Bad Decisions Have Been Made

[storytelleroftime]

THIS IS A PSA ON BEHALF OF TEAM ABSINTHE! MOSTLY ME THOUGH!

Please do not pull off blood sacrifice.

75% of the time that will fuck you over. Source on that figure: A retrospec employee who literally tripped and got stuck in a chest and we had to rescue. So his info might not be uh, the most accurate thing in the world but still.

But seriously don't. I lost a finger and I got nothing but dark miasma, everyone thinking I was a crazy person, and suffering. And only TWO of those are an ordinary part of my life. Nine fingered typing is infinitely harder than you would think it would be! It's really inconvenient and annoying. Along with, well, missing a pinkie. That's a bad thing.

So I'm putting this up here to make sure no one repeats my mistake, and at least, someone gets something out of this.

Comments

[heiroglyphs]

Please don't summon any more monsters here. We're having enough trouble with the legion of zombies and giant scorpions to deal with fucking Cthulhu.

Also did you seriously cut off your own pinkie???

[storytelleroftime]

Hey! I wasn't summoning monsters! I'm not an idiot, and I'm definitely not particularly suicidal.

But yes. Yes I did.

[heiroglyphs]

These two statements.

They're a bit conflicting, don't you think?

[storytelleroftime]

I suppose. So how about I revise it a little?

I'm not chasing death, but I don't see much value in my life either. I'm not a particularly useful individual.

[heiroglyphs]

Okay so you're not good at anything.
So you decide to be useful by cutting yourself up?
I'm not a therapist but I think you need help.

[storytelleroftime]

Hey! I wasn't doing so for the sake of it!

It was a thing in my team's dungeon. I had a... kinda philosophical rea- okay you know what you're probably right there.

[heiroglyphs]

Wow.
Glad I'm not in your group.
I mean we're underground and I'm pretty sure there's a dragon somewhere down here.
But at least I'm not maiming myself.

[storytelleroftime]

Tbh I feel kinda bad for making my teammates worry about me so much.

[FUCK DID SHE JUST ADMIT THAT? Time to backpedal.]

Only somewhat though. I can't be getting too worked up over them.

[heiroglyphs]

Just make sure you don't bleed out or something.
Also are we talking about the whole pinkie or just like
You know what I don't even want to know.
Just get to a doctor asap.

[storytelleroftime]

Ardyn healed it back at the Forest Temple so...

I won't die at least.

[heiroglyphs]

With like... actual medicine and bandages, right?
I don't trust this magic healing for shit. Who knows what it's actually doing?

[storytelleroftime]

Um... with magic. We had stopped the bleeding before, using more conventional methods. That was just dealing with the actual wound itself.

And hey, just to add more fuel to that.... apparently healing magic makes you more attractive to this "unreality" stuff.

[heiroglyphs]

Yeah, I've heard...
It would explain the giant scorpion that really wanted to kill me.
Lately my body's just started to heal itself really fast.
It's creepy.

[storytelleroftime]

...You see, while that is creepy, it is also useful. So don't discount it that much.

[heiroglyphs]

Pretty sure I couldn't regrow a pinkie though.

[storytelleroftime]

...Sorta figured that.

But I was going into this knowing I was making a permenant sacrifice so, I was not exactly expecting to ever have the pinkie back anyways.

[heiroglyphs]

Well I mean there's always prosthetics?
I have a friend with a whole mechanical arm, elbow and everything.
A single finger couldn't be that complicated.

[storytelleroftime]

Huh. Not actually a bad idea. I'll definitely consider it.

[heiroglyphs]

Well good.
You have something to look forward to then.
So you don't have to keep cutting off parts of yourself.

[storytelleroftime]

Just one small problem though.

Does insurance even cover replacement pinkies from cutting them off in forest temples?

[heiroglyphs]

I'm sure you could claim it as an accident.
Or an occupational hazard?

[storytelleroftime]

I suppose, but...

Do I even deserve it after this?

[heiroglyphs]

Is that a philosophical question?
Because I'm pretty sure cutting a finger off earns you a replacement.

[storytelleroftime]

A philosophical one.

Which, in layman's terms, can be roughly summed up as "if you fuck up miserably and end up putting your life and your teammates lives in danger because of your own stupidity and insecurities, do you really deserve to get the thing you sacrificed back?"

[heiroglyphs]

[WOW that sure isn't something Vera's ever thought about, nope not at all.]

Did you learn your lesson?