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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[coherer]

Wow, the curse is sentient now. Greeaaat.

What would I have to do? Like would I have to track down the old lady and tell her to cut it out or smth?

[fallingsand]

Apologizing to her might help but I don't know. You might have to lift it some other way.

Have you tried checking the library they got here for weird blood smell curses?

[coherer]

No, I tried to search it up on their super limited internet just now but didn't get any hits.

(first he gets cursed to smell like blood and now he has to READ?

ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh—)

I was kinda putting off the library thing. A really enthusiastic romance movie person said they remembered a useful author to look into. ig I should go do that, but I'm gonna wait till I feel a bit better before heading out.

wyd?

(trying to procrastinate in real time)

[fallingsand]

You want to not smell like blood but you're also going to put off finding a way to fix smelling like blood? Do you just not like libraries? If you want help, I'll go along with to look.

[ And then spend an obnoxious amount of time perusing whatever romance novel section they have there but that's the price of his help, sorry. ]

wyd???

[coherer]

(he thinks about d and his suggestion to bring someone along to the library, then wonders if bruno would still be comfortable offering if he was aware of the dangers involved.

it's his responsibility now to notify him.)

ik it's putting it off, but I'm actually not great between having this chest cold and the whole blood thing making me nauseous. Walking there would also be dangerous since apparently I'm gonna attract the unwanted attention of predators according to like 4 different ppl.

wyd just means what you doing/what are you up to. By asking, I just kinda want to talk about smth normal, but it's cool if that's too weird rn with everything else going on.

[fallingsand]

[ Oh. Those are both very good reasons for not going, actually. There's a pause as Bruno reads the reply over a second time and then, ]

Sorry. I didn't think of that. How about I go look for you instead? I'd be fine.

[ He's ignoring his own ongoing cough. It isn't particularly bad, so why worry? ]

I'm not doing anything interesting, I guess? The chapel's roof has started leaking after the latest storm so I had to find stuff to catch the water with.

I also think I need a lock on the doors? People keep wandering in.

[coherer]

Seriously?

If you happen to be going or whatever I just need the one book. Even just a picture taken of the relevant cure if there's even one in there would do it. That's if you're already going though bc if not dw about it, seriously, I can go in a little while.😴😴

That sounds like a lot of work RE: the chapel. I wonder if they think it's just any old church they can go pray in.

Maybe you could put a sign up that says like "closed for repairs" and when you want visitors put up a "chapel open on Sunday from 1-2pm" hahahaha

[fallingsand]

[ He hadn't been planning on it but now he is, does that count? ]

Yeah, sure, was already going, it's fine. Just rest up, okay?

I'm not sure anyone would respect a sign but that would be a funny idea. Would probably need to have it open all Sunday to be proper about it but most folks have only been curious about it over wanting to pray. Not sure why.

A theatre sounds a lot more interesting.

[coherer]

Okay. tysm Mr. Madrigal, I owe you one.😭😭

That's weird, I thought ppl would only visit a church to do church things in it, but what do ik? You're right, though, the theatre is surprisingly cool, but they have the worst movies ever playing so hardly anyone goes. I wanna change that.

I'll occupy ppl so they don't wander out bored to look at your temp. home LOL

What's your favourite genre??

[fallingsand]

Drama! Or romance? Or both? I don't know, actually. I've never seen a real movie in person, only snippets here and there in visions, so I know ABOUT them, but
I mean
My village didn't even have electricity so yeah.

[coherer]

That's 3 hits for romance, I am sensing a trend here. dw though bc Assana recommended the theatre play the best romance movie possibly ever. We are all in luck.

I'm shocked they even have earth movies here. idk why, it just seems weird.

What's visions, like a local newspaper?

[fallingsand]

No, it's like a thing
well
You know what, ask next time you see me in person?

There's a best romance movie? Which is it? What's it about?

[coherer]

Adding a reminder on my phone to ask about visions in the near future. bc this is so cryptic I'm going to think about this 24/7.😂😂😂😂

The best romance movie of all time is Pride and Prejudice. Like no contest. It's about this chick who meets this dude and they're super rude to each other, but he's actually crazy in love with her and has to clench his fists or whatever every time she's around bc he's so repressed. They've gotta get over their pride and prejudice to hook up and stuff, it's great.

Also I am super into Keira Knightley the main actress.......😳 You'll love it, trust me on this one.

[fallingsand]

you can add reminders on this thing?

[ He knows so little, Jonas, so little. More importantly, though, ]

That sounds
AMAZING
When are you going to play it at the theater? Soon? Soonish? When you're not smelling like blood?

[coherer]

Also adding a reminder to show you the many many cool things a smartphone can be used for.😉

Putting a pin in that, I'm sensing a liiiiittle bit of excitement/enthusiasm here lol. I'm glad you're gonna stop by, you're gonna lose your mind. I'll be back to my regular part-time hours when this all gets sorted out.

We should get a little group together to go to the first showing. That'd be cool.

[fallingsand]

I think I've been doing alright for someone who never even had electricity before, okay?
A group sounds like it'd be fun.
If you don't mind some weird old guy tagging along.

[coherer]

You really are. tbh a few of you guys have shocked me with how fast you've adapted to all this stuff. Kudos to you all.

"Weird old guy" really isn't as impactful as it was back on Earth. Like before? No, I wouldn't be caught dead with you, probably. It's a teenager thing. But now, we're all dead and I don't care anymore. So if you wanna go and I wanna go, then we should go.

LOGIC

[fallingsand]

You could tell me if you didn't want me along, though.
I would get it.

[ It's what's normal. ]

But I'll be pretty happy to finally see an actual movie in-person.
They seem really exciting!

[coherer]

How about this: I'll tell you straight if I don't want you to come along. Cool? Like if I'm on a hot date or smth, or someone just wants it to be The Youth lol

This is the opportunity of a lifetime anyway. You HAVE to come. It's mandatory. tbh it's kind of a selfish reason bc I really want to see you freak out about your first time seeing one.😂

(AT LEAST HE'S HONEST)