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ok. so.
i got most of this already? i think, at least.
there's chroma, and demi-chroma, and you get frisky to get... chroma? yeah. demi-chroma you have to mine.
so i'll try not to ask about any of that stuff

but i guess my big question is
is this anyone else's second big trip offworld?
like. has anyone else here gone through this whole "kidnap and wake up somewhere else" thing
because even if this place is way better than duplicity i would really kind of... rather not? keep popping around in different places.
is this a condition? do i have teleportitis or something fake like that basically.

also, if anyone here knows... uh. jeez. jupiter, neptune, saturn, ren, reverie... actually if anyone here recognizes "venus?" that's probably easier. let me know if you remember me i guess

also also, do piercings heal up when you come here or is that just a devil thing. just curious. it's a hypothetical question i guess.

also also also, does any place around here do piercings cheap? i'm kind of broke. like not hypothetically broke.

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[What a lovable doofus... her favorite kind of doofus.]

don't worry, i got what you were going for

the glowing's cool tho
at least i think it is? you can be your own lamp at night, or go on a night walk without worry or something

have you gotten an apartment yet? they do the whole free place song and dance here, too, so it doesn't hurt to ask

i mean. i definitely think it's cool?
it means people are always looking at me
which would have been scary once?? but like. now it's just...
yeah! i AM good to look at!! you know?

wait this place just has free apartments???
like you don't have to get a dom or someone with money to pay for you?
are they crappy ones like the sub places or

totally
it's like when you get a new coat or something and wanna wear it out to show it off
but like, ten times that i guess
since you're glowing

and yeah, they're WAY better
like they're basically dom places but you know
for anyone

and even if you get a place that isn't provided by the city, chroma definitely ain't hard to make, so rent's kind of a nonissue anyway

wait doesn't that mean you don't have a place?
where are you staying??? please tell me you're not like in a park or something

yeah!!! that's exactly it. you know the feeling
except it's like, skin and wings and everything.
it's amazing. i never want to go back. i'm never going to

also i'm not in a park, don't worry.

[ the next message takes an uncomfortable fifteen seconds to make it through. ]

if i was in a park you wouldn't be mad though
right

only if you've decided you LIVE there

where even are you? gimme your location
you can use prismaps for it, my UN's the same there

[Big cities have lots of parks, and Lunatia is basically four big cities stacked on top of each other, so...]

wow. even the phones here are better
which i guess isn't actually a surprise since i'm pretty sure they were just to spy on us?? but. you know

okay did that go through
my un's aphrodite1. someone took aphrodite, which i want to say is bullshit, but honestly i'm just sort of surprised it hadn't already happened?

most tech here is better than it was back there tbh
you'll see when you get yourself an apartment
i'll show you how it all works dw

and yeah, it went through
hang tight for a sec, i'm not too far away

[There are like, three hundred things they're talking about that need to be talked about in person, after all - Duplicity is just one on this exhausting list.

When Jiro shows up, she's rather unsurprisingly clad in the usual leather coat + pants combo, and only needs to take one quick look around the park to see where Venus might be at.
You know, because of the glowing and the wings and the whatnot. She's not hard to find!

So Jiro's gonna go ahead and make a beeline over there. Of course.]

... Please tell me you weren't planning on living out here. Please.

What? Oh, no. No way.

[ venus doesn't look a day different from the last time jiro would have seen her - same shorts and tank, same iridescence, same wing-eye combo going on. what is different is the way she crosses her arm at jiro's question and steadfastly attempts to break eye contact.

yeah that's a lie, 100%. ]

[Yeeeaaah. She's just gonna let out a tired sounding sigh, complete with dragging a hand down her face.]

You could've -
Like, you can just talk to the Prismals, you know? They usually go around helping the newbies find places to stay right when the ship lands here in Lunatia.
And I mean, I get why you might'a been a little hesitant, but they're not bad people like the locals back in Duplicity.

... Well - some of them can be, but not like how everyone was back there.
Most of'em wanna help us, so talk to them once in a while, okay?

[Venus may not have been expecting a mini-lecture from Jiro, of all people, but look. Look...]

Oh. [ this is. painfully awkward. like, she's trying her best, it's just... not very good?? ] I probably should have listened closer on the spaceship, huh.

[ LITTLE BIT, VENUS. ]

I'll... try to talk to them? Some? Maybe?

[Well... at the very least, Jiro doesn't think it's awkward.
But that might be because she's used to chewing out her friends for being dumb. Whoops...]

Probably a good idea. You don't gotta do it right now, just... soon.

[And now she's holding her hand out, the motion not getting any preamble or anything.]

For now, it's best if we get some Chroma in you, if you really don't have any.

[ that's good, at least. because venus is about to die for, what, a technically second time?? from how awkward all of this is. ]

Oh. Wow. Is that not- forward or anything, around here?

[ not that that's stopping her from reaching out to grab jiro's hand. whoops. ]

[That. That's getting a sort of confused blink from Jiro.
Looking down at their hands for a second and everything.]

What, like -
Holding hands for Chroma...? I -
I don't think it's that forward, like, you kinda need it?

[did duplicity fuck up her sense of forwardness oh god are her social skills permanently fucked]

Oh. I mean, if you say so?

