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lifeaftr2017-10-24 06:32 pm
prettypurpleparlor) wrote in lifeaftr2017-10-24 06:32 pm
[Open Log] parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme
Who: Muffet and YOU (plus closed prompts for a couple people).
What: Gardening and home improvement, island-style.
When: The 15th.
Where: Islet 3, and various points around Enso.
Warnings:Arachnophobia? None I can think of, but if any come up I'll add them.
remember me to the one who lives there:
[If you're passing by Muffet's house that afternoon, you might see her up and about- emphasis on up.]
[Her repairs to her little islet home seem largely completed, with half of the building covered by a neatly repaired wooden roof, over a comfortable little room... but the other half is deliberately open to the sky.]
[Instead of putting a roof over the other half of the house, Muffet has strung a large web of her own silk over the top, blocking entry to curious animals but letting the sun and rain through. The reason for this will become obvious with a bit of looking- she's turned the uncovered half of the house into a walled-in garden.]
[The roughly-made wooden floorboards she put down stop where the roof does, leaving the bare dirt free for planting, and she's taken advantage of the space to grow bountiful amounts of various edible plants somewhere she can keep scavengers from getting at them. In the very center of the garden, pride of place is given to a healthy young pear tree.]
[And as for the lady of the house herself?]
[Well, she is a spider- which is probably why she looks perfectly comfortable walking around on top of her web. She surveys the garden from her rooftop vantage point, standing casually on a single silken thread. She seems pleased with how her work is coming along.]
and sow it all over:
[Or maybe you're at one of a dozen different spots on the main island- by the lake where blackberries grow, a spot in the marsh that has carrots, or really anywhere that an edible plant can be found.]
[She works carefully, taking only a very small amount of any one thing to transplant into her garden. Still, there's more than she can carry alone, which is probably why she's very carefully tying the latest portion of her gardening haul onto the back of a...]
[Wait, what is that?]
[For all its' odd appearance, though, the... cupcake beast? Muffin monster, maybe? Well, whatever it is, it seems pretty docile, calmly accepting whatever Muffet has it carry and following her lead around the island unprompted.]
tell her to buy me an acre of land [closed to Taako and Lup]:
[Oddly enough, there seems to be one area out in the front of the house that she's cleared neatly but hasn't planted anything in, a decent-sized spot in the shade of a nearby coconut tree.]
[She's been saving that spot for a while- specifically, for as long as she needed to make sure the rest of her house was in order, so she could be sure she wouldn't have to move again too soon.]
[Because as much as she appreciates Taako's offer to build her an oven, she knows the twins are probably going to charge enough that she won't want to pay it twice.]
[Now seems like a good time to start negotiating.]
answer as many for me [closed to Ignis]
[The bulk of her garden is kept within the house walls, where she can keep it safe, but Muffet isn't one to waste space. All along the sides and back of her house she's planted more crops, and she hums softly to herself while she tends to them.]
[Passing by, someone might just happen to hear a pleasant little tune...]
What: Gardening and home improvement, island-style.
When: The 15th.
Where: Islet 3, and various points around Enso.
Warnings:
remember me to the one who lives there:
[If you're passing by Muffet's house that afternoon, you might see her up and about- emphasis on up.]
[Her repairs to her little islet home seem largely completed, with half of the building covered by a neatly repaired wooden roof, over a comfortable little room... but the other half is deliberately open to the sky.]
[Instead of putting a roof over the other half of the house, Muffet has strung a large web of her own silk over the top, blocking entry to curious animals but letting the sun and rain through. The reason for this will become obvious with a bit of looking- she's turned the uncovered half of the house into a walled-in garden.]
[The roughly-made wooden floorboards she put down stop where the roof does, leaving the bare dirt free for planting, and she's taken advantage of the space to grow bountiful amounts of various edible plants somewhere she can keep scavengers from getting at them. In the very center of the garden, pride of place is given to a healthy young pear tree.]
