FREQUENCY: 144.98750
DESCRIPTION: He's always got his radio on him. Hopefully not in his inventory.
✉MAIL BOX
LOCATION: Enamel box besides the door of Trailer 32, stenciled with his name.
DESCRIPTION: There's a potted fern hanging on the other side! Julien is his own roommate and can get back to you in a hurry.
'It's tricky to size for you both!! But that just means twice the presents, I suppose. I promise, the rest of the year with me will be fun, not sad, ok?
Happy Solstice
- Carly
[That's right-Julien has TWO presents! Both are some sort of cozy shawl, and both have a stylized dove in one corner of it. The shawls fasten shut with some sort of magnet; so easy on and off, even for Bird Jules! The dove seems to be made with magical fabric however; they seem to calmly shift colours from a more orange yellow, to a more greenish shade, and almost look like an aurora.]
[On B18, they will find a fancy looking gift box in his trailer with a note left on top. The handwriting is done in an over the top cursive that he might recognize as the Ringmaster's, written on aged papyrus with the ink seemingly made of shining gold.]
"Julien-
Thought you could use a restock.
The Ringmaster❧"
[Her signature is so massive and florid that it fills up the rest of the paper. When they open the box, they'll find 300 sandwiches of various kinds, in individual baggies. They are fresh, and some are still warm.]
[At Julien's mailbox, there will be quite the bulging bag waiting for him. A part of it is filled with gingerbread birds. The rest are also cookies, but they're little birdhouses, and sugar and frosting instead of gingerbread.]
[A joker playing card is attached to it all, with something written on it.]
We all make mistakes. It's fine. Birds of a feather need to stick together, right?
[A day or so later Julien goes and sends him a radio message.]
You are such a sweetheart. Wrist got a heavy workout, huh?
...By the way there's a half-angel with the world walkers who saw me and instantly thought I was another nephilim. So I think we can expect any angel-people and possibly demon ones in the future to go and notice that.
When'd you learn? I'm more improvisational so baking was never as big for me.
Yeah. Angels don't seem so bad, and now I've jynxed us so we'll find bad ones, but it's worth keeping in mind. There's what, four of us who've really kept something angelic.
Sometimes, y'gotta have a little practicality among everythin' else that's wild here.
Ha. It's definitely some sorta word... Funny how I still remember what it means although I don't think the nuns ever taught me as much from the good book.
I can respect that there's a combination of a certain aesthetic and a certain disregard for anachronism. Running water and electricity are just too good to ignore.
Holdover from Portland, maybe. I... there's lots I don't remember but I'm pretty sure those angels and that whole thing only resembled Christianity in certain lights and at certain times.
A lot of people have just bad memories there. And I have bad memories, sure, but, hah, I think I know why I was an angel now. Even though you'd think I'd have been a werebeast.
Call me a goody two-shoes but it's kinda nice to look back and know I was aligned with the faction least inclined to screw everyone over, that in fact did want to help as a general rule.
Right? How often does that happen? Even if it's not like we could just sweep in and fix things, it's all noble and shit.
Also now my view of what is weird is completely broken because once you've been this amorphous mass of wings and eyes nothing is that strange, apparently.
Haha, I mean, before I showed up I turned into a bird and then someone who's also this sort of giant crow wolf taught me how to make new bodies, so like, I had a dent, there! But on the other hand I grew up without knowing any of that stuff was happening and so, I knew it was weird. I signed up here and had like a couple days to be blase about ears and be weirded out by all the colors before... all that.
I only sorta knew strange stuff happened... but I half chalked it up ta rich people gettin' drunk and smokin'. I mean, sometimes that's as good an explanation as any, yeah?
Hey that's legit. Where I'm from you'd get a few rich people surgically trying to make themselves look like dragon or cats. Because that's a great use for money I guess.
They end up looking mildly creepy at best, I guess? This is good old fashioned getting cut open and rearranged or having new things stuck into the holes.
[After making sure BOTH bodies didn't see her (she thinks), something has been left on Julien's windowsill. It's a package, wrapped in plastic to stay dry. At the top is a card-magically painted, appearing to move just slightly as a result.]
This card is a pigeon, and also a person!! I don't think they have a spot to put their things, but it's a Spirit monster, so that's really close. Spirit monsters always go back to the hand after the turn they were summoned is over. They can be sneaky!
I didn't know how to make something fit both at the same time though, so...here you go!! I don't really get it though... - Reira
[The first thing inside the little package of note, is that among a small collection of cookies, seem to be a few made to look like 'hotdogs'-they have icing only on the sides. She tried, Julien. There are also two shirts, technically identical, but fitted for different bodies. Now he can rock fashion, even while a bird!.]
[ Connie delivers a wrapped copy of "Freedom at a Price," the story of an everyday man who decides to rebel against an oppressive government at great personal cost.
It comes with a handwritten note from Connie: ]
Happy Holidays! I love books, and I hope you do too!
If you don't like this particular one, maybe you'll find one more to your liking in at the Book Swap!
[ Included is a crude drawing of the cabin layout with a star pointing to where the book swap is located. ]
[There's a distinctly bottle-shaped package on Julien's doorstep! It's stylishly wrapped and bound with ribbon, and there's a card tied to it that reads "To Julien, from Taako" in large, round, curling cursive letters.
[Left in Julien's mailbox is a painted card. The card smells of pine needles, snow and a fireplace, and features Papyrus, waving enthusiastically ahead. Somehow there's boneprint snowflakes faintly falling against the pale background. Along the header and footer, the card reads:]
HAPPY GYFTMAS (ON THE MOON) FROM PAPYRUS!!!
