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I'm not gonna apologize for knowing what tables are good for. Although, wait, three things, I guess they're useful for studying on, but not science study.

A crystal ball helps, yeah, or you can free hand that shit.

If the answer is something about one of them being edible I'm about to deliver some real bad news.

so it's science you have a beef with and not tables?
you're gonna make me ask what the other two things are, aren't you?

i always wondered why a crystal ball in particular
are there properties in the crystal itself that help focus the magic or is it just kind of a trend that caught on
could someone scry in a pitcher of water, or like a volleyball?

one of them is a funny beast, and one of them is a bunny feast
please don't tell me you've thought about eating garyl

You've known me for at least a month now if you can't guess I'm gonna be disappointed in you.

Witches are all about chasing that aesthetic but crystals are good at holding magic, too? Like that's where you put a prophecy, if you've got one. But you need a clear surface to scry, for sure, water would work, volleyball would not.

That was a decent one 6.5/10

And nah you can't eat Garyl he's spectral, but some people do eat unicorn horn, and dick.

listen i was going to guess they're probably eating meals and having sex but you never know.
maybe tables have some kind of deep significance in elf culture that i've never even heard of and fucking on one is considered the ultimate taboo
you never know

you're telling me witches can like dvr a prophecy inside of a crystal?

so just like rhinos, then

Elf culture has no taboos about fucking on anything we're all pretty chill on that front. There's not a thing I won't fuck on ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Yup! I've gotten like four, they're fucking annoying and vague

If eating rhino is illegal then yes, definitely. Apparently it's pretty tasty but I'm not about to eat deep fried dick

elf culture sounds dope.
humans have about ten thousand taboos about every single thing tbh
some of them are good (like... nobody should be down with cannibalism tbh) but others are so stupid.

four?! that is definitely 3-4 too many.
have any of them come true yet?

super illegal. and no amount of tastiness makes up for chowing down on a horse's chopped-off junk

I've noticed that about humans, or at least your lot. You get hung up on the weirdest shit.

Two have, one will be when I get back, not sure about the fourth. Apparently some dude on fire is gonna help me out? Not sure what that's all about

I mean, fair.

trust me when i tell you that people back home are twice as hung up.
like i don't know everyone who you're including in 'my lot' but
let's just say if you met any members of my family you'd get it.

hey i mean as far as prophecies go that's probably the best you can hope for.
like the whole 'dude on fire' thing is whacky and mysterious, but really all it's saying is someone's gonna have your back.

Like ninety percent of humans from Earth that I've met either have so many weird ideas about shit or have told me about the weird shit. Your porn is fucking wild.

[Don't judge him he was curious.]

It could be Barry, liches get kinda like, on fire if they lose their composure but I don't fucking know. Whatever it is we're gonna need the help

see now i'm all curious what kind of thing strikes you as a weird idea.

the fact that i can immediately think of about a dozen different reasons why you would say that just confirms that you're probably right about porn from earth.
that shit can get pretty strange.

[ Never gonna stop being weird hearing Taako talking about Barry and stopping to remind himself that he doesn't mean Barry Allen. ]

i guess that'd make sense.

how do you even hear about prophecies that have been made about you anyway
is there some kind of system in place to inform people?

There's this whole weird in group out group shit you've all got going on that I do not get. Also like half of you are real insecure.

I had to google like half the words they used it was real odd.

And nah it's like, I happened to be there so she gave my prophecies, if I hasn't shown up they would've just kept chilling there

[ Lmao wow Cisco came here for a good time and he's honestly feeling so attacked right now. Then again Taako's not wrong. ]

what do you even mean by that?
i mean... i guess we can be a bit cliquey. which probably has something to do with why some of us get to be insecure.

[ He's not even gonna pretend Taako wasn't including him in that descriptor. ]

okay like what words tho

[ Cisco is just feeling really nosy right now. ]

so they were all from the same lady?

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Like with the whole metahuman shit, being scared of anyone who's different. [It's something he's heard from Clark, too, people being scared of him because he's Not Human.] And I'm gonna blame the movies and TV and shit for your lot being insecure, there's a lot of insanely hot people in all that stuff. Hard to compete.

[Meanwhile he's like, the prettiest person he knows because he doesn't have to look at a bunch of really attractive actors and models.]

