synopsychic | About mid-way through Drive-in Liminal

Hi everyone! This is Pod, if we haven't been introduced yet. I've been thinking about the Forstfolk from Yensid and what they could do. Magic brews like that are really useful, and I think I remember how to make them and what they do, but...

Well, my overlay found out the hard way that they don't work quite the same on humans, and if we're going to use them, we should know what they do first! Does anyone want to help me test what different ones do on different people? I can only turn into a couple other things besides human, so the more help the better. And it will go faster if I don't have to wait for the effects to wear off each time. If you want to learn how to make the potions too, we can work on that together.

Actually, I know it's not the most exciting thing, but it's always good to have backup, and I know my herblore very well by now! If anyone wants to learn about healing plants and what to do with them, I'm happy to teach. I don't think I can teach my magic, but the herbs will probably pass beneath notice in more places than magic would anyway.

[There's a long pause.]

One last thing... My overlay had some kind of magic power that let her convince other people to give in to what she wanted and I think I kept it too. Could somebody help me test that out? I want to be sure exactly what it does.

((OOC: a log if anybody would like to thread out experiments or get a teaching proof, etc))

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I can help out with brewery tests, Touwata-chan.

That would be wonderful; thank you! Your overlay was really good at that--

[And Pod stops suddenly, because she's just stumbled on some bad memories she hasn't quite shaken from the jaunt.]

What's wrong?

Just some bad memories. Hazel was... really lost. Um, not just physically either.

I dare say I know the feeling.

[After a long moment of silence.]

They didn't come back.

[She's pretty sure Naoki will understand, given his overlay's sister.]

I'm sorry.

She'll find a new home, I'm sure.

She already has one; she just can't find her connection to it. I just want to-- I'd box her ears for her, if I could. It's all right in front of her and she doesn't understand it.

...and somehow it hurts worse to have and to lose, then never have at all.

She's had different experiences to you. She'll get there in her own time.

It does and it doesn't, in my experience. There's still something worth treasuring even after someone's gone.

At least she won't have to worry all the time about going feral anymore.

[There's a sigh.]

It was new, I'll give them that. I'm just-- It makes me think about what will happen when this game is over, I guess. I have to go home, but what if... Nevermind. I'm probably worrying my head over nothing.

We don't know who's going to be setting the terms at the end. You may not have to go home, and if you do go home, you'll have the chance to build something new for yourself.

No, that's not-- I mean, I want to go home. My calling is there; I can't just abandon that. My friends, and the guild, and everything. I've got a duty to go home when this is over.

Fair enough. What is worrying you, then?

I keep wondering if Riddick is what having a father is like but... someday I might never see him again.

It's a lot harder not to think about that this time.

What kind of side effects are you expecting? No one came across anything long lasting, right?

I'm not human, though, I'm an elf born to human parents. I don't know if that would be particularly useful to you.

It's a risk, with something like this. With any time you make a connection with someone, really.

But losing someone doesn't mean you've lost what you did with or learned from them.

I know that. I just...

[The next is very very quiet and hard to make out.]

Don't know if I could make it through the losing anymore.

Nothing bad, and they won't last long. But the thing is, every potion works a little differently, depending on who takes it. For example, my overlay was making potions to change the color of fur--hair, I mean, and skin to hide better. But when a human tried it, she turned bright pink for a few minutes instead.

And it will be useful if you ever want to use a potion! There are healing potions too; those are probably the more important.

It's definitely not easy.

Yeah...

[A pause]

Anyway! Your overlay was really good at potions, so I bet if we could experiment together we could even come up with new recipes, or figure out a pattern of what different potions do to different kinds of people!

[Obvious subject change is obvious, but Pod doesn't want to wallow in those thoughts. She'll figure it out eventually. She has to.]

[He lets the blatant subject change go. At least she knows she can bounce this off him, if she needs to, but he can't blame her for not wanting to dwell on it.]

Figuring out a pattern is probably the better place to start. Then we might be able to guess what a new formula will do across those known reaction groups.

I've got a lot of ingredients already, and a few things from home that I think would make good ingredients in new recipes.

I wonder what the best potions would be to start with. Something with a simple but obvious effect, I think? So we can compare right away, but won't be bad if something goes strange.

You're Hazel!

[First things first, we can go about actual contents of anything later.]

Uh--

[There's a feeling of almost befuddlement for a split second.]

My overlay was Hazel, yes. I'm Pod. Oh, I think I recognize your voice. You were the cat who spied on the meeting with Hazel, weren't you?

Well [okay] you're Hazel like when you meet someone again after a Carnival party and you go "oh you're Elvis!" Like you aren't, but you were wearing that when you met last.

[Anyway.]

Yeah. I'm still Kitty! How old are you now? [Just to make sure. You never know who turns ancient out of overlay.]

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