[He’s immediately put her in a good mood with that ‘TK.’ All this time and she still loves people using her adopted name. Too bad the mood won’t last.]
That’s probably something he can do. Should I ask what happened?
[He's going to have so many nicknames for her, he'll need to keep a running list.]
Uh, well? You certainly can ask. Collins decided he wanted to get all strangle-me-Elmo in the library.
I'm fine by the way, Aerith kind of snapped him out of his murder-fugue state or what ever, but... My glasses were the victim of a punch to the face when I started to defend myself.
[Hanna's tone screams 'NBD' as he talks at her, gesturing casually with his hands, and still, he looks totally fine. Big plus.]
She's probably gonna give you an update on that later, as well as Collins' warden, but I can't really see all that well without my glasses? So I figured I'd be proactive, get ahead of her on the telling.
Hey, if I come at you running and screaming, you'll know it's an emergency.
[He's at least consistent in that. If he actually came to her for help? You know it's bad and have reason to hop to it.]
I think just because? You might get a better why from Aerith later, but I legitimately have had fairly casual, halfway pleasant conversations with him before and he seems the kind of guy to not want to waste his time if he doesn't like you.
Unless Death Cab For Cutie was such a bad listening experience that he decided I needed to die for it, but I was fairly sure he'd like that one.
Just because is definitely on the likely list. Though I know he does have a thing about music, but that's basically all I know. [She might run it by Ulla, though.]
I'll ping Aerith and his warden.
In the meantime. Can I offer you some anti-Murder-Elmo gear?
I approve of any steer-clear plans. [She just knows how hard that is on a small ship.]
I make silk armor. Started when I was a new cape with no money, but a pretty infinite quantity of silk. I got good at it. Geared up all my friends. Saved a few of us from guns, knives, really big snakes...
We do both work in the library, but I'll make sure I've got a few prepped spells just in case. It'll be fine. I worked retail, I can handle it.
[Though his eyes get a little wide when she starts going on about cool super hero silk armor.]
Woah...that sounds rad as hell. What does it look like? [don't mind him, he'd just envisioning a fucking caplet or poncho for fighting crime. He'd look so cool...]
However you want it to look. Mine was body-suits with hidden armor plates and a capelet when I was fighting, but here on the Barge it's usually turtlenecks. Even just a scarf, sometimes.
Huh...well, you definitely caught my interest. Though now I have to ask...if you got enough spiders together do you think you could swing around like Spiderman? Or is that a little too much?
[He'd already changed his shirt when he called her so thankfully there wasn't so much blood, but he is absolutely going to have to squint a little when he gets close to make sure he knows which room number he's going into.]
Give me a bit, my vision isn't that bad, like I can navigate, but it's definitely a little blurry.
[And he doesn't want to slip and fall down the stairs because he can't see them super great. Elevator it is. Slipping out of his room, Atticus in hand, he'll start heading over to her cabin.]
I mean, I have used the silk to rappel, but they’re usually so fine the danger is cutting myself. But shooting out web and having it just adhere wherever, not happening. Spider-Man’s web-shooters were mechanical, though. I probably could have gotten tech like that from a friend, but it was counter to the theme when we worked together.
[Her cabin door is open, as always, but now the yard is a large room, with a sculpted pool to one side, potted plants in the dozens, and paintings of a forest around the walls under a starry ceiling. Ramen the hen is roosting in the pot under a small pine tree, looking like a feathery Christmas present.]
[The fact that it was a possibility with some tech is enough for Hanna. His Warden is spiderwoman with extra steps, which is fucking cool of you ask him.
The change of the space is a little bit of a surprise, but he supposes with what the Barge went through, being conservative with what it can so is probably for the best. Slipping inside, he follows her with a gentle greeting, though he might be squinting to make out certain things properly]
Costume department, huh? That sounds fancy. You have a sewing machine and shit back here? Makes me sad we kind of missed Halloween with all the bullshit.
Oh fuck, we did, didn't we? Man... I wanted to get Hunter in a Nosferatu costume this year.
[At least it's brighter than it was, which might help him out. Taylor leads him into the house, where she's opened a big room towards the back - the room that was Kiryu's before. Now it's got her collection of mannequins, with shirts and a swimsuit in various stages of completeness. One that's barely begun makes it clear how they're made - faint traceries of web are still being laid down over one another, layer after layer after layer. No spiders are present right now, but their work is obvious if he can see enough.]
[Her grin widens, pleased that he isn't in the least bothered.]
Mostly Darwin's bark spiders - they're a kind of orb weaver, totally harmless if you're not a fly and they outproduce everything else by two to one. Some black widows - their silk is strongest, but I don't like to keep a large population here.
I kept a lot of my working population on the greenhouse roof, so I'm having to rebuild my numbers, but I've still got enough in here to do some work.
[Thankfully Hanna has seen his fair share of creepy crawlies. He's not afraid of most things, spiders don't make the list, though there definitely is something about the way some bigger insects move that make him slightly uncomfortable.
Pulling back so he isnt inches away from her work to see it, he nods, glancing around the room curiously. He'llhave to come back when hes got his new glasses.]
Aww, did some of them get roasted in the fire? I thought the green house got the least of it anyways...bummer.
