un: worm wife / text

[wifedup]

( There is absolutely someone out there fucking with Wen Kexing, and so if anyone mentions the state of his new name he's going to commit Attrocities. He's here for a reason ... admittedly a potential wife reason, but still! You mention being a worm one time and fate laughs at you. )

It's come to my attention we're all very demure about our own skill sets. When it comes to trying to work together that reticence might be to our detriment. Especially considering the wealth of people we have here, what if one of us is in need of a carpenter and we don't know where to go? Or a scribe, those might be handy with all the terrible meetings we have to listen to. Or a healer, even.

( A healer especially, but he is the most subtle and anyone implying otherwise needs to be quiet. )

And so, I thought it might be a good idea if we instead shared what we were good at. I can go first.

Cooking.
A pursuer of scholarly endeavours.
Passable martial arts.
Provider of wine.

If anyone needs any poetry or lessons in how not to burn water then I am certainly your man. I know these aren’t exactly the more useful of skills, but there are bound to be more capable people out there. We need to help each other in these trying times, after all.

( We also need to not be lying bastards, but oh well. )

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un: seasonailed/ text

[lonelydream]

[ the scribe function of the device certainly isn't the most intuitive, but it likewise wasn't impossible to figure out. He only had to think of how the mechanical defenses and sparrows of Longyuan Pavilion worked. ]

I'm reasonably adept at swordsmanship, am about as passable at martial arts as you are, and have some basic knowledge of herbs.

[wifedup]

( Ha. Also he really hopes Zhou Zishu didn't expect him to behave. )

You also have a face that can inspire a man to weeping for it's beauty, Ah-Xu, that's important too.

[lonelydream]

For what? Did you want me to join your legions of whores, Lao Wen?

[ not that he'd ever underestimate the amount of information brothels are capable of processing, not when prostitutes were so often his most valuable resource. ]

[wifedup]

( Man's out here trying to flirt and Zhou Zishu is just inspiring rage-worthy jealousy. )

Oh? Have you grown less lazy since our parting? That's good to know! I didn't think you knew how to put the effort in.

The girls still have to make a living, we can't have you stealing hearts everywhere you go.

[lonelydream]

Careful. Some might mistake your words to be actual antagonism. We certainly wouldn't want that.

[ Not least because anyone who tries to attack Zhou Zishu on Wen Kexing's behalf is going to get a very nasty surprise. ]

[wifedup]

Who says it's not actual antagonism?

( A beat, because they both know it isn't, it's just very fun to poke and prod. )

Aiya, you're fine. Just no selling yourself for your face alone, I don't have that much money.

[lonelydream]

I'll keep it in mind.

[ He wants to ask why Wen Kexing made the post, but he suspects it's for his benefit--both in terms of information and in their search for a healer. Not to mention, it's certainly made him very quickly aware the various functions of these devices. ]

Everyone who has responded to your notice is like us? They hail from another world?

[ and that actually reminds him. If he can see the other messages, that means they can see his too. ]

This method of information exchange isn't very secure.

private |

[wifedup]

( ...

...

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Don't look at his fight with Lan Wangji. )

I had to get one of the girls to show me how to change it, she said she's seen a few people do it. We shouldn't be noticed now.

But yes, mostly everyone with one of the pocket watches is a person like us. Though not all from China. I think it translates? It must translate, I'm not that clever. Xiao Frye is from a place called London anyway, and I've never heard of there.

Re: private |

[lonelydream]

[ too late. ]

Interesting. And yet, there are some who speak of things we are familiar with.

Lan Wangji is the brother you spoke of; your friend's brother. I see exactly what you mean when you said that you disagreed. What sect does he hail from?

[wifedup]

Gusu Lan.

It's not one I recognise.

( But then, Wen Kexing does have gaps in his knowledge of the Jianghu. He wonders if that's partly how Zhou Zishu guessed about his origin. )

Lan Wangji has been pigheaded since they day we met. We don't need him.

[lonelydream]

I don't know it.

[ Which is rather telling, because Wen Kexing may have gaps in his knowledge of the jianghu sects, but Zhou Zishu most certainly does not. ]

You say that we don't need him, but you still asked him for information. What does he know that you wanted to?

[wifedup]

Mm. I thought not. It sounds like they're from somewhere similar, but also not. They have skills we don't either. Their swords, for one. They're spiritual.

( And then. )

Does it matter?

( ( He wants only to be positive for Zhou Zishu, to be the one certain of the outcome. If Wen Kexing admits to being afraid they might not cure him then surely it means he's desperate. He doesn't want to be told he can't bring him back, if he does die. ) )

We've never seen eye to eye, it's as true as night and day.

[lonelydream]

It matters if it upsets you.

[ And if it relates to matters concerning Zhou Zishu. ]

What do you mean, spiritual?

[ Both Wen Kexing and Zhou Zishu channel their qi through their weapons when they fight; that's partly what makes Wen Kexing's fans so deadly and the Baiyi sword so unpredictable. That doesn't seem to be what Wen Kexing means, though. ]

[wifedup]

I'm not upset.

( He's ... something. He doesn't know what. Ready to drown himself in wine, maybe. Tempted to come back and cling to Zhou Zishu like a limpet? Surely. Neither feel useful, but oh he wants them. )

Ah, it has a soul? Or that's what I've been told.

[lonelydream]

But it's not malevolent?

[wifedup]

You'd have to ask them the particulars, but I don't think so? They seem very against anything nefarious so I can't imagine they'd renounce evil and then go around holding possessed weapons.

Lan Xichen does want to talk to you eventually, maybe he'll tell you.

( Even if he does joke about keeping them apart. )

[lonelydream]

I'd like to meet him.
Lao Wen, what is "worm wife" meant to be in reference to?

[wifedup]

I didn't choose it.

Wait, did you think I wanted to be known as 'abwhorent' also? Because I'm not that bad, Ah-Xu!

[lonelydream]

I don't presume to understand how your mind works.

[ Except for how he sometimes absolutely does. Zhiji. ]

But I did find it a rather unusual choice.

[wifedup]

Hm.

Yours is seasonailed. You might not have noticed. But when I find out who's choosing them I'm going to set them on fire.

( :) :) :) )

[lonelydream]

Is it? Oddly apt.

[ and far too aware of his situation for his liking. the threat is very sweet, though. thank you Lao . ]

[wifedup]

No!

There are a dozen more important things it could have used. A pun on your waist would have been better. Or even your drinking, if it had to be mocking. I won't just set them on fire, I'll forcefeed them their own entrails first.

[lonelydream]

Peace, Lao Wen. It seems as though none of these names we write under are flattering.

[wifedup]

Yours should be.

( Can you hear the pout through text, Zhou Zishu? )

[lonelydream]

Ridiculous.