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quicktoanger) wrote2012-04-04 06:00 am
quicktoanger) wrote2012-04-04 06:00 am
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Third Report: Blackstone's Rifle [Action/Voice, backdated to the night of the third.]
[Action]
[He's been searching for hours. He's probably a bit drunk at this point, and more than a little put out, but he has to find them.
He knows they're here. He knows they are.
He's been going back and forth between the clothing shop and the weapons shop all day, searching. He's reasoned it out, see. Every time he leaves and comes back, he finds that whatever bloody fairy magic makes this place work has changed the contents of the shops. So if he leaves faster, comes back faster, they'll change faster. He's not seen people bringing things to and from the shops, so it must be more of whatever madness this village is full of, right?
Well. It didn't work, it turns out- if there are 'Shifts' on the shops, he can't induce them. Which is when he went out and got a drink, and now, drunk, has decided to just look for them anyway.
They have to be here.
He walks into the smithy again, silently shifting through the various weapons in their various racks. He's seen all manner of primitive weapons, even one or two that resemble guns, but he wouldn't have the least idea how to operate them. More of that advanced technology from other worlds, he supposes. It all sounds terribly farfetched to him, but what's a soul to believe when he wakes up with wings and a magic book that lets you talk to people?]
"I know you're here, damn you, stop hiding!"
[Wait. Wait, what was that? There. Far wall, near the corner... he heads over. It is. It is. A Baker rifle, battered but still in perfect working order.
He should know, he's the one who kept it that way. He reaches out and grasps the rifle, and with a series of practiced, ritualistic movements, he inspects it.
Not just any rifle. His own rifle. He knows every single scuff and scrape on the weapon's surface, remembers the battle that put each mark in its place. Never anything that would affect the weapon's performance. He was always very particular about avoiding that.
He has his rifle. He'd already had his rifleman's jacket, found a week after his arrival. Why was there nothing of the Major's property here?
Well. He couldn't very well give his jacket to Sharpe- he was far too tall and skinny for that, of course- but this? This was something he could set right.]
[Voice, locked to Richard Sharpe- the filter isn't even at 1%, he's rubbish at them.]
"Begging your pardon, Major, but I believe I've found something you may want to have a look at."
[He seems to have acquired a bit of a Cockney accent somewhere along the line.
Feel free to find him around the village, searching through the weapons earlier in the day, or, as is so terribly common, getting thoroughly drunk in Good Spirits.]
[Notes: Unlike Sharpe, Harry has his Rifleman's jacket and typically wears it into town. He's been camping with Sharpe, rather than taking an apartment in town. He's also clean-cut and clean-shaven in the military, in sharp contrast to his usual... scruff.
He's still about three miles tall, though.]
[He's been searching for hours. He's probably a bit drunk at this point, and more than a little put out, but he has to find them.
He knows they're here. He knows they are.
He's been going back and forth between the clothing shop and the weapons shop all day, searching. He's reasoned it out, see. Every time he leaves and comes back, he finds that whatever bloody fairy magic makes this place work has changed the contents of the shops. So if he leaves faster, comes back faster, they'll change faster. He's not seen people bringing things to and from the shops, so it must be more of whatever madness this village is full of, right?
Well. It didn't work, it turns out- if there are 'Shifts' on the shops, he can't induce them. Which is when he went out and got a drink, and now, drunk, has decided to just look for them anyway.
They have to be here.
He walks into the smithy again, silently shifting through the various weapons in their various racks. He's seen all manner of primitive weapons, even one or two that resemble guns, but he wouldn't have the least idea how to operate them. More of that advanced technology from other worlds, he supposes. It all sounds terribly farfetched to him, but what's a soul to believe when he wakes up with wings and a magic book that lets you talk to people?]
"I know you're here, damn you, stop hiding!"
[Wait. Wait, what was that? There. Far wall, near the corner... he heads over. It is. It is. A Baker rifle, battered but still in perfect working order.
He should know, he's the one who kept it that way. He reaches out and grasps the rifle, and with a series of practiced, ritualistic movements, he inspects it.
Not just any rifle. His own rifle. He knows every single scuff and scrape on the weapon's surface, remembers the battle that put each mark in its place. Never anything that would affect the weapon's performance. He was always very particular about avoiding that.
He has his rifle. He'd already had his rifleman's jacket, found a week after his arrival. Why was there nothing of the Major's property here?
Well. He couldn't very well give his jacket to Sharpe- he was far too tall and skinny for that, of course- but this? This was something he could set right.]
[Voice, locked to Richard Sharpe- the filter isn't even at 1%, he's rubbish at them.]
"Begging your pardon, Major, but I believe I've found something you may want to have a look at."
[He seems to have acquired a bit of a Cockney accent somewhere along the line.
Feel free to find him around the village, searching through the weapons earlier in the day, or, as is so terribly common, getting thoroughly drunk in Good Spirits.]
[Notes: Unlike Sharpe, Harry has his Rifleman's jacket and typically wears it into town. He's been camping with Sharpe, rather than taking an apartment in town. He's also clean-cut and clean-shaven in the military, in sharp contrast to his usual... scruff.
He's still about three miles tall, though.]
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[ his name; a soft oath. ] You're certain?
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[He grins.]
"You're the commanding officer, sir. I couldn't very well give you my jacket, the sleeves would hang to your knees. Seems only fair."
[Not right for the commanding officer to have nothing. Not right at all. Backwards, as it were.]
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[ he allows the quip about their radically different heights to slide by -- even a tall man like sharpe is dwarfed by harry the gentle(ish) giant. ]
Obliged, Blackstone. [ wait. no. this needed something more. sharpe reaches for his beer and downs a good third of it in a few solid gulps. ]
My thanks.
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"Of course, sir."
[... And make no mistake, he'd have given you the jacket too, if it might have a chance in hell of fitting. He takes a good swig of his own beer.
It seemed odd to him that even the most common of brews here was finer than anything he'd been able to afford back home. Technology again, he supposes.]
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Worth celebrating, really.
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[Despite the impish grin, he's never been much of a carouser or a hellion. Aside from the drinking, of course, and even that he tended to do quietly.]
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[ when the regiment rolled into a town and the company took billets, harper often secured fine quarters for his major. sharpe has slept well, some nights. but he also never complains when on the march with his men and they must take shelter in some ditch or hovel.
the feather bed, sharpe reasons, is only worth it if you have pretty company to take home with you.
still... ]
It's the finest prison I've ever had the misfortune to stumble into, Blackstone.
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[His face falls a bit, becoming serious. The Major was right, of course. This entire place was a trap, and he would do well not to forget that.
He drinks more of his beer.]
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[ the unspoken order was, of course, that they would be taking it together. bloody shame to waste a three-room apartment. ]
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Well. A room that didn't have vermin, anyway.]
"Couldn't agree more, sir."
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[ translation: be a dear and arrange it, would you? ]