un: man's greatest treasure [video]

[reparo]

Since we find ourselves in a new location, and seem to have picked up some, maybe some introductions are due. I'm Hermione Granger, and I'm from England. I'm currently assigned the role of a tax collector, it's going great. [Sarcasm.] I'm sure it'll be fine - I was a modiste in Taravast, for heaven's sake...

[Quickly, a smile! Nervous, but a smile.]

What else - oh, I'm also a witch. [Which reminds her!] I'm going to start brewing potions again, since the ground isn't being rocked from side to side by the sea and the sea monster... Supplies are limited, and alternatives to the ingredients that I normally use can be weak on the ground, so I can't brew as many as I'd like. I'd ask that we all exercise some caution and not need them as much until I can get the reserves back up.

[There is a pause, as she opens her mouth to say I also don't like being treated like a child, because-] Huh. I...don't know how old I am.

[A frown, and she seems to forget that she's recording herself now, lost in her own musings:] Let's see, it was May when I come from, but was it the same month here? [To the screen, to her audience, the question:] Does this world even work in twelve months in a year? Seasons? It was quite crisp when I woke up in Taravast for the first time, maybe autumn? [And she pales.] Oh, gods, it's been almost a year...

[A shallow inhale - I want to go back home, we just ended a war, I need to see my friends, I need to grieve my friends, I need to - and a very shaky exhale. She cuts the feed off.]

Comments

[matermali]

Haggling may not be my highest skill, but I can certainly try.

[ Vanessa has always just...paid for things as they are, how privileged! She has more experience negotiating other matters than she's giving herself credit for, however. In any case, she thinks that Hermione's strong herbal knowledge might carry them far once they get the opportunity to see what's available.

Says the proper looking Victorian lady: ]

I require some cannabis. Even some seeds will suffice, if you have anything.

1/3

[reparo]

[Rapid...rapid blinking.]

[reparo]

[Drugs? Drugs?]

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I don't...carry that, sorry.

[matermali]

[ It's ~medical~.

The reaction just leaves Vanessa smiling almost apologetically. Nothing's amiss, she's just stressed beyond reason, that's all. ]

Unfortunate. And your book offers no description of anything local that may function in its place? Even if the flora is different here, it may at least offer a clue as to what I might keep an eye out for.

It helps frayed nerves, and I am not fond of the opiates that seem to be in favor where I've checked so far.

[reparo]

[She's not going to mention that one of the captains of the ships they'd come to Serthica on had been very into opiates, because - addiction is bad, right?]

There may be other things that help with frayed nerves, like melissa or foxglove.

[matermali]

[ Vanessa would agree that addiction is bad. She doesn't smoke all that often, and she won't touch anything strong like opiates. She has no interest in losing her sense of self like that. Cannabis just helps relieve tension whenever the evils of Hell try to give her a rough night. ]

I know of them. Neither carries the effect I desire, but I will concede they are better than nothing at all. Do you have either?

(hope this is okay)

[growlies]

Woah, you smoke weed? ( Red did too. Underworld High was a bevy of drugs and shit, and the usual high school stuff. She didn't get into the harder stuff, but weed was nice.

So long as Hades didn't catch her since she was supposed to be always on duty. )

(it is perfect to me, tho now i cannot breathe from laughing)

[matermali]

On occasion, in London.

[ Red looks too young to be touching the stuff, but Vanessa knows better. Are there any actual younglings in this company? It would be best if not, and not because of the threat of...weeds. ]

I would never have considered it a weed, but I suppose that may be up for debate. Why? Have you found a local source?

(bwahaha)

[growlies]

Oh, that's one of the slang words for it in my world. Weed, pot, dope, grass, mary jane, stuff like that. I doubt they're using that slang here either though.

I haven't. Just surprised that you partake, but makes sense that you would for the reasons you said. People can get it medically prescribed too sometimes I guess, and it really helps with like pain management, cancer, seizures. Stuff like that. ( But she can probably sniff out some weed since she's smelled it before, and she's good at finding things once she has the scent for it. #Three-headed-monster-dog-things.

However, she'll take it to Vanessa's inbox since she can see Hermione's a little uncomfortable with the drug talk. )

[matermali]

[ Mary Jane? That one's the most surprising, for some reason, but she's beginning to accept that she doesn't know as much as she thought she did. ]

I will have to remember this for the future, should I overhear such...terminology.

[ Yes, to the privacy of a more direct exchange! Even Vanessa can see it made Hermione uncomfortable, though she doesn't understand the extent as to why. She has been quite spoiled by learning from an herbalist and witch who never cared about such things, and Vanessa assumed that witches who specialize in the natural craft are all cut from the same cloth. She's clearly assumed wrong! ]