lahire: (all cards on the table)
Jack la Hire ([personal profile] lahire) wrote in [community profile] ph_logs2025-01-04 09:25 pm

[OPEN] A Dog's Life

Who: Jack La Hire and You
When: After being hired by Magne
Warning(s): May reference fantasy captivity, might slide into PTSD territory

1. Chases dreams, so it seems [Winter Market]
George had offered advice on finding preferences for himself--how to figure out what Jack himself liked, in the aftermath of what he's been through. While visiting the library had been a wholly overwhelming experience, he's still trying to explore the world and its bounty.

Today, that's brought him to the Winter Market, before it dries up and blows away. He's sniffing scented candles and examining patterned pocket squares, trying to figure out what it is that draws him to certain things. It's a process. He might solicit help picking out decor for his new room or updates to his wardrobe.

One thing he's certain he likes, though, is the stall handing out warm mulled cider. If you're not encountering him during shopping, you might see him holding a cup in both hands and looking the closest he's been to content.


2. He shines in his master's light [Velvet Ambrosia and Silk]
Jack has a job now! It's not dealing cards! Everything should be great now, right?

Well, tending bar isn't the simplest work in the world, it turns out. While he's glad to be doing something, there's a learning curve going on here. Perhaps you're a patron who's just gotten the wrong drink. Perhaps you're a fellow staffer wondering where Magne got this doofus. Perhaps you're just watching him in horror as he goes to shake a Moscow mule.

He really is trying his best.


3. Looking good, so he should [Minor Fae Bullshit]
Here's the thing. Jack isn't a changeling in the same sense that George is a changeling, but he has very much been altered by his time serving The Golden Wheel. Less so by the Black Stag, that was a very brief captivity. But what this means is that there is something vaguely fae about him.

Unfortunately for him, he's still figuring out what this means in practice.

Catch him outside somewhere when he thinks he's alone, animating a small pile of sticks and leaves into a little poppet with glowing eyes. Or catch him literally scuttling against a wall in the manner of a spider rather than walking on an icy patch of sidewalk, as if that's less treacherous territory. Or perhaps you see him alone, shuffling his deck somewhere, before he flicks his wrist and the cards assemble themselves into a fucking sword for a moment, before collapsing back into their usual form.


4. For the choice is very narrow [Wildcard]
This is your chance to wildcard me. PM or catch me on Discord to plot, or just throw yourself at me.
misbegottendreamer: Dagoth Icon (Default)

Chases dreams, so it seems

[personal profile] misbegottendreamer 2025-01-06 12:51 am (UTC)(link)
“A marvelous blend, is it not, muthsera? I admit, I cannot bemoan this weather too much when there are comforts like this on offer.”

The womer seems to have just recently come from the stand herself, a cup of warm cider clutched in clawed, spidery hands.

“Have you had this drink before? Apples were an import in my homeland, and this sort of thing was not customary.”
misbegottendreamer: Dagoth Icon (Default)

[personal profile] misbegottendreamer 2025-01-06 01:37 am (UTC)(link)
“In packets… like how they sell alchemy reagents? I’m having trouble imagining it, muthsera.”
misbegottendreamer: Dagoth Icon (Default)

[personal profile] misbegottendreamer 2025-01-06 04:05 am (UTC)(link)
“A… microwave? You would bombard it with electromagnetic radiation?” Ooh, someone’s been hanging onto the astrophysicist’s lessons and is now very confused as a result.
misbegottendreamer: Dagoth Icon (Default)

[personal profile] misbegottendreamer 2025-01-06 04:16 am (UTC)(link)
“It sounds so complicated,” she replies, slightly mystified.
misbegottendreamer: Dagoth Icon (Default)

[personal profile] misbegottendreamer 2025-01-07 03:08 am (UTC)(link)
She nods.

“Like cars. They sound rather unfathomable to me, but I hear that in some worlds, they are commonplace.”
misbegottendreamer: Dagoth Icon (Default)

[personal profile] misbegottendreamer 2025-01-08 10:48 pm (UTC)(link)
“They use horses and oxen to the west and south. In my homeland, we mostly relied on guar and kagouti. Silt striders do not pull vehicles, but they act as a form of transportation on their own.”
misbegottendreamer: Dagoth Icon (Default)

[personal profile] misbegottendreamer 2025-01-09 05:11 am (UTC)(link)
“Guar are hardy bipedal reptiles that come in a wide variety of shapes and sizes. The smallest ones are about the size of cats, and the largest are comparable to horses, but they’re not nearly as frightening. Kagouti are also bipedal reptiles, but they’re more like bulls, with formidable tusks and a notorious temper. They can serve as mounts, but it’s less common. And silt striders… bless them, they’re struggling after the Red Year, but when their numbers are greater they were a fantastic method of transportation between cities. They’re large, long-legged insects with a striking call.”
misbegottendreamer: Dagoth Icon (Default)

[personal profile] misbegottendreamer 2025-01-09 07:29 pm (UTC)(link)
"Well, I grew up around nix and guar. There are very few large mammals in my homeland, mostly just rats. So to encounter one that is so large... with the musk of their sweat and the way their legs move and those long faces with mouths ready to bite... they're just so alien, you know?"
misbegottendreamer: Dagoth Icon (Default)

[personal profile] misbegottendreamer 2025-01-11 01:54 am (UTC)(link)
"Yes, but I am not so large a mammal! Horses are so terribly large!"
misbegottendreamer: Dagoth Icon (Default)

[personal profile] misbegottendreamer 2025-01-11 03:01 pm (UTC)(link)
“They’re about three stories tall, and large enough to comfortably seat four.”
misbegottendreamer: Dagoth Icon (Default)

[personal profile] misbegottendreamer 2025-01-13 03:01 am (UTC)(link)
“Ah, but they are insects!” she laughs. “Imagine a giant nix-hound pup. A Silt Strider isn’t so different than that, and I don’t find their mouthparts nearly so dangerous.”
misbegottendreamer: Dagoth Icon (Default)

[personal profile] misbegottendreamer 2025-01-13 03:12 am (UTC)(link)
“It would seem so,” she chuckles.

“Oh, here we are talking in circles, and I haven’t properly introduced myself. Drelasa Veloth, at your service.”
misbegottendreamer: (pic#17055500)

[personal profile] misbegottendreamer 2025-01-13 03:23 am (UTC)(link)
“It’s good to meet you, Jack La Hire. I would like to talk with you more, but perhaps first we might sit and enjoy our drinks while they are still hot.”

(no subject)

[personal profile] misbegottendreamer - 2025-01-13 03:29 (UTC) - Expand

(no subject)

[personal profile] misbegottendreamer - 2025-01-13 03:40 (UTC) - Expand

(no subject)

[personal profile] misbegottendreamer - 2025-01-13 18:39 (UTC) - Expand

(no subject)

[personal profile] misbegottendreamer - 2025-01-14 03:00 (UTC) - Expand

(no subject)

[personal profile] misbegottendreamer - 2025-01-14 03:08 (UTC) - Expand

(no subject)

[personal profile] misbegottendreamer - 2025-01-14 03:29 (UTC) - Expand

(no subject)

[personal profile] misbegottendreamer - 2025-01-14 03:37 (UTC) - Expand