#brackets writes

[brackets-gift-anon]

*a memory floated through the portal

*brackets what are you doing

["memory of double cross"]

*... decreases base defense until a party member is downed for the first time in a loop, causes leathal damage to the current state of the enemy that caused a party member to be downed, with a 15% chance that enemy is "fixed" and changes sides, and a sharp buff to all healing craft that will last the whole loop

[brackets what are you doing]

*lets not let gift touch this

*they're probably still compatible with it

*italics gently nods along

[brackets-gift-anon]

[i am brackets]

[we are here for one last walk in our home]

[you cannot change the script for this]

@character-profiles @character-selecton @status-updates

[this is a mostly unconnected blog]

[scarf isnt on this blog dont look for it here]

[brackets-gift-anon]

[+ 1 blood tea parties tea pot for every drop of blood tea the host of the festivities pours an equivalent amount of the guests blood is drained]

[the host / holder of the item is granted the ability to designate the guests and the scale of the festivities]

[often used as an assassins weapon in olden times]

[brackets-gift-anon]

[while i was in exclamania the amount i could remember was around 1.5~ percent] [in quests's world its closer to a baseline of 2%]

[now whats interesting is that when im drunk that goes to around 50%] [although im able to properly communicate 10~12% of it because] [horrors] [and language barriers]

[and if id managed to get drink while in exclamania (unlikely to impossible) it would go up to around 34~36%] [with a properly communicated rate of around 12-15% (of the prior percent, not total like the last one)]

[it would have made everyone's opinion of some of the people i worked with, what those would call "against" drop to nil] [because who the fuck beats the living shit out of someone who looks like a preteen (or an optionally younger, teen)] [even if they're not actually one]

[brackets-gift-anon]

[ooc its like being the oceans favorite]

[ooc no one should want to be the oceans favorite] [ooc it will swallow you whole so that nothing of you will ever be seen by anyone else] [ooc including its inhabitants] [ooc ever again if it loves you so]

[brackets-gift-anon]

*we should take a page from brackets book for a moment and change our perspective

*italics ? what do you think happened to that mad swap!brackets

*the one that ran off into the woods a few years ago

[i...] [dont know]

[invis gently brushed against the mostly inactive portal to exclamania] [making it transparent enough to be seen through and refocused on that lost fool]

*the version of brackets who's lost access to their name hunched over over a patch of ground

*repeatedly pressing mana into it

*desperate to revive it

*desperate to go home, to their john

*their mana ripping right back into them every time

*starting to cry as they poured another mana potion over the ground, not seeing the portal home infront of them

[just as foolish as john would be under this strain]

*the portal appeared to their vision but they're face down on the ground sobbing and pretending they're not upset at the same time

*but someone tried to reach through the other side, the portal spluttering from lack of mana

[they slammed the near empty glass bottle on the ground] [shattering it and feeding a splash of their blood and mana potion to the portal]

*suddenly feeding the portal enough for someone they care for, maybe their timelines sel or john, to snap forward and scruff them too fast to really see

*pulling their sad sloppingly wet self into the portal before it closed again

[brackets-gift-anon]

[ooc importantly not being a reliable narrator doesn't mean that i wasn't getting the living shit beaten out of me in my source-my past]

[ooc it means i thought that everyone was mad at me or hated me most of the time (even with people who loved me and weren't angry) and made evaluations that put people in bad light when i was being enslaved and trafficked by deitys (not an exaggeration unfortunately)]

[ooc also my emotions being manipulated (in multiple ways) to the point ive gained a resistance to most forms of direct tampering and love potions(those backfire murderous against the person who administered it style)]

[brackets-gift-anon]

[ooc if all the red strings of fate that have been tied on me in source were visible and tangible i would be a yarn ball]

[ooc pretty much none of those ended up doing what they were meant to do because i was in the torture-forcedmurder dimension(proverbial) for a more than significant amount of my life] [ooc except for the ones intended to prolong my suffering] [ooc most of those worked perfectly]

[ooc the ones i tied after the fact work though] [ooc im only able to do that because of a side effect of the torture (killed and ate a god of fate(and a god of destiny)) (both of those were prepositional responses unfortunately, eye for an eye)]