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Who: Dipper/

terci and Mabel/

ineptus and you!
When: A few days after the amusement park suddenly appeared.
Where: Amusement park, a candy shop, a grocery store, anywhere else!
What: Mystery Twins Inc at your service. Clue hunting, candy advertising, shopping assistance, a variety pack of options!
Rating/Warning: Doubtful there will be a need for any type of rating or warning, but if that changes, I'll add it here.

Mystery Hunting in the Amusement Park

[Today is a busy day for the Pines twins. They've got a lot to do, and of course they don't mind some company while doing it!

To start off the day, bright and early the twins arrive to the carnival, backpacks on back and notepads in hand. Or well, just one hand. Dipper's, that is.]

Alright Mabel, today we're gonna search every single crack of this place, to find out anything we can about the people who brought us here. A carnival that appeared out of nowhere like this? That's definitely suspicious, especially since the rides are so deadly, for lack of a better word. I mean the people keeping us here are supposed to protect us, aren't they? [He sighs and shakes his head.]

Anyway, you look over on that side and I'll stick to this side. Make note of anything that's weird and try not to die on any of the rides. [And with that, the two twins split. So, if you come to the carnival this morning, you'll find them searching everything they can for clues or suspicious things, either alone or together on the rides, at the prizes, the foodstands... anywhere.]

Dipper as the Candy Clerk

[Later this afternoon, you can find Dipper working at a local candy shop, wearing the shop's uniform and a warm smile on his face. While you browse the store, he'll come up with a platter of a variety of organ shaped gummies, and shove it your way.]

Hi! Would you like to try a free sample? I know they look pretty gross but I can guarantee that they're really good! [He picks up one of the eerily realistic looking gummy hearts and eats it, giving a thumbs up.]

I mean the red liquid in the middle kind of makes it weird, but we've all wanted to try cannibalism at one point right? Right? [Dipper that's not how you sell your food..]

Mabel as the Grocery Store Attendant

[Or maybe today you are doing some grocery shopping! Maybe you're looking a little lost, or are trying to find something, or you're doing just fine and minding your own business. No matter what you're doing though, there's going to be this happy little girl in her white blouse, black slacks and little apron bouncing up to you with smile.]

Hello! How are you today? Are you finding everything okay?

[Don't discount her just because she's barely over 4' feet tall. She is Very Professional! Is there anything Mabel can help you with?]

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[And of course, you can find either of them flitting around the city in general too! Maybe you'll run into them shopping or playing games either alone or together, or you'll come across them eating some greasy food option together while going over their notes and clues and evidence gathered from the theme park! You can catch them just about anywhere but the Pleasure District, so feel free to make up your own adventure.]

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[Peko very much dislikes candy herself, but there's a certain someone who's recently arrived in this place who would definitely enjoy this place. So she's scouting it out for said mystery person, because heaven forbid such a figure be seen in a candy store.

She looks... a little taken aback by the organ-shaped gummies. Why...]

No, thank you.

[This kid looks kind of like someone she knows? But she's not totally sure, so she'll wait a bit before bringing it up.]

Do you have any Japanese sweets.

Japanese sweets? Yeah, I think so... [He looks around the store for a moment, and spots the little section for japanese sweets. It's a bright pink corner of the store, with what seems to be a bad knock off of Hello Kitty printed all over the packaging. Sorry, Peko..]

Over here! [He walks towards the bright pink corner, setting the sample plate on the counter when they walk by it.]

Are you looking for like, anything specific or...

[N...o....

The mascot is cute, but this definitely isn't something that she could give to her mystery person who is certainly a mystery, and her distaste shows in her expression.]

Something not quite so... [she twists a bit of hair around her finger, giving the candy another unhappy stare,] pink.

What do you recommend that does not have an extremely strong flavor, then?

[Sometimes people run out of things at the worst time. What could a big intimidating man like Kratos suddenly run out of? Oddly enough, the culprit is cologne. Actually, it isn't that he ran out of it so much as it fell and shattered in his apartment that now smells like a freaking forest covered in those forest-scented car fresheners.

