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[spinthron]

[ Hello Nippon. Spinner has a fun party trick to use when he wants to get a lay of the land... ]

Greetings. My name is Spinner.

[ High Master of the Crying Spider. His zodiac guardian is the patron of art, and intuition: ]

Would you like me to tell your fortune?

[ His smile is mellow, friendly. ]




[[ you're gonna get a magic-eight-ball style yes-no-maybe. if you think one over the other would be more fun, let me know. otherwise I'm gonna rng it. ]]

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[whrrenah]

Hello! I'm Wren.

[ Who looks like she's allergic to clothing, at the moment. At least from the shoulders up. ]

You're a soothsayer? Think you can give me a hint as to how long I'm going to be stuck here?

[spinthron]

[ He laughs faintly. ]

Not with any particular accuracy, but let's see.

[ He's not doing anything remotely secret, he has a low table in front of him and he shakes his bag of bones and tosses them. The white pieces of bone clatter on the lacquer. ]

Hm... [ A little showmanship is called for in peering over them. ] You'll see your home again.

[ He returns his gaze to the camera with a smile. ]

[whrrenah]

[Her nose scrunches up a bit. ]

I figured as much. Do you use bones all the time or do you use other methods?

[spinthron]

[ His head bobs back and forth in a gesture of contemplation, ]

Usually the bones. I'm on the road a lot, not enough room in the pack for the fancy kit.

[ Something about anything 'fancy' being associated with him in the first place makes him smile ruefully. ]

Get a vision every now and again, no instruments required.

[ He doesn't mind admitting that, it says nothing about the accuracy or depths of said visions. For all anyone knows the omens are as deep as his bones in the answers. ]

[whrrenah]

Mmm. The fates do have a way of pressing the issue when they want to.

[ She watches him, noting how he smiled. ]

There are always tea leaves. [ Stops a beat. ] Do you practice augury?

[spinthron]

Birds? Swan Prince would have to be in a good mood for that.

[ Oh right, that probably makes no sense to an outsider. He purses his lips, and sums up what he's saying more tidily. ]

I follow the teachings of a Spider, one of her fellows rules the birds.

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[pinkblinded]

My fortune? You can do that?

[People can do so much here that he has no problems believing this...]

[spinthron]

[ He spreads his hands in casual invitation. ]

To a degree.

[pinkblinded]

I've never actually had that done before. Would you mind if I asked how you do it?

[spinthron]

[ He holds up the little leather satchel that holds his bones for the camera, then he dumps them out into his palm. Each of the five pieces is different, from different animals and different parts of the body. Each is crudely marked with a stripe of colored paint; hand done. ]

I shake up this bag and then I pour 'em out. How they land and which way has something to say.

[ Hah, that rhymed. ]

[pinkblinded]

So it's like...the universe guides them? Or is that not really accurate...

[spinthron]

Something like that.

[ Not really that far off. One just had to think of everything in threads when there's a primordial spider involved. ]

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[typhlotic]

[He laughs softly.]

I'm not sure if I want to know my fortune. Playing it by ear has been working decently well for me for about a hundred years now. That a skill of yours though? Telling fortuntes?

[spinthron]

It's better to live in the moment.

[ Interesting commentary from a man who offers to tell fortunes. ]

But I suppose you could call it a skill. More like it just is, though. Can't practice the intuitions.

[typhlotic]

Can't say I hear that often from a fortune teller.

[But it's refreshing. He likes it.]

So you get feelings and then you've learned to read what those feelings are?

[spinthron]

Sounds about right.

[ He knows so much more about it than he will let on. The surface level of his skills are breezy to admit to, but his training with the temples is kept secret.

He gives his bag of bones a cheerful little shake. ]

This lot just give those feelings a little direction.

[typhlotic]

[Rather than look toward the bag on the screen, Silvio actually just...tilts his head. Like he's trying to identify a sound that seems familiar but isn't at the same time.]

...Is that bone?

[He's pretty sure that's what he heard.]

[spinthron]

Mhm.

[ He pours the five pieces out into his hand. One is definitely a delicate little bird skull. ]

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[thelastchoice]

[ She laughs a bit at the idea of having her fortune read. It really does remind her of her time at home before Chaldea. But...she's known plenty who could see the future, so it was always possible this person could, too. ]

You can see the future? Or is it just telling me if I'm going to be lucky or not?

[spinthron]

[ He's been known to see the future. ]

Nah, more of a nudge in a maybe-favorable direction.

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[fisherwife]

[She smiles a little, curious despite herself.]

What kind of fortune-telling do you do? I've heard there's all sorts of different types.

[spinthron]

[ He holds up his little leather satchel of bones. ]

Throwing the bones.

[ His tone is cheerful, sing-song because of what a tried and true method it is. ]

[fisherwife]

[At least she can hope the thing was already dead long before they decided to use the bones and not killed FOR its bones. Or something.]

I see, I'm not sure I've heard of that before. Is it something to do with how the bones lay? Their direction and things like that?

[spinthron]

[ Pours them out into his palm for the camera. There are five of them, all different. Each one is painted with a stripe of color. ]

They represent... Oh... this, that, and the other.

[ This is not very informative, Spinner. ]

[fisherwife]

Elusive, aren't you?

[She laughs softly, not at all put out by it though. It's amusing]

Very well then, I'd like to have my fortune read, if you'd like. What kind of payment would you like in return?