[OPEN] You want the kind of thing that money just can't buy

[drummeintheface]

Who: Greg, Gregory, and all of their new friends! (You!)
Where: Real and Mirror Side
When: May 13th-20th
Rating: PG for baby swears
Summary: Gregory is not good at finding valuables and Greg is not a good judge of character. (I'll match tag style, btw!)
The Story:

😠Real Side😠

Gregory doesn't know what a malarkey is, but he knows the Queen said they could go over to the real side, so he's gonna do it! Because the mirror side is BORING! And all he has to do is find something his dumbo real likes and bring it back, right?

EASY.

Except when Gregory goes over, he realizes that all the things are things Greg likes! Or he wouldn't have the things! UGH, GOBBAMIT! It doesn't take long for the chaos that engulfs Greg's room to leak into the hallway is Gregory grabs something, stares at it, then throws it away because it's clearly not good enough.

UGH AND THIS IS TAKING UP ALL HIS REAL SIDE TIME TOO!!!!!

Anyone who happens by will discover a mess and likely hear the tantrum from quite a few rooms away.

🔍Mirror Side🔎

It maybe takes a little bit before Greg realizes he's someplace else. Like, he's pretty sure there was...more outside before? And also it didn't look like Gunsmoke. Hmmm.

A mystery!

Greg's on top of this one. He gets a magnifying glass from a closet and is just. Staring at everything through it. Supposedly this will help at some point. When he's not busy giving himself a headache, he's eating donuts like a good coptective, and also maybe he's looking for Wirt? Wirt gets lost a lot, after all.

And what better way to find Wirt than to interrogate random passersby?

"CITIZEN! Have you seen a teenager in a big red hat?"

Greg awaits your answer, staring out of his great, big, magnified eye.

Comments

Mirror Side

[boneandfossil]

Oh yes, talking to random people on this side of the mirror is a brilliant idea. Luckily for Greg he's run into Newton and not some of the others. Newton is many things, but violence at least comes much slower for him than he's seen and dealt with.

So when this... child? He's pretty sure it's a child. Maybe a gnome though, or a goblin. On the mirrorside, how could be he sure?

"One," he says, taking a puff of his cigarette and blowing it downward. "Shouldn't you be in hiding or something?" He's pretty sure this kid(?) had to have come from the other side. Or was new enough it still applies.

"Two, who wears something that ostentatious?" From the guy dressed as if the year if 1920something.

◀️ Mirror Side 💧

[sslillappy]

Mirror Lapis has no idea who this kid is, but he's already amazing.

"No, sir!" she answers obediently, in as stiff a playacted tone as she can manage while also struggling to contain laughter. But hey, Greg could have gotten a much worse reception this side of the mirror. "Do you s-see any clues?" ...On her midriff?

Real Side

[mcgucket]

Fiddleford risks leaving his room this one time, but on his way out to check on a friend, he notices this door hanging open and the accumulating pile of junk being tossed out. Despite the likelihood of this being a Mirror, seeing a child causes the Concerned Parent in him to come out as he pokes his head in the doorway.

"Are you... um, alright?"

What is he even doing in here?

MIRROR SIDE

[goodtohim]

Wirt's Mirror originally did not plan to cross through the glass. When given an option to take a more peaceful method of servitude, Wirt will always choose it. It is the easiest way to keep himself and Greg safe in an event that could easily end in murder for either of them.

He wants to believe the Reals wouldn't murder a child, even if he's a Mirror, but...he also isn't prepared to risk Greg's life.

He's on patrol when he hears a young voice nearby, and he raises his lantern to investigate - and sure enough there's...a Greg. But, not his. He won't voice his reasons, but he's confident in his ability to tell them apart. His heart constricts, but he shoves his worry deep deep down. This is very bad, but freaking out won't do anything. It won't keep either of them safe.

"...Greg?" he asks. "What're you doing here?"

Wirt's Mirror is gentle in asking, since he doesn't want to scare Greg away. He doesn't look terribly different from the Real Wirt, except for two things - his signature red hat is missing, and he carries a familiar lantern. The light inside is swirling around brightly.