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[micycle]

PIZZA MARKET RESEARCH SURVEY #1

1. What are the best pizza toppings (and nothing weird like anchovies)?

2. Thin crust or thick crust?

3. Do you like orange soda?

4. Do you know how replicate orange soda here?

5. What are your preferred pizza eating hours?

6. How often would you use a horse-based delivery service? Would it depend on what kind of horse showed up at your house with the pizza? Would it matter if the horse was fucking terrifying?

Thank you all for your input.

Comments

[subject_013]

You get her when she breaks loose from the livery stable where she was being kept and follows you around town. She's either the twin to the horse I acquired in the final months of Deerington, or a direct descendant who somehow retained a memory of me. Either way, I now own a skinny, bone-white horse that looks like the steed of the Grim Reaper.

The pulp can be excessive at times, and I say this as someone into healthy eating. The excess is easy to fix with a small sieve.

[micycle]

What is it with these places and horrifying horses?? Every other animal we've gotten is totally normal.

Except my cat. It's half pumpkin.

[subject_013]

There is something uncanny about horses: Large herbivores whom we've domesticated and trained to assist us, for farming, for travel, for warfare. I imagine the Iron Age tribes who encountered other tribes who had tamed and harnessed and learned to ride these creatures were terrified. Even some cultures who depended on their horses were aware of the oddness in their relationship with horses. The Celts had some eerie legends of faerie horses. There's one being that essentially inspired the Headless Horseman in 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow', and there are especially eerie tales of the kelpie, a water fae that would disguise itself as a lovely horse roaming the shore of a lake or pond to lure the unsuspecting. Yersinia's no less weird, though I don't think she's fae, unless she's hiding it well.

One of those spooky but charming creatures who turned up in September? I think one of The Doctor's companions had one as well.