06 // video; backdated to right after this morning's sirens!

[atrumcanis]

[This time Sirius is looking a little happier, though that's slightly put on--and my, but isn't he looking a fair sight more torn up. School uniform partially destroyed--very dirty, anyways, and torn, half of one shirtsleeve missing--a cut on his forehead, but he's dabbing at the blood with his tie in a distracted sort of way--the beginnings of a

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Voice.

[payingthepiper]

... Is there such a thing as magical coffee?

Voice.

[atrumcanis]

Nah, we just have the regular type. If you're referring to my unusually excellent mood at this dawn hour, Allen my mate, it likely has something to do with adrenaline! I think I am actually bleeding adrenaline, pure and undiluted! Gods could get drunk off of this stuff!

Oi, d'you fancy a trip to the black market as well? It's bound to be brilliant.

Voice.

[payingthepiper]

If you're bleeding it, you might run out sooner than you think and crash horribly. Like at noon. During lunch. [slightest mumble.]

[-- er-] I... don't know - have you been there before?

Voice.

[atrumcanis]

Nah, I'll lick at it, then it'll enter back into my system and process through again. It's a cyclical thinger. Very scientific. Can you tell I've been getting an education?

Not to this one. It will be an Adventure of the most proper sorts.

Voice.

[payingthepiper]

-- That can't be real science. It would encourage cannibalism! Or - have it make some sense. [but...] What's the process called?

... Are you going to go right now?

Voice.

[atrumcanis]

It's called--adrenalo... ci... oxity. Cyclical adrenalocioxity. And in fact, cyclical adrenalocioxity only works properly if you lick up your own, so no cannibalism at all.

Probably not, probably I'll just look at it a bit more, you know; take in the majesty that is this my hard-earned valuable item. Fend off hoards of would-be thieves. Eat bacon and pass out. Then I might go round.

Voice.

[payingthepiper]

Cyclical adrenalocioxity... [a beat.] You're se-- really?

Ah. That sounds better for timing. If you try the butcher's shop down the road of Faren Street, they have bacon-wrapped hamburgers. Do those horns stay around even after you open the box?

Voice.

[atrumcanis]

[oh, hell, he's learning ways around the Sirius-serious joke. will have to increase cleverness.] Wouldn't make jokes about cyclical adrenalocioxity, mate. Very dire business, that.

Bacon wrapped what? Haha, bless, who comes up with these thingers? That sounds amazing, I'll definitely eat a few of those. Er, but--well, yeah, if you open the box during the Darkness, they likely will. But for now, they've got to stay inside, which is why I'm showing off the box, and not the horns directly.

Voice.

[payingthepiper]

That's... I guess, that's... amazing. I-I wonder who first thought about that, or thought about testing it - it does have to be tested to be scientific, doesn't it? By legitimate scientists.

You should probably put a sign saying that.

Voice.

[atrumcanis]

Well, not many tests have been conducted on it, of course. Very few, in point of fact. But the results so far have been amazing, yeah. Complete excitability on the part of every patient tested.

They ought to know better. Anyway, if they ruin 'em, I can always get others. As it turns out, I'm quite good at this, Allen mate.

Voice. 1/3.

[payingthepiper]

You would back it up, too? I guess... that's something to try later --

Voice.

[payingthepiper]

- if it's ever needed! Like right here. I guess. [repeating.] It probably doesn't taste as well as coffee can, though. Right?

Voice.

[payingthepiper]

[... he'd just asked that, hadn't he. hhhng. more important things-- bluntly:]

I- I can't see that. How many times have you attacked monsters for their limbs so far?

Voice.

[atrumcanis]

Oh, it's not a taste that's for everyone. In fact, I dunno that I would recommend it for you, mate, you might not have the constitution for it. Have to build up to it--well, at least for now. Till they perfect it, and all.

But how many--let's see, now... [a long pause, some mumbling; making a big show of thinking--but eventually, with a grin in his voice:] This would be the first! And a great success, too!

Voice.

[payingthepiper]

How did you build up to it? When did they conduct this study, anyway?

Ah. The first time.

...

Sirius?

Where did you find out what sort of items you needed to hunt down?

Voice.

[atrumcanis]

Well, I've always had a tendency to lick at my own blood, y'see, so I've been working up to being able to manage it for quite some time now.

--Er, where? I read it, for starters, I was reading about monsters and they mentioned it. So I asked around a bit, just to be sure that it was true, since it seemed too easy. That what you mean?