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Elsewhere - Week of January 26, 2026

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The Dragon

briefly adjusts reality.

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The Dragon

: “Good?”

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The Dragon

nods in satisfaction.

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Aurelius

RAW TEXT

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Aurelius

: “aye im talkin here”

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Aurelius

is doing a thing

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Aurelius

: “So when i say something” before the hunter moves do some thing else… “and then resume talking…”


it should no longer break?
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Aurelius

yeeeeeah

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The Dragon

: “tfw you listen to stuff from your own soundtrack and get too hype to function”

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Aurelius

lol

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Aurelius

hmm wasn’t there

another channel

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Aurelius

oh it’s in the archives now???

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Aurelius

HMM

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Aurelius

Teak, how much of a pain in the ass would it be for the landing page to have a little notification area showing the last, idk, four or so archived scenes that went up so stuff that that isn’t super easy to miss?

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Aurelius

also VERY lmao at the avatar scrunching up when there’s A Lot Of Text in the archive view

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Aurelius

archive display is a bit wonky in general actually on that note but reformatting that prob isn’t super important

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Aurelius

ALSO FUNNY STORY

Despite the example scene being archived before the session proper… it still has the notifications about songs playing in it lol

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The Dragon

: “lmao, ope, it sure does”

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The Dragon

: “and yeah the actual archive view is totally boned / still basically using the Old Layout, I need to completely rework it and just haven’t gotten around to that yet”

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The Dragon

: “that’s a good idea though re: the landing page, i meant to make a note in discord that A Scene Had Happened and forgot to but, yeah, I like that idea, remind me, like… sometime”

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The Dragon

doot doot doot, doin prep

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Aurelius

wa-hoo

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The Dragon

: “had to do another last-minute code update lol”

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The Dragon

: “‘scuse my audio cue, I’m testing a minor change I made. Part of the problem is I erred SO hard on avoiding ‘oh god where is the sound coming from get rid of it’ that I think I introduced bugs where autoplayback isnt happening and should be…”

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The Dragon

: “hmm, butts”

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The Awoken

time to kiss NPCs

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The Awoken

tries the /me command

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The Awoken

says, “Look ma, I’m using the older format!”

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The Dragon

: “Gahahaha”

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The Dragon

doing a READY CHECK because of WHO THEY ARE AS A PERSON (it’s ok if you’re not here yet but when you are, sound off)

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Aurelius

i am here but also def need the last ten minutes to finish this episode

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The Dragon

: “hahah, it’s all good, I’m definitely not STARTING until on-the-dot at absolute minimum”

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Unua? The Clockwork Knight

Yo.

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The Wolf-Priest

I’m here

ꙮ y’know it’s weird - coming from IRC - not having a “people nicking up” ritual that happens, I just realised that’s what felt fucking odd about session start, haha

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The Dragon

: “anyways, post is up and it’s an intro that lets people trickle in as they get here”

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Aurelius

haha

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Aurelius

oh weird i didn’t get a notification about new messages in there

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The Awoken

: “IS THERE CHEESE”

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The Awoken

i’m gonna make there be cheeese

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Aurelius

after all… who will stop you

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The Awoken

>:3c

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The Wolf-Priest

looks amused. “Am I allowed to dictate what fare was available?”

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The Awoken

: “reasonable facsimilies are good enough!!”

ꙮ i might contradict or problematicise it but yes

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Aurelius

huh

weird i sent a message and it didn’t appear… until i clicked over here and then back, and suddenly there was a LOT more text in the other channel

ꙮ wtf :|

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The Awoken

: “yeah that’s what happens to me”

ꙮ that oughtn’t be happening and is baffling but standard “if something is being fucky, reload your browser and it SHOULD just Be Fine” rules apply

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Salme, The Sword-Saint

what is happening?

ꙮ Breakfast is happening! In [Threshold], which should be available via the sidebar

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Aurelius

refreshing the page seems to have fixed it…?

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Salme, The Sword-Saint

yes! I saw that, I meant what were the tech issues

ꙮ oh sorry unless you mean the technical misbehaviour in which case notifications are having a nutty for people and I’m perplexed as to why

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Salme, The Sword-Saint

also how does the food taste?

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Aurelius

yeah hachi, any DREAMS, possibly with WEIRD CONTEXTLESS SCENES and STRANGE VOICES… maybe people could even SHARE them……………………………………………..

