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[Guess who? Not that it's difficult, because who else would be texting Papyrus on his phone from home?]

hey
you should stop by your trap before people drop more spears on the guy you caught

[Yeah, uh, he's got two spears in him now.]

MORE SPEARS?
HOW MANY SPEARS HAVE THEY DROPPED ALREADY??
DID THE SPIKES NOT STAB OR SOMETHING

[He wasn't aware that, of all the parts of a trap that might fail, the pointy end of spikes might be the part not working. This is news to him!]

just one
so now he's got one for each leg

[So the spikes totally stabbed, but now it's symmetrical.]

i'm pretty sure he's not a kidnapper though
just a guy who slept next to a spike trap

OH MY GOD

[For all that Barn guy cautioned that the pit was an idea that would surely lead to needless and misplaced injuries, Papyrus really didn't think it would happen that quickly! Why was this guy sleeping on the ground, instead of one of the many still-abandoned houses?? Happily, he's safe to groan in the privacy of the woods where no one can catch him acknowledging that maybe it was a little bit a mistake.]

SOUNDS LIKE HIS MISTAKE!!!
AND NOW HE'S GOTTEN OFF ON THE WRONG FOOT.

[Which someone helpfully corrected with a spear.]

i told him he shouldn't sleep near traps
and he told me about some card game everyone plays where he's from
so we're even

[Not how that works.]

I CAN'T IMAGINE HOW THE CARD GAME WAS RELEVANT

[Was this guy explaining some card game superstition, that sleeping on the ground helps with it...?]

WAIT, IS THIS ONE OF LARK'S FRIENDS?

nah, he doesn't have a bird name
i think he's a new kidnappee
he thought i was from the card game

[A pretty calm reaction to seeing a skeleton, compared to how some of the others have reacted.]

AS WHAT, A MODEL??

[He's trying to imagine Sans posing for a photographer, or artist, or whatever process is involved in making pictures for card games with skeleton cards. It's easy to imagine him posing, as long as the pose was one of "asleep," but other than that...]

HEY, HANG ON.
IF HE'S A NEW KIDNAPPEE
DID THE KIDNAPPERS PUSH HIM AT THE BELL TO TEST FOR TRAPS??

[OH NO! He didn't imagine they might have outwitted his tactics in such a manner! Now he really needs to be on hand to get this not-birded card gamer starting back on the right feet.]

maybe
you'll have to ask him

[Sans thinks the guy just rolled over, though.]

AREN'T YOU RIGHT THERE??
NEVERMIND, I'LL ASK

[He doesn't want Sans relaying messages for him if he can help it, because his brother will surely do something ridiculous with it.]

WHAT SORT OF GUY IS HE?
MONSTER? HUMAN? SOMETHING ELSE?

[It doesn't make a big difference to how healing magic itself works, pushing the body to recombine the damaged bits as well as it can... But he's assuming this guy isn't a water or fire elemental or anything, to still be stabbed.]

i can ask if you want
i've been working on my impression of you

[But actually he's just going to wait for Papyrus and Papyrus can ask.]

he looks human to me

DON'T?

[He just said! And he doesn't want Sans doing his older brother affectionate teasing thing, and give this guy weird ideas about what he's like. Especially if he's not there to see just what this impression consists of.]

SO THE INJURIES... THEY'RE BLEEDING, RIGHT
ARE THEY THROUGH HIS BONES??

[He'll pick up the case in anticipation of a yes, because getting unfamiliar bone to heal right really is tricky - just look at his struggles getting Sans to heal after little injuries over the years! But the rest of humans hadn't seemed as difficult, from the healing he's tried so far. The weird sunlight drain will probably be all the difficulty he needs here.]

definitely bleeding
they're pierced all the way through
so probably they at least did a little bone breaking

[But Sans obviously hasn't checked. He's sitting above the pit and he has not gone down.]

_{[ Kuja has a very particular way of making an entrance. He'll often show up to people unannounced, with no standing plan behind his appearance-- depending on his angle of approach, one might see his shadow briefly pass you over, before you hear the distinctive sound of his boots hitting the ground, when he touches down from the sky. Do you walk anywhere, Kuja? Don't you know that your legs are gonna get weak like that?! ]}

Papyrus~! How good I've caught you. A question has occurred. You're a white mage yourself. Ah-- capable of healing magic, that is. Would you.. want to learn a certain useful bit of magic from me? It has struck me as extremely necessary to share for reasons that will become quickly evident.