Uhhhh like beard, twink, cub... there's a whole lotta terms we don't really bother with, I guess? Some real specific kink shit that I didn't even know there were words for. I've seen things that cannot be unseen, my dude.

Yup! I don't get a lotta prophecies but Paloma just kept fucking dishing them out.

can't argue with that.

i'm gonna be real with you tho, i don't think hot actors are responsible for it
like when i was growing up, movies and tv were just about the only thing that made me feel safe. like sure everybody hated me and i got my ass kicked all the time, but then i could watch a movie and pretend i was having cool adventures in space saving the universe, you know? like an escape thing.

[ Imagining Taako carefully, quizzically googling "what is a twink?" is really just a wonderful mental image that Cisco is going to treasure. ]

i guess the vocabulary can get a bit specialized
and i believe you.
i feel like seeing porn you wish you could erase from your memories is like a rite of passage or something

[ He wonders why it is that one particular woman would have so many visions about Taako, but maybe that's normal Cisco's knowledge of magic is still really limited, even though he and Taako have been friends for a little while now. ]

is four prophecies considered not a lot? damn.

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[Oh god he's feeling like, sympathy. The worst of all the emotions.]

Sounds pretty rough, I guess it makes sense if it was like an escapism thing or whatever.

For real I'm fucking considering casting modify memory on myself so I never have to remember any of that shit. I'd live a way more peaceful life. I hope Eddie isn't into any seriously weird stuff.

[tmi??? probably tmi]

Nah just like, aside from those four I haven't had any, so it's not like I'm walking around getting them thrown at me.

yeah, it sucked, but none of that matters now cuz my life's awesome and i've got cool friends like you and eddie.
you know what tho... do they not have high school in your world?
cuz i definitely think high school is the variable you're looking for re: the self-esteem thing

[ It doesn't even occur to Cisco that it might make Taako uncomfortable, how he talks about being bullied and hated as if it were just his natural due, or something unavoidable.

And in his current somewhat altered frame of mind, Cisco's surprisingly candid and unafraid of a little tmi. ]

i wouldn't know about what eddie's into, man. i mean, he doesn't seem like it, but seriously, in my experience sometimes it's the totally normal-seeming dudes who end up being into the kinkiest shit.

[ Cisco... maybe that's a little TOO candid. ]

(is modify memory like a real thing?)

i guess at least you know the source is reliable, then, since two already happened.

They got it but I didn't go, skipped that whole school shit until the IPRE academy, it's not like two fucking teenagers could afford to put themselves through school.

In your experience, huh? ;) Are you talking personally?

[What weird shit is Cisco into, the world wants to know.]

(It's real)

Oh for sure, and like, no one who can make scones that good is a liar. You know?

see where i'm from it's free and it's mandatory, at least until you're a teenager
like, if you don't go it's a giant pain and your family can get in a lot of trouble.
so it's like ten plus years in the damn thunderdome, with kids all stuck together in their own fucked up micro society
i skipped a few grades so that means i got out sooner but it also means i was like four years younger than everyone around me most of the time

[ It all sounds way weirder, trying to explain it to someone who isn't familiar with the particular public school system Cisco had gone through. ]

wait i'm gonna feel silly if you told me this before but what's ipre?

and i wasn't saying I'M one of the secretly kinky dudes i just meant i'm not like entirely unfamiliar with their company.

[ He is only making this worse, isn't he? Oh no. ]

(are there side effects?)

sounds logical enough to me.

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Man I do not regret running away from home if that's what we avoided. Not that we fucked around with uh, the younger version of high school either, before we cut loose, but neither of them sound great. Why'd you skip grades?

[He can guess, but he just wants to confirm it.]

It's the dudes I worked for, Institute of Planar Research and Exploration.

[or "Fantasy Nasa"]

That sounds like the sorta thing someone who's secretly really kinky but doesn't want to admit it would say.

(No side effect, but I can't actually cast it on myself)

sounds like you made the right call, all things considered. how young were you when you ran away, anyway?

[ Cisco wants to ask about a million more questions about that, but he's going to test the waters first, see if it's something Taako minds talking about or not. ]

the work was too easy for me.

