Ahoy!

Fair notice that I mean to show you both that drawing(/fancied-up collection of biro doodlage) in an edit to this post once I've updated your threads. Since it's large I'll not leave it up forever, but it seems the simplest way for you to both look (and nab a copy if you want it).

That said, you've both chosen to look at complicated things right now, and I intend a foray to the supermarkets for supper ingredients now it's stopped snowing a moment, so I might be a while. Mostly-sucessful foray achieved! I got snowed on, but it's good fun whilst not facing directly into it. The horizontal nature of precipitation around here meant not quite enough snow had blown about to cover the little house-shape on the road next to my house, which entertained me.

Anyway.

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There y'go. I hope I haven't been too mean to/far off in drawing your peeps.

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In terms of Project Kraken Hat I've completed four of the normal arms and one of the true- or hunting tentacles, and am working on the other.

Thank you both for sticking around and bearing with me in general, by the way, this is such a nice box of ghosts and night-dragging things...
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That’s a phenomenal piece of artwork, Lens! Thank you very much for creating and sharing it.

I am eagerly awaiting the completion of the the tentacle project. :)

Ah, well, thank you - take a copy as you like, and you see why I said I'd be surprised if you two actually managed to get into such a pickle. Matt's not really showing his tendancy to look older here, but when it comes to ink you have to choose your lines. I was going for a Quillivic sea in terms of visual rhythm, and I think I got that, at least.

Working on them! There's enough done that it does look like a random huge squid wherever I set the main bit down now, and oof but the news and patchy tasks around what's frozen at work have put me in need of some steady handiwork to calm myself down. Going to try and get halfway on the other hunting tentacle before midnight and go to bed, methinks.

So I was off work today because my body is much like a Soviet car, but I'm happy to call Project Kraken Hat at least primarily done, minus any adjustments that turn out to be needed after some use. Please excuse my lack of bright lighting/bed/face:

        

I am officially an enormous fan of the kraken hat! It looks fantastic, especially when worn! I think when I pictured it, I didn’t fully consider how long the tentacles would end up being, but they’re honestly a perfect size. I think that it’s great that when he’s not being worn, he looks perfectly at home on the sofa, like a beloved plush animal.

Heheh, thank you - my friends the other side of the island instantly named the beast Archie (as in Architeuthis sp.). A very warm skull-monching friend indeed.

Collection of fatae Morganae for ye (if that's how the plural works): https://zegalba.tumblr.com/pos...e-caused-by-warm-air

Addition: cool marine lava landscapes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAlo59Z1Hg0
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Slogging through some archive checking today and found this: https://canmore.org.uk/site/3599/sanday-mount-maesry (look at the archaeology notes)

...I wonder if his tatties wound up haunted.

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edit: Potato ghosts aside, you are both very smart and apparently unpredictable...my apologies for the wait, it's a case of needing brain space to work with unexpected fleeing/politeness with the proper attention and engagement, and summer is busy time for me. Will try to move things on tomorrow, just wanted to assure you both I'm working on the thing.

Also, a good picture of a ship that doesn't quite exist yet: https://ltwilliammowett.tumblr...bley-aboard-the-brig
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Pest is here because I miss her and I want to place an apology/explanation out here where it can be generally seen: had a block of Busy run straight into a block of bad luck that sees me with no home computer, hasty lunch breaks at work, and an inherited iPad which is slightly insane ever since being bonked a bit too much by French customs (this morning, for instance, it decided that punctuation was illegal and we needed as many Ls as possible) for evening use. I might get an interim/replacement from a friend at the start of next week, but that's where things stand.

Oh, and I'm trying to manage a huge and chaotic fight in my other game at present, so...aye. Not neglecting you two on purpose, felt it was time for a proper update, and please be assured that if you two are content to trundle on, I will continue to endeavour to give this odd little story all the finesse it deserves in light of what you're putting into it. Right now I have potato brain, but please consider this a "soon, when I can" rather than hiatus post.

Alas, I don't think I have any eerie sea things to leave here like seashells, though I did think of Hetty when a terrible scratching sound in my bedroom at night turned out to be a medium-sized spider with a great echo...do feel free to put some of your own here if you find any.

I miss Pest too! Hope you and Matt are both doing well, I've been dealing with health matters (again) so please feel free to take your time! :)

Speaking of eerie sea things, I don't have a picture but we went to the beach at a certain time of day when the tide was at a certain level. ALL of these clams (least I'm pretty sure that's what it was) had their long skinny necks sticking out of the sand near the edge of the water. For hundreds and hundreds of feet. It was so alien and eerie looking...

