un: jonas. cw: blood chatter.

[coherer]

ik this is going to sound like an episode of 60 Minutes that never got aired, but I have smelled worryingly like blood for the past week or so.

Please pre-emptively cool it on the wild guesses, though. God forbid any of this winds up vaguely sexual like Keith's thing (F, buddy). No, I haven't even been injured lately. No, it's not my time of the month. No, I'm not actually a murderer. I woke up one day, sniffed foul air, and have been increasingly ill since.

Does anyone have any idea what I can even do about this? bc I feel like I've tried literally everything but bathing in bleach.

Oh, actually, for ppl who don't want to interact with my TMI, what are your favourite movies? I work at the theatre in Mirth now and I'll get a 2% raise if I bring in more traffic, so I kinda have a vested interest in knowing what kinds of things you'd wanna see screened. Set can't pay for everything yk lol.

Thanks.

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@silco

[zauneyete]

Just smoke more, and burn out your sense of smell.

[coherer]

Spoken like a man with experience in smelling awful and needing to cover it up.

tbh the cigarettes are actually helping quite a bit with this.

[zauneyete]

Spoken like a man who's breathed poisoned air all his life and knows exactly how to make it palatable.

Of course they do. It's burning nicotine. Just chain smoke until you deal with it. It's not like your lungs need to be preserved, right?

[coherer]

Well, this isn't exactly a poison air situation. Like I can't just smell like this forever, right? So I'm looking for solutions, not bandaids.

ik how you feel though, I've been smoking a lot more recently.

[zauneyete]

Then take a shower already, obviously.

[ Does he actually think that's the solution? No. But look, if he smells like blood... ]

Otherwise, you're free to continue to mask it until it goes away. Personally, I'd rather smell like smoke, then blood.

[coherer]

Wow, I never considered washing my body. You've solved the whole mystery singlehandedly. Look out Stygia, this guy's coming to steal the Nobel Prize.

I grant you permission to kindly shove it.

All that aside, though, ia completely with your preference for cigarette smoke, but there's only so much that can do. The blood smell will either be delayed or join forces with the tobacco to form a super-stench. Then where will I be?

[zauneyete]

[ He should have guessed, that if he was an ass, the boy would be an ass back, huh? ]

A social pariah, probably.

You're rather stuck with it, aren't you? Do you even know where it's coming from?

[coherer]

Yeah fair lmfao

ppl were suggesting a few sources, and the most credible one rn is that it's a curse???

Like idek how that even happens. We don't have curses back home, I'm flying blind here.

[zauneyete]

Curses are the kinds of things that back-alley fortune tellers promise in exchange for coin.

As far as I know, it's a scam. You're guess on how to deal with it is probably as good as mine.

[coherer]

Ah, a fellow non-believer.

I think we're in for a rough time here, man. Like I didn't think half this stuff was real before, but I'm starting to expect weird crap now.

[zauneyete]

So I've started to figure out.

I've been checking out the libraries, and it's filled with occult nonsense. Then there's the whole "soul forging", and other nonsense.

Leaves us at quite the disadvantage, being from a "normal" place.

[ lol. lmao. Zaun being normal. ]

[coherer]

Man, we almost GOT forged.

If we didn't mutiny or whatever in the storm and reach Stygia, we'd be somebody's beer stein or smth right about now.

[zauneyete]

A fact I have not forgotten.

It does little to change the fact that we are still out of our depth, boy. We have to learn to be adaptive.

[coherer]

ik ik I'm commiserating more than making a statement.

Have you been doing stuff for work? The theatre's p cool, you should swing by sometime to check it out. Everyone likes movies.

[zauneyete]

[ Jonas, be prepared for this: ]

I saw those mentioned on the notice board.

What IS a movie? Is it like a play? People tend to like those topside.

[coherer]

omg Mr Silco😭😭😭😭😭😭

yk the camera/picture option we have on the phones rn?? Well, it's like that but ppl just take a ton of several long, moving photos of people acting, totally just like in a play. And all edited together it becomes a movie or a show. They used to call them "motion pictures" if that helps any.

tbh don't even worry about my crappy explanation, just leave everything to me, man. We'll get you sorted out ASAP.

[zauneyete]

It sounds interesting, at least.

I'm not sure this is truly my... "speed".

[ Silco doesn't know the meaning of "being entertained", Jonas. You got an uphill battle my dude. ]

[coherer]

You're not sure bc you've never tried it. Truuuuust me, there's a movie for everyone.

Literally everyone.

[zauneyete]

[ Show him like Citizen Kane or something ]

You'll understand the skepticism?

I'll look forward to being convinced otherwise.

[coherer]

(silco's version of "rosebud" is the ashtray and #1 dad mug jinx doodled on)

You're on haha, I'll even hit you up later with free tix or smth.

[zauneyete]

[ Nobody Can Ever Know ]

Right. I'll look forward to seeing what you think is "my" kind of "movie".