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Who: IT'S A GAME MINGLE GET IN THE VAN
Broadcast: If you want!
Action: All of it!
When: Second half of the month.

[hey everyone! how's it been going? how's medieval-fun-time-world treating you? anyone pillaged and burned anything yet? got kicked out of the castle? been planning expeditions? registered for jousting? busy angsting for the last two weeks on your ship?

this is a mingle for everybody, whether they're hiding in the volcano, out and about in the city, or up on one of those random random stations where you can get quirky souvenirs.]

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[That's okay, he's gonna get the magnetic light out. It works a little differently, and he's gonna have to explain that.

[So he just waits now, patient as can be while Asteffiel gets himself all worked out.]

[ Okay! Poorly spelled message to himself sent- and he totally didn't jump when he got his own message - time to pay attention to Hiro again-

Oh he has another light out.

wait wait this could mean- ]

... That one works differently?

Only a little. See this black part on the back of it?

[It doesn't have a stand like the rest of them. He just kind of goes over and puts it on the wall. The button is in a little different place, too.]

It sticks to metal, like the ship is made out of. It plugs in like the other ones...

[Which he demonstrates, and then turns on. But then he reaches up and unplugs the wire from the light itself.]

But it also can come unplugged. If it goes out while it's unplugged, plug it back in for a while.

So its sticky but not sticky to everything. [ totally going to press his face against the wall and see that its just.. stuck there! ]

And it... collects the power from the ship? And plugging it in refills it! Like getting luminescence from the fireflies for town lamps! They go out, you have to get more fireflies. [ ... sorta, right? ]

Yeah, pretty much!

[Same basic concept.]

Think you've got it all down?

Buttons turn them off and on, the sticking one can turn on without being plugged in. If anything happens to them, call... Hiro, on... the bishop!

[ It's the same conversation, Asteffiel shouldn't be so pleased he remembered the names properly. ]

[nodding!]

Yeah, you got it! Can you think of anything else you need?

[ Give him a moment.

Right, that box with leaves in it- ]

Fertilizer. I don't want to have to try to get new dirt on new planets [ That could provide a whole lot of other problems, like wrong kind of soil and bugs that the plants don't know how to deal with. ] but... using my old clothes would get a little smelly. And a smelly medical room isn't a good idea. ... but other fertilizers would be smellier right from the start. And I don't think I could just keep a lot of dirt on the ship?

[ ... Maybe he could. Hmmmmn. ]

... Is there a way to make a not-so-smelly lid? Or box?

A compost bin?

[He rubs his chin a little, thinking on it.]

That might take a little bit, I'm missing some of the stuff I need... But I can do it.

If you are missing something plant-like, I can probably grow it for you. [ Don't think too hard on what kind of grow he means. ]

... Maybe not wood though. But I know how to use an axe to get wood!

Nah, it's not that. Composting usually takes months or even a couple of years... But I think, if we wait until we get off this planet, I might be able to find something to speed that process up. It'll be useful for you and Hange both, since she needs fertilizers for the crops she's growing.

I know chopping up leaves and keeping them damp helps. For faster leaf-compost. I haven't been doing either because... Rotting leaf smell. But they're mostly big leaves, so they keep themselves heavy...

[ ... He's debating asking about this Hange lady because plants. ]

I could make a compost bin spliced with a humidifier... Pressurize it...

[He's kind of muttering this shit, but it's important. You've got the gears turning.]

[ .... He's not able to follow that, really. Humidifier? What? Pressurize makes a little sense, has something to do with squishing? ]

If its dark, I could put it in range of one of the sun lamps and it will heat up for better composting that way? I think that's part of why you turn the compost, so the dark is on top and it heats it better?

Yeah, it is.

[He looks so inspired.]

It'll be black, then. Thanks, this is... [he smiles, and shakes his head.]

This is gonna be a really cool project. It's gonna help a lot of people.

Tasty vegetables that aren't a goo! And medical leaves not from my head!

[ ... Yes that is just what he said. ]

... From your head?

[please show me this]

I'm pretty sure it's lungwort.

[ He rustles his hair - yep, leaf sounds - before realizing that RIGHT.

He looks like a human still.

Let him fix that. Hand from hair to that collar thing and where did the button go-

There we go now he's purple again. ]

[he jumps a little--he didn't know what to expect, but purple certainly wasn't on the list. he's staring wide-eyed, but not out of horror. he's examining him out of curiosity.]

Whoa... Wow, this is cool...

[ Purple and red! Although it's currently daytime so there's no purple spots to his hair, just faintly less red spots.

But he is pretty clearly living plants twined and shaped into something human-ish.

... and it's totally spring, and there's pollen as he tilts his head. ]

Sylvari are very unknown, I am finding...

[oh god i'm glad i don't have allergies]

Yeah, no kidding... I gotta say, I was hoping I'd get to see you out of your disguise. I mean, it's... kind of rude, sorry. But you're really cool... I've never seen anything like you.

I don't really like looking like a human either. So if you are being a little rude by not wanting to see a human, then I am being rude by not liking to look like one.

[ There, they can be rude buddies. ]

.. I haven't met human.... [ ... he forgot the word. ]

... little humans. Who are not just... short humans.

Kids?

[asteffiel you have charmed this little boy]

Yes! Those.

[ Well, he was supposed to use charm as his way to talk himself out of problems- ]

We call the newly woken up Sylvari saplings, so... little flesh races would be fleshlings. But everyone makes funny faces when I say that.

... It kind of sounds like they're monsters in a horror story.