Flying Lettuce and Carnivorous Lattes [Open]

[ichoosefight]

🧙 WHO: Stephanie Brown and You!
⚔️️ WHAT: A quest and some failed cloning
🕒 WHEN: Beginning of November
🗺️ WHERE: Out and about
⚠️ WARNINGS: None anticipated

#DoppleDinner
It's probably rude to try to magically duplicate your latte inside the cafe you bought it from. That isn't stopping Steph, but she at least has the decency to be covert about it. She sits in a corner facing the wall as she works with the potions, both magical and espresso-based.

She does manage to create more lattes. 3 large ceramic "for here" mugs, steaming fresh. But when she reaches to pick one up, a fanged mouth opens beneath the handle and chomps down on her hand.

She yelps in surprise as much as in pain and jumps to her feet as the other two mugs turn to snarl at her, eyes like chips in the glaze opening to glare. They jump at her, leaving the original beverage behind and spilling scalding coffee in the process.


#DoppleDinner Take 2
Steph doesn't really mind having a clone. At least, she didn't mind it once they were able to successfully clone her coffee without making it attack her. Now she has coffee and someone to joke around with while she wanders the city. This situation is ripe for pranks, but she'll need a little time to think of them. And since she doubts the spell will last, she's out looking for inspiration.

She chats with herself as they walk, plotting how best to use this strange circumstance to their advantage. They only wish they had matching outfits for extra fun. Instead one has a dusty green blouse on and the other a gray shirt. Maybe they should drop in on a friend, or stop by their boyfriend's place...


Flappy Veg
The name "Butterfly Lettuce" grabbed Steph immediately when she saw it on the Quest Board. She absolutely had to see such a ridiculous creature, and stopping poachers seemed like a pretty simple way to spend a few afternoons.

Happy and carefree as she looks as she patrols the areas the lettuce can be found, her eyes and ears are peeled for human (or humanoid) movement. She can even chat with a partner while she works, though she keeps her voice down to a library-appropriate volume. She's used to patrolling a major city, she can multitask in an open field.

Comments

Flappy Veg

[quotetheraven]

This was probably going to be weird for her. You know, patrolling around with a guy that looks like a long dead, famous American poet. And to be fair, it's super weird for Poe as well. Flying lettuce, who would have thought it! Easy money at that, or at least he figured it would be.

"Well, this is all quite silly, isn't it? You would think with the increase of mouths to feed, this would have been an excellent opportunity to save a bit of money. Well, I suppose they are local wildlife, and apparently precious at that."

Even if they are... lettuce.

[ichoosefight]

She's fought multiple Bela Lugosi as Dracula literally copied from a theater screen. Edgar Allan Poe as a mission partner is quirky at best. She shrugs.

"Conservationists can be pretty intense. Besides, technically it's less mouths. They're just all in one place now."

[quotetheraven]

That's fair enough! At the very least he wasn't likely to fight her. Or really much of anyone? He actually looks kind of foppish, or at least as best as some poverty-stricken poet from the mid-19th century can manage.

...He ducks his head out of the way of one of the flapping lettuces. "A fair point, I suppose." He shrugged and side stepped another flapping vegetable. "Though I am a bit concerned that they may be actively attempting to attack us."

It's a joke.

[ichoosefight]

"I think you're about a century too early for that phobia," she notes, watching the odd creatures. She can't help a pop culture reference, even if there's no way he knows anything about Hitchcock.

"Do you think it still tastes like lettuce?" She has no desire whatsoever to find out firsthand, but these things do raise some questions.