Thanks for calling. If you're reaching out to sell your soul, I'll already know and I'll be there soon. If you're calling to just talk, leave a message and I'll call you back when I can. Which will probably be soon. Talk to you then~
exactly. i got someone i wanna protect. and if they get sent home they end up in infinite time loops doomed to fall apart and dissolve into goo painfully. already been through 200 years worth of loops so no telling when the goo happens.
i wanna make sure they never go back there again. no cost is too big aside from their soul or my soul. we need those if i'm gonna keep spending time with them.
That's a big ask. You want them to be put in a world you can visit? Or your world with you? Or Ellipsa?
We will need to hash out the details before I name prices.
Also, for the record. I only ask for souls to be in service when they die. After their natural life has concluded. In case that makes any sort of difference.
in that case i definitely can't offer a soul seeing as how i'm already dead. and since i am dead and immortal i'd want nenonen to keep their soul too. sorry bougre.
[... That's "bougre" as in "buddy" or "homie", not "bougre" as in "bastard".]
as for the details world i can visit's works wish i could say ellipsa. but i don't know if that would work. they're already here i wanna make sure that they go somewhere safe if ellipsa's magic bugs out and sends them away again.
my world's for the dead. if they show up in my world they'd probably be dropped among the living and there's nothing i could do for them there. so world i can visit's fine.
A world you can visit. And one where you can be there for them. I can do that.
I also love how French for buddy is also for bastard. So fun.
And both so fitting for me too.
Alright. I know a world. Safe and removed from any possibility of time loops. Since it's technically removed from time entirely. Holds no sway over Toby Town. And you would be welcomed there. And since the Hedge exists as an interdimensional fabric between dimensions, achieving access in almost any realm is very easy. So long as you know the secret knock or know someone or something from Faerie.
Which you do now. So a means of traversal and visiting as well.
As what you will receive, do we agree upon the package proposed?
He wasn't told Max was a Faerie. So his response is gonna... Take a moment. Chipp's not as good with words as other people might be, but he knows that fucking up what he says here could stick him in some sort of bargain without even knowing the price, so...
...
H-honestly, he just unblocks Louis on the network for a moment. That's the only person he knows could talk to Faeries without stumbling into some sort of magical red tape loophole, so he'll send him a rundown, ask for help formulating a good response, threaten his life if Louis fucks with him over this, et cetera. Reblocks him afterward, because obviously.
And then --]
sounds like a good deal one i would agree to if i knew the price. since i don't know the price i won't say i agree. but i like how it sounds.
also that's only buddy in cajun french. try not to say it around anyone from france :)
Just wanted to get your full list of conditions on the checkout counter before we talk price. Gives me ideas for just how much to charge.
Something like this is very much soul worthy but as discussed, that's a nonstarter. So we gotta come up with something equal in total value. A sum greater than the whole of its parts kinda thing.
So. A simple request of a major boon won't be enough on its own. But we can build off of it. You are going to owe me favors enough to equal the value of yours and their souls combined. Now. The scope of these favors we can discuss in further detail.
My opening bargain being these favors have no limits except I cannot make you do something that would break our deal or endanger the one you seek to save directly or indirectly knowingly. Should I have reasonable idea that it could cause them harm, I cannot ask you to perform such a task. Otherwise, all is fair game.
oh bless your heart you're trying to haggle! okay i get it now i can do that.
so lemme put the biggest thing on the table. the one thing i can offer that i know most folks give a lotta value.
i'm a professional killer. more than that i'm a professional at kidnapping jailing and torturing. and i specialize in doing this for people who *others* can't keep contained. now personally i keep my targets limited to criminals. i won't hurt kids i won't hurt animals i won't hurt innocents. but that's just my usual code.
for nenonen i'll do anything.
that said i do got one limit on all that. you can't ask me to hurt anyone they love. so just in case if you got a target in mind you gotta tell me with the space to tell you "hey that one won't work."
aside from that fair game. and keeping info straight "fair game" also includes stuff that ain't killing.
i'm also a roboticist an artist a gardener a baker and a chef. but i know most folks want the killing. so i don't blame you if you do.
I always haggle. People really do assume the worst of me when we start the bargaining process.
Not their fault. Fairies and our reputations and al that.
Such a very impressive resume. So you will do anything besides the predetermined rules you laid out.
I follow your personal code to the best of my ability. But if someone does still fall under fair game, you will contain or kill or make a meal, or bake, or garden, or create, or build and program, for me when I ask. Until your debt is paid.
I will keep my end of the bargain from the moment the deal is struck. No need for payment first. Now, should you and this Nen both vanish before the price is paid in full, I will still hold up my end in exchange for you to finish paying for the debt in my world when I summon you from yours or while you are visiting.
Servitude, then. There's another stretch of time, but not because Chipp's typing. Just because he's gotta decide how he feels about that.]
two more things then i'll decide.
