[OPEN][May Catch-all]

[writtendestiny]

🧙 WHO: Poison & YOU
⚔️️ WHAT: Catch-all for May
🕒 WHEN: All through the month
🗺️ WHERE: Noted in top-levels
⚠️ WARNINGS: None yet, will be indicated if they come up

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✹ In which Poison is accidentally blowing things up with Alchemy again
✹ QUEST: Holo, Goodbye
✹ Honey Over Vinegar

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Holo, Goodbye

[writtendestiny]

[Poison does not deal with fairies. She doesn't deal with fairies ever but despite her prickly nature she is a kind-hearted girl and the request to get one of the holographic rocks for a sick old lady who can't make it herself tugs at her heartstrings.

So there she is, looking suspiciously at the sprites dancing over the sparkling water and wondering if it's going to do something weird to her if she puts her hand in.

She knows that not all fae are bad. She's had the (dubious) pleasure of meeting ones not from her own world who seemed to be perfectly decent people. And yet... a lifetime of experience of them stealing away children and, more recently, tricking her, lying to her and actually trying to kill her have made her naturally wary of anything to do with the creatures.

The fact she knows she's more capable than most others of actually bargaining with the things doesn't make it any easier.]

Ugh... why am I here. [She mutters, pressing two fingertips to her temple. The cognitive dissonance is enough to give anyone a headache.]

Honey Over Vinegar

[writtendestiny]

[When she had heard the words 'cookie orchard' she had been sure they couldn't be serious. Or that maybe it was some kind of metaphor. She should not have been surprised as she was to find actual cookies growing on the trees.

She hadn't needed a gathering to decide that going to war was the most stupid idea that anyone could have come up with, particularly when that war was against creatures far more capable of wielding the natural magic here than any of them could hope to be. But maybe actually being around people for once wouldn't be too much of a bad idea.

Poison doesn't do badly at all and ends up with far more cookies than one person should necessarily be eating, so when she's done and has (slightly reluctantly) collected her participation award she peers into the basket and glances around for someone who might not have done as well as she did.]

Do you want some of these?

How to blow stuff up with Alchemy

[writtendestiny]

Ah! No!

[A dull bang, a yelp, and a few birds shoot up from the trees above where Poison is once again mixing various things together to see what happens.

What is happening today is mostly explosions. Explosions and accidentally setting small patches of grass on fire.

But that is what she has the bucket for.

Poison stomps swiftly on the latest tiny smoulder in the vegetation at her feet and sits down on a nearby fallen tree with a sharp huff. A couple of small empty glass bottles fall over, tinkling together, and she looks at them accusingly.]

I'm going to get this right. [She says, speaking to the colourful snake wrapped around her neck.] There's no reason it shouldn't work.

[dolcedeleche]

You too?

[Dolce still has some ash in her pink twintails, and is just using the half-burned gloves until she gets a better hang of everything.]

None of this is working how it should.

[writtendestiny]

[She hadn't realised anyone was near her, and visibly flinches when Dolce speaks up. Poison looks up quickly, frowning slightly, then back and the small spread of alchemy ingredients in front of her.]

I've made this work before, but it was a very small amount. It must need different proportions as it scales up...