21:10 <Crion> Prom didn't end well, obviously. There's nothing else on the social calender, thanks to the "novel coronavirus," and nothing else is liable to be added anytime soon. Which leaves the freehold mostly up to its old devices; you all received a rather terse e-mail from the various regents that the events of Prom night will be coming back up; reading between the lines, it seems like they have 21:10 <Crion> to hash out how they feel about what went down first, and who knows how long that will take. 21:12 <VoxPVoxD> Good. If there's one thing life was short on right now it's pervasive, nonspecific, unresolvable dread. 21:12 <dammitwho> Maggie has a throbbing headache, and it's only somewhat from the drink. Fortunately, she's of an age where its understood that you can lie down on the couch with a wet cloth over your eyes sometimes. 21:13 <CBN> The good news for Tony is, unless someone reads it out loud to him there's a very good chance he will never read that, or any, email ever sent his way. 21:14 <Crion> To the extent there's other news, it's not particularly good: the Parson and his hazily-defined gang are supposedly...somewhere about, though the lockdown from coronavirus is probably keeping many more freeholders safer than they'd otherwise be, since conventional wisdom is that the easiest way to find a changeling is to follow the mortals associated with them. But then, they've already 21:14 <Crion> apparently gotten up to some unconventional business with the local hobs. 21:16 <CBN> Oh, have they now. 21:17 <dammitwho> They're bothering the Hedge's little guys? 21:18 <Crion> No, Pigs. 21:18 <VoxPVoxD> The Hedge's large adult sons. 21:19 <CBN> If prompted, what's Steve's stance on crucified Pigs? Tony would assume 'good' but, you never know. 21:20 <Crion> The other freeholders have been a bit distant with the rest of you (many of them, especially those not in the Spring Court, have outright cut contact with Nels). Canterbury is still perfectly polite with Stewart...but he doesn't hang around his and Nels's building anymore. 21:22 <Crion> Steve's less approving than you might imagine. No one really likes the Pigs, but they are hobs, and there are a bunch of hobs that are unpleasant and no one really likes. It's still disconcerting to see them ritually murdered. Especially by non-hobs! 21:26 <VoxPVoxD> Stewart spends a lot of his downtime bothering Nels, in the sense of texting her, inviting her next door for meals, etc. He's too nice (or weak-willed) to try and insist if Nels herself really wants to be left alone. But it is his tendency to keep picking at stuff that bothers him, and right now that's Nels's ostracism. 21:27 <CBN> And so it is that, with a heavy heart, Tony approaches the motley the next time they're all bumming around the Wherehouse, hungover and informally exiled and whatnot. He probably says, "Well. I guess we should...keep people from...killing the Pigs..." Like half a dozen times in total, mostly to convince himself, though he's definitely not convincing anyone else he believes it. But, it's the job! And keeping the hat means doing the job. 21:28 <VoxPVoxD> Stewart: "Like... fighting the Parson's crew?" 21:29 <CBN> Tony: "Yeeeaaah....which I guess is the bright side of it, with the downside being, alive Pigs." 21:34 <VoxPVoxD> Stewart: "I mean we'll do whatever you need. Is protecting the hobs from fae footsoldiers in the Baron's remit?" 21:36 <CBN> Tony: "Broadly it's keeping relations between hobs and anyone else pretty chill, and keeping ritual murders off of hobs is probably part of that. My scalp gets all itchy when I'm wearing the hat and I think about not doing anything about it." 21:37 <VoxPVoxD> Stewart: "Yeah, I hear you. I'm just not in a very above-and-beyond-the-call-of-duty favor-doing mood for the Freehold at the moment." 21:38 <CBN> Tony: "Oh! Yeah this won't do shit for them, it's purely a pro-hobs move. Being good neighbors and all." 21:38 <VoxPVoxD> Stewart: "Alright, cool. What do you need?" 21:40 <CBN> Tony: "Right now, I'm gonna see if some of said neighbors know anything, but if you can...whatever magic up, extra-Google, something? and try to figure out where Parson's crew might be at these days, or who all's still with them, I dunno if that's something you can get at? Maybe we both can?" 21:42 <Crion> Tony's already done some preliminary work: the group of guys the Pigs got into it up the road -- there's not actually a trod running up I-83, but there might be someday if this foot traffic continues -- were between two and five in number, male or female, tall or short, human or...look, something Tony's learning quite quickly are that hobs are really bad at subjectively describing the world 21:42 <Crion> around them in a way that lines up with his own, calling into question what they're actually perceiving in the first place. Jackie's summary's more useful there. But they have been sighted less violently lighting out here and there, and apparently at least one member of the group has kept hostilities from flaring on more than one occasion. 