canreallymove: (let's do it to it!)
Sonic the Hedgehog ([personal profile] canreallymove) wrote in [community profile] castle_whims2022-09-10 06:52 pm

Afterparty the Third

[Yuta's gone. He can't do the after party. So now it's up to Sonic. Yes, Hunter was going to do it, or...at least yell at the sheep to do it, but Sonic pointed out they were going to need more than just apple slices. People were starving and the sheep couldn't cook. In his opinion, of course. How does one even bruise an apple like that!?

Hunter wasn't happy with him, and what's her face Jeanie probably hated his guts now, but honestly, who was happy with anything at this point?

So, the first thing he does is go to the kitchen and start to do the one thing he knows will at least help: cook. The food is back, and so he's going to make a hearty mean and veggie stew in the oven, courtesy of an old recipe that nanny Rosie would make when they were kids. Back before the takeover. After they got food in Knothole.

While the stew is stewing in the oven for a good hour or so, Sonic himself is just...stewing. And also making something with rice in the microwave to tie people over in the meantime. It's actually congee, but he thinks its hot rice pudding, so whatever, it's good to go for people.

And yes. He also has apple slices and graham crackers, Hunter insisted on it. And yes, he's made extra and enough for everyone and Nanami to have seconds if they'd like. They need to eat, albeit slowly so they don't get sick, and he makes notes at the cafeteria table stating that. Then he gets to work with a cookbook to try and make some kind of drink that can help with getting people back on their feet. Dylan does cover with chamomile tea, at least, so it's not as much of an urgent issue.

He's mostly staying in the kitchen if people want to bug him. When he does finally come out, he sits in silence, staring at his bowl of stew, picking at the carrots. He's tired. It's pretty obvious on his face.]
panglici: (discontent)

[personal profile] panglici 2022-09-11 05:14 am (UTC)(link)
And so you just decided to go limp. Completely on purpose. Right?

[She smiles ruefully, almost looking nostalgic somehow.]

I've slept worse places even if today was absolutely the fucking worst day so far, so I get it, but you'll scare the hell out of everybody if I just leave you be out here.
copycut: (12)

[personal profile] copycut 2022-09-11 05:27 am (UTC)(link)
Ughhh, I guess that's true...

[ She looks like she melted from the seat of a chair onto the floor below, so it might have been halfway on purpose to start. At some point, gravity definitely took over, though...

She lifts a hand up, waving it through the air above her. ]


Okay, okay— Help me up.
holyironmade: (Regret)

[personal profile] holyironmade 2022-09-11 05:33 am (UTC)(link)
The sheep told you it must not be wasted? So it is like a law here?

[This news is just unbearable, worse than being stabbed, derails her enough that her own words don't cut anymore. She extends her hand to Carrie, begging to be taken, to be spared.]

Come. We are near the fence. Let us feed the monsters. You will think less of me, but I have been offered apple slices and crackers four times during this depraved ritual. It is very nearly a step in its own right by now. I cannot abide a fifth.
holyironmade: (Shock)

[personal profile] holyironmade 2022-09-11 02:41 pm (UTC)(link)
So you knew what it looked like? The talisman.

[She points at it.]

I wish I had learned of the situation earlier....
violence_ensues: (Curious)

[personal profile] violence_ensues 2022-09-11 03:00 pm (UTC)(link)
[Adorabat looks over to Jeanne.]

Oh, I saw it in Dylan's room. I've been in there a couple of times to be with him when he was scared and felt alone.

[She looks back to Valmont's name.]

...Dylan said Valmont wanted it during the trial. He attacked big bro for it. If I knew about that before, I could've talked to them about it. Maybe then, Valmont wouldn't have gone outside his room Thursday night.

[Not much guilt is in Adorabat's voice. More like hopefulness.]
holyironmade: (Alone)

[personal profile] holyironmade 2022-09-11 03:47 pm (UTC)(link)
[Spirit Ball Shamash floats down to look at the talisman.]

I attacked Dylan for Shamash here, as it so happens. He does not hold it against me. There are times when it truly seems that Valmont became a monster because others imagined him to be. As if his money was still a threat in this place. Where the vending machine gives out bars of gold.
violence_ensues: (Worried 2)

[personal profile] violence_ensues 2022-09-11 03:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[Adorabat lands on the ground and pokes the tips of her wings together a couple times.]

I never thought of him as a monster... Just a bit of a jerk... And he really did seem interested in wanting to start training with me.

