[Rennuid will eventually stumble out of Elsword's house or the Shop or wherever he be, to Leon and Karte huffing loudly and generally being melancholy. If he paid attention to them at all previously when Add was here the first time around, he'll probably remember that they're normally playing together, as Leon tends to be very affectionate. Sometimes Leon carries the robot snake in his mouth like a baby, dwbi.
Today that's not happening, Leon sometimes swings his big head between the house by the river and the inn and huffs... the animals are having a secret artifact conversation definitely, with lots of robot beeps and lion noises.]
An important fact about Rennuid Tathviel is that he is Too Curious, and will often ignore common sense to do shit.
Common sense like very well knowing animals chattering to each other isn't often really his business, and if it was MEANT to be his business, he would have been gifted with a natural affinity for understanding the voices of nature like several people in his immediate family had been.
Fucking around with things that aren't his business has objectively ruined tens of lives. He knows this. Objectively.
....
Rennuid looks left, then right, sees the coast is clear... then takes three fresh red flower petals out from the sash at his waist, twists them together into a ball until the life inside them has dampened his fingers, and quietly speaks some Forbidden Words under his breath.
The spell waits, invisible, at his fingertips. At this point, it is too late. Somebody is about to have some Forbidden hidden knowledge.
....
He lightly touches his adam's apple, and for the next hour, will know all words, he hears. ]
—pulling on his hair, putting sticks in it... I even took one his little dirt-jars and put it over by that plant! He didn't even look for it!
Have you had any luck with Elsword? His hair is too short for pulling and he's too big for me anyway... I was going to try the other night, but he was sleepy and the window-hole wasn't big enough for both of us. How do you do that doorknob trick again?
[the little dragon is flapping its wings around animatedly during all this... to anyone else, it just sounds like a lot of weird hissing and whirring.]
TALKING talking. Rennuid continues.. studiously rolling the no-longer-magically-significant petal ball between his fingers until it breaks down to little bits..... play it cool and not like you're eavesdropping now, rennuid ]
[Leon is dumb as a brick just like his dad. But he'll demonstrate a sitting on his hind paws, bringing his forepaws up, and rotating them around something sort of motion. This would likely not work if he wasn't huge.]
He won't say anything. All he does is frown. I tried to drag him out of the house by the scruff, but when he realised where we were going, he flew off.
[Karte lands onto the outstretched paw, curling a tail around the forearm so it can hang upsidedown over the pads. It puts its own little claws down for comparison.]
... too big! When are mine going to get bigger? [Bad news for Karte, its already fully grown. Leon is just built different.] If I was as big as Master Denif, then I could carry them both all by myself! But then I wouldn't be able to fit on the good shoulder spot...
[a contemplative hsss, truly a most serious topic of debate.]
Nevermind. We will try... the third plan! Maybe, if we both pick up Add, he is a light human so he will not be able to fly away.
[Leon's paws wind up on the ground again as soon as Karte is done with him. He does not know all the answers. Karte is a dragon, so dragons grow more... that's how that works, right? Looks... at Denif... okay maybe not—]
He can't even shove me off of him if I want to lay on him, so that might work. We can drag him into the house. We just have to make sure the biting plants don't get him. And we have to make sure the door is open before, otherwise he might run while I open it. Maybe Elsword's housemates will leave it open.
[Rennuid if you're listening, that's you! Maybe there's a different way that doesn't involve "the front door is open" though.]
Doors!! It's always the doors! [its little tail is crackling with electricity as it coils around itself. doors.... truly the WORST human invention, a wall that moves but is too big and complicated for paws and tails to deal with.]
If we can make it to the house then maybe they will see Add and open it for him... but Add's door-lock is trouble. Maybe... you get Add to let you inside, and then, sneak attack!
If there are biting plants in the way, can you jump really really high? Then the plants can't bite because you will be too far away... oh! I made a window hole! Can you jump to a window hole? I can make it bigger, put soft things on the other side.
[ unfortunately for rennuid, he is not currently quietly bemoaning property damage in Carseve to himself in front of the two cute, secretly diabolical????? critters he is observing. He is speaking Creature.
The spider currently slipping down a strand of silk beside him says in a tiny voice, ]
[Leon is backing up and wiggling his butt like he's going to show Karte just how high he can jump (it will not be high enough to get Add out of danger, nor to not jostle him) when Rennuid speaks. Immediately, his ears swivel around.
He is speaking Creature.]
Oh, look, it's Rennuid! He can open the door for us when we kidnap Add!
