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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]

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. . .

[pyromagiac]

[ she licks the rock. ]

[pyromagiac]

Yep! Looking closer, the coloring is inconsistent, so I'd wager it's probably basaltic andesite. Did you know silica content can determine the viscosity of lava flow? Since basalt has a pretty low silica content, we can tell that this is rock that formed from fast-moving lava!

1/ we'll see

[childeishly]

[childeishly]

Did you just... lick a rock...

[childeishly]

[ looks from her to the rock to her again... and then finally back to the rock. ]

[childeishly]

[ licks the rock. ]

[childeishly]

[ that tasted awful. ] Ah... yeah, I... I taste it.

done

[childeishly]

[ i don't know what the fuck she's talking about. ]

[ PANIC. ]

[ smiles,
and nods. ]

[ oh, n- no, wait, he immediately shakes his head. ] I didn't know that, but, ah, that means... it had been toward the top of the lava explosion? Since I imagine that's where it flows the... fastest... [ h- he's trying. ]

Re: done

[pyromagiac]

Uhm. . . No, it's. . . Well, you know how there are all sorts of rocks?

They're made of different minerals, and depending on the mineral content, when the rock melts into magma and then comes out of the ground as lava, it will move faster—like water—or slower, like, uhm. . .

. . . porridge.

Re: done

[childeishly]

[ miss, i don't know jack shit about rocks. ]

Yessssss?

[ . . . ]

[ ]

What about the, ah, third rock?

1/

[pyromagiac]

The third rock. . .

Re: done

[pyromagiac]

[ ]

3/4

[pyromagiac]

[ she's going to lick this one too. ]

Re: done

[pyromagiac]

It's salt!

Re: done

[childeishly]

I bought a giant freaking boulder of salt?!

Re: done

[pyromagiac]

[ shrinks back just a little, like, woah dude ]

W-well, it is a mineral. . . To be specific though, it isn't sodium chloride, which is what we use for seasoning. It's potassium chloride, which has a bitter aftertaste—but it's very similar to sodium chloride in that they're both created via the process of evaporation.

Re: done

[childeishly]

[ HE SPENT 5000 POINTS ON SOME SALT AND CONGEALED LAVA. HE IS SO UPSET RIGHT NOW. ]

...so I can't even grind it up to sprinkle on my fries? [ 😔 the disappointment is PALPABLE. ]

What about the last one? Is it a pepper rock or something?

1/

[pyromagiac]

You technically could, but I'm not sure it would be, uhm, great, the coloring here suggests that this sylvite has a lot of inclusions. . .

Re: done

[pyromagiac]

[ well. . . onto the next one ]