[OPEN] girl help the trader is making him be Emotional

[succiduous]

Who: Gnosis & You!
What: Help a local bird with a Quest (2 open prompts / 1 semi-closed)
When: End of September
Where: ~Around~
Warnings: if anything comes up i'll edit!

[Gnosis has... a quest. He has it written down in his notebook, which he'll regularly consult throughout this as he seeks people out... sigh. He supposes it could be worse, but also, why would he want to talk to people? About his emotions? Gross. Ew. Get those away from him.

...

So anyway, this is going to suck.]

I. A Place You Love [OPEN]

[Gnosis figures he'll go in order of the quest items given, so first up: he's approaching with a wave of his notebook, a signal that means "hey I have something important to tell you" except the important thing is actually—]

The trader gave me a to-do list. Do you particularly mind speaking with me at length about... [he huffs, looking somewhat tired,] ...well, nothing substantial, but my laboratory back home?

[His eyes say: "Hey there's a reason for this. I don't want to do this either."]

II. A Thing You Love [OPEN]

["Things" are a lot easier to talk about than "places" for Gnosis, luckily, so this second task should be relatively easy. The next person he flags down, he does the same as the first, waving his journal around in a hey-I-need-something way. What differs from the first person he spoke to is that this time, he's holding a blade made of ice. And, after a break to explain what's going on:]

Have you heard of never-melting ice before?

[hey nerd time to talk about science]

III. A Person You Love [CLOSED for Mizuki and/or Caoimhe]

[The third thing on his list is the hardest, and it actually takes Gnosis a couple days to get to. To be frank, he's not an emotional person (outwardly) and prefers to keep everything locked down for personal reasons, so this... is difficult. Gnosis doesn't know how to begin talking about someone he cares about to someone else. It would be easier to talk about Monch, but he wouldn't say he loves Monch, just appreciated her company while he had it. He's pretty sure, from the look Ydalir gave him, that he has to very literally talk about someone he loves.

Which...

Goddess Kjeragandr, why.

So. Gnosis will drag himself out of his room now, to go seek out the people he trusts the most out of others here. The people that are easier to talk to, for one reason or another.]

Could I borrow you for a moment?

[He's not going to open with what he needs to do this time. He's still working up the will to be less closed-off to others.]

[[OOC: hii i need 3 people for qwuest, this is the one time i have to say "please don't double up on prompts" bc it has to be 3 diff people. thank u for ur time ily]]

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[amethystic]

( she's curious, not dumb!! no frostbite for this witch.

for now. future events remain unseen.

she listens with a soft hum, glancing up at gnosis not unlike one might a well-loved teacher. )

So, what keeps it from melting, then?

[succiduous]

[Listen he has to say "don't touch it" because of the amount of people he knows who would immediately try to stick it IN THEIR MOUTHS—]

It's a question I've been asking myself as well. Superstitious people would say it's a blessing from Kjeragandr. I disagree, [YOU PERSONALLY KNOW HER] and argue that the phenomenon has to do with some sort of natural wellspring of Arts. My ability to test this right now is limited, naturally, but it is theoretically possible for Arts to become frozen in time, so to speak. Thus...

[Well, it's just a theory, but it's one that makes sense, considering his own ice can persist long after a battle ends.]

[amethystic]

( felicity repeats the name slowly, cautious of the pronunciation- )

A local deity? Hm... Well, it may be a bit... lacking, compared to labs back home, but the merchants should probably be able to help get equipment. And I can basically charge batteries, if you need.

So, how'd you get it? You said an expedition but I'm curious!

( story tiiiiiime! )

[succiduous]

[me voice his module story doesn't say what the expedition was about so i guess i'm making shit up again]

Enciodes tends to do things on a whim. [Just putting that out there.] If there's something he hears about, or something he wants, or even something that he thinks may be of interest to him, he drags the rest of Karlan Trade out to find it. To that end, the expedition was planned by him and myself.

To be clear, I wished to travel to find those ice cores myself, so it isn't as though it was entirely one of his ideas, for once. [FOR ONCE.] There isn't much story to tell otherwise. We spent several hours hiking through naturally-carved tunnels in the mountainside, Weiss nearly fell to his death on several occasions, [UM], Matterhorn stopped to lecture all of us on safety shortly before Enciodes ran ahead and recklessly began climbing a cliff face...

[GNOSIS THAT'S NOT—]

As far as Enciodes and his impulses go, it's fairly par for the course. [GNOSIS?????]

[amethystic]

( felicity listens quietly, noting the names- not any that she's heard before, save enciodes, but interesting enough. she'll have to remember them for the future. for all his stoicism, gnosis speaks with a certain fondness. it's sweet. and hard not to giggle at the recollection, honestly- )

From the sounds of it, yeah. But it sounds like you enjoyed it all.

[succiduous]

[Karlan Trade is his little found family and he would commit atrocities for these losers*


*he has already committed the atrocities.]

...perhaps. [He's not smirking, shut up.] It was an arduous hike, and I'm one who prefers to stay within the temperature-controlled environment of my lab. At the same time, I suppose I've hardly minded Enciodes' tendencies to seek adventure. I would not be half the man I am today without him.

[gross]