[Video] I'll put a spell on you...

[mincingminuet]

[Today's video with Penelope sitting in the little recording booth she has set up at home, looking bright eyed and bushy tailed as always. ]

Hello everyone.

I've got a something I want to bring up. It's about these nightmares don't seem to be going away. I know I cannot be the only one that's been having trouble sleeping, and I figured they'd faff off after a few days but apparently not and it's cutting into everyone's rest.

Last month, Retrospec gave me a temporary solution for it, and I thought it'd be fair to offer it over the network. It's just a way to get rest, and it won't do anything for the actual nightmares, but that's better than nothing.

Now, some of you are going to think I sound insane, but I'm one of the lucky Retrospec users that's also been given magical powers. I can cast spells. Actual for real magic spells. One of which is a sleep spell that puts you into a restful slumber basically as soon as I'm done casting it. I've been using it on myself and several people close to me that agreed to it for a few weeks now just to test for side effects, and there are none. I think the actual spell wears off after about an hour, but by then you're already asleep and it takes an outside stimulus to wake you up.

I have to be able to see you, and again it won't stop the nightmares. But, if you need help actually getting into Dreamland, please let me know. We can work out a schedule for me to play Sandman for you.

[She pauses, reaching to cut the video feed, and then stops.]

Also, an unrelated question. Are there any chemists or metallurgists on the network? I got something weird and I wanna know what it's made of.

Comments

[lingeringwill]

sweet of you, pen

Can you use that on yourself?

[mincingminuet]

Why do you think I'm so peppy today?
It works on just about anything alive. I even tried it on my cat when he was in a mood.

It does not work on Roombas sadly. Or Golems.

[lingeringwill]

that's kind of scary, but I'm glad you can sleep restfully at least

I'll pass, though. There's probably people who need it more than i do

[mincingminuet]

You sure? It doesn't take anything out of me to use it.

And there's zero sense in not unless there's another reason.

[commandertoolbelt]

i'm neither of those things but what is it? maybe i can take a look at it?
what even is a metallurgist anyway
is that some fancy word for a blacksmith

[mincingminuet]

It's a dagger made of a golden metal.
It isn't gold, it's too hard for that, and I used it to slice a piece of my whetstone off by accident.

And a metallurgist is someone that studies metal? And not of the black/death/folk/etc variety. Like a blacksmith, only focused less on the craft and more on the science.

[lingeringwill]

it takes your time doesn't it?

Besides, i dunno, there's just something about it...I'm not sure

[mincingminuet]

A minute, maybe two.

Don't tell me you're paranoid about Rip Van Winkling. Or that you'll need a prince charming to wake you up.

[lostapprentice]

[If it were just the nightmares, Ren could probably deal. It's just nightmares, and it's not like he hasn't dealt with those before.

When it's nightmares, fog monsters, and a sixth sense his brain has yet to adjust to? ... he probably needs all the help he can get.]

how much are you charging? and don't say nothing.

[lingeringwill]

plus travel time, you know.

I'm not paranoid about not waking up, I just...

I have issues
And also this is starting to remind me of something unpleasant

[mincingminuet]

Well if I can't say nothing, then IDK. Buy me a pack of gum or something. I didn't intend to charge. I'm not interested in personal gain off of other people's misery. I'm an entertainer, not a profiteer.

[mincingminuet]

I do too.
Major America #47 and 48.

But what's it reminding you of?
Please don't say it's a witch and a cursed fruit.

I understand, jsyk, I'm just trying to lighten the mood, and you can tell me to stuff it whenever.

[lingeringwill]

close.

There was a witch, an evil queen with power over sleep

And a princess

She's called sleeping beauty, princess aurora

Not the best memory retrospec decided to give me

[lostapprentice]

a starving artist type, then. i suppose that's what agents are for. though technically you'd be profiting off of alleviating that misery.

fine. i'll figure something out. when are you free tonight?

[mincingminuet]

Hell, that's straight outta Göttingen.

Brothers Grimm style.

You the prince then?

[lingeringwill]

far from it

I kill her. The witch coerced me to take her heart

[mincingminuet]

I'm pretty well fed all things considered. But yeah if you want to be particular about it.

I'm free between seven and ten. Depending on the number of interested parties, and where you're located. What time works best for you? I'll set up around you since you're my first taker that isn't where I'm going to end my evening.

[mincingminuet]

Well that's fucking dark.

Is that the only context you have?

[lingeringwill]

yeah. Sorry.

It's pretty cut and dry. The other me is filled with darkness, and that darkness was used to take someone's life away

The reason I don't want to do the sleep thing, is I worry that it'll give me a memory that's even worse than that one. Me and that witch...What else might she have gotten me to do for her? She wanted to collect more hearts...

[mincingminuet]

Filled with darkness? That's a phrase I've been hearing a lot lately. Is that the only moment you remember like that?

I understand though. You didn't need to explain, but thank you for it.

[lingeringwill]

actually, i kind of wanted to talk about it to someone?

So many things are going on with so many different people, sometimes my own deals fall by the wayside and I never get to...i dunno, verbally excavate it?

I failed some big test because I had too much darkness inside of me, or something. That too. I think...I might've been a bad guy, kinda.

10/19, icly later

[darkinferno]

hey Ben do you think I could take you up on that

[Voice-to-text sucks. But straight audio would capture all the sounds of the hospital behind him, so...]

[mincingminuet]

Always. Any time.
Ben though?

I'll come to you. I heard, put two and two together.

When?

[mincingminuet]

Fair. Any time you need me, Terra.
My deals are pretty small compared to that.

I don't think you were a bad guy. At least not wholly. Can't quite buy it.

Darkness isn't necessarily the same as evil anyway.

[darkinferno]

voice to text sucks come by anytime