Edited 2022-12-04 08:21 (UTC)

[Listen, floating down is a great entrance, especially with long billowing hair to spread out behind him. Why would Papyrus bring himself to critique that, when he tends to use his own flight-ish movement for making a fun exit? The point about exercise is true, but... Eh, Kuja isn't his brother, and he hasn't signed up for that kind of life advice giving just yet.]

Learn some useful magic...? What a generous offer! [Extremely necessary to share or no, he can audibly appreciate the effort. Kuja doesn't seem super inclined to sharing, as a rule, so it's worth rewarding.] I've always been one to pick up cool techniques wherever I can.

_{[[ imo: plan for whatever way you like the vibes of best!!! & we go ask Ori if u decide you'd be interested. In terms of FF9 vs UT lore we.. know p much nothing of where magic comes from, just that it's a normal part of society and you can have innate aptitude for it 🌠 ]]}

Excellent! Though, do bear with me -- my own magic's something I've just always.. _{[ he waves his hand in a little circle by one of his temples. ]} --I never had to learn, so teaching will be interesting! But if it works out, more's the better.

Practicing what I have in mind will be a little tricky with all the snow on the ground, though... If there's nothing suitable here... We might have to practice on the island.

_{[ somehow he doubts sweet ol' Papyrus would be into the idea of him petrifying random animals to practice 'unthawing,' so they really needed to find a good plant to use. could just use a tree but... bit of a tall order for lesson 1. ]}

[[Yeah, deciding things like that is tricky! With UT there's the obviously not innate magic of summoned items (Undyne's spears that need repair kits, Mad Dummy's replaceable dummies, the attacks Alphys and Mettaton share), and yet Vulkin's over there thinking they can heal (and unable to do so) - some innate aptitudes, but some stuff that can be learned/built. While in FF9, we've got the folks w/ horns w/ the knack for summoning and yet Kuja can do it too, and whatever allows magic is something he can manufacture into the black mages, and yet Zidane's over there with hardly a spell to his name... Mysteries. vOv]]

A regular natural, huh?

[It's said a little teasingly, with a trace of envy - great as Papyrus is now, he put a lot of practice in his skills, especially the ones for the fine control not to injure his brother. Not one he regrets learning, by any means, but it took time.]

But what kind of magic is harder with snow around...? Not fire magic, right?

.[That notion gets him dubious in the way that the idea of island practice didn't - he is very visibly a skeleton, not a flame monster, here.]

Call it a talent! Or.. call it cheating. Some column one, some column two.

It's a little spell called 'Break.' It's not hard to cast when it's cold out, exactly-- it's because of how we'll be using it.

You see, Break isn't actually what I wanted to teach you today. _{[ ooooor any day, that one's a little too dangerous for him to want to be handing out like a coupon ]} It's just.. lighting the specific fire we want to put out. I want to show you how to fix what it does, because hopefully, it'll work when something similar happens again.

_{[ you haven't... said what it does, yet, Kuja. ]}

'Break', huh... I hope that isn't a break a bone spell.

[Nyeh heh heh, it's a theater joke. But seriously, he's giving a bit of a skeptical look after that name. Didn't Kuja open this conversation talking about healing magic? Don't tell him they're actually going to break bones to get Papyrus healing them, or something. They're harder to see and fix when they're on the inside!]

It's...

Not quite that.

It's not a very nice spell. _{[ he sure understands that now more than ever! well, time to spit out the important bit-- ]} It turns things to stone. It's called Break, because, well.

_{[ Kuja's doesn't need to call attention to the three red, young feathers on his head for them to be noticeable right now. ]}

Things do become more delicate in such a state. Meanwhile-- the spell I'll show you to counter it is called Stona.

[Sans gets up earlier than usual here. Of course, that's by Sans's standards; there's no doubt Papyrus has been up for a while if he even slept at all the night before. It's Gyftmas, too, which does probably warrant waking up in the morning, even if they can't exactly decorate and celebrate properly here.]

