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seethesun ([personal profile] seethesun) wrote in [community profile] come_sailaway2023-02-16 04:09 pm

[Open + Sorta Mingle Ish?] Dark Fish, Like Dark Matter...

Who: Eleanor Lamb, YOU, and the looters of the carnival
What: Inquiries about Moon Master Ebalon, day to day life, pillaging the carnival to install some FUCKING KITCHENS BBY WE'VE GOT 'EM NOW
When: Last day of the carnival through to the end of February
Where: Carnival, Tauva, Fate's Design, Windjammer, the infinite cheese shop, the water
Warnings: Rapture bullshit, funerary traditions, and whatever you bring with you


1. Fellas, it's too rough to feed ya [Final day of the carnival + Tauva and/or Fate's Design; Semi-Mingle, please feel free to use this to thread with each other rather than just Eleanor]

When Sir Molinaro and Mister Max propose securing the cooking equipment and as many ingredients as they can, Eleanor is all on board. For her, the last hours of the carnival become a frenzy of looting, deconstruction, and hauling equipment. Do you need help securing something? Just ask; find her at the Carnival engaged in taking apart the food trucks, hauling heavy objects with improvised sleds made from tearing apart the game booths, being orbited by a great deal of raw ingredients (to transport them in a sanitary fashion), and straight up stealing the refrigerators from the food trucks (and packing them even more full of raw ingredients, especially the meats and vegetables that cannot be found uncooked on the ship).

Once the goods are secure, the next few days are spent in Tauva and Fate's Design; helping to plan the improvised kitchen setups, providing her technical expertise in assembling or disassembling the equipment, and suchlike. She might beg a smoke or some alcohol off you if she thinks you're amenable. This is also Eleanor at possibly her least dressed to date, wearing men's clothes from Tommy Bahama that she doesn't mind getting wrecked. Maybe you catch her there snatching them at high speeds, or in the Laundry Room to simply abandon them and/or change at equally high speeds. Girl should really change in her room, but she's excited.

One can safely assume that Eleanor will overhear most conversations or plans during this process; she's an attentive and curious girl, but she won't interrupt unless she's invited over.

2. Sonar Scattering Layer [Windjammer]

Once the improvised kitchens are set up you can start finding Eleanor at Windjammer for large portions of the day, set up with a few tables pushed together. A bedsheet has been draped over them, with INFORMATION ON MOON MASTER EBALON REQUESTED written on the front-facing portion in thick Sharpie. Eleanor has several Composition notebooks with her, pens, and also a pad of graph paper in which she doodles designs while waiting for people to come to her. She can be patient. Patience is one of the virtues she had to master for herself.

3. Free Diving [Pool/Decks/The Sea]

Eleanor continues her habit of practicing underwater movement and relaxing by crawling along the Serena Eterna's hull, both in full armor. You might find her in The Pool, pacing the deep end and having what appears to be an animated internal monologue since her arms gesture as if she's talking to someone; indeed, at times, whale song floats from the water in a shockingly good impression, drifting down the halls. Otherwise you might spot her on the decks either hoisting herself over the railing, shimmying down the lifeboat's ropes to get into the water safely, or returning the same way. Do you go into the water yourself, or fly around the ship? Maybe you spot her in the sea by the green glow of her helmet's porthole, crawling along the ship.

After those trips, when she dries off, one might find her sat down with her back to the railing, updating a detailed external map of Serena Eterna's hull. Though they are very infrequent, certain places are marked with the label 'barnacle'.

4. Marine Biology [Infinite Cheese Store]

Guess who's taking notes again? Find Eleanor in between other tasks or just In General haunting the infinite cheese store's shallow reaches, peeling away little bits of cheese and taking flavor notes in her notebooks about it. Something like a recipe book is forming from experimenting with how this cheese might go with those crackers or that meat. Peering over her shoulder, or snooping at the notebooks when she's away to get more stuff? Several entries are marked, specifically, 'ask Sir Molinaro' or 'ask Mister Max'.

5. Shark Week on Discovery Channel [Wildcard]

Fuck me up, I'm on Discord
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[personal profile] maximumcake 2023-02-18 04:12 am (UTC)(link)
"Well... that's a good first step." A hood existing is better than none.

He makes such a face when she mentions going to talk to Friday. Oh, he very clearly hates that idea. "U-uh. Maybe I can send Security to ask. Or, someone else who has a rapport with her already."
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[personal profile] crushed_pearls 2023-02-18 05:34 pm (UTC)(link)
"...Max." Erin is trying to suppress her amusement and only barely succeeding. "Max, my man, does Ms. Friday, of all people, make you uncomfortable?"
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[personal profile] maximumcake 2023-02-20 12:00 am (UTC)(link)
"She has no face!" Max protests, feeling very childish about it as she holds back her obvious amusement.

