(third stake) video ✧ unseelie only

[herotypical]

[ bless her, she comes from a time before the selfie was adequately popularized. and yet buffy summers seems to have an instinctive knack for propped her locket up on her palm and holding it just so -- capturing her own ennui-stamped face in one corner and (over her shoulder) introducing the world to pretty little winter-blanketed river scene. one might assume she's in the vicinity of land carved out for his baronliness archer's spire and forts. hah. spire and forts. hello, innuendo.

anyway. she exhales with a puff of her cheeks and stares down the locket. you'd almost think there was no war at all by how little attention she pays it. purposefully, buffy seems to be ignoring the court drama as best she can. running away -- sour, perhaps, for a number of reasons. ] Some of you might've met-chatted-made-buddies with a girl named Dawn. She's gone. Sorry about that. [ and presumably that's why buffy looks like she's been mainlining angst straight into her veins.

otherwise: ] I need hammers. And...probably nails. Power drills will also be appreciated but I hear that might be a bit of a pipe-dream. We could also probably use pipes. I think.

See. This is why you gotta hate a war economy.

Oh! Those really really really big iron bar things. You know, the ones with the thin middles and the wide edges. The ones that co-star in all the wacky old school cool photoshoots hanging over city skylines...

[ but at least she's still bothering to help build unseelie fortifications. she's not ready to sally forth and kill, yet.

buffy's rambling. she tries to stop. except-- ] Wait! A few more things. Which one of you mooks is Professor Spaniard? The rest of you...I dunno -- be careful out there.
[ she went there. ]

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Video, Permaprivate i'm getting to other things too but

[gordianknots]

[Waver sighs when he clicks on the video feed, clearly mortified that this has gotten out.]

That'd be me.

[herotypical]

-- You don't sound Spanish.

[gordianknots]

No, I'm English. I don't even know why Archer made that error.

[herotypical]

[ ah. so this is an archer thing. not a...this-guy-thing. whoever this guy is. ]

I've officially stopped looking for rhyme or reason or rationality with him. [ and yet she sticks around. ]

[impathy]

Is our court so deesperate for supplies that we much beg on magic trinkets?

[Would that they had these in the Seven Kingdoms, the entire face of the war would have been different...]

[herotypical]

I'm not begging. I'm -- sub-contracting. There'a s difference.

[ yawn yawn whatever. ]

[impathy]

And does this sub-contracting involve any manner of compensation or merely feelings of gratitude?

1/3

[herotypical]

[ vehement. ] There's money involved!

2/3

[herotypical]

[ ...uhm. ]

3/3

[herotypical]

There's probably and very likely money involved. Maybe it's more accurate to call this a sub-sub-contract. Someone doing something for me who's doing a thing for a guy.

You follow?

video;

[tacticalturtleneck]

If you wanted to be nailed, you only needed to ask. It's not like I'm in short supply.

1/2

[herotypical]

Gross.

2/2

[herotypical]

-- Hey, do you think one of the river forts should have a skylight?

[ because she thinks so. ]

[tacticalturtleneck]

[Passing it on.]

Uh....is this like a tanning thing? Or a thing that hangs out over the river and you dump people in it down a hole like a toilet. Because I'm really liking the last one.

[herotypical]

A skylight? Nnnno. [ exhale. ] It's a window. In the ceiling. It's for natural light and suave interior décor and a...

Wait. You want your forts to have trap doors? [ that is actually kinda cool. ]

[video]

[chaoticwhimsy]

Aw man.

She seemed pretty alright. Sorry she's gone.

[video]

[herotypical]

She was definitely both of those things. [ pretty. and alright. ]

I'd rather she was with me but -- whatever. [ putting on a brave face she doesn't feel. ] She'll be well-cared for back home, too.

[video]

[chaoticwhimsy]

Probably safer! Unless you guys also have a giant fairy war going on.

[video]

[herotypical]

Not one with fairies, no. At least -- none that I've met yet.

video;

[zerotohiro]

[Those...are some really weird materials to be asking for right now, Buffy.]

What exactly are you trying to build?

video;

[herotypical]

A Starbucks, ideally. But -- nah, there's supposed to be some kind of river fotress right [ she swings the locket around ] here.

video;

[zerotohiro]

[He takes a moment to look into the locket to get a better sense of what Buffy's doing.]

Think you'd have better luck with a Starbucks instead. [He's not an architect by any means but the same principles apply. He can at least see how he can help. Fortresses are supposedly good, right? Sure.] How big is it and how are you reenforcing it?

video.

[duodecimal]

Professor Spaniard and those really really big iron bar things.

[ Literally the driest tone in the universe. ]

Are you always this precise?

video.

[herotypical]

Specificity is a curse of mine.

[ driest tone in the universe, meet the most sarcastic voice in south cali. maybe even all of cali. ]

video.

[duodecimal]

I can tell. I imagine that causes a great deal many problems for you.

[ meh, cali sarcasm doesn't have anything on the sarcasm from across the pond. ]

You probably get all the wrong things because you're just too specific.