[ that is absolutely, 100%, the single sketchiest way to reply to that question possible. after a moment, she clears her throat - covering her mouth with her spare hand - and speaks sheepishly. ]

It's sort of... I don't really know what is and isn't okay at this point? Like, Duplicity was pretty- you know. And this place has, like... vibrators, and costumes, and stuff like that all over too. There's less of them, but still, it's like - how different is it really, you know??

[Jiro gives her a quick shake of her head.]

Nah, I totally get what you mean. These places have the same vibe...

[...]

That's not meant to be a pun.
But at the same time, it's way better than Duplicity ever was - this place has basically been a vacation for me since I showed up a couple months ago.

The Prismals are just, uh...

... Open.
Really, really open.

Oh. Are they really? Because I asked one if they wanted to fool around and they looked at me like I had wings or something.

[ i want you to understand that this line is delivered without a trace of irony. venus just looks sort of confused. ]

But yeah I've heard it's not... like. You're not going to get brainwashed? I think? People actually haven't given me a direct yes or no on that part yet.

[Yeah that's. That's earning her one of those "are you for real right now" kind of blinks.
Like, of course the Prismal reacted weird, her wings are WEIRD...
Awesome! But weird.

Either way, though -]

Uh... jury's still out on that part. At any rate, if anything goes sideways, it's not the Prismals doing it.
You've heard about the Moonblessings, right?

[ if venus understands what that blink means, she does not even give an inch to indicate it. she just... sits there. looking back at jiro with about forty eyes, all of which are also blinking on occasion. ]

Oh. Yeah, I was kind of wondering if that'd be it. [ she doesn't even sound upset. just... kind of tired, honestly. ] Sort of? It's why some people have, like. The cool sheep wool, right.

I'd say it's about half "it". But yeah, that's why some people have weird animal parts.
I turn into a fish, for the record. Just to get that out of the way.

[Well, a koi. Snake. Koisnake.]

But it's, uh... it's not brainwashing or anything? It's more like... certain blessings can come with their own instincts, I guess?
It's kinda like PMSing since it's once a month and pretty intense, but with scales and fur.
Not everyone gets'em, either, and it can vary every month for someone, too.

I know Cordis ends up starving every time, and Iris can get, uh...

[She pauses for a moment, here, kind of dancing around the word she knows she SHOULD use.]

... I'm gonna go with "frisky".
Sanguis gets violent.

For your sake, I'm hoping you're Cordis.

Oh. Fish are cute? I bet you'd be a cute fish.

[ that's... probably not what jiro meant you to take from that, venus. but it's a nice try nonetheless. ]

Oh, so it's just like... Being high, or eating the orange mushrooms, or stuff like that. [ the more venus tries to relate to all this, the worse things get? ] Or like, how once I let the devil in, I sort of knew I could just- fix my body? Like, I just had to find the seams and crack them open. Kind of like that?

[ venus what in the literal fuck are you talking about at this point ]

Also being super hungry kind of sucks? Like... is Iris just. You know those aphro bottles? The little strawberry ones, where your brain just kind of fuzzes over and you don't really care who you're going to get stuck with on the next ghost ship or Ferris wheel or anything anymore? That doesn't sound too bad.

[ ...VENUS... ]

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[Yeeeah. Her jacks have flipped up into a funny little U-shape by the end of all that, and her free hand comes up to cover her face again. Complete with a sigh.
At least Venus is finding things to relate it too, but...]

I meant more like animal instincts. We get animal instincts.
Sanguis makes me angry and territorial, Iris puts people in heat, that kinda thing.

[So she's an ANGRY fish.]

Oh.

[ there's a brief silence as venus clearly contemplates jiro's words. or at leas,t she tries to? the wheel is clearly spinning, but it's not really clear how many hamsters are in the cage, if you catch my drift. ]

...so wait, do you go full fish? Like, is it a problem if you're not near water?

[ ding ding ding! she's not even on the same topic at this point. ]

[The more she talks to this girl, the more Jiro's starting to realize how few lights are on in there.
House is getting power, but she's clearly lacking a few lightbulbs.
That's okay! She can deal with that. That's easy for her to handle.

Which mostly means letting out a sigh and allowing the topic change; Venus can chew on the rest of it later if she needs to.]

Nah, I don't go full fish... I mean, I gotta stay at least kinda wet or my scales dry out and get itchy?
But it's more like I'm half fish.
With some snake thrown in for good measure, I guess. I'll show you next time Sanguis rolls around if you want.

Oh! Uh, only if you're okay with it!

[ ...she's blushing. do you want to know why she's blushing? probably not. also, she'd take offense to that analogy, if only because the power isn't the big issue, and there's DEFINITELY enough light bulbs to go around?? it's just. the circuit isn't quite connecting.

it's adhd. it's adhd, is what i'm getting at. venus is written as having adhd. the blinking lights she sees distracts her and (rambles for fifteen pages about WKTD) ]

But still, that's kind of a pain? Like, I guess you could just hang out in your shower, but still... That's gotta get old, right?

It's fine with me? I mean, I'd probably be out and about anyway... I can't stick around my girlfriend too long when I'm like that.
Y'know, the territorial thing?

[the dating thing is also a new development but w/e]

But yeah, it does. I get lotions to make up for it. They sell a lot of stuff like that around here - scale lotion, fur cream, stuff for growing tails and wings and whatever...
That kinda junk.

I'll have to show you where to get that kinda stuff whenever your cycle rolls around.

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