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

[...Considers hiding behind the shrine again]

This is, in fact, something you're quite capable of.

B-But that's scary, and, and I'm trying not to burden people with my problems I-I can't keep going up to people and talking about that argument, I'm being selfish, I-I'm not supposed to... That's... I-I don't even know what I'm going to do tomorrow, that's not how I wanted to... To...

You're the one who's decided it's a burden.

I already made two people sad with it...

The two who fought, or two you talked to about the argument?

The two I fought with, the others... I-I guess they weren't upset, but, I'm... I don't know. I don't know.

Why do you view asking for advice as such a terrible thing?

N...No, that's not it.

Yet that is all my task asks for. To have you ask for advice on a situation you're dealing with.

...I should just apologise.

I have given you a task.

Oh- [Falters]

But you can apologize if you want.

The task isn't "solve this problem between your two friends". That you can do as you see fit. The task is to ask for advice on how to handle it when two friends fight each other over something you did.

The task is a hypothetical. Do it first or later as you see fit.

...Alright.

Rapunzel.

Situations are what you make of them.

[Glances up at hir]

Experiences can all either be paths or boxes. If it's a path, you can grow and walk forward and explore the meaning of that experience. If it's a box, you can be confined by it.

I've... I've never walked a path before.

Then isn't it a good time to start?

When you looked up my directory, did you see what I was the god of, or only what I offered?

Moisture, and strange things, and 'growth through stagnation'.

That's right. I'm the god of finding the way to grow through unchanging situations which will rot if left to themselves.

You say you've never walked a path? Muscles that aren't used will atrophy. Even if there's no path you can see, you have to keep walking to stay strong, to grow stronger. You can't sit and stay in one place forever.

That's a metaphor.

[Quiet, mulling that over]

So talk to people. Learn their opinions. Learn your own and how they compare to other people's.

People are dangerous...

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