[And as for the lady of the house herself?]
[Well, she is a spider- which is probably why she looks perfectly comfortable walking around on top of her web. She surveys the garden from her rooftop vantage point, standing casually on a single silken thread. She seems pleased with how her work is coming along.]
and sow it all over:
[Or maybe you're at one of a dozen different spots on the main island- by the lake where blackberries grow, a spot in the marsh that has carrots, or really anywhere that an edible plant can be found.]
[She works carefully, taking only a very small amount of any one thing to transplant into her garden. Still, there's more than she can carry alone, which is probably why she's very carefully tying the latest portion of her gardening haul onto the back of a...]
[Wait, what is that?]
[For all its' odd appearance, though, the... cupcake beast? Muffin monster, maybe? Well, whatever it is, it seems pretty docile, calmly accepting whatever Muffet has it carry and following her lead around the island unprompted.]
tell her to buy me an acre of land [closed to Taako and Lup]:
[Oddly enough, there seems to be one area out in the front of the house that she's cleared neatly but hasn't planted anything in, a decent-sized spot in the shade of a nearby coconut tree.]
[She's been saving that spot for a while- specifically, for as long as she needed to make sure the rest of her house was in order, so she could be sure she wouldn't have to move again too soon.]
[Because as much as she appreciates Taako's offer to build her an oven, she knows the twins are probably going to charge enough that she won't want to pay it twice.]
[Now seems like a good time to start negotiating.]
answer as many for me [closed to Ignis]
[The bulk of her garden is kept within the house walls, where she can keep it safe, but Muffet isn't one to waste space. All along the sides and back of her house she's planted more crops, and she hums softly to herself while she tends to them.]
[Passing by, someone might just happen to hear a pleasant little tune...]
Remember me
Oh my!
[She stops herself short of the doorway, thankfully. It would be very rude to just barge in uninvited and unannounced.]
Do you mind if I came in? I'm quite curious about your garden there.
[Not to mention, given the effort that must've gone into said garden, it's entirely likely that Muffet might be able to answer some of the other questions that Tataru has had of late.]
Re: Remember me
[Muffet smiles warmly at her visitor, and gestures casually with one hand- which somehow causes the front door of her house to swing open of its' accord.]
[The truth is that she just uses her own magic to bind the door shut because she couldn't figure out how to make a proper lock work with what she had, but there's no need to actually tell people that when she can take the opportunity to look mysterious and dramatic.]
Do come in, dearie- it's through the doorway on your left.
[The door leads into a small, neatly-decorated wooden room. As she said, there's a small doorway in the wall, covered by a curtain. She probably didn't need to tell Tataru that, honestly- it's not a large house, and it's the only door there- but it's the polite thing to do.]
no subject
[The room earns more than a passing glance - it's one of the nicer and better-restored ones that she's seen thus far on the islets. But ultimately, she presses on, slipping out into the garden, where she begins to examine the different plants in earnest.]
Did you find all these plants here?
no subject
[Muffet has no problem carrying on a polite conversation while standing several feet above the ground on a giant web, it seems.]
This one, however, was one that I requested from the Storyteller.
[She pauses to stand above the pear tree, indicating it with one hand. It looks like it's doing well- as does the rest of the garden, having clearly been tended to with care.]
no subject
[Yes, she's very much noticing the obvious care that was put into this garden, and it showed in how much it was thriving.]
Hm... By any chance did you see plants such as cotton, or flax, while you were out gathering these up?
no subject
no subject
[For a moment she does have to wonder... would it be incredibly rude to ask if Muffet were willing to provide silk for her to work with as well? Probably, especially if they've only just met.]
I'm something of a weaver myself, only I haven't found much in the way of raw materials here yet. Still, gardens like this sound like a wonderful idea.
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Still, if you have a particular project in mind, I might be able to provide something.
[Luckily, Muffet isn't the type to be shy about practical matters.]