#I love gossip but not as a profession. I'm not going to profit on that.

[emometalhead]

I know job searching is bad all around right now, but it's incredibly discouraging as a writer to have to wade through tons of unpaid positions and AI training stuff before finding any actual job listings.

[captain-of-silvenar]

🛏️, 🥪, 📚, and 🎨 for the oc asks!!

Aaaah, thank you so much for the ask! I'm going to go with Brisala Alithar to mix it up.

🛏️ What does your OC’s bed look like? What would they like their bed to look like?

Much like her sister, Brisala has a terrible habit of not really going to sleep. Wasting 8 hours a night dedicated to laying down and doing nothing could be put to better use with her nose in her notes and a hand in the dirt.

That is to say, her bed is pristine. It's tucked in and taut. Pillows plush and fluffed each night. There is a fine layer of dust on the bed frame that has to be dusted off once a week. Which is a pain in the ass to do since it was grown from fungi so it has lots of nooks and crannies things can get caught in. Thankfully a lot of the staff have a spell for this but it is still annoying to have to cast it over the whole bed when a simple bed frame would've been done in seconds.

There are cute little glowing shrooms around the headrest. Certainly not used for late night reading, but for a dash of decoration that Brisala planted on the bed. Some of them, however, are shrooms that do light up different colors because they're connected to parts of the Tower to alert her of intruders or passerbys.

Even in the supposed safety of bed, Brisala cannot let her guard down for a singular moment. She has lost enough in her life, nothing will ever be lost to her now.

🥪 On a scale from ‘burns water’ to ‘5 course menu’ how well can your OC cook?

Despite growing her own mushrooms for the use of cooking and snacking, Brisala is only versed in like two dishes and only those two. She can saute and mix decently, but she is no chef. A late midnight snack and her own comfort food is about all she can do.

She won't burn down the house, but she might not season a dish well enough or too much. Her specific mushrooms have more concentrated flavors that others might find too strong, but Brisala loves it. So her taste buds are slightly skewed toward different profiles.

She is the owner of a Tower with it's very own small community around it, so she doesn't really feel the need to cook for herself. Her chef and head of house are much better at it and much better at reminding Brisala to take a break to eat.

📚 Your OC has to improvise a 10 minute lecture about a topic of their choosing. What do they chose?

Mushrooms. Phenology. Their importance as a connector between different species on Vvardenfell. Why they should be respected and their field of study expanded to be included in everyday magic.

Fungal study is not new or unusual on Vvardenfell, but there are still endless possibilities that can be drawn out of them that are undiscovered and could benefit the greater community. To say the least on the medicinal usage they can provide and how they could be refined and given to the people.

Brisala helps fill her coffers by selling medicine made from specialized fungi. Either that or selling her fungi to vendors and taking a cut of the profits. So a quick 10 minute lecture on the benefits of her products would absolutely be something she would do.

🎨 Does your OC have any craft skill, as a hobby or profession? If so which?

Gardening would be the closest thing for Brisala. Unusual for a Telvanni Master to get her own hands dirty playing with dirt. She is very particular about her work and does not like the idea of sharing them with anyone, even with her own sibling. Brisala has layers and layers of magic surrounding her to prevent spores from being breathed in, especially if she's researching particularly dangerous ones.

Outside of this, I actually don't know. She's so focused on her work, and exploring every possibility that she really don't think about anything else. She can stop and have tea and gossip with her sister on the most recent rumor. She constantly monitors the health of their Tower and makes minute improvements.

Brisala is a workhorse that doesn't know when to quit and I'm sure she realizes this. Yet there is an underlying reason for all this work that she can't shake off and it drives her forward every day until she collapses.

So she goes back to her nurseries, and makes another mark in her notes. Same thing day after day. The work does not stop.