...The machine is super weird. It gave Hunter my nightstick and Yuta my RIOT helmet. And it gave me Hunter's cat painting. How does it give us these things?
holyironmade: (Alone)

[personal profile] holyironmade 2022-09-11 05:59 pm (UTC)(link)
It has already given the principal us. I think that an object should be easier.
keyringwitness: (Smile)

[personal profile] keyringwitness 2022-09-11 06:04 pm (UTC)(link)
It was hers, too. Shannon couldn't resist babying me... although I don't think I can really blame her for it.

[Especially now.]
hashtagwoof: (From inside the cage)

Memorial

[personal profile] hashtagwoof 2022-09-11 06:09 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Hunter stops by the memorial for the first time in a few weeks. He hadn't been paying it too much attention before, but now that Yuuta's gone...

He sits next to Adorabat while she's placing her offerings. ]


... Hey. [ Slight smile. ] You did a good job keeping up with these so far.
Edited 2022-09-11 18:13 (UTC)
violence_ensues: (Default)

[personal profile] violence_ensues 2022-09-11 06:10 pm (UTC)(link)
I guess so... Hey. The machine runs on... e-lec-tri-ci-ty... right? Not gems?
hashtagwoof: (And I'm not the only one)

[personal profile] hashtagwoof 2022-09-11 06:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks...

[ Hunter didn't pay attention to who was serving the tea until he has to grab the cup off of Dylan's head. ]

Huh? [ That is tea. He has to check the drink for traces of dog fur but actually brewed tea. ]

Woah. Did you brew this?
violence_ensues: (Relief)

[personal profile] violence_ensues 2022-09-11 06:16 pm (UTC)(link)
[Adorabat returns the smile with her own.]

Thanks... Emma did Reika's and Thomasin's, but I did the rest, except for the owl. That was Ava. You like the drawings?
Edited 2022-09-11 18:16 (UTC)
keyringwitness: (Overjoyed)

[personal profile] keyringwitness 2022-09-11 06:18 pm (UTC)(link)
To this mystery Kuro and I have been working on solving together. It fell out of the vending machine and it's been driving me nuts for weeks... but now I've finally figured it out!

[The fainting was probably from the sweet feeling of triumph. Maybe.]
hashtagwoof: (Cast aside any humanity in your brain)

[personal profile] hashtagwoof 2022-09-11 06:19 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He shrugs. ] They're cute. [ He guesses.

Cute images for a whole lot of dead kids... Morbid as all hell. And sombering as well. ]


And I take it, this stuff used to be theirs? [ He gestures at the talisman, the book, and everything else next to people's names. ]
keyringwitness: (Default)

[personal profile] keyringwitness 2022-09-11 06:23 pm (UTC)(link)
You're a good g- g- girlfriend, too.

[Yasu, unfortunately, doesn't know how to not double down. Even though she stutters a bit at that last part.]
canismajorcontrolfreak: (Which is the watcher?)

[personal profile] canismajorcontrolfreak 2022-09-11 06:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, they sound like a good person, then.

[...it does raise a question, though...]

Is...is Shannon one of the other maids? Back...before?

[He thought about saying home, but...it's not home]
canismajorcontrolfreak: (Which is the watcher?)

[personal profile] canismajorcontrolfreak 2022-09-11 07:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Huh?

[Previously lost in thought, Dylan looks up at Hunter, a little confused.]

Uh, yeah? I figured everyone could use a little help calming down, and we have chamomile, so...

[A shrug, like it's the formalist thing in the world for a dog to brew tea.]
hashtagwoof: Confused (And as the minutes tick away)

[personal profile] hashtagwoof 2022-09-11 07:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, but you're a dog. How are you brewing tea with your paws or...

[ He stops himself to reconsider his instinctual need for things to make sense. ]

Whatever. It tastes alright.
holyironmade: (Nonplussed)

[personal profile] holyironmade 2022-09-11 07:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Technically we have not taken it apart. I do not think we can be sure.
violence_ensues: (Smug)

[personal profile] violence_ensues 2022-09-11 07:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Let's take it apart, then!

[Adorabat, no.]
holyironmade: (Chuckle)

[personal profile] holyironmade 2022-09-11 07:51 pm (UTC)(link)
It would say pitiful things about his budget... Though I do wonder if the cost of labor moving the goods in and out again outweighs a day or two not being consumed.

[There's wryness in Jeanne's eyes. The mercenary attitude makes their situation seem less cosmically unjust. Like food is all that will be needed to fill the hole in Kuro's heart.]

Perhaps it is his budget in rage that must be recouped. Magical power.
violence_ensues: (Frown)

[personal profile] violence_ensues 2022-09-11 07:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Mmhm! Oh, if you have anything of theirs to add, you can add it.

[Adorabat looks back over to the names and sighs.]

...There's gonna be more names I'm gonna hafta add to this, isn't there?

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