Spooky spoots! I find it kind of magical when the tide sorts a bunch of sea potato shells onto the beach and they dry out and go rolling not-quite spherically along with the wind like bobbing sea urchin ghosts...

Ach, I hope your issues clear up as much as possible in the swiftest fashion, Hetty. I'll do my best to get you something up tonight, though that thing I mentioned relating to Matt's actions isn't settled yet, so it won't necessarily move things all that far.

Still don't have my laptop, as an update on that. Haven't set up this old one from a friend's attic in a forever fashion, and likely won't until I know what's happening with that. It mostly works, even if it's a little obsessed with threes.

Sorry for my brief silence. I moved into a new residence yesterday, which has been a positive change, but demanded a bit of work to make happen. I feel like I’ll be unpacking for a month. :) There was a brief hiccup with my internet service, which required the intervention of a technician, but all is resolved and working now.

I’m sorry to hear about your laptop headaches, Lens. I hope that situation improves soon.

I hope that both you Anna Miss Dowling are doing well. :)

It's no small achievement to shift all the peripherals of your life to a different dwelling, and that's a more than reasonable reason to be scarce. May your unboxing go smoothly and may your new place smell like home soon.

Ach, I do appreciate the Thing From The Attic, peculiarities and all. Just a lot of minor inconvieniences until I at least know what's going forward.

I need more blood and more sleep/less of whatever is gradually killing me, but I saw the most perfect black cat today and got cheap raspberries and Eastern European foodstuffs that don't have a chunk of pig in them (there are very few Eastern European foodstuffs, it seems, that don't have a moderate-sized chunk of pig in, but I like all of them).

As a possibly-entertaining/?horror-themed work anecdote, I've been basically sieving people out of gravel from a tomb site recently and came across a sample that instead of a grid code or proper context number was just labelled..."legs". Both on the container and in the register. "Legs".

Silly a.m. notice to say I'm still here (if on the interim machine still), just not sure what's going on with Matt/'s internets and it's kind of critical to know what he's doing to know what the next post for Hetty will be. Should he prove to have vanished I'll eventually consult the Magic 8-Ball if you want to continue, Hetty, but for now here is a Lorge Strandbeest:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWGlbpEZkNA

edit at work: Matt sighted! Though since going and looking at the Dice Roller to move things on, you seem to have rolled twice and taken the worst result for some reason (fatalism?)...I'm out of lunchbreak at present, but let's not do that.
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My internet access is good. It required the installation of a new broadband jack in my bedroom, but now all is functioning as hoped.

I rerolled because I thought I had rolled with the wrong total (d48 vs. d46), but it is entirely possible that I was wrong on the current standing of the tower. My apologies for any confusion.

Huzzah!

... You know what, you're right, but ask the Magic 8-Ball if you can keep the first roll. I'd usually give it to you since it was my mistake causing confusion and I'd started to plan on it, but it's not *strictly* mathematically fair, so.

:D

21:39, Today: Matthew Hall got the result "Ask again later" on the magic 8-ball.  May I Keep the First Roll?

Well, looking at the dice roller it seems you did that, so we'll take that roll and I'll adjust everything/try to get posts up tonight. Matt, at this point I can work around it, but try your best not to die in the next two posts, all right?

But…if I do get myself killed, won’t that be somewhat dramatically appropriate? ”The poor lad slipped into one of those liminal spaces and was never seen again.”

:) I’ll do my best to make wise decisions.

That's rather presuming death is a translation of animate matter to inert matter and energy in the Other Merigg in the same manner as the normal one. [bright grin]

I saw this and felt like like our characters would sympathise: https://charminglyantiquated.t...t/731539290633502720

I love that this otherworldly phenomenon is treated like an annoyance, its ability to bend time and space secondary to the fact that it makes travelers late for appointments. :)

Honestly, that would be the thing that would drive me over the brink of madness, LOL, I cannot stand being late!

Given the regularity with which the area becomes a small-town horror setting, I assume there must be a Pacific Northwest equivalent to Night Vale somewhere.

Gentle and general notice that Hetty's finished with her night thread and I believe/hope Matt's within a couple of posts of finishing his; I'll get to work on a daylight thread for you both when that's done and I have more brains in than I do at present.

I leave you with a fun nature fact I only found out recently: apparently fish sing the sun up the same way birds do, so...thank you fish. I sincerely hope the sun would come up anyway, but just in case.

Also, here is a kind of beautiful ogre, because look at her: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGOJZsiEAC4

Hope you're both doing well! Looking forward to writing together again, Matt. :)