[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.]

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[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.]

[thornsofmalkav]

Yeah, like, it was a science experiment and I got his permission.

[breakaleginhalf]

I accept my lot in life as always being someone's plaything, but I very much did consent to this one.

[razorblade_empress]

...Good to know.

[thornsofmalkav]

No, my dude, you're very much my playfellow. Not my plaything.

[breakaleginhalf]

Six of one, half a dozen of the other.

[He's just teasing, Thorne, he knows you do legitimately respect and appreciate him.]

[thornsofmalkav]

Gil--

[Did Gil have get the chance to hear certain tones of fond exasperation in Thorne's brother's voice or mind-voice while he was here? Because she's replicating those tones exactly right now.]

[razorblade_empress]

...A process.

[She gets that he's being cagey for a reason, but...]

[breakaleginhalf]

If you want the details, I'm not the guy to ask.

[He'd be more apologetic if he wasn't sticking to his guns for a reason.]

If it helps, this should not have been something you stumbled across by accident. So, like. I have no fucking idea what happened.

[razorblade_empress]

Yeah, I figured that. This is just a Lot.

[But Thorne and Shinjiro have explained it already - as much as they can, because none of them know how she got it, so she's not taking it personally.]

I guess that makes all of us so far.

[breakaleginhalf]

I know at least one other person.

Fun fact: you can't get poisoned now. Downside, alcohol is a poison.

[razorblade_empress]

One other person who doesn't know how this happened?

[Then again, given that the people who actually own the grapes don't seem to know, she guesses that kind of follows.]

That would have been hell during Belljar.

...This would have been hell during Moebius.

[breakaleginhalf]

No, god no, they know how they got it, they were infiltrated on the Jaunt.

[Which shouldn't narrow down the 'who' all that much, but then he doesn't know how many people Raidou's told.

And... yeah, he can definitely see her point of view on that one.]

Only to a point. If the injury's big enough it won't heal. Try and stick with flesh wounds.

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?

private x2 protected

[razorblade_empress]

No. No, I did not.

[Look, she may be an ex-delinquent, but she doesn't make a habit of breaking into other Travelers's homes and stealing their shit, okay? Not unless it's a Jaunt and they're Infiltrating.]

private x2 protected 5ever

[thornsofmalkav]

Okay. Shit. And I am ninety percent positive that at no time did I make you any ambrosia like I did Gil.

Fuck.

Think there's some weird liminal thing that lets you copy stuff from other people?

private x2 protected 5ever

[razorblade_empress]

And I'm pretty sure I'd remember if you had, so...

Copy stuff? Like skills?

Re: private x2 protected 5ever

[thornsofmalkav]

Yeah. Like. It sounds completely fucking nuts, but I can see how it would work on the very real principle of 'if you know this thing can be done, liminal space can help you do it.'

private x2 protected 5ever

[razorblade_empress]

I can see that working for skills, but something like this...?

[Then again... Liminal Space.]

public

[breakaleginhalf]

Oh, so we're good just saying it now?

[He's only being half-facetious.]

public still

[thornsofmalkav]

I mean, if you hadn't said you got yours from me, it wouldn't be an issue. That's how people got it on the Jaunt.

[breakaleginhalf]

...yeah that's my bad. Fair.

[razorblade_empress]

Was wondering that myself, actually. Where you got it, I mean.