Alchemist's Shack

i'm thinking it starts the same okay ? they wake up in the museum as miniatures and they fight every night like the restless idiots they are, it's fine. Larry arrives and asks them all to please try and figure out a way to make peace, and that's where the story changes.

they're doing this the political way. figuring out advantageous trades and writing down a peace treaty with the leaders of each diorama. we're talking multiple nights spent arguing talking between roman senate, western city mayor and council (the doctor and the pastor let's be real), mayan king and advisors, etc. Octavius and Jed don't interact for days, maybe even weeks. Octy is getting to know the mayor instead. Jed gets even more restless back in the west, he keeps his body busy but damn if his mind isn't reeling, missing the fights, the banter, the fun (and the touch but he doesn't intellectualize that).

anyway they do figure out a peace treaty. and they decide to throw a huge party between all the dioramas to celebrate peace. for plot purposes it's a costume/masked party (just bear with me ok ?).

i'm still figuring out the rest BUT i wondered what Jed would leave behind in his rush to get back to his place before sunrise (because he ain't losing a full ass boot, that would be weird). i thought his hat but that'd be very obvious and there would be no searching for "the stranger". so i'm thinking. gloves ? i mean if you wear gloves for long enough they get fucking molded to your hands, right ? and he could probably find replacement gloves when he realises he forgot his with Octavius and he can't exactly waltz back to him and ask to get them back. people probably wouldn't notice or pay any attention to him wearing different gloves. (also i have read so many fics with Octavius having a mini heart attack when Jed FINALLY takes off his gloves so that plays right into it)