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kaisou2025-01-21 09:16 am
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[treasure 8] it's black and white, this message is for you
WHO: Gilgamesh, Sampo Koski, and you
WHERE: Gemini
WHEN: endish of January
WHAT: in which Gilgamesh is only so good at waiting before his temper snaps and a few executive decisions need to be made. Payments arranged. Favors compensated. Please help.
WARNINGS: n/a
one. voice; un: AUO - to whom it may concern (and it should concern you)
[ Gil's tone is... strange. neither of his usual emotions--bored or smug--seem to be present in the tension that he speaks with, and he's trying to sound... neutral. overwhelmingly so. he is pulling a facade of calm into his voice that feels like it doesn't quite fit right. ]
I am quite tired of waiting for the pieces of a puzzle to fall into place, and so, I will see them seized for myself.
I need material ore. Whether it's tin, copper, gold, silver, tungsten, platinum, cobalt, or diamond itself--or some unknown to me magical panacea rock that exists only in an anomalous riftgate, I am in the market to purchase ore or information regarding ore.
If you know a deposit that can be pulled up, or have the means to put together a mining expedition if only you had the currency, I am paying for your services. If you need someone to keep beasts at bay while you collect the ore, I am available for the work, or I will fund your hirelings. Hook or crook, I simply need a stockpile of materials and I need it a month ago.
My. [ and that neutral, authoritative tone falters here; he takes in a breath, digs his teeth into his tongue and steadies himself again, though there's a noticeable shift and an unease in his attempt to sound like the boss of you. ] My partner has a crystal growing in his skin and the symptoms are getting worse. It glows constantly and he's lost the ability to differentiate temperature. He has a forgemaster on retainer, but they need materials to find one that can contain whatever the hell it is-- [ oops, that's an emotion, can't have those.
swallow it down. go back to neutral, even though it's cracked and his temper is beginning to show through. he's shifted to a sort of... resolved, unflinchingly firm calm. ] I will not lose him a second time. I don't care what it costs. I don't care if you think to bleed me dry. I'm available at the Auguries of Innocence during the day, and if I'm not there in the evenings, the Vogue.
[ a long pause. another slow breath. ]
I do not know what I will do if he's taken from me again. Therefore, I will not entertain the possibility. You may respond to this solicitation, or to me directly.
[ that's not a threat.
that's a promise.
a King does not break his promises.
and then, soft and so very, very tired. ]
... please.
two. action - with lightning in my heels and my heart on fire
[ and as he promised, if you have stuff to sell, Gilgamesh is outside of his teapot and ready to pull out his fancy golden wallet. he's given to the masculine urge to perch on the roof, standing on the Auguries bundled up in many, many layers of expensive winterwear because he was still born in a dry, desert climate, and this sucks, but he needs fresh air and to not be near people unless they're doing his bidding.
if you'd prefer a Vogue introduction, there's a certain particularly gothic corner of the party palace that he's sitting adjacently to, nursing a glass of wine and trying not to look like he wants to explode. the look on his face is dire--anger, concern, constipation. he's bottling things and it's fine; one day, like all proud rich and powerful men, he'll do enough cocaine about it that he'll probably explode and die. ]
three. closed to Sampo and close CR - and oh, I am so tired
[ and when he's not brooding and hovering over his phone, waiting for someone to come through with something, Gil is doing a surprisingly good job at avoiding the people who might be coming to see him just for him. he's running on a few anxious months of watching things get worse while Sampo laughs that it'll be all right, just let ol' Bladie work and then here it is.
not all right.
Sampo's skin freezing cold to the touch because he stood in an icy, unheated shower for thirty minutes, unaware that he'd forgotten to put the heat on. he's angry, he's tired, he'sscared and he's digging his teeth into his lip until he tastes blood as he runs through a hundred different contingency plans and keeps coming back around to what happens if the worst happens.
the King may have fallen apart in his grief for Enkidu
but Gilgamesh has mourned Samuel Kouvac once before, so all he has left is to get angry about it and that... feels like it won't end well for anyone.
so he does his level best to avoid the people who know him best. including Sampo. especially Sampo. ]
WHERE: Gemini
WHEN: endish of January
WHAT: in which Gilgamesh is only so good at waiting before his temper snaps and a few executive decisions need to be made. Payments arranged. Favors compensated. Please help.
