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cleavethetides ([personal profile] cleavethetides) wrote in [community profile] sticksandbones2023-12-17 10:13 pm

December FamMeet

Who: The Grove
What: Town Hall
When: Mid-Late December
Where: Inn Lobby
Warnings: Child death mentions, torture, body horror all probably will be brought up.

[ In the morning, Irene will trek around the Grove to knock on doors and let everyone know she's setting up a information sharing meeting in the Inn's lobby. She figures there would be best, considering the new fireplace (thread pending on my behalf) set up and the fact it's about as safe as they're going to get.

Irene also lets everyone know that any fights and any blatant drama starters will be met with punishment. She doesn't elaborate on this further. Zahliya is invited. Irene tells Moder if she wants to sit by the door to listen, she can. She does not invite the merchant siblings, however - though she'll make no objections if someone else does.

She seems to be writing things down in their shared journals this meeting so people can reference this later.
]
purifier: (003)

plot important NPC hours

[personal profile] purifier 2023-12-18 09:00 pm (UTC)(link)
[Anyway, since he was asked to come—]

Those of you who haven't spoken to me yet might recognize me as the stone creature that sits on the inn's roof. I can be summoned to your side with a call of my name, Zahliya, and any one of my titles:

[oh boy here we go] the Purifier, He Who is the First Sentinel, the Grove's Guardian, Liberator of the Lost, the Champion of the Faithful, Watcher of the Realm, He Who Cleanses the Corruption, [stop please] and Keeper of the Sun.

[by the fucking STARS, shut UP]

My magic is thin and difficult to utilize, so I would appreciate help learning to harness it. I could also use sparring partners at the moment.

...

More importantly, can someone explain why so many of your human foods are melty? Cheese, for example. [buddy this is not the fucking time]
lupusxylem: (54)

[personal profile] lupusxylem 2023-12-18 09:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Anything melts if you get it hot enough.

[Said with an underlying implication of anything.]
purifier: (002)

[personal profile] purifier 2023-12-19 05:28 pm (UTC)(link)
[....staring down at his hands]

Is that why...?

[He's a fucking furnace, if you Stand next to him it's like having a tiny stone spaceheater.]
lupusxylem: (60)

[personal profile] lupusxylem 2023-12-19 09:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Sure. Try superheating shit next time you get a chance and you'll see what I mean.

[/enabling]
purifier: (002)

[personal profile] purifier 2023-12-20 02:12 am (UTC)(link)
[Staring?? at hands??? continues???????]
lupusxylem: (60)

[personal profile] lupusxylem 2023-12-20 03:05 am (UTC)(link)
[Finger guns. You're welcome.]
nforcing: (w6)

[personal profile] nforcing 2023-12-19 01:03 am (UTC)(link)
You are very hot. [ N— ] It is very hard to look at you. Did you know that? [ N???? ]
purifier: (004)

[personal profile] purifier 2023-12-19 05:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Wha—

[STARTLED GARG NOISES????]

Huh—?! What do you mean!?

[zahliya honey]
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[personal profile] nforcing 2023-12-24 08:20 pm (UTC)(link)
At a certain point, heat actually stops changing color entirely, and it's more of a teal-ish color, and every heat beyond that stays that color. [ N, so stupid, and yet has very specific knowledge of things. ] It is very bright, though.

[ N, this doesn't explain anything. ]
livlaughlove: in a second, if i needed to (236)

[personal profile] livlaughlove 2023-12-19 01:03 am (UTC)(link)
... Would sparring help with the magic, or? How are you figuring out ways to strengthen it?
purifier: (002)

[personal profile] purifier 2023-12-19 05:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Mm. I was given this shard— [he holds up a ? bird skull? that has an orangey looking gem in one of the eye sockets. Yeah that's where he put this thing.] —the shard of the sun, specifically. It's helped augment my magic, but I must not know how to properly use it, because I use augment very lightly. I wonder if I should try to join with it, instead of just carrying it around.

Sparring is just so that my skills do not dull while I am not in the woods for another hundred years fighting everything.

[...]

