Patchwork Universe

Abigail · Poor Joined: 14 Jul 2004 Posts: 88 Location: Toon Town

(OOC: Abigail and assorted children have come from "Run aground!" in the Mausoleum)

Near the north-west corner of the patch, a small Toon girl ran through the mist, pulling with her a 'real' boy, clothed in extravagant Toon wizard robes.
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Lord Doomshadow · Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2004 3:14 pm Post subject:

A wooden dolly cart, piled high with boxes, shot out of the fog and ran over Abigail's foot. After taking a moment to slow down and circle back, it came to a stop in front of the mistwall. Its yoke was raised above the ground and pointed at the fog. It almost seemed to be waiting for something...

Abigail · Poor Joined: 14 Jul 2004 Posts: 88 Location: Toon Town

Just behind them came two children in plain dark robes, one of them half-pulling, half-carrying a small girl in a velvet pinafore, with a purple spike driven through her shoulder.

Vivi put Fwog down, and bent to examine the wound.

Abigail started pulling toon logs from her pockets, and arranging them in what she thought was the appropriate shape for starting a fire. "Can one of you light this?"

Tal produced a small packet from one of his sleeves, muttered a word, and flung the flame powder at Abigail's logs. The fire caught, and the children huddled round it.
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Abigail · Poor Joined: 14 Jul 2004 Posts: 88 Location: Toon Town

(OOC: can we assume the last two posts happened the other way round? I think we were both typing at the same time, and Neal finished first ;-)

"Ow!" said Abigail, hopping on her non-run-over foot. The injured foot had flattened when the dolly cart went over it, but it gradually reinflated, and she looked suspiciously at the cart, then back into the mist to see what it was looking at.

"Does it hurt?" Vivi asked Fwog.
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Lord Doomshadow · Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2004 11:56 pm Post subject:

"Help me... I'm fwightened", whispered Frog, knotting her hands in her pigtails.

It did not take Vivi long to realise that there was something seriously wrong with the girl. The skin round the wound was colder than the ice which surrounded them, and smelt strongly of embalming fluid.

Abigail · Poor Joined: 14 Jul 2004 Posts: 88 Location: Toon Town

Vivi searched her pockets and sleeves for a few moments, before being struck by a thought.

"The herbs were in your pockets, weren't they, Suli?"

Suli hung his head, but Abigail said "Pockets! You've got Toon pockets, and you're a wizard! Suli, see what's in your pockets!"

He reached into a pocket and pulled out a small Toony package labelled "Healing Herbs". He tipped some of the contents out onto his palm and examined them. There were various different shapes and sizes of Toon leaves; he thought he could work out which herbs some of them were - familiar leaves from making healing potions at the Dark Towers. He dropped the leaves back into the package and reached again into a pocket. This time he produced a shiny black cauldron, with Toon legs clad in red boots.

"Wow! Can I have a robe like that?" asked Tal, and Abigail grinned broadly.

Vivi scooped up some snow and set it to melt in the cauldron over the fire, then Suli tipped in the contents of his package. Vivi pulled out her strange watch and timed the mixture, as Suli produced a large pair of gloves from his pocket and prepared to lift the cauldron clear of the fire.

"Now!" Vivi cried, and Suli moved the cauldron away from the flames and set it down in the snow to cool. Vivi turned back to Fwog.

"What happened? How did it get there?" she asked.
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Lord Doomshadow · Posted: Mon Aug 23, 2004 10:49 pm Post subject:

"It wath the nathty anth", whimpered the little girl. "Thwey stabbed mwe!" She paused for a moment, and then added, in a tone of scrupulous fairness, "It wath when thwey blew up."

Abigail · Poor Joined: 14 Jul 2004 Posts: 88 Location: Toon Town

Vivi checked the temperature of the potion. "I think it's cool enough now. Does anyone have a cup?"

Suli produced a cup from his pocket and handed it to Vivi, who scooped out a cupfull of potion.

"Here, drink this," she said, and handed the cup to Fwog.

Abigail sat down next to the little girl, and put her arm round her. "It's OK. They gave me a healing potion before, and it made me better. I'm sure it'll make you better, too!"
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Lord Doomshadow · Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2004 10:49 pm Post subject:

The girl took one sniff of the potion, and threw the cup to the ground. "Thatth howwible!", she gasped. "It smellth like poo! You'll never make me dwink thwat, never never never! I want thweeties!"

Then she started to scream, and drum her feet on the icy soil.

Abigail · Poor Joined: 14 Jul 2004 Posts: 88 Location: Toon Town

Abigail looked up at Vivi, who rolled her eyes.

"We're just trying to help you, you know," the apprentice said. "Do you have any better ideas?"

Abigail produced some Toon sweets and gave them to Fwog. "Here, sweeties. They won't make you better, though." She got up, and moved around the fire towards Vivi, Suli and Tal.

The boys were trying out Suli's pockets and finding them populated with all sorts of different Toon artefacts, both magic and mundane, which they were building into a brightly coloured pile in front of them.

Vivi cleared her throat to get their attention, and they looked up, then started piling their haul back into Suli's pockets, with Tal swiping a couple of particularly interesting looking items to go in his own robe.

"What shall we do with her?" Vivi whispered. "She doesn't want to be helped."

"Let's make a snowman! That might distract her!" Abigail suggested. The boys looked keen, and Vivi shrugged.

"Snowman!" Abigail announced, loudly enough for Fwog to hear. "We're making a snowman. Want to help?"

They set to work.
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Lord Doomshadow · Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2004 7:23 pm Post subject:

Frog sat up, looking thoughtful, and dried her eyes. Turning to Vivi, she said "Do you have any thwead? And a needle? We could thew me up, tho I'm good ath new!"

Looking at Abigail, she added "Snowmen? Are thwey good to eat?"