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]

[ 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?