WEEK 4: ITEM CONFERENCE

[calamitish]

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[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.

MY NORMAL SABO ICONS... ME FORGETTING THAT THEY'RE STILL ITEMS HERE.

[vivens]

[ oh.

not that he doesn't mind but— ]

Wouldn't that be a problem since you're using what you owe me to bring us back with bodies in the first place?

[ though if that's the case sabo's fairly certain there's other collateral that he can provide as back-up or as a replacement. ]

But it's an orange fruit about the size of a cantaloupe, or medium size melon, that looks to be made up of flame-shaped components with swirl patters within each one. It also has a stem that's curled on both ends.

[ it would be much easier if sabo had a way to draw it. ]

i have too many icons as is everyone gets sif's mind theater instead

[siffriend]

[ Say less buddy the knife is going to carve into the greenhouse floor for him. Ruin The Witch's domain one last time.

... Like it's gonna be stylized, more like Legend of Zelda: Windwaker type flames as scratchy as this thing is, but. There. ]

... This?

LMAO. valid of u

[vivens]

[ oh.

thank you friend... AND ISH NOW HAS A REFERENCE!! it's mostly stylized and not a perfect 1:1 but enjoy the mera mera fruit siff edition. ]

Not quite, but it's close enough. I wouldn't know how to better describe it myself.

[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.

[fillintheblanket]

There are some things the deals might be good for -- but wishing shouldn't be used for everything.

[He sounds like some kind of dictionary on aphorisms but maybe that is what umbrella-swords are here for. To discourage murder but not to encourage hinges.]

... What was it you were making a deal for?

[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.

[thesharpestroy]

Yeah, I know it is. Just trying to figure out what chips I actually have to bargain with. Witches don't look like they'd need money.

[calamitish]

I don't! [ helpfully interjecting here. ]

But I am willing to make a trade. Is money all you think you have to offer?

[ it's a genuine question. ]

[thesharpestroy]

Not the only thing. Just kind of what I'm used to from business and politics.

What is it that you need to do what I'm asking for? Blood? Time? Promising you my family line?

[calamitish]

[ laughing. ]

I'm a Witch, not a demon! But let's see... [ he's gotten enough time from siffrin, so he shifts to more personal things. ]

What kind of business do you run anyway?

[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.]