PUBLIC CHANNEL - SWAP MEET! (DAY 96)

[starseedling]

Hey guys! This is Steven!

I know everybody is pretty busy right now, and possibly more than one person? But, with the Eggspace Dimension being a thing, it made me think... that I have some items and stuff that I don't really need, that maybe someone else here could use more than me?

And, so, I thought maybe everyone could just list off any stuff they have sitting around that they don't want, and we could have a swap meet! Which means we'd trade items, or even just give them away to people in need!

Please join in, if you want to! I'm going to bring my stuff to the lounge near our Shabon rooms, if you want to come. Right now, I have a set of body armor that Connie left behind... it doesn't fit me, but I think you can get it resized, if you need the protection. It's black with minty green lines on it. I don't want anything for it, just tell me if you need it.

Um... I also have, like... a lot of diamonds? If anyone needs those for something. But only if you need it, okay!

[This post is open, so you can make and reply to people's top levels without Steven's intervention!]

Comments

[whattaprick]

Define 'need it.'

[starseedling]

Well... my skin is probably as tough as the armor is, because I'm a gem. Wearing it probably help me at all.

So, 'needing' it might be kind of relative.

[whattaprick]

I was talking about the diamonds, Steven.

[ At least he sounds gently amused, more than anything else. ]

You don't really need diamonds for anything except to have them.

[starseedling]

Well... you could, um... make tools out of them?

[He sounds like he's reaching.]

[whattaprick]

Like for magic? The only magic user I know who uses gems here is Rita.

Maybe you should try selling them instead.

[starseedling]

I guess...

But Childermass said I shouldn't do that.

[whattaprick]

[ And here's where that light-side complacency kicks in. ]

Then you probably shouldn't.

[starseedling]

They're... special diamonds.

[lmpatientdefense]

Uh, I don't know if this is like, an open conversation? But if we ever pick up any of the people I know... At least one of them uses diamonds for magic.

Just saying. Might be worth hanging on to a few.

[stompadour]

What do you have diamonds for?

[It's light Jasper. Dark Jasper didn't get the radio.]

[starseedling]

Uh...

[Oh god this is the last person he wants to explain this to.]

I... found them??

[stompadour]

Where?

[starseedling]

On the ground??

[stompadour]

[You can just hear her breathing through her mouth. It's unconvinced breathing.]

[starseedling]

[IS SHE JUST HOLDING DOWN THE BUTTON SO SHE CAN BREATHE INTO IT?!

SUSPENSE BUILDS.]

[stompadour]

[She is waiting to see if he will volunteer a better explanation. When that doesn't happen, she says:] You just found them on the ground. And you picked them up. What exactly have you been keeping them for?

[starseedling]

Because I don't know how to get rid of them!

[stompadour]

Then why did you take them in the first place?

[starseedling]

B-Because-

[He starts, but he has nowhere to go. She's kind of got him, there.]

Because they fell off my body.

[stompadour]

[ . . . ]

What?

[She came in here aiming to nail Rose Quartz for some kind of nefarious Diamond-shattering-adjacent bullshit, and Steven is not making it easy??]

Get your story straight, did you find them or did they come from your ridiculous mutant body?

[starseedling]

Well - technically they fell off my body, onto the ground, and I found them there, okay?!

[He exhales.]

It was after my arms and legs and stuff got turned into crystal by the Rose Queen. After my real arms and legs grew back... the outer shell just cracked and fell off. And... from what I can tell, the type of crystal it was is diamonds.

[stompadour]

[You can practically hear Jasper narrowing her eyes. It's like the air is being compressed.]

Why would it be diamonds.

[GO ON. SHE WANTS YOU TO SAY IT. THAT IT'S SOME KIND OF KARMIC REMINDER OF YOUR PAST LIFE'S UNFORGIVABLE SINS.]

[starseedling]

[TOO BAD JASPER, because that idea has basically never crossed his mind, on account of he's not a TOTAL WEIRDO.]

I don't know! It just... sparkles the way diamonds do. That's what the jewelers said.

[stompadour]

You don't think it might be some kind of expression of guilt?

[These are the kinds of valuable thought processes that have been retained by Jasper's light half!]

[starseedling]

I... don't know if faerie changes actually work like that, Jasper.

[Even if he did feel personally guilty for it, as opposed to mostly being frustrated by his mom being enigmatic and controversial.]

[stompadour]

What? [She sounds like this idea genuinely has not occurred to her.] Why wouldn't they?

