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  1. Rec 42

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    Kaveh—
    You promised you would be back three months ago. Your room is collecting dust and your plants are dying.
    Al-Haitham

    Kaveh moves to the desert. He is not quite ready for what awaits him there, nor is he prepared to leave behind what tethers him to the forest.

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    31 Jan 2026

  2. Rec 79

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    Flins catches Illuga smoking. He feels very normal about it.

    As Illuga breathes in, Flins feels the plant fibres burn in his flame, but most vividly, the image returns: the embers of the cigarette lighting up azure, himself travelling along their path, past Illuga’s lips, his throat, burning in his lungs as his broad chest expands, penetrating his bloodstream, spreading outward into his strong limbs and stronger heart, being absorbed by Illuga wholly and fully, and it makes him feel more heady than anything he’s ever consumed in the past.

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    27 Jan 2026

  3. Rec 20

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    Words were said that she could barely remember in the haze that was the stinging of the scales and that constant tingly feeling of loss of blood circulation crawling up her arm. Most of them said truthfully, but in that same ugly, bubbling feeling she always associated with the voices. She had said something that made Tighnari’s ears press flat on his head, made his hands raise in defense, made him leave before she passed out.

    One thing was certain.

    She probably had to apologize.

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    25 Dec 2025

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    “Master Diluc, are you quite alright?” Venti asks.

    Diluc turns back around. “You,” he begins, and then, “I—”

    He stares at the sink again, then back at Venti, who just blinks, seeming quite bemused.

    “How is wine-cursing a thing you can do now?!” Diluc demands.

    “Hey,” Venti says, mock-crossly. “I cultivated the God of Wine title very diligently, I'll have you know that. Unfortunately, it never gave me any useful abilities— like the power to turn water to wine! Wouldn't that have been amazing? But no, that never manifested.”

    Barbatos is the God of Wind and Freedom, but also of Wine and Song. He thus has a sliding scale of wine-curses from "I lay a plague upon your house" and "may all the wine you drink be ever-so-slightly over-oxidized." He absolutely uses his wine-cursing abilities on drunk assholes at the bar.

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    25 Dec 2025