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The Awoken

:3

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The Awoken

: “y’gotta take a swing IC if you want to shake this tree”

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Aurelius

barely any of you ever mentioning them was definitely one of my most “damn you sure can’t predict how players will react to stuff huh” moments lmao

ꙮ Ostensible Cheeses is the name of my next cover band

ꙮ also lol Ice

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Unua? The Clockwork Knight

I would listen to that

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Aurelius

your TSA speedrunner name, teakwood

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Aurelius

er TAS? w/e

ꙮ if i were in GDQ i’d absolutely have a really ostentatious pesterchum style screen name, i can admit this about myself

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Salme, The Sword-Saint

teak speedrunning the TSA in the airport

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Aurelius

lol

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The Archivist/Archie

hello yes I’m here now I think

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Salme, The Sword-Saint

: “I think”

ꙮ yay!

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Salme, The Sword-Saint

ergo sum?

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The Awoken

: “hello friendo!! get yourself some nibbles”

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The Archivist/Archie

well I said that and then it took my computer fifteen seconds and a refresh for it to send

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Salme, The Sword-Saint

oof

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The Archivist/Archie

that one sent right away though so I think whatever was borked is fixed now! thanks for being patient

ꙮ Yeah for some reason the first post you post doesn’t act quite right and then a page refresh fixes it, this only happens for me for new scenes but I’ve sort of managed to reliably reproduce it and I’ll gnaw on it >.>

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The Archivist/Archie

oh huh, glad to know that’s a website issue and not a my connection issue

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Salme, The Sword-Saint

Dragon, what fruits are there and which ones are familiar to me and which ones aren’t?

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The Archivist/Archie

when i opened my browser this page was already open, i think it probably did an initial refresh but it might be worth testing if refreshing before anything else fixes it? idk!

ꙮ probably more fruits are familiar to you and Wolf than anyone else. you don’t have any fucking concept of what a lychee is, though, and the Clockwork Knight straight up ate one whole a second ago so probably don’t follow their lead there

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Unua? The Clockwork Knight

IT WAS DELICIOUS. ESPECIALLY THE OUTSIDE

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Aurelius

the fuck is a lychee. google HOSTILE FRUIT

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The Awoken

gahahaha

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The Archivist/Archie

i figure i probably know a couple of things from the hydroponics gardens back home but not much. i kinda imagine that the people in the Academy treat food much like the Archons of Sharlayan in XIV (necessary fuel to continue working, optimize for efficiency over experience) but that the Kushtaka have more appreciation for flavor and a more thoroughly developed ethnic cuisine

ꙮ yeah pretty much. the academy has some hardcore cooking nerds who get really into it so it’s not, like, Full Archon Loaf direness but you’re on the right track, yeah

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The Wolf-Priest

: “Wolf probably knows a BUNCH of what his world makes–mendicant warrior-priest–but is also very used to, like…pemmican and dried fruits/nuts for the road, too.”

ꙮ i love the sword-saint so much, help

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Unua? The Clockwork Knight

: “Shepard.”

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Salme, The Sword-Saint

meant to run this idea earlier but was so busy ty for patience one and all

ꙮ <3!

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The Archivist/Archie

hi I’m trying to remind myself how to italicize text within quotes don’t mind me “This is a /test/.”

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The Archivist/Archie

ok cool

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Salme, The Sword-Saint

I love the clockwork knight so much.

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Unua? The Clockwork Knight

<3

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The Archivist/Archie

Actually hey Dragon, there’s a thing I would have wanted to do a roll about sometime between going to my quarters at the end of the last session and joining the crew this session - would it be okay/appropriate to do an “off-screen roll” here so I can enter the scene knowing something? I’d describe what I wanna roll in our private chat

Lupine Observer

Y’all are delightful! (This is Fen, btw.)

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The Archivist/Archie

<3

ꙮ Yeah feel free to poke me in the sidechannel

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Salme, The Sword-Saint

Awoken/Hunter buddy cop comedy when

ꙮ lawl

ꙮ irl lol

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Unua? The Clockwork Knight

Come on guys, you can’t have a cow if he can’t make one!

Lupine Observer

: grabs the spray bottle**

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Unua? The Clockwork Knight

Just for you, Fen

Lupine Observer

<3

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Aurelius

also suddenly hit by the realization that me and hachi actually HAVE had buddy cop comedy characters together, like, twice??? and also buddy criminal characters lol

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Salme, The Sword-Saint

roll for cooking void abominations I guess

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Salme, The Sword-Saint

dungeon meshi time

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The Awoken

we got the deathly-serious ideological opposites out of the way early in our travels

Lupine Observer

I need to check out dungeon meshi

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Unua? The Clockwork Knight

Dude yes

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Aurelius

Im Absolutely Fucking Cooking the next void abomination we kill

this is my CULTURE

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The Awoken

i’m eatin’ it

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Aurelius

hell yeah

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Salme, The Sword-Saint

Absolutely check out dungeon meshi

ꙮ basically imagine every single thing this person says with like anime ass _ emoji expressions going on

