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[ Angel Devil. ]
[  chatcube, or action. ]
[ if you're visiting the rose barn,
look for the door with the creepy bat-and-angel-wing sigil on it. Knock first! Or get zapped. ]

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[finalbows]

Less than you have, clearly...

[wants_the_phd]

There's a fortress out in the mist where the surviving wolfkind civilians are hiding out from the wolf king, and might be Ceo's base of operations.

They've been using body parts of the Holy Beasts, like Forever Snake scales and stuff, to make masks that keeps them from going insane after contracting lycanthropy. They're desperately low on food and other resources.

I want to go to the sanctuary and negotiate with Ceo. Food, medicine, and materials in exchange for his full cooperation.

[finalbows]

Oh, I got to wear one of those masks! It mostly effected my impulse control, if I have to be honest. More chance to think, between when I see, then move.

I suppose our wandering names might have some simarity to Holy Beasts, then...

Ha, ha... I'd love to. Why not? It's not like I have silly grudges over right and wrong to cry at him over. We'll have to prepare quite a lot of meat.

[wants_the_phd]

Apparently they want fruit, too. Hannya said some of them nearly came to blows over a single grape.

My thought was to take them a no-strings-attached care package as a token of goodwill, with fruit, meat, wolfsbane, limbus, maybe even a few scales or whatever, if we can find any. Whatever we can easily spare.

My original plan was that I could carry you, me, and Charon over there on my back, the way I have before. But yesterday an extra-long walk in the meadow made me feel like my spine was about to disintegrate, so I think that's off the table.

[too fucking OLD]

1/2

[finalbows]

2/2

[finalbows]

Now it's my turn to play beast of burden, isn't it.

[wants_the_phd]

Your back has so much real estate! ❤

But Charon also mentioned he has some flowers that, when carried, will allow us to use our flock powers in the mist. And apparently Levi has a couple, too.

Which means, you could carry me there in your head.

[finalbows]

[ gears turning-- oh.


charon would never tolerate, it either. ]

Hmn.

[ that's not a no ]

[wants_the_phd]

I don't trust that I'll be physically up to the journey, otherwise. I've already spoken to Charon about the possibility of you two going together, so he can handle the negotiation and you can handle the firepower.

As annoying as it is to me, personally, I still think you're one of the strongest and most capable people in this place. I think you and him together would have the best shot at pulling this off successfully.

[finalbows]

And by contrast, you're quite good at the diplomatics. My talent in getting people to do what I want is... more in baiting them, with the undeniable temptation of what I can offer. I despise beseeching.

...

[ and it would be practice. One more way of knowing how to anticipate, how to react, if someone dug their fingers in when he DIDN'T agree. ]


...if you don't give me a reason to refuse between now and then... fine.

[wants_the_phd]

Thanks. I appreciate it.

I'd like to prioritize the body stuff first, because I'd like to have some kind of backup in place in case things with Ceo go completely sideways. Also, I feel like shit.

[finalbows]

Then I guess your next conversation ought to be with Your Name. I'll begin my preparations.

[wants_the_phd]

I'll try to help come up with a group activity we can do to generate materials.

[...The thought of asking everyone to help with her body-growing tub is strangely embarrassing, though.]

[Man. Every part of dying sucks. Even the parts for the sake of living.]

[finalbows]

...I want to...

[ a little faltering pause. long breath out. its not that he's shy. it's just that starting to speak the words made him dizzy with how much he wants to, and this form is prone to yearnings that are so much stronger than is natural to him. ]

I want to hunt something with you. We need the meat, anyway.
That should get us something.

[wants_the_phd]

[She perks up]

Oh...! That would be fun, actually.

When?

[finalbows]

[ where is that BONE. aha. it appears in the cube's mouth again as he worries at it. ]

How are you feeling tonight? Not all that frisky?

[wants_the_phd]

[she's quiet a moment as she flexes a little, testing her crunchy joints.]

I'm feeling pretty okay right now, actually.

I had a good sleep, and a long soak in the hot spring [hence why it took so long to find his note on the fridge]. I could go now.

[The sooner the better, honestly. She's feeling more shitty every day.]

[finalbows]

[ ...chewing stops. ]

[ wolfcube's tail wags. ]

[wants_the_phd]

[Cute...]

Lemme get changed and I'll meet you out front.

[finalbows]

Need the time to walk back, anyway.

[ wolfcube, out. ]

[wants_the_phd]

[By the time he gets back to the barn, she's out in front in her natural zmeu shape, limbering up with some cat/cow stretches.]

Where were you?

[finalbows]

[ he doesn't immediately come up to her, pacing a half circle as he closes in -- sizing her up like the sight of her is new. ]

The lakeside. I like looking at the moons on the water... almost hypnotic, if you gaze long enough.

[wants_the_phd]

That's true.

[She has also been doing a lot of that lately.]

So, tell me: how would you like to do this? When I go hunting, I generally cheat by using magic to make it as easy as possible, but I suspect that defeats the purpose in this instance.

What's the shape of this adventure, in your heart of hearts?

[finalbows]

[ oh now his back-and-forth is, just, like, excited pacing. pre-walkies anticipation. ]

I want to eat a puppet's face. That ugly thing it uses to wrest control of you! Pull it out of the wood like shucking an oyster from the shell!
And I think I know where to find one.
There's this mammoth pygmydillo that has to weigh at least a ton I keep seeing from the air, lately... it's not staying in their usual range. It moves strangely, and it goes to rest in a thicket, rather than a burrow!

I bet you a puppet's taken mastery of it. It'll fight like a bastard, not a boar.

[wants_the_phd]

Sounds like a good challenge.

Lead the way.