"How does she eat?"
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[personal profile] crushed_pearls 2023-02-20 03:25 am (UTC)(link)
"Maybe she doesn't. But, Max...the big man publicly hates my guts and Ms. Friday hasn't treated me any different about it. You'll be fine."

Softly: "She's one of us, you know? Trapped here."
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[personal profile] maximumcake 2023-02-21 10:23 pm (UTC)(link)
"She is?" That gets Max's full attention. Friday is trapped like them? Is she being forced to work just like the ghosts?

"...Oh. Maybe I... should go talk to her."
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[personal profile] crushed_pearls 2023-02-22 12:45 am (UTC)(link)
"You talk to me and I'm the big scary sword lady. Worst that happens is she says no or scraps the kitchens and like, if we don't have ventilation we don't have kitchens to begin with. You've got nothing to lose."
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[personal profile] maximumcake 2023-02-22 08:50 pm (UTC)(link)
"I usually more scared of short people." He says that like it's a joke. It's not completely a joke.

"But, okay, okay, I'll go find her."
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[personal profile] crushed_pearls 2023-02-23 12:52 am (UTC)(link)
"Honestly, like, I dunno her well as a person but try to stick to small modifications and you might have better odds. She's, y'know, real concerned about ship fires..." Erin trails off thoughtfully. She is very concerned about fires, isn't she? Why such worry on a ship that repairs itself?

Note to self, talk to Skulduggery about that.

"...But, anyway, shocked to see you grab just the fryers at first. Well, not that shocked, we're both Americans, but at least a little shocked. I figured you for the kinda guy who might lunge at the flat-top grills first."
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[personal profile] maximumcake 2023-02-24 07:26 pm (UTC)(link)
"Well, I mean, contrary to what you would think, fires are some of the most catastrophic things that can happen on a ship. Kind of makes sense she'd be worried about that." How does he know this? He was really into watching Deadliest Catch on Discovery Channel.

"You know, under normal circumstances I would have gone with the grill. But everything on the ship is already cooked. So, grilling it doesn't add much. But I can still bread and fry a lot of the things off the buffet."
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[personal profile] crushed_pearls 2023-02-25 12:55 am (UTC)(link)
"Maybe living in a port city spoiled me, I can only think of everything y'all might pull off with the fish from the sushi joint." Erin's rubbing her chin thoughtfully now. "That said if you can provide a steady supply of fried pickles I'll provide a minimum of dick jokes about them. Scary sword lady or not I'm still Lost, and the Lost, like college students, will kill a man for you in exchange for a decent sandwich and I'm only like, mostly joking."

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[personal profile] maximumcake 2023-02-26 08:20 pm (UTC)(link)
"Sure, I could grill the fish from the sushi but that seems like such a waste of sushi-grade meat." That isn't just any slice of fish, after all.

He puts his face in his hands when she offers a minimum of dick jokes as an option. "... Why do you get to make dick jokes but I don't?"
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[personal profile] crushed_pearls 2023-02-26 08:24 pm (UTC)(link)
"Same reason I'm still bullying my sister for her improper self care, I can't express love without low grade torment."
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[personal profile] maximumcake 2023-02-27 03:17 pm (UTC)(link)
"Does that mean I'm family?" He means it to sound like a joke but there's too much genuine joy in the question for him to pull that off.
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[personal profile] crushed_pearls 2023-02-27 07:52 pm (UTC)(link)
"Duh." For someone who's got serious anxiety about being a sibling Erin sure is collecting them.
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[personal profile] maximumcake 2023-03-01 02:42 pm (UTC)(link)
"You know what that means?" Don't worry, he can't stand to keep her in suspense that long.

"Now I have two blind sisters."
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[personal profile] crushed_pearls 2023-03-01 06:26 pm (UTC)(link)
"You get a third one, I'll get the mouse costumes, and together we'll put on a full stage play inspired by Three Blind Mice."
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good to start winding this down?

[personal profile] maximumcake 2023-03-03 09:59 pm (UTC)(link)
"What if I get Arthur instead? Or does it have to be a sister?"
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Wrap!

[personal profile] crushed_pearls 2023-03-03 10:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Erin puts a hand on Max's shoulder. "My man. Arthur is already a ferret."