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roxie barringer doesn't turn on the red light ([info]tightwire) wrote in [info]gooseberry,
@ 2016-12-10 12:35:00

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Entry tags:! note/owl/gift, roxanne barringer


The package had originally arrived sometime while Roxie was on the camping trip and had, as a result, sat around on her bed for a good number of hours. It's clearly been opened and retaped, but hasn't been tampered with - just checked on and decharmed back to size. Roxanne shows up at lunch just long enough to grab some relatively portable food and she swings by Reece's table to drop the box into his arms with a cheerful: "For your bugs." before she grins and tosses a salute over her shoulder, jamming a chocolate chip cookie into her mouth and spinning on her toes. She has a slack rope to practice on.

There's a note hastily stuck on top and, inside the package, there's a decently-sized clockwork box with gears sitting inlayed on the sides.


I hope it suits you. I'd take a look, but my Opa says it's not for me, so I don't get to touch.

- Roxie


There's also a key tucked into an envelope. It has a small tag tied to it with a bit of twine. The handwriting is thin and spidery and the instructions are vague. When they're puzzled out (her grandfather enjoys his charms and the key glows when it locks onto the first person to touch it) the box glows faintly to correspond and the clockwork whirrs itself to life to open it up.



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[info]thingamabobbs
2016-12-10 08:38 pm UTC (link)
Reece is so conflicted cause on the one hand SICK and on the other hand he can't take this apart it's like a family heirloom or a gift for her or something? but on the third hand she kind SAID he could take it apart??? but on the FINAL hand what if taking it apart CURSES HIM OR SOMETHING? IT'S GLOWY AND THIS NOTE IS CRYPTIC. He ends up leaving it on his desk after an hour or so of serious contemplation and examination.

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[info]tightwire
2016-12-10 08:48 pm UTC (link)
It's a box. For holding things.

That's as far as she'd specified when asking her Opa for something to house mechanical bugs. That exactly: I need to give someone a box, Opa. For holding things. (Well, she'd also told him that she loved him and that she'd see him for Christmas, but those parts weren't particularly relevant.) But it was meant to be taken apart. Or, at least, it was meant to be opened. The key worked.

It just only worked for the first person who touched it, is all. And maybe some other things. She wasn't about to stifle her grandfather's creativity.

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[info]thingamabobbs
2016-12-10 08:49 pm UTC (link)
He's probably gonna try to take it apart

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[info]thingamabobbs
2016-12-10 08:50 pm UTC (link)
Halfway through the attempt he's like "OH IT'S A BOX. FOR HOLDING THINGS. OH NO."

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[info]tightwire
2016-12-10 08:55 pm UTC (link)
But just holding things is very boring.

So it won't mind. It'll be a learning experience for the box too.

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