@BURGERKING— @ALL

[dipolar]

I have four palps, one spinneret, and a leg from the metatarsus down.
If anyone has a need for these parts, respond and we'll do business.

If not, I have nothing to say to you at this time.

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@AEGONNER

[northerndragon]

Where did you come by them?

[Hei, what did you do....]

[dipolar]

The skrit chri races.

[northerndragon]

Was there an accident, or a loser?

[dipolar]

Several losers.
But they understood the price they'd have to pay for challenging me, an artifical...

(it's been ten hours and hei's already in the zone with this particular brand of roleplaying, apparently. alright.)

[northerndragon]

I'd have asked for gold, rather than parts of their bodies.

[Because that is what we're talking about here, right? He's almost completely sure that's what we're talking about.

Something about all of this doesn't sound quite right.]

[dipolar]

I was betting on skrit chri for CCs, you're correct.
I bet more than what I had, however, and I lost miserably.
However, since I'm well-respected in this community, they offered me a chance to reclaim my honour with high stakes bets.

[northerndragon]

Now that they've passed them off to you, they can replace them with false bits, can't they?

Never mind. The point is that you're low on funds.

[dipolar]

So it seems... but if you're asking me, the metatarsus isn't that notable a loss.
That Shaiy aesthetician took advantage of the fact that I skimped on my spider anatomy training and encouraged me to choose the wrong segment of her leg.
It's the fucking patella, Jon.

In any case you're right, this is a problem I didn't foresee.
I will bet more limbs in the future.

[northerndragon]

They like their false legs. You might have been doing them a favor. But maybe it's better you didn't try to take something they were less willing to lose.

You could try not betting at all.

Wait. What in seven hells is an aesthetician?

[dipolar]

I could, but then I'd be a weakling and I am not a weakling.
If I lose, I'll let them coax me into betting more.
If I lose again, I will challenge them to a duel.

And to answer your question an aesthetician is an Aranean that does hair styling and removal, manicures, pedicures, etc.
That's why two segments of one leg costs 15 CCs.

[northerndragon]

[That is so much not the way it works that it's nearly the opposite of the way it works!]

Are you sure it isn't 15 CCs because you need at least 15 CCs?

Where I come from, betting is something to do when you're bored — when you have nothing better to do. I've seen people dicing over a dead man's clothes.

Did the Araneans seem impressed? Even a little?

[dipolar]

(...)

Everyone needs to eat, Jon.

Need > want.
I am doing this to make a far larger impact, because power is what we have to seek out in order to mingle with a savage species like this.
Become a savage yourself, if you weren't already bred to be one.
For me - in me - it's something inherent.

(he's so overdramatic, jfc.)

I left on higher standing; I gained something much more useful than money today.

[northerndragon]

What did you gain? Information? Intimidation?

[It may be something inherent in Jon, too, Hei, but it's something he often fights against in himself; something he doesn't like.]

[dipolar]

Rumours.
I'll be talked up, now, and I'll have more chances in the future to gather more intel.