seasonality ✦ tsuyukusa

[commandertoolbelt]

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[branches]

Could you make a machine that dries things out fast or grinds them up? When I'm making a powder that can be easily added to ointments or drinks that's what takes the longest.

[commandertoolbelt]

[ his expression turns thoughtful. ]

You mean like a mortar and pestle, or something automated? Because I could do both. I don't know if we have the supplies here right now, but maybe Iris would take vouchers for it...

[branches]

W-well you shouldn't use your vouchers on it. I mean, I can still do it by hand the way I have been, after all. We should use vouchers for important things.

[commandertoolbelt]

...Alright, fine. Maybe after graduation, then.

[branches]

[Nods at that.]

So what else is in here?

[commandertoolbelt]

Tools, mostly. Some robotics kits, which I've been fiddling around with a lot. It's not enough to make something we could use for trials, like I was hoping, but it keeps my hands busy, anyway.

And any of this stuff could be used as a weapon in a pinch, too - especially the tools. I end up fighting a lot of monsters with hammers back home.

[branches]

Yeah, I remember.

You'd think they wouldn't leave all these potential weapons around when it seems they were careful enough to not grow any ornamental plants that are poisonous.

[commandertoolbelt]

Yeah, well. We still can't take the really dangerous stuff out.

[ he fishes a box cutter out of a toolbox. ]

I'd love to be able to take this or one of the heavier hammers with me, but they just go poof. So it's not like it's that much different than the plants.

[branches]

So you can keep working on your projects even back at your dorm, huh?

[commandertoolbelt]

That's be nice, yeah. I've got my own tools that I traded vouchers for a while back, but it's not the same as having a whole workshop, you know?

[branches]

[Nods.]

There's loads of plants I normally work with that just don't grow here. So I get what you mean.

[commandertoolbelt]

...Poisonous ones?

[branches]

Well, technically yes. But only because there's some plants that can be used medicinally that are toxic in higher doses. But there's other that just don't seem to grow around here. Maybe they're ones that are endemic in Japan and China but not elsewhere?

[commandertoolbelt]

I guess I wouldn't know. You'd be better off asking the Demeter kids about stuff like that. They're the ones who work in the gardens back home.

It must be frustrating not having them, though. Can you do anything with the one's we've got here?

[branches]

Oh, plenty. Obviously lavender and chamomile are good to help people relax, but lavender can also be used as an anti-septic. Thyme is also good for preventing infection. Mint is good for nausea, and honeysuckle can help headache and applied topically it can reduce inflammation.

[He's happy to have as much as he does!!]

[commandertoolbelt]

[ wow leo is only half following this but he's glad to see tsuyu talk about something he so clearly cares about. he's fond. ]

See, I only know how to use most of those in cooking. I had no idea there was that much more to it.

[branches]

[Yes he's always really cutely soft when he talks about his herbal medicine this is canon.]

People put herbs in food?
[To Tsuyukusa, who doesn't eat, herbs are Medicine Only.]

[commandertoolbelt]

If we didn't use herbs and spices, they wouldn't have much flavor.

[ he'll leave that to the white people thanks ]

[branches]

[Thinks...]

So are there herbs in ice cream? Or sake?
[Are these??? All Tsuyukusa likes to eat????]

[commandertoolbelt]

I... think that depends on the flavors? There's probably something out there you'd like.

[branches]

Well I like sake. But I can only have any here when Shinonome sneaks some out of the SUB for me.

[commandertoolbelt]

[ slow blink ]

I take it that's not illegal for trees. Wow. I'm a little jealous?

[branches]

Human laws don't apply to ayakashi, obviously?

The sort of alcohol Molly and Sakyou drink isn't good though.

[commandertoolbelt]

You don't have to brag about it.

I've never even tried sake. Our camp director's the god of wine, so you'd think we'd be allowed to have wine? No! He drinks Diet Coke now!

[branches]

That's one of those sodas?
[It sounds sort of like coca cola which he knows is one thanks to Leo.]

I could get Shinonome to get another bottle if you want to try it?