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RESPITE STREETS - AFTERNOON
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Strix occasionally delved into a long bout of creation, and inventiveness, vanishing into his work, and now the kobold was back with the results. They were setting up their little stall, and laying out their wears, including their latest addition. Which appears to be a cake. It was labeled 'Limitless Cake', and he seemed fairly proud of this one! Waiting around for anyone to show an interest in it, so presumably he can ramble about it.
Jennica is walking about the marketplace, dressed in her usual overalls. She's even gotten kind of confident about the changed scaly tail... sort of. And good about the social courage trinket she made... sort of, it did backfire once or twice. But that's not our point! She's brave and out there and not hiding her own stall behind her girlfriend, so it's all good!
Jennica walks closer to Strix's stall, curious about the kobold she has not seen in a while.
Strix: "Jenn! Jenn!" They wave over "Have new shinies!" They gesture at the cake "It's a cake that you can eat FOREVER"
Jennica blinks several times and at least attempts to not look excited at this concept: "Cake... I like cake? Maybe more than making it than eating it, but... wait, forever? Oh and hi Strix." She blinks again: "...pretty sure that's not how I meant to say all that. Uh, hi?"
Strix: "Yes! Yes" They point to a button on the baseplate "You eat the cake, then press the button, and the cake cakes again!"
Strix: "Jennica looking good again. Not as koboldy, which is shame, but good!"
Jennica pauses to admire at the... well, cake. "Huh. That's pretty neat. How did you do that?" She then blushes at the second question: "The antidote worked. I'm, uh me." She glances at her stubby scaly tail: "Well, the bits that matter I guess. Or so Emmeline keeps telling me."
Strix: "Jennica always Jennica. Even when Kobold" They flap their hand "Yes. Cake recaking basic temporal mechanics. Has bonus that cake not make you fat. Has problems if left too long, but solvedish"
Jennica pauses, tempted by the cake: "...what kind of problems?"
Strix: "Well. When Cake Eaten, cake bits like...do food things, and go into the body and do..like...body building things? Undoing all that makes badness"
Jennica blinks a couple of times as she parses the Strix-ese: "Oh. It like... not good for guts for long? I suppose too much cake normally does that too..."
Strix: "No, is fiine if eat too much, bad if eat, then not press button..and then press button after long time"
Jennica ahh's, nodding: "Ooo, yeah. Okay, got it." She blinks at the plate, imagining less-savoury things: "Where uh... where's the 'new cake' come from?"
Strix: "Is old cake! Make Cake go back to start!"
Jennica turns a bit green at that: "Oh. Oh."
Strix: "Is fine. Very clean"
Jennica: "I'll... take your word for it. I'm sure it's perfect."
Strix: "Very Perfect!" They nod confidently "Strix making lots of shinies. Sort of worked for the koboldy potion. Think have it working..ish?"
Strix: "Not sure. Trying to make like..shiny that picks list"
Jennica glances at her tail, then gives a hesitant nod: "It... yeah, I mean, it did make me healthy, right?" She hums: "What kind of shiny do you have in mind next?"
Strix: "Not sure! Haven't made it yet! Any ideas?"
Jennica shrugs, lifting a small metal sphere in her hand as she does: "Not really. I've just been perfecting my social courage trinket. It like makes you more forward, able to voice your ideas..." She pauses, frowning: "A-although one time Emmeline tells me I had too much to drink and ended up suggesting improvement ideas to a mailbox." She blushes brightly as she looks aside.
Strix: "Hmm...." There's a pause "Maybe like..two boxes. You put a letter in one box, and it comes out the other?"
Jennica blinks and pauses mid-blush: "...whuh? You think you could do that?"
Strix: "Uh..maybe? Just think it neat idea"
Jennica shrugs with a smile, though the stubborn blush fails to go away: "Y-yeah, it kinda really is. No idea how you'd do that, though."
Strix: "No idea! Strix not thought of solution yet"
Strix: "Why Blushing though?"