1. they won't be stuck there? once ellipsa's got the magic to make it happen i can get them back out of it? we wanna bring them to my world someday. they'd have to die but they'd be with me then. can't do that if they're stuck there.
and 2. how long this debt gonna take? i'm immortal man i can't be your little buttmonkey *forever*. i don't mind having a debt but i won't agree to one that don't got an end date.
[...]
three more things. 3. they have shit health and a short lifespan ten years left. anything you can do about that? wrap it into the cost?
1. They will be able to leave as they wish, yes. The deal is enacted if/when Ellipsa's hold wanes. That way they do not return to their home world.
2. It will be until the price in favors for your wish is paid. The amount of help and what it is worth will chip away at your debt. Big favors will erase more than small ones. They all stack until the debt is paid. You will have a nice little tracker to ensure you know how close you are to paying it off.
3. I can do that rather easily. Halt their lifespan where it is now. All they have to do is drink my blood. Once a month.
Should they be taken to Toby Town, I will ensure another donor will be handy to continue the blood drinking to halt the aging process and keep the clock from ticking.
first two sound good. can't do the blood. they're toxic every part of them. not the fun kind either. bad kind. kill the instant it touches shit kind. its the reason they're turning to goo body can't handle their own blood their "essence".
i'm one of the only people in ellipsa that's immune to it and it's just cause i'm made out of magic.
Confirmation: I don't drink their blood. They drink mine. From a cup.
Should stabilize their body.
If that is still a no go.
Makes it trickier. Still possible.
To halt the clock, stop it without that easy method will up the price of the debt. I will have to take on some bigger burden in the process. And I will need to see them. In person. In order to copy their timeline for myself. Which, from the sounds of it, is going to be a lot. Might need more shards. Gotta request them from the shop. Make sure there is enough space. I will get on that.
[... He thought Nen had to bite Max. And was totally cool with that idea otherwise, yes.]
uh i guess as long as it doesn't change them the blood thing's fine. but they can't handle changing their body i mean won't even use animal shapes here. so if drinking your blood does that that's a no go.
No physical changes no. No fangs, no tails, no horns, no bones or rotting flesh.
They are still them.
They might develop a blood bond with me. Basically a kind of addiction to my blood. But since we'll only be doing one every thirty days, should be minimal if it happens at all.
Whatever emotions they may feel for me, friendship, distrust, etc could be heightened but only to a small degree. The first stage only. Never escalating from there unless they somehow burn through the blood inside them. Then they will need more before the thirtieth day. Which can escalate the cravings. And the bond.
Full disclosure of possible side effects. They may also have increased libido given my mother is from clan Daeva. Passion vampires. Feeding during sex and arousing emotions and heightening arousal.
as long as they're still them then that works i'll take it.
side effects are workable we can figure something out. workshop it if shit happens.
libido though dunno if that's possible at this point heh. i love my lil nenett but they're a worse horndog than i am. which means yknow if it happens i'm prepared. if they get bitey when we're at it so be it won't hurt them drinking MY blood anyhow.
I will still obtain a shard just in case we need it for whatever reason.
And they might get bitey but they won't be a vampire. Just a ghoul. So there is that.
Alright. Then one last thing.
Do we have a deal?
[A contract is manifest wherever Chipp is, floating in the air. Then a pen appears next to it, shaped like a semiquaver. The contract spells out all they have agreed to without anything added in. No sneaky fine print here.]
[There may be no fine print... but Chipp's still gonna take a second to read it over, just to make sure. The pen's not taken, though. Grim Reapers don't sign legal documents with ink. Not binding enough.
Instead, he overs his hand over the contract, and in a burst of light - like a laser hitting metal - a design not too unlike the eye on his screen is etched into the contract's paper, glowing a soft violet color once he's finished with it. His divine seal. As a creature of divinity among angels and demons.]
same to you too. before i leave you alone though it's clear you can poof things around. wanna send me a cup of that blood? we can get them started now. unless you wanna be there for it?
I'd like you both to be there for the first dose. Just in case anyone has any questions. Make sure everyone has full knowledge and consent is given to the ghouling process. If that's alright.
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Date: 2025-11-26 02:16 am (UTC)From:i got someone i wanna protect.
and if they get sent home
they end up in infinite time loops
doomed to fall apart
and dissolve into goo
painfully.
already been through 200 years worth of loops
so no telling when the goo happens.
i wanna make sure they never go back there again.
no cost is too big
aside from their soul
or my soul.
we need those
if i'm gonna keep spending time with them.
aside from that?
name your price.
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Date: 2025-11-26 03:11 am (UTC)From:We will need to hash out the details before I name prices.
Also, for the record. I only ask for souls to be in service when they die. After their natural life has concluded. In case that makes any sort of difference.
