Sleeping Bad? Badly Sleeping?

A day has passed since the party delved into the depths of Moria - er, the crevasse. Not Moria. Miyako is far from the only one to sleep badly through the night, though at least she has a friend to share her woes with. "Hey," she says, dully, as she settles in for breakfast at a local inn. She looks rather ruefelly at her guitar, which leans against the corner, unplayed. Her left arm hanging limply at her side. At least she doesn't have to use both hands to eat. Fried bread, eggs, and sausages are simple enough to handle with one hand.

To say that Kotono's not been sleeping well either is an understatement. The Spriggan has been plagued with nightmares ever since that incident involving the dark crevasse. There are notable bags under her eyes and she is having trouble standing up straight. The girl looks like she wants to just lay down and go to sleep, but underneath she's too afraid to sleep. Especially since one of those nightmares had her reliving that time her partner got hurt at acrobatics school.

"Good morning," Kotono says tiredly as she settles in and orders her breakfast as well, looking at Miyako's arm with concern. "You should get that looked at."

    Miyako nods quietly to her friend. "I figure I can go looking for Uta later. She's usually free to help with that kind of thing." She smiles thinly, before turning to take another bite of egg. "How about you? You were no sleeping beauty yourself...."

Word has started to spread about the dark crevasse, mainly about how the group that had gone into the depths have met some unknown foe that is proving to be quite difficult. It's for this reason that Curtana has made his way around, trying to find more information.

Yawning softly as he sips at something that he could imagine is caffinated, it takes a moment of the Pooka looking up from his own breakfast before he focuses on Miyako. Frowning as he gets his brain moving again, he stands up and starts to make his way over. "What happened there? Anything I could possibly help with?"

Kotono eats a bite of her pancake before looking to Miyako with a sigh. "Honestly, if this is gonna keep happening all the time, I may never sleep again." The Spriggan looks down a little. "I wonder if anesthesia would help?" Of course, she's being sarcastic there, before looking to Curtana. "Oh, hello." A pause. "Uh, I'm not sure... what did you have in mind?"

    Miyako looks up and over at Curtana. "Mmm. Maybe. Got any status-effect potions available? Damn undead... My HP are back up to full but I still can't use the arm. Which is a real pain and a half." She gestures at the guitar with her fork. "Can't play one-handed, and that's my livelyhood."

There seems to be a rash of 'mining tools stuck in arms' going around, as Kaydon is suffering from it too. He comes down from the rooms upstairs, yawning and lifting his limp left arm with his right, "I really need to get this fixed before another attack." He mutters to himself. It's not hard to see the pickaxe in the arm of the large gnoll were fang.

Kotono would consider herself lucky to still have all of her limbs functional, but she knows she could've easily been injured as well. So she doesn't say much for the time being, just letting the others talk while pondering how they're going to get help.

Urging his brain back into gear, he takes a seat close to Miyako and starts poking the limb with a finger. "I'm no expert, but I could help...do you feel anything?" A few more cautious pokes before Curtana starts to flick through his inventory, scanning over his inventory. "Well...I might have a few things that can work. But, keep in mind, I just dabble in potion-making."

Before he can materalize the potions, he spots Kaydon and his eyes widen in shock at seeing the pickaxe still literally in the limb. That's not normal. "Hey, pull up a seat and i'll see if I can help you out as well! Geeze, I came here to be a shield, but I might just be a field doctor instead." The grumbling is good-natured, and two bottles are materalized on the table. "Anyways, the red one there is a nerve stimalant...at least what i'm calling it. Makes all my limbs feel sensative for a few hours. The other one is a general physical debuff cleanser. Up to you which one you want to try first. It might help any others if we figure out which one is more effective."

    Miyako nods, "No feeling in the arm at all, sorry. Ever since last night." Stupid undead. Stupid pickaxe. Stupid undead.

