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maskormenace2018-11-11 06:33 pm
patchricide) wrote in maskormenace2018-11-11 06:33 pm
VIDEO | 04
[As the camera turns on, your eyes are immediately directed towards a massive pile of leftover Halloween candy spread out over a table. At least, most of it is Halloween candy, and some of it is really good, like those peanut butter cups and little candy-coated morsels. But there's not a lot of quality control here, so some of it is terrible Halloween candy, and some upon further inspection is not Halloween candy at all.]
[In fact, there's some Christmas candies as well, including those really good hazlenut chocolates, and a few peppermints. There's also some of those mysterious strawberry hard candies that old ladies keep in candy bowls, tiny boxes of raisins, and... cough drops? Yup, those are cough drops. At the edge of the screen, a pair of mouse are helping themselves to one of the oddities, a small bag of peanuts like you might find on an airline.]
[And then there's Allura, sitting at the table with a pout of discontent on her face. After all, she had been invited to a Halloween party at the last minute, and she didn't have roommates to stay home on Halloween, so...]
If I had known I wasn't going to be handing out any Halloween candy, I would never have bought so much.
Particularly since I can't feed most of this to my mice. [As if on cue, a bigger, chubby yellow mouse picks up a bag of sour gummies and starts inspecting it — and without looking, Allura reaches over and pulls the bag out of his tiny little paws.] In fact, some of it I'm not sure if I ought to be eating.
This one is made with boiled animal bones, and coated in dried, powdered acid. It's supposed to be so sour that you will start crying in pain. Is this actually supposed to be a 'treat'?
[She gives a long sigh.] What am I supposed to do with all this? No matter how dubious the ingredients are, it seems like such a waste to throw it all away...
[In fact, there's some Christmas candies as well, including those really good hazlenut chocolates, and a few peppermints. There's also some of those mysterious strawberry hard candies that old ladies keep in candy bowls, tiny boxes of raisins, and... cough drops? Yup, those are cough drops. At the edge of the screen, a pair of mouse are helping themselves to one of the oddities, a small bag of peanuts like you might find on an airline.]
[And then there's Allura, sitting at the table with a pout of discontent on her face. After all, she had been invited to a Halloween party at the last minute, and she didn't have roommates to stay home on Halloween, so...]
If I had known I wasn't going to be handing out any Halloween candy, I would never have bought so much.
Particularly since I can't feed most of this to my mice. [As if on cue, a bigger, chubby yellow mouse picks up a bag of sour gummies and starts inspecting it — and without looking, Allura reaches over and pulls the bag out of his tiny little paws.] In fact, some of it I'm not sure if I ought to be eating.
This one is made with boiled animal bones, and coated in dried, powdered acid. It's supposed to be so sour that you will start crying in pain. Is this actually supposed to be a 'treat'?
[She gives a long sigh.] What am I supposed to do with all this? No matter how dubious the ingredients are, it seems like such a waste to throw it all away...
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... that... makes perfect sense. [Not that it should be a surprise, really. This is Pidge she's talking to.] Almost like a reward for enduring the sourness that came before it?
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Exactly!
[ There's a small pause ]
So which one is made of boiled animal bones?
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... honestly, I'm not sure if that is bad for mice, but I won't be taking any chances.
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[ Okay. Pidge should not have asked that question. She really didn't need to know that her favorite candy was boiled bones.
It's probably not going to stop her from eating the candy though. ]
You definitely shouldn't give it to the mice. I probably shouldn't eat it; but I'm going to anyway.
What city are you in? You're not in Heropa, right?
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[But honestly, she'd sooner come to terms with milk.]
That's right, I'm residing in Nonah.
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But yes, you should have stopped by and said hi. Darin and I are in the same neighborhood, and Keith as well. And I'm starting to think there's some convenience with our team having bases in every imPort residential hub.
[She means 'houses', not 'bases'. Still hasn't shaken the wartime mindset.]
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I can be up to get the candy tomorrow if that’s okay?
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Santa? Is that another name for the Porter? [The Earth holidays really never stop, do they?]
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Santa is a man who lives at the North Pole and makes Christmas toys for all of Earth's children. On Christmas Eve he loads all the toys up on a sleigh and transports them to all good children around the world so when they wake on Christmas morning they have presents.
[ Enjoy this logistical nightmare of a myth Allura. ]
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[Yeah, Allura's expression looks the way that noise sounds.]
Wait, but what makes children 'good'? How many of them are there, and how would he even know?
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But she does. ]
He has a magic list that updates itself with names of the good children. We don't know what makes them 'good', but most believe it's being respectful of others, listening to instruction, doing what you're told, and not getting in trouble.
[ Beat ]
Bad children get coal.