#I'm not saying cowplants should be allowed to eat pets of course

[victorluvsalice]

It's Winter Tuesday in the Chill Valicer Save, and we're into the final stretch of prepping the store to actually open! Don't worry, though, this particular update is not primarily them just standing around fishing. XD Instead, we're spending a lot more time at home on the farm, with the gang catching up on a few things and plumping up a few skills --

-->Smiler started their day entertaining Shadow and feeling the love, mopping up some mysterious symbols in the barn, and singing a few songs while jamming on their guitar -- soon joined by Shadow and Shock, the latter of whom decided to start singing along. XD I may not have planned on these darn kittens, but they are very, very cute. :) They then headed back out to the barn to tune up Bugs and Elmer again -- gotta keep those garden-bots in good condition if we want the help in the greenhouse!

-->Victor eventually woke up and got put on perfume-making duty, as I only had a couple of slots to fill on those shelves and figured Victor could stir up a few pots at home as easily as he could at work. He made a bottle of Happy scent, which got him up to Perfumery skill level 4, which allowed him to make a Flirty scent as well! :) Always great to be able to make something new for the store!

-->Alice, meanwhile, got up, used the toilet, and then immediately had to fix the toilet when it broke right after she got up off it. And then got sent downstairs to finish taking care of the laundry before she herself could get dressed. In case you were wondering why she looks depressed in that picture. :p She eventually got clothes on and sped upstairs to try starting another book for her Bestselling Author aspiration (a fantasy title based on Looking-Glass Land, called "Knight To E-4") -- but then her werewolf instincts started getting in the way, first demanding that she take a nap (she LITERALLY JUST GOT UP), and then demanding that she got outside. *shakehead* Being a werewolf is tough sometimes, y'all!

-->Though being a medium isn't particularly easy either, as Victor found out when he went out on the back porch to try and clear the specter there by giving it a Nimble Mind potion. It did NOT appreciate the present (perhaps because it doesn't have a brain to learn skills with?), and Victor quickly fled into his greenhouse to tend his plants instead. Fortunately, by this point, Smiler had finished tuning up the garden-bots and had wandered upstairs to mix some drinks at the bar -- I let them make a Fruity Fizzy Drink so they could try giving it to the specter later. Perhaps a "juicy" drink would work where a skilly one had failed?