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[shanghaiworld.livejournal.com]

[If you are out in the Orchards today, you may come across a humanoid doll, about the size of a persons head. You may come across more. Around fifty more. Long blonde hair, all wearing the same style of dress. All picking up food and carrying them away in baskets.

If you were to follow any of them, you will find a bunch of baskets already laying on the ground, next to one Alice Margatroid, who is checking everything with a list. She's just taking stock of things.]

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[gun-cata.livejournal.com]

Alice...

[ Lightbulb goes on! ]

Oh! Right! I remember now... her doll... thing.

[ This is still kinda weird, to see this many, though. ]

[shanghaiworld.livejournal.com]

Please do not speak of us like that. She can hear you.

[gun-cata.livejournal.com]

Ah...

[ ...are they talking on their own... or is... Alice talking through them as though they're...

She's not gonna think about that too hard. ]

So, then, uh, what are you up to?

[shanghaiworld.livejournal.com]

We're collecting!

[gun-cata.livejournal.com]

Collecting what?

[shanghaiworld.livejournal.com]

[The doll holds up a basket. Alice herself is wondering how it isn't obvious.]

[gun-cata.livejournal.com]

[ Well SORRY Alice. Armies of dolls are a little distracting. ]

...food? Are you stocking up a bomb shelter or something?

[shanghaiworld.livejournal.com]

[Alice comes marching along.]

Just preparing. In case of anything, nothing specific.

[gun-cata.livejournal.com]

Stuff like this is harder to store away... I've got a stock of canned goods back home, but I wouldn't know how to pickle this stuff or whatever it is you do to fresh food.

[shanghaiworld.livejournal.com]

Magic.

[gun-cata.livejournal.com]

...

[ Oh of course. ]

Magic. Can't argue with that.

[shanghaiworld.livejournal.com]

It's such a wonderful thing.

[gun-cata.livejournal.com]

Seems like it's really, really convenient in a place like this.

[shanghaiworld.livejournal.com]

I haven't run into a time when it hasn't.

[gun-cata.livejournal.com]

Seriously... as useful as technology is, it always costs money for every little thing.

[shanghaiworld.livejournal.com]

I'm not familiar with that kind of thing, I was cut off from them.

[gun-cata.livejournal.com]

It's probably got magic beat in some areas... being easy to use if nothing else.

[shanghaiworld.livejournal.com]

If you know how to use it, right?

[gun-cata.livejournal.com]

Microwaves and toasters and TVs... they're all a snap, really. Heck, I could probably teach people here to drive.

[shanghaiworld.livejournal.com]

Go for it.

[gun-cata.livejournal.com]

The hard part would be actually getting a car here. I'll have to see if the soil will work for something so complicated, and then I'd have to find fuel.

[shanghaiworld.livejournal.com]

As I said, go for it.

[gun-cata.livejournal.com]

It was just hypothetical anyways.

Unless you're interested.

[shanghaiworld.livejournal.com]

In watching.

[gun-cata.livejournal.com]

It'll probably go poorly at first if I ever get around to it, so you'll have a good show.