Deer Country Network

[Vira-Lorr is bundled up, prepared for the cold. She has a scarf that's ready to go, but it isn't quite bound around her face just yet. It looks like she's standing in a small mudroom leading into a house, her breath misting a bit as she finishes locking up. There's a basket of Shitake under one arm that look freshly harvested despite the chill starting to descend. She hefts it a little, as the basket is extremely full.]

So... I might have learned recently that someone I know does not particularly care for Shitake. Thankfully I've got several varieties of other fun little guys [Again with the dad jokes it seems.] I'm growing around my house, some of which should be more to their taste. But! That does mean that I seem to have an excess in the backyard.

Did anyone need any? I'll be selling some at the Willful machine, but I hardly need to do a lot of that. If any of you actually want some, give me a call.

[...yep. That was the message. There were people starting to freak out and hunt each other, some folks were growing crystals of blood in their joints, and in the middle of all of this? Someone just noticed that she might have too many Shitake Mushrooms and is offering a trade.]

Oh... and if any of you remember the Titanic, I have a little bit of the red salts left. Contact me if you need those. I probably won't have them for long from what I've read.

[Oh good, she wasn't ignoring the situation.]

[Here's a new face. A dead-serious, possibly even angry (or maybe that's just the eyebrows) face.

Fakir doesn't waste time. He holds a picture of a duck up in front of the Omni, taking up the whole screen. It looks...well it doesn't look entirely unlike this duck. Still holding the picture up, he starts to talk.]

If you find this duck in one of the traps around, do not eat it. Bring her to me to look after. I think she followed me from my world - I recognize her from there.

[100% foolproof cover story! Definitely impossible for anyone to poke holes in, given that people may have seen the duck last month and he's only turned up now.

He takes the picture down.]

Thank you.

So~ How hard is to live alone here?

It seems like I'm just a bother at my current place... and really, no helping that! I have sort of been a thorn in their sides for a while now, huh? I'm just causing headaches left and right. Maybe some independence will sort me out and teach me to be less of a hinderance or something?

[And as a vileblood living with a bunch of darkbloods this month, Oz can't shake his paranoid when at home. He's mixed it up with his own identity issues and made a right mess of himself, actually.]

And completely unrelated~ What exactly makes a day your birthday? What if you aren't born like a human? Or didn't even have access to a calendar? Is there a protocol for those situations?

Listen up, jagoffs!

Don't go walking in the underbrush without a travel buddy if you don't know how to take care of yourself.

I found tripwire and a pitfall. So, carry a knife, some paracord, and a carabiner because there's no telling what else is out there.