HI GUYS DO YOU KNOW HOW LONG IT'S BEEN SINCE MITH AND I WROTE FIC? Especially since we wrote fic together? Entirely too damn long, that's how.
So we've been addicted to
Echo Bazaar of late, and for those of you who missed my
pimp post, it's an addictive browser-based MMO set in Lovecraftian steampunk Victorian London. Think Neil Gaiman's "A Study in Emerald" crossed with Sweeney Todd crossed with even more Victorian pulp novels, with a healthy dash of humor and really excellent writing. We both have characters that we RP on it (you don't officially generate characters a la WoW or anything, but it's easy to adopt a persona as you play, and
a whole bunch of us have made special Twitter accounts just for the game) -- I've mentioned Amaryllis, who's a tiny nineteen-year-old guttersnipe with a pet kitty and is somehow one of the most Dangerous people in Fallen London in spite of that, and Mith has Graeme Gillespie, who is, you know, an actor-slash-international-spy-slash-hooker. From Scotland. And, well, eventually it got to the point where we just had to sit down and fic them, because they're that much fun!
You can read this fic without too much context, I think, though the Author's Notes offer more context should you want it. In short: Graeme is exactly the kind of person you should never crush on. Amaryllis kind of forgot this very important fact.
Title: An Easy Mark
Authors:
mithrigil and
puella_nerdiiFandom/Canon/Whatever This Counts As: Echo Bazaar
Characters: Amaryllis Waithe, Graeme Gillespie, and assorted asshole animals
Rating: PG-13 (violence, and Amaryllis's horrible taste in men)
Summary: Sometimes it takes a knife to dig out a secret.
Notes: Stands pretty well on its own, I think; though
their past threads give it context, I don't know how much of it is needed. (Basically: Amaryllis is a little guttersnipe who beats things up! Graeme is a Scottish actor with a Mysterious Past who is entirely too charming for his own good! Together, they are very awkward.)
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The Medusa's Head's quiet tonight, or as quiet as it ever gets. )
So check it out, guys, and tell me what you think by comment or tweet or by messenger pigeon or whatever, because I totally want to write more EBZ stuff and I do not AT ALL mind being enabled. *grins*
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