SPRING BREAK, Cyseal, Tuesday Evening

[nookiepowered]

As night falls, so does the temperature, but the tavern is warm, and so is the light from the bonfires dotted here and there, for those who choose to linger around the town or venture back out after a nice hearty supper. (Mmm, cheese bread, beef stew and apple pie.)

[OCD: Morning post | Rooms | King Crab Common Room | King Crab Bar | Cyseal | Marketplace | Legion | Nighttime Walks | Outside the Tavern | Outside Cyseal | OOC]

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Re: Cyseal - Marketplace

[sharp_as_knives]

Hannibal nodded. "When he isn't possessing anybody, he's completely harmless. Apart from the insults."

Which was the reason for them, really.

Re: Cyseal - Marketplace

[myownface]

"I guess whatever weapon he's got at his disposal..."

Sparkle shook his head and then took a bite from his carrot.

"Okay, maybe I'll cut him a little slack. Being dead sucks."

Thanks, Fandom, for that being a lesson he'd actually learned.

Repeatedly.

Ugh.

Re: Cyseal - Marketplace

[sharp_as_knives]

Hannibal smirked. "He's also much older than anybody's grandfather. The epitome of a crotchety old man."

He'd shake his cane if he had one, probably.

Re: Cyseal - Marketplace

[myownface]

"I'm basically going to have to call him 'gramps' until he introduces himself, now," Sparkle decided. "The true tragedy is that he can't even hold a cane to shake it at people."

Re: Cyseal - Marketplace

[sharp_as_knives]

Hannibal laughed. "He goes by Bob, but please feel free to keep calling him 'gramps'. He could make himself look as if he's got a cane; he's quite good at illusions. But he can't hit you with it."

Re: Cyseal - Marketplace

[myownface]

"Good to know," Sparkle cackled, clearly pleased. And then, after a moment's pause and maybe just slightly less pleased, "He, uh, can't just go ahead and possess anybody he feels like, can he?"

Re: Cyseal - Marketplace

[sharp_as_knives]

"No," Hannibal answered firmly. "It's part of his contract - he has to have permission."

Re: Cyseal - Marketplace

[myownface]

And now Sparkle was going from 'less pleased' to 'relieved.'

Very relieved.

"Okay," he said, even heaving a little sigh at that. "Okay, cool. I mean, I didn't think he could... I want to think people would've heard more about one of those convention ghosts still running around and taking hold of people... but... you know..."

Shrug.

Re: Cyseal - Marketplace

[sharp_as_knives]

Hannibal nodded. "So far as I'm aware, he's the only one who's returned. And he hasn't even requested what he calls a 'ride' very often. You've nothing to fear from him but his tongue."

Re: Cyseal - Marketplace

[myownface]

"And he doesn't know nearly enough about me for his tongue to be much more than, like, a minor annoyance anyway," Sparkle decided. "Not that anyone on the island even cares all that much about the kind of shit I've gotten into."

Since he hadn't ever committed, like, cold-blooded murder or something. Everything was a little relative on the island that way.

Re: Cyseal - Marketplace

[sharp_as_knives]

Cold-blooded murder was underrated!

"No," Hannibal agreed. He smiled at Sparkle. "How is your fresh start working out?"

Re: Cyseal - Marketplace

[myownface]

"It's..." Sparkle smiled faintly at that, in spite of himself. "I mean... not bad, you know? I have the shop, and, knock on wood, the island hasn't tried to kill us all in a while. So at least until that happens, I can pretend that life is almost something like normal. I kind of needed that, after Toronto, I think."

Re: Cyseal - Marketplace

[sharp_as_knives]

"I'm pleased to hear it," Hannibal said. "You should visit more often; I enjoy teaching you to cook. I was going to have a party for relaxing after all the pollen, but now it will have to wait until after vacation."

Re: Cyseal - Marketplace

[myownface]

"Yeah, one kind of bled right into the other," Sparkle replied, nodding. "But if you want to throw a party, I mean... I'm always up for playing sous chef. I've been keeping in practice, you know? Cooking at home for myself and Atton. Or sometimes even in his galaxy. Spice shopping on Coruscant is a whole different ball game."

And you kind of had to make certain that people were clear that you were looking for, you know, seasonings as opposed to drugs.

Re: Cyseal - Marketplace

[sharp_as_knives]

"What sorts of spices are there?" Hannibal asked. He'd never really tried anything from that world, and he was always up for new flavors.

Re: Cyseal - Marketplace

[myownface]

"It's... oh god, some of it is hard to describe," Sparkle admitted. "I mean, as it stands, half the time I go to the marketplace I still have to ask the vendors to point me to the stuff that isn't toxic to humans. Basically the only thing immediately familiar in that whole damn galaxy is potatoes."

WHY DID THEY HAVE POTATOES IN A DIFFERENT GALAXY? WHY?

Re: Cyseal - Marketplace

[sharp_as_knives]

"Potatoes?" Hannibal asked. That...seemed slightly odd. "Nothing else?"

Re: Cyseal - Marketplace

[myownface]

"I mean, there's salt, but sodium is kind of a thing anywhere," Sparkle conceded. "There's a lot of stuff that's similar. Nerf is sort of like beef, but it's got a better flavour to it. Caf is sort of like the other-galaxy equivalent of coffee, and there's milk, even if the most common kind is blue."

He shrugged.

"Don't ask me why potatoes, though. Seriously, I've been smuggling my own garlic whenever I visit Coruscant."

Which hadn't happened in a while, but he did occasionally shove shopping lists at Atton, so.