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AC for the current month must be completed before requesting bonuses for that month. For new characters, AC must be submitted in lieu of the check in.

Each bonus is submitted as a bundle of three threads, which cannot be used for AC and must have a minimum of five comments from you. Threads have no expiration date and can be banked for the future, but each character is restricted to five bonuses each calendar month.

Bonuses must have an impact on the character, which can be as simple as a favorite food, or as poignant as a memento from a loved one. They cannot be a living creature. Bonuses can be common items (such as food, clothing, and tools) which are ICly requested by the character, or canon specific items (owned by the character) which are OOCly requested. Once general NPCs are unlocked, characters will ICly submit requests to the town head, who will work to acquire resources either from within the town or to be imported via train. Canon specific items will appear in a variety of ways.

Please use the following form:

Thread one: link (number of comments)
Thread two: link (number of comments)
Thread three: link (number of comments)
Bonus request:
Impact: motivation for requesting said item, emotions that would be evoked by the item, etc

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Thread one: Kuja + Jiro + Phil, eventually (5+)
Thread two: Kuja + Bunny (5, precisely)
Thread three: Kuja + Papyrus (5+)
Bonus request: A bound-book copy of the play "I Want To Be Your Canary."
Impact: there will be a little CULTURE in this damn town!! he's going to ~~force~~ ask phil nicely to create a copy of this that he can put in the library. Kuja loves this play, and his (sacrificed) sentimental item was actually a fake ticket to go see it. He's going to re-read it and lay down and have complicated emotions about it that he's never had before. since the last time he read it he learned his little brother/replacement was named after a character from this play...

^ I'm gonna say I'd like it if he gets this shortly after his statue escapade? Great time for him to have a reason to lay the hell down.

Thread one: Kuja + Phil (5+)
Thread two: Kuja + Ala (5+)
Thread three: Kuja + Ib (5+)
Bonus request: A copy of this set of clothes, but in purple. It's one of the types of uniforms worn by Genomes. The skirt isn't actually see through that's just sketch lines.
Impact: Kuja wouldn't actually ever request this but he WILL wear it. Clothes designed specifically for Genomes are kind of, just more comfortable than ones that aren't? His wrecked canon outfit was even a heavily modified version of the (more masc) Genome uniform but. It's November, Kuja. You can be thong out when it's spring.

^ This can be whenever.

Delivery for sir Kuja...

[ Hello... hi. Lark is here with an unmarked package bound in plain packaging paper, holding it out to Kuja wherever he is. The book delivery he'll make shortly after his statue escapade, with the package of clothing delivered a couple of days after. As expected, they both come from an anonymous sender. ]

_{[ Kuja's very reluctant to see anyone right now, just a tad busy nursing his wounded pride, but his first direct encounter with the mysterious Lark overrides the woe-is-me routine. Before the 17th inspired him to a, uh, general change of pace, he'd kept a wide yet curious orbit around the man whenever he saw him, like a wolf stalking its prey side-long. But now Lark's come to him first, on a day he's plainly out of sorts. ]}

...what? _{[ Oh, right-- he does like to keep up SOME illusion of manners. ]} ...yes, that would be me. How did you even..

_{[ After all, as per usual when he wanted to take in some air alone, Kuja was on a rooftop. ..but when he glances quizzically around, there is a fire escape that has access to here. Not that Kuja knows what a fire escape is. It's just weird scaffolding to him. Sorry, Lark, he's just left you awkwardly holding out a package while he figures this out. ]}

..right. Put it down here, then. _{[ He's totally fine physically, just lazy. ]} 'Sir Kuja'... Certainly no one's ever called me that. You do know I have a surname?

_{[ This is a test.

He's told no one in this town the name 'King.' If Lark has even an inkling of it, that will mean something. ]}

Edited 2022-11-15 08:13 (UTC)

[ Lark's impressive arm strength is attributed to how many times he's had to hold a package out while waiting for people to snap out of their daydreams. Put it down where... His first instinct is to set it atop of Kuja's head so that he can use the opportunity to leave while Kuja reaches up for it, but looking at the other man, he decides against it and instead carefully sets it down on the ground next to him. ]

Do I?

[ If that's true, it's not something he's heard spoke aloud, or was informed by any other means. ]

...I had mistakenly addressed another client by his plain name, without the title of "prince." Is "sir" no good?

[ He's trying! to be! polite! but it's really just turning out to be too much trouble to be worth it ]

_{[ Hmmm. The little 'prince' anecdote COULD be a sly reference. Or maybe not.

Well, Lark's (mostly) passed the test. He's disappointed. Perhaps... The blood-harvesting postman is just that. A blood-harvesting postman.