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Date: 2025-11-26 03:18 am (UTC)From:i definitely can't offer a soul
seeing as how i'm already dead.
and since i am dead
and immortal
i'd want nenonen to keep their soul too.
sorry bougre.
[... That's "bougre" as in "buddy" or "homie", not "bougre" as in "bastard".]
as for the details
world i can visit's works
wish i could say ellipsa.
but i don't know if that would work.
they're already here
i wanna make sure that they go somewhere safe
if ellipsa's magic bugs out
and sends them away again.
my world's for the dead.
if they show up in my world
they'd probably be dropped among the living
and there's nothing i could do for them there.
so
world i can visit's fine.
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Date: 2025-11-26 03:28 am (UTC)From:I also love how French for buddy is also for bastard. So fun.
And both so fitting for me too.
Alright. I know a world. Safe and removed from any possibility of time loops. Since it's technically removed from time entirely. Holds no sway over Toby Town. And you would be welcomed there. And since the Hedge exists as an interdimensional fabric between dimensions, achieving access in almost any realm is very easy. So long as you know the secret knock or know someone or something from Faerie.
Which you do now. So a means of traversal and visiting as well.
As what you will receive, do we agree upon the package proposed?
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Date: 2025-11-26 03:34 am (UTC)From:He wasn't told Max was a Faerie. So his response is gonna...
Take a moment. Chipp's not as good with words as other people might be, but he knows that fucking up what he says here could stick him in some sort of bargain without even knowing the price, so...
...
H-honestly, he just unblocks Louis on the network for a moment. That's the only person he knows could talk to Faeries without stumbling into some sort of magical red tape loophole, so he'll send him a rundown, ask for help formulating a good response, threaten his life if Louis fucks with him over this, et cetera.
Reblocks him afterward, because obviously.
And then --]
sounds like a good deal
one i would agree to if i knew the price.
since i don't know the price
i won't say i agree.
but i like how it sounds.
also
that's only buddy in cajun french.
try not to say it around anyone from france :)
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Date: 2025-11-26 03:53 am (UTC)From:Something like this is very much soul worthy but as discussed, that's a nonstarter. So we gotta come up with something equal in total value. A sum greater than the whole of its parts kinda thing.
So. A simple request of a major boon won't be enough on its own. But we can build off of it. You are going to owe me favors enough to equal the value of yours and their souls combined. Now. The scope of these favors we can discuss in further detail.
My opening bargain being these favors have no limits except I cannot make you do something that would break our deal or endanger the one you seek to save directly or indirectly knowingly. Should I have reasonable idea that it could cause them harm, I cannot ask you to perform such a task. Otherwise, all is fair game.
Return haggle?
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Date: 2025-11-26 04:03 am (UTC)From:you're trying to haggle!
okay
i get it now
i can do that.
so
lemme put the biggest thing on the table.
the one thing i can offer
that i know most folks give a lotta value.
i'm a professional killer.
more than that
i'm a professional at kidnapping
jailing
and torturing.
and i specialize in doing this
for people who *others* can't keep contained.
now
personally
i keep my targets limited to criminals.
i won't hurt kids
i won't hurt animals
i won't hurt innocents.
but
that's just my usual code.
for nenonen
i'll do anything.
that said
i do got one limit on all that.
you can't ask me to hurt anyone they love.
so
just in case
if you got a target in mind
you gotta tell me with the space to tell you
"hey
that one won't work."
aside from that
fair game.
and keeping info straight
"fair game"
also includes stuff that ain't killing.
i'm also a roboticist
an artist
a gardener
a baker
and a chef.
but
i know most folks want the killing.
so i don't blame you if you do.
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Date: 2025-11-26 04:19 am (UTC)From:Not their fault. Fairies and our reputations and al that.
Such a very impressive resume. So you will do anything besides the predetermined rules you laid out.
I follow your personal code to the best of my ability. But if someone does still fall under fair game, you will contain or kill or make a meal, or bake, or garden, or create, or build and program, for me when I ask. Until your debt is paid.
I will keep my end of the bargain from the moment the deal is struck. No need for payment first. Now, should you and this Nen both vanish before the price is paid in full, I will still hold up my end in exchange for you to finish paying for the debt in my world when I summon you from yours or while you are visiting.
Do we have a deal?
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Date: 2025-11-26 04:25 am (UTC)From:Servitude, then. There's another stretch of time, but not because Chipp's typing.
Just because he's gotta decide how he feels about that.]
two more things
then i'll decide.
1. they won't be stuck there?
once ellipsa's got the magic to make it happen
i can get them back out of it?
we wanna bring them to my world someday.
they'd have to die
but they'd be with me then.
can't do that if they're stuck there.
and 2. how long this debt gonna take?
i'm immortal man
i can't be your little buttmonkey *forever*.
i don't mind having a debt
but i won't agree to one that don't got an end date.
