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[takeyoutochurch]

Lea D. Gunmetal

Alchemist of The Forge.

Employee at The Shop. Good at fixin' anythin' that's broken.

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day 209 around noon

[liveslaughsloves]

[his phone rings, pathetically]

Re: day 209 around noon

[takeyoutochurch]

[what is this. answers]

What's up?

Day 212 A little bit after Forge returns to the cabin

[holesomelanguage]

1. Is everyone okay? Heard about the performance.
2. I'm in my room.
3. Don't come in my room and don't let any of the kids. Or the adults for that matter. I'm sleeping if anyone asks.

Re: Day 212 A little bit after Forge returns to the cabin

[takeyoutochurch]

[concerned delay before responding]

1. All okay on our end except Lith. He's still spooked. Don't blame him.
2. Ok.
3. You couldn't pay me to go in your room, I'll keep em all out, if they ask you're sleepin away a hangover and a cold and a flu all at once.
4. Everythin okay on your end?

day 224 a little after 2 am

[liveslaughsloves]

[knocks on his bedroom door not very loudly

there’s something pathetic about the knock somehow]

Re: day 224 a little after 2 am

[takeyoutochurch]

[the pathetic vibe is how he knows its Eriks]

Come on in.

[he's sitting in a bean bag chair in his room fiddling with some gears that they yoinked out of the ships bowels, idly seeing how they fit together]

239, evening

[nymphcompoop]

hey
u ever comin back?

Re: 239, evening

[takeyoutochurch]

i thought ya were gonna rest up with the rest of the sirens
want me to come get ya?

240

[endsjustified]

drinks in the garden?

if you’re not busy

Re: 240

[takeyoutochurch]

i'm free right now

be there in ten?

Day 241

[featherduster]

you got a minute?

Re: Day 241

[takeyoutochurch]

ya
i ain't busy
what do ya need?

Day 243 in the wee hours

[featherduster]

WAIT

eer you serious

Re: Day 243 in the wee hours

[takeyoutochurch]

[this feels like a trap]

about what

244, later

[liveslaughsloves]

hey

[nailed it]

Re: 244, later

[takeyoutochurch]

hey
hows it goin

Day 245

[featherduster]

hey

[ nailed it ]

Re: Day 245

[takeyoutochurch]

[Message marked as Read ✓]

[like an hour later:]

hi

[flawless communication]

day 250

[liveslaughsloves]

[sometime in the morning after people have properly healed up, Eriks texts Lea]

u up?

Re: day 250

[takeyoutochurch]

[it takes like ten minutes to get a response]

barely
but i'm up
what's up?

[sometime during landfall]

[liveslaughsloves]

[most of what Eriks gives Lea is in our ongoing thread!!! however when he gets back on the ship he finds the following in his room:

- a tiny penguin automaton, sturdy enough to stand up to Sesame bowling it over. if left to its own devices it will wander around and pick up any stray small objects that have fallen to the floor (screws, hex nuts, etc.) and swallow them into an internal compartment which can be emptied out at intervals.

- a new phone number and email where he can theoretically reach Eriks

- a note that just says Be seeing you later.]

Day 253, late night

[nymphcompoop]

[it's a push notification from Lea's Maps app:]

🌙✨ has shared a Map with you! 🗺️Places

[it is, of course, a map of Port Manteau with many many pins. but they aren't annotated at all.

among the listed locations are:

- A fancy ass private school, gated. It looks old-fashioned in aesthetic, but a closer look reveals cameras, automated doors, facial readers and other high security tech
- An alleyway a few blocks away from said school
- The Facility (it's actually also not too far from the school)
- Like three different parks around that perimeter, the one closest to the school is very nice and well cared for, but pretty small, another one is large enough to count like a small forest.
- A couple of playgrounds
- Large house with an equally large garden in a high class neighborhood
- An equally luxurious building (but in a completely different expensive neighborhood)
- Like seven different hardware stores, ranging from small and humble family businesses to large chain ones
- Also like seven different malls (most of them high end) with a million stores
- The Shop
- A number of grocery and convenience stores close to The Shop
- A beach that not many people seem to visit at all (there's nicer options with many touristy attractions)
- A popular camping site
- Somewhere in the wilderness that is not labeled a camping site at all, but come on, what else could one be possibly doing here?
- Expensive private gym
- A few coffee shops, also varying from "small cozy place" to chains like Spacebucks
- Hole in the wall food place that Lea would probably like
- Stupidly expensive haute cuisine restaurant (but the menu also has things Lea would like)
- ....... Fancy pet supplies store
- Unassuming restaurant/bar, very cozy
- Drive-in theater

… honestly if there's any other places you think one would have dragged the other to with any regularity and/or for a special occasion, whether for a proper outing or just because they happened to be together at the time? they're all there. sorry. sorry.]

shore leave, nebulous time

[endsjustified]

did you still want to do the thing?

Re: shore leave, nebulous time

[takeyoutochurch]

yeah
be more specific though
we talked about a bunch of things
which one?

day 270ish

[liveslaughsloves]

hey

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Re: day 270ish

[takeyoutochurch]

if ur still alive at least send me a selfie

how are ya? havin fun on dry land?

Day 273, early eveningish

[nymphcompoop]

lmk when ur not busy
not urgent

Re: Day 273, early eveningish

[takeyoutochurch]

what for?
i'm free right now

Day 285, around 11pm

[nymphcompoop]

hey
hey
wake up
where r u
turn on ur location
i js wanna talk

Re: Day 285, around 11pm

[takeyoutochurch]

[he drops a pin to his location on the ship; he's up on the top deck at the water park]

i'm already awake
why are u awake
don't u need beauty sleep

Day 299

[nymphcompoop]

soooo
hm
quick question
u still on the boat??

Re: Day 299

[takeyoutochurch]

yeah
are u not????