It doesn't take much. A lot of them wiped each other out too, since I wasn't there to keep peace. Territorial.
[She reaches into a box tucked back on a shelf, and pulls out a large and spiny spider, with a body about the size of a quarter, letting it crawl across her palm before setting it on the mannequin to keep laying down silk.]
I visited him right after he left. Had to make sure he didn't get sent back to the Boiling Isles. He's good. He's- in the best possible place for him, with Dracula and his family.
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That’s probably something he can do. Should I ask what happened?
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Uh, well? You certainly can ask. Collins decided he wanted to get all strangle-me-Elmo in the library.
I'm fine by the way, Aerith kind of snapped him out of his murder-fugue state or what ever, but... My glasses were the victim of a punch to the face when I started to defend myself.
[Hanna's tone screams 'NBD' as he talks at her, gesturing casually with his hands, and still, he looks totally fine. Big plus.]
She's probably gonna give you an update on that later, as well as Collins' warden, but I can't really see all that well without my glasses? So I figured I'd be proactive, get ahead of her on the telling.
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Nice job on the soft launch of information there. Any why from Collins?
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[He's at least consistent in that. If he actually came to her for help? You know it's bad and have reason to hop to it.]
I think just because? You might get a better why from Aerith later, but I legitimately have had fairly casual, halfway pleasant conversations with him before and he seems the kind of guy to not want to waste his time if he doesn't like you.
Unless Death Cab For Cutie was such a bad listening experience that he decided I needed to die for it, but I was fairly sure he'd like that one.
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I'll ping Aerith and his warden.
In the meantime. Can I offer you some anti-Murder-Elmo gear?
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[He raises an eyebrow at her offer, unsure what she actually meant but enjoying her delivery with a soft chuckle.]
That sounds even more ridiculous than what I just said, kudos to you, but uh. What exactly do you mean when you say gear?
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I make silk armor. Started when I was a new cape with no money, but a pretty infinite quantity of silk. I got good at it. Geared up all my friends. Saved a few of us from guns, knives, really big snakes...
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[Though his eyes get a little wide when she starts going on about cool super hero silk armor.]
Woah...that sounds rad as hell. What does it look like? [don't mind him, he'd just envisioning a fucking caplet or poncho for fighting crime. He'd look so cool...]
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Come over, I'll show you some stuff.
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[He'd already changed his shirt when he called her so thankfully there wasn't so much blood, but he is absolutely going to have to squint a little when he gets close to make sure he knows which room number he's going into.]
Give me a bit, my vision isn't that bad, like I can navigate, but it's definitely a little blurry.
[And he doesn't want to slip and fall down the stairs because he can't see them super great. Elevator it is. Slipping out of his room, Atticus in hand, he'll start heading over to her cabin.]
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[Her cabin door is open, as always, but now the yard is a large room, with a sculpted pool to one side, potted plants in the dozens, and paintings of a forest around the walls under a starry ceiling. Ramen the hen is roosting in the pot under a small pine tree, looking like a feathery Christmas present.]
Come on in, costume department is back here.
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The change of the space is a little bit of a surprise, but he supposes with what the Barge went through, being conservative with what it can so is probably for the best. Slipping inside, he follows her with a gentle greeting, though he might be squinting to make out certain things properly]
Costume department, huh? That sounds fancy. You have a sewing machine and shit back here? Makes me sad we kind of missed Halloween with all the bullshit.
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[At least it's brighter than it was, which might help him out. Taylor leads him into the house, where she's opened a big room towards the back - the room that was Kiryu's before. Now it's got her collection of mannequins, with shirts and a swimsuit in various stages of completeness. One that's barely begun makes it clear how they're made - faint traceries of web are still being laid down over one another, layer after layer after layer. No spiders are present right now, but their work is obvious if he can see enough.]
I don't use a sewing machine.
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Walking in, the small details are practically impossible to discern, but he does get up real close, can see it then at least.]
woah...what kind of spiders are you using anyways?
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Mostly Darwin's bark spiders - they're a kind of orb weaver, totally harmless if you're not a fly and they outproduce everything else by two to one. Some black widows - their silk is strongest, but I don't like to keep a large population here.
I kept a lot of my working population on the greenhouse roof, so I'm having to rebuild my numbers, but I've still got enough in here to do some work.
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Pulling back so he isnt inches away from her work to see it, he nods, glancing around the room curiously. He'llhave to come back when hes got his new glasses.]
Aww, did some of them get roasted in the fire? I thought the green house got the least of it anyways...bummer.
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[She reaches into a box tucked back on a shelf, and pulls out a large and spiny spider, with a body about the size of a quarter, letting it crawl across her palm before setting it on the mannequin to keep laying down silk.]
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[He squints at the drawer, the spider a blurry shape in her hand before it gets started.]
Is it usually just one working or you can get them to play nice while they're doing their weaving?
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Does the alarm still work now that he's gone? I know Shaw hangs out down there sometimes.
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It doesn't. Folk started using the net as a toy, so he took out the alarm because it's just kind of awful.
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[He is curious though...]
Do you still keep in contact? I know Wardens can go off Barge. He doing alright?
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