SCAWWY 😱 tomi

[concoctive]

In the earliest recordings of the Language of Flowers, foxgloves symbolized riddles, conundrums, and secrets, but by the Victorian era they had devolved into the more negative symbol of insincerity. Foxgloves give us digitalin, a glysoside used to treat heart disease, and this powerful plant has been used for heart tonics since Celtic and Roman times. However, the plant is poisonous if consumed directly, and can cause a number of health problems.

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[concoctive]

[ he's got a very small bandage made from a thin strip torn from his robe wrapped around his own finger at the moment. he made something out of one of the flowers in his crown for it. ]

Tetanus? [ lmao ] Most boiling will clear stuff up in water, but at least my flower crown had yarrow in it. It's good for astringents. Maybe someone has stuff for detoxifying water.

[cashcab]

It'd be easier just to get something from the pharmacy, but I'm gonna assume there just isn't one here in blood-sacrifice-town. [ despair ] Never had to do like, boil water and make medicine out of berries like it's the 1700's.

[concoctive]

[ blinks slowly ]

There's... not another way to do it? I mean, you wanna use the right berries, otherwise you're gonna be having the shits for days if not something worse. But that's how we apothecaries do things.

Which, the least they could've done is let me keep all my concoctions if they were gonna do this to us.

[cashcab]

[ haha. what the fuck. ]

Pretty sure there's machines and such that make 'em now.

[concoctive]

[ squints at him like he's trying to decide if tomi is ful of shit or not. ]

... this is gonna be like speakers, ain't it. We don't have machines for making medicine, that's why we got apothecaries with their medicines and clerics with their healing magic.

[cashcab]

[ i mean he is but not for this reason ]

Oh, are you from somewhere more... [ slight pause. um. ] -- Rural?

[ completely ignoring the healing magic thing ]

[concoctive]

You can say I'm a hick, s'fine.

Backwater as backwater can be, at least in the Riverlands. I'm kinda getting used to nobody knowing where that is, though.

[cashcab]

Well that's kinda vague. Lots of lands with rivers.

[concoctive]

[ thinks about it ]

...

Y'know, I guess that's fair. Riverlands, Cliftlands, Woodlands, Coastlands... Frostlands, Flatlands... man, we really went with a real dumb naming theme, huh.

[cashcab]

Dumb but to the point. We call the island of Hawaii the 'big island' since it's the biggest in the chain, so I guess I don't have a leg to stand on.

[concoctive]

I mean, at least it's a name that means something instead of "hey, this is the land of rivers!"

Shucks, I grew up in Clearbrook, and it's got brooks and streams and rivers all around it. Not real creative. Figure Flamesgrace probably got named that because that's where the main cathedral of the Church of the Sacred Flame is.

[cashcab]

Okay, but Flamesgrace sounds pretty cool. The name, anyway, I can't really speak to the church stuff.