Time to Make the Donuts

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THE ON-DUTY MEME



We're all used to playing our characters in special circumstances--sharing a bath, AUed into a robot, in the rain, lost in the ball pit (well that's one way to get your extra hour)...but how often do we get to actually play our characters doing their day jobs?

This meme is for just that.

INSTRUCTIONS
1. Write a starter about your character going about their day at work, wherever that may be.

If your character is a doctor, write them checking in on a patient, or having a meal in the hospital cafeteria. If they're a lawyer, write them at court. If they're a professional ghost-hunter? Yeah, that'd be a pretty neat starter too!

Be sure to include some sort of hook that allows other characters to join in the action, even if your character works alone. Maybe they brought their pile of research out to a cafe? Maybe they need help with something?

2. Respond to other characters' starters. Please tag out if you put a starter up. I know I can't enforce this, but no meme goes anywhere if people don't engage.

3. Thread. Have a good day at work, or perhaps an awful day at work.

Comments

[wolfdogwitcher]

"Had an absolutely crazy Leshen contract." Eskel says, his eyes lighting up at the prospect of bragging. "The damn thing might have been as old as the Conjunction and it was clever. Tracked it for days And then I lost him, would you believe?" He shakes his head. "Well, I'm combing the edge of the woods and I come to this crossroads." He toes off his boots, rolling his shoulders. "And there's an old man sitting there, still as a stone, with a huge black wolf at his feet. He was sitting with a little bowl for alms in front of him. And I said 'You shouldn't be out here, old man, it's dangerous' and he goes..." Eskel drops his voice to a shuddering creak. "'Come closer, my son, for I am old as the mountains and I cannot hear.'" Eskel shakes his head. "I shoulda known but my medallion didn't jump until it was too late. The old lifted his head and his eyes were like burning embers in a sea of black. And the then the wolf was on top of me."

[pricklywolf]

Lambert chuckles softly, but as the story starts to get more interesting, he turns his attention fully on Eskel. "Fuck, you really fell for that?"

[wolfdogwitcher]

Like I said, my medallion didn't react, so I thought maybe I was being paranoid, chasing this thing around in the damn woods do long. Anyway, the wolf's on top of me and I can't get to my swords so I had to cast Igni to get it off me. Everything smelled like burning fur. And I could hear the old man laughing and laughing and laughing. And when I get up he's gone but there's a fog so think I could barely see the trees. And just when I think I've lost him again..."

He unbuckles his belt, tugging trousers down and smalls up, showing a cluster of scars twisted into his thigh where the Leshen and caught him on its antlers.

"Thing gored the shit out of my leg."

[pricklywolf]

"Shit!" Lambert exclaims, wincing at the sight of the warped flesh. "Looks like it hurt. But you're obviously not dead, so...how'd you kill it?"

[wolfdogwitcher]

"Well, the trouble with leshies is getting them to hold fucking still so I'm just throwing Yrden left and right and trying not to get caught in any of 'em and I'm bleeding all over the place and I've just wrecked my only pair of pants and this thing just won't go down." He fixes his trousers and throws himself onto the bed, head hanging off the side, as a boy might, while he tells his tale. So we're just going round and round. 'Cause I'd smashed all this thing's totem, so he knows once I've killed him, he's gone for good, so he's determined to get me first. Finally, I took a chance and tried Axii and I'll be damned if I didn't manage to stop him just long enough to get the silver through him." He exhales, arms flopped to his side. "Shoulda seen the skull on that fucker. Antlers like..." He spreads his arms.

[pricklywolf]

Lambert puts his sword away, then scoots closer to the bed, staring with rapt attention at his brother. He's trying to imagine what it looked like. Eskel's signs were amazing to watch when he was younger, and it's no different now. His eyes go wide when he sees how big the antler spread was.

"Gods, yeah, he must've been ancient. Axii really worked on him?"

[wolfdogwitcher]

"Barely. I could feel him fighting me the whole time. I think it confused him more than controlled him. How dare I, a mere man, crawl into his mind like that. The look in his eye before I took him down, I've never seen such rage." Eskel says, with something like admiration.

[pricklywolf]

"Well, yeah, he was as old as time itself, probably. And you come along and fuck his day up." Lambert chuckles. He's definitely proud of Eskel. "Did you get better pay for it?"

[wolfdogwitcher]

"I couldn't get more coin but the lord of the manor let me sleep in the house for a night until walking was a bit easier." Eskel laughed. "So I got a real mattress and a decent meal out of it. Almost worth losing my business, eh?" He says, gesturing to the spot on his thigh where the antler had come down frightfully close to his cock. "What about you?"

[pricklywolf]

Lambert winces again. "That would've been a travesty...I mean, you have a great dick. It'd be a real loss." He shifts to sprawl out on the floor so that his head is toward Eskel's, forcing him to look at the older witcher upside down.

"We didn't have anything so exciting. Got chased out of an inn, though. We asked for a room, innkeep said they only had a single bed, we said it was fine. Then he noticed our medallions were different." He sighs and rolls his eyes. "Stupid inbred whoreson...He said one witcher was bad enough, then started badmouthing Aiden. So I punched him."