He pulls the package into his lap and starts fussing at the binding. It feels.. solid, but not unyielding. It's a shallow sort of rectangle... That could be all kinds of things. ]}

For the future, my surname is King, and though my title was lord, I prefer you not to use it. 'Kuja King' will be just fine. I am no knight of anyone's court.

Kuja King.

[ It... doesn't quite seem to fit, but he'll use what name is requested of him, especially since he only has a vague understanding of kings and lords. ]

The package is not so delicate. The paper tears easily, and is good as kindling.

[ It's like watching a child with a birthday present, turning the box this way and that, giving it a little shake and trying to guess what's inside. Lark is admittedly kind of curious himself, being more accustomed to delivering letters instead of packages. ]

_{[ Great news, Lark! He's opened it immediately with his sharp little claws once he hears the words 'not delicate.' There's a little bit of cord he has to nudge around out of the way, but--]}

..oh, I love this play. _{[ The attitude from earlier has softened. He already has a billion questions, but.. ehh. Trying to answer a billion questions too fast got him put in the torment rock once this week already. ]} This is too thick to be just the script, though--

_{[ He gives it a quick flip through, treating Lark to something that looks a lot like an illuminated manuscript, but for a theatre production. Prop references, a foreword talking about the playwright's life, dossiers for each role--

He stops, by accident, on the page for the role of Zidane.

Loyal, a romantic. A clever duelist that ought to be played only by the nimble and skilled.

And yet he wasn't the lead. ]}

...I'll have Phil make a copy of this for the library, for certain. It would be a waste to hoard this to myself.

[ He's curious, standing a little straighter in order to look at the pages, but nothing changes in his expression; he has trouble enough reading in general, and the tiny font makes it even harder. ]

It is... a rulebook...?

[ A play? play as in a game? that's a super thick rulebook. looks like it'd be good as kindling. ]

No! No, it's not a game-- _{we have more than enough of THOSE. Don't tell Judai I said that.}

_{[ He riffles carefully back through the pages, trying to find something good to point to, to establish that this is quality theatre. He lands on a reference page, for a centuries-traditional design for Princess Cornelia's costume in her death scene. He tilts the book a bit, and lifts it closer to Lark. ]}

See, this is one of the costumes. It's a play-- rather, a stage show. Most of the words are telling the people performing in it what to say. You've attended one before, surely?

Edited (FORGOT AN ACTION I WANTED IN THERE..) 2022-11-16 01:30 (UTC)

[ The letters look very much the same to him when turned right side up, and he's just going to have to take Kuja's word for it that it's an interesting enough ...stage show book... to want to make copies of it. ]

Not... written down like this. Sometimes people make a spectacle of themselves, and others gather to watch.

[ Like statue!Kuja. That's about the closest thing he can think of, but nothing directed. ]

If no one writes it down then every time something like this happens-- _{[ He flaps his arm at the town, at large. ]} --there goes the whole culture! There's no permanency when all you rely on is word of mouth.

_{[ He's a spectacle every day of his life, Lark, you'll have to be specific. ]}

[ He looks around at the town, not sure what Kuja is referring to but ?? ]

They are coming back.

[ THEY ARE he just doesn't know when. They have to come back, don't leave him here alone with these people. ]

_{[ flatly, with full disbelief: ]}I'll look forward to it.

But it doesn't change the fact that any life left unremarked is just - ephemera!

_{[ he has very deep personal feelings about this. ]}

So -- so we'll all just have to do better around here. It's not that hard.

Do better how? You wish to be recorded in history books?

[ That's a bit too much attention for his comfort, not saying anything about just how many lives are like a spring breeze: soft and brief, a comfort and then nothing. Ephemera. Is that such a bad thing, though? ]

Don't look at me like that. Who wants to lay eternal in some unmarked gra--

_{[ you've been in that graveyard, kuja. ]}

.... .. ... ..

..so maybe that's just what you people do here. That's.. I can't claim to understand that perspective at all. Of course I'd like to be in a history book, especially when the alternative is no one in a few years knows anything about me at all.

_{[ interesting word choice on the number of years, kuja. he'd thought the words, 'few hundred years' -- but unintentional honestly slipped off his tongue without him registering. ]}

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hewwo i've had the note to request this on my phone for days now

approved!

first time is notable reaction second time he's just like k thnx ♥️

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sorry Lark. Tho I have just come up w an INCREDIBLE brick joke abt this scene. Give it 5 months

waiting for it

good as kindling huh Lark???? No I know you're a good boy

allegedly

lark do you. do you need glasses. lark do we need to go down to the walmart for reading glasses

lark w glasses is just better at being illiterate

illiterate AND a megane

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i. lost this notif. whaddya lark they DO still exist. color him surprised

ha! vindication.

kuja why do you make EVERY conversation into this