#grimrosehqs.start

[bloomingchavez]

open starter // location: flora florentine’s florist shop

the morning after the storm, diego drives carefully to florentine's, dodging large pieces of tree and other debris on the road. thankfully, it's a short drive to the shop from his place, and not a lot of people seem to want to brave the roads today anyway. diego doesn't blame them.

he pulls into his usual spot behind the shop and grabs his lunch off the passenger seat before stepping out to walk around to the store front. immediately, he notices one of the large potted plants on the sidewalk that frame the door tipped over and speeds up.

"great," he audibly groans, seeing that the dirt spilled under the door - he mentioned the gap a few weeks after he got hired by they told him no to worry about it - and the cracked rim of the pot.

as diego lifts up the pot and haphazardly brushes some of the dirt and pieces of pot out of the way with his shoe, little sprouts of weeds shoot up between the cracks of the sidewalk. his heart races at the sight, blood going cold, and he looks around, trying to mask casualness as he spots someone walking close enough to maybe have noticed.

(or maybe that's his anxiety talking ... he hasn't had anything like this happen in years)

diego fumbles his keys out of his pocket, immediately gripping the shop key and shooting the person a quick smile because that's just what you do in small towns.

[hvrbingers]

open !  location: library booth ! 

it all looks a bit....ridiculous. being one of the only librarians in town had its perks in say what the library farmers booth would look like. mina had crafted to her best abilities something that would appease the small children while trying to get everyone to get a library card ! though immediately next to the booth was her own booth for her radio show, harbingers cross, which was much more extravagant in the hand painted sign, the very sad attempts at merch ( that wasn’t really merch in hindsight, but all things that cryptid lovers would find interesting: buttons of bigfoot, aliens, jackalopes and the like ), with pamphlets describing everything that you needed to know about her unfortunate time slot on the radio. “here’s the deal, you get two lucky spins for prizes on both booths,” the prizes weren’t by any means great, but they sure were something made of love! “i might even throw in an extra candy. what do you say? want to take a spin?”

[dcstruction]

𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐧 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐫 / 𝐝𝐞𝐣𝐚-𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐰 𝐜𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩

       even as esther takes another sip of her second cup of coffee , the headache that burns the side of her temples isn’t budging . her hair is tied back ( in what she had attempted to be a professional updo but failed miserably with all this damn fog ) and make up is only half done - this day was definitely not for her to conquer . it was there when she had gotten home after that rather frightening thunderstorm and it hasn’t left but esther mclean had no sick days to use so she’s doing her best during her thirty minute lunch break . so instead of wallowing in the corner of the coffee shop , she sits herself in the only seat left by the mock fireplace serving as a heater on this dreary day - ❝ half the town must not have anything else to do today but stay inside .  ❞  esther says to the person next to her , eyeing the line that was long once again . ❝ i usually settle for the coffee in the break room but today felt like a nice exception to the muddy water .  ❞ 

[believinginpink]

Where: The Clearing: Museum of Cryptids and Curiosities

With: Anyone interested!

It had been... Well, Cassie almost hesitated to say it, but it had been a slow day and she was bored! There were so many things in the museum that were truly something amazing, something incredible, but she couldn’t share that with people if there were no people there. When she had taken the job after her parents had moved away literally overnight, she had expected crowds of people flocking to what she considered a modern wonder of the world. Not everyone agreed with her, though, and as she saw someone walk into the room she’d been standing in for longer than she’d like to admit, Cassie couldn’t help but grin as she walked very quickly over to them. “Hi! Can I help you with anything? Do you have any questions? How are you?”

[sawycrdavis]

open to everyone  location: cosmic balance stall on main street

“i’m not a mindreader - i’m a psychic, there’s a difference” perhaps she had reached a new low arguing technicalities with the know it all fourteen year old in front of her, but could you blame her? the little shit was adamant that she should know what should be going on in her mess of a teenage head, that and perhaps she shouldn’t have guessed that her crushes name was chad. she went as basic as she could, rikki would be ashamed -- “if i give you a free tarot card reading later this week, will you run along?” she still had a business to run as much as she could say the child’s talk was cheap, this town was small enough to create a buzz. she hadn’t realized she had gained a spectator till she turned around to a chuckle --

[hvrbingers]

open !  location: anywhere on main street ! 

lennon had been to quite a few farmer’s market events in grimrose, but it was the day after halloween and he wasn’t feeling too optimistic on people’s cheer considering how hard some people went in the festivities. himself included. he was never much of a drinker but he did spend a considerable amount of time at hangman’s last night and had to do some stuff for the paper this morning. he had skated in, his camera on his person and looking for the unfortunate souls that he would have to stop and almost beg to take a picture for the cover photo of the paper. he had ran a hand through his hair, walking up to one of the booths that offered coffee before he went to work. he wasn’t exactly hungover, but he definitely wasn’t feeling one-hundred percent at the moment. it had been... a weird night. too many overpowering emotions and a lot of blurry memories. “do you mind if i take a picture for the paper?” he asks, there’s a polite smile, he hates having to ask for it, but it was part of the job description. “you can say no- i won’t blame you.”