[cw: blood] Who wants to live forever?

[razorblade_empress]

So, uh... I know we've got really important shit going on right now, but I could use some advice or help or something, because I've got something weird going on with... oh, hell with it; it's probably easier to just show you. If you're not good with blood or whatever the hell this is, you're gonna want to look away or whatever the mental equivalent of that is right now.

[And she's just going to wait for a bit to give people a chance to do just that, and not at all because she's weirded out and embarrassed by all of this herself.]

...Right. Okay. I'll just... get this over with, then. [There's a short pause as she steels herself, and then:] Anyone got any idea what the hell this shit is?

[She opens a livestream that focuses on her finger - or rather, the visibly healing gash on said finger and the trickle of mingled red and silver fluid oozing from it. Those who were there for the Achaia Jaunt or otherwise have reason to know will likely recognize the silver fluid as ichor of immortality, typically gotten through eating certain red-gold grapes during or after that Jaunt. Unfortunately, Yukino doesn't know that - and more importantly hasn't had any such grapes.]

Comments

[fruitknife]

...How the fuck did you stumble into that.

[razorblade_empress]

I don't even know what it is.

[thornsofmalkav]

It's. Uh. Ichor in the blood.

Congratulations, you're immortal now?

[razorblade_empress]

[There is a long, long pause.]



What.

[breakaleginhalf]

Yeah, that's uh.




How.

[razorblade_empress]

I dunno - how do you even get this... stuff?

[breakaleginhalf]

I got it from Thorne - but I didn't just spontaneously start leaking silver, there was like. A process.

[He's loyal enough that he won't just reveal The Grapes, but it's hard to talk around.]

public --> private x2 protected

[thornsofmalkav]

Eating ambrosia, normally.




[Switching to private now!]

You didn't eat any strange grapes from a hidden arbor in my house, did you?

aaaaaaaaaaaand Private (double protected)

[fruitknife]

Well, Thorne beat me to what.

Few people got it dumped on 'em without warning in Greece, but it shouldn't have happened without warning since then. That's the part that has me stumped.

aaaaaaaaaaaand Private (double protected)

[razorblade_empress]

Dumped on 'em how?

[fruitknife]

Food. [If Shinji sounds supremely annoyed by that, it's because he is.]

What Thorne does with hers is her business, but she woulda talked to you about it first. I'd rather forget the damn things exist.

[razorblade_empress]

Pretty sure the last thing I ate was a couple of dates back on the Jaunt.

[fruitknife]

And that wouldn't do it, so if you didn't eat it, how the fuck did this happen?

Bad enough Koro-chan got into it.

[reallymean]

You were in the Mystic Spire, weren't you? Did you come across any strange fruit or drink there?

[Cassandra had mentioned the gods in her attempts at divination, hadn't she? Perhaps the Vale is what had become of the Achaia of antiquity.]

[razorblade_empress]

I had to come back early, but I didn't see any kind of food while I was there.

[reallymean]

I'm not certain whether that's a relief, or more concerning...

Most of us who have immortal ichor in our veins brought it back from a Jaunt several years ago. We'd spent time as gods, or mortals uplifted to become gods. There may be unexpected abilities to go along with the ability to heal and the changes in your blood.

[razorblade_empress]

Yeah, me neither.

I don't think I've noticed anything like that, or anything more than usual. Then again, I only just noticed this.

[reallymean]

Which either means you didn't get a strong enough dose of ambrosia to draw a mantle as well as the immortality, or it was quite recent.

[razorblade_empress]

I... don't remember getting any dose of ambrosia at all. And my blood was normal on the Jaunt.

[Unless something happened during the very last days, maybe, but what that could be, she has no idea.]

[letsgetdowntobismuth]

...did you know you had that when we were talking earlier?

[She's curious and confused, more than anything else. Because what the hell.]

[razorblade_empress]

No. No, I did not.

[She's more than a little confused, too.]

[letsgetdowntobismuth]

Well. Fuck.

[She's already looked at the public chatter about this. Is she allowed to be excited? It feels a bit mean to be excited so soon after the news. She'll have to keep it on lock for now, until Yukki's more okay.]

I'd ask if you wanna come get a drink with me, but seems like that might be off the table.

[razorblade_empress]

[Yeah, she could probably use a little more time - which she apparently has no shortage of now - to process before the congratulations start.]

Doesn't seem off the table so much as really, really challenging, unless I wanna drink for taste.

[letsgetdowntobismuth]

Well, all of my alcohol recommendations are off the table, then. And I doubt Riddick's are much better.

[She's still gonna try and lighten the mood a little. Better to laugh than cry, right?]

[razorblade_empress]

Probably not.

[She's at least making an effort to go along with Bismuth's, but she's not really there yet.]