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. )

Comments

[wifedup]

Ah yes, so the worlds are similar in that respect. What could be useful to the common people tends to be hoarded by those with bigger swords and vaster pockets.

( He doesn't claim to have much stock in the class divide, usually because he's too busy pretending to be the most fancy of young masters. But he has noticed it in the Jianghu, and Ghost Valley itself is not affluent. )

You mentioned your talismans, Master Wei. I think I saw you use them when we met. Are they mostly for defence?

[weifinder]

They're for anything I think up, and are generally considered beneath most righteous cultivators in my world if used more than sparingly. Silly thinking all around!

I'm more interested in problem solving and the tools that make that possible, including a number which don't need qi to trigger operation.

[wifedup]

What's been your favourite?

[weifinder]

Oh, definitely everything! Though the spirit attracting inversion was interesting, considering the whole cultivation world adopted it after my apparent death.

[wifedup]

Master Wei must certainly be famous then.

[weifinder]

More infamous for a good near two decades, apparently.

[wifedup]

Is infamy better or worse, I never know.

( Certainly Wen Kexing's alter ego is infamous in it's own right, a scary story to tell children at night and a threat, mostly. )

It would be better to live in obscurity, one imagines.

[weifinder]

Obscurity is it's own freedom. Fewer people assuming they know what you've done or are doing, more open minds, perks in my thoughts.

Also fewer terribly ugly portraits.

[wifedup]

( He has yet to encounter the ghost brochure, so he cannot commiserate over terrible portraits, woe. )

I suppose that is one of the blessings of being in a place like here. Either you have no one to speak of your past, or if you do it isn't legions. A new attempt can be made.

[weifinder]

( if only he knew the depths of terrible portraiture )

If you wish, but even in our worlds, they're large enough to accommodate differences, if you're willing to become the stranger walking an unfamiliar land.

[wifedup]

I suppose it would work if you didn't have anything to leave behind, but the alternative seems lonely.

[weifinder]

I admit it's simply nicer when there's anyone to return to.

[wifedup]

If I ever think about disappearing into obscurity then I'll most certainly keep all of this in mind.

A quiet life might be nice, as long as there is still wine, and food, and company I can stomach.

[weifinder]

Exactly! The company is important, and the food can't be ignored. It being tasty is extra nice... something with spice!

[wifedup]

Oh, yes. Xichen mentioned your clan prefers spices. He told me back in that weird little house.

Do you find the food here tolerable, or is it also lacking?

[weifinder]

Yancai was more delightful to the tongue, here there's a mix of things, but less spicy with heat, more spicy with flavour and milder things.

What of you?

[wifedup]

There are things I miss, though I think I'm adaptable. I wouldn't mind a more familiarly stocked kitchen though.

Or a kitchen at all, at least one I could call my own.

[weifinder]

It's a good thing to have, a kitchen of your own. I may be a less than considerate cook myself, but they're good places, are kitchens.

Borrowed a few, but never quite feels the same as when it's yours.

[wifedup]

At least with one's own you never have to worry someone has tampered with the spices.

( Does he mean moving them or does he mean poison, who knows! )

[weifinder]

Ahahaha, ah, we only knew better because making our sister sad would have been the worst possible thing. Not sure what any future kitchen would be like. Things to think about!

[wifedup]

Ah, the ire of a sister. Mine didn't take to cooking, I think because she had me to do it for her. Hopefully her terrible boy knows how, otherwise she'll be in for a shock.