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"Does anybody here want scorpion parts?" Ellen asks as she stomps through the door, power armor clanking. "I've got plenty. Stupid things come out in the dark."Her armor's pretty splattered in gray-green arachnid blood and scored in places with the marks left by very tough chitin. This has not been the best day she has ever had, no

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[crabbycustomer]

Karkat perks up at that, and bounces up from his seat on the couch.

"WHAT DO YOU WANT FOR THEM? IF THEY AREN'T EDIBLE I COULD PROBABLY ALCHEMIZE SOMETHING COOL WITH THEM."

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"I've heard some of the meat is-"

Ellen pauses; she's just seen the speaker. Mutants back home don't really come in colors other than green and some sort of purplish-blue. On the other hand, they don't come in sizes that small, either, so he's probably not a mutant. Maybe an alien. And since he's not a green alien with three fingers on each hand- heck, he's got hair- he's not the bad kind of alien.

"-well, I've heard some of the meat is edible to humans, but I've never been able to get much of it out of the carapace myself," she resumes. "It's pretty thick. Poison glands as big as my fist, too, if you have use for that. I'm open to a lot of trade possibilities- depends how much scorpion you can take off my hands."

[crabbycustomer]

He frowns, in thought not displeasure. "IF IT IS EDIBLE I CAN TAKE AS MUCH AS YOU HAVE, SCORPION TREATS ARE A TRADITIONAL SWEEP'S EVE SNACK. I WILL BE THE MOST FESTIVE MOTHERFUCKER GOING."

"HOW POISONOUS ARE THESE POISON GLANDS?" The troll metabolism can handle a certain amount of poison. It's like hot sauce.

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"Some of the raiders and tribespeople out there dip darts in the glands to paralyze their targets' legs with one hit," Ellen says. "I've got one on me, actually- hang on-"

It can't hurt to give him a sample, right? Unless it's, y'know, hurting the way poison generally hurts.

"There's a woman my friend Corazon knows who makes a casserole with these things. I have no idea how she does it, but apparently your whole mouth goes numb in the process."