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wen qing ([personal profile] silverneedles) wrote in [community profile] eastbound2022-06-14 01:54 pm

[ video ] un: qishan

[ The video opens with Wen Qing, dressed in trousers and a ruffled white shirt, looking fairly annoyed. She holds up an orange. ] This is an orange. There are barrels of them in the hold. Eat them. You don't need to have one daily, but make sure you're eating one every few days.

[ She glances away, mouthing something to someone just out of video range, and then she looks back to the communication device, flipping it around. Standing there is a sailor, unwashed and grimy. He's holding up a tooth, still bloody, and grinning proudly. This isn't the first tooth he's lost; most of them are gone, and his gums are bloody. Wen Qing continues over the camera. ]

This gentleman is a fine example of what will happen should you forget to eat them. [ The "do not forget to eat them" is heavily implied. She flips the device back, still frowning. ]

As Miss Eda mentioned, the sailors seem afraid of women so none of them will listen to me about the oranges. Someone pass on the message to them.
traaaaaash: (hmmmm)

[ video ] un: owl lady

[personal profile] traaaaaash 2022-06-14 09:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Why did they even load up on oranges if they're not eating them?
techmaturgy: (pic#15745000)

un: V; voice

[personal profile] techmaturgy 2022-06-14 09:42 pm (UTC)(link)
More oranges for us.

[¯\_(ツ)_/¯]
downswing: (十)

un: absterge

[personal profile] downswing 2022-06-14 09:51 pm (UTC)(link)
( ...how is he the softest of their ilk. )


Can his sickness recover?
northerndragon: (break the silence)

[personal profile] northerndragon 2022-06-14 10:10 pm (UTC)(link)
I could tell them they are lucky to have oranges. They don’t grow where I come from; they are only traded from way down south at very great expense.
good_taste: (021)

un: Astarion | video

[personal profile] good_taste 2022-06-15 12:52 am (UTC)(link)
I've never needed them before. Why start now?
thesuspense: (and looking great doing it)

un: chengmei | voice

[personal profile] thesuspense 2022-06-15 01:15 pm (UTC)(link)
How sweet are they?
traaaaaash: (puzzled)

[personal profile] traaaaaash 2022-06-15 02:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Should we scare them into eating an orange?
eternallywandering: (牆 [wall])

[Video; UN: heavenly four seasons]

[personal profile] eternallywandering 2022-06-15 02:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you for the heads up, Healer Wen. [He doesn't need more problems and he likes his teeth where they are!] I will do what I can to pass the message around, but they are avoiding me too.

[He heard one sailor use the pleasant nickname of "corpse" for him, so there's that.]
techmaturgy: (pic#15348816)

[personal profile] techmaturgy 2022-06-15 03:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Don't worry, I'm doing my part.

[scurvy is, like, the least of his problems. but whatever]
scrapgege: (Default)

un : deft hand of little deaths (voice)

[personal profile] scrapgege 2022-06-15 03:29 pm (UTC)(link)
... I thought anyone who travels by sea for a trade knew to do that. They're not eating them?
valeas: (☾ c o n v e r s a r e)

un: starburst

[personal profile] valeas 2022-06-15 05:40 pm (UTC)(link)
You have patience to try in spite of their refusal to listen.

( Patience truly is a virtue. Emilia has been reining in her temper in favor of cultivating it. Sort of. )

If you see any oranges wasting away, will you let me know? I believe I've gathered enough ingredients to make something with them.
binghua: (29)

un: daozhang | voice

[personal profile] binghua 2022-06-15 05:45 pm (UTC)(link)
I didn't know we had oranges!

[Oh, what a treat!]
reparo: (care of magical creatures)

audio; un: man's greatest treasure

[personal profile] reparo 2022-06-15 07:25 pm (UTC)(link)
[an indignated huff] Afraid of women - what a load of superstitious nonsense! [language like that will have landed her in the brig at least once by now so hey]

I hate to think your good medical advice is going ignored.

[a pause.] Maybe we can tell them to add slices to their rum.
downswing: (tide will break)

[personal profile] downswing 2022-06-15 08:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Lend him pain remedies.

A wretched agony. Remote villagers oft suffer.
downswing: (hands off the chicken)

[personal profile] downswing 2022-06-15 09:12 pm (UTC)(link)
( ...........oh, right, we forgot tell the blind man.



O.................. oops. )
blackscales: Commission, Do Not Take! (8)

un: Black Prince; text

[personal profile] blackscales 2022-06-17 12:37 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Reptiles typically get vitamin C from their prey, but he supposes he could eat oranges too.

Still, more interestingly: ]


I've seen others mention this fear of women. A curious superstition. Where I am from, several of our Lord Admirals have been women.
weifinder: (ask | the endless of darkness)

[personal profile] weifinder 2022-06-17 10:55 pm (UTC)(link)
So we should mix their juice in with the rum? Oh, can we punch a hole into the orange and pour in some rum, then pass those around?

( he sounds musing, but really: it's sad that he's serious here. )

I've made the juice for Lan Zhan, we could try offering something like that to your fellow losing his teeth behind you. Is he... uh, otherwise healthy?
weifinder: (but... | to take a chance)

[personal profile] weifinder 2022-06-17 10:55 pm (UTC)(link)
... Martial Uncle, who's been feeding you?
binghua: (39)

[personal profile] binghua 2022-06-17 11:04 pm (UTC)(link)
[Oops.]
binghua: (15)

[personal profile] binghua 2022-06-17 11:12 pm (UTC)(link)
I take my rations with the rest of the crew. When they let me, anyway. It seems they treat me about as kindly as they treat the women.

[And then there's Xue Yang, but...well. That's its own can of weevils.]

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