IC Inbox - Asgard Eventide

[samantha_grey]

An old, brick edifice stands in front of the burnt-down ruins of a home in the hillside. Mountains rear up in all directions, covered in lush, green vegetation. Nobody comes this way anymore, but you have the sense that anything placed in the mailbox attached to this old structure will be found by someone, the only living person for whom this place still has any meaning.

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[samantha_grey]

Heh, he wasn't that bad. Just kind of tired, really. It was... weird. But yes, you have a couple hours if you take it off before the gray sets in. I sometimes use it for a little privacy, but can't leave it off for long.

[cyan_maid]

Can't you just...choose to not pay attention to the bracelet? It's a lot less risky that way.

[samantha_grey]

Most days, but... I'm paranoid, and I don't like the idea that they might watch me through it all the time. Sometimes it's good not to have eyes on you.

[cyan_maid]

You mean the gods?

[Jane looks down to fiddle with her own bracelet.] Can that actually be done? Monitoring people through them, I mean.

[samantha_grey]

Loki personally runs it, and I ... I think it's part of him, because he gets weak whenever Thiazi attacks the network. So, I figure it's better safe than sorry.

[cyan_maid]

Hmmm.

Well...I can't say I'm an expert on this sort of thing, but it might be a good idea to ask if it is? If this Loki doesn't mind questions about it, of course. The more you know, the better, right?

[samantha_grey]

I might do that one of these days. [Blatant lie. The reason that she took her bracelet off was so that she could do debatably legal/ethical research she was certain the gods wouldn't approve of. She wasn't taking a chance with them wondering why she cared.]

Did you have anything else you were wondering so far?

[cyan_maid]

[The lie is successful. Jane is none the wiser.]

Um...maybe more about this apothecary stuff? If you've got a shop dedicated to it, you've got to be good at it.

[samantha_grey]

Oh, this? [She smirked and looked around.] I'd like to think I am, yeah. I never went to school, but my mom taught me everything about herbal cures and mixing potions I know that isn't from an experiment. Picking up the pharmacy stuff wasn't that hard with what she taught me.

The potions... those are sort of the pride and joy, though it's honestly the meds that pay the bills.

[cyan_maid]

I see! And if it pays the bills, that must mean the medicine works. How nifty...

[She leans closer to some of the items. Anything she should probably not put her nose in? Yeah, she's up in its business.]

[samantha_grey]

Exactly. [She chuckled.] You could say the medicines funds my potions research.

[As she got close to one of the articles, Sam snorted and laughed. She held it up and gave it a once over before setting it down.]

Careful, that one will make you reek to high heaven for a half hour or so. It's one of my newer poisons.

[cyan_maid]

-Oh!!!

[She pulls back, a little wide-eyed.] Oh, goodness! Okay. Alright, that's not smart of me...

[samantha_grey]

Hehe, some of this stuff's pretty toxic. don't worry about it, Jane. I brew up some nasty stuff either way. Not all of it though. I do make poultices at least.

[cyan_maid]

[Looks at Sam curiously.] I see...what exactly is a poultice, and what does it do?

[samantha_grey]

It's a medicine and herbal mix with wrappings to help close up wounds. [She showed one of the packs.] It's not as good s the healing magics out of Sigyn, but it's better than first aid.

[cyan_maid]

[Looks at it, nods.] I see! But not everyplace has healing magic, so they definitely still sound useful.

[samantha_grey]

And even if it's one of the biggest houses, there's only so many healers to go around and they only have so much juice. They're more, just in case something goes wrong or you have to be away from healers.

[cyan_maid]

[She gapes a little.] Sigyn is the biggest of the houses?

[samantha_grey]

Yeah, believe it or not there's a lot in that and Heimdall and most of the Sigyns are healers. It's kind of funny, but they pick up all the nice, self-sacrificing types a lot.

[cyan_maid]

Oh, golly.

[That's certainly interesting to think about. She'll just place that thought snugly in the corner of her mind.]

I guess it's good to have healers in a war though, right?

[samantha_grey]

Especially if they know how to defend themselves. It is good to have them, yeah. The more tools we have on our side the better. Personally, though, it's good to learn as many tricks on the side as you can. What if the powers don't work right sometime?

[cyan_maid]

Hmmm...I guess you've got me there. Have there ever been times where our powers don't work?

[samantha_grey]

If you leave town mostly... but with the number of times the giants have pulled strange stuff out of the blue, I like to be prepared.

[cyan_maid]

[That gives her pause.] They don't work outside the city? Huh...well, what about the bracelets, then? Do they still work?

[samantha_grey]

Not once you get far enough away. If you're still reasonably close, they work ok, but as far as the dwarven regions they're not able to work right.

Bracelets either. None of it. It's like every city has different rules.