21:42 <Crion> You're not getting any consistent description of "the nice one," though. 21:43 <Crion> It's possible they're using some of their own tricks to confuse the hobs, but it's also possible that unless they're interested or directly in danger, those little guys just aren't paying that much attention. 21:47 <VoxPVoxD> Stewart: "I'll go see what extra-Google turns up." 21:50 <Crion> At the Belvedere, Fireman greets Stewart at the door with his usual professionalism, as if nothing's happened. It's Everafter, sitting behind the librarian's desk in the center of the library on the 13th floor, who looks up as he enters and broaches the subject. "Ah, Stewart. I hope everything is going well with your guitarist problem. Or whatever the devil it was." 21:50 <Crion> "Jesuit made it sound quite dreadful." 21:51 <VoxPVoxD> Stewart: "Could be worse. Could always be worse." 21:52 <Crion> "Mmmmm. I suppose so. Your item is in its normal room. Do feel free to consult our other resources, or ourselves, if necessary. You are the Lord Sage now, of course. And we're always curious." 21:52 <VoxPVoxD> !! Suddenly a lot of Stewart's bad mood ebbs away. "Thank you very much, I'll keep that in mind." 21:55 <Crion> Stewart is familiar enough with the wizards to know this isn't anything close to a no-strings-attached bargain, as he'd quickly find out just before taking them up on it but just after they tantalizingly dangled a possible answer in front of his face -- for wizards, sharing knowledge is always a transaction. But it's not an oath-sworn one and frankly, these are pretty friendly wizards, as 21:55 <Crion> far as wizards go. 21:56 <VoxPVoxD> Yeah it's not something to do recklessly, but it's not something to never do. 21:56 <Crion> Anyway. To the Book. 21:56 <VoxPVoxD> Suddenly reminded of that argument he didn't have with Angelfire that one time. 22:04 <dammitwho> Maggie, for her part, is going to reach out to the Summer court. She's still a Spring gal through and through, but recent events have frayed her last nerve. Specifically, she wants their help finding something. 22:04 <dammitwho> She wants some cold iron. 22:06 <Crion> So, the Freehold of Prague has some prior entries that are actually just date ranges and lists of names, some of which won't fully load; the Book seems to intuit (or is directed explicitly via parameter definition) that Stewart is looking for the second-most recent iteration. The current one seems to be something of a brewer's collective; very small, only four names, all first name/last 22:06 <Crion> initial, no hyperlinks. The one before that ran guns to stay-behind right-wing paramilitaries in the Warsaw Pact, and after the Iron Curtain fell, involved itself in Kosovo. 22:07 <VoxPVoxD> Ah. 22:09 <Crion> Purely in a business sense -- in fact, in the first mention of the Parson here, they're working with him. The entry is sparse even for wiki style and only notes that they were both involved in "operations" at some point in 1998. But then, "after significant treaty violations and Oathbreaking, the Prague Freehold was bombed, burned down, and its members all killed by the Parson, Vice Princip, 22:09 <Crion> and Baron Nothing." 22:09 <Crion> Parson's name links back to his page; the other two go nowhere. 22:12 <VoxPVoxD> So he crucifies pigs and hollows out right-wing arms dealers. He's the best kind of correct. 22:12 <Crion> Cold iron...that might take some doing. Other than Melanie, the Summer courtiers Maggie's probably encountered most are Nissa of Fives and David Smote, unless the Storyteller is forgetting someone. 22:13 <Crion> Well, the Parson was originally helping run guns with the right-wing arms dealers. And he looks like the very serious kind of Catholic. 22:14 <dammitwho> It's Smote she'll reach out to, then. They have the bond of once trying to beat each other up, in a respectful karate dojo way. 22:15 <VoxPVoxD> Well yes, obviously he's just filtering his bloodlust through a vaguely left-wing idea of who it's okay to lust for the blood of. But! It helps give an idea of the kind of things that make appealing targets. 