⬣//A BRIEF REPRIEVE

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>>Look at me.

⬣//BREATHE. EVERYTHING WILL BE OKAY.

This is your Official™ catch-all log for the month of November. While the boss battles rage on, those of you who are looking to disengage from combat and kick your feet up for a spell can do so here.

Post your open prompts in this post. Closed starters may also be posted here or on @Altimit, but all open posts belong here in this log. Lawbreakers will be bent over the modly knee and paddled into compliance. Thank you.

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[ganymed]

[ PAUSE... ]

...I guess I might have something to give away after all.

[ Ganymede is easy to weird out, it appears. Maybe it is because he's so elegant. ]

I'd say you can, but I'm a little afraid to find out the results. Who knows what kind of weird thing might happen?

[dissimulative]

[ Beautiful, elegant Ganymede... weirded out by bug wings with eyes on them and Meat. Same though. But wait. ]

Aren't you at max profession level too? Why not make something out of it just in case?

[ganymed]

[ Ganymede pauses, thinking about it.

He barely uses his profession to do things except mostly make jewelry these days, but- ]

Doesn't that mean I have to touch it...?!

[dissimulative]

... Yes?

[ Unless Ganymede has armor that has gloves in it but (looks at macabre dancer gears) ]

[ganymed]

[ Ganymede is allergic to gloves too . ]

Urgh...it looks so gross. Why is the game like this?

[ He can deal with life-threatening things, traumatizing life events, whathaveyou, but this is where he starts his complaints, muttering it to himself. ]

What can you even make with this, I wonder?

[dissimulative]

Let's find out.

[ Oriade crushes the insect wing on top of a slaughter salad and the description... updates. ]

One minute physical attack buff (from salad), 30 second accuracy buff... 15 second enrage debuff after the accuracy buff runs out.

[ Hm. ]

[ganymed]

...I already have an accuracy buff I can apply with my class.

An enrage debuff sounds dangerous.

[ Or, well, for people who aren't Macabre Dancers, but he's actually at a higher level now and has a skillset that can still give people a difficult time depending on the equipment he has on him. ]

[dissimulative]

I can't get an idea of how good the buff must be, but it should be with the down side... hopefully.

[ hm. ]

I can take yours if you don't want it.

[ganymed]

...Then, take it.

I guess it might be better if someone else can find a use for it.

[ And he doesn't think himself being enraged even for a small amount of time is good. Ganymede will open up his inventory, and then hold out the item to Oria. ]

[dissimulative]

Are you gonna keep the slab of meat too?

[ Oriade takes the little insect wing... ]

I haven't checked to see what it does yet.

[ganymed]

I was thinking of ejecting it from my inventory so when the piece of weird food flies out it could hit anyone who is annoying me in the face.

[ Ganymede isn't serious about this for a myriad reasons. ]

...Anyway, I haven't either, but it's probably got some weird effect on it. Why are these items so weird?

[dissimulative]

I wish I could answer that.

[ Alas. He cannot. I (Haki) cannot either. ]

... I thought about taking it off your hands, but...

[ Oriade got pulled into the meat cage and may be traumatized. ]

[ganymed]

...No, it's fine. I think I can keep this one because it doesn't look like a weird bug thing.

Even if it's kind of gross.

[ Ganymede has no idea what it's been like being pulled into a Phase but he does not want to experience nor would he recommend it to anyone. ]

I hope all the other stuff we get isn't too weird, though.

[dissimulative]

[ A chunk of meat... ]

You know what, I think I'll ask Vogel to cook it for me. Then it would no longer look gross.

[ That'll solve it, right? Poor Sinclair. ]

[ganymed]

...Oh, that's a good idea.

How about you let me know how it turns out?

[ Sinclair, we're counting on you!! Ganba and thank you for your sacrifice (?) ]

[dissimulative]

Will do!

[ Then it never happens because of boss fights and Oriade becoming hospitalized right after... ]

[ganymed]

Alright, then it's a deal.

[ We can always fast-forward to Ganymede visiting him in Net Slum if we wanna be really funny about this. ]

[dissimulative]

[ You bet we are!!

Anyway, when Ganymede comes to visit Oriade in the Net Slum infirmary, he'll find him strapped to one of the infirmary beds with an oxygen mask over his mouth. He's not very happy about his situation, but at least he's not flailing around. ]

[ganymed]

[ ... ]

Oria?

Why are you wearing that?

[ Sometimes, there are consequences from battles. But Ganymede doesn't realize what they are. At least he seems...awake, though. ]

[dissimulative]

[ Oriade's gaze wanders a little until he hears Ganymede. He doesn't have his glasses on, so Ganymede is just a big blurry blob of yellow to him. ]

Is that you, Ganymede? Wearing what...

[ The straps attached to the bed? The oxygen mask? Patient clothes? He does not know. ]

[ganymed]

[ He probably looks like a moving mini-sun, huh. ]

The oxygen mask? And the straps? That seems excessive...maybe?

[dissimulative]

[ Yeah............. ]

Water got in my lungs, so it's helping me breathe.

[ He endured a lot but couldn't go on for too long after the battle... ]

... I wanted to find Koto.

[ganymed]

[ ...Oh.

Ganymede recalls starkly plunging after Oria in an attempt to get him not to sink in the water and failing. Urgh, of course that'd have had consequences. ]

I...right, during Uta's battle, right? Does it hurt, even with help?

[ He has no idea what wearing an oxygen mask is like. ]

...Who is Koto?

[dissimulative]

[ Ah. Right. There's a small wry smile on Oriade's face. ]

Sometimes, but I think they'll finally extract the water out of my lungs soon.

[ He doesn't know how that'll work, but it will happen. ]

And he's... the one with the announcement recently. The next Phase.

[ganymed]

...I hope so. They seem to know what they're doing so they should do a good job.

[ If they know what's furricking good for them. ]

Oh. About the Progeni-something or whatever.

I'm not really sure what was going on with him as a Wave. Everything like that seemed really beyond my understanding. Though, I'd also hope he'd kick Cubia's ass, but I don't think it's going to be easy. Were you trying to follow him to stop him from going ahead with that?