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[treasureling]

Who: Malak
Broadcast: Fleetwide video
Action: On the planet.
When: 3/25

[ The shot shows a rich cloth, with a handful of weapons carefully arranged on it. Swords, knives, daggers: their basic designs are simple, but there is elegance to it, and elaboration in inlaid tracings along the blades, in the handles. ]

I've, ah. I've been hard at work, since we came here. I suppose it was nice to find something familiar.

It seems a shame to leave these behind, or to take them all for myself. I'm not a warrior.

Are there those in the fleet who would like any?

Comments

[video]

[ino]

[ Her eyes are totally sparkling at those knives ]

You made those? They're amazing, Malak!

video;

[proteusmoon]

So that's what you've been doing all this time?

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[forcemageure]

Have you got one weighted for throwing? I mean, besides general 'stabbing things,' I can't tell to look at them.

[ He misses his tiny fancy murderknife 8( ]

[video]

[treasureling]

Anyone can make something beautiful. These could have flaws in strength or balance.

[ They don't. But they could. ]

video;

[treasureling]

Yes.

I suppose anyone on the ship must have missed my cooking.

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[treasureling]

Yes - the two smallest. [ The larger, the harder to balance, is the general rule. He brings the camera closer. One is a dagger, two-edged, symmetrical, and the other is a knife, the blade brought to a delicate, just-barely-curved point. The knife is the better weapon, in Malak's private opinion; the metal in the dagger just didn't respond the same way. It happens, sometimes. ]

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[proteusmoon]

[ She laughs at that. ]

Even when I've ventured down here to this place, all the venison and strawberries available could not sate my appetite for your famous spinach-flavored protein cube casseroles.

[ She refrains from saying that she also missed his company. ]

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[treasureling]

Ah, but they're cooked with love.

[ Not really. He'd imagined, once in a while, that he was cooking for his girls. The rest of the time the meals were mostly cooked with the desperate search for actual flavor. ]

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[proteusmoon]

[ Truthful or not, she still thinks his ship-cooked food is actually good, considering what they have to work with. ]

My point exactly!

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[treasureling]

Do you want one of these?

[detectivewonder]

I could use a knife. Narrow, sharp cutting edge, high tensile strength?

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[proteusmoon]

[ Honestly? Yes. Goodness, yes, but she doesn't want to be greedy, so she tempers her enthusiasm as best she can, stammering only the smallest bit. ]

Oh— well, I... They are quite lovely... That is, I would be honored to call something you forged with your own hands mine... I insist of course on paying you, though... if no one else is in greater need.

[forcemageure]

[ Yeah Hawke likes that one, be...cause it's the closest to what he relied on previously. Now tell him how much they cost, serrah. In theory one doesn't let the merchant go first, but uhh it's not like he would know, currently, if twelve whatsits is equal to or less say, 15 thingamajigs. Go on, Malak, do your worst!! ]

[treasureling]

You should try it, first. To know it's right for your hand.

[treasureling]

You're in luck, since I'm all out of broad, dull and brittle ones.

[detectivewonder]

I meant compared to your stock. Something used for fine cutting work, not knife-fighting.

[forcemageure]

Oh, you're very serious about knives.

[ This isn't a complaint, it's just not something he takes into account because stabby things are for emergencies and executions apparently 8(, not day to day use. ]

I'm not averse to the idea, but if you don't mind pretending for a moment this sort of communication looks like new and baffling magic to some of us, I've no idea where you are or how to get there.

[treasureling]

Don't worry, it's new and baffling magic to me too. In fact, there isn't much magic where I come from, and I've never seen godliness do anything like this.

...I'm not that serious. I'm just used to dealing with warriors. One woman always has to have a better weapon than the next.

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[treasureling]

You don't have to pay. You can owe me a favor.

[treasureling]

Cutting what, in particular? Paper, wood, cloth?

[detectivewonder]

I'm not sure. That's why I asked for high tensile strength,

[video]

[ino]

They look fine to me! ... But I could test them out for you if you wanted. The knives, I mean.

[treasureling]

For whatever you might need, then?

[video]

[treasureling]

Oh, I know that they're perfect. But you don't.

[video]

[ino]

[ that gets a laugh ]

Then what's the worry! You said you were a blacksmith, I trust you know what you're doing.