02; Text (Open to both courts)

[fairbrook]

[After nearly a month of venturing into the Unseelie territory with her vampiric subordinate, one may wonder exactly what a certain knight has been up to. Though this is not to be seen, she addresses the network mildly irritably, with an important question in mind:]

Where might I acquire cigars?

[Priorities...]

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[bythewaves]

What are cigars, pray tell?

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[fairbrook]

[Things Integra never believed she would have to do in her lifetime: describe a cigar.]

Dried tobacco, wrapped inside of a tobacco leaf.

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[bythewaves]

Ah, forgive me, for I do not think I know what tobacco is either.

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[fairbrook]

It's a type of plant, often rolled in paper or inside of a pipe used for smoking.

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[bythewaves]

And you smoke this plant? How strange! Is it of a medicinal use?

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[fairbrook]

Perhaps not of a medicinal use, no. However, I do find it rather soothing.

[Considering it generally, y'know, causes a multitude of health problems. Not that Integra cares.]

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[bythewaves]

Strange indeed. I wonder that I have never heard of it, but perhaps it is something unique to Men, or even your world specifically.

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[fairbrook]

That is an interesting concept to ponder. What technologies and resources are available to other worlds that do not exist in one's own? What might I be able to cultivate in this world that I be unable to otherwise? Perhaps one should keep a list.

[Though someone else noted they happened upon tobacco. Hmm...]

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[bythewaves]

Alternatively, it may be known by a different name in my world, I suppose - I do not presume to know all the properties or names of the plants that may be found, nor to assume that all of them are known.

[ now if only they had a hobbit handy...]

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[fairbrook]

You have a point I have not yet considered. Do you know of anything similar in your own world?

[Or an Alucard...]

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[bythewaves]

[ the answering text is a long time coming, as Maglor searches through his memory for anything useful ]

Not to my knowledge, but plants and herbs and their uses were never my area of study. Among Men, perhaps - I have heard it said that the Easterlings are fond of a substance that they put in pipes, but I do not know what it is.