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Entry tags:
- critical role: beauregard,
- critical role: yasha nydoorin,
- final fantasy ix: zidane tribal,
- fragile dreams: ren,
- marble hornets: tim wright,
- mass effect: legion,
- mushi-shi: ginko,
- the adventure zone: kravitz,
- undertale: asgore dreemurr,
- ✖ critical role: jester lavorre,
- ✖ my hero academia: izuku midoriya,
- ✖ no.6: shion,
- ✖ okami: amaterasu,
- ✖ violet evergarden: violet evergarden
i'm looking for an easy thing [ OPEN MINGLE ]
Who: Anyone and everyone! Who wants to look at books?
What: BOOKVALANCHE
When: Let's say from the 25th and onward for simplicity
Where: The Storyteller's Temple, in addition to the library that's finally getting some much-needed attention
Warnings: Mark anything that comes up!
The library is finally getting some renovations! Between some new bookshelves (hope someone here is good at hauling) and a veritable cascade of all sorts of books and supplies, an awful lot needs to be transferred from the Temple to the heretofore unused library, and any help anyone has to offer is much appreciated!
But, of course, there's also so very much to go through for your own perusal. Just look at all this! Coloring books, puzzle books, stories of all sorts, comic books, fashion magazines, all sorts of survival texts...you name it.
This all needs to be put away and stored in those neat little waterproofing book protectors - shelves need to be moved, supplies need to be secured, and someone should probably take inventory. But also...there's a lot of fresh new reading material on an island that previously had none.
Isn't that worth looking over?
What: BOOKVALANCHE
When: Let's say from the 25th and onward for simplicity
Where: The Storyteller's Temple, in addition to the library that's finally getting some much-needed attention
Warnings: Mark anything that comes up!
The library is finally getting some renovations! Between some new bookshelves (hope someone here is good at hauling) and a veritable cascade of all sorts of books and supplies, an awful lot needs to be transferred from the Temple to the heretofore unused library, and any help anyone has to offer is much appreciated!
But, of course, there's also so very much to go through for your own perusal. Just look at all this! Coloring books, puzzle books, stories of all sorts, comic books, fashion magazines, all sorts of survival texts...you name it.
This all needs to be put away and stored in those neat little waterproofing book protectors - shelves need to be moved, supplies need to be secured, and someone should probably take inventory. But also...there's a lot of fresh new reading material on an island that previously had none.
Isn't that worth looking over?
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It's a balance, and it's all for the Traveler. It makes perfect sense if you're one of his, you know?
So, while Tim is now doing a lot of stocking, Jester appears to now be "helping" by rearranging the books he's already placed on shelves in new, less organized locations. She crosses paths with him a few times as she works on making the library's stock as inscrutable as possible, and she's also flipped through a book that caught her eye every once in a while as she works.
Eventually, she strikes up conversation, in her strongly accented lilting voice.]
Hey, Mr. Stocker Guy, do you know if like, any of the books here have, you know...
[And here she starts doing something odd with her eyebrows.]
...romance in them? You know, I have some books from home, but I can't keep reading the same two or three books over and over again, even if they are really really good, so you know, something like Tusk Love, or The Salty Sea, have you seen anything like that?
[...Apparently, she's switched to being a customer in the midst of masquerading as help.]
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[He's...not entirely sure why she's asking him, except that by stocking these shelves with the unshakable sense of Purpose that he has, he's kind of inadvertently communicated that he's got some kind of position of authority here.]
[He doesn't.]
[Tim blinks at her once in consideration.]
...haven't seen any, but I didn't...I wasn't the one to make this request. I'm just helping move things over.
[He glances over at the shelves she's been..."helping" with, and frowns.]
What...ordering system are you using?
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And, despite being a follower of a domain of trickery... she seems to be a little lacking in her ability to convincingly trick anyone, especially when put on the spot.]
Oh, I just, you know...
[She glances at the book she just placed.]
I thought... if someone were interested in recipes, you know, while they're waiting for a... pot to boil, or something, they could also try out a coloring book? They're getting really popular with more than just kids these days. So someone could walk by this shelf and be like, oh hey, some very kind and caring individual made sure everything I needed was all in one place!
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[He'd be a little more inclined to be pissed off, if this were Denny, or the carpentry. But since it isn't, he just shrugs and goes back to slotting books back into place.]
How's that going in the way of finding your romance novels? [He hasn't particularly been paying that much attention to the titles other than the basics - putting children's books with games and puzzles and coloring books, and survival texts with that particular kind of literature, and so on. And, plainly, that was more or less a wasted effort.]
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Clearly, she just needs a better prank for this guy. She'll stew on that for a bit.]
Oh, super well! Because I get to see a lot of different types of books at once! See? It's better this way.
[She sagely nods. Yup. And then she moves to reach for another book from the pile that needs to be sorted, and gasps.]
Oh, does this sound like it could be one to you?? Tying the Knot! Maybe it's one of those ones, you know, that's like... kind of...
[She flips open the book before she can finish her thought, thank the Traveler, because she is immediately treated to a bunch of diagrams about tying knots.]
Oh. Maybe not.
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[Thank fuck this isn't the case.]
