THIS WEEK AT BUGGY'S BIG TOP Confetti Funnel Cake! a sweet and colorful snack. limited edition!
Pink Cider! our famous cranberry-influenced Pink Drink now with a hot hit of apple!
It's the Tilt-a-Whirl's birthday! Come take a spin on the wasteland's only operational traveling antique thrill ride! FOR SALE Two-Color Sparklers! Dazzle friends and startle animals with these cute little sticks that burn with a fountain of yellow and green sparks! Poke your enemies in the eye with em and set their brain on fire maybe while you're at it! Go crazy go nuts!
BUGGSHOT patent pending thermite-style shotgun shells, 12ga or 16ga available, other sizes on request, WILL set things on fire! WANTED WORKING pre war light bulbs with 12mm threads OR bayonet bases
might be low key looking to put a hit out on somebody potentially but man that's sure a fuckin waste of money when we got our own guys who could theoretically do it if they weren't lazy OTHER INQUIRIES ACCEPTED
I haven't seen sparklers since I was a small boy. [most wastelanders have found other, more practical uses for potassium nitrate.] What would five or six cost me?
[mostly he's thinking of Follows-Chalk and some of the younger Dead Horses... but also maybe Aries, too. he finds the notion of playing with gunpowder together romantic, but he's not really sure.]
im always making these things, helps me figure out color & temperature shit for the big ones. i mostly give em to the mooks to play with but these two-color shits are so flashy its frankly a fuckin mitzvah to let the rest of the world get a look at em
[Author's Note, or, Mike Thinks Aloud and Comes to No Conclusion: exchange rates for shit are so hard to work out. these are a luxury inasmuch as they are useless and therefore any utilitarian item would be a better use of the caps, but they don't cost Buggy much in either time/effort or raw materials once you divide it out to a per-unit basis so they aren't really so expensive that you realize you are basically just setting fire to your bottlecaps. (you COULD set fire to a cap with one of these if you tried hard enough but that's besides the point.)
real world sparklers in places in the US where theyre legal cost like $5 for a pack of six. these, being artisan-produced under postapocalyptic conditions, would be more like $25 - which is about what it costs to see a movie in a theater in NYC nowadays also, which feels fair: you are paying for an experience of roughly similar lengths.
now what does that translate to in fucking imaginary fallout caps? who knows, but that's what we have to assume buggy is quoting him price-wise, i guess? so imagine such a number and imagine that buggy quoted that number to him here, please ]
[ahh, so it was Buggy who set up those fireworks- no wonder he was so eager for feedback. that's honestly a little endearing.]
You're a man of many talents. You and your crew could make a perfectly honest living if you put your mind to it.
That seems fair. I don't have any light bulbs, and I am sure you will understand if I don't offer you arms [being on good terms with raiders is fine, but selling them weapons?] but if you're interested I have fuses and scrap metal to trade as well.
people trying to change me and nobody just loving me like i am, tears in my eyes
anyway you seen the setup out here you know we can probably use those more than you can. Sparky says if you have any of the real big chunky type he'd especially like to trade for those. high power shit for the thrill ride and the spotlight are the hardest to come by and fuck knows if we lose the spotlight we lose the show
Don't be so dramatic. Change is as inevitable as it is necessary. I myself have changed more in the last five years of my life than I did in the first fifty.
Noted. Now that the caravans have started to return, I can keep an eye out for them for you. But I'm sure the star of the show would shine with or without a spotlight.
[he almost asks how, speaking of which, Sweet Baby is doing- but he's not quite that mean.]
i mean technically she hasn't sworn to our articles yet but that's cuz we gotta get a cake made or some shit so yeah. nah she hasn't mentioned you to me, i didn't know you two knew each other. what's the tea?
What kind of articles, if you don't mind my asking?
[Assuming they aren't secret, that is. Given Buggy's penchant for the dramatic that wouldn't surprise him in the slightest.]
