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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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[Have you ever really looked into "organic" foods?]
This is assuming the Porter has any reason to listen to us in the first place. Whatever, I'm hoping we see some of the others here in the next few months. Or we end up back home, collectively.
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[does that mean the others are synthetic foods???]
That is the problem, isn't it. We likely wouldn't be separated in the first place if the Porter was known for generosity. [She gives a small huff, and continues.] Being in this sort of 'hub' would open up untold possibilities, too.
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[Let's not introduce her to the concept of "organic" anything.]
I honestly don't like the odds with any scenarios that start and/or end here. The Porter has caused enough trouble, too much trouble for me to trust it anyway.
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Still, just consider if there was a way to change this scenario to remove the Porter from the equation. If we could collaborate with other universes in keeping all of them safe. An open exchange, of sorts.