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[dohaeris]

[sansa looks...worried. she wears her new things from madame generosity, including a long sleeved dress covered in iridescent leather pieces that could be scales or feathers, and a feathered padded collar with silver direwolf caps (lady, at her side, has one to match). her needle necklace hangs from a silver hoop and clips into the side of her wide leather belt with the rest of her chatelaine.

she's quilting something in her lap, and the direwolf tapestry behind her couch no longer has antlers. there are silver scales on her face and hands, which are looking very well-moisturized.]

Hallo, this is Sansa Stark. I was wondering if anybody has had any luck in finding mushrooms for Madame Generosity. Winter and I went to look at the place where got them for The Tower, but we couldn't find any there. I wanted to know if anyone has looked at any of the other places and found mushrooms. I suppose we could always use the compasses to try and scout more of them, otherwise.

[mounting an expedition of unknown length during winter is of course not ideal...even if the weather seems to be easing up, and there's only going to be one month of it left. she sighs and sticks her needle in her pile of quilting.]

Madame Generosity has always been very kind and helpful, and I don't like to see her suffer. Besides, I imagine it could be very dangerous if The Doorway falls ill, and we had best be well-stocked of the mushrooms for treatment.

[hopefully someone has discovered an abundant new source of mushrooms, perhaps in a mysterious city of some kind with a temple dedicated to an enemy pthumerian who has been behind the mysterious plague all along!!!]

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(VOICE) — UN: BOMBSHELL

[opheliac]

What about the mushrooms over at Earworm, Scaly Princess? — I haven't gobbled up any of those in a long while.

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[dohaeris]

I don't know that they'll help Madame Generosity with her symptoms, but she might like them anyway. You could bring some to the Red for her.

[perhaps it will keep her out of trouble for the duration of the quest...]

[opheliac]

Consider it done! You oughta take a bite too. I'd like to see you get all goofy. It'll be funny!

[dohaeris]

I can ill-afford to be goofy [she would probably be more SASSY], but I should like to be able to celebrate my blessed day properly after this. It does mark my escape from King's Landing––which just happened to be the day King Joffrey died.

[jinx and even vi will definitely appreciate this, but she's not sure everyone who might see this would, so she's trying to play this at least a little ambiguously...]

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[stayscared]

i will bring you some more of the ones i have stored! i would like to help. i know i already brought yoU a thank you note but this can be My thank you.

i am good at finding my way around so if you tell me where to bring them i will be there soon!

signed, ,

Delmira :)

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[dohaeris]

[if...delmira has held on to some of the mushrooms meant for the pthumerians that could perhaps speak to some concerning habits...but it's far from the most worrying thing in trench at this or any moment. also this is very cute.]

Thank you, Lady Delmira! I'm afraid Madame Generosity and the other Patrons need the special mushrooms that we harvested for The Tower, but i should be glad of any useful mushrooms you have to give me. I am at the Rookery right now, but I can meet you at the Sanctuary if you like. We have plenty of cheese for you.

Thank you,
Sansa Stark of Winterfell

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[danserai]

Me too. So, uhm, if you have any way for me to help, I'll help.

[dohaeris]

[awww little bird!!]

That's very brave. If we must use the compasses to track down more of the mushrooms, I should be glad to have you with me.

Did you have a good holiday with your friends?

[sansa is not particularly used to holiday season small talk but she is going to try her best!!!]

[danserai]

[ she nods with a big smile. ]

Of course! I'm happy to help.

And I did. I mean, I didn't do much because I'm not used to holidays still but it was nice! I got to spend time with people.

[dohaeris]

[sansa laughs gently in delight! most people seem to have more holidays in their world than in hers. she'd heard about the maiden's day ball as a child and had hoped they would have maiden's day and other days like it in the south when they went to king's landing, but they never did.]

Oh, me neither! Especially not in winter. I thought they were very sweet. It wasn't very different from our nameday celebrations, except for the trees and things. Some people said it was a tradition to wear horrible sweaters, but I think they were playing tricks.

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[velvet_teen]

She wants mushrooms? What for?

[ Alice has not been paying attention to anything whatsoever but if something is important to Sansa? Alayne? She's going by her secret name in public now so that's six fewer letters to keep track of. Whatever, Sansa gives her stuff so Alice is inclined to listen to her when she wants stuff in return. That's friendship. ]

(VOICE) — UN: BOMBSHELL

[opheliac]

Interesting username. What kind of meat?

[velvet_teen]

[ Oh boy one of her favorite topics! ]

Pork is the most tasty. Then chicken and beef. Maybe beef and chicken. I am a maturing lady and my tastes vary.