[...]
three more things.
3. they have shit health and a short lifespan
ten years left.
anything you can do about that?
wrap it into the cost?
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Date: 2025-11-26 04:33 am (UTC)From:2. It will be until the price in favors for your wish is paid. The amount of help and what it is worth will chip away at your debt. Big favors will erase more than small ones. They all stack until the debt is paid. You will have a nice little tracker to ensure you know how close you are to paying it off.
3. I can do that rather easily. Halt their lifespan where it is now. All they have to do is drink my blood. Once a month.
Should they be taken to Toby Town, I will ensure another donor will be handy to continue the blood drinking to halt the aging process and keep the clock from ticking.
Vampire blood rules.
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Date: 2025-11-26 04:36 am (UTC)From:can't do the blood.
they're toxic
every part of them.
not the fun kind either.
bad kind.
kill the instant it touches shit kind.
its the reason they're turning to goo
body can't handle their own blood
their "essence".
i'm one of the only people in ellipsa
that's immune to it
and it's just cause i'm made out of magic.
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Date: 2025-11-26 04:40 am (UTC)From:Should stabilize their body.
If that is still a no go.
Makes it trickier. Still possible.
To halt the clock, stop it without that easy method will up the price of the debt. I will have to take on some bigger burden in the process. And I will need to see them. In person. In order to copy their timeline for myself. Which, from the sounds of it, is going to be a lot. Might need more shards. Gotta request them from the shop. Make sure there is enough space. I will get on that.
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Date: 2025-11-26 04:42 am (UTC)From:no
i thought
you know
vampire?
[... He thought Nen had to bite Max. And was totally cool with that idea otherwise, yes.]
uh
i guess
as long as it doesn't change them
the blood thing's fine.
but they can't handle changing
their body i mean
won't even use animal shapes here.
so if drinking your blood does that
that's a no go.
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Date: 2025-11-26 04:46 am (UTC)From:I think that all falls under change. Unfortunately.
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Date: 2025-11-26 04:48 am (UTC)From:hang on.
no *physical* changes?
no tails or horns or whatever
bones sticking out
none of that?
will they still be them?
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Date: 2025-11-26 04:54 am (UTC)From:They are still them.
They might develop a blood bond with me. Basically a kind of addiction to my blood. But since we'll only be doing one every thirty days, should be minimal if it happens at all.
Whatever emotions they may feel for me, friendship, distrust, etc could be heightened but only to a small degree. The first stage only. Never escalating from there unless they somehow burn through the blood inside them. Then they will need more before the thirtieth day. Which can escalate the cravings. And the bond.
Full disclosure of possible side effects. They may also have increased libido given my mother is from clan Daeva. Passion vampires. Feeding during sex and arousing emotions and heightening arousal.
The blood can increase that in some cases.
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Date: 2025-11-26 04:58 am (UTC)From:then that works
i'll take it.
side effects are workable
we can figure something out.
workshop it if shit happens.
libido though
dunno if that's possible at this point
heh.
i love my lil nenett
but they're a worse horndog than i am.
which means
yknow
if it happens
i'm prepared.
if they get bitey when we're at it
so be it
won't hurt them drinking MY blood anyhow.
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Date: 2025-11-26 05:02 am (UTC)From:And they might get bitey but they won't be a vampire. Just a ghoul. So there is that.
Alright. Then one last thing.
Do we have a deal?
[A contract is manifest wherever Chipp is, floating in the air. Then a pen appears next to it, shaped like a semiquaver. The contract spells out all they have agreed to without anything added in. No sneaky fine print here.]
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Date: 2025-11-26 05:07 am (UTC)From:The pen's not taken, though. Grim Reapers don't sign legal documents with ink.
Not binding enough.
Instead, he overs his hand over the contract, and in a burst of light - like a laser hitting metal - a design not too unlike the eye on his screen is etched into the contract's paper, glowing a soft violet color once he's finished with it.
His divine seal. As a creature of divinity among angels and demons.]
yeah
you got yourself a deal.
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Date: 2025-11-26 05:09 am (UTC)From:[The contract and the pen both vanish.]
A pleasure doing business with you.
[The sound of a guitar sting is heard around Chipp. The deal is sealed.]
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Date: 2025-11-26 05:11 am (UTC)From:before i leave you alone though
it's clear you can poof things around.
wanna send me a cup of that blood?
we can get them started now.
unless
you wanna be there for it?
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Date: 2025-11-26 05:20 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2025-11-26 05:21 am (UTC)From:i get that.
in that case
you just tell me when you're ready.
i'll go get nenett caught up
merci.
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Date: 2025-11-26 05:22 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2025-11-26 05:25 am (UTC)From:i don't got plans
don't think they do either!
so lemme go give them the rundown
and i'll send you a text.
sound good?
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