22:16 <VoxPVoxD> It also gives some hints as to the way to best deploy Son of Bastet's bespoke Contract. Coaxmetal would understand. 22:17 <Crion> Maggie needs to leave two messages before Smote finally calls her back. "Yo! Hey. Maggie. What's up." Did she mention cold iron in her messages? 22:23 <dammitwho> No, just that she wanted help with something. 22:23 <Crion> Then he sounds fairly relaxed! 22:24 <dammitwho> Maggie: "Hiya there, David. Thanks for the callback. I know I'm a Spring gal, but this is more of a Summer thing, you know?" 22:24 <dammitwho> "Every gosh dang time we all sit down to have a party, some faerie creature busts in to upend the festivities. I'm sick of it. Really sick of it." 22:25 <Crion> Smote: "You looking to get a strap?" 22:26 <dammitwho> Maggie: "Not a gun. I can whisper to guns and ask them to please-and-thank-you not shoot at me, so I know that can be turned back around on me. I want..." She takes a second to work herself up to saying it. "I want some iron." 22:27 <Crion> "...Ahhhhhhh shit." 22:28 <dammitwho> Maggie: "Yeah. I get that that's a little much even at the best of times..." 22:29 <Crion> Smote: "So we're just talking pure theoretical. Just in case. Not because you already know you want to do something with it." 22:32 <dammitwho> Maggie: "Eh? Oh... oh. Good heavens, no. Nothing like that. Just a, break glass in case of fire thing." 22:32 <Crion> Smote: "Yeah...you're gonna have to swear to that. Not now, just if we do it. You get me?" 22:33 <Crion> "I'm not gonna be involved in a sword pointing in instead of out." 22:33 <Crion> "No matter how much I might get it." 22:35 <dammitwho> Maggie: "Sure, absolutely." 22:37 <Crion> He sighs. "Alright. Well, you called the right guy. I'll have to let Langford know, but this is going through me and Colt. You met Detective Colt?" 22:41 <dammitwho> Maggie: "Not in any real sort of way. Wasn't he around on Halloween?" 22:43 <Crion> "He was. Don't hang out with us much because, well, you might have heard there's some politics about that police shit going on in this country. But he's our weapons connect, and that's not just hammers, it's hammers." Smote pauses. "You know, both kinds of -- what am I saying, you get me." 22:43 <Crion> "Colt's the guy that knows an actual fucking blacksmith out in the county." 22:48 <VoxPVoxD> Stewart swings by the Wherehouse to tell Tony what he learned, and consequently what to look out for. Then he heads home, and knocks on Nels's door to see if she wants to come over for pizza. Or watch a movie. Or build a snowman. 22:49 <Crion> Up to her if she's in. Right now, she doesn't seem to be. 22:49 <VoxPVoxD> How's Lauren doing with all this anyway? 22:50 <Crion> Out of respect for Stewart and a fondness for Nels, Lauren has been avoiding the subject entirely. 22:50 <VoxPVoxD> What if Stewart presses? He's very annoying about this sort of thing. 22:52 <Crion> She thinks it was a fucking insane thing to do, not just in general but specifically in a Freehold safe space, isn't sure she can ever trust Nels again, and is worried whenever Stewart is alone with Nels that something else is going to happen. She was hoping the thing with her Huntsman was going to be the only Keeper related stuff in her life for at least another three years. 22:53 <Crion> Note: she is specifically not worried about Stewart cheating on her with Nels, except in the sense that this would have him spending more time in proximity to Nels when she makes another catastrophically bad decision. 22:53 <Crion> If Stewart's been asking around his Court, with various ebbs and flows this is something of a consensus view right now. 22:53 <VoxPVoxD> He has. At the very least he checked in with Rose. 22:54 <Crion> Strangely, Rose has been among the most understanding. 22:54 <VoxPVoxD> That doesn't strike Stewart as strange, though he couldn't say particularly why. 22:54 <Crion> Well, maybe that's not strange, depending on how Stewart sees her. But she's definitely on the more practical side here. 22:54 <Crion> And as everyone in the motley is aware, Spring is top-down closing ranks around Nels. 22:55 <Crion> (Not the Winter courtier.) 