Log | August Catch-all | Closed

[graveyounglady]

Who: Mercy Graves & Others
When: Throughout August
Where: Around Gloucester
Summary: Various happenings throughout the month.
Warnings: Nightmares, claustrophobia, large-scale industrial accidents/train crash, screaming, fire, hallucination, loss of home, body horror, sadism/cruelty, mentions of attempted suicide and gore



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[graveyounglady]

[Mercy nods smartly and leads them over.]

Mind the rusted bits. They can get into your teeth and lock you up so you can't eat or drink if they cut into you.

[Tetanus isn't something she has the words for, but she knows enough about that in her own time. She's careful as she leads Aelwyn up to the car and helps her into it to peer around.]

Looks like it's been burned out. Definitely from that crash, I think. But... why would they leave it here?

[aelwyn_aberration]

That's what I'm wondering...

[They frown, grimacing at the filthy state of this place.]

Nobody even seemed to be looking at it. I wonder if they just... can't see it. Like with the giant train ghost.

[graveyounglady]

Maybe... This looks like... [She's squinting and uses the sleeve of her shirt to rub a little at the wall.] I think they got paintings of bards in here? [She motions for Aelwyn to take a closer look. Between the charred portions of the poster, clowns and a few animals are visible.]

And horses? Huh... What do they usually have on trains? The one that crashed seemed like it was carrying people. Maybe... why would they decorate the insides? Can people live on trains?

[aelwyn_aberration]

...Hm. I'd assume it's possible? I know people sleep on them... [She's never actually been on a train, help.]

I don't see why they couldn't try to make it a home. But... [She looks at the clowns, more unnerved than anything.] ...why the clowns? Who decorates their home with clowns?

cw: mention of pornography

[graveyounglady]

Funny people?

[She offers Aelwyn a wolfish grin.]

Can't rightly say, though. Maybe they were looking to join the... clown guild? Someone aspiring to be one of them? I seen people buying scrolls to hang up from Ms. Tawnie back home that had fancy drawings on them. People in all sorts of clothes, looking like they were doing different jobs.

[There had also been several scrolls with drawings of people not wearing anything...]

[aelwyn_aberration]

[...Goddammit, Mercy, stop being so cute. She returns the grin with an amused smile.]

What, you mean like a circus? Or I suppose a travelling theatre trope is possible... Hm. [Something to look into while they try to identify the train. She'll have to hit the books.]

It's pretty common for people to put art up on their walls, I believe. Though... clowns are just ridiculous levels of creepy. Still, I suppose someone's probably into that, who am I to judge.

cw: mention of underage drinking

[graveyounglady]

They're supposed to make people laugh, ain't they? Don't seem so creepy to me, but I never met a fancy jester, neither, just heard about them. The warriors at the Abbey liked to get up to some fine tumbling when we were having the season-turning festivals. Get enough fire whiskey into a body, and they'll go spinning away.

[Actually, that's something she's been meaning to ask. She'll pick around, pulling out her phone to snap a few pictures with the bright flashing lights on it.]

Ain't related, but I ain't been able to buy any proper drink apart from tea and juices since I got here. I tried buying some ale and they told me I wasn't old enough for that. Is it just somewhere special you got to go?

cw for underage drinking

[aelwyn_aberration]

There's something uncanny about them, I guess. I don't know how to explain it. [She's also afraid of most things though so.

Except, of course, underage drinking.]

Ohhhh, that. Yeah, they have a drinking age here. It doesn't make much sense to me either. They have one back home, in Solace at least, It's a bit lower there but I think we're both technically not allowed to drink. Not until we're twenty one, if we even live that long.

[Bleak.] I can get you some though, if you want. I have my tricks. [She gives a wink and a smile.]

cw for underage drinking will continue for the rest of this thread

[graveyounglady]

Tricks? [Even in the dimness of the burnt out train car, Mercy's eyes gleam.] Didn't think a fancy lady would need those. I wouldn't say no if you got a means. Happy to pitch in the coin for it, mind you. And help if you need helping.

[aelwyn_aberration]

Oh, I have plenty of tricks, my dear. [She doesn't realise that Mercy's human eyes probably can't pick up her wink when she says that, but she'd do it anyway.]

I won't charge you though, friends get it for free.

[graveyounglady]

That's a mighty fine discount! Reckon I'll have to do something to repay it, anyway. You got the prettiest hair. I could do it up while we're indulging? Give a nice little massage while I'm at it. Been told I do a fine job of that sort of thing from them that like it.

[She'd only just started getting to know her fellow novitiates at the temple, but Mercy had been keen to make friends. What better way than helping someone feel their best to praise the Spring Tide?]

[aelwyn_aberration]

[That certainly sounds............ intimate. She can't imagine Mercy thought of it like that but it doesn't stop her from feeling just a tiny bit flustered. Nobody's done her hair except the maids who taught her the spell to do it when she was eleven and living in Fallinel. And a massage... she attempted to give Penelope a massage one night but the other girl just laughed at her.

It sounds nice. She still can't figure out how it is that Mercy manages to be so sweet.] I think I'm getting a bargain in that case. Especially if I'm getting it from a real professional.

You have yourself a deal, darling.

shall we ftb on this and set up for this cute little drinking/hair-braiding sleepover?

[graveyounglady]

Deal!

[She puffs out her cheeks as she looks around.]

But first, I reckon we ought to see what we can see around the rest of here. I ain't sure it's much. Maybe the library at ADI'd have something on this? The car here looks real old, and if there was a fire, that was bound to catch notice, aye?

yep that works with me!

[aelwyn_aberration]

Agreed.

Let's do some detective work, shall we? And then, on the way back I'll buy us lunch before we go back to the library.

[She's not taking no for an answer on the buying her lunch thing. But she kneels down, ready to start poring through whatever clues she can find...]