video | un: gokuu

[glutton_monkey]

[Having only just learned how to use video on the omni, Goku's feed is a bit shaken and choppy. He's really only half visible for most of it, kind of stepping out of frame every so often because he's clearly walking. You might see some of the rolls of bread he's carrying.]

Hi ev'rybody! My name's Goku, an' my friends said that I should talk to th' network if I need help with stuff, soooo... Do we have any healers around here?? 'Cause my friend's ankle is broken but he can't heal himself 'cause it don't work like that or somethin', so I was hopin' somebody else could help him??

Oh yeah, m'also goin' around deliverin' bread for him! So if Hakkai toldja that bread's on th' way over, that's me! Goku!

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[fusrodaaaah]

Fucker.

It - Oh!

[He clamps his hand on his omen's face. Which spurs more sputtering curses. All of them worse than the last, but you can't really hear them.]

N-no. She um. She's. She's always like this.

[glutton_monkey]

[The swearing just makes Goku grin, completely unfazed. He's heard much worse on a daily basis for... really for as long as he can remember. With no additional insults tacked onto it, he hardly even registers that it's meant to be mean.]

That's okay! I've got friends that're always mad, too.

[fusrodaaaah]

... You do?

Why?

[glutton_monkey]

[That... makes him pause for a second.

Why, indeed?]

Uhh... I dunno, actually. Most people piss him off pretty easy, I guess? An' Gojyo's good at makin' him mad, too. ...He gets mad at me a lot, too.

[SHRUG.] But that's kinda just how he is!

[fusrodaaaah]

[Melius: accidentally asking the Big Questions here.]

Oh. I um. That would - that sounds scary. To me.

[glutton_monkey]

[Goku just kind of... shrugs it off with a grin.]

We're used to it! He's really not so bad when ya get t'know him better.

[fusrodaaaah]

Is... is he here?

[glutton_monkey]

Nope, not yet. It's kinda weird bein' here without him, too...

[fusrodaaaah]

[Oh thank Akatosh.]

Um. I'm - I'm sorry. About that.

[glutton_monkey]

S'okay! He'd prob'ly hate it here, so I think it's better this way!

[fusrodaaaah]

I... yes. Not everyone likes it here.

I don't think it's that bad. I have - I have a potion shop here. And no big dragons.

[glutton_monkey]

Oh yeah!

[Thanks for the reminder, lizard man--]

What's a potion??

[fusrodaaaah]

Oh. Um.

It's - hold on. [Melius once again ducks off-screen. His omen takes this moment to speak up again. Chattering a few choice curse words. Most of them being "fuck" or some version of it.]

[When he pops up again, he's holding a vial of thick red liquid. It looks kind of like cranberry juice.]

This. You can um - you can drink it. To heal yourself.

[glutton_monkey]

[This actually gives Goku a moment to realize that he's in the middle of delivering bread. So while the little omen mutters curses at him, he's just hurrying along in his errand with a smile on his face. It really doesn't bother him. It actually kind of makes him feel like his friends are around.

He does stop to look again once lizard-man reappears, peering at his device with big curious eyes.]

Whoooaaaa... So all ya gotta do is drink it an' everythin'll heal right up?? Does it taste good???

[fusrodaaaah]

[She shuts up once Melius comes back, but - she will remember this, Goku. You will be her new swearing bestie so help her Akatosh.]

Y-yes, usually? Um. It depends. On how bad things are? And- and how much of it you drink.

[Does it taste good-?]

I... I don't think it's tasty... I'm sorry.

[glutton_monkey]

[Bring it on, little omen! There probably isn't a whole lot she can throw at him that he hasn't already heard before.]

Mmmm... So if you're super suuuper injured, you prob'ly gotta drink lotsa potion, huh? An' if it doesn't taste good, it's gotta taste like medicine does, huh?

[Look how smart he is. Look at how he catches on! BE PROUD.]

[fusrodaaaah]

[Please don't encourage her, Goku. Melius' sensibilities can't take it.]

Y-yes. I can - I can make them, but. They um. Take more time. And - it depends what they're made of.

["Like Medicine" is probably a good guess though.]

The ones that use flowers are - are probably better.

[glutton_monkey]

[It's fiiiiiine. Don't worry about it, lizard-man!]

Ohhhh... How long do potions take t'make??

You make 'em with flowers?? What about fruits an' veggies??

[fusrodaaaah]

Um. It depends? On the potions.

... N-no. Those are uh. Those are for eating.

[glutton_monkey]

[Blink.]

...So if they're for eatin', you can't put 'em in a potion??

[fusrodaaaah]

... because.

[Melius that. Explains nothing.]

I - I mean because. They um. They don't have any... healing effects. They're just - they just are food.

[glutton_monkey]

Ohhh...

[He gets that! ..Kind of.]

But maybe they'd make 'em taste better!

[fusrodaaaah]

I -

It um. It doesn't. Work like that.

[glutton_monkey]

Uwehh?? Why not?

That's how cookin' works, right? Is potion makin' super different??

[fusrodaaaah]

Y-yes.

Everything... everything has um. Properties. And if the wrong thing goes in, then - then it can change the whole thing.

You could um. You could even. Get a poison, instead.