ꙮ Oops that didn’t format right at all

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Aurelius

i am picking up the Something Is Not Quite Right vibes on this person

ꙮ CUTE,

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Salme, The Sword-Saint

Archivist given Tru Academic vibes

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The Archivist/Archie

the only thing I’ve decided about this character so far is that he’s a grad student and I know how to faithfully portray one of those

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Aurelius

haha

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Salme, The Sword-Saint

sad grad student handshake

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Unua? The Clockwork Knight

Not me, trolling sins with the lychee

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The Archivist/Archie

wait, what’s the troll? I’m game to play along but if the joke is that lychee requires some kind of processing to be edible/is gross when bright red, I don’t recognize it since i’ve only ever had, like, jarred lychee and not fresh

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The Dragon

well that was weird

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The Archivist/Archie

yes it was. glad it wasn’t just me

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Salme, The Sword-Saint

nope me too

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Salme, The Sword-Saint

maybe it was the building existential horror

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Unua? The Clockwork Knight

oh good

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Aurelius

yeah i think it just refreshed itself haha

SO GLAD you added in support for keeping text in the typing field btw

ꙮ Yeah my only concern is that it ate somebody’s post, which, hopefully that did not actually happen

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Salme, The Sword-Saint

it did but I was just enthusiastically nodding at Ice, which I did in another beat anyway

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The Archivist/Archie

Are our characters aware of the titles we have set up right now? I want to just go by The Archivist for now but I’m not sure if I would have seen it anywhere or if I need to ask the group for a name and let one of you give it to me

ꙮ You are Aware Of The Titles

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The Archivist/Archie

Sanctuary AU where everything is the same but The Archivist is Archie From The Archie Comics

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Aurelius

haha

ꙮ need you all to know “wakey” made me laugh so hard i scared my cat

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Salme, The Sword-Saint

apologies to zoe

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Salme, The Sword-Saint

the awoken just made laugh embarrassingly loudly as well, though no cats suffered as a result

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Unua? The Clockwork Knight

Oh no, it’s the obligatory ice physics level :P

ꙮ using the wc real quick while yall get a chance to react

Lupine Observer

This theater-kid-acting motherfucker…

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The Archivist/Archie

Deeply Emet coded

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The Wolf-Priest

FYI that Wolf might have slightly lost his damn mind just now. >.>;

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Aurelius

hunter’s all ‘on the one hand i feel like we should probably gather information here, on the other hand i am curious if we CAN invoke the rite on these maybe-gods so im not stopping anyone from swinging’ :D

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The Awoken

: “don’t worry I got something in the chamber”

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Salme, The Sword-Saint

: “don’t worry”

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The Wolf-Priest

Hey, God. What happens if he tries to take a swing? Just…asking for a friend.

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Unua? The Clockwork Knight

Can I attempt to de-escalate?

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The Omniclast

by ‘he’ do you mean Wolf or Omniclast? either way the answer is “it initiates a Rite”

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Unua? The Clockwork Knight

Ducking typo

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Salme, The Sword-Saint

I see the omniclast got all the charisma in the divorce

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Unua? The Clockwork Knight

lmao

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The Awoken

hahah

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Aurelius

you Aren’t Wrong

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Unua? The Clockwork Knight

Cheese so fake, it ended the worlds

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Unua? The Clockwork Knight

JESUS CHRIST GET SOME COUPLES THERAPY YOU TWO

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Salme, The Sword-Saint

efsdkjafl;jfdls;dsajf;dklsajfs

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Aurelius

those were almost exactly my own words iirc lol

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Salme, The Sword-Saint

: “THESE ARE OUR BEAUTIFUL CHILDREN WE MADE TOGETHER AND YOU DON’T EVEN LOVE THEM”

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Salme, The Sword-Saint

–Omniclast to Architect, probably

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Salme, The Sword-Saint

(also knight, you’re a they/them yes? or did I get it wrong?)

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Unua? The Clockwork Knight

I think it makes more sense for an Endjinn to be they/them?

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Unua? The Clockwork Knight

So yeah

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Aurelius

extremely that energy, lol

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Unua? The Clockwork Knight

I will, as a dumbass white guy, absolutely fuck it up, but I’m trying to stay in character

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Aurelius

it wouldn’t be too odd i don’t think if some of the later ones mimiced meta/human culture a bit more and picked a gender but especially for the first endjinn? yeah that definitely makes sense

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Salme, The Sword-Saint

RP is for playing different genders! It’s fun.