And maybe he smells the same way. While the scent itself isn't bad, it's definitely intense enough for people nearby to notice and possibly cringe a little. Sigh. It'll wear off soon enough. Hopefully.

What this scent disaster also means is having to get more cologne. Buying it while the apartment airs out seems like the best plan. Kratos makes his way to the store (with various people cringing at the intensity of the smell as he passes) and begins browsing around for the brand bought last time. Searching yields no results. Right when he's about to go inquire about it, an employee bounces on over. Perfect timing.]

Actually, I'm searching for a brand of cologne. Do you have [insert some decent brand of cologne] in stock?

[Man holy crap are you sure you need any more cologne mister? Like this is as bad as her Grunkle Stan you smell like old man. But she doesn't comment and does her best not to grimace. Instead she just tilts her head and thinks about that for a minute.]

I don't know off the top of my head if we do or don't, but I can help you look! And if there isn't any on the shelf, I'll be happy to check in back for you too!

[Maybe you weren't looking on the lower shelves well enough. That's a problem a lot of people have that she's always able to help with.]

[The smell is the result of a higher power!! Gravity made it fall, not him! He does appreciate the lack of openly cringing. Not everyone could manage that (god knows he cringed. hard). A small nod comes at her suggestion.]

Please.

[Two heads are better than one. Not to mention someone with familiarity of the layout has a higher chance of finding it or at least confirming if they're sold out.]

[Curse you gravity! You've done nothing good for no one!]

Alright leave it to me!

[She offers him a little salute before glancing at the shelves.]

We can start here and just look over everything to make sure you didn't miss it first! And I think we have a special section in the beauty aisle for men's cologne too, so if you haven't checked there yet we can go there next, okay?

[except maybe people using gravity in bad pick up lines.

kratos shakes his head at her question and looks toward where he'd been searching.]

I hadn't looked there yet, no. It had been displayed here the last time I came.

[it was some sort of a promotion or other, hence why checking here first had been logical.]

[Well if they're using it in a pick up line, it's probably a good pick up line! Most pick up lines are pretty good after all.]

Oh! It may have been a featured sale then!

[She's going to guess it probably ended, only giving the shelves a cursory glance over really.]

Usually with beauty products sales tend to end pretty quick unless they're for the holidays! It's not like the food...

[Okay, just looking back up at him.]

Here, let's go look in that aisle instead. It'll probably be there!

[you mean that they're so bad they're good and gravity only makes them better. or would it be worse?

that had been his assumption. it was such a good price for something of that quality, too. ah well, paying full price for one bottle won't break the bank.]

Lead the way. I lack enough familiarity with the sort to know which aisle that is.

[when eating and drinking and stuff aren't necessary? yeah, going shopping doesn't happen all too much.]

I doubt you will sell many products that way, unless your customer base is made of youkai or self-admitted cannibals.

[ Sure enough, she doesn't seem grossed out...chances are she's eaten a human before, like, at least once. ]

[You better believe the minute Kuzuryuu found out they have food stalls here, he knew where he'd be eating lunch for basically all of the forseeable future. He's walking through the park-like portion of the food stop, munching on takoyaki and trying to figure out where he wants to sit when he notices a familiar headbanded head a little ways away. A headbanded head sitting next to a hatted head that's not actually familiar but kind of is because twins.]

[Kuzuryuu comes to a stop on the other side of the twins' table, glancing down at those notes they're pouring over like the nerds they are. At least he speaks up fairly quickly and doesn't just stand there staring like a weirdo or anything.]

So...this must be Dipper then, huh?

[Guess who, Mabel.]

[Look these are important notes! Even if half of them are doodled on with very pink notes penned in in the margins! Though thank you for not just staring like some kind of weirdo, Kuzuryuu. Not that you are a weirdo, but it's good that you are further proving that point.

At the question though, the girl looks up instant from the notes and then just gives him a bright grin, standing up in her seat.]

Fuyuhiko!!

[And then she places a hand on Dipper's head, wiggling it a little.]

