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[holycurse]

[Hello Prismatica, this video feed is showing a bright-eyed cheerful teenager whose face is way too close to the screen.]

—Is it working? I think this is right...ah, Lord Windmaster, can you hear me? I was just out shopping, and this market is selling two entire loaves of bread for the price of one! And they're fresh, too!

[He sounds more excited than a guy should be about bread...also there's some movement as he lifts a shopping basket into view. Showing off his prize!!]

I picked up some coupons for other things here too, so I've been looking for those...have you heard of coupons, they're really quite amazing, they would have made life much easier before—er, but if there's anything else we need, please contact me! You can use the array if you like, I just wanted to show you the bread...I still haven't found the "fabric softener" on this coupon, but it sounds like something Ruo Ye would like...anyway, yes, that's everything! I'll be looking around here for a while longer, but I should be home in a shichen or so!

[Aaand end message. How did he manage to post on a public forum instead of sending a private message? The gods just don't know.]

Comments

[holycurse]

Really? I'll admit I may have been rather impoverished before coming here, but it isn't as if scratchy clothing is impossible to wear.

[howlmyrage]

And ruin my beautiful skin? Or end up having to scratch my back while in the middle of doing something cool? If you were shopping for me I'd have be tempted to set it on fire.

[holycurse]

That seems like a bit of an overreaction. The quality of your clothes shouldn't have much of an effect on your skin, would it? Plus setting it on fire would be a waste of money...please think of how much these things cost, before you destroy them so casually.

[howlmyrage]

Celebs like me have very delicate skin, okay? Delicate skin that demand the best product! All the Jeanne Alter fans out there would start crying if I got rashes or something horrible like that!

[ Who even are the Jeanne Alter fans supposed to be? Can Servants even get rashes? Wasn't Jeanne d'Arc a farm girl? Doesn't she usually wear armour which is even less comfortable than cotton of moderate quality?

There are questions. Questions without answers because now she's basically intent on trolling this guy. ]

It must be cheap clothing anyway, or you'd use the proper washing procedure.

[ Clearly. ]

[holycurse]

Proper washing procedure...? Is there supposed to be a particular procedure to it? All you need to do is scrub it in water--with some of that clothing soap they sell here, I suppose.

[He's an ancient god, give him a break!]

Ah, I suppose you must be nobility though, to have such...refined opinions. It's lucky for both of us that most of the clothing sold here is of comfortable material, don't you think?

[howlmyrage]

Scrub it in water... Have you never seen a washing machine before?! Or encountered dry cleaning only clothing?! It sounds like I'm talking to a real country bum.

[ She says, a complete country bum. ]

Don't mix me up with those awful people born into their positions! I'm a celebrity, I do well because I have refined opinions, those people wouldn't know what it's like to have anything but silk panties!

[holycurse]

There's a washing machine in my current home! We've tried using it, but it ruined a dress...I'm afraid such technology doesn't exist where I come from, so I'm entirely unfamiliar with its use.

[She seems so much like a spoiled noble...he's met a good few in his lifetime, and such "refined opinions" are--well no, maybe some celebrities are like this too? He's gotta think about that for a minute.]

Do you mean to say you're an actress? Or a famous courtesan, perhaps? It wouldn't do to insult your patrons, in that case.

[howlmyrage]

Have you heard of the mystical four letters: RTFM?

[ Jeanne Alter rolls her eyes into the video feed. Being too incompetent to manage a washing machine! What kind of world are they living in? ]

I'm a lot of things! But don't worry about my "patrons," worry about insulting me!

[ She's a manga artist, mostly. Apart from being you know, Jeanne d'Arc. ]

[holycurse]

RT....I've never heard of those, no.

[Totally unbothered! By the noticeable disdain she's exuding!]

Ah, did I insult you? I'm very sorry if I did, [he says, not looking sorry at all,] but I have the impression we're from two very different worlds. Perhaps you could be a little more considerate, yourself?