Daily Entertainment: Lauren's day off edition

[baptizemyself]

Dudes it's nearly midday GMT and there is no DE yet! That means, since I'm bored and you're all still asleep, I'ma steal it! Ya snooze, ya lose suckers! ;D

Your pup is moving house! What objects/items/pieces of furniture/doomsday weapons would make the movers look askance at them? Is it just large or bulky; dangerous or just plain weird? Do they have something that needs to be moved secretly? Any other out of the ordinary things from your pups canon that might make a house move go less than smoothly? GO! 

Brought to you by procrastination from packing boxes. (I don't wanna mooooooove!)

Comments

[gavin62truck]

Probably just the bigass fire axe. I...don't think most residents of Brooklyn keep one in their hall closet. ...Unless they're a firefighter?

[bjornwilde]

For Ben, Val and Jessica let me just say Pym particles, force fields and super strength. As to weird things, well for Ben there's the Ultimate Nullifier but I seriously hope Reed doesn't just leave that laying around!

Andrea's weird would be the front closet of her apartment which has been turned into an armory; although there is her collection of pirate themed romance novels. ETA: Actually, I think the movers would continue to find ammo and guns in weird places as they packed. (Not that Andrea would ever let anyone else touch her things while she lived but just playing along.) Girl stashes weapons like squirrels stash nuts.

Can't think of much else, sorry.

[aaaaaaaagh_sky]

..... you know, I was trying to enumerate the things Ellen has that would wig out a moving company, and the problem is that she generally takes the weapons, ammo, and armor off anybody who tries to kill her and fails. A lot of people have tried to kill her. She's sold off most of the weapons and armor, but she keeps a selection of shotguns, assault rifles, energy weapons, and grenades on hand just in case, plus she's got her Tesla armor, her Chinese stealth armor, her Ranger-made combat armor, and General Chase's reinforced overcoat hanging in the closet.

I suppose the Enclave-made lead-lined case with the radiation symbol on it that she acquired from Quartermaster Durga after Raven Rock was destroyed might be the most problematic bit. She keeps her bottles of Nuka-Cola Quantum and Nuka-grenades in there, along with any mini-nukes she hasn't sold off yet. Really, though, you just don't want to be her mover if you can avoid it.

(I say this as someone who actually had a guy from the moving company pull her aside and go, "Five longbows, a machete, a samurai sword and a crowbar- what the hell do you do for a living??" during the packing process. In my defense, the 'machete' was movie prop floppy metal and the samurai sword was from a Renaissance faire scratch and dent bin and had never been given an actual edge. And only two of the bows were shootable.)

[sdelmonte]

Kirk has his collection of vintage weapons. I suspect that in the present day, the guns would raise a few eyebrows, though in his own times it's clear they are ancient. He also has that Romulan ale (illegal!), and he would move that himself.

Cyborg's got a ton of high tech gear that no mover would even want to touch.

[gorgonfondness]

Mia's collection of plush toys would get some looks. Considering Nash's reaction, not a lot of people know about her love for gorgons. A box full of toys that look like them and strange Earth creatures would more or less make them think she's got some sort of Cthulhu fetish.

Lucas and Lohengrin both have some things that would be odd in the world of today. They fit in so completely with their own worlds, however, that nothing would seem unusual to movers.

[death_gone_mad]

There is this portalish looking machine in the Pollnivneach Slayer Dungeon which the game devs say is important for a future plot, but haven't said why. It is probably one of the reasons Amascut personally took control of that dungeon. The other was a book detailing how to control various dangerous beasties, but she turned that into a pile of ashes. Pollnivneach's local stray cat says she did this to prevent the player from gaining the book's murderous powers, but it must have not been that important to Amascut herself.

[1nv1nc1ble]

Mark's just got this suit of clothes that looks a little odd, plus a pager and an earbud. Everything else is pretty standard for an 18-year-old kid, although he does have a bunch of comics.

[gone_byebye]

Ray is not legally permitted to have a moving company handle most of his stuff.

Well, no. Some moving companies probably could. But they're on a very short list maintained by the Department of Defense and most of them have the kind of certifications and clearances that cause people to stop asking stupid questions very quickly.

[bjornwilde]

Ray often seems to have the best answers. =]

[aintwortha]

Bean has no possessions. The question is irrelevant.

[jjprobert]

The rest of mine? No, not really.

Erik simply doesn't.

Jack lives a mercurial life on an Army base. Maybe some of his books, that'd be about it, though, he doesn't have many possessions.

Alfred... No, wait, he lives in the US, the guns are not as unusual as I keep thinking.

