“Oh, cool—oh, man, dungeon monsters are going to have so many cool senses I’ve never even heard of!”

"I wonder if you can piggyback on dungeons themselves, they have some non-monster-mediated contact with the world..."

“Oh, man, if I could control a dungeon…I’m gonna need more partners, that’d have to cost so much backlash. Group hug.”

"I mean, at some point you run into diminishing returns because you only have so much surface area but it is in general wise to have more partners if you can find 'em, yes."

Shrug. “If I find enough compatible people, I don’t think there’s a limit on how much blood you can take, if they also take blood out of you? Isn’t there a kind of dialysis that works like that? I’m AB negative.”

"- well, you can't take mine, I'm A-poz. I'm not sure you can run more than one of those machines at once, normally it goes in one arm and out the other."

“Well, can you put different bloods in one machine? Anyway, it’s all academic unless it turns out I actually can control a dungeon, it’d be worth throwing a lot of resources at that but this is slightly insane for, like, normal purposes.” 

"I'm not sure if you can put different bloods in one machine but I don't think it matters if the total blood volume going into you is still throttled to one machine and your vein's throughput."

“Well, it matters some, you can only take so much blood out of one person. Shame we’re mutually incompatible. This never comes up in vampire AUs.”

"It really doesn't! In fairness I don't think drinking each other's blood would have this problem even in humans, at human-safe amounts."

“I wonder if you can just keep drinking blood indefinitely if you think it’s important enough to wreck your digestion over. I wonder if you can get the guiding benefits of drinking blood if you vomit it up immediately, wow, that is a way more niche fan fiction. I wonder if the digestive consequences apply if you only drink plasma…?”

"Don't know, but the dropoff in guiding is so sharp with the passage of time, I don't think you can centrifuge out the red cells that fast. I think that, realistically, if you need to get incredibly aggressive about guiding efficiency in short time periods, then that one guy on Reddit might be factually correct little though anyone likes it - not anyone. Most people."

“That one guy on Reddit?” She can think of so many unpleasant things a guy on Reddit could advocate.

"There was a guy on Reddit who made a lot of people very angry by asserting that the most efficient form of guiding is drinking pee."

Giggle. “I would distinguish between most efficient versus most scalable, and that is terrible, and I haven’t read that fanfiction but I’ve seen it tagged.”

"There is so much weird fanfiction in the world."

“There is! It’s wonderful. I mean, I’m not personally into that particular subset, but, you know, ykinmkato.”

"...yuh-kin-ato?" he attempts.

“Oh, uh—EE-KIN-MM-KAHT-O. Y-K-I-N-M-K-A-T-O. Your kink is not my kink and that’s okay.”

"Oh, I'm familiar with the 'but your kink is okay' version and also have never imagined trying to pronounce it."

“I can pronounce lmao too.” It sounds sort of like “ul-mow” but in a weird accent.

Haru snickers. "You're all set to learn to make weird echolocation noises."

“Yes I am.” Gleeful bounce.

"I'll text Cricket and ask if he wants to participate but I'm sure it's possible to find a regular cat if he's not into it." Phone beepity beep.

“Yeah. Maybe I should get a non-monster cat. Or make friends with someone who does and wouldn’t mind it going on the YouTube channel.”