We met a short while ago. She had questions about my life. [by which he means she wanted a full biography with citations and preferably a letter from his psychoanalyst] I wasn't sure if she had shared any of my answers with you- not that they were private. I'm simply curious.
he left out mentioning the rule about how the other clown types can't wear red noses
oh now I'm curious too. like why didn't she bring it up lol. she probably doesn't know i know you either. maybe she's writing a book
our articles are pretty standard i think... lowkey softboy shit if im being fully honest. obey your Captain's orders, no infighting or shit that's gonna lead to infighting (no gambling for caps against crewmates & if you're gonna fight it out your gonna do it in front of me; no stealing from crewmates directly or indirectly like by sitting on the take when we're supposed to share it out). Keep your gear in shape and ready at all times, don't fuck off outta the place without permission, if your a rapist or a racist or you hate on synths or ghouls or some shit i will kill you with my knives. then the rest of it's mostly just procedural shit about how if there's a vote we all get to vote, and how the pay gets broke down and all that shit. nothing too hard to get folks to agree to if they can go along with that first one haha
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well that would be appropriation, like clown blackface
[Joshua certainly hopes not. Half of it would be devastatingly dull, and the rest a waking nightmare.]
Given the state of literacy in the wasteland as a whole, I'm not sure it would be worth her time.
[as for the code, Joshua can nod along with most of its rules. They're fairer than most raiders would allow and don't seem to come with any of the blood pacts or rituals that so many of them did in the West- but then, he ought not be surprised. He's already learned that Buggy and his gang aren't quite the terrors of the wastes that many of his kind have become.]
I can see that. It means, however, that everything must depend upon the integrity of their Captain; your crew's trust is a gift, of course, but also a burden I don't know that I would be able to shoulder anymore.
shes also trying to teach everyone on the planet to read one at a time as far as i can tell. to build up the audience for her book maybe, i see her plot now
lucky for us i got strong shoulders! and a good crew i got a good chief of staff
if there's one thing i love to share it's responsibility. find somebody who can handle shit and then let them fuckin handle it, that's the way to run a business
What the hell is funnel cake? Is the confetti made of paper - [MacCready pulls a face, because he's learned people will eat pretty much anything] - or something worse?
[He's intrigued either way, but if it contains bits of human, he's alllll the way out.]
this circus manages to exist beyond time and space somehow, it's fine -
hang on im gonna bring in the mook who does the midway patter for it
"sweet & delicious cake batter with a colorful swirl! deep-fried, golden brown, crunchy & sweet!"
yeah they said sweet twice, what the hell, that's the best they could do? anyway you caught us, the confetti is paper, but it melts a little while it's in the batter, you hardly even notice when you're chewing
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[ you DID catch me, that was the joke i was holding in my heart when i wrote the confetti cake thing lol <3 ]
at least little RJ’s farts couldn’t blow up some confetti cake… right??? <3
[If this guy and his — what did he call him? A mook? — could be trusted at all, paper wasn’t the worst. Probably.
But what the hell. MacCready has always been a sucker for sweets, and he’s never had funnel cake. At this point, he’ll try most things (especially if he doesn’t have to go all the way to Nuka-World for it).
He’s objectively had worse, after all.]
Why not? I’ll give it a try. It’s all going to the same place anyway.
Oh, uh, and a sparkler. No reason. [He might or might not want to see what happens if he shoots it from his gun because in some ways, he hasn’t grown up. But that’s all speculation.]
[ ok this conversation is interesting to Buggy now :D ]
Hell yeah, brother. You can shove the end in a cork, easy disintegrating sabot and shit. What's your gun take, .308? I could spike a handful of rounds for you, on the side. Get you shooting blue sparks behind your bullets, nice and flashy, gives away your position but scares the shit out of everybody, whaddaya think?
My friend, I am a flashy expert at the flashy bang-boom!
[ finger guns pointed up and out like Yosemite Sam firing into the sky, right. you gotta just know that you should be imagining the finger guns are shooting little fireworks ]
I'll put on another of my whole-ass fireworks shows next month and in the mean time there's these. The sparklers, the buggshot, the Buggy's Blue Star Flash Rounds - I can do orange or yellow on those too, but that's already the color fire is anyway, so the sparks just look like your fuckin gun is misfiring :/ One of these days I'll get my hands on the shit to make red and green and then I'll really be in business
probably found written on various old world shitters across the land
The ad that Chell has placed might seem pixelated in most places, on most screens. She had filmed it herself, in some sort of white room. Very scary. There's a small radio that keeps looping a song.
She's had an auto-doc work on her vocal cords, and she's able to speak. It's the voice of someone famous that we'll think of later.
"Hi. I can get into places most people can't. There's a catch, I have a Robo-brain in tow. Non-negotiable. It's sort of a ... What's it called when you save someone's life and then you have to take care of them afterwards?"
This could turn into a loop: "I was talking about you! And why I have to keep you around."
Chell seemed a little annoyed, but she was also getting used to speaking again. The holotape (or what-have-you) would show her gesturing with her hands.
