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thecrossing2025-04-14 03:48 pm
hasapoint) wrote in thecrossing2025-04-14 03:48 pm
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So we're leaving the desert soon. Anyone want to bet on where we go next? What do you want to see? Personally, if I had my druthers: oak savanna. Get a lot more plants and trees around but they're not in dense stands. Good grazing country while still having shade and windbreaks. Maybe even real horses. These scaly ones are well enough but they're just not very expressive.
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[sometimes she draws that two reverse crescents symbol to 'sign' her contributions to the network, sometimes not. It looks like the crescent quillions of her sword, not that anyone here would know.]
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[sometimes she draws that two reverse crescents symbol to 'sign' her contributions to the network, sometimes not. It looks like the crescent quillions of her sword, not that anyone here would know.]
un: CoolSkeleton95
I WOULD LIKE SEEING MORE TREES AROUND FOR A WHILE. AND OAK SOUNDS FUN!
IMAGINE... AN ENORMOUS OAK TREE.
COZY LITTLE COTTAGES ON THE BRANCHES...
CLASSIC ROPE BRIDGES CONNECTING THEM...
AND EVEN WEARING ACORN TOPS AS HATS FOR THE RAIN THAT THE LEAVES DON'T CATCH.
[It's possible he's drawing from the visuals of a couple cartoons, here.]
un: Orangejoe
But hey we're in deadland
so I think anything is possible?
I'd prefer giant leaves as umbrellas, though!
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GIANT LEAF UMBRELLAS...
A CLASSIC OF GIANT FLORA OR MINIATURE PEOPLE ALIKE.
BUT CONSIDER: YOU HAVE TO HOLD AN UMBRELLA, WITH AT LEAST ONE HAND!
ESPECIALLY WITHOUT DECENT POCKETS.
MEANWHILE ACORN HATS LEAVE YOUR HANDS READY FOR ANYTHING!
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YES! And we would look so cool holding one
Like the characters from that game
where animals do cross the streets or something
FAIR BUT
CONSIDER:
ACORN HATS ARE HATS.
UMBRELLA LEAVES CAN WORK AS:
- emergency food supply as salad
- improvised fan
- improvised weapon according to some videogames
- cover from rain
- It gives you a +10 bonus points on cuteness.
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I THINK THE ACORN HAT COULD ALSO BE A WEAPON OR FAN IN THE RIGHT HANDS,
BUT I HADN'T CONSIDERED THE HEALTHFUL FOODS ANGLE.
PORTABLE EMERGENCY SALAD...
[Cuteness points, well, that's neither here nor there. He'd rather go for +10 coolness points personally, but maybe acorn hats don't give that either, unless decorated with flames and spikes and the like. What else might...?]
DO GIANT MUSHROOMS GROW ON GIANT TREES?
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fruity guy
than salad guy
Oranges are top tier
BUT
Portable emergency salad sounds so awesome, dude.
You can take a bite then lean your head out of the umbrella
mouth open
and you even get a drink
10/10 perfect snack on the road.
[Cool, cute, it's the same. As long as Kel is having fun, he is having fun with things.]
OF COURSE, DUH! The giant tree mushrooms make the platform where plant people build their villages
Isn't that common knowledge?
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OH MY GOD!!
IT ISN'T COMMON KNOWLEDGE WHERE I COME FROM... BUT I SEE THE SENSE OF IT!
WHO WANTS TO BUILD IN A SLOPE WHEN THEY COULD BUILD ON A FLAT SURFACE??
AND THEY COULD EVEN DIG INTO THE MUSHROOM FOR A BASEMENT...
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AND FOOD
Don't forget you can not only build on a flat surface but
LIKE
you can nibble down your way to make your basement
and never run out of snacks!
Just make sure it's not a poisonous one
or was it venomous?
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THAT'S THE FIRST THING YOU SHOULD TRY WITH STRANGE MUSHROOMS!
[Some of the advice he gave the human was... bad. Not bad enough to warrant killing him over, but not good advice either. More like he thought they were playing Myst.]
AS FOR POISONS AND VENOMS...
I THINK IT DEPENDS ON THE COLOR.
PURPLE IS DEFINITELY POISONOUS, UNLESS IT'S SOAP.
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WHAT ARE YOU, SUPER BLARIO?
[remember that in a second game that never left Japan, even mushrooms did kill the bearded electrician! Oh, wait with them being all already dead....
Nah, still not a good idea.]
That's silly
Even soap can poison you. Depends on what it's made with
I would know
I once tried to bite into a orange smelling bar of soap as a kid.
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MORE LIKE THE GREAT BLARIO, IF THAT'S A NICKNAME IDEA.
BUT NO!! SOAPS SHOULDN'T BE ORANGE-SCENTED.
CLEANING PRODUCTS ARE SUPPOSED TO BE LEMON-SCENTED.
