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[OPEN] Scream, it makes no sound, I could testify
Who: Alice Dyer (closureisformovies) & you!
What: Catch-All for Alice
When: Late August, Early-Mid September
Where: Town hall, oak & iron, empty pockets, around
Warnings: Possible Blight discussion, others as they come up
1. Explaining how time has bled me dry [town hall]
Those who work in Town Hall probably know Alice as the cheerful, tallish woman who spends the vast majority of the work day chattering and making jokes of varying levels of quality. She's the kind of person that's always talking to someone and it never seems to meaningfully impact her work, as she continues to be a pretty damn decent clerk despite all her many complaints about the concept of working at all.
But after the Blight mess is all said and done, Alice seems... a little off. The first few days are the worst; her work suffers and she's clearly still frayed around the edges, but given the fact she spent a lot of the time holding down the Town Hall shelter on her own it's excusable enough. She even perks up a little, after the day Gerry picks her up to drag her straight to drinks, but she never quite gets back to full form and if you look closely enough it's hard not to spot. Her jokes are more strained, she chatters a little less, and she keeps making stupid mistakes she wouldn't have before.
And her weird behaviour is especially obvious when Dahlia's around. Wonder what that's about.
2. You say I'm vacant now when it's justified [oak & iron]
Typically Alice stops by the O&I twice a day: once, in the morning, to get coffee and breakfast before she heads into work; second, in the evening after dinner to drink and hang out where the people are. This pattern remains much the same even when her behaviour shifts elsewhere, though the observant might notice she's drinking more than she usually does in the evenings and staying longer in the process.
It's in the evenings, especially after a couple drinks, that she's at her most social, inserting herself into conversations or joining people at tables with empty seats. Maybe you're one of the lucky people she jumps in to talk to, maybe her loudmouth charm has caught your attention, or maybe you just want to tell her to shut up. Either way, she's around. Soaking up the ambient energy, trying to ignore both her own chronic loneliness and the panic that's been threatening to consume her every waking moment since Aster walked into the office.
3. If you called my bluff, I could lose your love [empty pockets]
Alice joked about something like this a couple months ago, but it's only now with her mood in the gutter that she decides to go for the drastic measures: subjecting innocent people to her attempt at stand-up comedy.
It's not exactly a polished routine or anything, and anyone from the 2010s onwards that's at all internet savvy is going to recognise some of her humour as blatantly ripped from tumblr, but she is genuinely very quick on the draw and has plenty of her own material (even if it is, also, tumblr-flavoured).
And she has fun. Despite everything, she has fun.
4. And I know I'd be fine [Wildcard]
Hit me up to plot something or just throw something at me. She's out and about.
closureisformovies) & you!What: Catch-All for Alice
When: Late August, Early-Mid September
Where: Town hall, oak & iron, empty pockets, around
Warnings: Possible Blight discussion, others as they come up
1. Explaining how time has bled me dry [town hall]
Those who work in Town Hall probably know Alice as the cheerful, tallish woman who spends the vast majority of the work day chattering and making jokes of varying levels of quality. She's the kind of person that's always talking to someone and it never seems to meaningfully impact her work, as she continues to be a pretty damn decent clerk despite all her many complaints about the concept of working at all.
But after the Blight mess is all said and done, Alice seems... a little off. The first few days are the worst; her work suffers and she's clearly still frayed around the edges, but given the fact she spent a lot of the time holding down the Town Hall shelter on her own it's excusable enough. She even perks up a little, after the day Gerry picks her up to drag her straight to drinks, but she never quite gets back to full form and if you look closely enough it's hard not to spot. Her jokes are more strained, she chatters a little less, and she keeps making stupid mistakes she wouldn't have before.
And her weird behaviour is especially obvious when Dahlia's around. Wonder what that's about.
2. You say I'm vacant now when it's justified [oak & iron]
Typically Alice stops by the O&I twice a day: once, in the morning, to get coffee and breakfast before she heads into work; second, in the evening after dinner to drink and hang out where the people are. This pattern remains much the same even when her behaviour shifts elsewhere, though the observant might notice she's drinking more than she usually does in the evenings and staying longer in the process.
It's in the evenings, especially after a couple drinks, that she's at her most social, inserting herself into conversations or joining people at tables with empty seats. Maybe you're one of the lucky people she jumps in to talk to, maybe her loudmouth charm has caught your attention, or maybe you just want to tell her to shut up. Either way, she's around. Soaking up the ambient energy, trying to ignore both her own chronic loneliness and the panic that's been threatening to consume her every waking moment since Aster walked into the office.
3. If you called my bluff, I could lose your love [empty pockets]
Alice joked about something like this a couple months ago, but it's only now with her mood in the gutter that she decides to go for the drastic measures: subjecting innocent people to her attempt at stand-up comedy.
It's not exactly a polished routine or anything, and anyone from the 2010s onwards that's at all internet savvy is going to recognise some of her humour as blatantly ripped from tumblr, but she is genuinely very quick on the draw and has plenty of her own material (even if it is, also, tumblr-flavoured).
And she has fun. Despite everything, she has fun.
4. And I know I'd be fine [Wildcard]
Hit me up to plot something or just throw something at me. She's out and about.
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"You know what you're getting into every time you have a conversation with me. Embrace the horrible sex jokes before they embrace you."
That's meant to sound as terrible as it does, don't worry about it.
"If it had a knife it'd probably have some weird curse on it," she says dryly, but, even though she's more reluctant to deal with weird stuff than she already was before... "We can still check it out, I guess."
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"Okay well, we won't pick up a knife there. We'll just look around and see if we recognize anything from home....or anything that looks interesting and not horribly cursed."
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Alice does not prevent him from reclaiming his tea, even if she considers doing so for a moment just to be a shit.
"Hm. Fine. Those are acceptable terms."
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"Good, wouldn't want you thinking I'm trying to get us to fall down another manky hole."
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Completely deadpan: "If that ever happens again, I'm aiming to fall on your head."
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He grins, even with the mild guilt he's at least let most of it settle and can joke with Alice about it. Even if most of those jokes, read all, are at his expense.
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"Damn right it is."
Her own guilt for getting them both into this situation by offering him the job in the first place is unfortunately at an all time high, but she's just going to have to deal with that.
She sighs dramatically. "Well, we've got the rest of the day to get through before we can do anything anyway. That is, if I survive the agony of wondering how many people in this building heard all— that."
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"Right...probably should have waited until after work. Sorry." And he is, but he's also pretty sure that Alice would try to avoid him more if he didn't basically corner her like this.
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He is, unfortunately for both of them, right. Anywhere else and she'd have even more excuses to wiggle her way out of it.
"You were worried," she concedes with a sigh, though she still messes his hair a bit for good measure. "Not gonna bite your head off for that."
She might bite off her own, though. Talk about bringing a mess on herself.
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"I'm glad because otherwise they'd be hearing a lot worse, knowing us."
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"We are a bit too good at arguing," is less of a joke than it should be. You don't even need that much practice to make a mess of it when you know all the right buttons to press when you do. "Practically pros."
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He's teasing, but also...not really.
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With a mock salute she says, "I'll do my best," and it's true enough, but... well, her best isn't going to be all that good, especially the closer to the big day they get.
Christ. This is going to be a fucking mess...