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Janet Pluchinsky ([personal profile] sorrowandsorrow) wrote2023-10-08 08:59 am

Open Post: Welters

It's probably been noted before, but Janet's not actually dumb. The people of this mansion are varied and mercurial. They're not like Fillorians, some of whom are little bitches but who were largely cow-eyed and willing to accept her authority just because she was a pretty girl from another world.

So. She has to win people over. Maybe everyone needs a little fun to take their minds off things. Conveniently, welters is absolutely Janet's idea of fun. There's a bunch of insane rules, violence is encouraged, and you win if you're good at magic and being bossy.

The mansion grounds are also a little tempestuous as to their character, but apparently the master magician toying with all their lives is feeling charitable today. She's found a big, flat stretch of undisturbed grass, and she's sketching out welters squares with a piece of chalk.
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[personal profile] sporesprouter 2023-10-08 06:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Tress is on one of her many missions, and has actually managed to find who she's looking for. However, Janet also looks like she's busy with something. So she hangs back a little bit, small stack of paper under her arm, and waits. She really doesn't want to interrupt.
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[personal profile] sporesprouter 2023-10-08 06:39 pm (UTC)(link)
"Hi." She holds up her stack of paper. "Well, you said that star maps might help you figure things out, so I've been working on that. I don't know how helpful they're going to be, but I've done my best, anyway."
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[personal profile] sporesprouter 2023-10-08 07:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Tress shrugs. "Don't say that until you know if it's actually useful or not. I've never actually done this before."

And it's true, her charts are far from standardized, but she did her best to make sure that landmarks are noted so that there's some way to tell direction, and she also carefully labeled each one with what day 'Night 1, Night 2, etc.,' and the time, at least as far as how long it had been since sunset.
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[personal profile] sporesprouter 2023-10-08 07:18 pm (UTC)(link)
"What else am I going to do?" she asks, conveniently not mentioning all the of the other things she's been doing. "It was interesting, anyway."
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[personal profile] sporesprouter 2023-10-08 11:13 pm (UTC)(link)
"Well, I don't know exactly what it is you were looking for. You just said that the positions of the stars might be able to help with your casting. They didn't look like they were doing anything too strange? But we can't see a lot of stars on my world so I don't really have much to compare them to, either."
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[personal profile] sporesprouter 2023-10-08 11:23 pm (UTC)(link)
"You're welcome. I'm happy to help." She smiles. "Like I said, it was interesting."
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[personal profile] sporesprouter 2023-10-08 11:36 pm (UTC)(link)
"Oh, no, it's just the moons. They're very large in the sky, so no matter where you are, one of them will be taking up about a third of it. The stars get lost in the moonglow, a little."
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[personal profile] sporesprouter 2023-10-09 12:35 am (UTC)(link)
She nods. "It is. Not seeing one of them was honestly the thing that threw me most when I got here."
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[personal profile] sporesprouter 2023-10-09 02:28 am (UTC)(link)
"It's round, yes. The moons are evenly spaced around it. The island I grew up on wasn't far from the Verdant lunagree."
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[personal profile] sporesprouter 2023-10-09 03:39 am (UTC)(link)
Tress nods. "The lunagree is the center of the sea, where the moon sits. As for the sun, there's just one, but yes, we have a sun. There's a moonshadow every day, where it goes behind whichever moon you're under at the time, but it's definitely there."
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[personal profile] sporesprouter 2023-10-09 10:24 am (UTC)(link)
"It is nice." Tress smiles a little wistfully. "I miss it."
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[personal profile] sporesprouter 2023-10-09 01:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Tress smiles. "I know. But how miserable would life be if we only did what we had to do?"