High Striker: Bounty for Bounties

[Circe]

"Oh, no doubt Kray. No doubt. But the phrasing issue. If folks don't hear the E, they think you got chased by a spine specialty prostitute," Circe amuses herself quite easily.it seems. "Potential, uh, Who's on First moment I think it is called Kray. Amusing to watch, and maybe to be a part of."


"Nope," is her reply to Vincent's question about moonshine in he Hedge. "You want help filling sandbags to bunker the still? In case it explodes? Because," she points towards the door, "We already have the century old wine in the Tunnels for trading. That's an exotic flavor for the hobs."


Circe chuckles in amusement at the idea of folks objecting to her saying no. "Someone saying no to ME turning down heavy shit?" She shakes her head, "A Summer in heavy armor, with assault, chemical, and explosive weapons is saying something is too dangerous?" She laughs. "Anyone dumb enough to disagree and go anyway is not long for the world. What is the award? Ah! Darwin Candidate right there. Someone a brain eater would starve to death on."


"I am hard to offend Mina," Circe nods with a puffed up sense of pride. She insults herself on occasion, so probably some truth there. It is possible, Fairest and Italian, but difficult. "The bestest monkey calls me Smurfette. And I don't even have that little hat."


It looks like that was that on the arguments for the bounty board. "Kay." Circe agrees, though she wasn't techically in charge of the Freehold at the moment. "And takes the least effort too. No review process, micromanaging, blah blah blah. Just that plan," she points at Mina. "I, uh, guess we good."


She settls back down to eating and drinking what she had. After a minute, she comes to a realization.


"Anything else anybody wants to bring up? Free food if not, or whatevs..." diplomatic and eloquent as usual for a Summer Queen.

[Vincent Black]

Vincent is happy that they had accepted his idea of Hedge moonshine. "I have nothing else. The only thing is that I would like to maybe make a plan, does not have to be now, on where in the Hedge to set up to start brewing the shine. It would be good to have a plan."

[Mina]

Another drink from the beer, “Oh, of course. But sometimes things just need to be said, though words can be chosen differently.” She didn’t regret what she said, it got things straightened out and back on track from the sound if it. Her concerned was being so new. “But I hear what you are saying and will keep it in mind.” A quick nod of her head.

Looking to Circe, holding up a hand, “Some people are dumb enough to try I am quite sure. Though please promise if someone does try it, the rest of the Freehold gets to be there to watch the show.” She’d already heard stories of Circe, and after meeting her, was quite sure they were true.

“My concern was with being the new Lost in the Freehold and speaking out against a Monarch. In some Freeholds that could not work out well for me, so it was a risk.” And she had clearly been willing to take it. Why? She wasn’t sure, don’t ask. “The bestest monkey also speaks quite highly of you.” Tipping the bottle to the Summer.

Shaking her head, “No, I was just here to help. But thanks for letting me, like, be part of this.” A smile offered to all at the table. Not feeling like she helped, but also feeling good for getting to sit in on the talks.

A glance to Vincent, “Depends on how close you would want it to a Trod and to the Freehold. Is the Hedge around the Freehold dangerous enough that you would have to set something up to protect it?”

[Kray]

And confusion sets in as whatever Circe was saying gets away from him. "Uh. Yeah I don't follow." he thought they had been talking about heavy machinery.

The distillery however is solvable. "Uh. Why not set it up in Underland Vincent?" The hollow was there after all. "Hm. Or carve out your own hollow and make it part of your set up." Where enough hedge fruit to do that was going to come from was a different question but a location for set up wasn't hard at all.

That he disagreed with from the doll. "Oh. No they don't need to be said, not always." Knowing when to keep quite or what not to say mattered alot. "Words can be slippy like that to many or the wrong ones and your in a world of hurt before you know it." And the fear was justified many is the Monarch that would have taken it poorly. "Ah. But this time you did good." Well navigated some might say. But no reason to let comfort set in, care with words was a good thing to have.

