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old man mcgucket, local kook ([personal profile] gobblewonked) wrote in [community profile] victory_road2018-02-12 07:05 pm

Open party log, as promised!

Who: Fiddleford McGucket and anyone in Goldenrod who saw his post -- or hears the ruckus.
Where: The junkyard behind the Goldenrod magnet train station.
When: February 13th!
Summary: A WILD BIRTHDAY HOOTENANNY.
Rating: Moonshine.
Notes: Feel free to treat this like a mingle log and tag around!

When Fiddleford McGucket said party streamers, no one knew that what he meant was dozens and dozens of feet of plastic tape pulled out of old casettes and tied to any high-up piece of old rusty metal McGucket could find.

When Fiddleford McGucket said enough beans for everybody, no one could have known that there would be a bean can mountain over six feet tall piled precariously on a tarp.

When Fiddleford McGucket had said moonshine made from a Ribombee, it might have crossed some more fearful minds that he had meant that literally. Thankfully, he didn't. There are two jugs of the honeystuff going around, and if anyone who's obviously less than sixteen or so gets hold of one of them, they'll find the jar lifted out of their grip by a pair of dirty bandaged hands, possibly while McGucket himself is hanging upside-down above their heads from a garbage edifice. It's good, but don't drink too much of it. There's also nonalcoholic cider that's rather more plentiful. McGucket says it's made from apricorns, but no one is sure how he managed it. It tastes funny but it won't put hair on your chest, unless it does. It also looks not so different from that honeyshine. Be careful not to mix them up.

The banjo music, though, is exactly as promised.

The party is centered around a bonfire with a great big old pot hanging above it, full of cooking beans. The empty cans are being fed to McGucket's Trubbish and a wild one or two around. You might spot a Rattata or a spooked Pidove skittering out of a pile of trash, and McGucket himself has had to chase a Stunky away with his hat more than once.

But he greets every single party guest with a broad smile and a hearty handshake, and you're not leaving this party hungry if he can help it -- as long as you like beans.
garbagechild: bro i've been sitting motionless in this cemetery for three and a half weeks dont ask me if i'm ok (Default)

[personal profile] garbagechild 2018-03-10 07:27 am (UTC)(link)
The Ditto, who would rather die than be viewed poorly by anyone, even the Very Ugly Human in front of him, doubles down and dances even harder, as though his laminated-paper-wobbling noises might somehow drown out Gulliver's distressed jingling.

SEE!

SEE HOW GOOD HE IS AT DANCING.

HE COULDN'T POSSIBLY HAVE DONE ANYTHING WRONG.

IF YOU'RE GOOD AT A THING, IT MEANS YOU ARE NEVER GUILTY OF ANYTHING.
notvaljean: (liiiiiiike?)

[personal profile] notvaljean 2018-03-12 11:05 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, good, this is where he's going to stay. Gulliver quiets down a little at Fiddleford's soothing, and even pokes his face out of the protective beard layers after a moment to glare at Jelly. He sees you, big mean Ditto! He sees you, and he will not forget this insult! Now you're going to get yelled at by Grandpa Beard, and Gulliver is going to sit here and feel heaps and heaps of schadenfreude! You hear him? Heaps!
garbagechild: I Canot change this (i Amn just....... a litle creacher)

[personal profile] garbagechild 2018-03-19 07:32 pm (UTC)(link)
NO ONE CAN STOP HIS WIGGLING!!

HE IS TOO POWERFUL!!

Well, actually, the power of disapproval has immense sway over the Ditto, and the wiggles do begin to slow.

Oh no... this wasn't supposed to happen! He wasn't supposed to get in trouble!

Jelly finally wobbles to a semi-halt and turns his eyes, which he makes as large and innocent as possible, up to the party host. Who, him? How could you ever suspect Jelly of doing anything bad?
notvaljean: (fisticuffs)

[personal profile] notvaljean 2018-03-24 11:40 am (UTC)(link)
You know who else is immune to puppy eyes? Gulliver, that's who. In fact, Jelly's attempts at looking innocent just send him into a frothing, jingly rage, and he soars out from Fiddleford's beard to loom over his shoulder and jingle with indignation. How dare you, Jelly? HOW VERY DARE?!
garbagechild: bro i've been sitting motionless in this cemetery for three and a half weeks dont ask me if i'm ok (Default)

[personal profile] garbagechild 2018-03-26 05:42 am (UTC)(link)
The Ditto... sort of contracts in the closest approximation a pile of living putty can make to an offended gasp.

THIS! THIS IS INTIMIDATION!

Intimidation tactics!

That's so low!

How dare you jangle, keys?!

The Ditto makes a babbling noise, gesturing to Gulliver angrily.

HOW can you expect him to be honest under these conditions?! He is being menaced.
notvaljean: (to the barricades whoops wrong jean)

[personal profile] notvaljean 2018-04-03 12:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Gulliver does not go quietly into that dark night; no, he rages, rages against the dying of the light... because he's been stuffed back in McGucket's beard, where he's hidden behind beard hairs. He's still jingling and complaining loudly, but it's muffled by grandfatherly hairiness.

Just you wait until he's out of here, Ditto... just you wait!
garbagechild: *bursts into tears and beats my head against a brick wall* (im gonna UNLEARN SHAME)

[personal profile] garbagechild 2018-04-04 08:09 pm (UTC)(link)
It's only once Gulliver is SILENCED (or... close to it) that Jello deigns to tell his side of the story-- which he does, through a lot of squeaking and very theatrical, rubbery pantomiming.

It would seem that he had been dancing peacefully for a delighted audience when the Klefki came up and MALICIOUSLY attempted to upstage him, dancing so recklessly that he even endangered the watchers with flying keys! A thing that Jello would NEVER do! Never, ever! He would. Jello does not care about anybody's personal safety.