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[tongueamok]

Hello, this is Carlisle. I mean, it's not Carlisle as in I'm actually answering you right now, so if you're trying to reply to me at the second, you should probably save your breath because I'm not really here. This is some kind of a recording of my voice, but this is my communicator. I'm going to assume these devices are as common here as they are in other places — not my world, but others, ones more technologically advanced than where I come from— so if you'd like to leave me a message, then you may do so here, or er... Right. Here is fine. So just leave yo— [beep]

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voice; cw: drugs

[hasitsthorns]

Carlisle. Buddy. Friend. Dude.

[ He is absolutely none of those things to her and she knows it, but that's besides the point. ]

I know you're a plant guy. Some of your stuff is in the orchard for... that magic thing you do, I guess. I don't know. Point is, do you know anything specifically about Cannabis.

[ Weed. She means weed, but is trying to sound much more intelligent than she actually is. Cut her some slack. ]

[audio]

[tongueamok]

[Buddy? Friend? Dude???]

Yes, I suppose I would be a 'plant guy' who does that 'magic thing,' but don't know anything by that name, and my plants are not in the orchard. Are you sure you don't have me mixed up with someone else?

[audio]

[hasitsthorns]

[ ... squints.

Whose flowers did she steal for her potpourri then??? She figured they were his since his scent is there sometimes. Huh. Anyway. ]

Uuuugh, alright. I'll ask some other people. I'm trying to get Tranquility to grow a thing but I need more information.

[tongueamok]

[Well, he does steal clippings from Sorrow's orchard from time to time, so her nose isn't too bad.]

What exactly does this plant do?

[hasitsthorns]

[ Not what it once was, but not baseline. ]

It's, uh. Medicinal.

[tongueamok]

Well that's vague, now isn't it?

[hasitsthorns]

I mean, yeah.

It helps with, like, aches and pains. Mostly though it just helps people chill out. We call it 'getting high' because it's like a fun, floating sensation.

You also get wicked hungry. We call that the munchies.

[tongueamok]

[All of that sounds familiar, save for the "munchies" part.]

Ah. Like paw plants. You make tea with this Cannabis?

[hasitsthorns]

[ Rosie is actually a bit nervous about the 'munchies' aspect of it, considering her...selective diet. ]

Probably! I think people most often bake it into things. Brownies are popular, but I can't eat those so I've never tried it that way.

[tongueamok]

I can't imagine anything called a brownie can be terribly appetizing, medicinal applications or not.

[hasitsthorns]

Brownies are fucking delicious, man! They're chocolate, gooey treats. Like a cross between cake and fudge? I only ate them once and it was the best.

I'd do anything to eat them again.

[tongueamok]

If your desperation is that great, then why not make such delicacies yourself?

[hasitsthorns]

This place don't really have the stuff for it. Also, I'd be sick for days. Chocolate has something in that's toxic to me because I'm part canine.

[ Casually dropping that she's not human these days. ]

[tongueamok]

[He'd question her non-humanity, but it's just easier to assume she's some kind of Forest Folk hybrid than to first determine if a question is rude, and then asking said question anyway.

Or maybe she's a werewolf. Cisth, that'd be terrible.]

You could bake your plants into other goods.

[hasitsthorns]

[ See, Carlisle, this is the way to get on Rosie's good side. Don't ask questions. She notices the non-inquiry into what she is and is... definitely thankful. It's not a secret anymore, but it gets a little tiring bringing it up time and time again. ]

I mean. Maybe. Most people seem to like the taste of chocolate with it. I like the taste of chocolate too, it just doesn't agree with me.

I know there's substitutes though that are safe for dogs, but... it's just not the same. I'm also absolute garbage at cooking so I'd probably burn the place down before I made anything edible.

[tongueamok]

So if you cannot consume this plant within a brownie, how do you intend to use it?

[hasitsthorns]

Gonna' smoke it, duh. I know how to fold and roll a joint with the best of them.

[tongueamok]

Roll... a joint.

[It's like she's speaking another language.]

[hasitsthorns]

[ Oh. Oh, this will be good. ]

I'll show you, dude. Once I get it, I'll show everyone in the cave. It'll be great.

[tongueamok]

I generally find that when someone assures me something will be great, it distinctly isn't.

[hasitsthorns]

That's because you're already thinking it's not going to be. Power of positive thinking, man. Give stuff a chance.

[tongueamok]

I generally find positive thinking gets me nowhere, as well.

[But alas.]

I suppose I could try it one you procure some of it, but should I wish to soothe my aches and pains, I will enchant some tea.

[hasitsthorns]

It can get you everywhere, man.

[ Not that Rose really practices what she preaches, ahem. ]

Yeah, for sure! Weed tea, a cave specialty. I love it.

[tongueamok]

Paw plants aren't weeds.

[Flatly.]

[hasitsthorns]

Weed is just. The common name we gave it. I don't know why since I don't think it's actually a weed - maybe it is? - but. Anyway.

What are paw plants, then?