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Voice - un: nie.huaisang

[porndealer]

Klaus? Hello? It said to leave a message so I think this is right...

I've found clothes that look like something you'd wear and it's so hot, indecent or not I refuse to struggle any longer in my robes! W-What I mean is you must know how to style such clothes?

Too hot or not, we can't completely abandon looking good.

voice; un: klaus.hargreeves

[channellings]

[ah, shit, this is someone he knows, right? the cutie-pie with the fan, his name was—] Huaisang? Yeah, you got the right number.

Indecent, [he chuckles.] Nothing wrong with showing a little skin every now and then, especially if you got the goods! Like, if you got it, flaunt it, you know? [no, he probably doesn't but that's totally fine, too.]

Anyway, you're right! No reason to not look good despite our gas station t-shirts being the worst and it being ungodly hot. You need help getting dressed properly, dollface?

[porndealer]

Yes indecent. Maybe where you're from, it's fine, but show any skin back home and you're a whore.

[Huaisang sighs dramatically. The most skin he's probably shown anyone was him and Wuxian with their sleeves and pants rolled up trying to catch fish when they were in Cloud Recesses.]

It's hot! I feel like I'll melt away into nothing! First this insufferable place tried to turn me to glass and now it's trying to murder me with the sun!

[The whiniest baby right here.]

If it's no trouble I'd appreciate any help, any suggestions. Please.

[channellings]

Waitaminute— [there's the sound of rustling, some grunting and then finally:] Any skin? Like, you're a harlot if you show me your ankles?

[his turn for theatrics; klaus gasps exaggeratedly, inhaling as much as he can then huffing out a laugh.] How ridiculous, there's nothing wrong with wearing a t-shirt and some shorts when it's hotter than balls outside! Better shameful than overheating, after all.

How's your arm doing, anyway?

[a long, thoughtful hum comes from the other end of the device, followed by an approving noise.] Yeah, alright, bring me what you got and we'll work something out.

[porndealer]

A harlot of the highest degree!

[He can sense the theatrics and is happy to play along.]

It doesn't get hot like this back home, so wearing things like you do would be seen as improper. We're not home so I don't care, I'm hot and I don't want to keep sweating to death.

[Oh uh. Arm. Yeah.]

Still gone. Just a gross scar at my shoulder, but I guess it doesn't hurt so... [Shouldn't complain. At least he's alive. It never hurt at all through any of it, so he was lucky.]

Ah! Right now? Are you sure?

literally all the way back around intro time, text.

[skittering]

think i found one of yours. jumps through space. umbrella on his arm

he got outside. might be dead

[channellings]

shit that sounds like five



what the hell do you mean he got outside? might be dead??
did he make it past the barrier?
where are you

god this is late

[skittering]

disappeared inside. appeared outside. dropped, not getting back up

gas station

( little does he realize the boy will be long gone before klaus can get here. )

i mean... same so it's all good

[channellings]

fuck

ok i'll be there as soon as i can
are you able to tell if he's breathing??

[oh terrific, now he can be freaking out about that, too.]

[skittering]

think so. not sure.

going to try to wake him up. something loud

text, 22nd

[skittering]

( if there's one thing he has the forethought to do before jumping into his actual literal job as a finnish mage, it's to warn klaus about the sudden manifestation of the thing he fears the most. )

stay in the cabin

spirits in town. a few outside of town too

[channellings]

[this is exactly one of the reasons why he and lalli are pals.]

you're shitting me right?? god i thought we'd be rid of them for a little while longer
yeah i'll be staying behind until further notice
unless you guys really need me that badly

[skittering]

don't. can handle it

just tell me if they find you

[channellings]

i guess if you're sure
and yeah don't worry about that at all
you'll hear me screaming a mile away i bet

[skittering]

don't. screaming draws them

un: jiangyanli

[soups]

hello, i hope i have contacted the right person.

are you licker-gongzi? i'm not sure if i should call you by another name, my apologies.

text; un: klaus.hargreeves

[channellings]

[‘licker-gongzi,’ hah! he's unsure what the second part of the name means but is amused, nevertheless.]

this is because of the weird name i had on the network before huh??
either way you can call me whatever you like but my actual name is ‘klaus’
you've reached the right guy though yeah

what can i do you for?

[soups]

thank you for correcting me, klaus-gongzi.

i think it was you who threw the party the night most of us arrived, correct ? i don't have any true experience with throwing a party of that nature, so i was looking to see if you would give me some direction.