Dipper, Dipper this is the guy I was telling you about!

Huh? [Dipper hadn't noticed Kuzuryuu approach their table or even speak, being too immersed in his notes. But he did snap out of his little world when Mabel put her hand on his head, and he looks from his notes to give Kuzuryuu a bit of a confused stare.]

The.. guy? [He reaches up to take Mabel's hand off his head, now giving her the slightly confused stare.]

[Wow what a nerd.]

Kuzuryuu Fuyuhiko. I'm... one of Peko's classmates. [Because surely Dipper knows all about Mabel's "best friend" Peko Pekoyama.] Mabel mentioned she had a twin brother back when we first met. I wondered when I'd finally run into you.

Come on Dipper I told you about Fuyuhiko at least once now. Probably a few more times than that even! The suit guy Peko was looking for?

[Just going to gently punch her brother's arm before turning her attention back to The Guy.]

But yup, anyway, like you probably guessed this is my brother! He probably just forgot because he was busy with his "conspiracy theories" when I was talking. [At "conspiracy theories", Mabel lifts her hands and wiggles her fingers all spooky like.]

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Oh! Right, the suit guy! [He rubs his arm where she punched it, looking a bit annoyed at her talking about his conspiracy theories teasingly. He nudges her, actually, at the finger wiggles and gives Kuzuryuu a smile.]

Right, yeah. I'm Dipper... it's uh, nice to meet you. [Offering... a handshake?]

...suit guy......

[Oh my god, Mabel what? SUIT GUY? It's not technically WRONG but...still. What the hell.]

Nice to meet you too. [Yeah, sure, he'll do the handshake thing.] Conspiracy theories, huh?

[He'll just go back to looking at Dipper's notebook, trying to read it despite the fact that it's upside down for him. And...possibly written in English so he can't even read it? Do you write in Tellus Common or English, Dipper? Because if it's the latter, he might actually just have to make do with looking at Mabel's margin doodles.]

[Mabel finally plops back down in her seat, absolutely beaming. Friends making friends with her brother, her favorite thing.]

Yeah! Because...originally Peko just told me to look for someone about your height, as old as her, wearing a suit. I didn't have your name so I wasn't sure what to call you and I never thought to ask...

[Which she'll be the first to admit was kind of dumb oops.]

Yeah! Conspiracy theories. Usually they're pretty wacky but he's actually got some really smart ones for what's going on. [But she's not going to be the one to share them apparently, looking expectantly at Dipper. That's his thing, and she doesn't want to steal his thunder.

And if he DOES write in English, that's okay, because Mabel's margin doodles are better anyway. Little doodles of tape measures labeled "time devices", talks about Blarblar or Blandon or Blendin. Angry looking chubby guy with a tiny lock of hair and an angry face pointing to the hair itself. There are also, on some of the loose sheets of paper laying about, doodles of those santa machines from the roller coaster ride, with little devil tails and horns added, and some talk about how it's rude to make santa so evil.

Mabel kind of glances back over at Kuzuryuu after a moment.]

You can sit down if you want! You don't have to keep standing there, you know. I promise it's my bite you have to worry about more than Dipper's!

[Said with a giggle and a tooth-y, braces-y grin.]

[Grocery shopping is one of those things that's almost as constant as Death and Taxes. It just needs to be done, and while Rei may hate it, even life in this weird place has to have those consistencies. She's moving pretty quickly, not wanting to spend too long on this task because she has Important Business to do, but really? She doesn't. She just hates shopping and she is not paying attention.

Which is why she jumps when Mabel bounces out from around a display of canned juice. Of course, it may also just be this place and how on edge the amusement park made her.]

OH~! Um...I'm alright. [Shoot, what an adorable little girl!] I think so, though, do you have any roasted seaweed?

[Nobody can blame Rei for being on edge after that park. Nobody can blame anybody for being on edge. That place was just awful. Don't worry though. This girl is 100% human, 100% adorable and about 60% harmless.

She offers the other girl a thoughtful hum at the inquiry, wracking her brain for a moment on that.]