22:56 <Crion> After all, as they've argued with various degrees of enthusiasm in any private conversations you've had with them, Nels retrieved the Freehold crown and sabotaged the plans of two actual traitors to the Freehold, hopefully leading to their deaths, which would be the proper punishment for what Peter and Gemma did. 22:56 <VoxPVoxD> But yeah... yeah. Stewart's been preoccupied with the weird gulf that seemed to open up when he walked into the room and saw what happened. The way he describes it to Lauren is like finding out you had a family member with some giant, character-defining secret. Like, I don't know, a secret other family or a bad criminal history or something. The feelings aren't gone, but he's suddenly 22:56 <VoxPVoxD> uncomfortably aware of how much less he knew her than he thought he did, and how much of what he thought he knew was just projecting himself into the parts of her life that Nels kept to herself. 22:57 <VoxPVoxD> Characteristically, he sounds like he's angry at himself rather than at her. For his short-sightedness. For his naivete. 22:57 <VoxPVoxD> There's a certain selfishness in even being upset at all, isn't there? 22:57 <Crion> Possibly worth noting that while some don't sound happy about it -- Samaritan, notably -- no one has actually broken ranks in private and said they disagree with Queen Bantham's party line. Maggie's excluded here, of course, but in other circumstances Smote's 'you'll need to oathswear this CYOA paperwork' might have been a straight 'no.' 22:59 <dammitwho> Even then she'd have understood. Cold iron is some real serious business. She needs to figure out where she's going to keep it, even. 22:59 <Crion> Speaking of, Smote: "So, it's going to cost you. In terms of actual, literal money; homie's a small batch blacksmith in a gig economy, he needs to be taken care of to stay in business." 22:59 <Crion> "And due to the parameters around making cold iron, he's obviously just, some dude." 23:00 <VoxPVoxD> Of course that's making him extra conscientious about making sure she's not left to stew in her own juices unless she really wants to be, which is probably just making her feel even more uncomfortable about the whole thing, and more apt to withdraw... 23:02 <VoxPVoxD> The more room Stewart takes to voice his own thoughts, the more one is given the impression of someone sitting on a stage in an empty theater, patiently describing all the people that are filing out, all the doors being locked and lights being killed. No path out, no way to see it. Only darkness. 23:04 <Crion> Smote: "What are you in the market for? So Colt knows how to make the approach to our guy." 23:06 <Crion> Steve has been beating the bushes on the hunt for the Parson too; sadly this mostly means actually physically hectoring some bushes that have moved in outside the Wherehouse's Hedge-tunnel exit, honking and snapping until they pop up onto thin-legged, sneakered feet and scoot off, rustling with wounded dignity. 23:08 <dammitwho> Maggie hadn't thought about it too much, because nervousness over making the request was taking up most of her mental processing power, but the answer flows out of her easily: "Big ol' wrench. I mean really big, like you could use it as a club. Maybe with 'Changeling local 410' on the side?" 23:10 <Crion> Smote: "Heh. Well we're mostly talking mass here, so as long as you're talking something hefty but one-handed, that's good, that puts us in business. Still gotta figure out where he's gonna get all that iron in a pandemic, but, Colt's guy's used to weird requests from us." 23:10 <Crion> "Alright, I'll pass it along. Colt or me will be in touch in a few days." 23:14 <Crion> That should leave Stewart, Tony, and Maggie in a position to do some group reconnoitering, if they please. 23:15 <dammitwho> Maggie: "Thanks much!" Whew. That could have gone a lot worse! 23:15 <VoxPVoxD> Stewart's got nothing else to do but work, get rebuffed by Nels, and natter to Lauren. 23:18 <CBN> Tony, the next time that Maggie and Stewart, at the very least, are available in the Wherehouse: "So I have a question and I think I need to consult you guys before I do anything about the answer." 23:19 <VoxPVoxD> Stewart's having a gin and tonic if it's after 5pm, and a beer if it's not. "Yeah?" 23:19 <dammitwho> "What's up?" 23:19 <CBN> Tony: "The same trick I used to find Gary, and others, we could probably use to find Parson. But...should we." 23:20 <VoxPVoxD> Stewart: "Do you not want to find him?" 23:20 <VoxPVoxD> The idea that Tony is worried about invading the Parson's privacy does not seem to register with Stewart. 