DE: It's a valise...

[bjornwilde]

From our local fireman, gavin62truck :
Does your pup carry a bag, purse, or wallet? What's inside it? Is there something they never leave home without?

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[a1enzo]

You don't see a lot of those in cyberspace. Sprites use compression fields, mostly contained within their belts. I usually equate that to pockets, but I think the only difference would be the algorithm's efficiency.

Enzo tends to carry on his person his wallet, a small folder of JPEGs (mostly family and girlfriend photos), his yo-yo, his surfbaud (which has its own compression), his stunner, and his force field unit (worn on the outside of the belt).

I, on the other hand, have a Coraline messenger bag containing a water bottle, a Kindle (plus the iPhone clipped to my waist), a small towel, a solar charger, my entire mess kit… Of course, on days when I need my laptop I also wear my backpack.

[camwyn]

Ellen had a backpack for a long time, but these days she tends to rely on the sylladex that she got from Karkat. It's stuffed with survival supplies, guns, ammo, and anything that she picks up from people or creatures that try to kill her. She also keeps a few chems (stimpaks, mostly) outside of the deck so they can be grabbed and used in a hurry without fussing with the deck. Her bottlecap supply stays in the sylladex, though. She's got a lot of caps and frankly, the damn things are heavy and noisy.

[bjornwilde]

Answering quick like before I attack my inbox:
Hank's wallet holds his Virginia drivers license, voter registration card, draft card, and other governmental things (except his CIA ID). It also has a picture of his parents and grand father, as well as several membership cards to fan clubs such as The Junior Science League, The Official Science Fiction Fan Club and The Flash Gordon Fan Club.

Andrea doesn't bother with purses unless the social situation calls for it. She actually has this custom clutch that can fold out into a small backpack and has hidden pockets to hold neat tools like lock picks or glass cutters.

For the normal day to day, she has a wallet which she uses to hold cash mostly. In her pants pockets are keys, an extra bullet or two, and a pocket utility knife. In her jacket is a small micro-fiber towel, an extra magazine for what ever gun she is carrying, a Leatherman and candy. The candy is incase she ever has a scared or upset kid to deal with and incase she needs fast calories. Her Order ID is always about her neck while on duty and often when not on duty to be honest.

[gavin62truck]

Aww, Hank has fan club membership cards. That's adorable.

[bjornwilde]

I imagine he hides them between his voter reg card and drivers license.

[ceitfianna]

Will has a small pouch that he wears at his belt which has a few coins in it as well as a collection of items from Milliways. He always has his knife from Robin on his belt.

Charles carries a wallet that was probably a present from someone possibly Raven that has various licenses and cards, I'm not sure which ones. This morning is off to a not great start for me so these aren't my clearest answers.

Sameth has a small leather pouch with some coins in it and I feel like the surcoats might have pockets in them. In terms of what they hold, not very much, bits and pieces he finds useful, notes on ideas.

Jane wears a pocket or uses a purse that has paper, a pencil and a little money in it as well as a handkerchief.

Moist usually has a wallet that's fairly neutral with in character money and whatever cards are needed. Then he has lots of tricks hidden within the fabric of his clothing, because he's sneaky.

William carries a wallet but there's not a lot in it, lists of what needs to get done and some money, that's about it.

Demeter doesn't carry anything as she's a goddess and can cheat and just get what she needs.

Tumnus has pockets in his scarves where he puts anything he needs, he doesn't rely on them that much.

The Pirate King has a ship to hold whatever he needs and usually his costumes are tight. He has pirates and Ruth to carry things for him.

[kd7sov]

Not generally.

Felix has an inventory system. That's about it. He tends to carry antidotes and various healing items, and there's space for various other things.

Kain... I don't know. The inventory system in his game is shared, which probably means it's Cecil's (since he's always in the party and thus always has access to it, and stuff doesn't leave when the other characters do). When he's not with Cecil... I have no idea.

Fluttershy doesn't have an inventory system, but she also doesn't have much stuff that she feels she particularly needs. Or, come to that, much tendency to go on adventures. She does sometimes take a saddlebag or two when she's traveling, but I couldn't say for sure what's consistently in it.

[herr_bookman]

Autor carries around quite a few things. He's one of the most organized little packrats around. To wit: his journal, three family quills, the bell and Magician card he received from the Fool, some manner of book, and so on. He'll probably start holding a chess piece or two as well, depending.

