I am still about too! There have been some changes at work which will be good for me but things need to settle a bit and I am also helping others adjust as well. I have been enjoying this immensely! And truly love writing with both of you!

Yay, we're here! ^_^

Also glad to hear your new position suits you, Hetty. Do you think you'll get an answer in to Matt or should I just get my broom out and sweep the chapter into a nice pile?

If so, can I just confirm that neither of you wants to talk about anything that might have happened at night? The deep night version of Merigg seems very distant even in a bright-cloudy daylight, I know, and I will quite gleefully watch our protagonists build themselves little walls of secrets even as their fingertips metaphorically brush over their mutual construction.

I have not had a weekend with much brainpower, however, and it is somehow 1:30am now, so...goodnight, and I am greatly pleased you're both still interested and invested in this odd and quiet thing.

I did just post and Hetty would not share her experience! I am good to move the scene on if Matt is as well?

Appreciated. Matt?

I do have a relative visiting this week but am also plotting away here, no worries. Plus I need to be entirely distracted from the Goncharov* memery, that (lack of) film is an actual cognitohazard.

It's like having part of a song stuck in my head that can't be exorcised due to not knowing the rest to sing, but in the storytelling part of my brain, or a sensation exactly between obsession and being in a chairoplane. Is this what Fandom^TM feels like all the time? Aghdfgrgnngrnkllkq.


*(1973)

Congratulations on the favorable work changes, Miss Dowling!

I am entirely good with moving the scene forward, Lens. Do I need to add anything there before you transition things?

Just a confirmation Matt's not going to talk about last night/ask Hetty if she's heard/seen anything odd about the island.

edit: which can be here, for clarity.
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He isn’t. Part of him would like to do so, simply because bringing terrors out into the light sometimes has the effect of making them more bearable. But Kirkness still casts a long shadow. Matt worries about following in his predecessor’s footsteps: being labeled as mad and sent away in disgrace. So, at least for now, he’ll keep his own counsel.

Thanks, that's all useful information and I shall sweep up as soon as I can - said relative has gone, but managed to leave a rucksack on the airport bus with £1,000 worth of tech etc. in, so much of yesterday evening was spent at the bus station/finding something to package a rucksack in to go off on the first postie 'plane this morning.

I am a little behind on everything in consequence, but please know y'all are not forgotten or being deliberately neglected, and if it is night there now go look at the moon. It was like a yellow paper cutout here earlier, a cartoon of the moon.

edit/update: A week later you have my most sincere apologies: I intended to get to this tonight at the latest but between health issues and work I've been struggling and I don't want to rush off a post when you both have put so much effort into yours. So. Tomorrow. One of this evening's distractions was putting up sauerkraut* before the cabbages dried overmuch and because I use a half/half red/white mix my fingers now look like I've been dead for about 17 hours.

Also, because I have some long meetings in my future and doodle as a means of focusing (fidget toys seem to be at a 90-degree angle to what I need), I promise nothing, but would it be all right to draw these characters, should that occur?


*it sounds like gross Health-As-Industry nonsense, but take warning, the thing they say about average shop-bought sauerkraut being nigh-intolerable once you've tasted home made stuff is true, I've seen it happen to several other people as well.
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No? Hokay. Today's wound up with me pretty much boiled by winding up next to the radiator for two hours and full of nailed-down savagery due to the single colleague who's a jerk being a jerk (alas that he is a specialist and very good at his job). Wasn't great or creatively stimulating. Still, that last post still counts as 'tomorrow' if I haven't gone to bed, right?

A note: Google Translate cannot speak Scottish Gaelic in any technical fashion - I lazily tried to avoid trawling through my floras for all common variants of English names and found that it translated "glasswort, oysterplant, scurvygrass and cloudberry" as 'lus na grèine, lus na grèine agus lus na grèine, dearcan-sneachda' ("sunflower, sunflower, sunflower and snowberry"), which...no.

Sorry. I was just slow to answer. If your artistic leanings do prompt you to make a sketch of Matt, I’d be quite interested to see the results.

Amazing transition post, by the way.

As would I of Matt and Hetty! Loving this!

Ach, well, no movement on that in particular as yet, but I did actually thumbnail a composition I've wanted to draw since finding out how well these characters' themes and personalities compliment each other, so there's that.

Hetty, now you know you have an uncle available, could you let me know in PM if you'll enlist his help? Got some setup to do in another game but you're not forgotten over here any.

Hi! I just got back from a convention so I have a lot of catch up at work to do. I will have a post tomorrow. :)

Well I wanted to post today but it may be tomorrow.

Roll on the weekend, and thanks for the notice.

So sorry my dog has been sick this weekend, she will be okay but needs some extra monitoring and I have been cleaning up after her. :( But she will be okay! Thank you for your patience, I will post in the next couple days.

Ah, poor creature. You keep your wee friend warm and hydrated and such, we'll be here.

Family members are priority. Hope she’s doing better soon.

Not the sea specifically, but I felt I'd like to leave something here for you, so here's various spots about the country, industrial marine landscapes included: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-64025729

May all you care for have warmth and food and rest.

Happy Holidays to you both! The little dog is doing much better. <3 End of year considerations at work kept me busy but I have posted. :)

Greetings! May your time off be going well also, and glad to hear the beastie is doing better.

I've taken some of the latter part of your post to put on your next thread, since Matt leaves the kitchen/cottage to start his shift at nautical twilight, coming up to 6pm, and the Captain will be hanging out in the cottage kitchen/parlour until his own shift starts at midnight. New threads as soon as I can get 'em, folks.

I know it's not quite time for new year songs, but the 301 was bothering my sense of aesthetics, so here's some quiet and rime-encrusted martime Canadiana for the dark: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6Y3W4fQxGA

Well, it's a new year now! May it treat everyone well.

I've actually done a good...ah, 40% of that composition I mentioned, though I'm not quite happy with my attempts to draw Hetty yet and it likely won't finish fast, since I'm keeping it as a kind of 'just-enough-detail to doodle in patches as desired' sort of thing. I think you two will like it, though it features a metaphorical scenario I don't expect to/will laugh if y'all manage to mess up enough to make into an actual one.

Relatedly, Matt - pale eyes or dark? Oh, and Hetty, if any reference already exists off the top of your head for your lass beyond the portrait and nicely-woven description given already, feel free to tell me before I ink up there.

Nothing else, I think. Oh! Sort of on-topic, I found a use for an abandoned knitting project inherited from a far more skilled friend-of-a-friend and am making a very silly kraken hat with my usual "no pattern, no plan, no clue" approach. All these tentacles are going to give me plenty of practice at getting in the rhythm of knit/purl, though I'm half tempted to give up and start just knitting every other row backwards in the manner my grandfather was said to have done. I suspect Captain Dowling knits, it seems to be a naval thing.

Dark eyes.

I hope you’ll share a photo of whatever the kraken knitting project evolves into, hat or otherwise. :)

Happy New Year to you both!

Thanks, and since asked, I shall. ^_^



Also I spotted a really good rainbow today and we all ran out to look, because archaeologists are Very Serious Scientists, yes we are. The weather was good for this game today, too, since it reminded me of rare colours the North Atlantic can be under distant hail or in a sunny gale.