renametoken | ( ryslig ) IC Inbox

Hey, there's a guy giving away a bunch of random stuff on the network. One of the things was a phony deed and that seemed up your alley, but someone already snagged it. Thought you might like to know in case there was anything else you could use.

>> NEVERACORNED has posted a LINK. If you wish to run, type ./LINK01.

good eye kid

on a related note how are you with math and nerdy stuff like that

I've done proabability equations that filled a whole wing of a library wall. Why, what do you need done?

im thinking of getting a hold some of those test answer sheets and selling em

the answers dont gotta be right but having someone that knows their stuff is good for businesses

Edited (typo) 2020-10-05 15:18 (UTC)

If I get a cut of the take you have yourself a deal. It'd be good coffee money.

you got yourself a deal kid

you work at the casino right

[ Stan's pretty sure he remembers seeing a post that said as much from this username a couple weeks back.

Granted, he also works at the casino himself, but he's never gone expecting to see Five there. ]

Yep, I'm the one behind the bar. Not surprised you've got a good memory.

This ‘Grunkle’ Stan?

[ Normally Stan might deflect for a bit first, but if he's asking about 'Grunkle' Stan there's only so many people that could have sent him. ]

thats me

whos asking?

[ Slade also tends to be hesitant when giving out his information. Case in point: ]

A customer. Your niece (sweaterqueen) is working on an order for me. A big one. Figured I’d negotiate with her guardian over a fair price before dropping hundreds of dollars into her lap.

[ Those hundreds (!!) could be raised if Stan knows how to talk a guy up. ]

You the one running this operation?

[ Sorry, did he just say hundreds of dollars?

Okay. Okay. Time to play this cool. ]

shes the creative genius here

i just handle the business side of things so she can focus on her craft

so lets talk. how many sweaters did you put an order in for?

[ Listen. Honest pay for honest work. ]

Thirteen sweaters. Varying sizes for varying monsters. She already offered me some bulk half-off deal. She must be young, doesn't realize the value of a dollar and hours worth of effort.

she WHAT

[ ...... ]

hold on

youre one of those guys running the restaurant yeah?

[ . . . ]

One of.

[ Not that he’s making much of an effort to keep a low-profile, but Slade still thinks he has the right to be put-off upon being recognized. ]

great

look youre right about her being young. shes just a kid and the eating people thing is rough

i dont mind doing the messy part but im no master chef you know

so ill tell you what

we figure out a price and you can either pay it all in cash

OR

pay 50% but make the rest up in food

your call

[ It's causing him actual, physical pain to turn down cash like this, but he knows how badly it went last time he went behind Mabel's back. ]

[ It's not quite how he expected this interaction to go, especially after being told that this Stan character won't turn down a dollar. He can see himself in that.

But Slade has people. He has one of his own here. There's something noble about what Stan is asking for, and it's something that a hardened killer with an irrefragable soft spot for young people can appreciate. ]

She's a manticore, right? Got one back home. From the sounds of it, they like to hunt.

Does she like spaghetti?

you should see what she can do to a pair of shoelaces

and of course she does

do you know a kid that DOESNT like spaghetti?

Been tossing shiny bells and ornaments at mine to keep her busy.

All kids like spaghetti. It's a universal fact, like how the Rangers will never win a World Series.

But it's a deal. 50% and a meal pass. Grab n' Go or dine in house.
Doesn't make a difference to me.

gotta try that next. might run outta bells though

its a deal. pleasure doing business with ya

how many sweaters did you order anyway?

Too effin' many.

Commissioned them as party favors for a Summit I've got coming up.

What is it that you do, Stan?

no wonder she needed a whole yarn store

[ At least she seems happy. ]

im in acquisitions right now

if you ever need help tracking down something you cant just find in the store, im your guy

[Nearby Stan's door, he'll find a box with a black sweater in it. Yes, the sweater is covered head to toe in glitter. There will be a note that reads "Thanks for being one of the greatest Grunkles ever!"

There may or may not be cookies with it that is covered in edible glitter too.]

