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[frogfractions]

Does anyone have need of lipstick? I've been able to create a few tubes' worth, but I don't use much makeup myself. The benefits of eternal youth, basically. I should be able to manufacture nail polish as well, and perhaps a few other things. We can discuss based on your needs.

In news that I promise is highly, and in fact, completely unrelated, I've finished my research on the Shaper specimen. As I'm sure most of you are aware - unless we've picked up some new recruits in the past week - we had a pest problem. Basically, I dissected one.

[What follows is just straight-up a picture of a shaper's brain. There's a vial of blue blood to the left, and a plastic container full of small bones to the right of it. Off-camera, there's a few other internal organs she's separated and tucked away, but mercifully she hasn't decided to show everything to the camera.]

Would anyone like to enjoy foreign cuisine with me? The brain is supposed to be a delicacy, so we might as well give it a try. It's unlikely I'll be able to get a hold of another specimen, so it's a once-in-a-lifetime chance, in a way.

And if you'd like access to my research notes, I can text them over to you. Knowledge is meant to be shared, after all. They mostly concern the creature's biology, since understandably I did not want an annoyed psychic creature bouncing around my room, and thus could not leave it alive to study its behavior. In layman's terms, I like being conscious.

Incidentally, any and all moral or ecological complaints can be forwarded to my secretary, @MODERATUS. Thank you for your time.

Comments

[thingpuncher]

the achilles dick?
sure do his dirty work if u want
but it sounds pretty dirty from where im standing

[excelsus]

If I didn't know any better I would almost mistake that for hostility
Which part, specifically, sounds dirty to you?

[thingpuncher]

me? hostile? never

what do you think smartass

[excelsus]

as far as being a smartass goes I think we're evenly matched
but to answer your question I've no idea which part of that gets under your skin
exceptional I am, mind reader I am not

[thingpuncher]

none of it gets under my skin
what u do with ur time is your business
u just implied you were blowing him

[what is subtlety.]

1/2

[excelsus]

What?

[Give him a minute, he's genuinely confused by the slang, he'll be properly outraged in just a minute.

After he's embarrassed himself.]

[excelsus]

That's.
Absolutely.
Not what I was implying.
The opposite, it was the opposite!
And that's the most embarrassing question I've...

[thingpuncher]

if thats true ur life has been seriously short on embarrassment

[excelsus]

It doesn't crack the top five embarrassing things I've done, but possibly one of the most embarrassing things I've asked.

[thingpuncher]

ur the one that implied it
dont talk the talk if you cant etc etc

[excelsus]

You've my apologies if that's how it came across, but it's not the case.

[thingpuncher]

what were u ACTUALLY implying
u wilting fucking flower

[excelsus]

Would it matter if I was implying anything at all?

I know how he gets his mana and as a mage I manufacture my own and offered him an alternative. I can use death to stockpile mana and give him the excess if he's keen on bringing me dead things.

[thingpuncher]

not judging here
just curious
especially since u lost it

the whole "not fit for polite company" was implying something u gotta admit

[excelsus]

Judged?
No, I don't feel judged.

I suppose, I've not been proper my entire life it's true, but having been dragged by my earlobe from enough parties I've come to understand there are things I can't say as freely.

[thingpuncher]

maybe u were just going 2 shitty parties

[excelsus]

yes, the only five year old in a room filled with adults. behaving like one of them was an imperative.

all of the parties were shitty.

[thingpuncher]

and i guess they didnt talk about blowing people for magic powers or whatever youre doing

[excelsus]

politics and gossip, mostly. at that age the only thing I was interested in is what I could set on fire.

do I still come off as doing someone's dirty work?