sixteenth bubble; text/action for pewter. BACKDATED TO THE 2ND/yesterday.

[timelymaid]

no :(
this is entirely unfair!
ive been waiting to go to the museum in pewter ever since john told me about it on day one
and then jade gave me that book for christmas
and i planned it all out so i could come and see it after all of the fossil things!
this was the plan!
to go to the museum!

this is so stupid!!

by the way the museum was robbed i guess
and now its closed
and i cant go in

kanaya will you go to mt moon with me i guess we can at least TRY to salvage this

people who rob museums are the worst

[ After sulkily lurking outside of the museum for a little while in the morning, Aradia will be drawing up a plan of attack for Mt. Moon, easily found either at the inn or on a bench outside or at a cafe somewhere. She is not the happiest of campers for once, although her mood will not last long at all. As ever she'll match whatever mode of reply she gets. ]

Comments

[viiru2alert]

Work the black market? I don't know.

Maybe they just wanted to sell all the fossil stock they could before the price dropped due to a massive boom in fossil ownership.

[timelymaid]

I think the price already dropped by the time the whole fossil apocalypse thing happened. I can't say I know a single person who didn't catch something.

[viiru2alert]

True. Do we at least know anything about who did it?

[timelymaid]

No. I just know they stole fossils! Nothing else, except a vague notice about the museum being shut down.

[viiru2alert]

Well, in that case, I guess there's nothing to be done but wait for the people who get paid to do this shit figure it out.

[timelymaid]

Thus the travel plans. Without anything else to do...I did sign up to run a booth at the festival. So.

[ and she'll enter something/has already on the log, and poor john gets to try it. ]

[viiru2alert]

You did? What kind?

[Sollux heard nothing about this. It almost certainly has nothing to do with the fact that he's been actively avoiding her for a while now, nothing to do with that at all.]

[timelymaid]

Bake sale booth for the Breeding Centre. It's why John was teaching me to make cookies for a while there.

[viiru2alert]

Did he condemn the use of electronic mixing equipment for you too? [Once upon a time, John had tried to make waffles, and insisted on mixing the batter with a spoon instead of... you know... using the electronic mixer that was maybe four feet away. Apparently, mixing by hand is how MANLY MEN do it. But Sollux wouldn't know that because he is sooooo not a MANLY MAN.]

[timelymaid]

Oh, I guess so. I think he knows what he's talking about, though. I mean, baking seems to be something he's really good at!

[viiru2alert]

Yeah, but he also thought he was good at teleporting, and from what I hear that went kind of pear-shaped.

[timelymaid]

He says it was because I dared him to.

[ NOT THAT SHE DOESN'T BELIEVE THAT...

BUT WHY WOULD YOU TAKE A DARE FROM ONE OF THE FLARPER QUARTET, EGBERT. ]

[viiru2alert]

You dared him to? For what?

[timelymaid]

Um, I'm not sure? There was a magical intangible treasure, and he says I dared him to touch it.

If I had to guess why, I would hazard a guess that I thought it would be funny. But I cannot speak for Future Aradia!

[viiru2alert]

Who can. [Sollux shrugs.] I guess 'magical intangible treasure' is about as par for the course as anything else between you and John Egbert.

[timelymaid]

What do you mean by that? In the proper timeline, I think that'd have to be the first time I've interacted with Alpha John - though of course I've spoken to doomed Johns before.

[viiru2alert]

Nothing. I just mean that between the two of you, you'd totally be able to find some weird relic like that in places no one else could even dream of.

[timelymaid]

Vriska was there, too, I guess!

But thanks! I will take that as a compliment. Unless it was an insult, of course.

[viiru2alert]

Uh, no, it was more just a neutral statement of opinion.

[timelymaid]

A correct one!

...Anyway, did you actually want to be here talking to me?

[viiru2alert]

I saw you over here. Just thought I'd drop in for a bit, since we haven't been [ ... ] talking too much lately.

[timelymaid]

[ ...Oh yeah, that. ]

Oh. Well, I'm happy to talk to anyone whenever, really.

[viiru2alert]

Yeah.

[awkwaaaaaaard silence]

...so, uh.

I guess I'll be. Going. Now.