Jude Adjei (
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Entry tags:
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FORM: Crystal
SENDER: Jude
RECIPIENT: All y'all
NOTES: The first Sunday after New Rifters got dumped in LARPville.
[Jude's voice is low and entirely too damn cheery. Fucker's a morning person.]
Announcement's mostly for the new folks, but for the old folks too: it's pancake Sunday. If you can drag your ass down to the kitchens before noon I will get you a plate. If you come after that, you roll the dice.
This week I'm making home fries. Rifter delicacy. If you have a request, don't be shy about it.
There's a few of you newbies floating around and I know at least some of you from Orientation, so I'll make it easy: if you're new to the Gallows, this invite is especially for you. Come meet some people.
[ooc; Jude is the acting personnel officer, and the touchstone person for new arrivals, especially Rifters. Feel free to say they've met.]
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[From the sound of it, this will be a major determining factor as to whether she is tempted to partake.]
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Topping your pancake's your own responsibility, though.
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You tried home fries yet?
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If not, there's hot sauce.
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[Cut to: an interlude in the Gallows kitchen, Wysteria growing progressively sweatier in the face while she eats anything with hot sauce on it. Does she want something to drink? No, don't be silly!]
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There's a point when the hot sauce euphoria hits.
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Though it's hardly all that warm, really. I've had much stronger.
[Ignore the red around her eyeballs. That's how her eyes always look.]
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[Which he feels he should warn her of.]
And... giddy.
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[Don't worry about why she's asking Barrow questions about lyrium. It hardly seems pressing in the moment as Wysteria mops the red of the hot sauce up with a pair of potato wedges and makes the best of it.]
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[But uh-]
You might want to... take it easy there.
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[Has the back of anyone's neck ever been this red before? Who can say.]
Are you enjoying your role as personnel officer, Mister Adjei?
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[Doing a CONCERN-]
So far, can't complain. Used to do something like it for my pack back at home, but that was for returning soldiers, refugees, rescues, that sort of thing.
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Good, good. In fact, I think it would be highly beneficial were you and I to consult one another directly on certain matters. It seems very sensible that your post and mine should be collaborative ones. To what degree, exactly, I'm not certain. But they do seem related, do they not?
[Her eyeballs are sweating.]
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[Jude, nervously reaching for a handkerchief/napkin type of situation to slide across-]
Newcomers getting feisty's to be expected. To a point. Anything specific you want me watching out for?
[Like The Predicament she currently finds herself in-]
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—Well. [Oh look, a handkerchief/napkin type situation for her to wipe her hot sauce fingers on. Thank you, that's very thoughtful.] Ordinary being a very flexible term in this case, given the state of some Rifters when they first arrive. But you understand my meaning.
[She sets her emptied plate aside. Prudently presses the back of her wrist to her right eyeball which is watering the most.]
I believe I will take that cup of water now, Mister Adjei. If you would be so kind.
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[That glass of water is immediate, thanks, and he slides it over, waiting with lifted brows until she's taken a drink before he answers in more detail.]
Can't say I'll be a magical judge of character, but I'll give you my best guess.
[As he speaks he finds a cloth to lather with a bit of soap and water, and offers it over -- a bit easier to scrub a hand on without a second hand to assist.]
Overall, a bit of patience and understanding, especially when it comes to Rifters.
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—Still. [Wiping her hands on the cloth now.] There's no harm in doing all that we can to be certain that their time here, however short, is productive. And pleasant, of course.
[That too.]
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Is that so surprising? That most people mean well?
[It's a genuine question.]
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Not an internal record, [she chirps along, still red in the face and looking to be in the verge of weeping, but apparently no amount of capsaicin will stand between Wysteria and conversation.] More of a broad sort of remark that might be suggested externally. Some of us seem to be concerned with their future prospects.
[From the way she says it, it doesn't sound like she counts herself in that number.]
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sees my autocorrect typos weeks later smh me @ me
makes heart with hands
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