[Karte also stares directly at Rennuid with it's little glowing robot visor, target sighted—]
Yes! He will see Add, and he will think, oh! He is here to see Elsword! I will open the big door for him now! [and not something like "why is Leon dragging Add across the grove by his shirt kicking and screaming"...
but then Rennuid starts making sounds at them. Karte seems to actually pause at this, a thought entering its tiny robot-lizard brain...]
Oh. Rennuid says he cannot. Is there someone else we can trick?
[Said as if Rennuid isn't standing Right There and Leon isn't currently Making Eye Contact With Him.]
He just has to be convinced. They need to talk to each other... but if he won't, Felicity might be able to do it. She seems good at kidnapping people and locking them in rooms so that they talk!
[Head tilt... look at Elsword also not talking to his housemates apparently—]
Not since after Add came back. They fought. And now they're not speaking to each other. We can't get them to meet up again, which is why kidnapping is happening.
Wait, wait. [Karte flies up between the two of them, waving its wings.] Something is strange here.
[looking at Rennuid again... going UP to Rennuid, circling the Rennuid, perching upon the Rennuid's shoulder, analyzing the Rennuid]
You... last time, when I wanted the good scritches, you did not give me any scritches! I asked very nicely! Why would you do that, if you can understand artifact words? Did you withhold scritches on purpose??
[sorry but this is important, the addsword divorce arc can wait 2 minutes]
just like rennuid is doing his best at these skritches. he's still getting used to... animals tolerating his presence... but he does have enough wherewithal to pay attention to what Karte's eyes are doing, and which way it happens to lean into...
Though if Karte leans too hard his arm will get pushed around. ]
Uh... is that...
[ actually, the dragon will... say when at some point, right.......? ]
[Several of their party members have rancid vibes so honestly, there's little Rennuid could do to scare them off with vibes alone. Karte doesn't care as long as it gets the attention it wants. Even Ain gives the good scritches sometimes...
it is leaning into his hand, which makes Good Scritches™ more challenging. luckily, Karte is a benevolent and noble beast who will accept all scritches regardless of their quality. It makes a whirring, motor-like noise from deep in its throat.]
Move more up! Yes, yes, right in that spot... next, the more down part. A little more— yes, there, right there.
[the scritch machine is running low but Karte is still going strong, hungry for more....... until Leon speaks up again and it perks back to attention.]
Oh! Right! The plan! [it flaps its wings excitedly, sorry if one of those thwacks the back of Rennuid's head] Rennuid! You will help with the plan! You will ask Felicity to open the door so we can put Add inside! Then, they will have to talk to each other!
[Rennuid will be able to get up to the border of the fog, but no further than that. The green lights flicker and flash, then stop when he approaches, merely staying "on" as it were.]
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animal hours
Today that's not happening, Leon sometimes swings his big head between the house by the river and the inn and huffs... the animals are having a secret artifact conversation definitely, with lots of robot beeps and lion noises.]
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An important fact about Rennuid Tathviel is that he is Too Curious, and will often ignore common sense to do shit.
Common sense like very well knowing animals chattering to each other isn't often really his business, and if it was MEANT to be his business, he would have been gifted with a natural affinity for understanding the voices of nature like several people in his immediate family had been.
Fucking around with things that aren't his business has objectively ruined tens of lives. He knows this. Objectively.
....
Rennuid looks left, then right, sees the coast is clear... then takes three fresh red flower petals out from the sash at his waist, twists them together into a ball until the life inside them has dampened his fingers, and quietly speaks some Forbidden Words under his breath.
The spell waits, invisible, at his fingertips. At this point, it is too late. Somebody is about to have some Forbidden hidden knowledge.
....
He lightly touches his adam's apple, and for the next hour, will know all words, he hears. ]
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Have you had any luck with Elsword? His hair is too short for pulling and he's too big for me anyway... I was going to try the other night, but he was sleepy and the window-hole wasn't big enough for both of us. How do you do that doorknob trick again?
[the little dragon is flapping its wings around animatedly during all this... to anyone else, it just sounds like a lot of weird hissing and whirring.]
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TALKING talking. Rennuid continues.. studiously rolling the no-longer-magically-significant petal ball between his fingers until it breaks down to little bits..... play it cool and not like you're eavesdropping now, rennuid ]
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[Leon is dumb as a brick just like his dad. But he'll demonstrate a sitting on his hind paws, bringing his forepaws up, and rotating them around something sort of motion. This would likely not work if he wasn't huge.]
He won't say anything. All he does is frown. I tried to drag him out of the house by the scruff, but when he realised where we were going, he flew off.