23:21 <CBN> Tony: "Well I do but also, unless someone can get me one of his teeth or some of his hair or something, it's pretty taxing, so I don't want to have to do it a lot. And...what do we do with that knowledge, if I can just get it for us?" 23:21 <CBN> Tony: "But I'm not really an indirect-approach kinda guy. You two are way more thinker-y than me. Really all of you are. I'm a lineman. Tackle the problem, head-on, you know. Shortest path." 23:22 <VoxPVoxD> Stewart: "We probably need a plan for that no matter what kind of recon we do, if this is the thing we're doing. Like what if we do shoe-leather scouting around in the Hedge and he's just, there?" 23:23 <VoxPVoxD> Are our standing orders from the Freehold still 'don't feel like you have to seek him out, but it's on-sight if you see him'? 23:23 <CBN> Tony: "Exactly! And I don't wanna just be hanging out with a shotgun whenever in case, you know?" 23:23 <dammitwho> Maggie: "First thing that pops into my head is that if taking a beeline to him is really taxing, that'll make us worse off for the eventual confrontation, no?" 23:23 <CBN> Tony: "And that, yeah!" 23:24 <CBN> Tony: "And that and talking to the hobs are really all I've got to contribute here, and I talked to the hobs, so, help me think of better ideas and plans." 23:24 <VoxPVoxD> Stewart: "Ehh. I feel like fights don't usually come down to who runs out of mojo first. They're a lot shorter and more brutal than that. Or they have been so far." 23:30 <VoxPVoxD> "More salient is: do we actually want to fight him right now?" 23:30 <VoxPVoxD> "And are we prepared to?" 23:31 <VoxPVoxD> "Cause if the answer to either of those is 'no'... we probably shouldn't go looking for him at all, right?" 23:32 <CBN> Tony: "I'm not, honestly. I want to know what their play is here before we going charging into it. Did your Googling give us anything surprising?" 23:32 <VoxPVoxD> Stewart: "Just a piece of his history and two names of known associates. Nothing I'd call surprising." 23:33 <VoxPVoxD> Stewart recaps what he learned again, about Prague, and the names 'Vice Princip' and 'Baron Nothing'. "Who might not even be his whole crew anymore, or in his crew anymore. 98 was a long time ago." 23:33 <VoxPVoxD> Neither of the two best PS1 Final Fantasies had come out yet. 23:34 <CBN> Tony: "Nineteen ninety-eight? But that was only...oh fuck, oh man. Oh man that was more than 20 years ago." To no one really, but at full conversational volume: "How do people live now." 23:34 <VoxPVoxD> On top of a pile of money with a beautiful lady. 23:35 <VoxPVoxD> Stewart: "Yeah I dunno either." 23:35 <CBN> The almost imperceptible sound of gears turning as Tony really and truly clocks that he'd been gone almost 50 years. ".." 23:35 <CBN> Tony: "Fuck. Anyway, so he's been around for that long already, huh?" 23:37 <dammitwho> "I'm glad there's no flying cars. Did you know they call little one-man airplanes 'dentist-killers'?" She waves a hand. "Anyhoo. Maybe we should get the rest of the gang together and kind of, you know... emotionally gel before we go looking for a fight? Poor Melanie's probably having the devil of a time. And Nels..." 23:37 <VoxPVoxD> Stewart: "Likely longer. He was the oldest of the three of the Sign's privateer bosses even before the Mistress killed Proctor. Probably not as old as Gary, who seems to have literally been Tamerlaine. But old." 23:37 <VoxPVoxD> Stewart: "Nels has been pretty much unreachable." 23:38 <CBN> Tony: "Honestly man, there's old and there's wizard old, so I don't even think of Gary as on the same time scale as any of us." 23:38 <VoxPVoxD> Melanie holing up for a day or two on a whim doesn't register to Stewart as weird. 23:38 <VoxPVoxD> Stewart: "Yeah. If I had to guess I'd say, like, maybe Father Jesse's age?" 23:39 <CBN> Tony: "But I gotcha. So, what should we do, you think? I like Maggie's plan, then after that? Probably stuff Hedge-side, since, rest of the world is bad and getting worse." 23:39 <VoxPVoxD> "So like, somewhere in the neighborhood of 200 years old." 23:39 <CBN> Tony: "Oh well only 200 years old, that isn't weird to think about anymore." It is. 23:40 <VoxPVoxD> Stewart nods seriously, as if it actually isn't. "But that's a blind guess. Anyway I think we should keep our ears to the ground and do what we can to shelter the hobs. We're not equipped to move against the Parson, we're not doing that great ourselves, and honestly? It's not actually our fucking job." 23:41 <CBN> Tony: "Yeah, actually! Huh! I'm thinking now. You probably don't just go gut Pigs for fun, right? Even if they're Pigs and you're whatever the hell Parson and crew are now, right?" 