video; un: dovahkiin (backdated to early Nov)

[fusrodaaaah]

Um.

[Wow, it's a rare show of video from Melius. The Argonian is sitting on the beach, in the cold, at his little tent. A lizard, in the cold. But he doesn't seem at all bothered by it.]

[He shifts where he sits, and then just. Straight up thrusts a basket of mushrooms at the camera.]

I was - I was um. [He ducks his head, hiding behind the basket.]

I know mushrooms! Really well! I um - if you need! To know! I can - I can tell you!

Goodbye!

[He shuts it off, right there.]

[... basically, Melius is offering his services as a mushroom expert. With a lot more anxious yelling than necessary.]

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video; un: charlie

[kingoftherats]

... You got any of the good shit, Meli?

[everyone slap on a content warning for substance abuse, ya boy's here]

[fusrodaaaah]

[His head snaps up, startled, at the sudden fire there - but let's be real, that's his default reaction. It settles, fairly quickly, to where Melius ends up picking at his scales.]

What... what is a fire. Extinguisher?

[fusrodaaaah]

N-no! No, I'm sorry!

[fusrodaaaah]

I have um.

I have sulfur shelves! And-and golden needles!

[... clearly believing Charlie just wants some edible healthy mushrooms.]

[possessum]

( Adrenaline doesn't sound like fun...... Peter has never felt More Seen in all his life. )

Dude, right....? I hate adrenaline.

( It's simply not pleasant!!

He pauses again, watching those horns on his video feed. Though he's still quite shy himself, there's something about being around someone else who's hiding away that makes Peter want to help them a little, if he can? And the way he'd clearly been enthused about mushrooms.... that must be a subject he feels pretty comfortable about. It's what he'd made this video about in the first place, after all. )

How do you know which ones are safe to eat? My uh, good friend here once told me that you can make all kinds of stuff with mushrooms, but I haven't been brave enough to try it yet.

[danserai]

No, I'm very very sorry!

[fusrodaaaah]

So am I!

[danserai]

What are we sorry about again . . . ?

[fusrodaaaah]

M-Me too. It um. It makes me... scream. O-or Shout.

[And then he accidentally calls a lightning storm down on a bear or something horrible like that. Thanks for nothing, Dragon Blood.]

[The mushroom topic comes back. So Melius slowly peeks back into view again. Mushrooms are easy. Plants are easy. He can talk about that.]

Oh um. It's - it's part of um. Alchemy. I'm an alchemist... you um. You learn how to tell... what the good ones look like. A-and you can tell. What properties they have when you taste them.

I'm also... Argonian. S-so even if... they are bad, it. They don't hurt me.

[fusrodaaaah]

Shoes...?

[danserai]

Oh.

I can't remember anything else.

[droptheious]

[Varian's well used to Melius being startled by anything and everything like a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs. ]

It's a canister filled with either water or some chemical mixture - you aim it at a fire and shoot out the pressurised contents. It puts the fire out quickly. It's pretty clever!

[fusrodaaaah]

M-me... me either.

[fusrodaaaah]

So...

It's um. Alchemy?

[Because that's what it sounds like. And if it's really Alchemy, then there's hope.]

[danserai]

I guess we were both being a bit silly!

[fusrodaaaah]

I... I guess so.

[danserai]

You don't think so?

[fusrodaaaah]

I - I - !

No! No I do!

[danserai]

Oh, okay! Good to know.

[fusrodaaaah]

Y-yes.

Yes it is.

[kingoftherats]

Oh, cool. The sulfur shelves thing sounds like it'd be my kind of thing. Golden needle, not so much. I'm not that kinda drug user, you know? Never been into needles, dude. Injecting just seems like a one-way track to infection.

Or drug AIDS. That's a thing you gotta look out for when you get drugs from the guys under the bridge at midnight.

[danserai]

. . . Are you okay?

[droptheious]

Yeah! Pretty much it's alchemy! It's just the right mix of chemicals and boom, fire out. It's great to have in an alchemy lab too, just so you know.

1/2

[fusrodaaaah]

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Huh?

[fusrodaaaah]

[He ducks off camera for a minute, and then returns, still looking completely baffled.]

[He holds up a clump of... well. Enoki Mushrooms.]

Th... these aren't... They don't. Give you infections.