[Inside, a personal message continues:]
HI JULIEN, I HOPE THIS CARD FINDS YOU IN EVER-IMPROVING HEALTH. INFINITE HEALTH! A LIFEHACK OF WELLNESS. I'M SURE THAT'S A THING, SOMEHOW. I REMEMBER YOU SAID SOMETHING ABOUT GETTING PEOPLE TO WEAR APPROPRIATE WINTER CLOTHES... AND MAYBE THAT'S A PROBLEM YEAR ROUND? MAYBE IT'S JUST PEOPLE WANTING SOMETHING FROM HOME... BUT MAYBE, IT'S THAT THEY DON'T HAVE ANYONE FLASHILY ADVERTISING THE LATEST LOOKS. SINCE WE DON'T HAVE TV. IF YOU EVER WANT SOMEBODY TO MODEL NEW OUTFITS, INSPIRING ALL OUR COWORKERS TO TRY OUT THE LATEST FASHIONS... GIVE ME A RING!
B15
Happy Solstice
- Carly
[That's right-Julien has TWO presents! Both are some sort of cozy shawl, and both have a stylized dove in one corner of it. The shawls fasten shut with some sort of magnet; so easy on and off, even for Bird Jules! The dove seems to be made with magical fabric however; they seem to calmly shift colours from a more orange yellow, to a more greenish shade, and almost look like an aurora.]
LARGE BOX IN HIS TRAILER: WITH NOTE
"Julien-
Thought you could use a restock.
The Ringmaster❧"
[Her signature is so massive and florid that it fills up the rest of the paper. When they open the box, they'll find 300 sandwiches of various kinds, in individual baggies. They are fresh, and some are still warm.]
during winter break
[A joker playing card is attached to it all, with something written on it.]
We all make mistakes. It's fine. Birds of a feather need to stick together, right?
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You are such a sweetheart. Wrist got a heavy workout, huh?
...By the way there's a half-angel with the world walkers who saw me and instantly thought I was another nephilim. So I think we can expect any angel-people and possibly demon ones in the future to go and notice that.
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And well then. I suppose we'll have ta be careful, huh?
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Yeah. Angels don't seem so bad, and now I've jynxed us so we'll find bad ones, but it's worth keeping in mind. There's what, four of us who've really kept something angelic.
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[That's when the were all taken off the street, and where he became a butler in training shortly after.]
Well, I wasn't thinkin' so much about angels... but anythin' else that can sense that sorta thing. Who knows what others might think, yeah?
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Mmm. Demons and so on. I know there's not much to be done, but I figure it's worth knowing. 'Nephilim' is a pretty cool word though, you gotta admit.
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Ha. It's definitely some sorta word... Funny how I still remember what it means although I don't think the nuns ever taught me as much from the good book.
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Holdover from Portland, maybe. I... there's lots I don't remember but I'm pretty sure those angels and that whole thing only resembled Christianity in certain lights and at certain times.
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[And idly, because that's just how Julien rolls:]
You think it's weird to miss something about your Portland-self sometimes?
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I think.... s'probably a normal thing ta feel. [And because he's curious-] What is it?
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A lot of people have just bad memories there. And I have bad memories, sure, but, hah, I think I know why I was an angel now. Even though you'd think I'd have been a werebeast.
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[Joker thinks he likes that his other self mostly had his life together. Ideal, really.]
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Also now my view of what is weird is completely broken because once you've been this amorphous mass of wings and eyes nothing is that strange, apparently.
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...but then, it was already a bit broken after bein' in the carnival for so long.
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B18
This card is a pigeon, and also a person!! I don't think they have a spot to put their things, but it's a Spirit monster, so that's really close. Spirit monsters always go back to the hand after the turn they were summoned is over. They can be sneaky!
I didn't know how to make something fit both at the same time though, so...here you go!! I don't really get it though... - Reira
[The first thing inside the little package of note, is that among a small collection of cookies, seem to be a few made to look like 'hotdogs'-they have icing only on the sides. She tried, Julien. There are also two shirts, technically identical, but fitted for different bodies. Now he can rock fashion, even while a bird!.]
B19
It comes with a handwritten note from Connie: ]
Happy Holidays! I love books, and I hope you do too!
If you don't like this particular one, maybe you'll find one more to your liking in at the Book Swap!
[ Included is a crude drawing of the cabin layout with a star pointing to where the book swap is located. ]
SOMETIME DURING THE BREAK, TOWARDS THE END
Inside is a bottle of Sunlight Ambrosia!]
Mailbox - Winter Break
HAPPY GYFTMAS
(ON THE MOON)
FROM PAPYRUS!!!
[Inside, a personal message continues:]
HI JULIEN,
I HOPE THIS CARD FINDS YOU IN EVER-IMPROVING HEALTH.
INFINITE HEALTH!
A LIFEHACK OF WELLNESS.
I'M SURE THAT'S A THING, SOMEHOW.
I REMEMBER YOU SAID SOMETHING ABOUT GETTING PEOPLE TO WEAR APPROPRIATE WINTER CLOTHES...
AND MAYBE THAT'S A PROBLEM YEAR ROUND?
MAYBE IT'S JUST PEOPLE WANTING SOMETHING FROM HOME...
BUT MAYBE, IT'S THAT THEY DON'T HAVE ANYONE FLASHILY ADVERTISING THE LATEST LOOKS. SINCE WE DON'T HAVE TV.
IF YOU EVER WANT SOMEBODY TO MODEL NEW OUTFITS,
INSPIRING ALL OUR COWORKERS TO TRY OUT THE LATEST FASHIONS...
GIVE ME A RING!