23:42 <Crion> Steve has wandered back in. Have they put a microwave in the Wherehouse? If not he's gonna try to start heating up some crispy fried rice on the stove, in his own unique manner. 23:42 <dammitwho> Maggie startles. "Cripes, I need to make some money, don't I?" By way of explanation, she says: "I asked Smote for help getting me a weapon. If we're not going up Parson right out the gate, I should probably get ahold of it first." 23:42 <Crion> Crispy what? Difficult to say. 23:42 <VoxPVoxD> Stewart: "You need money? How much?" 23:42 <CBN> Tony: "So maybe we figure out how they got there and that gets us to a why and then we've got something to go on." 23:43 <VoxPVoxD> To Tony: "Yeah, I mean, it's possible Parson's just an insane Catholic sadist. But we should probably at least act as if he's got a plan until it's been proven otherwise." 23:43 <dammitwho> Maggie: "I'm... not really sure. They have a guy, who's supposed to get back to them with costs and suchlike. Aw, I can't just take your money, Stewart. Let me get you back, at least? Do your internet people like music? I could play some songs and suchlike." 23:43 <VoxPVoxD> Stewart: "Oh dude! Yes! Come on my stream!" 23:43 <VoxPVoxD> "That would own!" 23:44 <VoxPVoxD> "You can think of it like paying me back if you want, but like... my money is your money, just like my house is your house." 23:44 <CBN> Tony hollers over to Steve, to acknowledge him as much as possibly shame him indirectly out of burning down the Wherehouse making food. "Steve hey! You hear anything new about those gutted Pigs lately?? 23:44 <VoxPVoxD> Do microwaves work in the Hedge? 23:45 <VoxPVoxD> Seems like one of the things you would least want to start behaving erratically. 23:45 <Crion> HONK! Apparently they were good eats. Difficult to tell if this is a bacon joke or perfectly serious? 23:45 <dammitwho> That would own... Maggie's probably heard Stewart say that before, and it means that something is good! 23:45 <VoxPVoxD> Certainly that's the impression Stewart's facial expression and tone of voice give. 23:46 <Crion> Microwaves do function in the Hedge, and they appear to cook, but not a lot of research has been done into what radiation does in the Hedge. Yes, all heat is radiation in some form or another, but there's a narrative aspect. 23:46 <VoxPVoxD> Hopefully Maggie's not yet been exposed to the confidence-shaking notion of 'doing a bit'. 23:47 <CBN> Tony: "Oh god. Uhh...so was that one of their usual...I dunno, 'beats' or whatever Pigs have, where they were found? We're trying to figure out how random or planned some of this was before we go picking fights. It's new for us I know." 23:52 <Crion> honk honk Honk. Yeah, the Pigs hang out up around there most springs. Or at least it's not unheard of. But they kind of move around a lot capriciously, leaving an area only when bored or kicked out (as the motley did; they haven't been back around here recently). 23:56 <CBN> Tony: "Is this the first time you've heard of this kind of thing happening to them, or other hobs? Not even from these guys, just in general. I don't really get the point of it, other than just being weird dicks." 23:57 <Crion> honk honk! Just you guys! 23:57 <Crion> Steve either isn't bothered by the ritual desecration or just, doesn't seem to clock it. 00:02 <CBN> Tony: "Huh! That's still weird then. Okay Stewart, now I'm thinking again. This isn't something we can probably figure out today, but do you think you could look up if hob sacrifice is...I dunno, a thing?" 00:03 <CBN> Tony: "I might be overthinking it, which would be a first, but I don't wanna wander into another Gary Summons A God Egg deal again." 00:03 <dammitwho> Maggie: "Cripes, I hope not." 00:05 <VoxPVoxD> Stewart: "I can't think of anything. Hobs are sort of 'beneath' our magic usually. I'll look into it." 00:06 <CBN> Tony: "Cool. In the meantime...anyone else hungry? Thinking too hard burns calories, guys." 00:06 <VoxPVoxD> Stewart, three drinks deep: "I could eat." 00:07 <Crion> Steve has gotten his crispy ??? rice heated up, so the range is free. 00:08 <VoxPVoxD> Stewart'll do the dishes if Steve didn't and then let Tony and/or Maggie work. 00:08 <Crion> Steve is very housebroken for a hob, but not does-his-own-dishes housebroken. 00:08 <VoxPVoxD> Then he slumps back onto the couch, letting the buzz slowly knock his head around like a buoy in deep water. He wonders what Nels is thinking about right now. 00:13 <dammitwho> We should get Steve a little bed, like Chup. 00:14 <Crion> As it is, he will crack a beer and sprawl out on the couch, like a person, or a particularly contemptuous cat.