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WHO: Noctis and the network!
WHERE: ramen shop eating noodles while typing.
WHEN: 01/31
WHAT: do you ever just accidentally find out you can now make healing potions.
WARNINGS: none so far besides an allusion to chronic pain. will update when needed.

do you ever just jam your fingers by accident and then take a sip of coke and suddenly you feel a hell of a lot better than before?

yeah, me neither up until this morning. thought it was weird, then i threw my back out while carrying something to a new office. drank vending machine gatorade while waiting to be seen and now i feel less like it'll break in half if i even twitch a muscle. still twinges, but i'm used to that.

so anyway. i think i can make healing potions out of gatorade now.

gotta say, i thought it would be cooler and more magical than "here's a gatorade, now you feel better".

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I mean I think it sounds cool
Actually sounds pretty damn useful, too
You don't have to go out of your way to buy actual healing potions or ingredients for 'em

it is cool, don't get me wrong, and it's a lot cheaper for me to buy energy drinks and turn them into potions.

i guess i just thought there'd be something more to it than that. maybe that's what i get for seeing it as an rpg mechanic for all my life.

Yeah, I can definitely see where you're coming from

Not quite the same thing but it WAS kind of a letdown for me when I basically got a summon and then I didn't have like, a cool sequence for doing it? I just had to think about it and boom there it was

it's not but that's exactly what that feels like. you get superpowers and it turns out a lot more mundane than everything you've watched or played, and you think, that's it? that's all?

a summon is still pretty cool though even without the big summoning sequence before it. that probably might be easier too, in the middle of a fight.

Yeah, Crazy Diamond's real convenient in a fight, even with a couple limitations to work around--the healing's pretty much just single target and pretty short-ranged

And, uh, the big guy isn't terribly subtle either

the convenient thing about the healing coming in energy drinks is i think i can just throw a bottle at someone and it would heal them on contact. so the range boils down to "how far i can throw it".

and i've been practicing my aim so.

crazy diamond? how not-subtle are we talking here, with a name like that?

Oh, shit, that sounds convenient as hell

Uh, "suddenly huge jacked vaguely robotic guy in weird armor" not-subtle

yeah, it is, it does make up a bit for the mundanity of the whole thing.

that would deserve the name "crazy diamond". what's he do when you summon him?

Eh, he usually just kind of hangs around until I give him an order, which I can just... think it, usually? And usually that's healing or punching things. He's damn strong and can punch really hard *really fast.*

....Could you perchance do this with hot chocolate or tea?

[Hey look, bats can do puppy eyes!]

[Oh it's the little bat guy from before!]

I actually don't know. I could try.

It would be incredible if so! Healing drinks of all kinds? That would be nothing short a miracle!

...Well, it may qualify already, but healing hot drinks is that much more incredible I should think.

[It's about the comfort of comfort beverages!]

I mean, I wouldn't call it a miracle. Didn't make the pain go away completely, just pulled it down to a manageable level.

[So it's got its limits.]

Well. I can call someone, and we can test its limits. [Varian would be so excited, Noctis is sure of it.]

Even so, that's quite remarkable. Erm...

[hold up]

Test...how precisely?

She really shouldn't comment, the guy's barely more than an acquaintance and it's really none of her business anyway. Even if there was something about such blatant disregard for basic personal care that just rubbed her the wrong way. She had much bigger things to worry about now, anyway. And yet...

You realize that if you actually took proper care of yourself you wouldn't have to worry as much about twinges or throwing your back out, you know.

Willpower check: failed.

believe it or not, this is me looking after myself. i used to be much, much worse than this when i was younger.

it's just an old injury acting up, that's all.

I don't think I even want to imagine what 'much worse' would be like.

Back injury?

got into an accident when i was younger. my back hasn’t been the same since.

it’s better now, but sometimes it acts up. i’m used to it. less so the part where a gatorade brought the pain level down to something that’s manageable.

Not surprised, back injuries are especially tricky. Depending on the problem sometimes a chiropractor can help, but you have to make sure to get a good one, there's definitely still scams out there.

Is it only energy drinks that you can do that with?

i’ve got a chiropractor and a doctor already, but thanks for the tip.

i don’t know. this just happened today, it’s still sinking in.

Good, you wouldn't believe how many people who ought to know better don't think to bother with that.

She was fully aware that the 'dumb jock' stereotype existed for a reason.

I was thinking that if it works on any drink and you're planning on making a lot, bulk bottled water would probably be a lot cheaper.

i do take care of myself. most of the time at any rate.

probably. i don't know if it works on any drink, though. i'll test it out with someone and then report the results, how about that?

Pulling regular allnighters isn't usually what I'd consider taking care of yourself.

You don't need to report to me. You're probably planning on making as many as possible to bring if there's another big fight, right? Energy drinks get expensive, so if you can use something cheaper I imagine that would make it easier.

what

coke the drink not coke the drug.

[He’s deliberately misunderstanding this for a little giggle, sorry, Yuuki.]

i didnt even think of that you can do WHAT

i can make healing potions out of drinks now. just found it out today.

what the hell. thats way more useful that alchemy or whatever. i want that power!

good to see it’s exciting for you. i sort of thought there’d be more fanfare and fuss around making a healing potion, honestly. like, put this herb and that flower and grind them into a powder, that type of thing.

ngl id rather have a healing energy drink or boba than an actual potion. it probably tastes way better

might depend on the quality of the drink first. magic didn't really change the taste of the gatorade or the coke, which is kind of a missed opportunity.

idk. got so used to the rpg mechanic taking more effort that the real thing's weirdly underwhelming, but it's still a superpower. guess it can't all be as flashy as short-range teleports.

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