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Unua? The Clockwork Knight

I believe it is for many. I…have no strong opinions on it?

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Salme, The Sword-Saint

Fair enough! Like being different people :3c

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The Awoken

i’m gonna swing on his ass if nobody else does

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Salme, The Sword-Saint

did we come up with a standardized way to OOC rite actions btw?

ꙮ Uhhhh not consistently yet, it’s something I’m working on

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Salme, The Sword-Saint

kk

ꙮ slash we’re all working on as we go

ꙮ also bide a moment i am experiencing Cat Aggro

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The Awoken

‘to reach’ meaning ‘to cut’

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The Archivist/Archie

yes I just had Archie do a weasel war dance as his canon Battle Stance

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Aurelius

there is an open Rite table btw

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The Awoken

Cat has begun an IRL Rite

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The Awoken

is this another 6 PC brawl

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The Archivist/Archie

there’s nothing structured or ritualistic about Cat Aggro

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Unua? The Clockwork Knight

No, this is the tutorial fight you’re scripted to lose, check them STATS

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Salme, The Sword-Saint

well if teak didn’t want that maybe they should have given us a less punchable guy

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The Archivist/Archie

I have a chance to do the funniest thing right now

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Salme, The Sword-Saint

.

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The Awoken

no red?! no white?!

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The Awoken

sultai ass mf

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Aurelius

no red IS admittedly a little weird

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Aurelius

no white tracks tho

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Salme, The Sword-Saint

what the fuck is “sacrosanct” and why does that sound bad

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Aurelius

haha

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The Wolf-Priest

Why is there a pile of tokens in one column?

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Unua? The Clockwork Knight

That’s ice

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Aurelius

oh yeah those are reminds for myself about my red/black procs

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Unua? The Clockwork Knight

Thematically, I should not go first. Mechanically…I can provide a small amount of defense

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Unua? The Clockwork Knight

I say Wolf and Awoken can go for it though

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The Archivist/Archie

I was gonna say, we should probably go in order of our eagerness to fight? Which to me is Wolf first, then me, then Awoken, and the others I have less of a read on

  • You hear — and your Star hears — a song, echoing from the stillness: Stranger
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The Wolf-Priest

Damn it, I don’t hear it. =(

ꙮ Wobble the volume control? D:

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The Wolf-Priest

That doesn’t work unless I’ve done it BEFORE the song starts playing.

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The Wolf-Priest

And it resets periodically.

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Unua? The Clockwork Knight

Browser?

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The Wolf-Priest

Chrome.

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The Archivist/Archie

I didn’t hear it initially but I just wobbled it and now it’s fine. Maybe refresh? This is worth hearing, if not now then later

ꙮ Sending it to you privately, we’ll get to the bottom of this

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The Wolf-Priest

Nope. Refresh does nothing.

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The Awoken

I’m goin’

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The Wolf-Priest

Teakers gave it to me–go for it, Awoken, and I’ll go after.

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The Wolf-Priest

Oh HELL this song, dang!

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Aurelius

oh he’s

i get what’s going on now

lol, lmao

Lupine Observer

This song FUCKS

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Salme, The Sword-Saint

Is there something that makes this obviously not a rite of the dragon or is this a hunter thing?

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The Awoken

trying to figure out how to add the pog lol

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Aurelius

It’s not the normal song that plays during the rite!

ꙮ click and plus sign like you did when you added your pog in the first place

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Unua? The Clockwork Knight

Hachi - just like your standard deck, but pick Lithos

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Aurelius

There’s ALSO another thing going on but idk if that’s supposed to be obvious to anyone else but me, but the song being Wrong should be 100% apparent to everyone

ꙮ the Hunter was Talking About The BGM, which is literally a Thing That You Can Hear and is different from the BGM that played when a Rite started in the last session

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Unua? The Clockwork Knight

I wonder how many wrong things there are

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The Awoken

hearing BGM is diagetic

ꙮ correct

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Salme, The Sword-Saint

on our old world, would have a heard the first rite BGM enough to know it was the Rite BGM?

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Salme, The Sword-Saint

slash do we know the Name of the BGM?

ꙮ You would not have heard the Rite BGM before, but it Feels Incredibly Correct for it to have been audible for the Rite somehow

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The Wolf-Priest

…just saw his life total.

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The Awoken

yeah don’t hold back

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The Wolf-Priest

wasn’t planning on it, bud

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Salme, The Sword-Saint

Does this music sound different/weird/wrong/incorrrect? aside from the fact we’re all going to get annihilated

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The Archivist/Archie

uh hey Dragon, is Quick Hit supposed to be infinite damage? Because I just read it again and it’s definitely infinite damage

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Unua? The Clockwork Knight

I think the card returns at end of turn to avoid infiloop?

