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[the_fourteenth]

If anyone has received a green beetle they would like to sell, please let me know. I'm not sure I can offer as much as you could elsewhere, but these creatures would be a big benefit to all of us. I would like to set them up in the greenhouse and gardens in Okinawa to help facilitate plant growth, and harvest the groves. They would be a huge help in growing food for us all.

Think of it this way: the more food we can grow, the less ration bars we need to eat.

Do contact me if you're interested. Thanks for your time.

[There's a pause before the post is edited, and more is added.]

I hope everyone has been recovering well. If you were someone who became corrupted in the Underworld and suspect that not all of it has been purged from your system, please come see me. I can help. My room is Everlight 012.

[OOC: feel free to use this post for beetle trading and selling in general, too.]

Comments

[the_fourteenth]

I didn't know at the time what abilities they had. This could be really beneficial to us.

[Always thinking of the greater good, this guy.]

I haven't come up with any. I'm not good at this sort of thing.

[cranekin]

Well...
You know names can be very powerful so it's best to pick carefully.
Of course if you wait too long, it might become depressed.

[the_fourteenth]

[So much pressure on the name for a bug! But Raidou respects all living things, and considering this little dude is going to work for them, doesn't it deserve a nice name?]

Maybe after a god of nature? Like Susano-o or Freyr.

[cranekin]

Freyr?

(Of course, he recognizes Susano-o but that last one is completely foreign to him.)

[the_fourteenth]

A Norse god. Of many things, but of peace, prosperity, and a good harvest among them.

[cranekin]

Eeeh...
You're so familiar with foreign gods. What a surprise.

Either way, it's quite a big name for a beetle, don't you think?

[the_fourteenth]

I'm familiar with gods and legends from all over the world. It comes with being a summoner.

Is it? I've never named a pet before.

I did name some of the cats outside the onsen, but that was mostly to help differentiate them.

[cranekin]

Neither have I.

But you know, if you're lucky, maybe a name will just come to the two of you.
Sometimes a name chooses you.

[the_fourteenth]

And sometimes you have to work for it.

Though, I may be expecting too much of a bug.

[cranekin]

You're trusting your yearly harvests to it.

[the_fourteenth]

I wouldn't go that far yet. I'd say more that I'm hoping it will be a help. And we can use all of that we can get, insect or not.

[cranekin]

Still!
You're asking it to help you with something like maintaining our food supplies.
I think that's impressive.

[the_fourteenth]

Alright! Perhaps I will go with my original idea of a nature god, then.

[cranekin]

It sounds like you have a name in mind now!

(Was this his plan all along... was this some sort of exercise to determine a name...)