Not a very special fungus

Morris would never do that!

...Without plausible deniability.

Gisu doesn't strike me as especially fond or not fond of animals. She just thinks of Kitty as just kinda there. Yep, they have a cat. Not really worth getting worked up about.

I genuinely have no context for how fast food option are perceived by people outside the US because like...McDonalds is everywhere.

But I'm pretty sure it's killed at least one person before. Right? Like at least person had to fall.

I am pretty sure that Gisu already knows how many of those it takes to make Morris puke because there's virtually no way they didn't challenge to group to a contest. Gisu and Morris were the only ones who participated, though they plan to do it again now that Raz is around.

Depends on if they do it in the tent or not.

If they do it in the open forest, the most that gets hurt is an old growth evergreen they strip of its branches at best, split in half entirely at worst.

If they do it in the Aquato's tent, Gisu who is unused to the terrain, gets her ankle tangled in a rope, gets pulled down by Dion and the entire tent topples in a heap. Gisu breaks her leg, Dion breaks his wrist, they lose at least two of the supports keeping the tent up.

Gisu relates this to Norma later. The side of Norma's lip nearly hits her nostril in the look of confused revulsion she makes. Gisu uses Norma's reactions as a gauge for...something. She hasn't figured out just what she's looking for but she's pretty sure the bigger Norma reacts, the more cringeworthy it is. Someday he's going to tell her something that will make Norma leave the room entirely and then she'll propose.

"No, you have to drink it all at once. One gulp. Or it goes bad, trust me Dion."

One and a half and Dion is on his knees begging Gisu to never tell his mother about these.

Hang on, let me google something real quick...

Mcdonalds...nutrition facts...

...

80% of your daily value of sugar?!?!!?

Gisu is not allowed to drink more than one energy drink a day. Hollis's orders. Well, she assumes they were orders. Once Hollis saw the number of dead soldiers she was hauling out of her trash she made noises that were halfway between swear words and the strained gurgles of someone being electrocuted. Gisu cut back so that if Hollis can ever form words again, they won't turn into a lecture. (or she just slams them in Otto's lab or the Questionable Area. Take your pick.)

Norma and Lizzie both drink black coffee. They actually both genuinely prefer it black, but they both will accuse the other of being a total lame-o poser if you ask them about it. Lizzie drinks more than Norma, but not by much.

Adam has learned that the availability of coffee v. tea is way lopsided in the states compared to Britain. He has not built up a tolerance for caffeine and maybe never actually will so any time he's not brewing tea for himself back at the Motherlobe, he's mildly to moderately buzzed. It's generally not a problem because he's a busy bee, but the time where he was mentorless and directionless and standing in front of his project for hours made him uncomfortably aware of this state. You can tell how much he's had by the amount of projects he takes on at once.

Morris likes coffee a pretty normal amount, with a preference for iced lattes. He is kind of aware that the big music people drink cappuccinos and espressos and would emulate that but 1) Morris doesn't like hot drinks in general and 2) a hovering lawn chair is not the most stable thing in the world to balance drinks on and you only have to pour piping hot liquid down yourself once or twice before you decide to forget the whole thing.

Dion says he doesn't need this from that dumb cat.

Kitty thinks Dion needs to eat more because he frequently skips meals to help with circus chores. Mirtala tells him Kitty does it because Kitty loves him. Frazie tells him to eat the dead mouse in front of Kitty to say thank you. Dion tries to chase Frazie around with the mouse, which backfires when she takes it from him and the chaser and chase-ee are suddenly swapped.

So Sugarcube...could ride Kitty...I see the vision.

first of all: adorable. cats are very acrobatic so this tracks.

second of all: cats are VERY smart. i’ve seen clips of cats in the circus doing tricks like jumping through hoops and whatnot. i’m not a professional trainer or anything but i was still able to teach my cat 5 tricks, including high-five, spin, and standing on his hind legs.

third of all: have you heard of the cat distribution system? cats just wandering up to people and adopting themselves. i saw this guy on instagram who lives out of his car, and a cat just hopped in one day and now they’re best friends on the road. i can’t remember the account but the cat is called buddha. i could 100% imagine that happening in the caravan. cats know what they like, and if a cat decides they like the circus, they’re STAYING in the circus.

Don't worry about it. Tumblr in its heyday was the Talking To Strangers Website. Now it's become the Submissively Urinate At The Thought of Talking to Anyone Who Doesn't Share Your Carefully Curated Collection of Fictional Character-Based Hangups Website. So yeah, please talk to me. I'd say I don't bite, but I think that little dig I wrote two sentences ago would make me a liar. Maybe getting that sarcastic is the same thing.

So this is really making me think: Why am I giving the Aquatos only one cat? They live in colonies. Cats begat cats. I'm thinking the Aquatos start accumulating and training strays until they have an entire cat sideshow, all shapes and colors. And if they're psychic cats with the level of sentience demonstrated by many animals in the Psychonauts world, there is literally no end to the tricks they can learn.

Oh lol I see! I don't know why that didn't click except my after dinner coffee has finally worn off and I'm about to drift off to sleepyland.