[starseedling]

Why... would they?

[He sounds just as confused. He's pretty sure the changes have stuff to do with what a person is already like, but wouldn't working off guilt and stuff be awfully specific?]

[stompadour]

Well... it would just make sense.

[starseedling]

Maybe? But I don't feel guilty for killing any diamonds, so that wouldn't be how it works with me, anyway...

[stompadour]

Hmph. Of course you don't. I shouldn't have expected anything different.

But you're a quartz. Why would you be making diamonds if it didn't have anything to do with the one your 'predecessor' shattered?

[starseedling]

I don't know... that's why it's kind of weird.

I guess something the Blue Rose did to me made my gems turn into diamonds.

[stompadour]

Your gems--?

That doesn't make any sense!

[IF SOMEONE'S GEMS CAN JUST CHANGE TO A DIFFERENT KIND OF GEM THAT'S FRANKLY UNHOLY]

[starseedling]

It sure doesn't! Which is why I didn't really want to talk about it.

[stompadour]

[Well, she can hardly do anything with that. There's a pause, and then Jasper huffs.]

It's probably not really diamond. I wouldn't trust anyone who's not a gem to judge that.

[hippocarnival]

That's a good idea. Uh, I don't have anything to swap, but I have a healing drought and somw of course Phoenix fruit potions from Lambert I don't mind sharing with other people if they need them.

[A pause.] I have another one that's a lot stronger, too. If--someone's dying, as long as no one uses it carelessly!

[Knowing the carnival though, someone probably will get fatally wounded and need it so he's not going to be that touchy about it.]

[soft_focus]

Does someone need a sword.

[This is not a question. Someone take this sword.]

[impatientdefense]

Uh. Hey, I don't really need a sword, but I gotta ask, how old are you?

[You don't sound old enough for a sword. Maybe a dagger.]

[soft_focus]

Seven.

[REIRA YOU ARE GIVING PEOPLE A CONCERN]

[lmpatientdefense]

[TINY bit yeah, kid please.]

Seven. Uh-huh. And... how old are you gonna be, when you're an adult? 'Cause you kinda don't sound like one yet.

[soft_focus]

[????]

I already knew I wasn't an adult...

Um! I think it's 18??

[lmpatientdefense]

Christ.

[Expletives aside, explanation time.]

Okay, so, like, some people live faster, you know? Like elves, they can live hundreds of years, and some people... get old and die when they're maybe forty. So seven can mean a lot of things. For you, I kinda think it means maybe, a sword's a little big for you.

How'd you get a sword, anyway?

[soft_focus]

[Reira sounds quite unimpressed.] I already know it's too big! That's why I don't want it.

I don't even know how to hold it properly, and my hands are too big anyway...

Yuzu-neesama left it behind with a lot of her things. People don't need swords where she lives though, so someone else should have it.

[She's keeping the armor though, suckers,]

[lmpatientdefense]

Yu... that's too many syllables. So you inherited it, is what you're saying.

[Which means she doesn't need to go stealing the sword to impart good life lessons on this kid, then. And something about that Yu-name sounds like sister, and she's not sure how.]

Well, I don't really... swords, you know, but good luck finding a taker.

[soft_focus]

[Darn, still stuck with it!]

Okay!

If you find someone who wants one, tell me!!

[Reira they can just call YOU.]

as thanks for being the first to reply, you get the first tag! :confetti:

[impatientdefense]

Sure, yeah, can do.

[There's equal odds she'll forget about it in a couple hours as there is finding a sword lever and pointing them Reira's way, honestly.]

Before I got, I just gotta check... You're not with the militia, right?

[soft_focus]

[Wat]

...I don't think I'd be allowed...

[lmpatientdefense]

Good! [Wait, slow down.] That's good, uh, you shouldn't be. Glad to hear it. Stay out of danger, okay kid? As much as you can.

[Needing to go save some sword-inheriting child would be better than working alongside said kid, but not by enough.]

lmfao that's probably it for these nerds

[soft_focus]

[ !?!?!?!?!?!?! ]

Milita aren't the only ones in danger, everyone's in danger...]

[...So mutters the child to herself.

Just stay out of trouble kiddo it's fine,]

[spaghettimonster]

I don't know why I didn't offer before... I have a handcrank memory projector, back at the carnival. You could use it for informative meetings! All those sneaky investigative sorts could show us their trips!

[Normally, Papyrus has sentimental reasons for keeping it. Unfortunately, light!Papyrus is fine letting it go.]