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October Catchall! (a Mix of Open and Closed)

Who: Dolly + you!
What: None Quests Threads first. Will be adding Quest Threads later on :3
Where: Southern Forest, Bay Town, Lum Berry Low Tier Housing, The Archives, and more to be added on as the month goes on.
When: Throughout most of October
Warnings: Animal/Pokemon death that comes with hunting, Wild Parties, and Nerd Violence. Will update more as it goes along.

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"Same, I ended up baking gingerbread earlier for the baskets thing. It's honestly been a while since I last baked something like that."

There's a bit of a popcorn bounce from Dolly as she goes to show Anasui the testing set up. From the look of things, Dolly has it pretty well organized from the player figurine pieces to the horrifyingly functionally lethal mini murder weapons close by to Mr. Boddy.

"So what we're doing is to see if the game has the entertainment value that'll be fun to revisit during the winter months ahead and if there's anything that'll be needing adjusting." Dolly looks at her Mr. Boddy doll for a moment in consideration.

"My money is on encasing Mr. Boddy's boney frame in a ballistics gel of some kind."

"Finding it's easy enough to bake and do things in this form?" Anasui asks as he follows Dolly over to the game, occasionally nibbling on his pierogi. He's incredibly impressed with the game board. He knew his murder weapons would be good but they match everything else perfectly, opposed to being a cobbled together mess of pieces. Seems like Dolly organised things pretty well.

"Hmm..." Anasui pauses as he also looks at the Mr. Boddy doll. A normal person may think that ballistics gel is overkill in protecting a game piece. Anasui is not a normal person. "The problem with ballistics gel is that it has a relatively short shelf life. It may be more practical to make more than one Mr. Boddy than preserving this one. Or using rubber."

"The ribbon feelers have been coming in handy so far, though still a bit of a challenge when using scissors with them. I think if I get a bit more practice in, I should be in good shape to work with them." Dolly is feeling pretty happy with how things have turned out for the game recreation. It was a bit of work to hammer through the details, but it was worth it in the end.

Hmmm...Anasui did make an excellent point about the ballistics gel, that'll make a bit of a stink with the short shelf life. Upside was that Dolly did keep the molds she used when making the Mr. Boddy skeleton doll, so making multiples would be easy. "I wonder, do you think there's a para rubber tree here that we can get the sap to make the rubber body with? Its something I can fix up a mold with to cast the bones in."

Anasui nods. It makes sense to struggle with them, especially if you're used to hands but it seems that Dolly's figured things out. Anasui would be jealous if he didn't have such fine control over his psychic abilities and was able to move things through the air.

"I'm sure there is... We'll have to ask around or check the Archives to see where we can find it. But even if there isn't, we definitely have wax. That should be a reasonable substitute, right?"

It was something Dolly had to learn early on, adapt, blend in, or else bad things will happen. It was pretty hard drilled and goodness, Dolly went fully in with the ribbon feelers in learning how to use them the moment she knew they were functional limbs. Still, the dread bane, the scissors stands pretty firm.

"Wax would be a great substitute if there's no Para Rubber Trees here. It's been a while since I last used wax in a doll crafting project, but I should be able to work well with it. Plus, it gives a really nice realistic look when done right for the hide."

Given all the weirdness Anasui has seen, he completely believes Dolly will learn how to use the scissors eventually. A white and pink tiny dog/cat/fox thing with energy-sucking feelers using tools isn't that weird.

Anasui grunts quietly. "I rarely work with wax. Not interesting enough to dismantle... So I'll take your word for it."

One day soon, Dolly will master the scissors with those feelers of hers. For now, it'll be a fun journey for her of trial, error, and oops along the way. Though, she does. make a mental note of making an extra Mr. Boddy just incase of dismantling for science happens.

"It wouldn't be much fun to dismantle to be fair, the armature is normally too straight forward to learn anything. I did want to take apart a backflipping wind up toy though to see how it works for a project I wanted to do before this happened."

That gets Anasui's attention. He looks down at Dolly, stunned for a moment. She wanted to do what?

"You like disassembling things too?" He asks tentatively, as if he hadn't heard the Sylveon correctly.

This earns Anasui a curious head tilt from Dolly as she watches the reaction.

"I do, especially with antique wind up toys or automatons. There's not a lot of books on how to make, repair, or build one. So I often go for the disassembling route to get an idea on how the pieces work or what can be modified with either repairs or even making one." Dolly smiles a bit as she explains, she loves getting to do projects like it, they're normally a fun challenge to tackle.

"I think my favorite process after a doing a lead test is getting to sand blast the old enamel or rust off. It's pretty fun to watch in real time."

Anasui gives a casual nod, despite practically vibrating with excitement. It's been a long time since he met someone with anyone with the same interest with him. Maybe she has the same compulsions too? However, instead of inquiring, Anasui listens attentively.

"Mmm... Usually, when I disassemble something, I put it back in a different way. Sometimes, it's to serve a new purpose, other times it's just for my amusement. I don't always modify things though... It's satisfying to just break it down to its core components."

"I'm not sure if I have a favourite myself, honestly. But it's been a while since I did... well... any of that."

In Dolly's mind, it's being read as 'Oh boy a fellow crafter!'and to that, Dolly was thrilled to be learning that. This was a pretty fun idea to put something back together in a different way, Dolly may have to try that sometime.

"That's really awesome though, like I haven't tried making it function in a different or new purpose yet." The gears in Dolly's head is very much turning and giving her some ideas for something try out later.

"Perhaps a bit later, would you like to scavenge with me to find an object to repurpose? It sounds insanely fun to try out."

"It's a useful skill to have and it gives you a better appreciation for the material." Anasui does mean that genuinely, and even though most of his crafting relates to body horror, he can certainly do what he's saying in a more mundane sense. He smirks at the idea and nods.

"Sure. Even with quests and all that's going on, it's peaceful enough. I've got nothing pressing on if you don't." The trip may involve Dolly needing to stop Anasui from scavenging things he shouldn't or Anasui enabling Dolly to do more scavenging BUT it does sound fun.

"It really does and it's amazing getting to see the older clockwork pieces up close. They really don't make these items the same way anymore." Dolly had no clue about the body horror crafting Anasui has done, then again, most folks are usually unnerved by doll making..it evens out, right?

"I don't either, I'm fully on board with scavenging with you some time for the project to try out. It's going to be so much fun to do." Dolly has no idea what form of Pandora's box she's opened, smiling innocently and thrilled to scavenge around with her friend Anasui.

Totally evens out.

"I'd be happy to do that now, but there are perogis to eat and board games to play," Anasui said, looking at the board again. "Just hit my pearl whenever you feel like going out scavenging. I don't really have a preference when we go since I will just fill any extra time with reading or working in the clinic. So any time is good."

Anasui is pretty excited, not going to lie. He's never had anyone who shared his special interest before... It's... Well, he won't admit it but it's not bad.

Oh right, the game and pierogis! Dolly nearly got carried away there as she nods in agreement with Anasui. "That sounds like a deal to me, I'll definitely will be calling you up no the pearl once the test run on the game is done."

It was pretty exciting to Dolly, it's not often she meets someone else that doesn't get weirded out by her own hobbies. She blames the haunted toy horror genre for it, a real shame for sure. No it's so totally not the fact that the doll crafting hobby can sound like something out of a true crimes broadcast, don't be silly!

"Same, I'm mostly doing research at the Archives, though I do want to ask and see if they have a printing press for field research usage."

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