Magpie Emporium; Friday [08/12].

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If Graham possessed any sort of context for this sort of thing, he'd realize that actually having pulled off three consecutive sessions of a D&D game without anyone having to cancel or not show up was practically a miracle of epic proportions. But, since he didn't, he was honestly feeling a little bad about having to miss last week on account of being a goose. Which, of course, meant that he was really hoping to make up for it this week.

He tried to get some stuff done around the shop, but, thankfully, there usually wasn't that much that needed doing, which was good, because he was definitely distracted, bouncing ideas off....himself, outloud, as he tried to tidy up the shelves or put some stock away or trying not to step on Saffron or Little Bot underfoot (there had been a few near misses there, although he half-wondered if Saffron was getting in his way on purpose more than a few times). But he had so many ideas and had figured out so many possibilities that he was getting excited just to get back into the game, which meant that the remainder of his shift was going to feel like it just draaaaagged on foreeever! UGH!

He wondered if he should look into some kind of time spell to help move Fridays along faster, but that did kind of feel like cheating, and, really, he wasn't that good at magic, he'd probably mess it up in a way that wound up making him an old man or something.

Although, if older him was a king...

Graham shook his head, and tried to reign his focus in on the here and now resolutely.

The Magpie Emporium is open!

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Browse on your Own - 08/12.

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Come on in, have a look around, shop and browse to your heart's content!

Shop with Graham - 08/12.

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Give the poor boy something to do before he starts down a mental time magic rabbit hole. Down that way lies nothing but time magic headaches.

The Game Lounge -08/12.

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Where at least one group of nerdy-ass students will likely be gathered in the evening, but there's plenty of tables to go around!

Graham's Table: Pre-Game Chatter -08/12.

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For Graham's table to gather, bury themselves in snacks, and get out all their chatter and distractions before it's time to lock into the game proper!

Re: Graham's Table: Pre-Game Chatter -08/12.

[guillermothegreat]

Guillermo had been feeding Goose!Graham a lot of empanadas over the past week but he thought human Graham would like the chance to eat more so he came prepared with a whole lot of containers that had several different selections of empanadas this week.

“Hi,” he said shyly, trying to not feel too awkward about what had happened when Graham had transformed back.

It wasn’t going very well because he started to blush quite a bit.

Re: Graham's Table: Pre-Game Chatter -08/12.

[pun_king]

"Guillermo!" There was far too much cluttered into Graham's brain to have space for things like awkwardness due to untimely animal transformations, so he could only grin eagerly at his friend (and his food's!) arrival. "Our Emperor of Empanadas makes his return to the table!

"Erm," he added, a moment later, "assuming that's what you brought, anyway. If you didn't, you can also be Emperor of those, too, if you want."

Even if it didn't have such nice alliteration.

Re: Graham's Table: Pre-Game Chatter -08/12.

[guillermothegreat]

Guillermo smiled at that, ducking his head slightly at the Emperor of Empanadas title, “they’re empanadas,” he assured Graham, “I thought you might like some fresh batches after the last week,”

Yes they were technically for everyone but Guillermo was very much only thinking of Graham right then and making sure he didn’t go into empanada withdrawal.

Re: Graham's Table: Pre-Game Chatter -08/12.

[onlyajones]

This week Jo had received a large parcel of sweets and chocolates from home to share so she was carrying a large box when she turned up this week, "hi," she smiled as she arrived.

Re: Graham's Table: Pre-Game Chatter -08/12.

[pun_king]

"And there's Jo!" Graham greeted with a chuckle. "Our Queen of Chocolates!"

Look, he'd been going over scenarios and scenes and speeches in his head all day at the shop while waiting for tonight, so it was clear he was geared up and ready to make up for the lack of theatrics last week with this session, and everyone was apparently not going to be getting a title (or at least the snack-bringers) if he could keep it up.

"How's your week been, Jo?"

Re: Graham's Table: Pre-Game Chatter -08/12.

[onlyajones]

Jo smiled brightly at that, she had never been called a queen of anything and she rather liked that, "I also have sweets from home as well," she told him, "I heard back from my dad, there's plenty to go round,"

"My week's been good thank you, how about you? I heard you got turned into a goose, are you okay?" Jo had been rather concerned at how many animal transformations seemed to be happening.

Re: Graham's Table: Pre-Game Chatter -08/12.

[outofthequiver]

With her clinic shift and lunch with Kurt from yesterday and the D&D game today, Libby was definitely feeling like things were getting back to a regular pace after being a lamb for a week threw her off like that. Sans snacks (but she did bring some lemonade from the store to share since drinks were a little neglected in their usual snack offerings), she settled into her usual spot and carefully began to take out her dice and her notebook and her other things to get ready for what was in store for them this week...

...and she'd try very hard to not just picture Graham as a goose whenever he was trying to set up a scene or describe something (though she was mostly going to fail).

Re: Graham's Table: Pre-Game Chatter -08/12.

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"Ah-ha!" said Graham, laughing a little before grinning, pleased, over at what she'd brought, because he could definitely work with that! "Lady Libby," he added, lifting his cap from his head to tilt at her as he graciously bowed his head, "with the Lemonade. A lovely addition, if I do say so myself!"

Re: Graham's Table: Pre-Game Chatter -08/12.

[giveittoyoursister]

"Hey, Libs." Look, Libby, your roomie was alive! And much more cheerful than what you've had to live with the past few weeks.

Re: Graham's Table: Pre-Game Chatter -08/12.

