shitposting rave 3: Dawn of the third rave

That's nice, the calendars are good...

[Ref tilts his head, his wings flicking uncertainly.]

Spoiler: @Aerobolt

Is it bad right now? Sorry... Do... Should I call Whiz? Or would you rather just have a bit of quiet time? I can... I can leave again if you'd rather not... You know...

[At that Reffy very carefully wriggles out of the hug from Swifty and makes an uncertain step forward, then hesitates again, wings drooping. He wishes he could help...]

:c

 

Yes, busy, I geeet that, and yet here I find you in, like, an even larger tangle than the one we let you have at Nimbus Covert.
(She does the hands-on-hips-pose.)

 

... okaaaaay...

 

Yep! You're a djinn and magic so you probably won't need a weapon! Fighting with a sword is a lot harder than fighting with your fists.

 

You know there's a word for that?

 

C-O-M-E-A-N-D-L-O-O-K-A-T-T-H-E-R-O-S-E-S-I-T-S-C-A-L-M-E-R-H-E-R-E-A-N-D-A-B-I-T-L-E-S-S-A-W-K-W-A-R-D

 

(Yep that's morse. Resonating like actual words, too.)
(Skyfall huffs and folds down between the flowers to sulk.)

 

What's a sword?

 

...Sorry, Reffy...

 

(Tempest Dive goes back to watering her flowers. She'll never understand the faster ones, but Skyfall is slowing down a little. Good for her. Slowing down and looking at things helps a lot.)

 

thats howv hobbies vwork. you get a couple of perigees of kick and then they fade into the background vwith evwerything else.

 

*frowns* But... the other yous like it much, much more than that. *laughs* Heck, they seem to be more into it than even I am. And some of them have actually gotten laid a lot, somehow, so... I don't think it fades for them.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puberty

 

It's a long blade with a short handle. There are lots of different types!

 

Well, yeah, puberty, but I got out of that millennia ago and my libido hasn't stopped. Calmed a bit but not stopped.

 

So, a big knife?

 

do you vwant a medal for being an eternal adolescent or something.

 

Sort of! Lots of them have what's called a 'crossguard' between the blade and the hilt, which is kind of different from a knife. Knives with crossguards are daggers.

 

*groans* No!

 

What are the crossguards for?