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

[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?

[storytelleroftime]

Well, I learned rabbit spirits really don't like blood sacrifice, other people have abnormally, or perhaps normally, low standards for goodness, and that overall, finger chopping is a bad idea.

So, I suppose I learned some superficial things.

[She has been contemplating it a lot to see what exactly she had done wrong on a deeper level. Because so far, that has been escaping her.]

[heiroglyphs]

Well, I mean, if that helps you from keeping your friends lives in danger in the future, then I'd say you deserve it, yeah?

Fuck, I'm not a therapist, I'm really not good at this pep talk shit.

Also wouldn't a carrot sacrifice be better for a rabbit spirit?

[storytelleroftime]

I mean technically, it wasn't the rabbit's test. It was some chick named Georgia's. She, really isn't the type to like that sort of thing, according to Phil.