[outofthequiver]

Yeah, thankfully, idle listening to the broadcasts had assured Libby that, if she didn't see Vi here for the game tonight, she wouldn't have to jump to a missing persons report or anything.

"Hey, Vi," she said, with that drawling cautiousness of someone who wanted to ask questions but felt that was just being nosy and intrusive. Still, she did at least have to throw one out there, if only because she was curious about how she might answer.

"What've you been up to?"

Re: Graham's Table: Pre-Game Chatter -08/12.

[giveittoyoursister]

While Vi was in a much better mood than the time they'd played, she was still kind of...let's just go with distracted.

Not so distracted she didn't bring snacks, even if they were a couple of different kinds of chip from the Kwik Stop.

Re: Graham's Table: Pre-Game Chatter -08/12.

[pun_king]

Since Graham felt he was kind of on a roll (not literally; he was, thankfully, on a chair, although this was a lad who dreamed of an empanada throne regularly now, so don't think he wouldn't!) with bestowing upon the group a variety of snack-based titles, he didn't want to lose his streak when Vi came in with her offerings. But he did need to think about it for a moment, squinting at her a little before inspiration struck.

"Vi! The Chancellor of Chips!" he realized, beaming with pride, with a bit of a chuckle. "Of course! How's it going this week? Ready for more thrilling adventures?"

Re: Graham's Table: Pre-Game Chatter -08/12.

[giveittoyoursister]

"Yeah, things are going pretty great," Vi said with a grin. Was the grin for the title, the adventures, the things, who knew?

Re: Graham's Table: Pre-Game Chatter -08/12.

[furrybluefreak]

Kurt had arrived a bit late, and he looked as bad as he felt about it.
"Sorry I'm late! I fell asleep out on the deck and... well.." He gave a small apologetic shrug.

Re: Graham's Table: Pre-Game Chatter -08/12.

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"Hey, Kurt!" Graham swung a hand in the air in a wave. "Not late at all, we haven't even gotten started yet, mostly just sorting out all the snacks."

His grin went a little wistful. "Was it at least a good nap?"

Re: Graham's Table: Pre-Game Chatter -08/12.

[furrybluefreak]

"Aye it was. It's really relaxing at the park when there's no one around but the ducks and flamingos" Kurt said with a grin.

Graham's Table: Gameplay -08/12.

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And then, finally, it was time to take all the hard thinking and clever plans Graham had been cooking up in his head all day and promptly forget at least ninety five percent of all of it once he got going! But, when everyone seemed like they were getting settled and ready to go, he cleared his throat for attention, let the hush slowly settle over the table and the attention shift his way, and then he began.

"So," he started, "where we left off, two weeks ago due to someone," he gave them all a faintly sheepish (but not, you know, Libby sheepish) and apologetic grin, "rudely deciding to be a goose last time, the evening at the tavern was not going quite as planned. The main act was running late, and tensions were starting to run high before Wind Over Surf confidently took to the stage to settle the masses with her rousing and engaging performance! Not everyone was so satisfied, though, with a brawl on the brink of being sparked before the show drew everyone's attentions away. But the man who started the fight was mysteriously frozen in place, and Amenken slipped out into the back to question the man he suspected was behind the timely halt.

"And while that's happening," his grin went a little more eager now, "something else is occurring in the tavern. A strong gust of a breeze, one slightly tinted with the pleasant floral aroma of spring flowers, rushes through the room, rustling everything that there is to be rustled, and promptly extinguishing the multitude of candles that keep the tavern cast in its warm, cheery glow. Even the fires crackling on in the fireplaces go out, plunging the room into a sudden, immediate darkness."

Graham quieted for a moment, as if letting that settle over the players for a moment, really wishing he'd thought to figure out how to dim the lights or something for added effect.

"But!" He then burst out to catch their attention back. "Before you can even think to start reacting to this sudden plunge into shadowy darkness, there is a burst of light, on the stage! There is a soft, slowly building strumming of strings that meld together like sonic gold, soon joined by a high, sweet voice, and then none other than the man of the hour himself, Montague Silverchord, descends from over the stage, perched on an elaborately designed crescent moon with his lute in his lap, singing one of his most popular and moving ballads as he's slowly lowered down from the rafters. He strums up the chords in sting that everyone all knows, so it shouldn't be a surprise that, when he hits that top note, a bunch of glitter and confetti burst down from above to add to the effect, and now you know, the real show....no offence, Wind," he nodded a grin at Vi, "has begun.

"And with that....I'd like you all to roll a perception check. Except you," a nod to Kurt, "Amenken, because you're still outside with the Freezer when this happens."

Re: Graham's Table: Gameplay -08/12.

[outofthequiver]

Libby was definitely eager to get the game going, so she quickly picked up her d20 to roll it....once she remembered that, yes, that was the right one, after double-checking her stats for Perception.

"Oh! I got a 19!"

And she was pretty sure that was a good roll, and then waited to hear what that meant and what the others would get, too.

Re: Graham's Table: Gameplay -08/12.

[onlyajones]

Jo carefully listened to the recap and then she picked up the dice that she needed and then rolled a 16.

“I got a 16, so Deirdre could see a fair bit right?” Jo asked with a tilt of her head, it had been a couple of weeks so she wanted to try and familiarise herself with the rules again.

Re: Graham's Table: Gameplay -08/12.

[guillermothegreat]

Guillermo got his dice and eagerly threw the roll to see what would happen.

“Huh, I got a 4,” Guillermo had been hoping for a higher roll and tried to not sound to disappointed that it was really quite low.

OOC - 08/12.

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