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

[faceblocks]

Okay. Let's say I wanna activate it. But not now. Later.

[she produces the green stone from her pocket carefully, lets it sit in her palm.] Maybe I want a cool, green paperweight for all my vileblood waivers.

Someone said it was a windstone.

[inkedspell]

Oh, you would pick that one... [Saeri can't help but chuckle just a little, but maybe the tone is a warning at the same time.]

So maybe I should give you a bit of blood to activate that. Wind and vile blood tends to be...something.

[Like a poisonous gas kind of something.]

[faceblocks]

[she's been learning a lot about poisonous gases. not just how she emanates one from her skin when she's corrupted (not going there again, thanks, that was terrible) but the art of the vileblood smokebomb, and the things that can be made from parts of ...masses rumored to be pthumerians. so now what you've done is piqued her interest, saeri. the warning tone? she's gonna double down on the choice.]

What kinda something? I've learned a couple tricks with my blood that ...well, one of em's cool. Not sure about the other, I gotta give it...

...a better kind of test. See if I can control it. But...

[it's not really a pout. it's not not a pout either.] You're the expert when it comes to rune stuff, so I defer to you on the final call.

[inkedspell]

The "maybe poison people at a distance" kind of thing. I don't think you want to accidentally cause anyone with two blocks to end up nauseous or have some kind of hallucination as a surprise.

[Vileblood was the most volatile, in her opinion, but it had so many uses. You just had to be careful about them. She had to wear special masks when working with it.]

[faceblocks]

I'm into that. But not in the accidental way, and not Trenchies, and not you. [and to simdele] Not you, either.

It took me a while to warm up to it, but vileblood, I dig it.

So bad time on the Boardwalk, but ...say I hit it with my blood at the Outpost, and let's also say everyone there's got masks. Except the beasts. Is that kind of the idea, here?

What happens if your blood starts it?

[something even cooler? she's turning the stone over in her hands.]

[inkedspell]

You get your own gas bomb that will probably send all the beasties running. Best scenario.

[She gives a little smirk.]

My blood...darkblood is weird. It kind of warps things. I use mine to make ink, and mix it with other bloods to turn them into ink easier. Sure does make building stock faster. But...

[She picks one out of her basket with a little smirk. She pulls out her little pocket knife and cuts into her right thumb. The dark glitter flittered up into the air around her and then she rubs her thumb on the stone. A gust of wind picks up but concentrated right around Saeri until she was hovering a foot over the ground, hair swirling around her head.]

Temperary flight is one of the potential results.

[faceblocks]

[woah. that's ...incredibly cool. she's always been envious of sleepers that could fly. it's more common that she'd expected - but the joke's on her for having expectations in the first place.]

Yeah, maybe I should get a bit of your blood, since I've already mastered the gas bomb game.

Weird, but pretty.

[she will now take this moment to shift her stance and engage her boots - giving a little blast off into the air - enough to go higher than saeri but she can't stay there long - and it's back to the ground for vi with a grin and a laugh.]

How long's temporary?

[brow going up in 3...2...there it goes.]

[inkedspell]

[Her hair is fluttering everywhere and as much as Saeri loves her hair, it's getting a bit much. She rubs at the stone, smearing the blood and disrupting the magical flow. She came back to the ground with only a light jarring of the knees.]

With these stones? Probably about ninety seconds. You could get more with a stronger stone, but I try to avoid using that much ink and magic for these. They're more a one-use deal.