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[sythyry]

Woe for Real-Eel, cont. [15 Chirreb 4261]

So, of course, I introduced Real-Eel to Vae.

Me:"Vae, this is Real-Eel, who is a friend of mine from ... from ... "

Real-Eel:"Havune."

Me:"Right, Havune. Real-Eel, this exceedingly dangerous pig is Vae -- that's Vaisessasilmin, the nendrai."

Real-Eel:"How do you do?"

Vae:"It's the tailtouch, mainly, though it's clawing and biting I'll do for the little things, and for practice, like. How do you do?"

Real-Eel:"Um ... what?"

Me:"Tell her how you terrorize cities and perform horrible wickednesses on great prime heroes!"

Real-Eel:"Oh -- I do that with my cooking. My piffish noodles, especially."

Vae:"What are piffish noodles?"

Me:"What are piffish noodles?"

Real-Eel:"Round noodles, cooked with powdered fish and powdered chilis and powdered sugar and powdered biscuits and powdered cumin and powdered mushrooms and powdered spice cookies and powdered apples."

Me:"That sounds very dangerous. Why do you make it?"

Real-Eel:"The first time? Everything powdered that I had in the pantry, on noodles. It was good! Sort of! So now I make it now and again."

Vae said nothing, but looked very confused and a bit hurt.

Me:"What's wrong?"

Vae:"Just the wish on me for things I can't have."

Real-Eel:"Well, I can make you some, if you'd like."

Vae:"That'd be a kindness and a half!"

Me:"R-E!"

Comments

[stryck.livejournal.com]

Sounds like dangerous food to me.

But I can't really comment to much- I've done similar, myself.

[striderhlc.livejournal.com]

In college, I believe my friends eventually learned that they could make fajitas out of anything.

- HC

[galis.livejournal.com]

Squirrels?

[yotogi.livejournal.com]

With the right amount of hot sauce, you'd be surprised what you can force down.

[vernononfm.livejournal.com]

I don't know.. There are some things I know I'd never be able to force down. Fire, for one. Poison, for another. These things won't surprise me. There are, I guess, some things I could 'force down' because I could not recognize them for the foul things they are.. Though I'd likely set your fur on fire for tricking me into it. :P

[terrycloth.livejournal.com]

Spoiling a nendrai is never a good idea! Hasn't she read Charlie and the Chocolate Factory?

[yotogi.livejournal.com]

No tricks necessary. Believe me, you get hungry enough on your own, you'll lower your standards.

[tuftears.livejournal.com]

There are Nendrai in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory?! };)

[terrycloth.livejournal.com]

Willie Wonka might as well be one...

[gavinfox.livejournal.com]

Wouldn't Willie Wonka be more of a Bonstable?

[striderhlc.livejournal.com]

Willie Wonka is clearly a supervillian.

I mean, look. He's got an underground fortress filled with bizarre and powerful inventions, staffed by a slave race. What more do you want?

- HC

[terrycloth.livejournal.com]

No, because:
(a) His chocolate company was a success.
(b) He wasn't nearly lecherous enough.
(c) He never pretended to be anything but himself. While a nendrai *might* pretend, that's a bonstable's main schtick.
(d) His factory was full of impossible acts that could only be done through magic. Bonstables aren't especially good at magic.
(e) Most of the children he lured in were eliminated through mutoc effects -- turning into a blueberry, teleporting and shrinking, becoming lighter than air and floating up into a fan. Making squirrels sort nuts and/or toss people down a garbage chute could be done with Mutoc Mentador.
(f) The Great Glass Elevator: Which powerful monster has Sythyry recently related as having a tendency to drag people up hundreds of miles into the air on a routine basis?

[gavinfox.livejournal.com]

Okay, Okay... I actually thought nendrai would probably be better, but I wanted to see everyone's response.

*pause*

Say... Sythyry. Does your society have anything that resembles Chocolate or the Cocoa bean?

*thinks a bit* Wow. How do I explain chocolate to someone who may never have heard of it... uhm... a little help here?

[stryck.livejournal.com]

Chocolate: the essence of a certain vegetable that is highly desired when combined with sugar.

I have no idea how to describe its taste, really, not knowing what World Tree things taste like. I don't know what to compare it to. But I can say that chocolate has been considered a sacred drink by at least one culture, and that it causes people to feel better (emotionally) who eat it.

[gavinfox.livejournal.com]

Its also a mild aphrodesiac, and has become a symbol of love. In one of its most popular forms, it is a cream that can be molded into lots of shapes. It is made from the cocoa bean and lots of sweeteners. Uhm, it melts in your mouth, which is really incredible. It is a mild stimulant. Mostly it has things in it that your brain sees as pleasurable, in some cases the same type of thing made naturally by your brain to experience pleasure. Its not strong enough to really be a drug though -- nothing compared to wenezza, from what I've read of your pleasure drugs...

[niss-the-ai.livejournal.com]

Wonka is, in fact, a villain. He's a lonely old man who lures children to his castle with promises of candy, then kills them for moral faults like excessive gum-chewing. I hear the recent movie version was meant to have Wonka look like a certain shapeshifting musician.

You know, Sythyry never reminded Vae about that _other_ obscure village zie hasn't been to.