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[npc_kun]

Characters: OPEN
Date/Time: Friday November 26nd, all day
Location: The Park
Rating: G
Summary: The Watch has a bake sale. If anybody just wants to fool around in here as an open log with the bake sale as a backdrop, be my guest!

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[stonyfaced]

"Nobby doesn't go after the furniture," said Stoneface gloomily. "That's Ghost's cat."

He never liked cats much. As far as he was concerned, they did very little besides stalk around, scratch things and expect complete devotion from people who didn't like them in the first place. Stoneface suspected that Ingvar was probably pure evil in a furry package.

"There is the option," Stoneface acknowledged. And it wasn't exactly a bad one, as things went. He just wasn't keen on the idea of putting his men out there, even if they were willing. It seemed to him like this lads got a hard enough rap as it was without adding "chore-boy" to the mix. "But they'd ought to save their energy for the job.

He hummed in thought under his breath before shaking his head. "Organizing these blasted fundraiser things just isn't what I'm good at. I could ask Handmaiden, but if she was in control of things, this would be a vegetable sale, not a bake sale."

But he had to admit to himself, a vegetable sale would probably have garnered more buyers from the looks of things.

[spandexisyouth]

"Oh." He didn't know much about cats. And really, he only knew things about dogs because Bell knew so much. Turtles, that was where Youth had expertise. But he wasn't going to say anything bad about cats. It had been Ghost's. "I didn't know Ghost had a cat. But not a lot of people talk a great deal about their pets."

It sounded like Stoneface still didn't like the idea. That was fine, really, not a lot of people liked doing errands. It just... seemed a little familiar to Gai, and he liked familiar. "It is good to have energy for the job." It was a neutral enough statement, he figured.

"There is nothing wrong with vegetables. They are healthy and nutritious! And a sound body makes for a sound mind!" Most of his diet was healthy, though Gai liked snacks too. They had their place. Health just came first.

Maybe it was time to carefully offer the other option, though he didn't want to seem like he was kicking when Stoneface was down. "A calendar would not take too much energy."

[stonyfaced]

"It was somebody else's first, I think," he said thoughtfully. "I don't remember his name. He called things he liked metal and things he didn't, er, dildos. That bit's hard to forget.

Stoneface didn't comment on the vegetables. It seemed like few of his fellow watchmen took the same view on vegetables as him, which was that they were okay as long as they stayed in the ground. Stoneface generally liked things that ate the things in the grow, preferably ones that went moo or oink.

And there it was. The calendar again. "Still on that, are you?" He said, shaking his head. "When he suggested it, I didn't think people would actually want it."

Not that that meant he wanted to do it. He just didn't approve of those things coming from his Watch. If you wanted somebody to take you seriously - which so many people did not - you didn't go around publishing peep-calendars.

[spandexisyouth]

"Oh!" The blond guy. Tall, scrawny. "Squiggles! Or, that is not his name. But his name was complicated and so someone, possibly Bell, said that he would be called Squiggles. It is... not a nice way to remember someone, but I could not spell or pronounce what he said his name was." Gai wondered if he might owe it to the man now to find his journal and find out his name again. It would be polite.

Gai was a bit of a health and fitness freak. Not like that was news to anyone, really. It was a well-known fact that Gai got up early so he could work out, and trained students.

Shrugging, Gai didn't have much of an answer for that. "He is interested, and so I hear about it sometimes. And I am not opposed to it. But you have the final word on it. It will not happen if you do not want it to." He'd become used to hiding in plain sight. In a way, this was another form of it. If a criminal was distracted, they were far more likely to put up less resistance. Or at least poorer resistance.

[stonyfaced]

"Oh. Oh yes, I think I might remember. It sounded... a bit dwarfish, actually, but if he was a dwarf, then I'm a troll."

Which was, all things considered, an incredibly unpleasant ordeal from what he had experienced, but he wasn't keen on bringing up the time that his brain was silicone again.

"Well," Stoneface said dubiously, "I can't say I'm too keen on the idea of watchmen being seen more as nice things to look at than watchmen."

He looked at the watchmen currently at the table, then continued, "Nor can I particularly see the, er, physical appeal of the lads. No offense. But I've got no other ideas."

By the way he wrinkled his nose, it was obvious that no, he did not approve of the idea at all... but he didn't see much of a choice if that would get them a Watch House. Concern for his men aside, he desperately wanted his own office.

"If--" and that was a very big if indeed "--it was guaranteed to raise the funds, I'd consider it. But I wouldn't be in charge of it."

[spandexisyouth]

"...Dwarf?" He didn't know what that was, and again Gai was left wondering at how different their worlds were. The troll had come up before, at least. Maybe it was another race.

Body switching was always uncomfortable. Gai was glad he hadn't had to deal with it yet. At the rate things seemed to go around here, though, it was likely only a matter of time. Wings or someone else's body or something else they had yet to go through. Even just becoming younger, in a way, had been hard.

Gai listened and watched before nodding. And true, a lot of them weren't exactly attractive. Though that brought up thoughts he wasn't sure he wanted to have, like wondering how Stoneface defined attractive. "I think, though I am not sure, that if someone wanted to look at a Watchman like that, they would whether or not there was a calendar."

Guarentee. Could Gai guarentee that? ...At least some. He knew Bell would buy more than one, and others had shown interest. "Then I will talk to Handmaiden and see what she thinks. I do not think putting Bell in charge of it would be a good idea. He either would find it too much work, or would... find a way to make things not calendar-like." It was a polite way to say Bell might try to make porn if he got into it. And Gai didn't want the calendar to go that route.