Karkat just bequeathed him with a sylladex, so he'll be carting around twenty books instead of one or two.

Oh, and he's not sentimental in the slightest. Nope.

[thebattycakes]

I can't believe I made it to work on time today. Sneaky snooze alarm. I'm also surprised that today's to-do list is a short one, so I've got time for a DE. Yay!

Bill Pardy- Bill always has his wallet which is pretty well worn, but not so bad off as it could be (he was forced to replace it a few years back when his other one was stolen in Milliways). He's generally a cash guy, so he always has some of that but never a whole lot. Mostly his wallet has receipts, his drivers license and bank card, a rewards card for the grocery store, a video rental card, gym membership card that's from a million years ago, punch card for a local sandwich shop, business cards he's picked up from various people and places, and tucked in amongst the clutter is a picture of him in a football uniform back in high school with his mom.

When he's in uniform (sheriff's) he has his gun belt that has the various pockets and objects that a cop carries, and it's almost a guarantee he'll have some hard candy or gum on him as well.

Hellboy- Hellboy's trench coat serves him well in the carrying things department. The pockets contain various knicknacks that could prove useful in a fight against paranormal beasties; horse shoe, silver pieces, vial of holy water, an amulet or two, and probably a few other things.

He also carries cigars with him whenever he can get his hands on some, a box of wooden matches and if he's carrying the Samartian, extra bullets.

Up until the Slenderman plot Red also always carried his father's Rosary. I really need to have him find that again somehow, because he's very upset that he lost it.

Logan- Logan is a simple guy who leads an epic life. When you get shot, blown-up and set on fire as much as he does you don't carry a whole lot that might get lost in such an incident. He usually has a few bucks on him and a cigar or three.

Charlie Kenton- Charlie needs another EP. As for his wallet, it's usually empty of cash. Drivers license, overdrawn bank card, over the limit credit cards (they really do give those things out to just anybody), lottery tickets, and wager slips from various racetracks. Charlie... has a bit of a gambling problem. He also has a gym card from Tallot's gym, his one bit of personal affect that he carries with him.

Art Mullen- Art is the one of mine who has a wallet full of photos; wife, kids, grandkids. With those taking up a bulk of his wallet he keeps the rest fairly organized. Cash, cards, license, etc.

Pleakley- Pleakley likes to carry around fashionable (ready gaudy and flowery) handbags. Inside he carries a hand mirror, compact, piece of fruit (usually a pineapple or banana), small laser pistol, shark repellent and a coupon book.

[death_gone_mad]

Well, player characters have a 28 slot inventory, explained away in canon as a backpack. But, the only time you see that backpack is if you wear some version of Ava's Accumulator, which is just a zombie chicken and a magnet sewn into the backpack. Anyhow, there's some weird extradimensional shit happening with that backpack, as 28 bunches of grapes occupies the same space as 28 full grown live cats as 28 flatpacked dining room tables. Additional wackiness happens in regards to stackables such as charged (versus unstackable uncharged) runestone and abyssal pouches, which are made from the organs of Runescape's equivalent of Xen oogieboogies and are thus extra-extra dimensional and function as bags of holding inside of your bag of holding, so you can carry things while you carry things.

I have written Amascut as having deep pockets in her dresses, plus she's a goddess: who knows what kind of stuff she can pull from there. But previously in Millicanon, it has been ammo and nosepegs.

Fairy Fixit, if I ever get around to apping her, carries around a toolbox. It will most likely be able to access hammerspace, but it mostly contains tooth and fungus based technomagical items.

[kd7sov]

What gets me is that, if I remember correctly, there's a quest where you briefly carry a statue bigger than yourself. And it only takes up one slot.

[mogget_cat]

...28 bunches of grapes occupies the same space as 28 full grown live cats as 28 flatpacked dining room tables...

I'm now imagining Amascut with 28 full grown live cats in her pockets.

*flees!* :D

[death_gone_mad]

a la Simpsons' Crazy Cat Lady?

Now I am imagining Amascut giving chase and launching 28 full grown live cats missiles at Yrael

Because Yrael is to blame for this horrible situation, surely.

[mogget_cat]

He'd try to catch every last one shot at him.

Then spend weeks teaching them the best napping spots, how to hunt and to mooch food and scritches from people, and how to swarm crazy death goddesses when they're not expecting a sudden influx of cats. :)

And how to disappear again before she's able to retaliate (which is key).