Max? Max has boxes of aerosol cans. These are not what you probably think they are. He also has a sealed case of grenade sized objects. Also, the sheer number of books he has might surprise some movers.

[baptizemyself]

haha I know all too well about moving lots of books. I currently have seven almost too heavy to lift boxes full of them and still keep finding ones I've missed. And among my friends I have a conservative collection!

[kd7sov]

Felix doesn't have a home as such, nor much stuff. What stuff he has he wouldn't want a bunch of strangers manhandling. Maybe if it were his friends helping him move... I dunno, I guess they might ask why he still has his mask.

Kain would raise questions by the fact of his moving at all, but I doubt anyone in canon would raise much of an eyebrow at what he's got.

Fluttershy has all her animals, please please please make sure none of them get hurt.

[mnt_mike]

Mike, Raph, and Splinter all look at this question in puzzlement. Hire movers? But...that's what brothers/sons are for.

As for things the three of them would rather their family not know about, and thus would require moving in secret.

Mike would rather his father not see his more hedonistic acquisitions. Not because he's ashamed of them, but because he doesn't want to have to explain their use to his dad. That's just...no. Not a conversation.

Raph still has his teddy bear from when he was small. Say nothing.

It's impossible to have secrets when you raise four children on your own. It's even more impossible when you purposely raise them to be ninjas. So...Splinter doesn't have much.

Bumi would prefer to move the limited personal items he's allowed on board himself, thank you very much. It's not that he doesn't trust you with his boomerang, or the Kyoshi Warrior Fan, or his family photo album, or his personal letters...it's just that he doesn't trust you.

The most recent addition to his tiny collection of sentimental memorabilia is the decorative holder and bamboo chopsticks he got on the solstice from Bar.

Aang doesn't have much in the way of possessions, just his glider which was hand crafted by the monks and is a delicate instrument. Appa can move himself.

The Loompas might have suitcases of internal organs along side suitcases of cash from various worlds in various denominations.
Might.

[1nv1nc1ble]

Raph still has his teddy bear from when he was small. Say nothing.

So do I. His name's Beethoven. What're you trying to imply? :)

[saphyria]

The only thing of Sunshine's belongings that might make them wonder is her humongous collection of classic trashy vampire literature. They also might be annoyed by stepping on forgotten charms and amulets her mother had given her and hidden away. And woe betide them if the movers break any of her kitchen gadgets.

Yrael would make the movers suffer through carrying his piano, his harpsichord, and two tons of books he has stolen from various libraries in different worlds.

Zelgadiss takes all his belongings with him, always. No movers needed.

[seat_five_girl]

Zelgadiss takes all his belongings with him, always. No movers needed.

Is it not written: 'You only own what you can carry at a dead run'?

[sunbaked_baker]

That's true, in Zel's case. Anything he might own but can't take with him is likely to be destroyed, sooner or later. Massive property damage is just par for the course.

[seat_five_girl]

Robo has much the same answer as Ray, for much the same reason.

Ako doesn't have that problem yet, because everything that would cause issues lives in her Sylladex. Alien technology solves so many problems.

Artemis would be handling certain outfits, bows and arrows by herself. Thanks.
Anything bigger lives in bases arranged by Batfam members and installed by Martians or Kryptonians. Archers can't afford to carry a lot of weight.

Janet pay enough that people don't ask those sorts of questions. Or Tony does. It depends on where she's moving from or too. And why, I suppose.

Tyler doesn't, but his girlfriend does. Luckily there is any entire shadow economy that deals with things like moving blood stashes if you're too high and mighty, or too busy, to do it yourself.

[cameoflage]

Aradia doesn't really have a place of residence apart from miscellaneous dream bubbles! And she keeps her stuff in a sylladex.

Dr Thurlow's weirdest possessions were mostly acquired significantly later than their current canon point. Unearthly fossils, alien musical instruments, animate outfits, bits of fabric that literally suck up light. That all comes in later. I was going to say "what wouldn't weird out the movers", but a lot of the peculiar goods in their inventory are either completely incorporeal or could only be stored by writing them down. Also Fallen London has rather different standards of weird anyway.

The assemblage of bottled souls isn't particularly unusual in Thurlow's world but would raise eyebrows here. Same for the wax-sealed jars of screams (don't drop any of those). And the dead rats. And the hat with eyes and teeth.

Still, though, Thurlow's weird possessions even by the standards of Fallen London include one or two leathery preserved human hearts; and they recently acquired (read: stole and then couldn't get rid of) a large, heavy, multiply locked, utterly impenetrable iron box. The scraps of talking fabric are a bit unusual too.