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The Archivist/Archie

It’s a Quick that deals damage and goes back to your hand. There’s an infinite number of times you can play it per turn

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The Archivist/Archie

Ohhhh okay that makes more sense

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Aurelius

Return is to the draw pile, not the discard pile or hand

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Unua? The Clockwork Knight

Oh

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Unua? The Clockwork Knight

No Return is to deck

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The Archivist/Archie

OH okay cool. I just wasn’t sure how much of a “fuck you” kind of fight this was. I’ll go next if that’s alright

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Unua? The Clockwork Knight

Sins, Pads is mid action

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Unua? The Clockwork Knight

You can go third

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The Archivist/Archie

OH right I saw two actions but forgot that the Omniclast goes in between, completely my bad

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The Wolf-Priest

>.> Listen, Wolf’s honorable, that doesn’t mean he fights fair**

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Unua? The Clockwork Knight

In the meantime - Hunter/Saint - who’s going 4/5/6?

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Aurelius

Law Of The Jungle Law Of The Jungle

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The Archivist/Archie

As he damn well should

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Aurelius

Hunter’s pretty okay with hanging back rn

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Aurelius

but also will jump up if anyone else is hanging back harder

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Salme, The Sword-Saint

I’ll go next

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Salme, The Sword-Saint

or 4th

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Unua? The Clockwork Knight

Cool. Ice, 5, me 6, if we’re all alive?

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Aurelius

yeah that’ll work.

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Salme, The Sword-Saint

oh not that it probably matters but I technically got to … snipe something at the very opening, except it wouldn’t have mattered, right?

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The Wolf-Priest

He takes a stress from targeting me, tho!

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The Awoken

frigging Demonic Tutor++

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Unua? The Clockwork Knight

If it did matter, the cards that were in his hand to start that still exist are Sorrowful memory, Defiance, Fateshunt, and I think Quick Hit?

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The Wolf-Priest

Also, Awoken–remember to doubleclick to show you’ve taken your turn

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The Awoken

I just noticed omni’s aspect is VOIDWALKER :O

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Unua? The Clockwork Knight

Oh, and Burn What holds you back

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Aurelius

yeh i THINK sacrosanct would have protected him from the snipe

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Aurelius

huh it shows the aspect?

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Unua? The Clockwork Knight

It do.

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The Awoken

yeh you gotta Manually Read The Card

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The Omniclast

Sacrosanct as a Grace is a hard counter to Snipe so have an Arete instead

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Aurelius

ooh you can see it on always another option, okay

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Aurelius

i thought i was blind and missing something at the top / hoverover text hahahah

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Salme, The Sword-Saint

awww ty mysterious watcher/rite meister

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The Awoken

you ARE blind tho

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Aurelius

hence!

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Unua? The Clockwork Knight

Oh look, the God throwing a temper tantrum doesn’t understand us.

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The Omniclast

also yeah his Graces and Rites are Veiled <Grace/Rite> of the Voidwalker, with the Claw icon.

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The Archivist/Archie

is Libra not displaying for anyone else?

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The Wolf-Priest

I don’t think it’s supposed to. >.>

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Unua? The Clockwork Knight

slash me LAUGHS

ꙮ :3c

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Unua? The Clockwork Knight

WHAT A STRANGE SYMBOL ON THAT CARD, OH DRAGON MINE

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The Archivist/Archie

… there’s a thing I’m missing here and I’m delighted/horrified to find out what it is

ꙮ Libra’s visibility status is working as intended.

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Aurelius

yeah remember when he mentioned you could only target cards you knew…?

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The Archivist/Archie

: “This page intentionally left blank”-ass… <3

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The Awoken

hahahahahaha

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Salme, The Sword-Saint

I don’t know if ivory blood IMMEDIATELY grants defense, or just on card play, but everyone should have 1 more defense now

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Salme, The Sword-Saint

also Libra. dislike.

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Unua? The Clockwork Knight

I have added my 1 defense. Thank

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Aurelius

on card play, so it’ll proc when i take my turn yeah

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The Archivist/Archie

scared to theorize what Libra is because I’m worried that whatever I say will be worse somehow and the Dragon will be like “yup it was that”

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Unua? The Clockwork Knight

OH, it certainly already exists.

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The Awoken

i’m gonna do a silly

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Unua? The Clockwork Knight

But I’m sure talking about it…might tip the SCALES?

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Salme, The Sword-Saint

.

