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saveourearth2019-03-14 08:14 am
ourearth) wrote in saveourearth2019-03-14 08:14 am
The museum reopens [Mingle]
Date:14-03-19
Characters: Open!
Note: Like all welcome mingles, this is a SoL free-for-all mingle meant to get new characters involved by centering around something relevant to them. This one has the special addition of two NPCs wandering around in the backround so your character can encounter them, if you’d like. Without further ado, please welcome Felicity Sirrell!
The clean-up efforts after the tsunami are well underway. The streets have been cleaned, the debris on public and private property has mostly been removed, and while much still stands to be renovated or replaced, Mossgate and Tarwich look more or less like they always do once again.
What better time to have a little event? More precisely, what better time to reopen with a bang. Which is what the town museum on the end of the High Street is doing. Like most houses on that street, the building got hit by the tsunami, but it got lucky insofar as it got only hit by the tail end of it and much of the collections had been evacuated anyway due to the building work in the aftermath of the bomb threat last year. Plus the tsunami did not hit the public library part of the museum, so all the books remained unharmed.
Which is why the museum can reopen now, looking all fresh and… well, not new, but a bit better than before with renovated bathrooms and a new coffee machine in the cafeteria.
And also a special exhibit. It’s been advertised all over town for the last few weeks: The library is reopening, and there will be a temporary exhibit about Bible Errata!
A whole room in the museum has been dedicated to this, showcasing a few original books and having posters and informational material around them and many other examples of failed typesettings and misprints of the Bible that are funny or amusing. It features, among other things, the Book of Kells (in which Matthew 10:34b should read "I came not to send peace, but the sword". However rather than "gladium" which means "sword", Kells has "gaudium" meaning "joy". Rendering the verse: "I came not [only] to send peace, but [also] joy"), the Manchester Edition (in which the heading on Chapter 3 of Leviticus and the first verse has "bees" rather than "beeves" (plural of beef) so that it reads: "How the peace offerings must be of bees, sheep, lambs and goats") and various misprintings of the King James Bible.
The special pride of…. Okay, maybe not the museum, but at least the local gay clubs, which have actually run a fundraiser or two to bring that specific Bible here, is the "Affinity Bible" from 1927, which contains a table of family affinities that includes the line "A man may not marry his grandmother's wife."
On the day the exhibit opens, the cafeteria serves special amounts of cake on top of their usual fare of coffee, tea and scones. There’s a tombola (because why not do fundraising where you can?). And obviously there are speeches at some point, a children’s choir sings, and everyone of distinction drops by to be seen, say a thing, and show appreciation of the reopening.
Characters: Open!
Note: Like all welcome mingles, this is a SoL free-for-all mingle meant to get new characters involved by centering around something relevant to them. This one has the special addition of two NPCs wandering around in the backround so your character can encounter them, if you’d like. Without further ado, please welcome Felicity Sirrell!
The clean-up efforts after the tsunami are well underway. The streets have been cleaned, the debris on public and private property has mostly been removed, and while much still stands to be renovated or replaced, Mossgate and Tarwich look more or less like they always do once again.
What better time to have a little event? More precisely, what better time to reopen with a bang. Which is what the town museum on the end of the High Street is doing. Like most houses on that street, the building got hit by the tsunami, but it got lucky insofar as it got only hit by the tail end of it and much of the collections had been evacuated anyway due to the building work in the aftermath of the bomb threat last year. Plus the tsunami did not hit the public library part of the museum, so all the books remained unharmed.
Which is why the museum can reopen now, looking all fresh and… well, not new, but a bit better than before with renovated bathrooms and a new coffee machine in the cafeteria.
And also a special exhibit. It’s been advertised all over town for the last few weeks: The library is reopening, and there will be a temporary exhibit about Bible Errata!
A whole room in the museum has been dedicated to this, showcasing a few original books and having posters and informational material around them and many other examples of failed typesettings and misprints of the Bible that are funny or amusing. It features, among other things, the Book of Kells (in which Matthew 10:34b should read "I came not to send peace, but the sword". However rather than "gladium" which means "sword", Kells has "gaudium" meaning "joy". Rendering the verse: "I came not [only] to send peace, but [also] joy"), the Manchester Edition (in which the heading on Chapter 3 of Leviticus and the first verse has "bees" rather than "beeves" (plural of beef) so that it reads: "How the peace offerings must be of bees, sheep, lambs and goats") and various misprintings of the King James Bible.
The special pride of…. Okay, maybe not the museum, but at least the local gay clubs, which have actually run a fundraiser or two to bring that specific Bible here, is the "Affinity Bible" from 1927, which contains a table of family affinities that includes the line "A man may not marry his grandmother's wife."
On the day the exhibit opens, the cafeteria serves special amounts of cake on top of their usual fare of coffee, tea and scones. There’s a tombola (because why not do fundraising where you can?). And obviously there are speeches at some point, a children’s choir sings, and everyone of distinction drops by to be seen, say a thing, and show appreciation of the reopening.
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The man is about to turn away when he abruptly stops and instead takes a long step right into Russell's personal bubble.
"I wonder... if there's any special reason you're checking if a cat is doing something that it is not supposed to do."
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But the sudden intrusion into his personal space is another, and he sneers reflexively.
"Ah, yeah, my mum had a talking cat. It'd tell people to piss off, especially the ones who keep... showing up, looking suspicious as hell."
By the time he's done talking, he already regrets it, but. They're in public. What's the bald coal man going to do?
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And then his expression returns to normal. "But tell me more about this talking cat of you mother's."
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It's enough to pull him out of the moment, to shake off being sucked into the mystery man's routine, and wonder what the faking's for. If the whole ominous routine's a playacting joke, what's going on here? But, it's not like the man's forthcoming about that.
Russell shifts his tone to an imitation of his father, with the infamous New Yorker accent and all. "Oh, you know, it was this... fat, asthmatic thing. A little puh when it hissed, and it'd gasp after. 'Piss off'. Cat of few words, that thing."
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And then abruptly nods at Russell. "Well, you should better pay attention to what it tells you, then. You might need it." With those words, he just wanders right past the younger man, now completely ignoring him.
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Well, at least the conversation's ended, and without any public echoes to embarrass or nauseate him. Beyond that, he's not sure if this was a victory, or not... or whether he just hassled a man with the misfortune of resembling that one from the bomb scare without actually being that guy.
If nothing else, he can still try to win one petty victory; Russell heads for the nearest member of the staff, and asks whether pets are allowed in the museum.
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The member of staff frowns and shakes his head. "Cats cannot be trained to be guide animals, so no. Are you making fun of me, young man?"
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"I just-- I thought I saw someone carrying a cat, a few minutes ago. Maybe it was... a stuffed animal...?"
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They've had an issue with a cat for a while, so...
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He elaborates, helpfully, "I don't know if the cat was a man or woman."
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Where the man with the cat had been standing, ominously and suspiciously, Russell doesn't really expect to see the man returned. But he glances around, trying to remember which direction he'd seen the man go in, in case the staff member is persistent enough to follow the trail further.
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Meanwhile, the not-evil-bomb-man that Russell is talking to looks at him expectantly, hoping that he'll remember where the man they're looking for here went.