#ashdate rough

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(10:20:43 PM) ventricularPipefitter: [Ross: nibble on your stolen-from-the-past sausages.]
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(10:21:53 PM) ventricularPipefitter: Ain't -been- much to mediate 'twixt you two, anyhow. Amar up and took himself out of the public community after that incident where a stupid newbie idiot saw fit to punch him just because somebody else said so. So. Really. How's it been?
(10:22:50 PM) futureSnaplockSunblood: It's been "ugh" I'd say.
(10:23:22 PM) futureSnaplockSunblood: Been keeping pastme from killing coplayers, been dealing with Glasseye's shit.
(10:23:35 PM) ventricularPipefitter: Mn. Saw you-and-you coming. What's with Glasseye?
(10:24:14 PM) futureSnaplockSunblood: Think he's finally starting to realize in his heart that everyone he knows is dead.
(10:24:18 PM) futureSnaplockSunblood: Getting /clingy/
(10:25:00 PM) futureSnaplockSunblood: And now there's the thing with Abel. Did he tell you he was going to be gone for seven sweeps his time?
(10:25:18 PM) futureSnaplockSunblood: Or did you find out after?
(10:25:54 PM) ventricularPipefitter: He asked me for permission to set it up, and I spoke with our Muse of Time. (That's Violet. I don't believe you've met her.)
(10:26:07 PM) futureSnaplockSunblood: Haven't.
(10:26:24 PM) ventricularPipefitter: She's reclusive. Trying to cajole her 'bout it.
(10:27:04 PM) futureSnaplockSunblood: Found out after he left. That's bothering me something fierce.
(10:27:05 PM) ventricularPipefitter: Glasseye....ehh. Shit. Can't blame him, in some ways. 'Clingy' can be pretty normal. Three people ain't a city.
(10:27:40 PM) ventricularPipefitter: Ohh. You ask him why he didn' tell you? Learn when he got back? Or in the between?
(10:27:57 PM) futureSnaplockSunblood: I got the PM after he'd already left.
(10:28:11 PM) futureSnaplockSunblood: Apparently we just weren't /on/ at the same time
(10:28:34 PM) futureSnaplockSunblood: [>Snaplock: grumble and bit a skewer in half.]
(10:28:41 PM) ventricularPipefitter: Ships passing in the night. That's a thing. Sucks.
(10:30:12 PM) futureSnaplockSunblood: He been putting off his cooning. 's dangerous.
(10:30:32 PM) futureSnaplockSunblood: Got something that'll boost it hopelike but dunno if he'll want it
(10:30:49 PM) futureSnaplockSunblood: He been eating like /prey/ to keep it at bay. Just ain't right.
(10:32:17 PM) futureSnaplockSunblood: Howcome humans do that anyway?
(10:32:44 PM) ventricularPipefitter: Just built differently.
(10:34:32 PM) futureSnaplockSunblood: I made him a goat stew with a lotta fat and marrow in it. Some honey too. Got the image of it and everything. Dunno if he'll take it though.
(10:34:53 PM) ventricularPipefitter: Damn, sounds delicious.
(10:35:01 PM) futureSnaplockSunblood: He might have got so used to eating like prey that he won't like normal food.
(10:36:05 PM) ventricularPipefitter: Not sure, really. Is it -safe- to coon up after waiting so long?
(10:36:28 PM) futureSnaplockSunblood: It's certainly not safe to be putting it off that long.
(10:36:48 PM) ventricularPipefitter: He went and did it, though. Somehow.
(10:37:05 PM) ventricularPipefitter: And he's...bleh. He's been in poor health damn near his whole life. Used to it, more's the pity, eh?
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(10:38:01 PM) futureSnaplockSunblood: Shouldn't have to be used to it.
(10:38:18 PM) futureSnaplockSunblood: He fucking climbed a mountain with a hole through his gut.
(10:38:20 PM) ventricularPipefitter: No. He shouldn't.
(10:38:25 PM) futureSnaplockSunblood: He deserves better.
(10:40:22 PM) futureSnaplockSunblood: And I'm gonna make it better. It starts with getting his horns back. Not sure how he can even do his psychic hug thing without them.
(10:40:51 PM) ventricularPipefitter: Why would psi be kept in the horns?
(10:41:34 PM) futureSnaplockSunblood: The psychics in my horde always had trouble working it if their horns got damaged.
(10:41:49 PM) futureSnaplockSunblood: And they ache if you go to long according to them.
(10:42:26 PM) ***ventricularPipefitter shrugs. I wouldn't know.
