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Vanitas ([personal profile] showmeanguish) wrote in [community profile] asgardmeridiem2012-09-30 09:43 am

[OPEN] forward dated!

Who: Vanitas ([personal profile] showmeanguish) and OPEN.
What: Almost fully recovered from The Sickness, Vanitas decides to pick up some things for his new room. But he... gets a little sidetracked.
When: All through day 152.
Where: Baldr district.
Rating: Shouldn't go higher than G, unless there's talk of sickness/death.

[At 11am, Vanitas has acquired exactly (1) bag of warm clothes, as well as a bargain bed (mattress included) and side table that's being delivered to the Mushroom house for a small extra fee. All for a little over two gold runes.

That morning, he'd woken up and realized that the temperature was getting brisker, and the leaves a little darker in color. Fall was coming, and he'd be needing some warmer clothes, since everything he'd had had gone up in the conflagration he'd set almost two weeks ago. He'd replaced a little of it, but not enough to carry him through the winter, which was the purpose of his shopping trip. Alone, this time--and what d'you know, he'd gotten everything done he'd wanted to and at half the time of the last trip.

On the way back, though, he'd taken a different route to make his journey a little more interesting. Along the way, had passed the petting zoo at the edge of the park. And slowed to a stop, when he'd gotten only a few yards ahead of it. Turning back, he gazed at the entrance for a few moments, apparently lost in thought. Though things had returned to normal again, there were a few things still weighing heavily on his mind. Not just from his spider's death, still, but he'd...

He'd almost killed Euri, during the plague. And if he'd succeeded, it would've been for nothing--the immunization had worked, and she'd recovered quickly. It'd been rash; he'd just panicked and hadn't known what to do. But more than that, he hadn't known what a friend would do, and it'd been a very hard lesson for him to learn.

So maybe... he just needed more experience.]

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[At approximately noon, Vanitas has acquired (1) bag of clothes, a bed and side table set that's being delivered later--

And an old, lady goat with one milky eye, from the owner of the petting zoo. Who seems to have other ideas about making the rest of the trek across the park to home.]

C'mon, just move your legs. [Pull pull on the tether keeping her tied to his arm, but the goat just takes a few steps and stops again, head tossing and tongue mocking him from between it's teeth. She doesn't appear to be thrilled with the journey, and instead when they pause again, decides to take a few bites of grass.]

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[Later, much later, the goat is tethered to a tree at Mushroom house's back, far enough away that she can't disturb any of the herb garden. But she looks much more placid to be laying under the shade than being pulled across the park, just staring off into space while chewing on some grass.

Vanitas is nowhere to be seen, but he returns shortly, after making another trip to Thor district for some fencing and building supplies. It arrives in a cart, which he hops off the back of, and helps stack it all close to the tree before paying the driver. Then, he gets to work. Exerting himself this much when he's recovering from being so ill is probably a bad idea, but Vanitas has an idea in his mind and he's determined. And when he's determined, there's little that can be done to deter him.

So he sets to building. The back of the house is soon bombarded with the sound of hammering and sawing, as the shape of a pen and little house takes shape.]


[ooc: open to anyone, and you can choose any point in the narrative you want to throw your character in at!]
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[personal profile] samantha_grey 2012-10-02 12:58 am (UTC)(link)
"I'm an herbalist. I'm trying to test this crap to see if it does what they say it does," she grunted out, her tone clearly a little evasive. "Affadil's supposed to help ward against curses. They like using it for an amulet. I'm seeing if it can help when drunk. Maybe like a treatment. If it works, it could be a real help for a few things."

That, at least, was partially true.
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[personal profile] samantha_grey 2012-10-02 03:23 pm (UTC)(link)
"The gods can take their attitudes and shove them... [grunt.] They want this war won, they can deal with this I say," she muttered, grunting and getting a generally sour look on her face. "They're the ones who kidnapped us and dragged us into a fight none of us had any business getting into. I think they can take one on the chin."

And that little dance was, at the very least, amusing enough to serve as a distraction of sorts.
Edited (language sam) 2012-10-02 15:24 (UTC)