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🍬 Treat! Here's some information about Uneasy Money, my latest plot bunny:

It's set in the same universe as The Case-Files of Seo Yo-han. Yo-han himself doesn't appear, Phil might, and Alec and Davit definitely will. One of the protagonists is Alec's cousin.

It starts in 1919 and continues until at least 1924. I'll basically pick and choose what I want from real history, and I'll handwave the differences by pointing out it's a WW1-less alternate history.

The main inspirations are The Last Chronicle of Barset and Downton Abbey. The title is borrowed from a P. G. Wodehouse novel.

The main characters' surname is Millner. This is because I recently bought an 1870(!) edition of Alfred Lord Tennyson's poems, and it has a signature from someone named Philip Millner who owned it in 1875(!!). So I've borrowed his surname for my OCs.

There are four, possibly five main characters: Gilbert (named after Gilbert from Anne of Green Gables), his sister Helena, their brother Eric, and their cousin Helena. (Yes, there are two Helenas. Yes, this is confusing for everyone. Including me; I think I'll give one of them a nickname. I can't change one of their names because a major plot relies on no one knowing which Helena Millner is involved.) The fifth main character is Thomas, who is blackmailing one branch of the Millners.

Hmm ... How about a freshly-made treat? Please excuse any sloppiness for this excerpt I just cooked up (TWs for language, some blood, and a hint at cannibalism ... although, is it cannibalism if it's some rogue Fae creature eating your vampire crew??):

TY FOR THE ASK I LOVE TALKING ABOUT THEM

6. which ocs eat consistent meals? which ocs just eat whenever they feel like it?

I think Red eats consistent meals but she's surrounded by people who don't and it annoys her (in a joking way). Zi, her partner, absolutely eats like pancakes at like 2 in the morning and Red does not get it.

11. which ocs have to be reminded to take breaks?

JIX FOR SURE! This guy absolutely has like three projects going on all the time and he'll be like working at his desk for hours and hours and then Carth will come up force him to eat or sleep.

26. which ocs never get sick? which ocs get sick easily?

another find the word tag game from @emelkae this time! :D my words were: fall, twist, ignore, and down. (I tagged you in the other tag game before I saw this so consider this a single tag? <3 ty ily)

FALL

I let my tears fall freely as I tried to peer through the fog. There wasn’t any time to notice which way I was dragged into the forest. I barely had time to look at the person that grabbed me. I wiped at my eyes with my clean hand and tried to see which way I should go to get back home. Only the almost full moon watched me wander aimlessly, sniffling like a child. I cringed and scrubbed at my eyes hastily again. When I removed my hands, I shouted and flinched back.

TWIST

I stumbled blearily into the dim bathroom. Everything smelt clean and sterile, the sink tap gleamed in the light when I flicked it on and the tiles were pleasantly cool against my feet. In the mirror, I looked like a mess; my long hair was in tangles and still had bits of forest stuck in knots, there were dark circles under my eyes, and traces of blood I had missed in the night streaked my cheek. The bandages came off easily, and bloody. I tried to twist around to see the cuts on my back but even if I moved in the most uncomfortable way possible, the swelling and bruising made it hard to tell what my attacker had actually carved into my back.

IGNORE

Sunday night, I was hurt and bleeding in the cold Greendale preserve. Monday morning, Mother reminded me about Greendale’s Festival than that afternoon I tried to ignore the creepy customer and the couple that was with him. Now, I’m sitting comfortably with an empty journal in my lap. How could I explain any of what happened? How could I find the words? I decided to reread my Sunday entry instead. The words were so peacefully ignorant of the pain that would begin barely hours later in the foggy night.

DOWN

Happy Blorbosday (on a saturday)!

I think it would be really fun if in FSF the ones who died are ghosts and their loved ones are paranormal investigators trying to get them back. (Sorry I don't have much more than that, it's a low spoons day but I really wanted to answer this)

Behold -

Finally looking at the tag games I got tagged in ages ago! Thanks for the tag, @emelkae

Rules: Post the last 7 lines you're written. Then tag 7 people.

From Eigengrau:

Magnus’s horse lifts its head to watch him leave, but it doesn’t make a move to stop him or wake the others, and it goes back to sleep in a moment. Edge leaves his boots at the campsite to avoid stepping on anything too loudly, and he makes his way to the spring. It seems he’s made a seamless escape. And not ten minutes after he’s stripped and slipped into the water, Adrian steps carefully out of the trees. “Really?” He hunkers down to a crouch at the side of the spring, his expression wry. “Just going to abandon me to my fate at the bottom of the heap?” “You all seemed comfy,” Edge replies, not even trying to defend himself.

do I actually know seven people to tag???