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The Archivist/Archie

Oh yeah because the Dragon had to make a card about it. I’ll be real, I feel like I’m still growing in my appreciation for how much work has gone/is going into this because holy shit

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Unua? The Clockwork Knight

The puns will continue in this chat, because CK is not a jokester

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Salme, The Sword-Saint

SPEAKING OF WHICH do we know etymology? like can I call this guy “Mr. Breaks Everything”

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Unua? The Clockwork Knight

I have assumed that I do

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The Archivist/Archie

: “do we know etymology” is an extremely funny roleplaying question. And also same

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Unua? The Clockwork Knight

I’m pretty sure “Do we know etymology” is a question that’s been in every game I’ve played / ran

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The Wolf-Priest

Uh. UH.

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Unua? The Clockwork Knight

That’s a rude rite. I wish I had a steal card

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The Wolf-Priest

(Also, not to make our own situation worse, but that draw card you just played is Quick)

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Unua? The Clockwork Knight

Eyyyyy fuck yeah

  • You hear — and your Star hears — a song, echoing from the stillness: Altan Arslan
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The Wolf-Priest

I heard it this time! I dunno why!

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Unua? The Clockwork Knight

Well fucking done

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Salme, The Sword-Saint

awesome

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The Archivist/Archie

Hunter that’s such an incredibly fucking cinematic use of your character song. Way to set the bar high for the rest of us!

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Aurelius

somehow feels thematically appropriate that the first time the music player worked for you was when another player triggered it instead

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The Awoken

hahahah

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Unua? The Clockwork Knight

Teak, you continue not to miss

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Salme, The Sword-Saint

Yeah this one fucking owns especially imo

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The Wolf-Priest

I wanna know what the lyrics are. Because I know they mean something…’cause MINE did…

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Unua? The Clockwork Knight

Yep!

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Salme, The Sword-Saint

mine did too

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The Archivist/Archie

it’s Teak, did you think they wouldn’t mean something?

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The Wolf-Priest

Oh I knew.

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Aurelius

I do indeed have the lyrics for it In English

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Salme, The Sword-Saint

Was song in … some kind of Turkic language?

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Unua? The Clockwork Knight

P sure that one’s mongolian, if we want to play the game

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The Wolf-Priest

: “Arslan” is Persian, I think…

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Unua? The Clockwork Knight

Turkish might be it

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The Wolf-Priest

Aye, I’m wrong–it’s Turkish

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Unua? The Clockwork Knight

I don’t remember

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Salme, The Sword-Saint

Multiple Turkish warlords named Arslan during the crusades

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The Wolf-Priest

: “Arslan” is Old Turkish for “lion”, soooo…

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Salme, The Sword-Saint

Mongolian is closely related to Turkic, fwiw

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The Wolf-Priest

Ooh, didn’t know

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Unua? The Clockwork Knight

Fascinating. Just gonna drop that right there, eh?

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The Wolf-Priest

O_O

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The Awoken

alright I’m no longer gonna do something silly lol

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The Wolf-Priest

An Alethic rite…?

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Unua? The Clockwork Knight

Indeed.

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The Archivist/Archie

something I’m already coming to deeply appreciate about this format for roleplaying games is that you can have side chatter/meta commentary about the decisions you make as your character, plus those characters doing their thing, and it can be simultaneous and also way less disruptive. Because this is awesome

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The Wolf-Priest

Mmhmm! It’s one of the things I really love about play-by-text.

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The Awoken

ah god now I gotta learn about another angle of existence

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The Wolf-Priest

It’s also a lot easier for me to add, like…little character flairs and shit

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Salme, The Sword-Saint

As a terminal yapper I too appreciate this format

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Salme, The Sword-Saint

I hate that I like this asshole

ꙮ anyways remember when i slipped up and implied there were eight card frames

ꙮ pepperidge farms remembers

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Aurelius

no one remembers that BECAUSE YOU DELETED THE ENTIRE CONVERSATION (thats where my arte came from tho lmao)

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Unua? The Clockwork Knight

lol

ꙮ if i were clever and brave i would have a button that I could push that would magically swap every instance of the term in the UX to Alethic but instead I just have a code push ready to go lol

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The Archivist/Archie

honestly close enough

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Aurelius

i was not at all expecting to bust ANY of this out Session Two but the opportunity presented itself so well i had to lol

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The Archivist/Archie

though a big red button would be satisfying

ꙮ :3c

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Unua? The Clockwork Knight

Wolf - did you get your +2 Defense?

