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Gretel ([personal profile] haventkilledusyet) wrote in [community profile] trainingwings2013-01-30 09:52 am

Action

[This place? Makes her nervous as hell. The magic is palpable. From the barrier to the talking animals to self-repairing homes, she's lost track of the multitude of enchantments she comes into contact with here every day. Especially the wings. She hates them, but she's learned to leave them alone. Attempting to cut the left one the first day she was here taught her that. Her back still hurts every time she thinks about it.

But Gretel doesn't let wariness cripple her. Food is a never-ending debate: does she eat magically replenishing food or an animal under a spell to speak? Usually she settles for a combination of that and fresh food found in the forest and fields.

Today, she hunts in the forest. When she has three birds, she shoves two into a box packed with snow to keep them cold. The third, she cooks over an open flame. The roasted bird is left as goodwill in the bakery, and she takes a couple loaves of bread. She browses the weapon shop for her still absent crossbow. After a trip to the item shop to look over the shelves, she puts her birds away in the fridge of the communal kitchen for the housing she took.

At the end of the day, she'll be in Good Spirits, enjoying honeyed ale that reminds her of her world and her brother.]


(I will warn in headings for any spoilers, and please make a note if you haven't seen the movie and want me to avoid spoilers. Should be easy for me to do! Strong language may occur in threads.)


Player Name: Lynn
Are you new?: Not at all.
Character Name: Gretel
Character Fandon: Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters
pirateblood: <lj user=seesthesoldiers site="insanejournal.com"> (Broad Side)

no spoilers please

[personal profile] pirateblood 2013-01-30 05:40 pm (UTC)(link)
[For the purposes of this thread, they share the same floor in the same building. As it is, he's already in the kitchen when she enters. He's making do by peeling an orange for a small snack. He raises an eyebrow at her latest haul.]

Dare I ask what you've got in there?
pirateblood: <lj user=kyronae> (Land Ahoy)

... rosebud

[personal profile] pirateblood 2013-02-01 02:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Not too fond of the grocery, are you?

[It's not that Will is unaccustomed to living on a ship where the only way to get live food is to slaughter it yourself. Which is precisely why making use of the stock in the village was appealing.]
bluemikan: (m= dot dot dot.)

i saw it so spoil away

[personal profile] bluemikan 2013-01-31 04:47 am (UTC)(link)
[ Nojiko's one of the bakery workers - the frilly, handmaid apron (courtesy her fairytale princess boss) should be a dead giveaway, as should her position leaning against the counter from the working side - and her eyebrows shoot up when Gretel comes in with what appears to be a roasted bird. ]

Can I help you?
bluemikan: (Default)

[personal profile] bluemikan 2013-01-31 05:22 am (UTC)(link)
Coming right up.

[ Although she'll get to the bird part in a second, because that's just a bit out of the ordinary; some places, like the smithy, do trade on favors, but considering who runs the bakery...well, they normally work on feeling productive and keeping busy.

Nojiko goes to open up the bread box - fresh that morning - pulling on a pair of gloves and selecting two dark, returning to bag them fairly quickly. ]
I haven't seen you around before. The bakery goods are free, by the way - not that I'm saying the bird isn't appreciated.

[ But just so they're clear. ]
bluemikan: (a= huh. listening.)

[personal profile] bluemikan 2013-01-31 05:29 am (UTC)(link)
So not quite a new feather any longer. I'm Nojiko, by the way. [ Newer than a lot of the residents, but older than this one, and the newest wave. It's weird to be senior to anyone in this world-kidnapping business.

The loaves are set on the counter, neatly wrapped, and Nojiko immediately pulls out another bag to start wrapping the bird. She'll keep it in storage until the boss gets back, and maybe they'll have lunch or something. ]
Like I said, it wasn't a complaint by any means. I'm surrounded by baked goods most days; it's nice to see things that aren't baked in any way, shape or form.
bluemikan: (m= pointing.)

[personal profile] bluemikan 2013-01-31 05:35 am (UTC)(link)
It's nice to meet you. Plenty of people aren't social for a while - it's sort of...jarring, to say the least. I was lucky enough to fall in with my sister's friends when I got here.

[ In other words, people she sort of trusted explained it all to her. Which helped. She would have been a lot less obliging, otherwise. Nojiko was putting the bird away as she talked, and now she goes back to leaning against the counter, casually. ]

Just wait until your first experiment. [ That's said a little wryly. Really, you don't want to wait for that. ]
bluemikan: (a+ tell me more. hand.)

[personal profile] bluemikan 2013-01-31 05:40 am (UTC)(link)
They still might. People come and go all the time - in season, at least.

[ ...Yep, that's a pretty legitimate reaction. ] People still do that. The last one - discounting a few confused days I'm not including - had to do with unnaturally happy, nosy elf doll...things.

[ actually, several people did shoot those. Go figure. ] Although all talk points to the next one probably having something to do with Valentine's. Apparently a yearly thing.
bluemikan: (a= oh? slight surprise. hand.)

[personal profile] bluemikan 2013-01-31 05:45 am (UTC)(link)
Some sort of holiday other worlds celebrate. [ Nojiko shrugs. She'd never celebrated it herself, since it wasn't a thing at home. But she knows enough people who have been here longer, and listens to enough talk, that she knows people are expecting something. ]

Apparently the experiments around then are love-related.
bluemikan: (a= listening. hand. that so?)

[personal profile] bluemikan 2013-01-31 06:03 am (UTC)(link)
According to what I've heard, people fall in love a lot around that time. Sometimes think they've been in love for longer, although there are always the ones who aren't effected who say otherwise. Lasts a week or so, like everything else.

[ For what good the warning will do, she'll give it.

She also likes talking to customers sometimes. It keeps her occupied. ]
bluemikan: (a- bored now. hand.)

[personal profile] bluemikan 2013-01-31 06:06 am (UTC)(link)
I hope to hell it's the former - and given what's been said, I'm assuming it's not the latter, so far. It'll actually be my first Valentines' day, too.

And I can't say love spells are a huge part of the pirate era, so...
bluemikan: (m= mikan.)

[personal profile] bluemikan 2013-01-31 06:09 am (UTC)(link)
I'd start with the longer-term residents. My sister can probably give you more details - Orange hair, tattoo on her shoulder, works at the bar - or try, oh, the proprietor of the tea shop. The woman who runs the school has apparently been here for ages, too.
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[personal profile] bluemikan 2013-01-31 06:16 am (UTC)(link)
Nami probably will. [ She says "probably" because she makes a point of not assuming what her sister will or will not do. ] The other two? Absolutely. Given what I know of them, they're willing to share their information.
bluemikan: (a+ you think so? chat.)

[personal profile] bluemikan 2013-01-31 06:26 am (UTC)(link)
No problem. If you need anything else, I'll try to point you in the right direction.