[Listen, he understands the theory of a preferred color scheme, but please. Everyone knows this. Don't mix up your citruses, Kel!!]
AND YET, YOU RAISE A COMPELLING POINT.
MAYBE ALL SOAPS ARE SORTS OF POISONS,
BUT POISONS THAT ARE ESPECIALLY POISONOUS AGAINST DIRTS AND GRIMES!
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Foolish fool. Lemon-scented is for cleaning dishes and such.
You can use any other smell you want for floors and everything else.
Even if citrus smells are kind of the best.
[How dare you insinuate Kel doesn't know his citrus, man?]
I dunno, man. I think my stomach would get pretty upset too if I had a bar of soap
Not the kind of upset it gets when I eat lots of cheese but still
pretty bad.
You make it sound like an epic weapon more than anything else.
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WERE THEY SUPERHEROES???
[Super Superheroes, even.
Now, he doesn't disagree with regards to lemon-scented for washing dishes, obviously. That's the right and correct citrusy scent. But this notion...]
JUST, WHATEVER OTHER SCENTS PEOPLE LIKE??
BONE COLOGNE IS FINE FOR A THAT LITTLE EXTRA TOUCH,
BUT I WOULDN'T WANT MARINARA SCENTED-SOAP!
THAT SAID...
OUT OF CURIOSITY.
HOW MUCH 'GARBAGE' FOOD DID YOU TEND TO EAT?
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Somehow getting involved into saving a whole kindom.
I guess they do count as super heroes, huh?
[Lemon scented dishes feels just right, like mint flavored toothpaste.]
I MEAN. I'd prefer lavender if I had to go non citrus
or something tamer
I don't like smelling like a bouquet after a shower
or walking in a house that smells like i just poured chemicals around
My ma' used so much bleach in the bathroom, man...
those poor floor tiles.
And- WELL, if you ask my friends? Lots of it
If you ask me: even more.
[He does not. As a sportsman he used to eat rather healthy, even because his mom knew hot to cook, but... he did love indulging in trash now and then.
Pizza? Hell yes. Snickers? Give him! The super cheesy burrito Pedro sometimes prepared for him? He was going to die in the bathroom in a few hours but WORTH IT.]
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EXCEPT FOR ALL THE TIMES IT IS, FOR STORY STAKES.
BUT SECRET IDENTITIES ARE A CLASSIC.
[Not that he knows whether Super Blario's electrician family are secret about their heroing, but the point stands for comics in general.]
INCREDIBLE AND HORRIBLE!
BLEACH IS NOT A CITRUS BY ANY STANDARD?!
LAVENDER'S FLORAL PROPERTIES AREN'T EITHER, BUT FLORAL IS... CLOSER.
[He's not actually against the use of bleach as a cleaning agent, but... stopping there? When there's so many additional scents to layer on or face against each other in olfactory battle??]
BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY:
AS I SUSPECTED.
HAVEN'T YOU EVER HEARD, YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT??
EATING TOO MUCH GARBAGE DEFINITELY MAKES YOU VULNERABLE TO SOAP POISONS.
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That kind of enormous, huh? Where do squirrels factor in?
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MAYBE ONE WOULD BE THE MILLENER RESPONSIBLE FOR SUCH TOPICAL HEADWEAR...
SURELY NOT AS FOES. I KNOW THEY HOARD NUTS,
BUT I'VE NEVER HEARD OF A SQUIRREL HIDING BONES.
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Better try to stay on their good side. That can be hard. They like gifts, but sometimes they'll get angry when those stop coming.
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THAT YOU HAPPEN TO KNOW.
PLEASE BE HONEST: ARE YOU A GIANT SQUIRREL.
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WELL, MY DEAR ANONYMOUS INFORMANT,
I HOPE YOU WON'T BE TOO ANGRY IF I NEVER START GIVING GIFTS IN THE FIRST PLACE.
[It was one thing when he could conjure up lasting bones to give as gifts. But now, when the only bones to his name are his own? And supposedly things found in the sands won't survive the Crossing? He's not sure he wants some squirrel crime group coming by to threaten his kneecaps, here.]
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[Need draws the elongated print of a squirrel's grasping paw.]
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OR MY BONES????
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Need draws a squirrel sitting up on its haunches holding a tiny open book which has been thoroughly gnawed. In what intact space there is she makes a rough imitation of the font, as if that last message had been page-filling and the squirrel chewed away certain words.]
PLEASE BREAK AND ENTER
MY BONES
Okay.
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THAT'S NOT HOW CONTRACTS WORK!?
PLEASE DON'T BLACKOUT POETRY MORE THREATS AT ME.
AT THE VERY LEAST YOU SHOULD FIND SOME NEWSPAPERS TO CLIP UP.
[Now that's the classic format for delivering text-based threats that don't use one's own handwriting for the message.]