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1. KUNSTKAMMER (closed : for lan)
He'd originally planned on waiting until after the moon had passed before bothering with Lan's vial, but it's been sitting in the hiding place he'd found for it, silently taunting him. February is a plenty busy month so he should have more than enough to keep his mind occupied, yet he still finds himself distracted, his thoughts often drawn back towards the possibilities that Lan's project holds. The curiosity is slowly killing him.

A couple days after the Imbolc festival, he finally breaks. He's got himself a quiet evening and a golden opportunity to find out what happens when he drinks that weird shit, and so he does just that.

He makes it a few more days before slinking in to Lan's shop again, looking pretty ragged when he drags himself through the door. As far as he knows, it's not because of what she'd given him. It's the day before the full moon, is all- he probably shouldn't even be here when he's like this, but the feeling of restlessness has become unbearable. If he's going to suffer all day, he might as well suffer and accomplish something.

Ghoul slowly shuffles his way around shelves, sounding almost as rough as he looks when he quietly asks, "Lan...?"

2. I DARE YOU TO PET HIM (wolf shenanigans/OPEN)
There's a full moon out, and that can only mean one thing: wolves.

Strangely enough, there's one running about alone in one of the larger parks rather than East End's usual territory. Maybe it's a rogue. Maybe it escaped from wherever it locked itself up. Whatever the case, it doesn't seem to be up to too much trouble at the moment. Sprinting through trees, digging holes, chewing on things. The usual kinds of energetic canine business. But, wolves can be pretty unpredictable. Who knows how it'll react when faced with company.

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Oh, he will give him that look. That look and more. He still appears to be very grumpy, despite being a large furry animal, and after Rorschach makes his cheeky comment, Ghoul makes one back. Sort of. It's more like a bunch of air-gnawing and groaning, plus a loud yip just to drive the point home. Whatever the fuck that point is supposed to be.

He just wants to argue, evidently.

Rorschach disappears again, reappearing right in front of the wolf. He gives him a poke with one of his gloved fingers, and while he can't actually touch the wolf, he can induce a sensation cold enough to cause the wolf to shiver as his whole hand passes through the furry hide. "Watch your mouth."

He's not going to take any sass from a werewolf, even if he is in wolf form.

He doesn't like that odd sensation so much if it comes when he's not expecting it. Ghoul makes a noise of complaint, shaking his entire body like he's trying to rid himself of a coat full of water. It only marginally helps, so he takes it a step further by bowing down and rubbing his face against the grass.

Which then turns in to him slowly flopping on to his side entirely, legs kicking briefly as he makes all sort of vocal fuss for a few seconds. Rorschach ain't the boss of him or his mouth!

Rorschach watches the wolf with a dull sense, something that can't properly be called amusement since it's so muted in his system, but that's as close as it comes to him. He's proven his point enough to the werewolf. Whoever this is, he's really more like a big dumb puppy than a proper wolf. He doesn't have to worry about this wolf attacking anyone tonight. He'd probably want to play fetch instead of mauling someone.

He waggles a gloved finger at the wolf flopped over on the ground. "That's enough out of you." Don't make him pass right through the wolf. He won't like that at all.

Ghoul copies the motion- pawing at the air in Rorschach's direction with one of his forelegs as he continues to lie on the ground, mouth open and tongue hanging out.

He is a very serious, very intimidating wolf. Quite possibly alpha material.

That sight is almost enough to make Rorschach smile beneath the mask. Almost but not quite. Well, he's gotten what he wants out of this particular wolf. Time to check up on how others are spending their full moon.

"Be good tonight. Or I'll know about it." To prove his point, he slowly fades away, the last thing to disappear being the splotches of his mask.

Maybe he takes the threat to heart, maybe he doesn't. What he does do is jump up once Rorschach fades away, pacing a couple circles and sniffing around for a trace of him like he didn't just go through this nonexistent scent thing a little while ago.

Once he's sure Rorschach isn't going to pop out of nowhere again, he bounds through a thick grouping of trees, off to find more things to stick his stupid nose in to. If there is news of a wolf terrorizing people later, it's almost certainly not going to be the work of the dirty little grey one.