[katyafeline]

Katya: Probably has a wallet in her back pocket, just a small one to stuff a completely fake ID and spare change into so she doesn't lose it. The things she wouldn't leave home without are her ever-present bracelets and bangles - a majority of those are actually defensive wards, and you don't do her job without some fairly hefty backup on hand at all times. It's just a bonus that they're so fashion-forward.

Ace: Has her rucksack, and it is full, most of the time, of things that go boom. Every once in a while, now, they're full of good eats because Annie was cooking and she and Spoon or she and Spoon and the kitlet decided to go on a picnic. But mostly boom.

Glorfindel has pretty much nothing that he needs to take with him at all times. Getting killed and arguing your way back to where you started tends to lend a great deal of perspective.

Haymitch does not have any sort of carry-all device, but there's two things he pretty much always has - his Capitol ID (because even on his more messed-up days he knows it'd be a Really Bad Thing to get in a brawl with Capitol goons over a lack of ID) and his knife. He's had that knife since the Games, and he has no intention of ever letting go of it.

Oswin has a rather nifty little belt-carry-all thing that looks like it escaped out of the original Star Wars trilogy. I'm pretty sure there's at least some lipstick in there, possibly a music player of some futuristic sort and an ID. Other than that, not much.

Bones always has his medical kit and tricorder (unless he doesn't, in which case he really really wants it). On the inside of his kit, taped down, is a picture of Joanna.

Balthazar has his Coat of Many Pockets, which contains multitudes (I really don't think there should ever be a contest between the Doctor and Balthazar as to who has more stuff in their pockets. It might end badly.) Mostly though, he carries (or, at least, before the movie) his ring (all his rings, as a security measure), his encantus, the Grimhold, and Merlin's ring. Always. And then Dave came along, and the boy was very bad for his organizational skills. He at least managed to keep a hold on his own ring through the whole ordeal.

*TOO LAZY TO CHANGE JOURNALS*

[wantedman]

Now I want to watch Hunger Games again and it's all Haymitch's fault.

[gavin62truck]

Tommy sometimes has a bag that contains work and personal clothes that he keeps in his locker at the firehouse. Other times he'll be carrying a gym bag full of hockey equipment. His wallet contains the usual cash and credit cards, pictures of his children, drivers license, FDNY ID and badge, and a laminated memorial card of his cousin Jimmy. He also used to keep his one-year AA chip in it, buuuuut he threw that away. And he always has a cellphone and a pair of sunglasses on him somewhere, whether in his bag or his pockets.

[jjprobert]

Jack generally carries his wallet (though, not on ops, obviously). Inside it is his military id, a couple of cards, driving license, cash. That's it. He doesn't have any pics of him, Mrs West and Lauren, or he'd have one.

Max tends to carry his passport + Visa most of the time, as it's easier than anything else. The fact he has little fear of being mugged in the parts of Dublin he frequents makes this easier. Otherwise his wallet contains his credit cards, driving license, cash and a picture of Doris.

Erik has his driving license, a bit of cash, credit cards and his University ID. The one picture he carries with him is of him and Dr Foster Snr on their graduation day. Now he lives at Pegasus, he doesn't carry it much any more, just the SHIELD ID they provided him with.

Alfred tends not to carry one. His face is generally enough to get him what he needs/wants in Gotham...

Bean has no wallets, bags or any possessions beyond what he's wearing. Or concept of sentimentality (yet).

[hey35andholding]

Clem: carries a dainty little clutch when she can, and otherwise uses her bra as her personal key storage and bankroll. She always has a tube of lipstick, a joint, a pack of cigarettes, a lighter and her keys on her.

Dix: has PEOPLE to take care of that - usually goes out only with a fan on her, and maybe some emergency cash.

Juliet: A small spaghetti-strap bearing purse; it has her badge, her wallet (with ID), pictures of her pets (and Shawn), her cell phone, spare bullets and coupons to the Chinese located up the street from the station.

Pinkie Pie: Has saddlebags, usually filled with candy, and occasionally with Gummy!

[no_vampires_plz]

Don't forget the party cannon!

[havetubawilltravel]

Hee, I was going to make a joke about her sidebags being infinitely deep! Party canon is always somehow on her, though I wonder if she stores them around town for party canon emergencies.