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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.

Return haggle?

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.

Do we have a deal?

[...

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.

Vampire blood rules.

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.

oh
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.

Ghouling. That is the process. Can give power. Changes the body to be stronger. Heal faster. Sometimes manifest vampire disciplines. Powers.

I think that all falls under change. Unfortunately.

well
hang on.

no *physical* changes?
no tails or horns or whatever
bones sticking out
none of that?
will they still be them?

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.

The blood can increase that in some cases.

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.]

Edited Date: 2025-11-26 05:03 am (UTC)

[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.]

yeah
you got yourself a deal.

Perfect.

[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.]

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.