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The Wolf-Priest

Yep, just did

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Unua? The Clockwork Knight

sweet

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The Wolf-Priest

Meanwhile, in the back of his head–though too focused to SAY it–Wolf’s going “ya idiots, HIT HIM, don’t worry about me”

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Salme, The Sword-Saint

worries

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The Archivist/Archie

Oh yeah, Archie being quiet here is fully him going into battle trance mode

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Unua? The Clockwork Knight

Archivist has gone, this is a new round.

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The Wolf-Priest

He takes a stress for targeting me!

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Unua? The Clockwork Knight

They just didn’t dim token

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The Archivist/Archie

Yup, I was turn three in that round. It should be back up to Awoken, yeah?

ꙮ Oh lol

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Unua? The Clockwork Knight

Same turn order for speed?

ꙮ Sure

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Aurelius

yeh

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Unua? The Clockwork Knight

Or does anyone need to jump?

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Salme, The Sword-Saint

Teak, giving his cast a bunch of A-name titles: Sowing

Teak, dealing with all the A-name titles he created: Reaping

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Salme, The Sword-Saint

same order is good with me

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Unua? The Clockwork Knight

loll

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The Wolf-Priest

I’m fine with same

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The Awoken

yeah

ꙮ pfffhahahah that was PURELY me not remembering if everyone had had a chance to go and wanting everyone to before the next thing that I do >_>

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Salme, The Sword-Saint

: “next thing that I do”

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Salme, The Sword-Saint

:I

ꙮ innocent otter squeaks

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The Archivist/Archie

Oh wait hang on - Awoken, are you okay with taking Stress from drawing your rites? My thing on my turn was going to remove that from you in case you don’t want it, not that it’s likely to matter

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Unua? The Clockwork Knight

Saint - unphase your token, not that it likely matters, given what’s in captain douchecanoe’s hand

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The Wolf-Priest

I mean, yeah, he’s got…“break reality” as a /card/…

ꙮ GREAT NEWS THE AWOKEN HAS IT TOO NOW

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Aurelius

As One Does

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Unua? The Clockwork Knight

YESSS

ꙮ i assume

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The Wolf-Priest

WHAT

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The Archivist/Archie

I find it interesting that “break reality” is a card that we already knew about! We didn’t have to wait for it to be played to see what it does

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The Archivist/Archie

which has Implications

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Aurelius

I mean… we DID have to arrive here

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The Archivist/Archie

which then implies that we were similarly challenged to a Rite of the Dragon by the Architect because otherwise he wouldn’t have had a chance to play it against us

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The Archivist/Archie

Awoken that’s such a fuckin cool move to even try

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Unua? The Clockwork Knight

I am very glad you did the safe choice and had the fiend do it. But also, oh man

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Salme, The Sword-Saint

I am charmed by the fucking around and finding out, and also by the choice to use the fiend, yes

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Unua? The Clockwork Knight

I have a bet, but I don’t want to say it and spoil the fun

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The Awoken

I still had my main action but I’m okay with that triggering the reaction haha

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Unua? The Clockwork Knight

I thinkit’s probably fine

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The Awoken

yeah

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The Awoken

I am also very okay with being mechanically goose-egged for being silly

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Aurelius

the fucking baby sliver of purple for omniclast’s stress bar around his pod is sending me, on an unrelated note

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Unua? The Clockwork Knight

unrelated, probably toggle your volume?

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The Archivist/Archie

do we need to keep moving in turn order?

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The Archivist/Archie

Is something playing? I don’t even see it in the interface

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Unua? The Clockwork Knight

I assume something will be, based on how this is going

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Aurelius

oh

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Aurelius

yes i too see the name of Song Four In The Track List, lol

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Salme, The Sword-Saint

I love the Wolf-Priest just like “did not we all want to FIGHT? did not we all want to PUNCH THIS GUY?”

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The Wolf-Priest

Listen, you don’t take your eyes off your opponent!

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Salme, The Sword-Saint

the omniclast, proudly, like a child who’s built a sandcastle “LOOK AT MY REALITY-HOLE”

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The Wolf-Priest

Wolf hears…his World-Song?

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The Archivist/Archie

It’s Archie’s turn to lose his mind a little bit

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Salme, The Sword-Saint

Knight, I am WHEEZING

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Unua? The Clockwork Knight

:D

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Unua? The Clockwork Knight

The Knight is old enough to know what children are like

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Salme, The Sword-Saint

I just love how like, genuinely meant that advice was

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Unua? The Clockwork Knight

CK has a very specific motivation. It is going to be an adventure**

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The Awoken

sanctuary SANCTUARY I have misspelled it twice now god pound it

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The Omniclast

words are a weird soup

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The Archivist/Archie

Aurelius you cheeky fourth-wall-breaking motherfucker

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The Archivist/Archie

Though if it was gonna happen of course it would be in the middle of the “break reality” spell

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Aurelius

hahahaha

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Aurelius

it also makes COMPLETE SENSE in the context of The Beast too!!