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... too big! When are mine going to get bigger? [Bad news for Karte, its already fully grown. Leon is just built different.] If I was as big as Master Denif, then I could carry them both all by myself! But then I wouldn't be able to fit on the good shoulder spot...
[a contemplative hsss, truly a most serious topic of debate.]
Nevermind. We will try... the third plan! Maybe, if we both pick up Add, he is a light human so he will not be able to fly away.
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He can't even shove me off of him if I want to lay on him, so that might work. We can drag him into the house. We just have to make sure the biting plants don't get him. And we have to make sure the door is open before, otherwise he might run while I open it. Maybe Elsword's housemates will leave it open.
[Rennuid if you're listening, that's you! Maybe there's a different way that doesn't involve "the front door is open" though.]
I wish they weren't both so stubborn.
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If we can make it to the house then maybe they will see Add and open it for him... but Add's door-lock is trouble. Maybe... you get Add to let you inside, and then, sneak attack!
If there are biting plants in the way, can you jump really really high? Then the plants can't bite because you will be too far away... oh! I made a window hole! Can you jump to a window hole? I can make it bigger, put soft things on the other side.
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[ unfortunately for rennuid, he is not currently quietly bemoaning property damage in Carseve to himself in front of the two cute, secretly diabolical????? critters he is observing. He is speaking Creature.
The spider currently slipping down a strand of silk beside him says in a tiny voice, ]
It is fine. We will patch it, priest.
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He is speaking Creature.]
Oh, look, it's Rennuid! He can open the door for us when we kidnap Add!
[is that
really what we should be announcing, here,]
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Yes! He will see Add, and he will think, oh! He is here to see Elsword! I will open the big door for him now! [and not something like "why is Leon dragging Add across the grove by his shirt kicking and screaming"...
but then Rennuid starts making sounds at them. Karte seems to actually pause at this, a thought entering its tiny robot-lizard brain...]
Oh. Rennuid says he cannot. Is there someone else we can trick?
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[Said as if Rennuid isn't standing Right There and Leon isn't currently Making Eye Contact With Him.]
He just has to be convinced. They need to talk to each other... but if he won't, Felicity might be able to do it. She seems good at kidnapping people and locking them in rooms so that they talk!
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Not since after Add came back. They fought. And now they're not speaking to each other. We can't get them to meet up again, which is why kidnapping is happening.
[So. Help them with kidnapping—]
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[looking at Rennuid again... going UP to Rennuid, circling the Rennuid, perching upon the Rennuid's shoulder, analyzing the Rennuid]
You... last time, when I wanted the good scritches, you did not give me any scritches! I asked very nicely! Why would you do that, if you can understand artifact words? Did you withhold scritches on purpose??
[sorry but this is important, the addsword divorce arc can wait 2 minutes]
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I,
ah.
Um.
I-I? I cheated, this time. This time is...
special. A special occasion.
. . .
Do you... want the skritches now?
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Yes!
[do it now and you may yet be spared its draconic wrath]
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immediately gets distracted and tries to eat a leaf.]
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just like rennuid is doing his best at these skritches. he's still getting used to... animals tolerating his presence... but he does have enough wherewithal to pay attention to what Karte's eyes are doing, and which way it happens to lean into...
Though if Karte leans too hard his arm will get pushed around. ]
Uh... is that...
[ actually, the dragon will... say when at some point, right.......? ]
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it is leaning into his hand, which makes Good Scritches™ more challenging. luckily, Karte is a benevolent and noble beast who will accept all scritches regardless of their quality. It makes a whirring, motor-like noise from deep in its throat.]
Move more up! Yes, yes, right in that spot... next, the more down part. A little more— yes, there, right there.
[
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but he follows directions well!
...
okay he is definitely detectably tiring in his scritches-- ]
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Karte is getting the good scritches and Leon has a salad and whoa hey they were talking about something—]
So are you in or are you out for kidnapping?
[Licking his chops... that was a good leef]
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Oh! Right! The plan! [it flaps its wings excitedly, sorry if one of those thwacks the back of Rennuid's head] Rennuid! You will help with the plan! You will ask Felicity to open the door so we can put Add inside! Then, they will have to talk to each other!
2AM.
Re: 2AM.
<--- absolutely following that ]
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...
It'll really help them?
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[they rubbed their two briancells together and came up with "literally throw one of the boys at the other and it'll work out somehow"]
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[They are going to commence with the kidnapping. Somehow.]
It won't go wrong at all.
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