awashrpg | user: #B91600 - subject: Missing Hat

[ contrary to his fairly casual way of speaking, Lupin types on the forums exactly the way you'd expect a gentleman from the 1800s to write a letter. ]

My dear fellow abductees,

The recent events involving Shadows and Shadow-Monsters led to the unfortunate loss of my hat; with their activity subsided, I assumed that my stolen goods would be returned to me. However, it appears they had one last prank to play on me: I am reunited with a hat, but not my own. It is a navy blue pork pie hat with a red and white ribbon, adorned with a cute pink flower. I've attached a rather poor image of it - my description may be of more use.

[ attached is an artistic depiction of a hat. He did his best with the laptop touchpad and the paint program... ]

If you are the owner of this hat, it shall be returned to you. And if you have my hat - a fine silk top hat with a red tie - this is a notice of my intention to take it back, if you will not hand it over yourself.

Cordialement,
Lupin

PS: Do we have a name for our Town yet?

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It does. Furthermore, in the event we ever find other settlements, things will quickly get very confusing. I don't particularly like the thought that we've lived here long enough that we have to name the place we were kidnapped to, but there's no denying reality.

do you think well find any other settlements?

I haven't the foggiest. Still, there's one here; it's not out of the question that there could be others. We don't know how this place works yet - not this town, but this entire space.

if there were it'd be beyond the forest or inside it
i think
which yeah i think there is way more to that place than meets the eye

Certainly. If we ever get a proper airship or ornithopter somehow, I should like to fly it out over the woods, and see how far they go on.

whats an ornithopter
is that like a helicopter you pedal

Well, I don't know what a helicopter is, but an ornithopter is a type of flying machine powered by four large wings that beat at rapid speeds, rather like an insect. It's quite a marvel. The technical details of how it works are lost on me, I'm afraid.

so
like a steampunk dragonfly?

It's large enough to seat two people comfortably, so not quite. What's "steampunk?"

lots of steam powered machinery and victorian stuff and gears and things that are more aesthetic than useful

I see. That does describe the style of the times, I suppose, though steam power itself is far from a mere aesthetic. The people of London and much of Europe live and breathe by the neosteam engine - it runs our lights, our heating, our automobiles and whatever else one might need to get by.

[ he's sure impey would blow a gasket if he heard steam power being described as "more aesthetic than useful." ]

ok yeah so youre from steampunk earth
im a regular sherlock holmes

Wait, why you know about that guy?

[ ok so he knows him as herlock sholmes but it's obviously the same guy, right. lupin's sudden irritation is palpable in the shift in his writing... ]

[ tmw you accidentally fourth wall... ]

well hes pretty famous right

He isn't that famous. I barely know him at all. You mean to people remember him after the year 2000?

[ THIS IS THE WORST NEWS HE'S EVER HEARD IN HIS LIFE!!! ]