I think most of this stuff is...for helping us survive. Instructions about how to do basic stuff you'd need to live on an island like this one.
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[She looks genuinely huffy about... not getting her smut fiction.
But then she slips the knot how-to book into her bright pink haversack anyway. No reason. Really.]
Besides, there is actually a lot of education in some romance books. They have a lot of history sometimes, and um... chemistry... if you don't know how to read then they can teach you that... geography... anatomy...
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[Tim's pretty sure he's not one of those people. At least - not in that regard.]
Yeah, so there's a lot of kids here I'm not sure need to be reading that stuff anyway. [He'd suggest she put all that shit on the top shelves, but...he feels like if he were to suggest it, she'd do the exact opposite, so, no, he's not going to say that at all.]
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That doesn't mean it shouldn't exist. I probably wouldn't put it in the kid's section.
If that bunny person even gave us any.
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[Whether that was on purpose or not, it doesn't inspire confidence. All right.]
You'd have to look around more, then. I didn't make this request, so I don't know what was included. Or what people were asking for. You know you could always ask the Storyteller yourself.
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[Which is the only warning Tim gets before Jester goes into Overshare Mode.]
'Cause my guy is the Traveler, and I don't know if he's like, friends with the Storyteller, or if they know each other at all, or if he'll get really jealous, and I think he's already kinda mad at me? I think the Storyteller might be giving him gossip that might not be true?? And I guess the Storyteller would like books since that's their name and all, but I don't know if I became friends with them, if the Traveler would be like, hey, I thought I was your friend, what gives Jester.
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[He was never religious. He knows of religion, sure - you can't grow up in Alabama without a heavy dose of that good old Christian indoctrination going on in the background, on billboards, on television, buzzing in his ears whenever he tries to take his mind off it.]
[But the very literal and verifiable representation of gods? That's new.]
I'm pretty sure your...Traveler isn't here, anyway. If he's a god. Is he?
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Jester's response is... a bout of giggles. If it weren't for her expression, they'd sound perfectly genuine.]
Oh, don't be dumb, of course he's here. He's the Traveler. He's been everywhere! Too many places to tell me about! He can go wherever he wants!
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[He slides another book onto a designated place on a corresponding shelf, and shrugs tiredly.]
If he was, I'm guessing you wouldn't be stuck here. Plenty of things that should be possible shouldn't, and the other way around. [Hopefully some measure of his...resigned calm will feed into what he's pretty sure is nascent panic.]
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But she was released eventually. And she met with him again. And she'd forgiven him.
But the thing about gods being very much real, also means eventually learning they're very much fallible.]
Well, maybe he doesn't feel like sending me back home, or maybe he can't because of the Storyteller—you don't know anything about him. Maybe he doesn't even know I'm here yet! I bet I just need to keep doing things and then eventually he'll notice!
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[Said with a tone that clearly implies he thinks she should probably give up now and save herself the headache, buuuuut...]
Well, you can...keep telling yourself that, if you want. I'm not gonna stop you. [He's not going to convince her, either. That's way more trouble than it's worth, especially since he doesn't know her.]
You gotta name?
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Oh! Hi, I'm Jester!
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Tim.
[Jester. He'd go so far to say that the name suits her.]
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And listen, if whoopee cushions or joy buzzers were a more common thing in her world, you wouldn't be unwise to check. But also, Jester is offended at the notion. She's perfectly innocent. She's never once covered her hand in honey before a handshake.]
Tim! Hey, what's that thing behind you??
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[So he doesn't turn around. He just freezes.]
[It's a veritable battle to keep his voice steady when he answers.]
What do you mean.
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So she tries to do damage control. Her hands come up and she gestures frantically that no, it's okay, everything's fine.]
Oh, I mean, it's nothing dangerous, it's just something really cool, like uhh, I think it's a... really funny bird?? Its feathers are doing something soooo crazy, you've got to see how crazy this bird is.
[She's practically forgotten what the hell she was even going to do while his back was turned, now, so we're really flying by the seat of our pants here.]
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[God, why'd his shoulders get so tense? When did they get so tense? His back is too stiff, his fists curled at his sides, and...]
[Breathe.]
[He breathes. Slow, easy, simple. It doesn't make any of it go away, but the knee-jerk klaxons no longer thrum away in his skull, and it's clearer now that she's just trying to recover something that he made weird. Quit making things weird, Tim. Jesus.]
A bird. In the library.
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[He's not looking! She's hyping this up so much! What must she sacrifice to get one man to look over his shoulder!
Okay, obviously she's just not selling it enough.]
HOLY SHIT, THE BIRD JUST STARTED POOPING ALL OVER THE BOOKS!!!
[Nailed it.]
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[It's not really clear what she's trying here, so eventually Tim just...sighs.]
If you want me to stop talking to you, you can just say so.
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No! I like talking to you! You're super nice and you have, uh, good sideburns? I just wanted you to turn around so I could... put a dick on the shelf.
[Tonally, the way she admits it is absolutely not the way those actual words should ever be said. She offers no explanation for what she means by "put a dick on the shelf". But she apparently takes it very, very seriously, by how disheartened she is now.]
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