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.]

Comments

[fusrodaaaah]

Y-yes. Yes, you um. You need to... cook it. Really well. And - oh um.

[He needs a minute to figure this out. But eventually sends her a photo.]

Those. Those are um. Good.

[danserai]

[ wow it really is like a giant puff ball. cool. ]

Amazing. How come you know so much about mushrooms?

[fusrodaaaah]

Oh.

[Well that's a new question. He's silent for a bit, scratching at his scales.]

My... family. They um. They were alchemists. So you uh. You use a lot of mushrooms. In alchemy.

[danserai]

Ohhh.

What's . . . alchemy?

[fusrodaaaah]

[PERKS THE HECK UP.]

Oh! Oh, it's - it's creating potions, or poisons, out of normal things. Like plants. Or things like fish scales. Mammoth tusks.

Almost everything has alchemic uses! Y-you just have to learn how.

[danserai]

It's probably too complicated for me, but it sounds really amazing.

Do you do it here too?

[fusrodaaaah]

It's - it's not so hard. Just... mixing things. Testing them.

Y-yes.

Yes I um. I try to.

[danserai]

I don't know . . I don't think I should handle anything delicately because I'm kind of klutzy and not very graceful and it sounds like these things could explode . . .

[fusrodaaaah]

E-explode!?

No! No no! I don't - um. I don't use. Components. Like that!

[danserai]

[ can't potions explode? or maybe she's mixing it up with something else. ]

Oh, that's good. Still it's probably not the best thing for me.

[fusrodaaaah]

It... it's really not. That bad. Or hard... um.

Varian does. The things that explode.

1/??

[danserai]

Yeah, he told me not to go into his workshop. Which is fine.

I've just never been good at handling things delicately. It's always —

[danserai]

"Ahiru, did you drop that book? It's supposed to stay on your head"

Or like.

"Ahiru, why are your legs all wobbly? Keep your pose straight"

Or

"Ahiru, how did you run and roll yourself into that bush?"

3/3 END

[danserai]

Just kind of like that, I guess, ehehe . . .

[ because she is, after all, a literal duck and not a person. ]

[fusrodaaaah]

[Please hold. Processing...]





Wh-why did you... have a book. On your head?

[danserai]

Oh, we use them for practice. To make sure we're keeping our balance in ballet.

[fusrodaaaah]

Ballet...?

Is... what is that? [If it exists in Tamriel, the lizard living in the woods unfortunately hasn't heard about it.]

[danserai]

It's a type of dance. We do it on our toes with special shoes that keep us from losing our balance.

But it needs a lot of practice.

[fusrodaaaah]

O-oh.

I'm sorry. I um. I haven't... heard of it.

[danserai]

That's okay. There are lots of things I haven't heard about too.

That's why it's nice to be here, right? To learn new things?

[fusrodaaaah]

I... it is?

I um. I thought it was just. What happened after the dream world.

[danserai]

The . . . dream world?

[fusrodaaaah]

Y-yes. Um...

Deerington. Did - did you not... go there?

[danserai]

No. This is the first new place I've ever been in.

[fusrodaaaah]

O-oh. It's um. I'm not... very good at. Explaining.

[Melius has problems talking about things that aren't alchemy, apparently.]

It um. It was - almost like this. But worse.