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[temperedinpride]

Who: Cosmo
Where: Lobby
When: 436

[Cosmo is rocking a look. Minus the plague mask, it's just his normal mask. He's got a set of fruity drinks in front of him, and he's leaning back with a drink in hand.]

"Risk" and "Reward".

Half of these drinks are non-alcoholic, most of the rest are quite potently alcoholic, a few are drugged.

The risk is obvious, the reward is engaging in the live. Or perhaps in avoiding the traps.

The drugs are one of three kinds--a potent psychedelic, a numbing agent, and something to get you a little hot under the collar. Do take it elsewhere if you get that last one.

[He sips his drink.]

Of course some say the best way to win at gambling is not to play, but where's the fun in that?

((OOC: tag any toplevels with the aphro as nsfw and you can have like, multiple if you want. I'll toplevel Lahabrea to talk to but you can also just engage with drugs.))

Comments

[childeishly]

The same people that run the store made this city so I'm sure the quality is about the same, but it's not like I can't just buy a bunch of them and pick the best. [ apparently a fancy giant rock is 1125 points, lol. ]

[protectshisown]

...I feel like I should confiscate your phone until you're sober.

[childeishly]

No! Noooooo. Nonononono. It's a great idea! You can even help me pick one out, the bestest one, since Xiansheng only deserves the best. Maybe we can carve the others down into statues? Can you do that? Can... I?

[protectshisown]

I can do some carving, though I'm not a sculptor. That's the twins.

But I really think you should give me your phone until you're not impulse buying.

[He would ponder force, but with the white knuckle grip on his glass, it might be how he's resisting Touching Caeli.]

1/3

[childeishly]

...twins, and you don't mean Silver and Gold. [ not that that'd even help them at the moment because graduation. ] I can learn! I'll read a book and maybe even watch a video. I can do this. If it's for Xiansheng~ I'll figure something out.

[ looks from the phone to rye and then back to the phone. ]

[childeishly]

[ stares rye down, not even looking at his phone as he moves his thumb over the screen. ]

[childeishly]

[ CLICKU. ]

[ -5000 points
for four fancy GIANT BOULDER delivery! ]

[protectshisown]

Twins from back home. Lots of weird skills you wouldn't expect.

[Rye is meeting his gaze.]

[His eyes narrow.]

Caeli-

[Except he's clicking and he's gonna dive for the phone while DELIVERY is happening.]

[childeishly]

[ IS DIVED AT. ]

[ rye can have the phone now that the purchase has already been made. ]

[ meanwhile caeli is laughing like a hyena. ]

I WILL WRITE MY LOVE IN BOULDERS!

[protectshisown]

[geghyhky]

Oh my gods, Caeli, we could have found good rocks!

[childeishly]

[ FOUR ENORMOUS BOULDERS GET DELIVERED VIA SPECIAL DELIVERY. ]

[ WOMP. ]

[ WOMP. ]

[ WOMP. ]

[ WOMP. ]

BUT THEY WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN AS INCREDIBLE AS THESE*! [ citation needed. ]

[protectshisown]

[OH MY GODS]

That is highly debatable!

[childeishly]

NA-UH! IT'S ALSO HIGHLY DEBATABLE THAT THESE PLEB ROCKS WOULD BE GOOD ENOUGH FOR SOMEONE AS INCREDIBLE AND AMAZING AS ZHONGLI.

[pyromagiac]

[ i sees rocks being carried by a herd of cats

i follows rocks being carried by a herd of cats ]

[childeishly]

[ at the end of this rocks being carried by herd of cats rainbow is this drunk. he's attempting to slide his phone back into his pocket, but he misses, landing it on the floor, but it's fine beCAUSE HIS BOULDERS ARE HERE. ]

Look at them! [ throws his arms open to hug the first one. ]

[ peers around the boulders after a moment, ] Mesmerized by these beautiful [ HE HOPES ] specimen?

1/2

[pyromagiac]

[ uhm sir you dropped your phone?????

she does like, a brief doubletake. you know when you logically know that the man that you killed was not actually that man but like a metaphorical representation of a person's relationship with the mans with that face in a dream world,

but like, you still did kill that dude, and other people died in that fight with that dude,

and you like, knew that he technically existed in tokyo-f but you've just been kind of not following that to the end conclusion of "and therefore someday you will probably meet him"

so now you're just like trying to figure out if this is a fever dream because like there are cats carrying rocks? these are big rocks. there's no way there's anyone in tokyo-f who's a fan of rocks like you are. is this a dream? is this about to be a nightmare? ]

[pyromagiac]

[ but like he's mr zhongli's mate and also you really want to talk about the rocks so like

well

he asked, so, ]

Oh! Uhm, sorry. I was just really curious about these, especially since they were moving. . . Are these yours?

[childeishly]

[ childe is oblivious to the fact that he's having some kind of existential crisis about the part he played ( but not really ) in zhongli's ideal world, so while she's trying to sort through this and that he just stares at her, smiling... not really minding ( or noticing ) the stretch of silence. ]

Yep! [ he pats one of the boulders. ] I just ordered them from the shop. I need the biggest, bestest, and biggest rock, so I decided to get 'huge' and 'fancy'... [ he tries to move closer, but he trips over his own phone. ]

[ faceplants. ]

[ this is fine. ]

Zhongli Xiansheng loves rocks, so I wanted to get him a rock, but I didn't know what kind of rock to pick, so I ordered a bunch of rocks, so I could... [ man, the word rock sure doesn't sound like a word anymore. ]

[pyromagiac]

Oh! Mister Zhongli does?

[ come to think of it he's the geo archon so that makes sense ]

Well, I think they're all pretty interesting!

[ with a gesture to one of them ]

The strata on this this half indicates the many layers of sedimentary deposition, but then this half—[ more gesturing to the big grey diagonal-cut on the rock ]—means that this rock was at a site of volcanic activity. The deposition built up on top of the once-lava!

[childeishly]

He does! and I just asked him to be married, so I thought I could get him a fitting gift. I do love spoiling him... [ sits up, leaning into the rock, so that he can give it an affectionate pet. ]

I think so too! though I don't know anything about them, besides what Zhongli Xiansheng has told me, but these rocks don't look anything like the ones back home... [ leans closer. ] I can tell. [ no he can't. ]

I just need help picking one for him, so if you're a rock expert, then who better to help me than you! I can even compensate you for your time and... rock facts!!!

[ scoots closer as she starts dropping facts on him. ] Really! Lava? I wish I could have seen it when it was lava, but... does that make this one special? I mean [ clears his throat. ] extra special!

[pyromagiac]

Extra special? Uhm. . .

[ looking to the rock again ]

Well, it's interesting, especially given that it has this shape, but while it's an unconformity, I wouldn't say it's. . . uncommon? This is from a site that once had an active volcano and then became a bank for some body of water to deposit its sediment.

1/3

[childeishly]

[childeishly]

[childeishly]

[ rock: exists. ]

...oh. [ childe deflates IMMEDIATELY. his ears droop and his tail goes limp as he stares at the rock oh. so. disappointed. ]

[ but then he's springing back to life and moving over to another rock to give it a pat. ] How about this one then! It's got to have an interesting story too, right!

1/3

[pyromagiac]

[ patting the second boulder with some consideration ]

This is. . .

Oh, this is a volcanic rock! Judging from the color I'd say it's either basalt or andesite or both—it ffffeels fine-grained. . .