Hey. [Sans pads up behind Papyrus and taps him in the spine with a present wrapped in brown butcher's paper. You take what you can get when you're looting houses and stores for supplies. It's small and soft; not something in a box.] Merry Gyftmas.

[With it being Gyftmas eve (locally), Papyrus put in more than the usual effort at sleeping, pulling out all the stops - whatever night cap he's put together in the last few months, blankets tucked all the way up, eye sockets closed for a while.

It probably lasted as much as two hours, before he woke and got bored and got up to do other things. By the time Sans rises, the previously plain tree will have little bone-looking decorations of various bits of trash, shaped by hand and settled in place.]

Hey, brother! Merry Gyftmas! [He accepts the gift with one hand, and gestures to the tree with the other.] Pretty nice, right?

[Also, there's a box under the tree now. Obviously previously used, but again, what they can get with the scavenging and looting.]

Cool tree decorations. We've definitely got the best tree in town. [(Possibly rhe only tree in town, depending on what everyone else is up to.) Papyrus is definitely the craftier of the two of them; Sans mostly only makes things when he doesn't have any other option. The little bone decorations are pretty fitting for a skeleton household Gyftmas tree. He'll meander over to the tree and the box underneath.

Sans's present to Papyrus definitely isn't wrapped neatly, though Sans certainly tried. It's not as messy as you might think a present from Sans would be. Sans did take the time to draw some little bones haphazardly on the paper. Inside is a knitted winter beanie with a flame pattern. Something like this, except the pattern isn't as neatly done as that. Sans only does crafts when he has to; the flames are kind of messy.]

I'm happy to declare us the victors! Without inviting everyone from home to home. [Not to mention, he doesn't know whether letting people in past the mysterious blood wards once would let them in again, and he doesn't really want to chance it. As for the gift, he grins and settles it on his head, messy flames and all. It's a the thought that counts level of artistry from his brother, and he appreciates it.] Hey, thanks!! I was missing these kinds of cool flames in my life.

[The box contains a previously torn white shirt, cunningly mended with dark fabric - the largest tear was replaced with a vertical bone-like shape, and then rough lettering spells out FOUND THIS HUMERUS.]

You're such a cool guy, I figured you might need some heating up. [Heh. But really, Sans is glad Papyrus seems to like it. Sans, laying eyes on the shirt, immediately grins wider. This is exactly his kind of humor (his humer, heh), and Papyrus knows it.]

You're the best, bro. [Sans is going to put this shirt on immediately. Over top of his current shirt, like a weirdo.]

That's completely true, I am!! [Papyrus pointedly basks in the praise for a moment, then gives a sidelong glance about that attire choice. It's supposed to be an extra shirt for fashion versatility, not for layering...]

Don't tell me you're getting cold too. Who knows where we can find more hat material! [Or more pun material, because he is a generous sibling giving the gift of shirts he'll regret to see later.]

I got a bunch of yarn from one of the stores. [Illegal yarn theft. It's possible Sans may have made other things for other people, even. Amazing. Sans's voice is slightly muffled by his putting on this shirt, but his head pops out after a second.] Man, everybody's gonna be jealous of what you got me. It's just too cool.

[On the one hand, his hat is made of crimes. On the other hand, if everyone from this town basically abandoned it to go on vacation, it's like a fire sale - making the hat doubly appropriate. He'll see about paying the shop's owner(s) back only if they reappear.]

As long as they're not so jealous they start imitating it... [He hadn't considered this dread possibility before, and now he's having the slightest regrets about this gift. Good thing so many people are more into blood, murder, and demon summoning than old fashioned bone puns.]

How could they, it'd take a guy as cool as you to make another. [That's probably not true but Sans would also always think Papyrus's was the best. Now that he's got the shirt on, he looks pretty pleased with it.] Maybe I'll just only wear this shirt from now on.

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I REALIZED KUJA WOULDA HAD THIS IDEA AGES AGO AFTER STATUE THREAD. november?? can be dec if'n u want

Dec, and I'm still not sure if it's possible for him to learn FF9 style magic :|a

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action; December 25

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