Puzzle 1

Nov. 15th, 2012 06:13 pm
eightlazylegs: A grey octopus with an upraised tentacle (Attention)
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[ACTION]

[There is an octopus sitting in the town fountain. He's white as the inside of a clamshell, curled up in the smallest corner he can find. It takes him a few minutes to trust the world enough to cautiously slip up to the surface and crawl out of the water. His new wings flick away droplets of water, causing him to shuffle around to get a glimpse of what's attached itself to him.]

What?

[It's bone and muscle and feathers, and it's none of the things an octopus should have. A delicate tug indicates they can't just be yanked off. Hermes spits out a jet of water and turns back to see where he is.]

...what.

[This is not Chicago. It's not even the parkish bits of Chicago that he's seen out of car windows. This is all wrong. Hermes switches from nervous white to irritated yellow, his tentacles curling.] What. Where? What? What?! [Where is his apartment? What put him here? What is with the wings? What what what what.]

[VIDEO]

[Hermes has chilled out and returned to a comfortable woodsy brown. He's sitting on the rim of a filled bathtub, with the screen propped up on the lid of the toilet.]

Have apartment, but apartment insufficient for octopus. Furniture and movers required. First requirement: tank. [He moves his tentacles to indicate a rectangle shape.] Large fishtank. Also hose and pump for emptying and refilling. Bathtub leaks out drain, is located inconveniently.

[Hermes gestures to himself. If one compares him to the tub for a sense of scale, it's obvious that he's only a foot high.] Cannot carry by myself. Food, toys, also need in future, but tank is largest. Will trade goods or services for tank and tank-moving. Make offer.

Date: 2012-11-16 02:06 am (UTC)
abidinglaw: (⚓ wig)
From: [personal profile] abidinglaw
[From the admiral's expression it would be easy to suspect not only that the octopus had come up with the pun, but that it was utterly utterly distasteful to boot. As though James Norrington had presented a pristine tomato soup, only for this beast to point out a fly which had moments ago landed square in its center and was even now attempting to paddle to the edges of the bowl.]

"Deal."

[How else would he learn the truth of this? Not over the journals, that much was certain.]
Edited Date: 2012-11-16 02:07 am (UTC)

Date: 2012-11-16 02:19 am (UTC)
abidinglaw: (⚓ corvette)
From: [personal profile] abidinglaw
[Norrington would never have asked for anything in return, but now that some unknown service has been offered?]

I am certain a tank could be fashioned -- there are smiths here, though I warrant glass may be rare enough to keep you in that tub a while yet. For supplies there are shops. I can show you. You walk, I trust?

Date: 2012-11-16 02:34 am (UTC)
abidinglaw: (⚓ rudder)
From: [personal profile] abidinglaw
[So it was well trained.

Or else it was all that it appeared to be, with all of the attendant weirdness that that implied.]


And I presume that we will be making frequent stops for water? Or should I carry a bucket along with us.

[He figured that if anything could reveal this ruse for a ruse, the cold logistics would do it.]

Date: 2012-11-16 02:46 am (UTC)
abidinglaw: (⚓ knot)
From: [personal profile] abidinglaw
Counting the steps would be difficult enough, but multiplying then by four?

[This time he might have been joking.]

If you are in the village - as indeed you seem to be - we shall not be too long.
Edited Date: 2012-11-16 02:46 am (UTC)

Date: 2012-11-17 02:32 am (UTC)
abidinglaw: (⚓ long nine)
From: [personal profile] abidinglaw
[Well well. Some poor fool did not know his cephalopods. Now to put an end to this.]

Very well. Where shall I find you?
Edited Date: 2012-11-17 02:33 am (UTC)

[action] An appropriate amount of time later...

Date: 2012-11-27 04:03 am (UTC)
abidinglaw: (Default)
From: [personal profile] abidinglaw
[Norrington knocks anyway.

He is nothing if not polite.]

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