(10:42:44 PM) ventricularPipefitter: Mn. Those seven sweeps, though? Even holding off like that, they were something I've never known someone like us -- a replayer -- to get.
(10:43:26 PM) ventricularPipefitter: A rest. A break. Some fucking stability and only staying in one place for a while.
(10:45:30 PM) ventricularPipefitter: His horns--how would you figure them to be re-placed?
(10:45:56 PM) futureSnaplockSunblood: Yeah, and it cost him. He was cut off from the chat that whole time. I'm surprised he still /remembers/ me.
(10:46:11 PM) futureSnaplockSunblood: Whaddaya mean how would I figure them?
(10:48:21 PM) ventricularPipefitter: How'd you think that can be done?
(10:49:27 PM) futureSnaplockSunblood: Cooning'll help at the very least. Dunno if they'll get to the same size as before, but even little horns are better than none at all.
(10:49:44 PM) futureSnaplockSunblood: Even if it just fixes the bases, they'll start to grow out again.
(10:50:29 PM) futureSnaplockSunblood: And there're stories of more drastic damage being fixed.
(10:50:34 PM) ventricularPipefitter: Mmn. That'd make sense.
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(10:52:10 PM) futureSnaplockSunblood: Gonna have to get him eating proper food again if it's to happen though. Bulk him up a bit, the skinny bastard.
(10:52:58 PM) futureSnaplockSunblood: ...gonna have to convince him first though.
(10:53:05 PM) ventricularPipefitter: Heh. Probably take more than usual. Introduce it slowly: his system wouldn't be used to meat yet.
(10:53:11 PM) ventricularPipefitter: ...you brought it up yet?
(10:53:37 PM) futureSnaplockSunblood: He dodged the question.
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(10:54:36 PM) futureSnaplockSunblood: And the chat'd moved on enough so asking again would be inapropate
(10:57:08 PM) ventricularPipefitter: Dodged it, huh?
(10:57:25 PM) futureSnaplockSunblood: Gonna try to corner him but the last time we had a real talk? Was when the thing with pastme got happened. Might not want to push things now.
(10:57:46 PM) futureSnaplockSunblood: He was pissed off about it.
(10:58:44 PM) ventricularPipefitter: I can't blame him. It had me worried also. S'pose right now there's a certain amount of re-connecting to be done.
(10:59:09 PM) ventricularPipefitter: How's it been with yourself? Awkward, but...not too violent?
(10:59:30 PM) futureSnaplockSunblood: She tried to steal from my plate earlier.
(11:00:07 PM) futureSnaplockSunblood: But with a fork so I had to reach over it to stab her in the hand with my own fork.
(11:00:34 PM) futureSnaplockSunblood: And then we had a fork fight.
(11:00:39 PM) futureSnaplockSunblood: That went well.
(11:01:12 PM) futureSnaplockSunblood: It is incredibly awkward eating together just so you know.
(11:01:35 PM) ventricularPipefitter: You said earlier, I saw. Why's that?
(11:02:48 PM) futureSnaplockSunblood: One of them is who eats first? We're both warlord. We both get snarly if someone else tries to take the first bite.
(11:02:56 PM) futureSnaplockSunblood: And someone else means each other in this case.
(11:04:10 PM) ventricularPipefitter: Heh. I'd figure you would, on account of nominally being the older, more experience, warlord. She doesn't see it that way, does she?
(11:04:21 PM) futureSnaplockSunblood: Course she doesn't.
(11:05:28 PM) futureSnaplockSunblood: Another is the situation. It's a lot easier to ignore each other if there's a wall between us or if I'm just making sure she ain't about to run away or something.
(11:05:49 PM) futureSnaplockSunblood: Kinda hard to do that while sitting at the same table.
(11:07:15 PM) ventricularPipefitter: Forces you to confront eachother.
(11:08:09 PM) futureSnaplockSunblood: Mostly just occasionally glance awkwardly at each other. Or try to steal food, the little asshole.
(11:09:31 PM) ventricularPipefitter: What do you remember thinking about yourself, when you were her?
(11:09:59 PM) futureSnaplockSunblood: I remember being angry and indignant.
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(11:11:48 PM) futureSnaplockSunblood: And I remember trying to get around the eats-first thing by stealing food.
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(11:12:01 PM) futureSnaplockSunblood: The time that just happened won't be the last.
(11:14:10 PM) ventricularPipefitter: Naw, I mean. How'd you see your other self? What kind of a person did you think you were?
(11:15:03 PM) futureSnaplockSunblood: I thought I was an asshole
(11:15:49 PM) ventricularPipefitter: And, now that you're yourself?