I believe so! Seaweed sounds like an Asian kind of thing, and we've got a pretty big variety of Asian foods! Here, let me show you!

[Though she doesn't move until it looks like Rei's going to follow. Won't abandon a customer in need, even on accident!]

[It's that 40% Rei's generally worried about, but once she gets a really good look at Mabel, it's hard not to smile Gosh, such brace-face, much grill. And her willingness to help is endearing, absolutely.]

Oh, thank you!

[Rei does move to follow, stepping along lightly after the girl. No reason not to accept help she's been offered...]

And yes, it is. I'm Japanese, and...we use a lot of that in traditional cooking.

[There is no more brace-face in all the world, guaranteed.]

Oh well then we will definitely have it! We've got a large variety of Japanese food and ingredients, so if it's used a lot then it will definitely be there.

[With her following, she happily starts off towards the other end of the store. If Rei pays attention to the signs on the ceiling naming the aisles, she'll notice two of them are completely dedicated to Asian food. That is surely where they are heading.]

So does that mean you cook?

[Can she make idle conversation with you while you two walk?]

[That is indeed good to know, Mabel! She'll make return trips to this shop for sure, because Asian food is about all she can cook.

At the question? She smiles quite warmly, nodding.]

Not professionally, but I do cook. It's cheaper than eating out. How about you?

[Good choice because this is tooootally the best shop around! Yes, definitely better than any other grocery store or specialty shop you could go to! You should definitely continue giving them your patronage!]

I don't really cook, but my brother and I are kind of trying to learn. Because it is cheaper than eating out, and he says it's healthier too, and that's all we've been doing since we got here so.

[Man which aisle is it with the Japanese section...she always forgets if it's the first or the second one.]

I kind of bake though! My mom and I make cookies and stuff for all the holidays every year, so I sort of know what I'm doing there!

[Well, it's mostly because you're super cute, okay?]

It does depend on what you cook. But what do you try and make, hmm? Maybe I can give you some pointers or recipes?

[Rei looks down each aisle and points, heading down the second. The first is apparently the Thai and Korean aisle, and she has no desire for a burned tongue...]

[Oh good, so being adorable is working! Just as planned.]

Umm...well, we've tried pancakes, and those went kind of okay. I tried cooking hamburgers, but they ended up really raw in the middle still and when I tried to fix it, I just burned them...

[Oh, thank you! She feels bad she couldn't find it, but heads in that direction.]

And I tried baking some cookies too, but those ended up awful.

Oh?

[Rei frowns as she walks down the aisle, but she is very much paying attention. Stopping in front of the seaweed, she turns and looks down at the little girl.]

Well, it sounds like you're new to cooking, right? Would you like some help learning? I've taught a few people. And I wouldn't mind. It's a good skill to have.

[Especially for a little girl all alone. She knows all about that.]

[ Makoto doesn't intentionally eavesdrop on people — under normal circumstances, he typically tunes out any intermittent bursts of chatter as he sits cupping a glass of iced tea and periodically catches himself glancing at his now-outmoded digital watch out of old habit.

One hour into the wait for a friend and he's half-tempted to fish out his CereVice and call it a day, but he pauses mid-dial at the sound of certain buzzwords (namely "ferris wheel" and "funhouse", which are now ubiquitous connotations for potential places for demon exorcism, as far as he's concerned). And while it'd be better to either resume holding tight for his companion to arrive or give up the ghost, his interest is piqued enough that he swivels on the bar stool and draw up an amiable, if not slightly abashed, inquiry to the twins pondering over the notes strewn all over their portion of the counter: ] Oh, were you talking about that Christmas festival CERES held a few days ago?

[Mabel looks up from some of the notes she was making micro notes on, looking at Makoto for a second before nodding!]

Yeah! That thing with those rides that tried to kill everyone, right? Or was there a Christmas festival and I somehow missed it?

[If she missed a festival that might have been enjoyable she's going to be really mad!]