    "Hey," she says, nodding to Kaydon. "You too, huh?" She munches a bit of fried bread, turning her attention back to Curtana.

    "I'm no expert," she says. "What do you suggest?"

The Pooka knight frowns and rubs his cheek for a moment. "I say go with the physical debuff cleanser one I brewed. Should only last as long as it takes you to drink all of it. If that doesn't get any feeling back, then the nerve stimilant is our best bet, but be careful. The one time I tried it, picking up a cup made me wince, and it lasted for a few hours."

Kaydon comes on over to the table and takes a seat, looking back at Miyako and actually grinning, "Yeah seems to be a case of it going around." He says, before looking back to Curtana, "We could each take one, maybe? See which one works. That way we got a 50/50 chance of getting it right, you know?"

Curt smiles and nods his head once. "That would work great, and plus we can see which one is more effective against one another. Honestly, I wish we had someone better at potions than me around, I ususally just make basic health potions." He motions towards the two bottles at both of his hands. "First come, first served."

    Miyako nods, and reaches over to take whichever bottle is nearest her. It's not like either are likely to -harm- her, after all, if they've been brewed correctly. "Well," she muses, "If it doesn't work, then at least we'll know, yeah?" She tips it back to down the dose. "Bottoms up!"

"I'm the only one who didn't get it, which is why I'm concerned," Kotono comments. "Although..." She trails off, realizing she's talking randomly. "Oh what's the use? We gotta figure out what to do about this whole thing!"

A pause as Miyako takes a drink of the bottle. "Well, worth a try," She says before realizing she's not paralyzed. "Will that stuff treat my nightmares?" She blushes. "I don't know how I'm gonna deal with those!"

Well seems Miyako made her pick, so Kaydon grabs the other bottle and downs it. He trusts its not poison, after all it was made by Curtana, so it should do what it says on the tin. The question is if the tin will get this axe out of his arm, "I swear the events for the holidays are getting weirder every year.."

Curtana had already pulled out a slip of paper and some charcoal, making a few basic notes down on the paper when he hears Kotono speak up. "Nightmares? Hmmm...sleep inducing and keeping a blank state of mind? Um...nothing on hand, but...give me a second, miss." Setting aside his own notes, Curtana pulls out a stone mortar and pestal and puts in a few herbs, one of which being a dark purple. He grinds it up for a few minutes as he looks back and forth between Kaydon and Miyako, keeping track of any possible change in their symptoms. Finally, he takes out a slip of wax paper from his inventory and pours the grounded herbs onto the paper, then slides it towards Kotono. "If I did that right, it should give you a good night's rest. Mix that with some water and drink it all right before you go to bed."

Taking the herbs and putting them into her inventory carefully, Kotono nods a little. "Well, I guess it's worth a try." She bites her lower lip. "I dunno if it will work, but you never know until you try."

Curtana does his best to give Kotono a comforting smile. "I'm no professional healer, but it should help take the edge off, at least. Honestly might need to mix some more of those herbs together for anyone else who is having nightmares..." Nerve-deadening pickaxes and nightmares that makes someone not want to go back to sleep...just what is going on here?

Kaydon takes a few moments to taste the potion that touched his tongue, "Not bad. I've had worse." He says, as he shudders thinking about off brand Dayquil once upon a time.

Without warning the heavy pickaxe suddenly detatches from his arm and crashes to the ground before it turns into pixels, "Welp, we know that works! Well done, Curtana."

    Miyako makes a face at the taste of the potion, but chugs it down nonetheless. Then she waits. ...

    ... and waits....

    ... and waits.

    Eventually, she looks down at her left arm, where it hangs at her side. Frowns. Muscles tense in the limb, but it doesn't move. Then it does. Slowly. Jerkily. Eventually, she manages to rest her hand on the table, fingers twitching randomly.

    "Still can't feel anything..." She sighs and looks down at it, then - well, she's -trying- to fit her fingers into the shape she'd need for a guitar chord, but they're definitely not going there.

