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[theprezident]

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[casner]

Hope you're ready to put those talents utilizing other people's skills to use.

[ what, no, you don't get an option ]

voice;

[theprezident]

[ That's ... fine. This is fine. ]

Sure, sure, I can do that.

[ He doesn't sound super sure but HE'LL DO IT. ]

Where, exactly? Up here or down there?

[ He's seen the post, and while he'd rather not go down there, well ... Asgard and life back home has taught him that working together is usually the way to go, so he'll help in whatever way he can. Even somewhere he doesn't really want to be. ]

○ MID OCT

[seaboard]

[ There is a delivery of food outside of the door when they come back one day mid-October, packed in a crate full of jars and wrapped foods. On the top is a note: ]

To kindly resident of the Lake,

For your winter stores, I have prepared this food for you to keep before the snows come. Whilst we have a glut of food at present, it is best to keep this in the case that should we be trapped inside your house, you can rely on this food to help you see through until the thaw frees any blocked roads back to town.

I hope you find it suitable and that it keeps you well.

In Health and to your Good Will,
Gilia St. Loe, Second Child, Daughter-Sea, Of the Isle St. Loe, She Who Sings the Sea to Prosperity

[ The package includes:

5 x 1kg bags of Salt

5 x 1kg bags of Sugar

30 x 1kg bags of Flour

3 x 280g Yeast

30 x 1ltr jars of Butter

10 x Jar of Pickled Cabbage

10 x Jar of Pickled Tomatoes

10 x Jar of Jam Fruit Preserves ( Assorted: Strawberry, Blueberry, etc )

10 x 1kg sides of salted meat ( pork, lamb, beef )

5 x Jars of Dried Rosemary, Thyme, Basil, Coriander, Dill

20 x Pancake Mix

10 x Cake Mix

1 x 2kg Flax Seed ( + recipe how to use it for cakes to replace eggs )

1 x Recipie for How To Make Bread, 1 x Recipie for How To Long Stew Dried Meat

1 x Large Cooking Pot

1 x Baking Tray

]

backdated to early october

[mannerless]

gas??

[theprezident]

Maybe? Where did you find it?

[mannerless]

The gas station. You see? So it's almost certainly gas.

( it's definitely laundry detergent. )

[theprezident]

Gas stations carry a lot of things that aren't gas. How about you open it and sniff it and tell me what it smells like? Just don't sniff too hard.

[mannerless]

Citrus, I think. Is there a gas which smells like citrus?

[theprezident]

No, that's definitely not what any gas smells like. No reason to add perfume to gas.

[mannerless]

It's some manner of ooze. Citrus ooze.

( he may have poured some onto his palm. )

[theprezident]

Probably something to do with cleaning.

[mannerless]

Why is it always the slimy things we're to use for cleaning? It seems terribly counter-intuitive.

[theprezident]

Uh... What do you use?

[mannerless]

Soaps in slimy stone form. Soaps in ooze form. Other soaps in ooze form that we're to use on our clothes but not our skin.

There are more that I'm forgetting, I'm sure.

[theprezident]

And the ooze isn't slimy?

[mannerless]

Oh, it is. But you see, 'ooze' already implies that it's slimy but 'stone' does not! So I've specified slimy stone.

'Slimy ooze' seems a bit redundant, doesn't it?

[theprezident]

Right, so don't you also use slimy things to clean, then?

a few days after the last one

[mannerless]

gas???????

oct 15th-ish

[mannerless]

small gas??

[theprezident]

Definitely not.

[mannerless]

fine

oct 25th ish

[mannerless]

GAS

[theprezident]

Close but no do not get close to that or open it

[mannerless]

Now you've just made me curious.

[theprezident]

It's called radioactive waste. It's really dangerous. Where did you find it?

[mannerless]

Ah, so if you follow the invisible wall even once the road curves up toward the town, there's a line of metal boxes on wheels. There are quite a few of these in one of them.

Dangerous how? Is it something we could employ against the general fuckeries that come for us in this place?

[theprezident]

[ Thank god. ]

Okay, good. You found the same stash I did. At least there's no more of it.

I won't say it's impossible that we couldn't find use for it one day, but something that's radioactive really messes up our bodies. It can make us deathly ill or ruin our organs. I'm not an expert or anything but I know I want to find somewhere to put that stuff that isn't a train car.

[mannerless]

But let's say our organs our ruined and we get ill and die.

Don't we just come back?

[theprezident]

Do you want to try it out???

[mannerless]

Of course I don't want to! I'm just saying that such a thing shouldn't be what decides whether or not we find a way to weaponize the sludge.

[theprezident]

That's not a good idea.

[mannerless]

Spoken like a man who has never once in his life taken a risk in the name of innovation.

BUT seeing as I haven't the slightest clue what angry sludge might be weaponized into (yet), you can rest assured that my organs will stay as they are for the time being.

(Or at least that any ruining of them won't be accomplished by the sludge.)

[theprezident]

Look, it wouldn't just screw us or the Technicians up, it would screw up the surroundings too. And they don't need any help with that.

[mannerless]

You didn't mention that aspect. Just the organs.

[theprezident]

[ It takes him a little bit longer to respond this time. ]

Okay, I didn't. My point is, the stuff is bad news and we shouldn't mess with it.