TWO | [video] | This may not have been a bright idea

[bountyofthesun]

[Hate to tell you this, Vatheon, but your Japanese Great Unifier isn't looking so good. In fact, Hideyoshi looks all sorts of pale, queasy and glassy-eyed miserable, sitting cross-legged on his big fancy bed with the cover pulled over his head. And no thought bubble over him, either. The situation seems rather obvious.

It's been more than two weeks, and someone hasn't gotten around to touching the great coral yet.

He gives the SFC a vaguely resentful look, then sighs and shakes his head, matted hair getting all sorts of rumpled under the blanket.]


No free lunch. I knew it, I just knew it...

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[video]

[bountyofthesun]

Well, what if I don't? [He shuts his eyes tightly and rubs them with a fist. Ugh.] Do I die? Right now?

Text.

[warrior_king]

I am told that one will fall into a long, deep slumber. I hope I do not need to tell you how akin to death that would be.

I understand your mistrust completely. However, it is ill placed.

If you value living, you should go. And if you cannot, I will take you there myself.

[video]

[bountyofthesun]

Ah. Yes, that... would be a little inconvenient.

And if you haven't figured out a way around it, it's safe to say no one else has, hm? [He still looks deeply unhappy with the prospect.] I can go, I can go. You stay indoors and away from bubbling mental temptation.

[Text.]

[warrior_king]

I do believe that those psychic images are mostly gone by now. But I thank you for your concern - the desire to feed myself is still as strong as ever.

Now go. Message me again once you have done it, and no earlier than that.

[voice]

[bountyofthesun]

[The message arrives hours later. Very late at night, in fact. But Hideyoshi does sound better.]

Well, that's done. Too late for worries now, eh...

[voice]

[warrior_king]

[Gorthan's voice is as cold as always.]

That took a while. But it speaks well of you that you were wary of this strange magic - I was the same way at first.

How are you feeling?

[voice]

[bountyofthesun]

I don't see how anyone can be anything but! If it can make your thoughts float out of your skull like this, what can't it do? [Though the hand-waving that accompanies this declaration can't be seen, it all but comes through in his tone.]

Oh, I'm all fixed now. Tired, maybe. Better get used to doing this more often, huh?