( With the Doctor and Finn acting as Mouse House liaisons, while Zhou Fei and Red have been raising coin for the Mouse House, they might or mightn't be surprised to receive the following message from good Mariol: )
Ah, hello there? Hello... now, won't be troubling you long, know how busy you are, you're all grown up and frightfully busy and... now, poppet, wouldn't be rushing back down here for a smidge. It's all gotten a little bit rough around the — ( Reedy, aimed in the distance: ) You stop burning your sister's hair, Theodore, ain't be making her prettier, you're not! Oh, no, no, Lily, you're plenty pretty, is not what I meant, you're a handsome, darling blossom, and we only lower the bonnet on yer face so low so people don't... steal you, is not cause we don't want to see you!
( And back to order: ) They're being rude or God-fearing, or whatever it is, upstairs, that's got their frill-filled heads sending the gas thick down again. They keep it nice and even most often, but now it's thick, and it's warm, and it's making people... sweet but sleepy and honest slow, and... a bit irritable, you know, poppet, prone to stubbing toes and drifting into people and the like. And that's when them knives come out. We don't be wantin'that. So, just keep to yerselves upstairs for a little, won't you? We'll be all sorted here, as long as — Theodore, I'm smellin'her locks again.
( You can handwave Mariol's reassurance that she and the children are fine for now, but feel free to continue the thread by commenting here if your character wants to ask other questions. You can keep this for background knowledge going into the finale, or share it with the group o/ )
→ the doctor, zhou fei, finn, red
( With the Doctor and Finn acting as Mouse House liaisons, while Zhou Fei and Red have been raising coin for the Mouse House, they might or mightn't be surprised to receive the following message from good Mariol: )
Ah, hello there? Hello... now, won't be troubling you long, know how busy you are, you're all grown up and frightfully busy and... now, poppet, wouldn't be rushing back down here for a smidge. It's all gotten a little bit rough around the — ( Reedy, aimed in the distance: ) You stop burning your sister's hair, Theodore, ain't be making her prettier, you're not! Oh, no, no, Lily, you're plenty pretty, is not what I meant, you're a handsome, darling blossom, and we only lower the bonnet on yer face so low so people don't... steal you, is not cause we don't want to see you!
( And back to order: ) They're being rude or God-fearing, or whatever it is, upstairs, that's got their frill-filled heads sending the gas thick down again. They keep it nice and even most often, but now it's thick, and it's warm, and it's making people... sweet but sleepy and honest slow, and... a bit irritable, you know, poppet, prone to stubbing toes and drifting into people and the like. And that's when them knives come out. We don't be wantin'that. So, just keep to yerselves upstairs for a little, won't you? We'll be all sorted here, as long as — Theodore, I'm smellin'her locks again.
( You can handwave Mariol's reassurance that she and the children are fine for now, but feel free to continue the thread by commenting here if your character wants to ask other questions. You can keep this for background knowledge going into the finale, or share it with the group o/ )