the marquis de Carabas
06 January 2014 @ 09:38 pm
spam } roundabout

[There are two rats. Neither of them have names but what are known to themselves, and both of them were, until recently, terrifically annoyed at being removed from their perfectly amenable existence and deposited on the Barge, where there are no other rats and also no real gravity (the kind that exists they don't wholly believe in).]

[After a significant period of negotiation, a deal has been struck: they will stay, for the purposes of errands, company, and general nuisancing, in exchange for food and protection. As such, the marquis de Carabas has placed a charm on them, so that should anyone or anything threaten them, they grow to twice the size of the threat.]

[They run around on their own a decent portion of the time, but it's more energy-efficient to ride with the marquis, so he can be seen more or less everywhere he goes with a rat on his shoulder or in one of his multitudinous pockets. The CES is a dimly-lit forest when he visits, drifting mist obscuring one's view of the path ahead, and he consults with them on the most interesting direction in which to proceed. On deck, they run the railing ahead of him and pause to criticize the others on board with their beady eyes. In the halls, they scuttle from door to door underfoot, tails twitching, seeking out shadows. In the gardens, he tends to the beehive in a distant sort of way and will definitely not tell anyone how he knows how to do this. The rats keep away in his pocket for this period, because they were not born yesterday, thank you.]


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[The aforementioned rats are sitting both on one shoulder, looking with an air of intense disapproval at the communicator. Technology: fuck it. The marquis looks amused at their annoyance, as he generally does whenever anybody is annoyed about anything. At least it's friendly amusement.]

What's always baffled me about this place is how inorganic it is. No - pests. [One of them looks at him with extreme displeasure. He shrugs. What?] An ordinary ship would pick something up at port, especially with all the cargo taken on. Even for a ship that's not technically a ship, enough other things come on board - entire alternate universes, for example - this level of sterility is impractically perfect.

And boring.

At least there are bees now.


( ooc; THERE IS A BEEHIVE IN THE GARDENS NOW, I JUST FORGOT TO SAY ANYTHING ABOUT IT, THE MARQUIS AND THE EMPEROR STOLE A BEEHIVE. yep. )
 
 
the marquis de Carabas
08 July 2013 @ 09:29 pm
[After waking up from his coma, the marquis de Carabas lies low for several days. He considers the nature of this place, the things that it does, the ways that it manipulates its passengers. The ways that these passengers theorize about the nature of the Barge in order to make some sense of a nonsensical place. Also: the fact that people in general are so eager for sense.]

[He considers the fact that he is on his own, that the book he was brought has been read through several times, that his eyes hurt and he's tired, but unwilling to sleep. Also: that people do like their theories.]

[And he decides to collect some. Or at least perform a social experiment.]

[He leaves his door ajar, revealing the interior to the level 4 hallway. There is no odor; there's also no natural light, though he does leave one lamp burning in the door to the left tunnel.]

[Then he leaves. He walks, and occasionally circles back to his door to see if anything's been caught.]