#thx for asking abt moss my buddy moss!

[artemissoteira]

1 3 8 & 26 for moss

thanks Ozzy!! moss my nightmare weasel child. (DND char askmeme here.)

1. what is their coffee shop order?

you think I know anything about coffee?? hm. moss gets like, a quadruple espresso or something that is. not to the extent of the stories about 20-shot monstrosities that go around here sometimes, but is still like, oh, damn, okay, someone's got an exam to study for.

they don't have an exam to study for, though. they live on frat row and unofficially audit courses at university so everyone assumes that's what's going on. they just need to go fast.

also they don't like the taste of coffee so they chug it as fast as possible. it's never occurred to them to get actual good tasting drinks instead they assume you just have to suffer through it.

3. would/do they know how to drive a car? are they/would they be good at it?

in duskvol the primary transportation is GOAT CARRIAGES bc horses are too expensive and let me tell you, the instant JD gives us a goat carriage moss is going to be driving it. they definitely don't know how to drive. this will not stop them in any way.

edit: did this already happen?? my blades notes are shit but I do have a vague memory of JD letting me claim there was a goat carriage nearby as a getaway flashback and I might have claimed moss could drive. but I think they had a weird conversation with the goats about it and they definitely don't drive like a person. I just had surgery so I can't be blamed either way whether this is true.

if they did learn to drive a car though, I think they would be a good driver, if a scary one. they would go really fast but still be in control. they would love highway driving. driving is a puzzle where you need to figure out how to get to your goal while in constant motion in a shared space of everyone else also moving towards their goals in very clear and structured ways. and you go fast. moss would love it.

if the weasel took control while driving though all bets would be off. Chase.

8. what is the most interesting thing that they regularly carry on their person?

hmm well they have bioluminescent mushrooms that grow behind their ears, but that doesn't really count as carrying. mechanically in blades you don't have to declare inventory until after you use something; they have a fine shadow silk robe that tucks shadows around you that they like to use. and last game they pulled out some kind of, like, soul anchor rock that they used to transfer a child's consciousness to a weasel, accidentally taking the weasel into their own consciousness in the process.

but regularly... I think they carry around dirt from the rooftops in different parts of the city. not a lot of dirt, they just like to make sure they have a little bit from everywhere in their pockets, to help stay rooted to where they are. they have a small pouch of dirt from the ghostlands, beyond the barrier, that they wear around their neck; they haven't opened it in years.

26. do they like to collect things? if so, what?

yes! they like old things, things with history, things that have lasted. what they do on frat row is go to frat parties and then disappear into the attics and poke around for things that are interesting or old or forgotten. sometimes they've been hired to do this in like a robbery way, but mostly it's for fun. they have a one-sided rivalry with a locksmith (Frank?) which I'm going to decide started when they did a slew of B&Es down a block of houses that Frank did maintenance for. they didn't actually steal anything of value, just moved a bunch of things around and took some like, quilts or old army trash or something. they weren't used to picking modern locks so they did a real rough job on them and Frank had to deal with repairing them.

I think Moss maybe also went and asked Frank about how locks work beforehand, so that they could figure out how to break into them. Frank thought they were gonna be buddies (which moss also still thinks) but he put two and two together and now thinks moss was just using him. which, they kind of were, so, fair.