thedogkeeper | 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. ~~Maybe~~.

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.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

For J. Sodder:

At first it looks like the image wants to shape itself. The water quivers, vibrating, and there's something. It looks vaguely like a child's drawing of a deer on a wall, but then it's gone almost as quickly as it had arrived, and out of the bowl comes a horrendous shrieking. If Diarmuid has been to the Lab on the mountain, he may recognize the shriek.

For The Dog Keeper:

The image is the outside of Deerington College beneath some of the bleachers. There's a few Wastes huddled in a tight circle, a soft murmuring between them, and sitting in the middle appears to be a stronger looking Waste with a Dog. The Dog is surprising since it's the only Waste dog around, and it's not one many people have seen. As a matter of fact, up until Diarmuid, only one other has seen the Dog.

It's the Dog looks right at Diarmuid, and it gives a friendly tail wag, but it makes the rest of the Wastes startle. They scurry quickly away, gasping.

For Mayor Sodder:

This image opens up into a very sophisticated looking room. One can see windows beyond, and if Diarmuid or someone else has an eye for detail, they will recognize that the perspective is looking out onto the streets of Deerington just outside of the Mayor's house. It looks like you might be in the Mayor's office.

There's a large leather chair with its back to the image, creaking gently, and crackling music can be heard, even through the bowl, and it sounds almost like it's in the room with Diarmuid.

Then a very clear, deep voice sounds out: "Spy on me all you like, little boy. See what good it does you. Children shouldn't dally in the affairs of grown-ups."

Almost immediately after, tentacles will snap out of the bowl and try to grab at Diarmuid. They are ultimately harmless, but they can be startling. They withdraw almost as quickly back into the bowl.

For Mother Superior:

When the bowl comes to this one, Diarmuid will find Mother Superior staring straight back at him almost within seconds. Her haunting face ever concealed by her gas mask, and she merely stares. Then she lashes her hand out at the image, and on Diarmuid's end, all of the water in the bowl, as well as Diarmuid's blood, will turn rancid and black, bubbling over the edges of the bowl. The bowl can be cleaned out and used as normal, but it will smell quite badly for a while after. Diarmuid will get this reaction every time he attempts to see where Mother Superior is. Some contact will be more violent than others.

[Diarmuid's... rather surprised by the turn of events —

But it also leads him to believe that those who aren't necessarily normal Sleepers can see him just as he sees them. Obviously. So with that said, he cuts out some paper and does it all again, just once, just enough to feel sated by it all:]

For J. Sodder: