WEEK 4: ITEM CONFERENCE

[calamitish]

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[calamitish]

You can't just do it like that, it needs to be done properly! So—

[ he's nitpicky, but here it's for good reason. ]

The ask of me is: provide bodies for the dead, including any new dead that may arrive, and to return everyone to their home worlds, or the world of their choice.

[ sneaking that in there because he can and it should be more agreeable to everyone anyway. ]

In return: you'll deal with the instability encroaching this dimension, however it may manifest from now until the point when this contract is concluded. Additionally: Siffrin will offer me what time he can from his world, and Andrew will support the living to the best she can while confined to a capybara plush. Finally, I still owe Sabo from our dealings when he was alive.

Do you agree to these terms?

[fillintheblanket]

[bro he's a sword not a snake clown genie]

[The umbrella appears to listen closely, however an umbrella does that (leaning forward a little, canopy open wide). Once Ish has properly detailed the contract with in Ish language, it tilts forward deeply in acknowledgment, the front end of its canopy just above the ground.]

I accept your terms, Ish, Witch of Ruin.

I'll leave the other contracts to their makers.

[With that, the umbrella cedes the floor. It's contract signing hours now.]

[calamitish]

Then we have a deal!

Contractus Cauda!

[ everyone gathered including ish, will enjoy a nice golden glow for several moments ✨. ]

[distain]

That clause is doing substantial work there.

["To the best she can while confined to a capybara plush" may not be much...especially if their communications are limited. But she'll speak with Yamanbagiri about it.]

Very well; contract signed. What's the state of the body I'll be getting back?

[That she's asking now, when she is fairly shrewd about these things, might betray that the answer wouldn't have impacted her signing.]

[calamitish]

[ he laughs, it sure is.

as for the question, he refers her to manba.]

Well?

[distain]

[Ah... Hm.

She's already technically given her agreement. Clearly, when she asked, she was expecting to be told she'd return to her sick, bloodline-cursed body. Maybe she even expected to be told that revival came in the form of a stuffed capybara.]

... I can scarcely imagine that. [She sounds some tiles away.]

[thesharpestroy]

[…wait, shit. She’s forgetting something, isn’t she?]

What kind of bodies are you gonna be giving us? Like, will they be in the same…condition, I guess, from before we died?

[calamitish]

[ he looks at her and blinks, remembering something. ]

Hmmm for that... ask Manba. [ he gets name rights now. ] I think he has a better idea of how this is going to work than I do, I'm just following his directions.

[fillintheblanket]

... They'll be bodies constructed from the summoning, to start. These are tsukumogami bodies, bound to the items you have on this side, but it also means that you'll be more than human or whichever form you were before.

So if you're asking if you're getting your old bodies back... You're not, unless you add a condition for that.

[siffriend]

[ More than... ]

What do you mean, um... "more than" what we were before? I don't mind, as long I look the same, since then my family members won't notice a difference, but that could mean a lot. Like seeing ghosts.

[ (Which you already have, kind of.

Ghosts of yourself. But it's fine.) ]

[fillintheblanket]

You'll be like me.

Stronger, and faster, and more durable than a human. Maybe more than what you were before, if you weren't human. You also won't be mortal, if you were before. Other than that... you'll probably see ghosts, because of spiritual energy.

I think that's all the differences.

[Unfortunately you're asking a sword-umbrella, so it's kind of like asking a bird to describe a fish. He's doing his best.]

[siffriend]

I don't really claim myself to be mortal at this point anyway.

[ #justtimelooperthings

But

that does give Siffrin a better idea. Really... no different than how they are back in their world, (you'd become stronger, faster, more durable thanks to all the loops; you can't die, so you're hardly mortal,) save...

...

For outliving everyone they love, maybe. Eternally wandering to the end. The knife waggles in understanding, but thank everything else that Yamanbagiri can actually see him nodding. ]

Okay. I... can handle that, I think.

[ Some problems are for later Siffrin. They'll burn those bridges before they cross them or however it goes. ]

[fillintheblanket]

... It might be easier to handle than time loops.

[But again he doesn't have the best point of reference.

Time loopers looping in a time loop..... The umbrella twirls a quarter-turn, but ultimately doesn't say anything else. Good luck, Siffrin.]

[vivens]

[ squints and looks at devil fruits. ]

...and if my body had been altered in some way before it came here? There's no helping not returning to my own body, however there was something within my body that made it special.

—for lack of better words of how to describe it.

[fillintheblanket]

Ish is more familiar with your old selves than I am.

[So Sabo is getting bounced back to Ish with this one...]

[calamitish]

I still owe you, so if this is what you want to use it on, that's fine by me. I should be able to find it if you give me a description of it.

[spotsalone]

[ HEY EVERYBODY SHUT UP THIS CIGARETTE CASE IS SHOVING HIS WAY TO THE FRONT OF THE PILE. ]

And we'd continue to be more than human should we leave this dimension and return home?

[fillintheblanket]

Yes. The body would be yours.

[His tone is mild in the face of the cigarette case yeeting itself over. It's fine.]

[spotsalone]

[ he's gonna 1v1 the tuunbaq. ]

Incredible. I suppose this saves me from pestering Ish from making good on our deal.

[ He did do his job in murdering so he was definitely going to try and cash in on that wish, but this is far better. ]

Thank you. This is quite helpful.

[thesharpestroy]

…I need it to be the same body—-or fuck, I don’t know, a full recreation with all the same organs and other shit in it? There’s…well, I’ll have to take care of it when I’m not in a time loop. I can’t do it here.

[Her face is serious, her voice quieter than she normally is.]

I already tried to kill for time before. Would I have to do something like that?

[fillintheblanket]

[The umbrella tilts slightly, but answers quickly.]

You'll have to ask Ish. Either way, I think it would be either a new contract or a new condition, or something else.

[But that's up to the Witch.]

[thesharpestroy]

He said to ask you. Unless his mom would have something that can do what I need, maybe.

If it means giving up something or needing to do some extra breaking to get it...fine. I'm just not gonna let fucking dying take this away from me.

[She's selfish, in that way.]

[fillintheblanket]

I know about the bodies. He knows about the magic.

[Division of labor, people. An umbrella-sword can only do so much.]

Remember: this is a negotiation.

[distain]

...

[Oh.

For a woman, you think of certain things first. This is rather private. Even the capybara, the vessel for a woman who doesn't care much about others' privacy when they reveal their things right in front of her nose, looks in the other direction of the warehouse greenhouse.]

[siffriend]

[ (... Colors, colors, colors. You'll be able to see what your family members look like. What Mira's favorite shade really is. How Dormont looks, dressed up -- the only one in all the world to see what was stolen from everyone, your own little secret.

You'll be able to see just how beautiful Raha is.) ]

We make a lot of these little deals, huh? [ Cigarettes, executions, and now... ] Okay. I agree. You're pretty lucky that someone who knows a thing or two about Time Craft landed in your lap, Witch.

[ Even if it made Siffrin a BITCH TO EXECUTE!!!!!! ]