[ AUDIENCE: NIER ]

[dormheads]

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[departea]

It's soothing.

[ she'll let him take them ]

[amain]

Soothing to hold all these mugs? Or to have all these mugs.

[ He’ll enter if she lets him! And also place the mugs on a surface somewhere. ]

[departea]

I just like to make tea...

[ a lot of them still have tea in them yeah. but she clears her throat. ]

Well! Let's move on to what you wanted to talk about then.

[amain]

I’d like to price quote two Sealed Verses.

[ Nier’s version of blood magic. Yeah, here we go. ]

One is called Dark Wall… Which creates a temporary wall barrier, but when charged with more energy or blood it can become a spherical shield around me.

The other is Dark Lance. It just produces a magical lance that I can send off to pierce an enemy. Charging it with more energy or blood would produce more lances.

[departea]

The price for any type of barrier is 12, so I can give it to you for 10. And the lance would be 5, and I can... drop it to 5?

[ she doesn't like giving discounts on weapons but she likes nier. ]

But that's the price without the charging thing.

[amain]

[ Sometimes you just like having spells that shoot pointy things. ]

Interesting... I didn't think an offensive spell could be 5 vouchers. Would I be limited in uses for any of these spells? Similar to healing?

[ What are the conditions. ]

[departea]

Yeah. Once a week for the barrier, but you can upgrade it to lessen that time. I always suggest just buying the cheapest version first and then afterwards seeing if you actually need to do that.

But for offensive spells, it usually varies on the type. So something that's single target like that would be cheaper than something that affects a very large area.

[amain]

Hmm... I don't have enough to afford both currently, but I'll take Dark Wall for now. Maybe I'll ask someone if I can borrow two vouchers.

Thanks for the explanation.

[departea]

No problem!

And I'm sure you can get that easily enough.

[amain]

Yeah. I'll see if someone can spare some.

[ Right. He gets out an envelope. In it, she'll find a sketch of herself surrounded by sunflowers.

And corn. ]

This is also for you. Happy Christmas.

[departea]

[ CORN

but she'll open it, and pause for a second before laughing. ]

This is so bloody cute, Nier. Thank you.

[amain]

[ CORN ]

It's nothing... I wish I could buy actual gifts for you all, but this will have to do.

[departea]

No, it's fine. I really like this.

It's... very personal.

[amain]

I'm glad to hear that, then.

Maybe I'll make more trinkets... I used to make them a lot with my sister when we were young.

[departea]

Oh, what kinds of things?

[amain]

Garlands... Some makeshift home decor with flowers, other plans, and twigs. Hair ornaments with similar things.

Sometimes we cook and bake together until she demands to do it for me.

[departea]

Which of you were the better cook then?

[ ... ]

I hope she showed you up.

[amain]

[ ... ]

She... Is... [ Uhm... ] What matters is that she put a lot of thought into it.

[ IT ISN'T GOOD ]

[departea]

Ah...

[ AH....,, ]

The power of love can cover the taste of anything?

[amain]

People don't need to be four-star chefs?

[ Yes... Yes, it can cover everything. ]

The power of love can do a lot of things.

[departea]

Yes! Exactly.

Your sister sounds nice though.

[amain]

She's a great kid... I miss her.

Did you have siblings, Annie?

[departea]

Oh, yeah. I have two sisters. I haven't spoken to them in a while though since...

[ well nier got the memshare before so like

kind of hard when you're dead ]

[amain]

... Yeah.

[ WELL. HE PICKED THE WRONG TOPIC. ]

Are you... Okay? With all of that.

[ we are dead people talking like we aren't dead ]

[departea]

It's okay. I managed to deal with him after that.

It's a little funny, since... after I died, I met the people most important to me. So it felt like even though I was dead, as long as I had them, it wouldn't matter if I couldn't pass on or anything.