[ Makoto's expression appropriately flatlines in recall, eyebrows scrunching up in thought. ]

I think it was a little bit of both? They had a lot of holiday-themed novelties in the stalls around the rides, but I thought it was a little weird how they kept trying to —

... wait, k-kill?! I thought they were just trying to scare people.

[ Granted, he was the weenie who rode the two most watered-down rides at the theme park before calling it quits forever, but as far as he knew, no one had actually died like they were all extras in Final Destination ... ]

Yeah we're pretty sure they were trying to kill us. I mean I don't think any ride should have flying robot Santas with swords swooping down and taking swings at the passengers! Swings that actually hit them!

[Beyond giving her and her brother some nasty wounds (she can show you a few of them, she's still healing after all,) they totally ruined her sweater.]

I finally went to the fun house and rode the Ferris Wheel earlier, so maybe those were just trying to scare us, but the roller coaster? That one is a baaaad idea don't ride that one.

[ HE'LL GLADLY OPT OUT OF THE WOUND EXHIBITIONISM, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. His voice pitches high at the thought alone. ] This really isn't something you should let slide? They're supposed to warn people if rides are malfunctioning [ — yes, this is the excuse he's rolling with for the sake of his sanity — ] or glitching out. It shouldn't have been opened to the public in the first place?!

... I appreciate the warning, though. I went on those two but I didn't get hurt, so I just assumed the rest of the rides were the same case. [ A plaintive wince. ] Are you alright? I heard there was a hospital of sorts around here, but I haven't gotten the chance to look for it myself. If there's anything I can do to help you, please let me know.

[YOU SURE THEY'RE KINDA COOL NOW. But she nods vigorously, because right??]

We're trying to figure out what happened! Or why they didn't say something and acted like it was all cool! Because when we complained after we got off the roller coaster, all they did was give us free snow cones...

I'm okay though! My brother protected me for most of it, so he was worse than I was, but we've been through even worse than that so it's no big deal really. Some pretty bad cuts and stuff, but I think we bandaged everything up okay...

But it is a big deal! I'm glad you guys were able to look out for each other, but you realize that isn't proper reparation, right? I couldn't find a manager there, so I wasn't sure who to report to, but it's hard to believe than anyone else didn't raise an uproar about the rides.

[ LISTEN, THIS ISN'T WHAT HE SIGNED UP FOR? Badass wounds aren't supposed to be a positive point ... ]

There's no question that it was malfunctioning, but do you think it might've rigged, somehow? One way or another, all the rides seemed to be jinxed.

... W-Wait, you've had worse?

[Y...eah. Okay. She's pretty sure grocery store attendants shouldn't be that obviously underage? So here's Touka, blinking a little owlishly at this teeny bopper. This is weird.]

Uh, yeah. Everything's okay. I'm just — looking for a new coffee brand to try. [SHR...UGS... Can't be rude to a little kid. It goes against the rules of being a big sister.]

[Shhh she doesn't sell tobacco or alcohol products she's fine!]

Oh, then you've definitely come to the right stored! We have a very wide selection of coffee to choose from, and while it may not be the widest we stock only the best! [Probably not, but you've gotta sell up the place you work at or you don't make money.]

What do you normally use? I could make some suggestions if you'd like!

[GOOD... Touka doesn't believe that Very Paid Advertisement for a second, but, hey. She wants to change coffee brands. It won't hurt to listen to what this kid has to say, even if she doubts her knowledge on the subject.]

McCeres brand. [An awful brand, really. It's like the Starbucks grocery store bags, but, you know. Worse.] What suggestions have you got, kid?

Ew...McCeres anything is kind of awful...

[It's mumbled under her breath, because she kind of can't say that really, but honestly they are awful.]

Well, if you are looking for something more affordable, I would suggest something like Wholestone or Maxine House. If you'd like something more gourmet, our highest rated brands are J&J's, Coffee House Coffee, and Teapot's!

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wildcard! both / either twin works!!

Sorry for the delay, you're getting Mabel for now!

don't even stress, it's all good!! lmk if this okay

aah good! and this is fine!

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