001 — Text — UN: SHINIGAMI

[mikoshi]

[ Text only from the guy who hates calls and/or being recorded. ]

Got it — that gold-red fern that only opens up during the day? Tobacco like.

Gives you a headache first time you smoke it, but afterwards? Smooth sailing.

Bring me samples of the leaves, drier the better. Found rolling papers.

Or don't. I'm not your mom.

[ Yet despite saying that, attached comes a picture of the aforementioned plant (Sun's Lace), two samples in view: one healthy, the other dried up. ] So you gonks don't poison yourselves toking up the wrong herb.

You're welcome ᝰ🚬

Comments

[coherer]

Beeeeetter than the alternative though Y/N?😭
That wormhole came at the right time lol

1/2

[mikoshi]

Dunno
Might still be dying

2/2

[mikoshi]

Sorry
This is none of your business

[coherer]

Hey, it's alright
You don't have to talk about it if you don't want
I totally get it
Like more than most probably
You wanna talk about alien tobacco some more?

un: umbreaker

[shredder]

oh HELL yeah man
i knew rooting for you this whole time was gonna pay off
but be fr: how many plants did you have to smoke before finding the one

[rebelsamurai]

I wouldn't let you touch me with that piece of shit. Nah, you're keeping your dick.

I prefer my men to be semi-organic.

[flavourtown]

Perhaps. More likely it's a side-effect of whatever toxin causes the nicotine-like experience in the first place, but as long as the body adapts quickly, I don't see much of a problem.

Do you have any extra that I could try?

[mikoshi]

[ This brings up a fascinating question... ] Would you still love me if I was 'borged out like Adam Smasher but kept my dick?

[mikoshi]

Wasn't hard. Not the first time I've had to scavenge for cigarettes. Deserts are hella good when it comes to nightshades

[mikoshi]

Just this one. Back home, in the desert, where we couldn't trade for smokes cause we were in the middle of fucking nowhere, we'd forage for similar plants — desert and coyote tobacco

Doesn't taste the same as the tobacco everyone's used to, ain't as strong. But it'll do in a pinch

Like it more, sometimes. Smoother, peppery

[rebelsamurai]

[ Oh god, what the fuck is this? Johnny is already annoyed. ]

It looks like it’s “Dumbass Questions Hour” starring yours truly.

[mikoshi]

Just answer the fucking question, Johnny. I still love you even through you were my tapeworm

[justamobster]

So long as it don't taste like fuckin' cotton candy or some other bushwa. Sick of stinkin' like a sweet shop. [ Because your usual ashtray-made-out-with-a-campfire scent is so much better. Sure, Ladon. ]

Guess I'll see if the shit I been workin' on is better for gasworks. Got a feelin' it's closer to hop anyhow.

[rebelsamurai]

Fuck, fine! I would still love you if you were an ugly, borged-out freak with a human dick attached.

Congrats.

Also, I was an "engram," not a tapeworm.

[mikoshi]

Thanks, babe.

Johnny, you not only lived inside me, you were also draining me of life. [ To make no mention of manipulating Vincent's behavior for his own benefit, just like a helminth. ]

But it's fine. Really

It's fucking hilarious, actually

Feel like those goth girls who have leeches as pets, put little pink ribbons around their necks

[rebelsamurai]

So I'm a "pet leech" now?

[ Ugh. How romantic, V. Real smooth. ]

[mikoshi]

Really think I actually think that of the guy I disassembled Adam Smasher with my bare fists for?

[rebelsamurai]

[ That puts a slight smirk on his face. ]

It sounds like Smasher's death was your indirect way of proposing to me, Vince.

[mikoshi]

If I do Militech next will it be clearer?

[mikoshi]

Gotcha

Not a lot. Enough for a couple more cigarettes. I'm drying up some more, but it's gonna take at least a week

[mikoshi]

It's peppery. Earthy

[rebelsamurai]

No need. I think the message was loud and clear. But if you're hellbent on raiding Militech, I'm coming with you.

[justamobster]

Yeah? Definitely take that over butterscotch. Sounds like a cigar a friend of mine used to smoke.

[mikoshi]

Yeah
Tastes peppery, earthy
Reminds me of coyote tobacco
Static taught me to forage for it
A static before we even had names for statics — a Native, Pomo tribe
Glossiest, blackest hair I've ever seen
Let me roll the dried up leaves, smoke it against my mom's wishes
"Our little secret."

[mikoshi]

Reminds me of Cali, its coyote tobacco. Stuff grows wild there too on the reddish earth — hematite