Quest Five: Guns and Makeup

[littlemiss101]

[Well the milk wasn't much fun, but when she goes to the mail Mae finds something that makes running around like a lunatic seem worth it.]

Hey, would anyone be interested in helping me get some ammo? I can't buy it myself because sexism overrules cap-.. money apparently. But I need rounds for a .44 magnum and I'd be willing to buy them off people.

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[duck_duck_laser]

[Having answered the door, Dakki's not sure how to respond to the request.]

...maybe?

I thought we were supposed to go to a shop if we wanted to purchase something.

[The entire encounter seems to be confusing the blonde lady.]

[littlemiss101]

That's what I thought but apparently my job is to go door to door and sell this stuff so I guess not.

[duck_duck_laser]

Oh.

[There's an awkward pause. Why did this lady get a job while she didn't, and had to tool around at home all day making cookies and staring and creepy drone kids? But that would be taking the conversational transaction on a detour, so...]

I... ah... let me think. I never used it back home. I'm not sure I'd know where to start.

[littlemiss101]

We didn't really have it at home so I've been figuring it out as I go along.

So far I've figured there's this tube stuff that you put on your lips and this other tube stuff that you put on your cheeks.

[She's usually better at bartering. Usually though it involves useful things.]

[duck_duck_laser]

There's makeup where I come from... I know people that have used it? I've seen advertisements? Maybe I can help you sort out what does what.

...would you like to come in and sit down? I have cookies.

[littlemiss101]

That would be great actually.

[Smiles. Yes, free food.]

Things like that didn't really last past the war, so I don't think anyone even has any make-up back home.

[duck_duck_laser]

[She steps away to let the other woman inside, and then heads for the kitchen. There's a definite cooked-sugar smell in the air.

It sounds like you've come here from a difficult place. Although Mayfield is difficult in it's own way.

[Dakki brings a plate of cookies to the kitchen table. They're lumpy, some are over-browned, some have crumbled into smaller pieces, and there are chunks of something baked into them. Possibly fruit.]

I can put on a pot of coffee if you'd like, too... say, what's your name? I'm Dakki.

[littlemiss101]

[Take a cookie with a nod of thanks. If it's even remotely edible she'll be fine with eating it. Picky eaters don't last long in the wasteland.]

No that's fine. And my name's Mae.

And yeah, I'm from a post-nuclear war world so it's a bit of a mess.

[To say the least.]

[duck_duck_laser]

["Remotely edible" is a good description of it. It's hard on the teeth, and a little funny-tasting.]

Wow.

[Dakki sits down at the table, wide-eyed.]

Weapons of that sort are banned, where I come from. I've read speculations on what it would all mean...

[Grim conversation, this. Maybe it would be better to not have it....]

...but makeup's the subject, right, Mae?

[littlemiss101]

[Awesome. However she eats it, because dad taught her manners and everyone values food.]

Right.

[Moves the case over.]

I've been reading the stuff they say on the sides of them anyway.

[duck_duck_laser]

[Dakki takes the case, and starts looking through the products on display.]

Hm, alright... so here's the lipstick, there's the blush..? I would have thought it would be powdery, and there'd be a fluffy brush. Hm.

[She pops open a small case, to reveal several little squares of compressed powder in different shades of blue.]

This... I think this is eyeshadow? It's for coloring eyelids. Those pencils there are for... lining the eyes, making them darker. I saw someone I teamed up with doing it during pre-mission prep time.

...he was a little strange.

[She picks up a bottle with a little spray pump on it. Hm, looks like it can be pressed... so she presses it, and gasses herself with the perfume.]

GAH!

[littlemiss101]

Okay...

[She's watching closely as the woman talks and dodges instinctively when the perfume is sprayed out. Just some coughing here.]

Ahch....what is that?

[duck_duck_laser]

[She's spitting and sneezing now, and needs a few moments to reply.]

...p-perfume!

Ew, there's some in my mouth...!

[littlemiss101]

Eat a cookie!

[Passes her one quickly.]

Okay well I've learnt that you're not supposed to get it in your mouth.

[duck_duck_laser]

[That's pretty good advice! Trade one strange taste for another! Dakki snatches up a cookie, takes a big bite, and goes to work chewing it.]

Mphfplr-

[Oh wait. Talking with your mouthful doesn't work. She finishes chewing, hurrying it up because she's anxious to talk again, then swallows.]

-mmyes! There! This is working out just fine! It's educational! Now what else've we got in here?

[littlemiss101]

[That's what she uses when her "okay, is this edible? tests, go wrong."]

Great.

Um, I think more of the lip stuff?

[Picking up a tube.]

Looks...pink I think.