ph_logs | Milo's Lazy All-Purpose Catch-All!

Who: Milo Fields and YOU

What: Oh, y'know. Just hangin' around.

When: Whenever you're free.

Where: Here and there.

Warning(s): Will add as needed but most likely this'll be where NSFW junk goes

A handy little open post for Milo Fields, you know, the farmer? Milo is a creature of habit and can be found in the same 4 places all the time like a goddamn Stardew Valley character so this is a catch-all for finding him in one of those places. It starts from after Dahlia's birthday gala and runs until I get tired of using it. Hooray!

-Farm Boy-

Milo is a farmer. He has been for a fair portion of his life, and a woodland homesteader for another. So of course in a weird purgatory on a haunted island, the place he's going to feel most at home is on his farm.

You can find him most days caring for his animals, exercising his horse, or tending to whatever crops are in season at the time. Come pay him a visit! Or maybe he can see what you're getting up to from his farm. He has a pretty good view and likes people watching.

-Down by the Bay-

One of Milo's favorite hobbies is fishing, so most of the time on weekends you'll find him up early, sitting on an old, unused dock on Jack's Marina, with a fishing line in the water. Want to sit and chat? Enjoy the seaside? Fish with him? You're welcome to grab a seat. In his own world he would've offered you a beer, but alas. Or maybe you're at the beach on other business.

-Insert Joke about Wood Here-

A common chore of Milo's is chopping wood for his fireplace. He doesn't need a ton of it in the warmer months, but he usually stockpiles a little each time so that he has a ton for winter and doesn't have to go out into the snow.

If you're out in the woods, you can often find Milo with an axe, gathering logs and then chopping them with his burly arm and a half. Are you exploring? Come say hello. Are you in trouble? Milo will barrel to your aid like a big dummy.

-Oak & Iron-

Milo also hangs out in the tavern a lot because he likes beer and hot food and card games. Feel free to get drunk with the himbo and enjoy some Midwestern hospitality. Anyone up for Poker? Or maybe Milo can teach you how to play Spit.

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Eddie is also testing out floorboards, keeping his eyes down and trying to do his best not to sneeze or cough in the dusty, spore-filled air. After some time, Eddie sees that glint and says, "Hey, there's something shiny -- over this way." He points, but a moment later moves toward it.

Eddie sets his lantern on the floor, close to the shiny thing... and sees that it's a latch. When he gets the floorboard up, he draws his dagger and pokes around with it in the space below... just in case. You never know when you might run into a hostile squirrel or something.

But there's no animal life down there... just a small box.

Eddie pulls off the lid, and sees the silver locket within. His voice is more hushed as he asks Milo, "Do you think this could be the anchor the letter mentioned?"

"...Man, I dunno. An anchor is like... a tether, right? Something that keeps something locked to something else? So maybe this is like, I dunno, important to somebody."

He frowns thoughtfully, taking the locket from the box to look at it. Inside, the photo and the name. "Aww, look. A lesbian wedding." He shows Eddie the picture.

Eddie smiles faintly, at the picture and at the reminder that no one has a problem with that kind of wedding here. "They look happy."

He squints at the inscription. "Linette... and Harriet. I don't recognize those names. But-- achoo!" Eddie stumbles back a bit, blinking after that sneeze. "L-let's get out of here first. Hide it in your pocket? We... can make it sound like we didn't find anything when we leave. Just in case."

"Woah! You okay? Is it the dust?" Milo pockets the locket and makes for the door. He assumes they can talk more about its contents at home.

Eddie sniffles a little. "I hope it's just the dust, and not an allergic reaction. Achoo! Let's head back."

Eddie sheaths the dagger again and follows Milo to the door. Once they are out of the cabin and back on solid ground, Eddie dusts at his clothes with his free hand.

"Yuck. What a waste of time," he complains, for the benefit of anyone who might be listening. And then he starts down the path toward home.

"Yeah, bummer," Milo agrees. His acting is less convincing, so he assumes the less he says, the better. He's probably right.

They trek on back to Northwest Hollow and Milo pops into Eddie's house for a chat.

"Hey, I been thinkin'," he starts, pulling the locket back out. "That blonde lady in the picture. I feel like she looks familiar somehow."

Eddie relaxes now that they are in his house. He picks up the note he wrote for Angel and folds it once, twice, before tearing it into strips. He looks up when Milo pulls out the locket.

"Let me get another look?" and Eddie peers at the picture in the locket. After some thinking, and absent-minded tearing of his now-unneeded note, Eddie says, "Does she look like Dahlia to you? Not exactly, I mean. She's not Dahlia but... maybe a family resemblance?"

"Oh, you know what?" He tilts his head to look again. "You might be right. Doesn't Dahlia have like... Well she used to have twelve siblings I think. Older sister, maybe?"

With a sinking feeling in his stomach, he frowns. "...I think... I think this means something really bad happened to these people."

"Dahlia is the last of her family," Eddie says quietly, solemnly. "I've heard that enough times. So if this blonde woman is Dahlia's older sister, she's dead. And so is her wife, I bet. Otherwise, wouldn't this locket be with the wife?"

"I guess someone coulda stole it... Maybe we should ask Dahlia?"

Eddie frowns thoughtfully, and starts twisting a strip of paper in his hands, nervously.

"Okay, what I'm going to say is probably going to sound bad, so hear me out all the way first." He takes a breath. "If we ask Dahlia about this, she's going to want to know why, and she's probably going to want the locket back. But we shouldn't give her the locket, because it's supposedly the anchor thing that the secret letter talked about. We don't want people to know we found it, and if it's dangerous she shouldn't keep it in her house, right?

"I think we need to take this to someone who knows magic... someone like River, and get her take on it first. And since the Leeds were such a big important family, there's got to be a lot about them in the history of the island. We can find out for sure about Dahlia's family and if this blonde lady is one of her sisters by researching at the library."

Eddie drops his gaze to the table after that speech, bracing himself in case Milo is going to get mad. It is a pretty cold way to look at the situation.

Milo frowns a little, but understands. "Yeah... As long as we give it back afterwards. Dahlia's been through a lot, y'know? What with her family and everything. I'd hate to never give it back to her. But I don't want it to put her in danger either."

"Oh, absolutely. She deserves to have it back. I just want to make sure it's safe to give to her first."

Eddie sweeps the paper fragments into one hand and walks over to drop them in the kitchen trash can.

"I can ask River to come over and look at it, for any... magic stuff. I don't know shit about magic. If you want to hang on to the locket, I'll send her your way. Or I can keep it here in my farmhouse. What do you think?"

"Y'know, I haven't had a chance to meet River. Maybe this would be a good excuse?" He shrugs.

Eddie smiles. "Then I'll talk to her, and send her your way. For now, we better keep this anchor thing safe."

[[ OOC: So I figure we can wrap up here with Milo and Eddie soon, and then have a thread on this post for Milo and River? ]]

Milo's Lazy All-Purpose Catch-All!

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