    "You got another dose of the other stuff? If not, how much you need to get the ingredients and how long to brew it?"

Curtana was certainly expecting some results, perhaps limited restoration of movement of some kind. What was going on with Miyako didn't seem to be giving any results, and he snaps his fingers. "Okay, that's not quite working then. Then again...it has been a while since I made that one. Maybe it went bad?" He starts to scribble a few more notes, but the sounds of a shattering pickaxe falling out of Kaydon's arm has his snapping his head up.

Grinning, he makes a few quick notes before materalizing around a dozen more potions of the physical debuff cleanser down on the table. It's almost starting to crowd over their breakfast, but not messing anyone's scrambled eggs. "I can buy the materials needed to brew more, but go ahead and take one for yourself. Pass out the rest to anyone else is dealing with a limp arm or leg, and save the rest for the future." Curt leans back in his seat for a moment, satisifed with himself. "Honestly, i'm usually just making potions for myself, so i'm happy I can be of service to everyone."

"Well damn." Kaydon says, as he rubs the spot where the pickaxe was as he stretches out his arm a bit, "That works great. I'll make sure to hand it out to some of the other folks." He takes a few of the bottles and puts them into his inventory, and then pulls out a bag of gold and sets it towards Curtana, "Not gonna let you go off empty handed after helping me out. And don't fight me on taking it."

    Miyako nods, and adds a bag of coin of her own to Kaydon's. "Worth every pfennig," she declares it, before she downs the second potion. "Gonna go crazy if I can't play." She waits again, watching her hand where it lies on the table, finishing off her breakfast with the other.

    After several moments, the still hand jerks into motion, running through several contortions that would be quite familiar to any guitarist as the fingerings of a chord series. "Oh thank ghu," she finally gasps out, slumping into her seat and sighing with relief. "You're a lifesaver. I swear it." She lifts the arm, now moving freely, and slides it around Kotono to pull her close for a quick embrace.

When Kotono is embraced, she smiles, knowing that Miyako's arm is healed. "Here's to hoping these herbal remedies will help cure our nightmares." She smiles a little.

The bag of gold is certainly a welcome surprise, but before the knight could even start to muster up a rejection of such a generous donation, Miyako plops down her own bag. The joint reward leaves him speechless, and while he's tempted to slide the coin back outright, he knows these two would pelt him with the coins if needed. Besides, he could use this to cover the costs of buying all the herbs needed for the potions. Materials can be quite expensive if you can't source them yourself. "Well, helping others is its' own reward...but fine. I'm just happy to help everyone out. And let me know if that doesn't help with the nightmares, i'm sure I can make something decent." Taking the two bags of coins, Curtana gets up to return to his forgotten breakfast. Looks like he's going to be quite busy today getting everything ready.

    Miyako nods and flashes Kotono a smile before picking up her guitar and striking a chord, incredibly pleased to be able to play again. "Did you know," she sings, slowly. "I am a pioneer, I'm out on a secret mission, I travel the galaxy and far beyond..."

    "This one always helps me out when I'm feeling down," she tells Kotono. Then a quick series of chords and a much quicker, more powerful rhythm picks up. "Can't you see that I ama pioneer / Unlocking the greatest mysteries / My key is a fearless heart, so pure and strong // People laugh when you are a pioneer / Not walking the straight and narrow / They tell you the way things are, they swear you're wrong"

    Is it a trick of the light? Or are those eyes sparkling bright?

    "You can't be a Hero hiding underneath your bed / Got to live the life you've created in your head / So I opened the window, caught the wind one night / Now I sail with the birds in their flight!"

Miyako's playing and singing again. And there's something very special about the way she's singing. It's almost like there's a special soothing effect coming from it. It can't just be a coincidence... can it?

Kotono's starting to feel different as she listens to the music. It could just be Miyako's style, or it could be something else.