"I was talking more about stealing, not life saving as a currency."
GLaDOS replies dryly, "Instead of thievery you should advertise how good you are at destroying and killing. Because that's what you're good at. Killing things."
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Confetti Funnel Cake! a sweet and colorful snack. limited edition!
Pink Cider! our famous cranberry-influenced Pink Drink now with a hot hit of apple!
It's the Tilt-a-Whirl's birthday! Come take a spin on the wasteland's only operational traveling antique thrill ride!
FOR SALE
Two-Color Sparklers! Dazzle friends and startle animals with these cute little sticks that burn with a fountain of yellow and green sparks! Poke your enemies in the eye with em and set their brain on fire maybe while you're at it! Go crazy go nuts!
BUGGSHOT patent pending thermite-style shotgun shells, 12ga or 16ga available, other sizes on request, WILL set things on fire!
WANTED
WORKING pre war light bulbs with 12mm threads OR bayonet bases
might be low key looking to put a hit out on somebody potentially but man that's sure a fuckin waste of money when we got our own guys who could theoretically do it if they weren't lazy
OTHER INQUIRIES ACCEPTED
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[mostly he's thinking of Follows-Chalk and some of the younger Dead Horses... but also maybe Aries, too. he finds the notion of playing with gunpowder together romantic, but he's not really sure.]
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[Author's Note, or, Mike Thinks Aloud and Comes to No Conclusion:
exchange rates for shit are so hard to work out. these are a luxury inasmuch as they are useless and therefore any utilitarian item would be a better use of the caps, but they don't cost Buggy much in either time/effort or raw materials once you divide it out to a per-unit basis so they aren't really so expensive that you realize you are basically just setting fire to your bottlecaps. (you COULD set fire to a cap with one of these if you tried hard enough but that's besides the point.)
real world sparklers in places in the US where theyre legal cost like $5 for a pack of six. these, being artisan-produced under postapocalyptic conditions, would be more like $25 - which is about what it costs to see a movie in a theater in NYC nowadays also, which feels fair: you are paying for an experience of roughly similar lengths.
now what does that translate to in fucking imaginary fallout caps? who knows, but that's what we have to assume buggy is quoting him price-wise, i guess? so imagine such a number and imagine that buggy quoted that number to him here, please ]
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You're a man of many talents. You and your crew could make a perfectly honest living if you put your mind to it.
That seems fair. I don't have any light bulbs, and I am sure you will understand if I don't offer you arms [being on good terms with raiders is fine, but selling them weapons?] but if you're interested I have fuses and scrap metal to trade as well.
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sparklers for fuses is just swapping one kind of spark for another. great, i love it, let's do it
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They're of little use to me here. The only thing that requires electricity at Dead Horse Point are my terminal and an old radio.
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anyway you seen the setup out here you know we can probably use those more than you can. Sparky says if you have any of the real big chunky type he'd especially like to trade for those. high power shit for the thrill ride and the spotlight are the hardest to come by and fuck knows if we lose the spotlight we lose the show
* * * * B U G G Y * * * *
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Noted. Now that the caravans have started to return, I can keep an eye out for them for you. But I'm sure the star of the show would shine with or without a spotlight.
[he almost asks how, speaking of which, Sweet Baby is doing- but he's not quite that mean.]
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you smell that? that's his own words, hot and fresh from the oven and ready to be eaten]
Point taken, but I stand by the spirit of what I said.
And please don't call me that.
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["Cabaji, c'mere and type a word for me"]
acquiescence, my good sir
& Sparky appreciates you keeping an eye out for the fuses. shotgun shells physically fit into the wiring but not ideal in these applications you know
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Thank you.
Even less so if they mistakenly select one of your experimental shells.
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speaking of which... there's something that's been- not bothering him, per se, but playing on his mind.]
Incidentally, I wasn't aware that Lucy was part of your troupe. Has she ever mentioned me?
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[Assuming they aren't secret, that is. Given Buggy's penchant for the dramatic that wouldn't surprise him in the slightest.]
