oi_theoi | Ur'ghaste

Ur'ghaste
Moisture, Societal Abnormality, Growth through Stagnation

❧ Played by Harukami

Appearance: From about mid-torso up, Ur'ghaste is an androgyne who, unlike Tare, highlights strong sexual characteristics of both sexes to an overt level; sie has heavy, round breasts and a hairy chest, a fine growth of armpit hair, and, facially, a delicate and expressively beautiful face (finely defined mouth, arched eyebrows, large, wet-looking, soft green-brown eyes) with a ragged and magnificent moustache, the hairs of which are actually tendrils that move independently. Hir hair is long and braided into individual strands, but looks wet all the time, dripping down hir back. From below mid-torso, Ur'ghaste's human body unwinds into a mass of wet, fleshy tentacles, each of which have thousands of suckers on them. When Ur'ghaste speaks, it's hoarse and thickly wet, like sie has a throat full of phlegm sie hasn't managed to quite cough up, and sie breathes quite heavily (also wetly).

Characteristics: Making people uncomfortable :)

Likes: "Gross" things, making other people discomfited, getting sweaty, people rejected from their society's norm, being surprised, strong smells, pushing past your own comfort zones (or other people's), coolness and wetness. Also cool facial hair.

Dislikes: True stagnation, boredom, politeness and courtesy, strong societal rules, obedience and dutifulness without examination of the rules (OK if it's something you want to do, but doing it for the sake of it sucks), living an unexamined life, refusing to get your hands dirty.

Shrine: A large chunk of wood gone to decay and oozing a fine layer of slime, smelling strongly of musk and wood-rot.

Ritual: Interacting with it at all will get hir attention and sie may show up... but if you want to summon hir for sure, you have to lick it.

❧ Will Take

❧ Will Give

animal or plant parts which have gone to rot
poison sacs of lizagons
acts (done in hir name) to push either the requester out of their comfort zone or for the requester to push someone else out of their comfort zone)
trimmings of facial hair used to shape your beard or moustache into an awesome shape
or trimmings from pubes likewise done to make it in an interesting shape.

lubrication (personal or machine oil)
sauces for foods<
removal of mold (and similar) from rooms (or adding them to rooms if you want to spite an enemy)
waterbeds (note: Waterbeds will get tacky after 3 weeks of use. As in, the surface of them will start to feel sticky. After four weeks, they will burst and send gross old water everywhere. So these are a temporary measure. Or for the adventurous at heart)
slow-cookers and stew pots
oil lamps
paints
acid
ointments
antibiotics
shaving products
food or drink made through fermentation, moulds, yeast, fungi, etc (alcohol, pickles, natto, miso, salami, pepperoni, sourdough, yogurt, mushrooms, blue cheese, chocolate, etc)

"❧ Exchange Rate

Items to Units
Worth	Offering
1 Unit	Small plant or animal part that has gone to rot Small lizagon poison sac Hair trimmings (not from the head)
2 Units	Large plant or animal part that has gone to rot Large lizagon poison sac
1-5 Units	Acts of pushing comfort zones (varies by act)
Note: Many of the things sie accepts, as well as many of the things sie gives, vary by amount/size. People are welcome to handwave any trades that make sense, and if it's something that you're not sure of (Like 1 jar of machine oil = 1 poison sac is obvious, but "A good supply of baker's yeast" may not be obvious), you're always welcome to grab me and ask.
Units to Items
Cost	Reward
1 Unit	1 small supply of lube (machine or human) 1 small supply of food sauce 1 small supply of acid 1 small supply of ointments or antibiotics 1 small supply of food made through fermentation, moulds, yest, fungi etc 1 small supply of shaving products
2 Units	1 medium supply of lube (machine or human) 1 medium supply of food sauce 1 medium supply of acid 1 medium supply of ointments or antibiotics 1 medium supply of food made through fermentation, moulds, yest, fungi etc 1 medium supply of shaving products
3 Units	1 larger supply of lube (machine or human) 1 larger supply of food sauce 1 larger supply of acid 1 larger supply of ointments or antibiotics 1 larger supply of food made through fermentation, moulds, yest, fungi etc 1 larger supply of shaving products 1 oil lamp 1 set of paints
4 Units	1 slow-cooker or stew pot 1 room's worth of removal or addition of mold
5 Units	1 waterbed
Small supply: one use to maybe a week's worth of reasonable use Medium supply: one week's use to maybe a months' worth of reasonable use Large supply: One month to several months' worth of reasonable use (If looking for even more -- say enough jello for a pool -- keep scaling up accordingly)

❧ Challengers

Expectations and Powers of Challengers

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Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

It's nice to meet you too Ur'ghaste. I, well... It's complicated...

Do tell.

Oh, but it's really awkward...

That actually is my domain.

[amused, coughing a laugh into a hand thickly]

[...Mumble mumble]

You see, I want to see you push against those limits you've put in place for yourself.

...The only other person I ever spoke to before coming here was my mother.

Just your mother...?

I mean, I have Pascal, and there were birds that flew up to my window, but I don't... I don't know how to talk to people, and there are so many here and they knew some alternate world version of me before, someone who was better and popular and they all loved and I don't know how to be her! I don't know how to be their friend, and trust them like they want me to, th-they keep saying things and talking about things they shouldn't know, and there are so many things I don't know how to do, I can't... [Oh no she's tearing up] I'm trying but I'm just so lost, and the only reason it worked out with them is because they knew someone else like me, with others I... I-I was scared, and they got mad, and started yelling at me and one of the people who knew me tried to get her to stop and I ruined their friendship. What if I do that again? What if I make people mad, what if I say something and hurt people, I don't... I don't know what to do, I don't know how to deal with this.

You didn't ruin their friendship, of course.

She said she hated her, and Razzy looked so hurt...

You were incidental to that, weren't you? You were the object of the disagreement, but what they were arguing about was how to treat other people.

B-But if I hadn't...

How's that your fault?

...I made her mad when she was trying to help me, she was upset and I made it worse and I upset Razzy and... I don't know how to deal with people at all and if I'd been less... Less stupid, then it wouldn't have happened...

I'm sorry, I'm being silly, you just wanted an idea for tasks and here I am crying on you...

Oh no, by all means. Don't shut this down right when you start to think through it.

[Shakes her head] It's silly...

How is it silly?

I shouldn't burden others, crying because I did something bad...

How is it a burden? And why shouldn't you? And how was it something bad?

Wh...Why do you keep pressing it... I'm sure you have better things to do than listen to me...

If I'm doing something, it's because I've chosen to do it.

[THIS IS STRANGE I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO fidget fidget]

Did any of that help you figure out a task?

[closes hir eyes for a moment, then opens them with a smirking smile]

Yes, it did. You want a stew pot and a slow cooker, a lamp, and a set of paints, is that right?

Yes, that's right.

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