hadriel | SEVENTH SONG ♫ VIDEO

'Sup, fellow cave dwellers.

[ Oh, boy. It's that time again. Rose usually only has a tendency to show her face on the network when she's got something 'fun' to say. This isn't one of the rare exceptions to that rule either. She's grinning ear to ear, obviously quite pleased with herself. Some might recognize the backdrop as Sorrow's orchard where she's known to spend quite a lot of her time. ]

Got a gift for ya'll.

[ At this point the camera shifts focus to a plant budding in the orchard's rows. It might look familiar to some. Judging from the dumb smile on her face previously, it's certainly familiar to Rose. ]

Figured after all the fuckery that's happened lately, we could use some chill. It's not a lot but it's a start and, like, a cave has the perfect growing conditions. We're all gonna' be 4/20 blazin' it before you know. But I'll need some help making sure it's taken care of.

[ #protectthecaveweed2k17 ]

You're welcome. I accept thanks in the form of overzealous complements, singing the praises of my coolness, and testaments carved to my honor in stone. You know, the usual.

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Dude. Yes.

[Man, okay, Tranquility is the best god. When they all end up dying, he can go last. First? He's not sure. But he's good with most people who can get their chill on.]

Is it the real deal or just a close lich guess? Do we know if it cooks the same? 'Cause I am so down to get some butter and rediscover baking in both forms asap, my man.

[ Maybe last. That way they can all accept their doomed fate with some zen or something. ]

A close lich guess. I haven't tried to cook it yet but, hey, I'm hoping it'll work the same.

Ugh, figures. Everything here is a cheap knockoff. Like some fantasy walmart shit.

[He rolls his eyes, but he's confident in his ability to make it work. This isn't the first dumb copy of theirs he's been able to work with.]

We got any of it fully grown yet? 'Cause I can fabricate up some butter and get to work easy.

Hey, man, don't knock great values brand. It's the same exact shit for like half the price.

-Fabricate? The heck does that mean?

Look, call me picky or whatever, but I wanna ensure my quality, you dig?

[He's a brand whore, sorry. But he grins at her second question, knowing he's about to get the opportunity to show off a little.]

Y'know, being able to make stuff out of basically nothin'. I mean, you need the raw materials, but for butter that's just basically milk. Cuts the time like crazy.

Hey, that's cool. I've always been a little more easy to please that way, I guess.

[ And okay, hey. Consider her impressed. ]

So no, like, lead into gold but... milk into ice cream?

I mean, look, I can do lead into gold, but it'll only last like an hour. Long enough to dupe a sucker you don't intend on ever seein' again, though.

[Not that that's super useful in an enclosed town with no economy, buuuut it's still like, a useful trick. Eventually.]

But yeah, uh, gimme the ingredients and ten minutes and you got it. I mean, it's gotta be something I'd know how to make anyway, so I can't like, build you a boat or whatever. But yeah, ice cream, natch, no need for some fancy machine. Plus, if it's right before you eat, Lup n' I can conjure most stuff. It'll just stop existing after an hour or two so it's not something you can like, stockpile.

[ It seems like something that would definitely be useful to dupe people. Despite the fact that she would absolutely see some people in this cave again if she were to pull that on them, it's been a while since she's had some good ol' fashioned pranking fun... ]

Huh! Well, that's a cool power to have in a pinch. If the cave ever splits apart again and we need some stuff conjured up to make sure people can make it through we'll hopefully have you guys around to help.

[Listen, if she thinks he wouldn't abuse magic just to trick people, she'd be entirely wrong. He abuses magic to do dumb shit on the daily. But what she says is what surprises him, having missed the cave catastrophe just barely in his arrival.]

Cave split? Are you telling me half this place just fuckin' left one day? What happened, sinkhole?

Ah, no, the cave literally just-

[ She makes a breaking motion with her hands for emphasis, both of them separating from each other dramatically after the fact. ]

I guess Fear's moving us around so The Null don't find us, but... He didn't have enough energy one time so the cave broke in half. We were all separated and couldn't communicate with some people for a bit. It sucked.

[Fuck. Oh, fuck.

He can't hide the way his eyes widen, glad his hands aren't in screen so he can grip them into fists. Just... separated like that. Shattered. What if he and Lup had ended up on opposite sides? He could have been separated from-- from anyone. Been all alone.

He takes one extra breath to steady himself, making it as inconspicuous as possible.]

He just, fuckin' cracked this place in half? We're moving? What the hell are we moving through?

He didn't mean to. He needs so much power to move us and, well. He was feeling a little tired that day, I guess.

[ As for the other questions, ] But yeah. We're moving. Your guess is as good as mine to what we're moving through. Space, I'd guess, since they said the outside isn't... habitable.

Well that sucks.

[Jesus. And here he thought he could have his simple hell cave.]

Alright, noted. Guess it makes sense those guys trying to get in are electronic or whatever. Aren't robots usually from another plane? Maybe we're just in a shitty scifi.

[As if that hasn't been his whole damn life.]

[ It does seem like the set-up for some straight to TV ScyFy channel film, doesn't it? Even the name The Null was kind of... self-explanatory. ]

I don't know about that. In my world, robots weren't nearly as sophisticated as these guys are.

I mean, I've seen like... some robots? I dunno what these guys look like but they were sort of robots but with the souls of dead people. Not sure where that lands on the scale of robot shit.

[Frankly he's kind of tired of dealing with shitty robots?? Crystal Kingdom was enough, thanks.]

Yeah, I haven't seen any of the Null up close and personal to be able to say. Not really jumping at the chance too either, I guess.

But those sound like some super shitty robots, gods.

Totally were.

Aaaaanyway. Hit me up when there's enough of that biz to cook, kay? I'm serious, I have super dibs on batch one.

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