We met a short while ago. She had questions about my life. [by which he means she wanted a full biography with citations and preferably a letter from his psychoanalyst] I wasn't sure if she had shared any of my answers with you- not that they were private. I'm simply curious.
he left out mentioning the rule about how the other clown types can't wear red noses
our articles are pretty standard i think... lowkey softboy shit if im being fully honest. obey your Captain's orders, no infighting or shit that's gonna lead to infighting (no gambling for caps against crewmates & if you're gonna fight it out your gonna do it in front of me; no stealing from crewmates directly or indirectly like by sitting on the take when we're supposed to share it out). Keep your gear in shape and ready at all times, don't fuck off outta the place without permission, if your a rapist or a racist or you hate on synths or ghouls or some shit i will kill you with my knives. then the rest of it's mostly just procedural shit about how if there's a vote we all get to vote, and how the pay gets broke down and all that shit. nothing too hard to get folks to agree to if they can go along with that first one haha
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well that would be appropriation, like clown blackface
Given the state of literacy in the wasteland as a whole, I'm not sure it would be worth her time.
[as for the code, Joshua can nod along with most of its rules. They're fairer than most raiders would allow and don't seem to come with any of the blood pacts or rituals that so many of them did in the West- but then, he ought not be surprised. He's already learned that Buggy and his gang aren't quite the terrors of the wastes that many of his kind have become.]
I can see that. It means, however, that everything must depend upon the integrity of their Captain; your crew's trust is a gift, of course, but also a burden I don't know that I would be able to shoulder anymore.
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lucky for us i got strong shoulders! and a good crew i got a good chief of staff
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So I've seen. It's important to be able to share the responsibility- I didn't learn that lesson for a long time. Too long.
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That's not exactly what I meant. But if Cabaji is willing to take on that role, it must be working. [somehow]
mungo!MacCready reporting for duty (idk did I create a time paradox? lmao)
[He's intrigued either way, but if it contains bits of human, he's alllll the way out.]
this circus manages to exist beyond time and space somehow, it's fine -
"sweet & delicious cake batter with a colorful swirl! deep-fried, golden brown, crunchy & sweet!"
yeah they said sweet twice, what the hell, that's the best they could do? anyway you caught us, the confetti is paper, but it melts a little while it's in the batter, you hardly even notice when you're chewing
* * * * B U G G Y * * * *
[ you DID catch me, that was the joke i was holding in my heart when i wrote the confetti cake thing lol <3 ]
at least little RJ’s farts couldn’t blow up some confetti cake… right??? <3
But what the hell. MacCready has always been a sucker for sweets, and he’s never had funnel cake. At this point, he’ll try most things (especially if he doesn’t have to go all the way to Nuka-World for it).
He’s objectively had worse, after all.]
Why not? I’ll give it a try. It’s all going to the same place anyway.
Oh, uh, and a sparkler. No reason. [He might or might not want to see what happens if he shoots it from his gun because in some ways, he hasn’t grown up. But that’s all speculation.]
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Dual wielding with a rifle? Impossible. The sparkler's gonna be the ammo.
[But he does like big boom.]
...I'll take two.
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Hell yeah, brother. You can shove the end in a cork, easy disintegrating sabot and shit. What's your gun take, .308? I could spike a handful of rounds for you, on the side. Get you shooting blue sparks behind your bullets, nice and flashy, gives away your position but scares the shit out of everybody, whaddaya think?
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pun intended]Something tells me you know your explosives. Trading stealth for sparky-sparky-boom-boom sounds pretty fuckin — uh, pretty damn awesome.
You ever need someone to… you know, guard your wares, we can probably work out a deal.
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[ finger guns pointed up and out like Yosemite Sam firing into the sky, right. you gotta just know that you should be imagining the finger guns are shooting little fireworks ]
I'll put on another of my whole-ass fireworks shows next month and in the mean time there's these. The sparklers, the buggshot, the Buggy's Blue Star Flash Rounds - I can do orange or yellow on those too, but that's already the color fire is anyway, so the sparks just look like your fuckin gun is misfiring :/ One of these days I'll get my hands on the shit to make red and green and then I'll really be in business
probably found written on various old world shitters across the land
you need info, lost dogs, lightbulbs (??)
contact this frequency
lucy stopped to poo in a outhouse and ... what's this!
Are you near this weird circus? I need your help.
im so proud of her
lucy???
near it im not too far why? whats wrong
chell for hire
She's had an auto-doc work on her vocal cords, and she's able to speak. It's the voice of someone famous that we'll think of later.
"Hi. I can get into places most people can't. There's a catch, I have a Robo-brain in tow. Non-negotiable. It's sort of a ... What's it called when you save someone's life and then you have to take care of them afterwards?"
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"A life debt. Break it down. You save their life. Now you have debt."
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Chell seemed a little annoyed, but she was also getting used to speaking again. The holotape (or what-have-you) would show her gesturing with her hands.
"I was talking more about stealing, not life saving as a currency."
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