Wander Log | The Props

[folkscallmewander]

Who: Wander | Various starters
What: Wander dealing with the prop situation
When: Through this week
Where: Various places around town and the resort
Notes & Warnings: Three starters in comments.

Fake Cut

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[what_ho_jeeves]

"You dash a bit of liquid into your hand, like so." He mimes shaking a vial over the open palm of his hand. "And then rub it into the spots where you want the follicles to grow like wheat upon the well-tilled field. It tingles a little bit; that's how you know it's working, Tuppy says."

[folkscallmewander]

Wander turns the vial a few times in his hands before stuffing it into his hat. As much as he appreciates the gift, he's a little worried how well it will actually work. He's never had any experience with hair growth products, mostly relying on his fur to grow back naturally if it was gone.

But then again, this type and cause of furlessness was news.

"Thank you, Bertie," Wander says as he rests against the tree once more, picking up the banjo. "I'll get to it once I go back inside."

I half imagine that the tonic accidentally does something ridiculous, like turns their hair blue...

[what_ho_jeeves]

Bertie tips his hat in acknowledgement of Wander's thanks.

"Anything for a chum, old bean. I'm only too happy to help a friend in need. It is the Wooster Code, you see, and I abide by it faithfully."

It's totally going to happen

[folkscallmewander]

Wander tips his hat back.

"I like that Wooster Code of yours. Sounds like your family knows what's important."

[what_ho_jeeves]

"I don't actually remember my parents very well. There's my Aunts, of course, but they're now all Traverses and Crayes and whatnot. And cousin Claude and cousin Eustace, but they aren't heir to the name and do not feel the heavy weight of upholding the family honour so the Wooster who fought at Agincourt would not look down from heaven upon his descendants and go 'I say now, that lot is load of rubbish.'"

[folkscallmewander]

Heirs? Family honor? Those sound like intimidating responsibilities for the younger folks. If he remembered correctly, this Bertie fellow was from a rich family, and they usually put a lot of emphasis on these sorts of things.

"So you're the next in line for the family, uh, inheritance? That's what you folks pass down right? I'm not real familiar with those kinda things. Mostly we jus' share things with all our relations and pass down houses an' such.

...What's an Agincourt? Another country on Earth?" Because learning about new places is very important, and helps take his kind off of this fur problem.

[what_ho_jeeves]

"Just so. Uncle George avoided the old ball and chain his whole life, so now he has no sons to pass down old Yaxley title. Wooster B. is next in line. Uncle George is fit as a fiddle, however, and isn't likely to top off any time soon, thank goodness."

Bertie is much happier not having any responsibilities, and owning a drafty old country manse looks like work.

"Agincourt is in France, I think. Except it was supposed to be part of England, and people were dashed mad about it and arguing about who was king of what so they fought a war." Bertie's grasp of history is shaky. He mostly knows that Agincourt is Important because it means that Woosters are an old family, and that matters to the Aunts who constantly told him about the Wooster at Agincourt while he was growing up.

[folkscallmewander]

"Oh, I'm glad that your uncle is doin' fine. I think he appreciates your kindness." Bertie is such a good nephew if he cares so much about his Uncle George.

"So, lemme get this straight: France is another country on Earth, and England is too? But they're fightin' over someplace between them? Hopefully everthin' turned out alright."

Though the best thing would have been to never fight a war over a piece of land. Why use large-scale violence when diplomacy would also work? Sure, Wander admits that at time, you need to use force against an individual or small group (but he left that part to Sylvia), but never pit two armies of uninvolved civilians against each other. The first Wooster must have been one of those who was dragged into the war.

[what_ho_jeeves]

"They're allies now. They decided that they both dislike the Germans more than they dislike each other and now everything's boomps-a-daisy between those two, but not so hot with the Huns, which is odd because the King of England is a German."