WARNINGS: n/a
one. voice; un: AUO - to whom it may concern (and it should concern you)
in which a king needs to buy stuff like rocks and labor
[ Gil's tone is... strange. neither of his usual emotions--bored or smug--seem to be present in the tension that he speaks with, and he's trying to sound... neutral. overwhelmingly so. he is pulling a facade of calm into his voice that feels like it doesn't quite fit right. ]
I am quite tired of waiting for the pieces of a puzzle to fall into place, and so, I will see them seized for myself.
I need material ore. Whether it's tin, copper, gold, silver, tungsten, platinum, cobalt, or diamond itself--or some unknown to me magical panacea rock that exists only in an anomalous riftgate, I am in the market to purchase ore or information regarding ore.
If you know a deposit that can be pulled up, or have the means to put together a mining expedition if only you had the currency, I am paying for your services. If you need someone to keep beasts at bay while you collect the ore, I am available for the work, or I will fund your hirelings. Hook or crook, I simply need a stockpile of materials and I need it a month ago.
My. [ and that neutral, authoritative tone falters here; he takes in a breath, digs his teeth into his tongue and steadies himself again, though there's a noticeable shift and an unease in his attempt to sound like the boss of you. ] My partner has a crystal growing in his skin and the symptoms are getting worse. It glows constantly and he's lost the ability to differentiate temperature. He has a forgemaster on retainer, but they need materials to find one that can contain whatever the hell it is-- [ oops, that's an emotion, can't have those.
swallow it down. go back to neutral, even though it's cracked and his temper is beginning to show through. he's shifted to a sort of... resolved, unflinchingly firm calm. ] I will not lose him a second time. I don't care what it costs. I don't care if you think to bleed me dry. I'm available at the Auguries of Innocence during the day, and if I'm not there in the evenings, the Vogue.
[ a long pause. another slow breath. ]
I do not know what I will do if he's taken from me again. Therefore, I will not entertain the possibility. You may respond to this solicitation, or to me directly.
[ that's not a threat.
that's a promise.
a King does not break his promises.
and then, soft and so very, very tired. ]
... please.
two. action - with lightning in my heels and my heart on fire
cash for gold. or silver. or titanium. or rainbow magic rock.
[ and as he promised, if you have stuff to sell, Gilgamesh is outside of his teapot and ready to pull out his fancy golden wallet. he's given to the masculine urge to perch on the roof, standing on the Auguries bundled up in many, many layers of expensive winterwear because he was still born in a dry, desert climate, and this sucks, but he needs fresh air and to not be near people unless they're doing his bidding.
if you'd prefer a Vogue introduction, there's a certain particularly gothic corner of the party palace that he's sitting adjacently to, nursing a glass of wine and trying not to look like he wants to explode. the look on his face is dire--anger, concern, constipation. he's bottling things and it's fine; one day, like all proud rich and powerful men, he'll do enough cocaine about it that he'll probably explode and die. ]
three. closed to Sampo and close CR - and oh, I am so tired
when i'm alone, i fall apart
[ and when he's not brooding and hovering over his phone, waiting for someone to come through with something, Gil is doing a surprisingly good job at avoiding the people who might be coming to see him just for him. he's running on a few anxious months of watching things get worse while Sampo laughs that it'll be all right, just let ol' Bladie work and then here it is.
not all right.
Sampo's skin freezing cold to the touch because he stood in an icy, unheated shower for thirty minutes, unaware that he'd forgotten to put the heat on. he's angry, he's tired, he's
the King may have fallen apart in his grief for Enkidu
but Gilgamesh has mourned Samuel Kouvac once before, so all he has left is to get angry about it and that... feels like it won't end well for anyone.
so he does his level best to avoid the people who know him best. including Sampo. especially Sampo. ]
text; un: AUO
If your magic tongue can find a worthy receptacle for whatever thing needs to be forged, I'd see you handsomely compensated. Another person mentioned a Kanto stone as well, so it's good to hear more than one confirmation that it'll work enough as a stopgap.
voice;
That's right. We had far fewer things to choose from back then, but we knew that some of the magic stones in Kanto could make Pokemon evolve. And we also knew that there was a stone that made them... not evolve. It's not a perfect solution, but it kept things from getting worse!