Fish isn't as good as proper meat but there is a lot of it here and there are lots of flavors.

[opheliac]

Haven't eaten too much of the other stuff than fish. But I'm slowly experimenting other kinds. — Hey, have ya tried crab yet?

[dohaeris]

[sansa is always glad to see alice! she smiles with fond amusement.]

It's the sickness The Tower had. They say she caught it from Dorothea. Never Mind found rare mushrooms to treat the symptoms, but they can only be harvested by Sleepers.

[maybe?? at least, they can't be harvested by pthumerians, or ravens...]

They were all very far away. If we do have to venture out again, I should be very glad to have a powerful mage like you with me.

[velvet_teen]

[ Heh heh. Flattery will get you everywhere with Alice. Flattery and bribery. ]

Oh, well, I'll go and protect you from wild creatures if you do it again.

You think that's why everything's so messed up here, all the big patrons getting sick with stuff?

[dohaeris]

[wild creatures are the one thing sansa doesn't need protection from or help with. still, alice's magic is very useful for everything else, so sansa's smile is genuine.]

That would be a great help. Thank you.

[looking at the conversation above, she will have to fetch alice a pork pie from her lunch tin. it is very hard to find pork pies here. she frowns a little, thoughtfully.]

It was the reason the buildings and the Omnis weren't working properly, and the Zealots did try and take more of our blood because they thought it would fix it. Dorothea and Madame Generosity don't have as much to do with the daily business of the city, and I can't say I've noticed anyone having trouble with kindness or trickery. [sansa's two moods] But The Doorway is in charge of bonds and oaths, and it could go very badly if she falls ill too.

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[necroprince]

What do you suppose happens if the Doorway falls ill?

[She's not sure she can be bothered to help with this. This still isn't her world, and the amount of fucks she has to give about it's wellbeing are in the low decimals. But on the other hand she might be stuck here a while, and Ianthe has always been pragmatic rather than cruel, so who knows.]

[dohaeris]

[sansa allows no flicker of surprise or recognition to show on her face or in her tone, as if this might be any new sleeper she hadn't yet met.]

I imagine something might happen to the blood bonds she maintains, just as the city's structure became difficult and strange when The Tower was ill. Some of them allow people to hear each other's thoughts [couldn't be sansa], so it might hurt their minds.

[a pause, because this seems less medically likely, but it's worth considering. she draws a breath.]

The bonds have something to do with blood, and they've found the germs in Madame Generosity's blood. If The Doorway gets infected, the germs might perhaps find their way from her blood to the blood bonds. It's a magic sickness, and we know very little about it, save that it resembles a plague Sleepers could catch sometimes in the Dream that made Trench.

The mushrooms did help The Tower, though––and the troubles with the buildings went away.

[necroprince]

[Ianthe, for her part, has absolutely no clue who this person is, and reacts as such, with passive disinterest (when you grow up a princess and smarter than everyone around you by far, all noble young ladies start to look the exact same) beyond the words that are currently coming out of her mouth. Her lips thin as Sansa talks and she idly taps her skeletal finger against her pale cheekbone.

What she describes is certainly bad, since it seems as if there are people who need to drink blood to survive, which would mean the plague would spread and spread, potentially killing so many of the locals, and the part that actually matters is that Ianthe needs blood to drink for her necromancy. Could be a problem.]

What sort of idiot signs up to a marriage where you can read your partner's thoughts? What an absolute nightmare. [If it were just them, she'd say "that's natural selection at work."]

And from the blood bonds it would spread to the blood and from the blood it would spread everywhere, is that it? I suppose there's no way to tell with a magic disease.

[dohaeris]

[sansa allows her mouth to quirk slightly in amusement at ianthe's description of the 'romantic' bonds. she doesn't disagree, although she might not agree that anyone should die because of it (good thing she doesn't know the words for natural selection anyway).]

It's certainly a concern. [a really big one!!! but not one that has very much evidence behind it yet.] If it gets into any Sleepers at all, there's no telling how it would spread. Madame Generosity and Dorothea aren't very interested in getting blood on their hands, so it must be spreading among Pthumerians through ordinary means.

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[siriusly]

Which kind do you need?

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[dohaeris]

[manabu..?]

The kind we harvested to treat The Tower's illness. It's been spreading among other Pthumerians, and now Madame Generosity and Dorothea are sick.

[siriusly]

[in the lockjointed flesh]

I didn't get a chance to get that far. [for... reasons.] They're not local to the city, I'm guessing?

[dohaeris]

[MANABU PLEASE TREAT YOUR LOCKJOINT sansa can't keep cutting you up.......]

It can be found in the Trenchwood, but some ways out from the city. We used the compasses to find it, last time.