[channellings]

no worries yeah? weird-ass network stuff happens sometimes
you got a specific name you go by?

oh you mean out at the lake? yup that was my handiwork!
i'd ask what you thought about it but considering you're asking me for party advice i'm assuming it's safe to say you had a good time
if you're trying to plan a party the first thing you gotta know is: booze
lots
and lots
of alcohol

always gets shit poppin

[soups]

my name is jiang yanli.

i did have a nice time. thank you for doing something nice for everyone on such a difficult day. i will admit i had never had the kinds of alcohol served at the party, though it wasn't at all unpleasant.

i'm looking to throw a party of my own sometime in the near future. alcohol is exactly what i'm looking to talk about. i don't know exactly how much i should need, or what the best kinds would be. i only know i liked what was in the can i drank and some rum i was offered one time.

○ MID OCT

[seaboard]

[ There is a delivery of food outside of the door when they come back one day mid-October, packed in a crate full of jars and wrapped foods. On the top is a note: ]

To kindly resident of the Lake,

For your winter stores, I have prepared this food for you to keep before the snows come. Whilst we have a glut of food at present, it is best to keep this in the case that should we be trapped inside your house, you can rely on this food to help you see through until the thaw frees any blocked roads back to town.

I hope you find it suitable and that it keeps you well.

In Health and to your Good Will,
Gilia St. Loe, Second Child, Daughter-Sea, Of the Isle St. Loe, She Who Sings the Sea to Prosperity

[ The package includes:

5 x 1kg bags of Salt

5 x 1kg bags of Sugar

30 x 1kg bags of Flour

3 x 280g Yeast

30 x 1ltr jars of Butter

10 x Jar of Pickled Cabbage

10 x Jar of Pickled Tomatoes

10 x Jar of Jam Fruit Preserves ( Assorted: Strawberry, Blueberry, etc )

10 x 1kg sides of salted meat ( pork, lamb, beef )

5 x Jars of Dried Rosemary, Thyme, Basil, Coriander, Dill

20 x Pancake Mix

10 x Cake Mix

1 x 2kg Flax Seed ( + recipe how to use it for cakes to replace eggs )

1 x Recipie for How To Make Bread, 1 x Recipie for How To Long Stew Dried Meat

1 x Large Cooking Pot

1 x Baking Tray

]

video | un: @nie.huaisang - Dec 20th mid morning

[porndealer]

[Whether Klaus is digging himself out of his mary jane blockade or not, he's going getting a very excited video call.]

Klaus! Klaus! Klaus!

[Huaisang holds his left hand up, which it might take a second to realize what that meaaaans... but clearly he's holding the phone with not that hand. Soooooo-]

Look!

video;

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[actually, he'd still been asleep, but at the insistent chiming from his phone—] Mmph, hello? That you, Huaisang?

[sounds like him. klaus hauls himself up onto his elbows, spares the screen a glance, looking bleary-eyed and disheveled. the christmas gift he's been provided hasn't dawned on him yet, and his friend is proving a good distraction with his excitement. he smiles sleepily, unable to help it, trying to focus through the lingering haze.

when he realizes, his eyes are immediately opening somewhat wider, astonishment blatant.] Holy shit, babydoll, do you have a second arm? [how? because for as long as he's known this guy, he's had one far more often than not.]

Definitely should be his right hand he's holding up lol whoops

[porndealer]

[He'll realize at some point that he definitely woke Klaus up, but for now he's just nodding excitedly.]

Yes! I didn't think it would actually work- or that they would come through, but they did!

The Technicians I mean.

[At that point it had just felt like a 'why the fuck not' sort of situation. So he had. Huaisang's excitement falls a little, a slight frown on his lips as it finally clicks-]

... we're you sleeping?

just do the jedi handwave and it's all good yo

[channellings]

[and eventually, it'll dawn on klaus to look around his bedroom better so he can see that he's surrounded in just an outrageous amount of stacked bags.]

Oh, right, their little ‘everyone gets a Christmas miracle’ thing.

[which has him offhandedly wondering about his own wish and after the faintest sound of bedsheets shuffling, he's a bit more upright, attention casted toward the area around him rather than on his phone screen.] I...was... [but realizing huaisang's excitement has faltered snaps him back into the moment, free hand reaching to push some mussed hair aside.]

Yeah, but don't worry about it, sweetcheeks. [he turns the camera, twists in a way the compressed weed-cubes can be seen.] Looks like my wish came true, too.