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USERNAME: CASHEWLATER CYNO GENSHIN IMPACT TEXT • AUDIO • VIDEO • ACTION • OVERFLOW

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delivery. pre-event

[fussiest]

[ delivered to cyno and tighnari's door is a long, wrapped package carefully sealed in layers of brown packaging paper done in kaveh's typical fussy perfectionism. enclosed within is a wooden training rod polished to a wood-grain sheen and carefully balanced for cyno's height and weight.

also enclosed is a small jar of mint-scented hand-made oil with instructions done in kaveh's kshahrewar-standard slanting cursive on how to apply the oil with a microfibre cloth once a week to keep the wood relatively moist. the jar, notably, has had its packaging excised but looks very much like it probably once held tahini. ]

[cashewlater]

[ KAVEH THIS IS TOO SWEET!!!! the moment cyno unwraps it and admires it, he sends a photograph of it in his hand along to kaveh, along with a text. ]

Thanks. I can see you put a lot of work into this. I'll treasure it.

Voice @Alhaitham

[justscribing]

[As soon as Cyno picks up, Alhaitham doesn't even waste his time with pleasantries.]

Come to the poison garden, I need another pair of hands.

[cashewlater]

[ cyno is already moving. ]

I'm on my way. What's wrong?

[justscribing]

Tighnari turned into an animal. I need you to hold his mouth open so I can get the seeds in his mouth.

[cashewlater]

[ oh. the tea. tighnari is gonna kill him.. ]

Okay, I can help. I'll be there in a few minutes.

Text: PantsonPyre

[localweirdo]

👻👻👻BOO!👻👻👻 Did I scare you? Well! It's OCTOBER SO! 🎃 SPOOKY SEASON IS UPON US! 🎃 DO YOU WANT TO MAKE YOUR HALLOWEEN WISH COME TRUE?!?!?! 👻🧟💀 SEND THIS MESSAGE TO 5 OTHER PEOPLE IN HALF AN HOUR AFTER READING THIS...🎃🎃🎃 otherwise something awful will happen on OCTOBER 31! HALLOWEEN! PERHAPS DEATH AWAITS YOU! ☠️☠️☠️ Just kidding you'll just have the bad luck of eternal BODY ODOR!🤢🤢🤢 So better beware!! 👻

text un: lord jackal

[cashewlater]

is this a threat

[localweirdo]

Not really but I would still recommend you send it to 5 people unless you want body odor.

[cashewlater]

a curse, then?

[localweirdo]

You can say something like that.

But what are you going to do? Do you dare send it to others…?

[cashewlater]

of course not. i wouldn't pass on a curse to anyone else. i'll suffer alone.

[localweirdo]

Even with the risk of all that bad body odor?

Aiyah, you're not worried about it at all?

[cashewlater]

of course im worried about it, but better to be cursed than to willingly pass it on to another.

[localweirdo]

Then what will you do in the meantime? As you carry such bad odor, you would be terribly bored with no one being around you!

[And her little prank turned into a direction she was not expecting....]

[cashewlater]

[ he is taking this very seriously okay hu tao!! ]

to be fair, i'm accustomed to people not wanting to be around me.

[localweirdo]

...May I ask why?

[cashewlater]

I'm Sumeru's General Mahamatra. Most people give me a wide berth. They're afraid of me. At least, back home they were.

[localweirdo]

And yet, I am from your world and I am not afraid by you! While I can understand why most people would be scared, I would think you are rather terrifingly friendly!

[cashewlater]

Well, you don't attend the Akademiya nor work as a scholar, so it would make sense that you have no reason to fear me.

But.. I'm glad you feel that way.

[localweirdo]

Of course! I wouldn't want to upset a new friend now, would I?

Now that would be rather unthinkable!

[Hmmmmmmmm???]

[cashewlater]

Friend?

[ 🥺 ]

[localweirdo]

Of course!

Do you not agree?

[cashewlater]

I do agree. Thank you, Hu Tao.

Even though you have cursed me with odor.

[localweirdo]

That is what friends do, no?