[As Stan is an acquaintance with two children under his care it would be unforgivably rude to pass him by during the winter. However the gift in question is more ceremonial than practical- as primitive as Ryslig is the inhabitants here aren’t in danger of freezing to death.]

[Tarkin’s not really in any condition to be seen at the moment, just moving around with his new legs can become difficult at random times, so he’s had Jongdae make the delivery for him, inside the parcel is a large bear belt, and a brief note wishing the Pines well.]

How much do you remember about your brother's portal? He told me that you were able to get it working again on your own.

[He could waste time with pleasantries but honestly what would the point be?]

'working' is generous

it ran for about a minute

i guess it almost ended the universe too?

but yeah i remember most of what i did

why?

[ Hahahahaha he knows exactly why. ]

Edited 2021-02-02 02:23 (UTC)

[Yeah he does. But we'll humor him.]

I'm trying to replicate it here but my memory of that time is [MMMMMM] spotty. At best.

I have a scaled-down prototype but no matter what I do it won't stay on. If you could look it over for anything I may have missed I'd be grateful.

[It's hard to admit that the problem might not be with the task he's set himself but rather with his own shortcomings. He doesn't often talk about that period in his memory, how everything is like the contents of a drawer that's been slammed shut and jumbled up. Picking out the memories he needs from the pile has been difficult enough without other people knowing about it. It's a wonder he got his pet project to this point at all.]

[ He can relate to the memory issues thing, if in the other direction. It's actually kind of annoying how easily he remembered the portal compared to stuff he actually cares about. That's what he gets for staring at it for 30 years. ]

sounds about right

that stupid thing NEVER wanted to stay on

i'll take a look

[ He should probably be more cautious after how the whole portal thing turned out last time, but hey: it also got Ford back last time, and he has no intention of sitting here spinning his wheels when there's something he can actually do to fix their latest bout of separation.

Though there is one thing he's concerned about. ]

you're not building in in your basement are you?

Where else would I build it?

[ ... No wonder this guy is friends with Ford. ]

somewhere that gives you plausible deniability when the feds come knocking?

or won't be the first place someone looks if they're trying to spy on you?

or won't put your house at ground zero if the whole thing explodes?

come on haven't you ever committed a crime

[ Stan has no room to talk but look. He's better at giving advice than following it. ]

I've been killing and eating folks for five years. Do you think the police would ever dream of coming near my house. Even if the law here applied to monsters, and you don't have to look too hard to realize that it doesn't, my home and my workshop are off limits and most everyone knows it.

The explosion issue I'll give you but the other option was my place of business and I'm not losing my entire source of income on top of the chance we have at getting people out of here. The real thing we'll build somewhere safer, provided the little one works.

yeesh fine i get it

your house is some kinda murder factory or whatever

thought we had monster cops anyway

that javert guy runs a prison or something right

Edited 2021-02-04 19:08 (UTC)

[OH GOOD, a sore spot!]

Javert showed up and decided he was an authority without doing anything to earn it beyond taking over the prison. Then he murdered a child for breaking a law he made up, and bragged about it publicly. You'll forgive me if I don't reckon he counts for much.

yeah varian. i knew him

[ 'Knew' because Stan hasn't seen him since then and he's got a pretty good idea as to why.

Ugh, what a depressing subject. ]

look if you really think your reputation or whatever is enough to keep people from poking around until you're ready to make the real thing then i'll buy that

but you said it yourself. javert's a nutcase who decided he knows what best for everyone. there's never just one guy like that either

all i'm sayin is that making it harder for someone else who thinks they know what's best to get in the way could save you a lot of headache

[That last part stings a little. A lot. As someone who was that guy for a while, Fiddleford would like to think he understands how dire it can be from the other side.]

There's a reason you're one of a handful of people that knows I'm doing this in the first place. I'm hoping I don't need to tell you to keep it under wraps.

[He wants to hope a guy so concerned about outside scrutiny would know how not to be a snitch.]

I don't want to get everyone's hopes up in case I can't deliver.

don't worry i know how to keep a secret

speaking of which

you got any idea how long this is gonna take?

