23 | Which Involves Terrible Penmenship | Written

[strangewonders]

[There's some horrible chicken-scratch in the journal. It might be easier to read if you squint. Or turn it sideways. Or maybe upside down.]

Well, someone's having a bit of fun at our expense [expanse?]. It could be the castle, or it might be someone else mucking [mocking? mimicking?] about with things they shouldn't. Either way, I'll be up in the library looking for a way to fix it before the townspeople [tower? towtruck? torrential?] riot. You can thank me later.

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written obvs

[eaglet]

Where did you learn to write?

[Wait maybe that's his loss, was that rude to say...]

Perhaps you should practise more...

Re: written obvs

[strangewonders]

Yes, clearly my penmanship is the most important thing to discuss. [If only he had a better way to convey his sarcasm through text]

[eaglet]

[It's okay, he gets it anyway... well, he does after he manages to decipher the response.]

I apologise. I should not judge you.

You are in the library?

[strangewonders]

It's a bad idea to judge people you've never met.


Yes. Doing a little research.

[kungfuwitch]

[It takes her a few minutes to decipher the writing before she replies, herself]

Need a hand?

[strangewonders]

I wouldn't mind. 'Mysterious Mass Laryngitis' leaves a lot of ground to cover.

[Good luck making heads or tails of that phrase, though.]

[delincuente]

Holy crap dude, you have worse handwriting than me!

[strangewonders]

Maybe we can make a sport of it. If we're not all horribly killed or turned incorporeal [into cereal?] before this is all over.

[delincuente]

Hey, don't give the castle ideas. Being turned into cereal would suck big time.

[strangewonders]

[He stares at that for a moment but sure, into cereal.]

We'd be nibbled to death by mice.

Also written terribly but for other reasons.

[radiantwingedone]

assume that some letters are off.

[ The journal read "expanse", "mocking" and "towtruck" to him. And unless Howl was drinking, that doesn't make terribly much sense.

On the other hand, most of his letters are crowding each other and finding where the words end is either a huge gap, or another case of crowding. ]

will join at library.

[strangewonders]

[He'd be miffed, but he realizes this must suck for Duke, so he actually takes the time to try and make things legible. It's a small improvement]

Likely.

I'll keep an eye out.

[radiantwingedone]

[ So nice, Howl. He doesn't really notice other than the journal doesn't seem to be having any further troubles, though. ]

thanks

[ Its a little more lightly written than normal pressure. There's a text whisper. ]

[lord_wizard]

I suggest you look into lessons on penmanship when this is over.

[strangewonders]

Not interested in my notes anymore?

[lord_wizard]

Howl? [The underlining is done several times for emphasis]

[strangewonders]

Yes?

[Right. He hadn't actually bothered to write in the journal before, had he? Well, that explained a few things...]

[princelyspirit]

That sounds like a pretty good idea, actually. I just have one question: what do towtrucks have to do with anything?

[strangewonders]

Towtruck?

[There are some marks on the page, like someone is irritatedly tapping their pen]

T O W N S P E O P L E

[And it's underlined twice]

[princelyspirit]

Oh! Townspeople. Got it. But

[There's a short pause in her writing, and a small inkblot forms at the end of her t, as she gets her thoughts together. She eventually scratches the word out and starts again]

But this can't be the worst thing that's happened here, right? Do you really think the townspeople are going to freak out?

[It could just be hyperbole, but hey, that sort of thing isn't always easy to pick up on via text]

[strangewonders]

It's not the worst thing, no. But at least in my experience... the castle tends to leave them out of it, or leave them unaware of any changes.

That doesn't seem to have happened.

[bezazzled]

Hey who is this?

[Mabel asks the important questions.]

[strangewonders]

Howl Pendragon.

[And boy, his signature is worse than the rest of it combined]

[bezazzled]

That's just a bunch of scribbles! Can't you write any neater?

[strangewonders]

No.

[Yes. But he's being stubborn about it]