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thedogkeeper) wrote2030-06-10 04:16 am
thedogkeeper) wrote2030-06-10 04:16 am
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Doggie Delivery Service
Get a Message to the Dog Keeper
It is entirely possible to send messages to the Dog Keeper! While the Dog Keeper seems capable of sending text messages to characters, it does not seem like characters can find anywhere to contact the Dog Keeper directly through the phones. How strange! Oh well. Guess you'll just have to send the Dog Keeper a letter the old fashioned way! Characters will have to write up a letter and put it in an envelope with "TO THE DOG KEEPER" written where a typical address would be printed. It doesn't seem like a return address is required! Characters will then leave their letters in their mail boxes (apartments and dorms have mailboxes in the lobbies that match to room numbers). They may also send the Dog Keeper items of any shape or size. To do this, if it doesn't fit in the mail box, simply set it by the mailbox. Seems like the Delivery Dogs know what to do! No item is too big or small- and the greatest part?
It doesn't look like there's any charge on postal!
To contact the Dog Keeper leave a comment below and the Dog Keeper will respond eventually.
The Dog Keeper sends back letters- but they're all typed up. And of course- don't always expect helpful answers. Or any answers at all.
Get a Message to Someone Else!
While you wouldn't technically use this page to send a character letters/packages, you can assume that characters would be able to use the Delivery Dogs for similar functions with each other as well as the Dog Keeper.Meaning if your characters makes up a package/letter that they want to send to another character, you would execute this by having the character write up an address like they would in the real world on the package or letter and then put it in their mail box with the flag up (apartments and dorms have mailboxes in the lobbies that match to room numbers). For objects bigger than the mailbox, they only have to set it down near the mail box and flip up the flag (if there is a flag to be flipped)! All deliveries are made within a day.
To execute this ICly, you would just proceed with usual inbox interactions as always.
This is just an assumed background action among characters. You do not need to make requests/make it known on this page that you are using the delivery dogs for this purpose.
Get a Message to Another NPC!
Currently it is not possible to send letters/items to other NPCs other than the Dog Keeper. This may change in the future.If a character attempts to do so, they will find whatever item or letter they have sent in the mail box the following day....
....Only it'll look strangely as if it's aged several hundred years in one sitting.
How odd.
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The deer are probably more on your side than anyone else. Do not trust Mother Superior. The Townsfolks, as I am sure you have noticed, are not your friends.
They always listen. And watch. They do not trust any of you, which means we need to not trust them. I advise Sleepers to avoid contact when possible. Don't hold your important conversations where they may hear.
The Wastes will harm no one. They believe they will be harmed by everyone. They just want to escape too.
Sodder is not doing well, no. She has been unwell since October. Haven't you noticed how sick the town has been?
It is not that where she is is confidential, it is that where she is is complicated.
I can do my best, friend.
You are welcome,
If I have a real name on a birth certificate, I no longer remember it. I am happy to be called the Dog Keeper for it's exactly what I am.
I would think you would know about what that's like. Naming yourself something fitting for what you are.
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I'll think up a decent letter for her, in that case. If she's not well, I don't want to write a subpar one - better to just be as specific and brief as possible. I've noticed the townspeople are definitely not too fond of us — and since you seem to be aware of my second name, I guess it's safe enough to tell you I've been helping them, but... definitely not trusting them. At all. Even a little. Have you SEEN their fashion sense?
Mother Superior isn't someone I'm familiar with.
I'm guessing she hasn't showed up yet?
And the Wastes... the Wastes, I'd like to help, if I can. Whether it's getting them out of here or just getting them come back to a more normal state of being... I've been in the mines, and the Wastes remind me of that place and how it's... well, I think you might know.
Sodder seemed to have been familiar with the Erasure Virus, or at least the cure, so I guess one thing I've been wondering is if... Sodder and the Wastes were sleepers just like us? Were the Wastes just... sleepers who are too traumatized being here to interact normally anymore?
And I'm sorry to keep blabbering, but... Are you implying that Sodder's health influences the town's health? Or are you saying that she's too sick to help keep the town from deteriorating? I guess I just want to know as much about her circumstances as possible, so I can be of more use to her and the people trying to get out.
Thank you,
Peter Parker
P.S. Okay but what about 'Doug'? You shouldn't have to go nameless, names are a powerful thing, you know?
Doug's a pretty cool-sounding Keeper. I don't know.
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That would likely be for the best. Do not hold hope for a direct reply. Letters are the most difficult for her to achieve. Sodder and I are aware of many things. My dogs are everywhere, after all.
They are perfectly in fashion! Just the coordinating hair and colors might be a little much. But I'm not a fashionista, so who am I to judge. Not everyone looks good in spandex, you know.
You may not have seen her broadcast, then. There was only the one. I can attach a transcript of the broadcast with this letter along with my original copy of the paper I sent that day. Sorry for the additional weight, but it might help you to know.
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to respond about the Wastes and the Mines. Not emotionally. I am incapable of telling you certain things I'm ʎɹɹos
I am not implying. If Sodder is sick, the town is sick. And unfortunately for you Sleepers, she is sick a lot.
I'm sorry to not be able to offer more
- "Doug"
Do you really think names are powerful? Interesting hypothesis, Peter Parker. You may call me Doug.
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Yikes.
I mean, at this Mother Superior. She's textbook villain in style — I'm really glad I haven't ran into any nun-themed villains, by the way (but I think they've been making a ton of nun-themed horror movies back home lately, so maybe it's too obvious). I guess there might be a first for everything. I only arrived late in October, so this is all really, really helpful, thank you.
Seems like Mother Superior blames Sodder for us being here. More than that — when she said she'd captured 'her' essence, is she implying this was Sodder's? If that's what you meant by her being sick since October? That would make sense, if whatever this test did, it made her worse for wear.
And don't apologize, you're helping me a lot here. I'm more sorry that I can't do anything in return other than blabber and crack stupid jokes. Actually —
Is there anything we can send her, to help her health improve? Or does this mailing system... not quite work like that? It's just that she helped people like me survive that virus, with the postcards she'd sent out; if I could return the favor in any way, I'd like to.
Peter Parker
P.S. Absolutely, Doug my dude.
Sometimes I say the names of people I care about for a bunch of reasons, to no one in particular.
And sometimes hearing my name from someone else makes me feel a little less tired.
Names are super powerful, amazing tools.
That's why we get so steamed when baristas spell them wrong on our espressos.