But, it may help with the magic, yes. I've never been able to control it before. I came to life and immediately stabbed a cursed creature within seconds, so you can say my experience is... [and then he just wiggles his wrist like ehhh.]
livlaughlove: and my legs, they just won't work (207)

[personal profile] livlaughlove 2023-12-19 05:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Where did it come from? The shard. And how would you... "join" it? [Please don't eat the rock, Zahliya.

Well. Even if he doesn't know how to help, otherwise...]


I can help you keep your skills sharp.
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[personal profile] purifier 2023-12-19 07:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Mm. Ydalir, the shadowy lady who isn't here right now, knows the shards better than I do. But from what I understand, they fell from the skies, which is why you don't see any stars here. Most of them are dead. This one is still alive. This one, and the moon shard [Mizuki ate that one, fyi] are the only two recovered so far, I think.

I am a creature of stone and flame, so theoretically, I could just... attach this... to myself? I think. Or I could eat it. [...] If fusing magic shards to someone isn't your forte, I'd cross blades with you. You're... huge. No offense.

[Zahliya is... 5'0", so,]
livlaughlove: or just for your pride? (205)

[personal profile] livlaughlove 2023-12-19 09:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[This place and everyone in it is unhinged.]

Is there a reason you haven't tried yet? A chance it could hurt you? [Sorry for the mini interrogation, Zahliya, he just. needs to know All The Things.]

... Is that a yes or no? [SORRY HE'S SO SO BAD AT SOCIAL CUES]
purifier: (002)

[personal profile] purifier 2023-12-20 02:09 am (UTC)(link)
There's no chance it could hurt me. I don't think. No one said it would? [Staring at the rock in the bird skull's eye socket like ?? hm?] The only reason I haven't tried is because I thought it might be useful to simply hold onto it, rather than join with it. Perhaps the use is in joining with it.

...

And yes, that's a yes, we can spar whenever you'd like.
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[personal profile] livlaughlove 2023-12-20 02:17 am (UTC)(link)
Sorry. I'm still trying to figure out how things work around here.

Let me know, then. Probably have to be once we can go back outside. I don't think this building would survive me.
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[personal profile] mooninthewater 2023-12-19 09:26 pm (UTC)(link)
...Zahliya, hypothetically, what does it mean if someone did see stars outside?
purifier: (006)

[personal profile] purifier 2023-12-20 02:06 am (UTC)(link)
Uhm...

[Clueless look???]

...you did more weed brownies??? Is this a quiz?

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[personal profile] devilishkouhai 2023-12-19 05:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Can you stuff any more names into this bad boy??? [ BB comes out of nowhere, and playfully smacks his ass. ]
purifier: (004)

[personal profile] purifier 2023-12-19 07:22 pm (UTC)(link)
[YELPS

REMOVES BB HAND FROM ASS]
devilishkouhai: <user name=minamisakura011 site=twitter.com> (8)

[personal profile] devilishkouhai 2023-12-19 07:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Aw, don't gotta be shy all of a sudden now - ya know?

[ Is he still gripping her? its okay she'll allow it she just will just take the opportunity to spin as if she were a ballerina. ]
purifier: (008)

gagtag

[personal profile] purifier 2023-12-19 07:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, I think I have every right to be shy, thank you. I have

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[personal profile] purifier 2023-12-19 07:58 pm (UTC)(link)
[Yeah okay, fine, twirl, and then he's letting go and going back to being arms-crossed and leaning against the wall.]

Please. I am allowed to be as shy as I want to be.
devilishkouhai: <user name=minamisakura011 site=twitter.com> (142)

CANON NOW LMAO

[personal profile] devilishkouhai 2023-12-19 08:04 pm (UTC)(link)
It's fine I know, you have

[ Yes you suddenly see flashing lights and it appears right over her head in a cartoonish way. Pointing to it rather casually, the lights quickly snap out of the world and into a darkness clearly being swept away by tendrils that sneakily escape into shadow. She continues acting as if nothing just happened. ]

Im a girl tooooo~~ I get shy and embarrassed whenever I think about kissing senpai and her cute face.
purifier: (006)

[personal profile] purifier 2023-12-20 02:15 am (UTC)(link)
[Girl how do you do this]

I find the concept of gender to be... [flips wrist] ...I don't really know what you're saying to me.

[His pronouns are he/they/grove's guardian/purifier/first sentinel—]

I am sorry you're in love with someone? [ help ]

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