this all sounds harmless

[playdolls]

Pitou Blythe 9/4 near Recolle

A.) Anyone got recommendations on where a creep could get some carrion beetles? I have some bones that need cleaning and after doing my due diligence, this seems to be the best way to clean out all those nooks and crannies. Money is no object :3 B.) You can find ANYTHING on youtube! Anyone want to lend me some power tools while I work on my bone sword? C.) Maybe some leather for the hilt too, hmmmm?

Comments

[moneymoneymoney666]

...What the hell are you doing there Miss Blythe?

[playdolls]

I have a big goopy rib bone that needs cleaning and then I am going to carve it down into a nasty sharp edge.

[moneymoneymoney666]

Where did you even get the bone from?!

[playdolls]

Cyclops!

[moneymoneymoney666]

...What?

[hadeir]

[ Hello, this is Celine Parthia and she approves of this project. ]

Have you tried to ask around at the University's entomology department?

[playdolls]

I didn't know the university had one! That's a great idea!

[hadeir]

It probably should. Try to be more subtle about your reasons though?

[playdolls]

Well, it's not like I was going to tell them I stole the rib of a cyclops and now want to fashion it in to a sword. That would be crazy.

[hadeir]

A cyclops...

[ Wow, life after getting Retrospec is very, very weird. ]

How big is it? Are bugs going to be enough?

[longwei2go]

okay now I know I'm back in the Real World when I can see something like this and my first thought is "what the fuck" and not "that's so precious"

[ hi friend it's been a month of being a semi-mindless drone how are you ]

[playdolls]

You know me too well to be surprised.

[longwei2go]

I just blinked and lost a month
everything is a surprise today

[playdolls]

What'd you do, go on a bender?

[longwei2go]

I fucking wish
a hangover would be nice right about now

no I just lost access to the app as far as I can remember
I remember the bingo card and then
just normal day to day stuff happening

I didn't even go to the con which is super weird for me

[prometheanflame]

Mohammed Hefaz I'm not sure what it says about me when my first thought is "oh, this is how the first weapons were made" and not "why"
Mohammed Hefaz So why a bone sword?

[playdolls]

It's what Mafuyu wanted.

[prometheanflame]

So now it's my turn to remind her that weapons are dangerous and she has to take this seriously.

[playdolls]

You can but I mean she needed something with more reach. She had to slit that cyclops's throat with a throwing star. That's ridiculous.

[prometheanflame]

That's reasonable, but this girl constantly puts her life in danger to the point that I'm afraid she'll cut herself while attempting a new trick.

Is it too much to ask not to make the sword too cool?

[kittycaterer]

i feel like a good chunk of this is illegal

[playdolls]

It's not illegal to own carrion beetles. It is not illegal to loot monster corpses. It is not illegal to do arts and crafts.

So. No.

[kittycaterer]

ah
my mistake then

[ As if that's any less weird????? ]

er
have... fun? i guess?
dunno what carrion beetles are but ill keep an eye out

[playdolls]

They're beetles that eat flesh, which can be a particularly expedient way to clean tissue from bones without damaging them. Honestly,
one of the best ways is to outright bury it and let the stuff decompose on its own,
but then you're on the timeline of mother nature.

[kittycaterer]

[ ........ Gross? ]

that
sounds like a pretty major inconvenience
guessing you cant just pick up these guys at any old pet or gardening store huh?