Always give without remembering

[inkedspell]

Who: Simidele, Saeri, and YOU
What: Simidele thinks he has a flawless plan to help Saeri make friends and it involves gifting runestones and/or crystals to anyone he meets! That means you, and you, and yes, even you! When she remembers to look for them he's going to be in so much trouble...
When: Last week of September
Where: All over Trench

Content Warnings: Memory issues, possible language, overeager dumbass omen shenanigans



[It had all be so unfair. He'd had plans. Saeri never celebrates her birthday and he'd had just the plan to turn that around! Only for them to even forget she had a birthday for WEEKS. And by the time she remembered--and he remembered with her--it was days later and the moment for his perfect birthday surprise had passed. He couldn't reclaim it again. How was he supposed to get Saeri more friends when she kept avoiding spending time with new people? How was he supposed to show people what she brought to the friendship table?

Then Saeri had bumped into one of her dangling bowls of runestones and knocked one out of the bowl to the ground, a cooling stone that immediately caused ice to crackle across the floor. The air around it was so cold it fogged, but the reaction was brief before the power in it faded. While Saeri grumbled and cursed, hiphopping around to avoid stepping on it before she picked it up, the inspiration struck him. The answer to their problem was right there.

Unfortunately, he had to wait...and wait. For all of two days. TWO WHOLE DAYS. For Saeri to be busy enough to not notice the noise he made getting one of the baskets down. It was filled with stones and crystals with single use runes on them. Saeri used them in her experiments as one time additives, but surely other people would find them useful?

And so he struck out. Whether slinking casually down the streets of Wilfull Machine, or flying over to one of the other districts, the strapped of the bowl tight in his teeth. If he saw someone he thought might be a good friend, he would approach them immediately, earnest and proud.]

You look like you could use some magic! My friend is giving these away, do you want one?

[Please listen to him and accept his gift! No, he doesn't know what exactly each stone done--he would if he bothered to look at them, but who has the time to look at all the runes when he was on a mission?--but they were single use. They couldn't be that dangerous, certainly. But he knew he had to get rid of all of them before Saeri realized what he did and came looking.

So he had probably an hour. Plenty of time.]

{OOC: None of these runestones or crystals are particularly powerful. They are single-use runes powered by different blood types and other magical properties. The power in them will only last for a very short while once activated or in one burst of energy. Just be careful about grabbing that lightning stone, oops. Saeri is going to be hunting Simidele down and all of the people he gave stones and crystals to.}

Comments

[strongroots]

[ Huh. He blinks, a little confused but willing to listen. He's not exactly certain of every detail with blood, not even his own, so- ]

I heard it's good for transfusions, [ which he shares without dislike or begrudging acceptance of the fact; it sounds useful in that. It's good. ] What else can you do with it?

[ Because it still feels like a stark contrast between what everyone else he knows can do, and himself. ]

[inkedspell]

Transfusions, helping with fighting beasthood, and is the least pollutant of the blood types. Neutrality is good sometimes, you know.

[She snags one of the stones out of the basket and holds it out.]

It also mixes with the other blood types really well. I have to use a bit more of it than the others, since the magic is not as strong, but when you're being careful with your measurements, it's great as an incremental additive.

[Sorry, she's using phrases that probably don't make much sense.]

[strongroots]

[ He kind of gets it, in the same sense he thinks he kind of gets how this rune-making process works. Still isn't a blood type that's anything to write home about unless you're doing something about beasthood, and maybe he hasn't yet been around long enough to appreciate that. Maybe he could be making his blood more useful, if that's its biggest contribution.

But also, still sucks that it can't also be a little more magic-y.

Robby does look at her and the stone held out, a permission before he takes it, to look at himself. ]

It isn't better just to use more of the other bloods?

[inkedspell]

Incremental power-ups. Sometimes you want a pop instead of a bang. And I can mix warm blood with any of the others without worrying about it blowing up in my face if I'm not careful. Vileblood especially.

[No worry about sending herself into shock from poison if she's not using as much of it.]

[strongroots]

[ Ah, so that's how the incremental part works. He nods, quiet for a few seconds. ]

So... you mind if I saw how you make them sometime? [ He shrugs slightly, not really in the business of asking how to make magical runes. ] It sounds pretty cool.

[ Stones you can make do magical things? Very cool. But he also gets they just met, and is that weird? Well -- only one way to find out. ]

[inkedspell]

[Saeri is a bit surprised to be asked that, but the tutor in her also perks up. She hasn't had someone to teach things to in so long. It feels like forever.]

Sure. I'll even let you help with a few to get a feel for it.

[Simidele is maybe vibrating with how happy he is right now, to the point his feathers and knocking against her leg and she looks down, giving him such a Stare. Cut it out, why are you so embarrassing??]

[strongroots]

[ Is Robby taking advantage of that earlier offer? Absolutely, and why not -- it's interesting, and so he grins when she accepts it. ]

Great. [ He glances at Simidele, but he looks back at Saeri to hold out a hand. ] --I should introduce myself, right? Robby. I showed up this month, new guy; and whenever you're ready to have me, I'll give you my omni info so you can message me. I just hang out with the fishermen and let them bully me into work.

[ So, he has a free schedule. ]

[inkedspell]

[Saeri does take that hand shake.]

Nice to meet ya, Robby. Saeri. Which you know. [She shoots another Look at Simidele.] And yeah, I'll let you know when I've got the time. I'm "inkmetal" on the network. I work at Ursula's in the mornings, but my afternoons I do my own thing.

[Usually work of a different kind.]

[strongroots]

Alright, 'inkmetal', got it. [ He can remember that. ] I'm 'kickflips', sounds exactly like what it is -- and this was fun.

[ Which his own look given to Simidele, which is far more approving (and still, a tad sympathetic. you tried, pal). But then, a nod to the pair. ]

See you both later.

[inkedspell]

Same. See ya when I see ya.

[It was frustrating at first, hunting Simidele all over Trench, but at least this was nice--simple, fun. And she has a potential "student."

Now if only Simidele would stop feeling so damn smug and pleased with him.]