It depends. If we can secure a steady power source, and that's the only problem with the prototype, building the big one could take as little as a few months. Or it could take years. It's awful hard to plan around this place.

The goal is as soon as possible. 'Possible' is the key word.

figured as much

if you don't want the kids to know then we might have a problem

i don't wanna get their hopes up either so i don't mind not telling em

but if i'm going to your house over and over again for months they're gonna figure it out

[Oh, right. The kids. The kids that he knows are just like their uncle Ford and chronically unable to keep their big ol' Pines noses out of everything. Shit.]

I'd say tell them we've set up a poker night but I don't gamble and I'm not a great liar.

I'll put it this way. How much more of a problem will it be if they find out on their own, versus being told up front?

dipper's as nosy as ford and mabel's just as fearless

if we tell em now at least we'll know what they know and where they are

if they find out on their own we won't know it until they fall out of the a/c vents in matching homemade tactical sweaters

That's what I figured.

[He really doesn't want this to balloon to be too much bigger, but Stan is right, there's no way for them to not tell Dipper and Mabel that will actually result in Dipper and Mabel not finding out. Better to just get it over with.]

Do you think they'll listen if we tell them not to come near in case it does explode? I'm alright blowing myself up on accident. That's a risk I've factored in. I don't want to hurt kids.

[ That's an answer that Stan has to think about for a minute. ]

50/50

i say let 'em show up once or twice and see how boring it actually is

mabel'll stop coming over on her own and you can distract dipper with a notebook full of math

then we just let 'em think it's another boring maintenance day when we finally turn it on

[This feels weird. He and Stan never had the easy rapport he had with Ford. They're not the same man, after all, and Fiddleford wouldn't expect 'I knew your brother' to be enough to form a lasting friendship. Still, Stan is by extension one of his people and he hasn't heard from him since, uh. Since he was nearly bleeding out on his own basement floor. He expected Stan to at least say something when he gave up the portal project for good, and it worries him that Stan didn't. Was it an oversight or a pointed silence?

It's been long enough that he figures reaching out is worth it.]

Hello, Stanley. I hope you're doing well. I don't know if you have plans for Thanksgiving or not given it doesn't entirely exist here, but you're welcome at my house if you like.

My arm grew back. If you're curious.

[ Between the lack of easy rapport, the inherent complicated feelings of anything involving portals, and then general melancholic haze hanging over Stan with Dipper and Mabel appearing, disappearing, and (in Mabel's case) appearing and disappearing again...

Well, some things are getting away from him - but he doesn't delay answering this one. ]

sure i'll stop by

you had a nice setup last time

i remember some drink that could peel paint

[ He didn't have a single drop because he was chaperoning Mabel, but he does remember it - though he's suddenly not sure if that was Thanksgiving or Christmas. ]

congrats on the new arm

i heard that sort of thing doesn't always stick here but it still didn't seem like much fun

[ There's a bit of a pause, and then: ]

this one giving you any trouble?

WELCOME TO YOUR PRIVATE CHANNEL, MR. MYSTERY. FOR SECURE COMMUNICATION, USE 618.06.015.83 * MR. MYSTERY has joined 618.06.015.83 <MR. MYSTERY> i aint here leave a message <MR. MYSTERY>** if this is about a refund the answers no

( ryslig ) IC Inbox

<NeverAcorned>

<MrMystery>

<NeverAcorned>

<MrMystery>

<NeverAcorned>

<MrMystery>

<NeverAcorned>

<cellist>

<MrMystery>

<cellist>

<MrMystery>

<cellist>

<MrMystery>1/3

no subject

<MrMystery>

<cellist>

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

Forward Dated to around the 20th

(backdated to mid December)

<teslacoils>

<MrMystery>

<teslacoils>

<MrMystery>

<teslacoils>

<MrMystery>

<teslacoils> when your growth is not always in good directions,

<MrMystery>

<teslacoils>

<MrMystery>

<teslacoils>

<MrMystery>

<teslacoils>

<MrMystery>

<teslacoils>

no subject

<teslacoils>

<MrMystery>

<teslacoils>

<MrMystery>