HazMat Log 006 ♔ Impending doom and diabetes

[anelegantmyth]

Who: Hazardous Materials
Where: Breakneck Cay and Candy Mountain
When: 5/23 onwards
What: things and stuff
Warnings: sugarrrrrrr
Style: Any!
Status: Zoo entrance fee is 50 doubloons

Hazardous Materials' May log of doom part 2! Date your stuff, you all know the drill.

5/16-5/22: Sailing to Breakneck Cay
5/23-5/24: Who in their right mind thought it was a good idea to go here?
5/25-5/31: Hunting down Candy Mountain
6/1-6/7: DIABETUS MOUNTAIN

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[willwork4sugar]

[Normally he'd wonder about anyone's thoughts to stop and sample rocks. He trusts his nose, however, even if his eyes don't find anything very tasty about it.]

What's it taste like?

[anelegantmyth]

[Says the guy who ate the dirt. But her eyes do light up after swallowing the stone.]

Oh goodness! These are river stones!

[ For the first few seconds, she picks up a handful of little pebbles and starts eating them one by one. Of course, that was until he asked his question. Which she responds to by taking a stone, biting it in half, an showing him the chocolate core. ]

I used to eat these a lot when I was a little girl. But I didn't expect to see them here of all places. You should try one! They're sooo good.

[willwork4sugar]

River stones..?

[Because that doesn't sound tasty, and it's a really strange name for candy.

Gaius arches a brow, but he stoops down to pick one of the pebbles up, sniffing at it before licking it, and then finally biting into it.]

Mmmm....

[anelegantmyth]

Good right? My grandmother used to buy me bags of these when I was a little girl. Then I'd use it to freak out her research assistant by making them believe I was eating real stones.

Speaking of bags of candy, did you find the ones I left for you back on the ship?

[willwork4sugar]

I've never seen stuff like this before. Wonder what else I'm missing out on.

[He pops another into his mouth after he finishes the first one.]

...hm? The chocolate coin ones or are we talking something else?

[anelegantmyth]

Well, I'm almost positive you've never tried a poffins. They're these little sweet cakes made out of different kinds of berries. Usually made for pokemon, but humans could have them too.

[ She probably should mention that she only eats those things when she's stuck in the wilderness and has nothing else to eat, right?...Nah.
Cynthia pockets a few more stones for later, then takes his arm again. ]

Oh no not the coins. I found some sweet heart trees and picked some for you and the boys.

[ Which probably counts as over exerting herself? Whoops. ]

[willwork4sugar]

[If it's sweet and edible, then Gaius won't care about the circumstances so long as it tastes good.

Gaius picks up a few more of the rock-like candies, dropping them into a pouch. He quirks a brow at Cynthia then.]

Sweet heart trees? ...and when did you go and do that, huh?

[anelegantmyth]

Secret~

[She bops his nose lightly before returning her attention to the chocolate waterfall that was coming into view. If there was anything that could cheer her up from her recent shard loss. That was definitely going to be it.]

[willwork4sugar]

[He holds back a sigh, shaking his head as he looks forward, not that the telltale smell of chocolate isn't enough to tell him what to expect.]

I can't believe Twinkles was holding out on me.

[anelegantmyth]

What do you mean?

[willwork4sugar]

Eh, Maribelle said she'd made notes on places here that might be of interest to me, but of course she never bothered to mention anything about there being such an island even back when we were sailing on the same ship!

[anelegantmyth]

Oh...well what ARE your interests? All we ever talk about is the weird things Maribelle tell me about you. It just hit me now that I don't actually know much about you, other than you liking candy and being a thief.

And I didn't know you two were in a crew together.

[willwork4sugar]

Is there anything else you needa know? I think those are the main two right there.

[Candy trumps all.]

We were for a little while. When I first arrived here, I was lucky enough to have found not only someone else from home that showed up around the same time I did, but someone that was with the crew that Maribelle ran. She used to be captain of the Shepherd, named after the group we worked in back in Ylisse.

[anelegantmyth]

Well there's just something off about introducing you as my pre-diabetic exconvict best friend, you know.

[ But she does smile fondly at that thought. ]

Best friend...we've come a long way since our first conversation about chocolate coins huh? To think, I didn't expect to survive long in this world. Now look at me. Standing on an island made out of candy, with a guy who saved my life with a bottle of rum and some bandages.

[willwork4sugar]

[He laughed.]

We have, huh.

...hey, I only did what I knew I could do. You wouldn't need either if you'd just let me ask Twinkles or Brady over to look at you.

[As the waterfall comes fully into sight, he stops to stare because man, that is a beautiful sight.]

This is quite the upgrade from sacks of chocolate coins, though, don't you think?

[anelegantmyth]

Oh come on, you know how I feel about magic. Besides, I'm healing up just fine without it. All I need is a few more weeks to get over these small sharp pains, and I'm sure I'll be back to pissing off natives in no time.

[ She takes a seat on a nearby piece of rock candy and looks up at the waterfall. It was such a beautiful sight, made even better by the fact that it was 100% pure chocolate coming down this waterfall. She was also a little curious if it was a good idea to try out those little marshmallow fish swimming in the river, because they looked DELICIOUS. ]

I'd definitely pick this over chocolate coins. It smells heavenly.

[willwork4sugar]

Yeah, and keep up this kind of activity and you'll add a few more weeks besides.

[Gaius tugs off his right glove as he starts closer towards the chocolate falls, sticking his hand out to catch some of the chocolatey goodness. It's difficult to resist licking off his hand after he's sampled the stuff.]

Oh yeah. This here's quality chocolate. Puts those coins to shame.

[anelegantmyth]

What kind of activity? Walking? You have got to be kidding me right now.

[ It was bad enough Leo was getting all over protective of her. She didn't need Gaius to turn into that too.

But a playful smirk forms on her lips as she gets up and walks over to her darling best friend. Giving him a half hug before pushing him into the chocolate.

Whoops. ]

[willwork4sugar]

[The lopsided grin he flashes at her fades as she steps closer. Yeah, he can't help but be a little guarded at that, because women don't usually just come up to you and hug you for no reason.

...and he was right.

He's not going down alone if he can help it, however. The moment he finds his balance offset, he's going to grab her hand.]

[anelegantmyth]

[In the split second that he managed to grab hold of her, she panicked. This wasn't supposed to happen. Her going down with him WASN'T SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN. HER FUR COAT CANNOT GET COVERED IN CHOCOLATE.

A loud splash follows. Arceus she's not happy about this.

[willwork4sugar]

[At least it isn't terribly deep. The chocolate-covered thief sits up, looking at himself. This...isn't quite how he wanted to enjoy this, but there are worse things.

Being chocolate-covered...is definitely on the tame list.

He lifts a chocolatey hand, licking it before he starts to laugh.]

[anelegantmyth]

[The champion surfaces as well. Slicking back her hair and wiping the chocolate off her face to fling it at him. She didn't take under consideration his quick reflexes.]

Well...that completely backfired on me.

[ Cue the pout. ]

[willwork4sugar]

[He doesn't bother trying to dodge or block that since it'd make little difference anyway. It might be hard to tell for all the chocolate, but that sure is a smirk on his face.]

[anelegantmyth]

[ And that pout quickly disappears from hers. Seriously, she couldn't stay mad at him even if she wanted to. Cynthia inches closer to wipe off the chocolate from the thief's face. ]

You know, the chocolate definitely makes you a whole lot cuter.

[willwork4sugar]

...yeah, much as I like chocolate, I don't think I'd wanna make it a part of my daily wear like this.