."
She should stay in touch with this Anzu, he may be a grounding presence in the future.
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Anzu bows his head with a smile.
"Thou flatter'st me, darling," he says. "From my perspective, ah. If I were not curious and willing to defer judgement, I would miss out on some quite wonderful connections. Such as with thee."
He'd like to stay in touch, too. He's never been one to pass up the chance to befriend immortals. After all, given his line of work, sometimes it's a comfort to know there are those whose deathbeds he'll certainly never have to attend.