[ i.e. the humblest and most roundabout way of saying "I was way smarter than the other kids my age". ]

there's really NOTHING i can say that's gonna make me sound vanilla now, is there?
like i should just quit now while i have some shred of deniability

[ Half of Cisco is curious about this memory stuff because he's got a few things he's tempted to gouge out of his brain, thanks very much, and magic would probably work a lot more precisely than booze and denial. But also, simultaneously, the other half of him is paranoid at the other implications...]

but could you cast it on someone else?
can memories that have been erased ever come back?
is there any way to check if someone's gotten into your head and taken something out? like is there a way to tell for sure?

Twelve or thirteen? It was a long fucking time ago but after our aunt died we were pretty done with being passed around, so we just left.

[It wasn't the worst experience - life wasn't exactly easy, but it wasn't endless struggling, either. They just had to rely on each other to survive.]

So you were super smart, got it.

You're pretty much outta luck, I'm now convinced you're into just the most fucked up shit. You couldn't just be into getting choked or whatever like the rest of us.

[It's hard to tell whether he's being serious on that last part or just messing with Cisco.]

I mean, yeah, the point is to cast it on someone else? I dunno if there's a way to tell if it's been done, if you were alone with someone who could cast it you might never know, but it can be undone by a couple different spells.

[ Passed around? Running away at thirteen? Even if it was a long time ago and he'd had his sibling there, that still sounds pretty fucking awful, to Cisco. At least now he doesn't have to debate whether or not he should ask why Taako had left. From the sound of it, his parents weren't in the picture, and the people looking after him hadn't been all that invested. Which is pretty damn heartbreaking - would be so even if Cisco didn't have weird fumes making him even more of a tenderhearted cauldron of emotions than he usually is. ]

that's brave. where did you two go?
for me, doing good in school was always the escape plan. took a little while, but it worked.

[ He might not have said it himself, but Cisco doesn't correct Taako when he calls him super smart. ]

i guess i made that kinky bed and i've just gotta lie in it
just as long as you're convinced like... if you're gonna think that way, just make sure you're imagining it's harmless fucked up shit and not like, FUCKED UP fucked up shit.

[ What precise terminology, Cisco! And he definitely can't tell if Taako really means it about liking being choked but also he's just going to pretend it's a joke because he's not sure he really wants to know one way or another. ]

doesn't that kind of creep you out, though? like not knowing if there's more you should know but someone's stopped you?

[ Okay it's possible this come close to striking a bit of a nerve. Cisco's not paranoid in the obvious, tinfoil hat and conspiracy theory sort of way. But these days, he's a little touchy when it comes to thinking about other people having power over him, manipulating him, etcetera. ]

Brave, stupid, same thing really. [It had seemed like a fun adventure, and it had seemed like the only option, too. But he's never put too much stock in it being brave.] We stuck with caravans, travelling merchants and performers and shit, anyone who'd let us tag along.

Gods, fine, I won't tell everyone you get your rocks off watching people get murdered or something. Maybe you're just a furry.

[Not that being a furry is The Weirdest thing but he's not gonna talk about anything too gross.]

You're talking to the guy who had his fucking sister erased from his memory so

yeah it fucking sucks

[ The whole traveling with caravans thing sounds both terribly exciting and adventurous, and also depressing and scary. Cisco wonders which one it really was. Maybe a bit of both, all at the same time. Certainly, it's about as different from his own childhood as it's possible to get. Taako, it sounds like, had had almost too much freedom, whereas Cisco had been trying not to suffocate long enough to get away from his family. ]

how about we just both agree to not tell anyone about this part of the conversation,
how about that.

[ Honestly, Cisco's been called worse things than a furry, but he'd still like to cut off this whole rumors about his dubious erotic tastes thing before it ever has a chance to get started.

And then it's hard to worry too much about that, or about hypotheticals where his memory has been messed with, because... ]

wait what???

I've already made a post on that network thing about it.

[No he hasn't, but he'll leave that for Cisco to discover for himself because he's a lil shit.]

So there's a creature that can erase memories and someone used it to take away 100 years of travelling and my memories of Lup. It was pretty shit, but the voidfish is way more powerful than a single spell, it can erase something from the whole world instead of the whole ten minutes I could do.

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