bondsofsuffering | IC CONTACT; ASGARD [CLOSED]

[She blinked. Well, that wasn't the reply she expected. Her eyebrow raised and she glanced over at him through the glassware.]

Only for the night oil. I need a partner for the pink stuff. Think I still have a bottle or two of tha...
...

You know I'm fucking with you, right? [Not that the pink stuff didn't exist. It really hadn't sold as well as she'd hoped, after all. Most of her stock stuck around.]

[Pfft.]

I was hopin' so.

[And back to work!]

[She snorted and laughed again.]

I can never quite tell when you're joking, you know. [She smirked over at him.] Hand the powder over when you're ready.

Out of curiosity, what sort of potions interested you?

Will do!

[He'd pause to mock a salute, but well, he's still occupied with the mortar and pestle.]

--Y'know, I didn't really think about it. That sleepin' draught sounds useful, but besides that, I was mostly lookin' for somethin' to do.

[Toxicology is something he knows far more about than one might expect, but he's since lost any reason to take an interest in it. Not exactly a great thing to mention with the image he's trying to keep up here, either.]

The sleeping draught? I'd say it's one of my most popular items, second to the actual poultices and such. Believe it or not, poisons, egg bombs, weaponry, those just don't see the kind of use you'd think in a war. People just need to sleep.

...and this place breeds bad dreams without help.

I'm startin' to notice. Maybe I'll ask you for a few before I go, just in case.

[Aaaand that should about do it. He'll bring it on over to her now that it's a fine powder.]

First one's on the house. With the sleeping draughts, I figure at this point they're not much good as a poison, after all.

[She took the powder and started to add it in, one quarter at a time. She motioned over to a bowl of mushrooms.]

While I get this cooking, take the tweezers next to that bowl and pluck the spores out of the mushrooms in there. It's tedious as hell, but it'll save a lot of time, and I can use the flesh for something else.

Been having nightmares still lately?

Call it a precaution.

[He's just waiting for them to inevitably hit.

He'll get to work with the mushrooms, his movements quick and accurate.]

Anythin' I should know about the dosage? Or is it just one a night?

Once before sleep. It will make your sleep dreamless and fast in coming. Be careful with it, though. Too often and it can be habit forming. There's worse habits out there, but you don't want to be dependent on it to sleep.

Sounds like the standard when it comes to sleepin' medicine. I think I can follow that!

[And he will. It would be a pretty awful way to repay Ayumu for sticking with him otherwise.]

If some of these are so tedious to make, though, which ones are the most excitin'?

Yeah, just sort of assume it's a little bit worse than the usual is all. [Once the last was in, she let it cook and leaned against the table.]

Probably the most exciting potion I ever make is one of the egg bombs, at least if you like the 'on the edge of your seat, don't screw this up' sort of excitement. If you're more in for the flash, that's probably the pink stuff. It's actually kind of ... fun, even if I don't sell it right now.

..."The pink stuff?"

[That's a... descriptive name.]

What's that for?

Aengus' Kiss. It's a ... well, it's a drug that people can take that makes the senses really active, but it's not very good for paying attention to anything productive. It's more meant to be pleasant to drink.

[Ahem. Discussing aphrodisiacs, always fun.]

But, it's also really more the sort of thing people take with someone they're dating.

...So you're sayin' it's an aphrodisiac. Got it.

[He's not really that naive.]

Bet that comes in handy with your relationship, though.

[One blink and then she sighed, laughing.] Yeah, sorry. Wasn't sure if you'd heard of them. I actually don't use it much, ever. Super aphro is kind of overwhelming, so on top of me being me... it's a little much for Asuka.

I figured someone would like it though.

I've only really heard of 'em. Never exactly had any reason to experiment.

[Because hahahaha relationships??? With other people????]

What's so fun about makin' it, then?

Yeah, they're ... well, you kind of need to be doing that to want one. It's not safe to sneak into someone's drink. There's sympathetic magic involved that protects them.

Well, there's this one part that you have to boil it off a little to get it it to the right thickness. It's late in the stages and you get kind of a contact high. It's not as potent as the real thing, though, so it's not as bad.

Makes the colors in the room dance a lot, though. I have to make sure things are ready beforehand or it doesn't get done right.

...that, and I have to use a little bit of black powder to crack one of the ingredients right at the start, so there's fireworks.

[...They must be thinking of different types, but this is a world of magic, so he'll accept that.]

I was wonderin' if it might be somethin' like that! But fireworks, too? I can see why it'd be fun.

Small bit of them, yep. [She laughed and nodded. They were thinking of different types, definitely. Different worlds, different views.] Wouldn't mind showing you, but it gets a little trippy. Once this is set up right, I ... well, I've got enough stock to make one more potion of it. I'm not planning to make more before the war ends for obvious reasons.

Not much call for aphro in a war.

I can only imagine.

[He should... probably stay away from the stuff entirely, really.]

But y'know, once the war's over, you might just end up with a decent bunch of customers lookin' for stuff like that. [Because really, what better way to celebrate and all that jazz?]

They might. I used to make them when the war was quieter, but there wasn't much call. Still, I know my supplier. We win this, and I can get enough for a few doses fast, make them up in a batch.

We'll see.

At the very least, it can be a fun way for you to celebrate once it's over?

[If tripping out while making potions is her kind of thing.]

mmm, yeah, I'm pretty sure I can have some fun doing it at the very least. Probably not going to do much getting high with it, though.

Better than nothin', I guess. Unless you've got other, less potent stuff around.

Eh? Well, yeah of course. I've still got a few tabs of acid in the supply stock, and I do grow a small amount of hash in the greenhouse, back behind the other plants. No need to have mooching stoners breaking in after all. It's not like I'm that expensive.

[She snickered.]

Let me know if you want to toke up sometime. It's been a while since I used to... heh, guy I used to do that with back home was green haired too, to boot.

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