But fear not, it is not an actual curse. Should you not fulfill the requirement, you will have endless body odor!

[cashewlater]

I suppose I'll learn to live with it.

[localweirdo]

Again, you seem rather calm about accepting such a fate. It really makes me worried.

[cashewlater]

There are far worse fates, really.

[localweirdo]

I suppose so.

And it makes me worried how you should take care of yourself too.

[cashewlater]

I'm very hygienic, if that's what you're worried about. I keep myself clean.

[localweirdo]

...

I meant how selfless you are.

[cashewlater]

Oh. Right.

[localweirdo]

And you are not going to say much else about it?

[cashewlater]

I suppose not. I don't see anything wrong with being selfless enough not to want to curse your loved ones. Is that not normal?

[localweirdo]

Indeed, it is normal.

I meant the general sense of being too selfless that you don't care for yourself.

[cashewlater]

Ah, well.. I do my best to take care of myself as well as I can, but if it comes down to myself or another person, I will do what I must to help them.

[localweirdo]

Which is a good thing! Just remember what I said though or else I might have to keep reminding you about it.

[cashewlater]

Heh. Right. I'll keep it in mind, thanks.

un: Hat Guy, early/mid Nov before his network post

[featheradrift]

What food do you like.

[ There's zero explanation for the question. He's not going to explain himself. ]

[cashewlater]

Um, like a specific dish? Tahchin is my favorite. I also enjoy biryani. Why do you ask?

[featheradrift]

The food this city provides is disgusting.

[ As if that actually answers Cyno's question, which it doesn't, but he doesn't care to elaborate. ]

Tahchin isn't too difficult to cook.

[cashewlater]

No, it isn't. It's possible to make here, with the ingredients we can find in the shops.

You want the recipe?

[featheradrift]

If you've modified it to use the ingredients here.

[cashewlater]

All you need to do is leave out the padisarah petals, the rest should be the same. You can substitute.. ah, give me a moment, I forgot the name.

[ a minute later: ]

Saffron.

[featheradrift]

Alright. Should be easy enough to find.

[ He's got Alhaitham's list of markets to work through, so finding something that resembles the padisarah shouldn't be too difficult. ]

[cashewlater]

Mhm. Do you need assistance?

[featheradrift]

No. I can do it myself.

You might see the results in a few days.

[cashewlater]

All right. You know how to contact me if you change your mind. Take care.

delivery. backdated to whichever day was the winter solstice in this city!

[fussiest]

[ at tighnari and cyno's door sits a large, handwoven basket holding four paper-wrapped gifts blooming profusely from their seams with long-stemmed paper flowers in dizzying greens and reds and oranges splayed along the painted watercolours of a rising, winter-morning dawn pale with still-visible pinpricks of mourning stars.

the two packages labeled for cyno reveal two full genius invokation decks. each set of thirty cards is carefully cut from cardstock. each card is drawn from kaveh's iron-clad memory, brilliant purples for cyno's and razor's card, a deep blue for the young blue swordsman that cyno often adds to his deck, each and every action card detailed in gorgeous ink strokes made form. the cards are matte. some of them have their point values added, but lack the full description.

this is explained thus: ]

To my dearest friend Cyno,

In trying to recreate yours and Tighnari's TCG decks from memory, I realise that my ability to recall the colours, forms and artwork involved is far better than my ability to recall the words. However, I suspect that you know each and every instruction far better than I would. I invite you to fill in the rest of the descriptions on your cards. When you are done for both decks, bring them to me, and I will apply varnish to them so that they are glossy. They are a poor imitation of the cards you treasure, I know, but I hope that this may bring the joy of the game to you here, where that joy matters most.

You have been a friend to me, Cyno, in ways that I can never repay. This is a debt I will always owe and remember. Thank you. Allow me time, and I will have two more decks prepared for both myself and Alhaitham. I should like to have a game of Invokation TCG with you once more over drinks.

May your coming year be as sweet as watermelon, and as fruitful as pomegranates.

With loving regards,

Kaveh