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[vampirella]

@ ELVIRA



《 If you expect me to bother, make sure it's worth my time. 》

( text / voice / action )

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super-duper backdated to mid december

[maisel]

[ There will be four containers by her door when Carmilla opens it. In those four contains are small batches of brownies, each with different ingredients. The differences are clearly labeled in neat, perfect cursive, and there's an additional note as well: ]

Ms. Vampirella,

Here's proof that ingredients matter. Pick a favourite, and I'll add your giggle smoke to it next time. Enjoy!

-Miriam Maisel

her un is ~elvira on the network, just fyi!!!

[vampirella]

( look, she was pretty sure that brownie mix and handmade were about the same. especially when you were just going to add a bunch of marijuana butter to them to get as high as possible from a single brownie.

she... might have overestimated her stance.

she sends back a message via the tablet, instead of snail mail. not her thing. )

i refuse to admit boxed mix is bad, but i'm not to proud to admit this is better

as much as i appreciate the cheesecake swirl, definitely the dark chocolate with chocolate chunks for the grass application. 100%. do you charge for your baking extravagance, mrs. maisel?

WHOOPS time to retcon :' )

[maisel]

Elvira,

All I'd like is a tiny little slice, maybe half. I've noticed sometimes getting a little crazy can be fun but I can't eat too many carbs without a proper exercise regimen and I've yet to narrow that down, and I've only ever really smoked marijuana from a cigarette.

(Speaking of jazz cigarettes, remind me to tell you about the jazz club me and my friend Lenny Bruce went to, it was a hoot.)

If I'm being honest, which I always try to be, if I don't keep doing something in this town I'm going to think too much about the situation and possibly have a mental break, and I'm not sure where one would find the proper medication to counter that in a little town such as this, so baking it is.

-Miriam

(PS. Do you call it grass? Is that what's popular? How many names for this freaking plant are there?)

you're good haha an easy retcon to do!! TW: coffin of ... blood. . . . lmfao

[vampirella]

( Elvira is 100% not her name. has she made any effort to correct the misunderstanding? so far, none whatsoever. to be fair, Carmilla isn't her name either, so, who really cares? )

fucking fair enough. beacon is about the most boring place i've ever had to be longterm, and i realize you don't know me but that's really saying something

( considering her Maman had her interred for a few decades in a coffin of blood, it takes a lot to be worse than that. at least the constant self-hatred, panic, and terror had kept her busy. )

sweetie, honestly. you're dead. if you can't put back a few carbs, then when can you? you can have a whole one. no, two. just maybe don't eat it all at once, if you've only tried a joint. these tend to be stronger, especially because you can put back half the pan before they kick in.

weed is the slang du jour in the time i'm from, but the terminology changes with the decades. there's probably a good dozen terms now.

[maisel]

Elvira,

Wow, that sounds complicated. I like that deal, though. Would you mind possibly spending some time while I try it? It sounds like it acts differently.

We'll also neet pretzels.

I'm from the 1950s, which it seems everyone else is decidedly not, so I'm trying to keep up with all the important things from the future. Really wishing I paid more attention in school, though.

-Miriam

[vampirella]

( isn't she so giving, promising 2 of an entire pan to the person doing all the work in making them? honestly, she's bowled over by her own generosity. )

1950s? yikes.

i'll stick around, as long as you're not a mom type that slaps hands away from cake batter. i'm not afraid of salmonella in the afterlife.

[maisel]

Elvira,

Only if you wash your hands first.
Deal?

-Midge

(PS I'm hoping that 'yikes' is a good sort of yikes.)

[vampirella]

there are worse decades to live in than 1950s but as someone from 2015, i know what i'd pick

( and this is speaking from experience, because she's lived through the 50s. and that once was enough. )

when are we talking? because i'm willing to eat them as we speak, and apparently this baking thing isn't instantaneous

[maisel]

Elvira,

Don't worry. You'll know.

-Miriam

[ wow that was unintentionally threatening. ]

[vampirella]

oooh, very forceful. not the answer i was hoping for, but great delivery.

( carmilla, stop. )

@badeaux | pre arrival log post spirit food poisoning

[ultraviolents]

i have a question for you.

[vampirella]

then ask already, i'm growing old over here

( technically she already is old but HEY nobody needs to know that! )

[ultraviolents]

[ well she had intended to try being tactful, but if carmilla insists... ]

you said it would be better when it was out.

what did you mean by that?

[vampirella]

( damn. why did she have to remember that?? this is what Carmilla gets for not being a dick 100% of the time. the one time she showed someone genuine sympathy, it comes back to haunt her!!!! )

i meant knowing that there was dead blood and spirit flesh inside of you would make you sick, and probably sooner rather than later. so it would be better to just get rid of it before that could happen.

[ultraviolents]

yeah, i'd had the same line of thought. [ hence why she'd been doing it to herself. ] the thing is, it did make me sick. for the rest of the week when we got back to town. did that happen to you?

[vampirella]

let me guess, puking up a storm with a green glint in your eye? it's been going around.

( evasive? yes. but look, she's gotta be cagey about the fact she was the OG spirit snacker, ok??? )

[ultraviolents]

[ and her boyfriend's spirit child started crying whenever she was downstairs, which had made trying to heal from her injuries a real blast. ]

to you, or did you pick up on that from the network?

[ or somewhere else? ]

[vampirella]

( ELEkTRA WHY ARE YOU SO NOSY )

i've seen it around with others that got kidnapped. in particular, the ones forced fed. i'm not sure if it's happened to anyone who only experienced the bleeding.

[ultraviolents]

[ look when you're not doing much but trying to recuperate from blood letting in between alternating bouts of violent stomach cramps and nausea, you have a lot of time to reflect on the details of your kidnapping. ]

not everyone who was force fed got sick. and i don't think anyone mentioned their eyes turning green.

[vampirella]

probably because they're puking their guts out just like you were, but take my word for it. i know of at least a few.

makes you wonder if that's what their intention was, doesn't it?

( this did not seem like an accident, or spirits unable to properly communicate. the spirits were trying to accomplish something. she cannot fathom why the green eyes would want to force others to join their ranks but it's also sure what it all seems like. )

[ultraviolents]

[ damn. she hadn't really thought that would work, but she'd been hoping it would. ]

i think we're past the point of wondering. except for how they decided who they were going to take.

how did they find you?

[vampirella]

( you might smell a rat, Elektra, but she's not squeaking quite yet. she's had practice staying mum, she's pretty good at it. )

think there's a pattern? because i can't say i spotted one, but maybe

i was walking home in the dark. i made it easy on them. what about you?

[ultraviolents]

i don't know if there is one, but thinking there was something specific about us they saw and wanted makes me less angry than it being something random.

i was in bed. my boyfriend was either downstairs or they made it so i couldn't see him, but neither of us are light sleepers. they had me outside before i could even scream.

[vampirella]

you saw the ramshackle bunch of kidnapped, right? not sure the pattern would be flattering, if there was one

yeesh. what a wakeup call. not sure if i feel better or worse getting nabbed off the street

[ultraviolents]

you were there, too.

getting snatched off the street requires less manipulation, but both are bad.

[vampirella]

yeah, which is why i wouldn't be comforted by a pattern if i were you

they can fuck with our brains, right? maybe that's how they can steal us off the street and out of bed with nobody being the wiser

or your bf sleeps like a rock, one of the two

at some point after everyone goes under but prior to her post on the network:

[bigtoughgirl]

so you tried to eat me.