I think it looked like cheese. Or like something from the moon. Lots of weird little pits in it. I'll start looking once I touch base with Varian, make sure we're not running over the same ground.
Do you... [He's not good at this emotional stuff.] Do you want me to bring anything for you or... him?
no subject
Keeping things from getting worse is a wondrous start. Buying time for figuring out how to make it better is paramount at the moment.
[ he's also not good at this emotional stuff. he has to sit and think for a long while, and then all he can come back to is... bitter, tongue in cheek jokes. ]
... it's funny, isn't it? He's the one losing sensation, and yet everything I can think of sounds dull and unappealing to me. How's that fair?
... hot chocolate. Sampo still likes his terrible hot chocolate, even if the taste is dulled.
voice;
This time, at least, he can be part of the chain that saves two friends instead of saying goodbye.]
That's because you feel for him. When you can't take away someone's suffering but you want to so badly... your heart feels sick alongside them.
[A pause.]
Yeah? Got it. You can count on me.
text -> private
[ he envies the old King and the Servants who followed; everything he remembers of them is them standing separate and proud, unaffected by the mortal scraps of their hearts. surely it would feel better not to be so... afflicted by this weakness. loneliness seems a cheap price to pay to not feel so--angry? much?
this sucks, captain. ]
I know I can. Thank you.
Though there is one more thing that I've recently thought of, if you don't mind indulging me.
[ and here Gil switches to a private filter. ]
What is something that your son would be hard-pressed to deny or refuse despite himself? He's already tried to refuse payment, and I'm in the mood to be obstinate.
private forever;
[Finally he's able to sit down, and he decides to switch to text to make it a little easier for poor Gil.]
people aren't wired to be distant and emotionless. even an island dreams of something besides endless waves. there's no shame in it
oh??? is he giving you a hard time???? he's been around me too much hahahaha
honestly i'd be fine doing this for free since i'm helping sam no matter what, but if i can put that money into something constructive like paying for the house so my boy can inherit it someday then that's also good, you know????
anyway
you know what he never turns down? scrap metal. the boy loves junk and he's good at making things with it. if you drove up with a load of scrap metal and dumped it on his doorstep (or mine, really) he'd be ECSTATIC. i've never seen someone more enthusiastic about trash except maybe the other raccoon kid i've seen on here before
private forever;
Now Sam's making the same damned mistake that took him from me the first time and I know what I stand to lose. The Kings of my memory never suffered the gods or the cruelty of fate quietly, and I gain nothing if I'm the first to stay passive.
[ because that's twice now. twice that Sampo's gone off to do something hare-brained that's supposed to bring him riches, only for it go hideously wrong. there's a 'fool me once' carved here somewhere--but 'fool me twice' isn't about shame. it's about teaching whatever wronged you just what regret tastes like. ]
Your whelp looked me in the proverbial eye and told me he was more stubborn than I was.
I don't care what you do with the money. I don't care if you need the money or don't need the money--my patience is razor thin and I will not sit in the nightmare scenario alone, hearing whispers that I could've done more, or opened my wallet a little more and then, maybe then people would've had the resources and incentive to find 'that poor missing boy'. I've already gone through having my character disparaged because I clearly didn't care enough to really look for my missing friend, and what if that meant I was the one who'd made him disappear in the first place?
Anyway.
With apologies to you in advance, as you will also be hit by the example I'm making.
... also, the other raccoon is Caleb. He's one of Sam's boys. Does your son eat cars if left alone with them for long enough?
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i may not be your favorite god puncher since you know a few by now surely, but if we do find out some god's responsible for this???
you don't have to pay me or convince me
i will unmake them.
[He can get behind the vengeance. He really can. This is a man who could have assassinated his own Maharaja if the story had been written just a little differently.]
he is pretty stubborn, but he's young. give him time to weigh his pride a bit more
i was like him once. i refused help when i needed it because i wanted to be the perfect selfless angel everyone wants me to be. i learned my lesson. if you don't take what you're offered or reach out to take what you need then everyone will just take take take from you. he's still learning what he wants from this world
also???? FUCK those people who said things like that, they didn't know shite
don't worry about it our yard has seen worse
ah right caleb!!!! that's his name. no, varian does not eat cars????? i feed him a good healthy regular diet of masala chicken and rice what the hell??????
....... does caleb need food? is he starving? i can make food and bring it to him