(11:15:55 PM) ventricularPipefitter: How do y'see it?
(11:16:35 PM) futureSnaplockSunblood: Pastme's an idiot
(11:17:49 PM) futureSnaplockSunblood: I took her to one of the Consort villages earlier. Abel said to let her get some fresh air every so often.
(11:17:57 PM) futureSnaplockSunblood: She's all grumps though
(11:19:42 PM) ventricularPipefitter: Uh-huh.
(11:20:03 PM) ventricularPipefitter: I meant, though. She thinks you're an asshole. And what do you think of yourself, the self that I'm talking to right now
(11:21:49 PM) futureSnaplockSunblood: I think I'm annoyed and worried about far too much shit that I just can't stop worrying about.
(11:24:03 PM) futureSnaplockSunblood: There's this shit with Abel, and Glasseye jumping at shadows, and Amaswe's vanishing...
(11:24:20 PM) futureSnaplockSunblood: He's an ass but clover is kin.
(11:25:33 PM) ventricularPipefitter: Amaswe...Had a long, long, talk with him last night.
(11:26:29 PM) futureSnaplockSunblood: What kind of talk?
(11:28:41 PM) ventricularPipefitter: Mmn. Lot of things. He's half incredibly upset with and one-and-a-half worried sick about his former matesprit -- and, frankly, if they could reconcile it'd do both of them a *world* of good, but she's....needs a good priest and a mental healer, first. But that wasn't quite what it was about.
(11:30:11 PM) ventricularPipefitter: Pretty much I had to tell him if he didn't get his shit straightened out, he wasn't going to make it out of that session alive. 'Cept I had to work him up enough to bein' in enough of a mood that he'd take a line like that with some spirit and vinegar, and not just roll over and accept it.
(11:30:50 PM) ventricularPipefitter: You ever find out why he vanished? It is the most *idiotic* story.
(11:31:51 PM) futureSnaplockSunblood: You said up there that a stupid newbie punched him
(11:33:38 PM) futureSnaplockSunblood: Which sounds like a stupid reason to leave
(11:34:52 PM) ventricularPipefitter: Mn. Sort of a 'fuck THIS, I can tell where I'm not wanted' thing.
(11:35:32 PM) ventricularPipefitter: He's pretty sensitive under all that prickle and hiss.
(11:38:37 PM) futureSnaplockSunblood: I'm guessing his fellow cloverleaf digging at him a bit will do more harm than good in this situation.
(11:40:15 PM) ventricularPipefitter: I don't think you count as 'reasons to live' right now on his list.
(11:40:52 PM) futureSnaplockSunblood: Now that's just insulting.
(11:41:04 PM) futureSnaplockSunblood: Ash is kin.
(11:42:00 PM) ventricularPipefitter: Mn. Just calling it like I guess it figures out. You want me to pass along word you asked after him?
(11:42:14 PM) futureSnaplockSunblood: Yeah
(11:42:33 PM) futureSnaplockSunblood: And tell him I mean it when I say ash is kin.
(11:43:16 PM) ventricularPipefitter: I will.
(11:46:59 PM) futureSnaplockSunblood: ...guess that's all I have right now. Hope we'll be able to get some niiice mediating happening when this settles down.
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(11:51:34 PM) ventricularPipefitter: Heh. A good fight or two'd do him well, I'm jus' not completely sure he's not too fragile.
(11:52:16 PM) ventricularPipefitter: I 'spect he'll appreciate hearing 'ash is kin.'  He's...Frog and Ring, I finally had the learning of the giant mess of his old quadrants.
(11:53:34 PM) futureSnaplockSunblood: Not something he'll want me hearing, I imagine.
(11:53:43 PM) ventricularPipefitter: Not something I'm going to be passing along.
(11:54:30 PM) futureSnaplockSunblood: Makes sense.
(11:56:10 PM) futureSnaplockSunblood: You oughta go make sure he gets better.
(11:56:23 PM) futureSnaplockSunblood: I'll go give pastme another trip outside.
(11:56:36 PM) futureSnaplockSunblood: Maybe we can solve these problems at the same time, yeah?
(11:56:56 PM) ventricularPipefitter: Excellent planning, aye.
(11:57:27 PM) futureSnaplockSunblood: I'll go do that then.
(11:57:35 PM) futureSnaplockSunblood: I'll talk again later.
(11:58:24 PM) futureSnaplockSunblood: ((Cut here? I gotta go to bed))
(11:58:43 PM) ventricularPipefitter: (( sounds good! ))
(11:58:51 PM) ventricularPipefitter: I'll see you around again.
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