scawwy ✦ karlach cliffgate

[recession]

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[ablazement]

[a little shrug.]

Nah. I'm not picky, so long as I'm with people I want to be with. [puts

her hand in the blood spigot]

Not outside works though.

[recession]

[ Looks at her just putting her hand in the blood spigot. ]

You know I can see this, right?

[ Does your hand feel weird Karlach. Are you developing a yaoi hand as we speak? ]

[ablazement]

[becomes a kaiju but only her hands

no, nothing happens if she touches it, i asked. tch.]

Yeah, I wasn't gonna just test it by myself.

[ok]

[recession]

I did just say it was preferable.

...

Is anything happening? What does it feel like.

[ Does it feel like blood. Is it warm, ew. ]

[ablazement]

[wiggles her fingers in it...]

It's warm. Ew. [...] It smells like flowers? Kinda sexy.

[THIS IS. WHAT ANNA TOLD ME WHEN I ASKED]

It's not doing anything, though.

[recession]

Probably not my next go-to word after "ew".

[ Holds out the little jar of water he tends to keep around these days. Just always boiling and bottling sterile water just in case. Wosh ur hands. ]

Good to know that it isn't going to make people do something weird just by touching it. I really can't predict anything that goes on these days.

[ablazement]

I can't help it if that's how it smells!

[holds out her hand for wosh.]

Bet it makes you do weird shit if you put it in your mouth.

[recession]

Are you going to put it in your mouth?

[ Girl you can wash your own hands. He pours water over it to get some of the blood off even though she may or may not just end up drinking some soon. ]

[ablazement]

On a scale of one to ten how mad would you be if I did.

[THE RESTLESS SPIRIT OF CURIOSITY CAN NOT BE SATED OR TAMED]

[recession]

Not a ten because you asked first.

Seriously, be careful though? Don't like... down it.

[ Maybe just one small taste...

He's really only agreeing because like. At least she'd probably own it and take it into stride instead of just bass-boosted suffering like a certain Ms. Preaker. Unless this blood just makes her go fucking berserk and kill Daan on the spot which in that case understandable have a nice day. ]

[ablazement]

I'm not going to chug it!

[she is curious, though, and it's probably better to know what it can do? just in case it comes up later...

so she reaches in and scoops a bit up and puts it in her mouth. asks the mods if she goes berserk and kills daan on the spot free me from this mortal coil]

[recession]

[ Let's get the fuck outta dodge big girl. ]

[ablazement]

[well

she doesn't go insane, probably. instead, she wrinkles her nose, because she doesn't like the taste, and then glances over at daan.

and then behind daan!]

[recession]

...?

[ Looks at her just to check if she looks like she's about to jump out of her skin or more specifically at him. If not, then he'll also glance behind them before back at her. ]

Karlach?

[ablazement]

[there's nothing behind him...

she looks startled.]

-- Wait, really, you're just going to look back at me? Did you not see the turtle?

[recession]

The what?

[ Oh boy. He's squinting a bit and trying to discern from Karlach's expression and eyes if her pupils seem dilated or anything strange like that. ]

[ablazement]

[she seems like... fine, mostly, but listen, he's a doctor. he can probably figure out she's hallucinating something. karlach shifts, moving to stand so she can go past him, reaching a hand out into empty space.]

The turtle. It --

[stops talking. loooong silence.]

[recession]

Karlach, the blood's making you hallucinate.

[ Just says it. Probably, anyway. Why a turtle. How big is this turtle she's imagining. ]

[ablazement]

[a beat.]

Oh. He's really nice, actually.

[she looks at daan again.]

You really can't... he's huge. He's got a hat! And just talked to me, you didn't hear any of that?

[recession]

Oh, mercy. She's basically done psilocybin...

Alright Karlach, let's come this way and just sit down for a while, yeah?

[ Away from the tree and maybe in a nice open safe spot in the woods until she's better. ]

[ablazement]

[she looks like, vaguely concerned at all of this, but. she doesn't argue, just looks at, presumably, where the turtle is.]

Never seen a hat like that before. Sort of pointy.

[she does not have the word for pope but here we are.]

... Alright, though, we can go. The fuck is psilocybin?

[recession]

Is it a turtle with a wizard cone hat.

[ Please. ]

Mushrooms.

[ C'mon buddy. Is the turtle coming with? Let's go to some semi-open clearing with some nice animals that are definitely real. ]

[ablazement]

Yeah. He -- sorry, he keeps talking to me.

[reaches absently for daan as she follows him, eyes on... the turtle, but like, empty space.]

Hang on, not a wizard hat, like... it's got the crosses on it. He's nice, though, he's just talking about bonds.

[recession]

[ Like... financial ones...? ]

...Okay...

[ They have the Vatican City but I don't. Think they have a pope. I don't know, it's a world where Christianity is more like default Satanism. ]

Don't let me interrupt your riveting conversation.

[ Because he's just going to be here to make sure she doesn't fuck off and get lost in the woods forever because of this imaginary turtle. Holds out the rest of his water jar to her for her to drink? ]

[ablazement]

[no like friendship bonds!!! though it's objectively funnier if the eldin ring turtle pope was lecturing her about financial security. all she knows about christianity is that it murdered aerith so they're both doing bad, here.

the water is welcome - she finally tears her eyes away from the turtle so she can drink.]

You're not interrupting. [...] Alright, so maybe you were right about not putting strange blood in my mouth.