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| What are you looking for at the Inn of Peace? |
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| Love <3 |
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| Friends and Friends *hugs* |
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| Chaos and destruction *evil grin* |
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| Nothing *snores* |
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| Gold XD |
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| I don't know yet... |
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Gren_Eckener Vice Captain
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 Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 10:05 am
Gren nodded. "I can imagine...and more folks are out at this time of year." He glanced to Orrin and Charlotte's exchange. "Don't hold back on my account, Orrin...there's a difference between having a sip and taking whole bottles of whiskey." He glanced at Charlotte with a grin. "Besides, you're not gonna go nuts, are you?"
"Heavens no." she said, taking a n** of the popsicle anyway. "Wow, lime!"
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Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 10:14 am
"That, too...more trouble gets started just because there's less elbow room." He shrugged, memories drifting through his mind of those years. Being here, though...it had at least started to change his tune about summer.
"If you say so," Orrin grinned, stirring the popsicle and leaving it in the glass this time. "Is that...did someone really do that, Gren?"
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Gren_Eckener Vice Captain
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Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 10:23 am
"Anything good in the dumpster lately?" he smiled, before frowning slightly and nodding to Orrin's question. "Yes, I'm afraid...she was..." he said, frowning slightly, trying to find a kinder phrasing. Not finding one, he sighed. "She's the first person I've actively thrown out of the building for being an absolute misery."
Charlotte leaned over and whispered the litany of reasons to Orrin. "He won't say them out loud because he's niiiice." she hissed.
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Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 10:30 am
"It's slimmer pickings in the summer," Tyler sighed, "but I still find some things. The problem is you have to act fast, and go almost nightly...a few days in a metal box with the summer heat can really ruin things. Fall's the best, since they're putting together the big holiday rush."
Orrin's eyes grew wider as everything was explained. "Oh..." He muttered at last, a faint sight of red in his shadow that vanished as quickly as it came. "I...really don't have a response for that..."
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Gren_Eckener Vice Captain
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Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 10:35 am
"What, no crazy Fourth of July blowouts?" he joked.
Charlotte nodded with an uncomfortable expression, nibbling her ice pop. "You really can't. Dunno where she is now, but anywhere but here seems reasonable. Chasing psychopaths and such..."
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Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 10:42 am
"Oh, there's a fun night to go out," Tyler chuckled. "But those kind of sales are mostly on the consumer end...what's left after all of them, or what's returned because people are stupid with them, is what I wind up with at summer's end."
He stood and made his way to the bar, pouring himself something to drink. "The Fourth, though...so much noise, so many people looking up. Pretty easy to sneak around, light show aside."
"It certainly takes a sort to earn your discomfort or ire," Orrin observed. "This djinn, the whiskey fiend...anyone else I should know about?"
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Gren_Eckener Vice Captain
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Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 11:02 am
"Fair point...it must be rougher around Christmas, thought some canny salvage."
"Oh, naaaw, it doesn't take a lot to get me mad atcha!" she laughed. "You just have to hit the right buttons...I'm not mad at Albee, so much as impatient and fed-up. Her, I don't care about because she didn't do anything to me personally. There are two people I really have no patience for...one's currently trapped in an endless chibi rave party in my bag, and the other is a stupid bimbo with a persecution complex. Can't stand whiners."
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Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 11:07 am
Aravilui continued rubbing his forehead, trying to ease the headache. "Guh, I forgot about these. I was like, fifteen last time I had one. Well, lesson learned."
He still finished the ice cream, as stubborn about it as any child. "Thank you Gren, I can handle it. This should fade quickly after all." He grinned, rubbing the back of his palate with his thumb.
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Gren_Eckener Vice Captain
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Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 1:23 pm
"Oh, I dunno...ice cream headaches can be real pains." he smiled, helping himself to one anyway. "Napkins are on hand, though."
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Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 1:30 pm
Aravilui laughed softly. "They can be. This is not bad, it takes a pretty serious blow to give me a bad headache normally. Well, when I wake up anyway."
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Gren_Eckener Vice Captain
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Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 2:22 pm
"It's much easier to get hurt from the inside." he grinned. "I can take a bullet, but I get laid up easy from a cold."
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Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 2:40 pm
Aravilui tilted his head to the side curiously, his brow furrowing in confusion. "What is a bullet? Some sort of weapon I understand but what kind exactly? And a cold?" he asked earnestly.
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Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2011 11:44 am
Orrin hummed in thought, opting not to bring a bullet into the Inn unless necessary. "Think of it as a tiny cannonball," he said, hoping the elf had at least heard of a cannon. "It's fired out of a metal barrel by the force of exploding gunpowder, and they really hurt when they hit you." He spread two fingers apart to give the idea of an approximate size.
"As for the 'cold', it's a common illness...causes coughing, congestion, fatigue, sometimes a fever...but it usually passes without difficulty in a week or so." He grinned, hoping the knowledge helped. "I think they call it a cold because most people get them in the winter."
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Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2011 1:26 pm
Aravilui tilted his head to the side slowly, shaking his head slowly. "Okay, a cold I understand. An illness that Men are prone to. But... what is a cannon? And gunpowder?"((Saruman had only just invented gunpowder in LOTR, when Ara was five. He'd know it as 'blasting powder' though, because guns don't exist in middle earth.  ))
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Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2011 4:44 pm
Orrin frowned. "Okay...still too modern, I see." This was always a challenge...he was used to being slightly behind now and then, not far forward. With little idea of what else to do, he dug around in his pockets, producing a small pouch of black powder which looked like it came from a reinactment and a small model cannon.
"They're usually a lot bigger, cannons...and this is gunpowder. Please only look; it causes quite a mess. As for the item that brought this all up, it's like a small, hand-held cannon. Modern technology is amazing."
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