It's automatic, you've gotta have it

[roundandaround]

WHO: Rinku, you
WHAT: Playing with animal transformation, research attempts, rolling gacha with touch energy, and watching a Sobble buy groceries.
WHEN: Early March
WHERE: Solarpeak, Amberfall, Nightwake
WARNINGS: Some NSFW discussion in threads

[1) Solarpeak Lake]

[There's a fish in the Solarpeak lake/pool today. A specific fish, and one that seems to be diving into the bottom of the pool and then dragging stuff up to the shore in its mouth. Mostly cool-looking seashells, come to think of it... What's with that?

Anyone who comes to shore to check it out will be greeted by the fish speaking in Rinku's voice when she surfaces.]

Hi! Are you looking for shells too?

[2) Amberfall Library]

[Rinku's last trip in here to try and study didn't go well, mostly because she's really bad at it. But she's trying it anyway, and right now, with a basket full of romance novels (again?), she's wandering the cookbook section with a growing frown.]

There's a lot of books about cake, but I don't see any about blood yet...

[3) Gacha Arcade]

[Hey, remember the Gacha My Heart quest? Because that game store's still going strong, including the machines that run on touch energy, and Rinku is all over it today. This time, she's hit up a machine that advertises gift certificates for restaurants around the city. She pulls a ticket and reads it over.]

Aww, please play again? Okay!

[She looks and waves to the nearest person.]

Oh, hey, can you help? I'll need more touch energy to pull a bunch more!

[4) Grocery Store]

[Rinku is outside a grocery store, peering in from behind a telephone pole. If someone approaches, she'll look over, wave, and whisper to them.]

Shh! I'm following to make sure Mecchan does okay. He's on his first errand!

[Sure enough, when she points toward the shop doors, there's her Sobble, dragging a shopping tote bigger than he is behind him into the store and holding a shopping list in the other hand.]

Comments

[roundandaround]

[She slumps a little and rubs the back of her head.]

I know you don't want me to read that stuff for research, but...

[abnormalizes]

But?

[Patiently.]

[roundandaround]

[Embarrassed noise.]

How do I ask for advice if I don't know what I'm supposed to ask? Or what I should know? So I thought reading it anyway was fine. And sometimes it's fun! Sometimes I lose my attention span and can't finish it, but...

[abnormalizes]

Mm. A lot of stuff will come up organically as you have sex more? You don't have to learn everything right away.

[roundandaround]

[Rinku's face grows redder and she looks at the ground.]

You read these.

[abnormalizes]

Yeah, I do. But I also have enough sexual experience to know that - hang on.

[She picks up a random one of the books Rinku has, Strung by the Virtuoso and flips through it.]

-that violin resin is not a good substitute for lube.

[roundandaround]

[Rinku squeaks and shuffles her feet.]

What is violin resin?

[Well, at least she knows what lube is.]

[abnormalizes]

Violin rosin increases the friction between the bow and the string, which makes it vibrate more, I think? The important thing is that it increases friction which is the opposite of what lube should do.

[roundandaround]

Why wouldn't you just buy actual lube, though, they don't sell violin rosin at the corner store.

[Once again, Rinku's simple brain.]

[abnormalizes]

I guess in this book they weren't prepared and didn't have lube? And they went 'well we have rosin, that'll work' and that absolutely will not work.

[roundandaround]

[Sulk.]

Sorry. I know you don't want me to read this stuff to learn. But sometimes I don't know anything, and I at least wanna be able to say "hey is this real or a bad idea."

[abnormalizes]

[Sighs, and gives Rinku some head scritches.]

Promise me you won't try using any item, kink, or new sex position you find from these until you've asked someone if it's a good idea.

[roundandaround]

[Rinku nudges into the head scritches and makes another embarrassed noise.]

Okay... Sorry I made you worry. I didn't wanna, but I guess I'm not good at hiding things, either.

[abnormalizes]

It's okay. Big sisters are supposed to worry about their little sisters, I'm pretty sure? It's part of the job description.

[roundandaround]

That's probably true, huh?

[Rinku rubs the back of her head and picks up the fallen books.]

Hmm, I should probably figure a cake out for Mecchan, too, but at least for him I can just buy one.

[abnormalizes]

Does he have any favorite flavors you know of?

[...if he's a lizard, does he eat bugs?]

[roundandaround]

Hm... I used to just give him bugs and leaves and kibble, like Leon-kun, but as he got older and I saw it was okay, I started giving him human food. His favourite food is curry rice, and he likes shrimp-and-mayo pizza, but those aren't really cake flavours...

[abnormalizes]

Hmm, yeah, not really. You could do spice cake maybe? That's kind of like curry.

[roundandaround]

Huh, that's true! It doesn't taste like curry, but he might like it anyway. Or since he's still a kid, maybe something like yellow cake that everyone has. I wanna do something for him maybe this month or next. Not during the End-of-Winter Festival, though, there's gonna be way too much excitement and he'd cry.

[abnormalizes]

Oh, yeah, definitely not, he'd be overwhelmed. Some people can do big combo stuff but Mecchan is not one of them. Speaking of, did you know Max and I have the same birthday?

[roundandaround]

Wow, really? Wah! Wait, that means I didn't get him anything!

[abnormalizes]

Oh! I'm sure he won't mind a late present?

[roundandaround]

I hope not, with how much it sounds like he's gone through. I did bring him a steak the night he got back, and some of Hina-chan's blood boxes in case that helped with magic at all.

[abnormalizes]

I'm sure he appreciated it, whether or not it helped directly.

[roundandaround]

I hope so. I don't really know how magic and blood are related and what helps with what.