Jennica shakes her head quickly: "N-nevermind. It was nothing. And I'm sure you'll find a solution, yeah?"
Strix: "Strix pretty sure not nothing, but okay! Strix will believe you, and..uh..maybe? Strix might not find solution, or get bored, or do something else"
Jennica giggles: "Sounds about what I usually do. Just pick up like a piece of metal and start doing something? Something usually comes of it."
Strix: "Exactly! Or other stuff!" They lift up a small machine with a load of switches, all surrounding a single cup "Like this! It's the changey movey potiony machine...ah..name pending. Also..testing..uh..testy?" They pause "Meant to make potion thing that changes up a body"
Jennica blinks a couple of times and at least tries to not show her hesitation about any change-y potions: "Oh. That sounds pretty neat... uh, what kind of change we talking about here, though?"
Strix: "Uh...lets see, gender, height, colour of bits...trying to see if make different types of person, but that bit harder to do"
Jennica hums: "Yeah, it's a tricky one... good luck, I guess?"
Strix: "Yes, very hard. Have the Gendery and coloury stuff done. That stuff easy"
Jennica smiles, then pauses: "Wait, that's easy? Actually, yeah... maybe it is. Not that I have tried..."
Strix: "Uh, easier than making kobold into rabbit"
Jennica: "Oh. Okay, then."
Strix: "Tried those bits on Strix. Was interesting"
Jennica tilts her head, looking at Strix: "You don't look all that different?"
Strix: "Well, wore off. Doesn't last that long"
Jennica: "Oh. Of course. Derf."
Strix: "Strix could try being blue. Blue was fun"
Jennica looks down at herself, imagining blue on her fur: "I uh, will pass. But maybe it'll look good on you?"
Strix: "Well. Kobolds can be lots of colours. Yes!"
Strix: "Maybe Jennica could try being..uh..black and white?"
Jennica tilts her head slightly: "Black and white...? That sounds odd."
Strix: "Think that colour set cows can be?"
Jennica pauses, then shakes her head: "None that I know. Maybe?"
Strix: "Huh. Well, Strix could put in lots of colours is main point"]
Jennica nods absently: "It is a good point."
Strix: "Strix also sure that probably no side effect"
Jennica: "How sure?"
Strix: "Uh....."
Strix: "66%?"
Jennica shrugs with a smile: "Reasonable enough."
Strix: "Yes! Strix think that reasonable low chance for shiny still in development"
Jennica: "You'll get there. Like, I guess I have it easy, doing trinkets that mostly affect mood and emotion and non-visible things, yeah?"
Strix: "Strix plan big, fail big"
Jennica giggles: "Sounds fair to me!"
Strix: "Yes! Yes! Strix look forward to Jennica's Shiny"
Jennica: "We have to keep each other updated on shiny progress, it's only fair like that."
Strix: "Exactly! Gotta work together!"
Jennica smiles brightly, the blush now gone: "Oh, yeah. We can reach the sky... or maybe not sky, but like below-sky, if we work together?"
Strix: "Strix thinks we could reach sky too!"
Jennica hums, then shrugs: "Well, maybe. One step at a time."
Strix: "One giiaaaant step"
Jennica giggles: "Well, relatively speaking, right? Neither of us is that big."
Strix: "Hmm. Make extra height..but then..would need way to find extra mass"
Strix has been distracted
Jennica shakes her head: "No idea. But hey, I uh... gotta go, Em needs lunch too, yeah? Be seeing you around."
Strix: "Yeah! Sure! Good.."
Strix: "Hmm...Maybe get extra mass from cake?"
Jennica glances at the cake, tries again to not look green, then slowly nods: "Yeah, uh... that could work?" She makes a mental note to make cake later, just to balance things later.
Strix: "Yes! Yes! Buhbye!"
Jennica waves at the kobold, her mind going several directions at once as she walks away and attempts to figure out the mystery of the right kind of cake for tonight. Important things.