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Linya and Bella are working on wishes, in between light chat about runecasting and their personal lives. It is radiantly obvious to people paying attention that Bella wants to kiss her and Linya is married, although neither statement is made.
Ivans are playing cards.
Mileses, including Solvei, are debating the wisdom of borrowing another strategy game from Bar; Mark, a voice of caution, does not know what will happen if all of them (Solvei, Mial, Miles, Milo, Stalas) all start screaming at each other in twenty directions.
And -
greatestgift
"Come over here and have some, then," says Sable. She slides a red-yellow pair away from the main row on the table to reserve it for Bella. "...Also, if I can get back to Terraria and come back here safely, I could make a pair of wings for anybody who wanted some. I could make a bunch of things, actually, but wings are the one I'm most willing to give away."
onceandforall
Bella goes over to the cozy health food. "I would also love a pair of wings, assuming they will somehow not make me look freakish in ordinary situations. Can you separate these out for me?" she adds, handling the stack.
greatestgift
"Yeah, let me just finish this—" and she separates the rest of Stalas's Life Fruits into a crowded but manageable double handful, which she pours into his hands and then turns to Bella and separates out a heart candy for her.
The separated candy is indeed noticeably less glassy in texture and appearance than the stacked version.
It tastes like rock candy with a strong hint of cinnamon, and kindles a lasting feeling of faint warmth, like a soft blanket and a mug of hot chocolate on a chilly day. Except 'warmth' isn't quite the right concept, it's not a temperature - 'comfort' might be more accurate.
The separated candy is indeed noticeably less glassy in texture and appearance than the stacked version.
It tastes like rock candy with a strong hint of cinnamon, and kindles a lasting feeling of faint warmth, like a soft blanket and a mug of hot chocolate on a chilly day. Except 'warmth' isn't quite the right concept, it's not a temperature - 'comfort' might be more accurate.
greatestgift
"It is! It's great," says Sable. She separates another heart candy and hands it to Bella; this one, when eaten, approximately doubles the strength of the faint cozy feeling.
onceandforall
"What kind of concrete effects do you notice from it besides it helping your ground problem?"
greatestgift
"More resistant to injury, heal faster when injured - I could say it's like constantly having a dense ground reinforcement everywhere, but you wouldn't know what that means."
greatestgift
"Have another candy."
The coziness increases linearly, by the same amount per candy eaten.
"Oh, and you can take Terraria wings off, they're handy that way. They also conveniently miniaturize but if you can't separate candies I'm not sure you can miniaturize wings. Since you can eat candies, though, I suspect you can wear wings."
The coziness increases linearly, by the same amount per candy eaten.
"Oh, and you can take Terraria wings off, they're handy that way. They also conveniently miniaturize but if you can't separate candies I'm not sure you can miniaturize wings. Since you can eat candies, though, I suspect you can wear wings."
onceandforall
"Being able to take them off and put them in the closet for nighttime monster-hunting expeditions will more than do. Better yet if I can fold them up small enough to stick in a backpack without being able to miniaturize them."
greatestgift
"...You can probably do that with some wings... I wish I'd brought any spare pairs with me, then we could test some of this stuff. Oh well."
greatestgift
"These ones - the Celestial Wings - are fancy and really expensive," she says, wing-shrugging with the elaborate white-and-silver set she's currently wearing (and separating more candies for Bella while she talks). "They're made out of four other sets put together. My first pair was the Harpy Wings, they're ordinary feathered wings. The Fin Wings are weird, they're like - those fish with the really big, thin fins and tails that trail around prettily? Wings made of that. And then there's the Flame Wings, which are like bird wings but on fire. The Spooky Wings are my favourite, they're like tree branches with cobwebs, they make it really obvious that all this flying is being accomplished by magic, but the materials are really hard to get so I probably can't make a spare pair for anybody. Then there's the Steampunk Wings, which are kind of mechanical-looking, I thought I'd like them but I couldn't get used to the sounds they made. And the Fishron Wings, which are like thick solid fish fins instead of thin decorative ones, they're useful because you can breathe water while you're wearing them, but I didn't like the way they looked and I don't need to breathe water that often. Those are all the pairs I've actually tried. There's more that I just never bothered making. Well, and I made the four that I put together to get these, but I don't have spares of those lying around and I'd have to fight the Moon Lord another time or two to get the materials to make more."
greatestgift
"At least one more time besides the one I was in the middle of, and if flying out of the universe made the Moon Lord and all his useful goodies disappear or something, which I wouldn't put past Terraria to do, then I'd have to fight him at least one more time on top of that. I was really low on Moon-Lord-related materials before I started this fight, because I used up a lot of them making combined equipment like these wings and this armour and the Celestial Staff. Oh, I can make armour, too."
greatestgift
Candies, candies, and there's the fifteenth heart candy. The cozy feeling is quite strong now. Sable moves on to separating Life Fruits, and hands Bella her first one; in separated form it's a little heart-shaped yellow berry which tastes very sweet and a little citrusy, and its effect on the cozy feeling is much smaller than a heart candy's but still noticeable.
"It, um, armours. And it has some interactions with Terraria weapons, which I don't think will matter to you unless I give you Terraria weapons, and some of the sets also do fancy things - this set used to glow, but I made it stop because it was annoying, and it has extra magical protection on top of the amount of magical protection it already gives me just by being Terraria armour that works using Terraria magic."
"It, um, armours. And it has some interactions with Terraria weapons, which I don't think will matter to you unless I give you Terraria weapons, and some of the sets also do fancy things - this set used to glow, but I made it stop because it was annoying, and it has extra magical protection on top of the amount of magical protection it already gives me just by being Terraria armour that works using Terraria magic."
greatestgift
"It gets less noticeable with time but it doesn't go away, no," says Sable, passing Bella another Life Fruit. To Jann she says, "If the set you have isn't magic, a decent Terraria kit is probably better."
abeance
"It's a little magic. Lighter than it should be, easier to put on and take off, heals dents on its own."
greatestgift
"I could probably make you a Terraria set that would be more and better magic than that."
abeance
"Be useful in case the next time I have to rescue Milo from a dragon the dragon isn't so understanding."
abeance
"Milo has chronic smelling-like-a-princess disorder. It causes things to carry him off in situations where this would only be customary if he were a girl. One time a dragon got him and I had to go get him, but the dragon was pretty polite about it and let him go when I explained. I have a version of this story where I fought the beast to a standstill etcetera etcetera but that's mostly for other knights."