some nights, I wish that this all would end

31 January 2015 @ 06:39 pm

So, if anyone's coffee machine broke and you don't want to bug the Admiral for a new one, drop them off at the maintenance office and I'll see what I can do. I've been fixing appliances since kindergarten.

[Or, you know, trying to.

(He started getting good at it a year or so later.)]

[Private to Bleu]

Hi. I'm Peter. I'm guessing you've done the temporary warden thing before?

Tags: [game]: lastvoyages, nerdy little spider

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11 July 2014 @ 09:24 pm

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[Piper is sitting on the ceiling of the Maintenance and Repair office - she's turned the space into a little desk area for herself, although "desk" is probably a stretch in that she just sits up here with a notebook and some projects that are often secured by web line, but there are pictures and stuff tacked to the wall, upside down - and is one of the people who seems pretty unconcerned by how things are going. Okay, so she's either on a different Barge, or just temporarily thinks she's a girl or something, no big deal. She's been through worse.

Seriously, even if she wakes up tomorrow and realizes this was some horrible mistake, it's really not that bad. She could handle actually being a guy, right?]

Alright, so everyone's pretty freaked. I get it, it's weird to wake up and realize you're in the wrong body. Or to wait a couple days and realize you were in the wrong body, but anyway, what do you think the worst, most awkward flood ever would be?

[She's quick to qualify, because seriously.]

Not worst like, most traumatic, but just like, wow, this is weird and uncomfortable.

Don't worry, I've got plenty of wood to knock on, so this probably isn't like daring the Admiral or whatever's steering us through turbulence to take a step up. I was just curious.

Tags: [game]: lastvoyages, [what]: flood, asking for trouble, did not taze thor, nerdy little spider

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22 September 2013 @ 09:10 pm

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[AT ST. MICHAEL'S COLLEGE

Peter Parker is a servant. His father was a servant, and his father before him, and pretty much on and on as far back as anyone can remember. His family's always worked for St. Michael's College, and they're fiercely proud of being able to serve such a prestigious institution.

Peter's proud too, really, but there's a part of him that desperately, desperately wants something more. Really, it just means he wants to know more, even if he's never going to actually get to do more than clean up after people who just had been born into different circumstances.

So while he can been seen doing chores, helping out in the kitchens, repairing the roofs and basically anything else that needs to get done, he spends a suspicious amount of time dusting in the library, and lingering just outside classrooms. His daemon - a common ringtail possum named Arachne - usually perches on his shoulder to keep watch and make sure no one's going to catch them listening in to lectures on philosophy and politics.

He does it when people are visiting too, or when he's running errands to some of the other colleges, so feel free to wonder what's taking this kid so long in doing whatever task he's supposed to be doing. He's definitely not eavesdropping on your conversation about the North, nope.

THE STREETS

At fifteen, with a settled daemon and more responsibilities at the college, Peter doesn't have as much free time as he used to, and it's just the sad truth that he's largely outgrown a lot of the games he used to play with the other collegers and townies. That said, he and Arachne can still sometimes be found having been roped into playing along with some of the other kids, especially if Arya and her various cronies are involved at all.

Otherwise, he's usually running errands, or using what meager pocket money he's got to purchase books on pretty much every subject imaginable. Sometimes, when he's got time for it, he finds a (relatively, anyway) quiet spot to sit in the market or around the college to read, and takes his time getting home.

He still looks young, but he's too tall and Arachne's too obviously permanently a possum to really attract the attention of any GOB members looking for a new catch, but he still can't help but feel a little of apprehension go down his spine whenever people mention another kid's gone missing. That's never a good thing, and whether the Gobblers are a real thing or not, he still tries to make sure the other college kids get home safe.

He really hopes it's just a silly urban legend.]

Tags: [game]: lastvoyages, [what]: breach, build the republic of heaven, nerdy little spider, the awkwardest possum, this better work nerdlinger!

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