[Circe]

Circe stares at Kray, blinking. She sighs. She has to explain the joke, yay! Fail. "The machine to excavate is called a backhoe. Ho is a term for prostitutes. If folks confuse the spelling, they might think being attacked by a backhoe was actually being chased by a ho that works on the back or does pegging. I am NOT explaining that word if you are ignorant Kray." After a moment of pause, she sighs. "It was a pun. Not a good one it seems, I apologize for not being on my A game for puns."


Just a little distracted for the last few weeks. How mundies dealt with healing this slow, well, she can't recall that anymore. Goblin Fruit rock baby!


"Not my Hollow," she answers Vincent quickly. "Flammable still next to a metal forge? Boom comes quickly for sure. I can tell you a few places Vincent. Though they'd be the ones to avoid," mostly because she was expecting booms, both catastrophic and general noise. Amateur moonshine stills did that Iron Side. Thinking it would not be doing it Thorn Side was just silly. Blowing up hobs by accident could cause problems. But the noise could draw in hobs, both talkers and feral. Ambushes or looting could happen as a result of that.


"Hmmm," she frees up her hands to fold them at Mina's request. Then rubs her chin. "If I can convince them to wait whilst we get binoculars? Sure! Can't exactly film it, so in person tis the only option, ha." She chuckles at the idea. The logistics would be a nightmare, though the more intelligent denizens of the Thorns might be fine with the explanation of we tried to talk the idiot out of it and decided to watch the show after that failed. There'd be no helping the hypothetical idiot as the only means of preventing escalation.


"Ha!" She barks a laugh at the concern of her lashing out. Summer? Yes, but not that kind of Summer. "I got my crown by being the only option too many times," she muses without the old bitterness. She'd gotten used to it. She couldn't disagree with Kray. "Better a court of honest fools than a court of yes shouting bobbleheads. I'd rather someone call me out on dumb shit. I've read the Evil Overlord List. We still ain't got the numbers to require the visible face uniforms though."


And Kray comes up with a solution for the still. "You think it'd be a good spot Kray? It isn't like damage Thorn Side will affect the Iron Side tunnels, so no concerns from me on that." And vice versa worked too. "Uh, Vincent? You do know how to make a still, yes?"


That was another issue to consider. Whilst setting up was easy, construction was another issue to consider.

[Vincent Black]

Vincent looks to Kray at the Underland idea, "Underland makes a lot of sense. Close enough to the Hedge to do runs for hedge fruit but safe enough that works."

Listening in to the other conversation he is thrown off by Circes question, "Uhm I used to know how, I will have to do a bit of research, but I am sure I can purchase a still for personal use."

[Circe]

Circe has a security thought on the tunnels option. "Aaaand Vincent, it is secured Iron Side. Few entrances, traps, armored doors to get into Funderland tunnels."


Any Hedge visitors would be quite disappointed.


"How, oh. Oooooh," she nods as she understands what Vincent means. "Microbrewery kit," Circe nods, "Or Dark Web for bulkier. Or just Internet for instructions. Ooooh, unless you want to make toilet wine," Circe chuckles, "We have a LOT of toilets still down there to use for that."

2 days left folks! We good to warp now?

[Kray]

His thoughts had wondered off trying to understand why heavy machinery and prostitution used similar enough terms to get one confused for the other. "OH. Because the machine is named after the farming tool!" Right he got it. And missed a good chunk of the conversation.

Still on the still though. "Oh. Uh. Right. Yes Underland is a good place to run it out of, start small scale up if it works." If there was going to be damage better find out on a personal rather then industrial level. The prospect was actually one that he quite liked. "Uh. Might need some amenities and connection to a fruit patch down there to." Might be able to talk to Sam Crow about that? "Uh. I might know a guy." The Wizened was a fruit farmer after all.

Good to wrap, Thank for the scene all!

[Mina]

"Sounds like you're good to give it a go then." everyone gave their advice and it was all sound. "I'm willing to help if I can, though I don't know anything about it." but if there was something she could do, she would.

Good to wrap as well Thank you for the scene!

[Circe]

The Lost don't chat for much longer, having wrapped up most of the discussion. To-Go-Totes ensure that there is not food left for Circe to have to clean up.

End Scene.

Excellent everyone! Thank you and have a great weeekend!