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[fusrodaaaah]

[What has turned Melius' omni on ... is not human. Or even a big lizard. It's a bat-like wing, attached to a cat-sized dragon. His omen, actually. Her eyeball takes up a big potion of the screen until she decides it's turned on for real. Then she scrambles backward, walking like a bat on legs and wing.]

Haas! [She squawks.] Haasaan hofkah!

[Does she care no one can understand her? Nope. Not a bit. She scrambles backward further, until Melius can be seen.]

[At a counter. In what looks like a shop of some kind. He's working very carefully with a mortar and pestle, temporarily ignoring his Omen's chatter. Until, at least, she turns to him and yells:]

DOVAHKIIN!

[Then, the Argonian jumps like a scared cat, floundering where he stands until his brain reboots itself. He looks to the dragon. Then to the Omni. And for a split second, debates the merits of diving behind the counter, out of sight. Instead... he just meekly waves a hand.]

Um. Hi. Uh. This... this is... Potion Hut? I... I make potions. Um.

Bye!

[Then he does duck away. Leaving his omen to cut the video feed. How's that for a business advertisement? It's not great, but hey, the Potion Hut really is open for business!]

Comments

[droptheious]

[...Meli... ]

Well. You tried your best and I guess that's what's important.

[DID he, though? ]

[fusrodaaaah]

[He did!!]

I... forgot to say where it was...

[droptheious]

Well...okay, yeah you definitely did that, but it's okay! You can uh- well, if anyone shows any interest, you can tell them where it is then. Problem solved!

[fusrodaaaah]

Y-yes. Yes, I can do that.

Sasuke has said to do the same thing.

But I can't - I can't tell if he's ... upset.

[droptheious]

There you go! No harm, no foul. Hmm, gimmie a sec.

[He's just gonna go...spy on your conversation. Don't mind him.]

I think you're good, he's just giving you some pointers, I don't think he's upset.

voice; un: taka

[retsuden]

[ ........... There's definitely a small sigh on his end. ]

A location would probably have been helpful for people.

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[fusrodaaaah]

No I




Oh no.

I did.

[retsuden]

Next time we'll have to make sure you have something to read off of instead of having Aakhahnu surprise you.

Make sure to tell anyone who expresses interest in a purchase where to find you in the mean time.

[fusrodaaaah]

She enjoys doing that.

Yes. I can - I will.



I'm sorry.

[grandtheftperson]

....What ... kind of potions do you make?

[That is one skittish lizard. He'll be as careful as he can be.]

[fusrodaaaah]

O-oh! Um. A lot of kinds - restorations, resistances, healing. And um. Cures for diseases.

Or water breathing and invisibility, but uh. Those are. Harder.

[To get ingredients for. Not to make.]

[grandtheftperson]

Water breathing!

[Color him potentially interested. Did he have a spell for that? Yes. Could he use it without being noticed? NOT AT ALL.]

What makes them harder, if I may ask? A complicated list of ingredients?

[fusrodaaaah]

Y-yes.

[He's made it before, under duress. But never really got invested in it - Argonians didn't exactly need help breathing underwater.]

It's um. It's hard to make. In my world. Because of the ingredients... And they're harder to find here, too.

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[tealeafs]

[ Absolutely everything about this is so new to Chizuru. The shape that Omen has-- the shape the person has. The look of the shop. The very idea of a potion shop.

But it's not a bad kind of new. No, it's just the kind of new that makes her eyes go wide in surprise and wonder, even by the time she turns on the feed to reply. ]

A potion hut.. that sounds so amazing!

[ At least she sounds very genuinely delighted? Maybe Chizuru is just learning how to embrace this place's oddness, and instead look for the bright spots. ]

If it's okay for me to ask.. What can these potions do?

[fusrodaaaah]

... It does?

[Wow, what is this? Is this positive feedback? Appreciation? This is new??]

[Fortunately! She asks about the potions themselves. This? This he can do. He turns to one of the shelves, giving it a good look-over.]

Restorations, resistances, cures... some boosts! Like health! And um. Sometimes water-breathing. But that's - that's harder to do.

[tealeafs]

You could even make potions that could make people breathe underwater?

[ Granted, that seems perhaps a little more mundane in the face of.. well, a lot of things about this place. But Chizuru isn't used to Trench enough yet to have that sense of wonder dimmed, which is why she seems amazed all the same.

Especially since this person is just out there making these things like it's nothing. ]

That kind of thing wouldn't be possible at all where I come from.. You must be really smart and capable, um.. [ Her voice awkwardly trails off.

After all, she'd like to be polite here, but it's really hard for someone as used to humans as Chizuru to figure out exactly who she's dealing with here. Or how to properly address them, especially since there seem to be so many cultural barriers in this place. ]

[fusrodaaaah]

Y-yes. I um. I can do that. But the ingredients are harder to find here... so um. I can't. Make a lot of them. Or ones that... last very long.

[He'd barely managed one for Varian when they'd first washed up here. That had been pure luck.]

[He blinks. Several times. Smart and capable? Is she - is there someone else on screen? Melius actually turns to look behind him, just to be sure. But, nope. No one. Not even his bratty Omen.]

... me?

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[mactirebeag]

...I didn't know lizards could make potions.

[Yes, that is the biggest takeaway Mebh gets from this. Most lizards she's encountered are pretty skittish in general, so she's not surprised this one is too, even if he's bigger than any lizard she's ever seen.]

What kind of potions do you make, anyway? Do they taste good?

[That's an important thing to know.]

[fusrodaaaah]

I'm. Um. I'm Argonian...

[Not a lizard!! Except he is. But still, it's the wording that counts.]

N-no, probably not. They're um. They're not supposed to taste good. They're supposed to heal.

[mactirebeag]

Heal? I can already do that. But other people can't, so I guess those would be good for 'em.

[Though Mebh still can't heal more serious injuries on her own, so...maybe they could be useful for her, too.]

What's an Argonian?

[fusrodaaaah]

I um. I have ones for cold - make you less cold. Or hot. Or um. Breathing water.

It's... me. I'm. I'm Argonian.

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[measuringdicks]

Cool, great! Where the fuck is this Potion Hut and what kinda potions do you make? I wanna buy some.

[fusrodaaaah]

S-sorry, I - I forgot. Um.

Crenshaw. It's there. And I have um. I make... healing potions. Resistance potions. Some um. Poison cures.

[measuringdicks]

Jesus, you're really new to this advertising shit, huh? B for the effort, dude, but you really gotta hire a PR guy for the next time you do this.

Oh, poison cures? [As someone running a clinic, that immediately piques Richie's interest.] Is it just a general poison cure that works on most poisons, or are there specific kinds I have to buy? And d'you have training courses?

[fusrodaaaah]

I'm. I'm sorry. I don't - I don't... speak a lot. To many people.

[Understatement of the century.]

It's - it's just a general cure. There are um, there are a lot of different ingredients but they all - they all work. [Despite the stammering voice, he absolutely could rattle them off if need be.] Courses? You - you want to learn?