Edited my sanity-slipping post :-)

Appreciated! Maybe the stag Devil would like a carrot, too, what do we think...

Thread 1a, I'm going to shuffle posts about a little to make things make sense and also cook myself a plurality of noodles, hang on.

edit: Thread 1a, your posts are shuffled!
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Fortunately, Hessie has high DEX and aced the roll, so no harm done...you're like one average person between you.

Thread 1b, I'm going to give Andrew a chance to post so that the Spot isn't wasted if he wants to go up closer and be briefly possessed by the spirit of a wild Tungus, swinging aboard see some things without one.

Dr. Lovelace, I'm assuming you're busy because I've seen you log in/say a short thing OOC, but if you're actually stuck instead, let me know. [TV ad voice] just text 'stuck' to PM now...

Neither; I had written up a post and not pressed send, so to speak.

I say this with the greatest affection, but...ya dope.

Meanwhile, just because it's a good medley performance and we've already got a bunch of Longest Johns content kicking about, (some of) the ballad Bart's tagline's from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dj_0Zz3eOhw

(he does have perfectly good arms though. Well, right now he has perfectly good legs, too, they're just Maggie's.)

I'm struggling with a cold, headache, stuffy nose, the whole shebang.
always extra fun in the summer.

Give me a couple of days to recover.

Alas! Here, I will roll a pretend orange in your direction.

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May you recover swiftly and with a minimum of steaming.

Hm, I hope our vicar is all right.

Dr. Lovelace, I know you're waiting on him, but if anyone else is stuck please a) know I am generally available for poking until pleasing ways forward fall out and b) there are villagers around the green to be interacted with, should one wish to do so.

In other news, I had the dark red sunflowers I'd managed to grow in a discarded bulk sample called Satanic yesterday, since they look black and mildly alarming from a distance - I was amused. Also that I'm likely to be about but intermittent 'til tomorrow night, since I need to organise many things tonight and am out on site tomorrow to provide dubious technical assistance, so.

<a href=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poeYBbpR9z4> Brrr-CROO-coo c-coo.</a>

(This is the sound of the English countryside for me, even if they're everywhere.)

Sorry to go AWOL, I was in bed a couple of days and then had to catch up with Real Life as well. Should be back now, good as new! :-)

Huzzah!

Loved the master shoeing.

I wish to assure anyone puzzled by my anarchic grammar that that was a simile and Polzeath is very good at the raise hoof tap-shoe-tighten, not just hammering horseshoes into Dr. Lovelace's feet. Unless Dr. Lovelace wants to tell us something...?

I mean, I could tell, but that wouldn't be as fun as letting that sort of information emerge in play.

True, true. Indeed, unless their feet have been observed, one can only speculate about any of the people in this game. Anyone could have hooves and/or be the Devil. Fun thought!

You two can trot on to Thread 1b at will, along with other villagers converging on that point (Andrew's mother wielding a medium-sized skillet is one of them).

Not Maggie! Anyone can see her feet most any time. She goes barefoot cause she doesn't want her shoes to get dirty. Besides, they pinch.

...Maggie excepted (and Ben, whose strength of feets we've also seen).

Meanwhile, in South Queensferry: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-...h-east-fife-58201759

(I think given the heraldic posing between staves the character is intended to be a woodwose, though he could just depict the Green Man or a specific local plant spirit.)

Anyone is welcome to add in whatever commentary on hares, witches, Polly and summonings they like here, but my brain has gone to sleep and I must follow. John will likely bring up forming a dedicated search soon, though yes, lots of ways to go from this point if Investigators have a favoured line of investigatin'.

I am no longer making sense to myself. Hopefully this makes some? Here is a folk song about trying (failing) to kill an occasionally conversational hare: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AT9foxlerfI

Just a heads up that we'll be moving into the new appartment over the next few days, and my internet access will be a bit spotty. Should be back to normal by Wednesday.

Thanks for the notice - may you arrive with all you set out with, and may the new place soon smell like home.

I don't know that I honestly have enough brain for a coherent post tonight, for which I apologise, though I'm not sure everyone has checked in to see if they want to say a thing in between yet. Nothing but blep between the ears, in the main.

Also I have thus far failed to depict Polzeath, in part because I made an attempt via editing thispersondoesnotexist.com's photorealistic generated pictures whenever they looked credibly Cornish and just wound up creating what look like new members of the UK's royal family. Sheesh but those people need to put some branches on the family tree.

Human sacrifice! Always a valid solution, right?


edit: batting threads about a bit, but everyone but Maggie is now on Thread 02. She should join you shortly, unless something sudden and terrible happens.

edit II: ...you don't have to wait for her, though, it actually makes more plot/timing sense not to.

edit III: crickets, huh. Are you all busy? Stuck? Have I muffed something up spectacularly? Not that I'm entirely unbusy myself this week - posting this at present since I may or may not be about tomorrow evening, and that would be time for all the main thread players' one-week abscence warning checkin - but no posts since Wednesday is...worrying.

That said, if the offer of free drinks has caused everyone to abandon ship in alarm I will laugh.
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All right, in-game posts - those are both nice and appreciated!

I'm aware there's not much to go on from the lunchtime one but thought I'd post what I had down in the time and that I'd give Dr. Lovelace a chance to respond to letting a four-year-old draw him a pint of "something". I also owe Tom some information for specific observations and am tracking offscreen villagers; lots of juggling.

Please note that small beer isn't physically small in any way, it's just barely alcoholic. That is, enough to kill cholera, liver fluke eggs, algae and/or anything else that might be living in it whilst storing water. It's generally given to children and will make Andrew moderately hydrated, which is good for blood loss but probably won't make him forget he has a gouge in. He might be more cheerful to finally realise how great ribs are, though. Ribs are great.

Lastly, all but one of the things that were going to make me miss slots I'm usually around through the first part of this week are now happening tomorrow, so...if I'm not about for a patch that's what's going on.

Moving was taking up wayyyyy more time than expected. But I never said specifically *which* Wednesday I was hoping to be able to get back to normal, was I?

Anyway, I'll catch up on reading the posts tomorrow!

Hi! Indeed, I think there's a very manageable amount of catching up at present, all the moreso since I am also about to take myself to bed...

I apologise for the delay here right when I said I'd be attentive: it seems my badly-put-together nervous system has decided to entertain itself by making sure I wake up just under my minimum sleep time, then inflicting pain for not hitting my minimum sleep time.

Giving the rest of you space to post, since between the two (more?) simultaneous conversations rhubarbing along in the pub there's useful information to be gleaned by sharing.

Also, it's not our side of the Atlantic, but someone fed Puritan names to a copy-the-thing AI and I was howling with laughter/going 'oh no-O' at some of the results, so: https://randomencounters.tumbl...lagers-and-townsfolk

...some of them sound like Terry Pratchett characters, others just terribly unfortunate.

edit: Also! Do we want a Clues thread?
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