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The Wolf-Priest

Complete the hand chain!

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The Archivist/Archie

who isn’t holding a hand? I have one hand free!

ꙮ something something hold hands and jump into the abyss together

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The Wolf-Priest

Hunter’s still doin’ his thing

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The Archivist/Archie

yeeee

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Salme, The Sword-Saint

Awoken isn’t either

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The Awoken

I’m playing a game of hand chicken with hunter

ꙮ [solemnly] gay

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Aurelius

:D

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Salme, The Sword-Saint

I didn’t want to ruin the moment but since the OOC already said it

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The Omniclast

hhferhfgjruhguirhg

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The Wolf-Priest

We good for me to lead the charge?

ꙮ Go for it

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Salme, The Sword-Saint

yeh

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Salme, The Sword-Saint

and then Knight lands on Wolf and me, and Almachadta is lost

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The Wolf-Priest

…how I roll?

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Unua? The Clockwork Knight

Press the desired die, spend arete if you have/wise, and click THUS

ꙮ Click on the liminal gnosis symbol (the one that’s the Discord server icon) and then hit THUS

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The Wolf-Priest

Y’all know I didn’t have a prayer of MAKING that check, right?

  • Unua? The Clockwork Knight invoked their 🌌liminal gnosis [d4] -> 3.
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Salme, The Sword-Saint

die could’ve exploded?

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Unua? The Clockwork Knight

Was testing to see if text went THUS with die

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The Awoken

WRONG you could have rolled 2 4s

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The Wolf-Priest

It was extremely unlikely!

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Aurelius

thats ok me and hachi probably gunna slap fight to make rolls in here anyway >_>

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The Wolf-Priest

If bad things happen to us it’s not my fault!

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The Awoken

yes it’s teakwoods!!!

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Unua? The Clockwork Knight

Ain’t that the truth

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Unua? The Clockwork Knight

15 Superannihilates? No sweat, the douchebag has like 60x that in HP

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Aurelius

do you think that npc will have done their homework and thought up a name for themself before we get back……….

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The Awoken

he mad

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Unua? The Clockwork Knight

I tried to give him “Baker” and see if he went for it

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Salme, The Sword-Saint

We come back and they’ve all named themselves after different breads

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Aurelius

Ill Allow It

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The Archivist/Archie

Honestly that would be iconic

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The Awoken

they a little confused but they got the spirit

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Unua? The Clockwork Knight

It would make it easier to Challah at each other. Also to make Rye jokes.

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Salme, The Sword-Saint

…………………………………….

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The Wolf-Priest

cackles

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Unua? The Clockwork Knight

The real question is do they know how names are Spelt?

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Unua? The Clockwork Knight

I can’t Wheat to find out

Lupine Observer

…I don’t need a spray bottle, I need a super soaker.

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Unua? The Clockwork Knight

Inappropriate remark about your super soaker?

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Salme, The Sword-Saint

I was typing something up about “I don’t know how a creature with no concept of a ‘name’ would end up naming themselves, or what their concept of a name would be considering the six examples they had of it, but then realized it was more Carb Punning*

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The Wolf-Priest

Hey now, don’t be sour(dough)

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Salme, The Sword-Saint

et tu, Pade?

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The Awoken

these puns are a p.i.t.a.

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The Wolf-Priest

Oh, no, you don’t understand.

I’m the worst punner in the server.

Lupine Observer

: eyebrow wiggles at Unua**

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Unua? The Clockwork Knight

It’s true.

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Unua? The Clockwork Knight

That’s why he was hoping for meat to go with the bread

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The Wolf-Priest

Yaaaay thankoo Teakers

ꙮ oh my fucking god i came back to PUNS

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The Wolf-Priest

I mean God

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Unua? The Clockwork Knight

He’d be way wurst

ꙮ i love all of you

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The Awoken

THANKJ YOU FOR RUNNING TEAKWOOD

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Unua? The Clockwork Knight

Teak, that was fuckin baller

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Salme, The Sword-Saint

Thank you Teakwood!

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The Archivist/Archie

How the fuck was this SESSION TWO

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Aurelius

that sure went from 1 to 8 WAY faster than I was expecting

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Salme, The Sword-Saint

or “Tweakwood” as I initially typo’d

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The Archivist/Archie

(positive, complimentary)

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The Awoken

you did it you got us to do the omniclast’s bidding without having to drag us into it kicking and screaming

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Salme, The Sword-Saint

GM has a great sense of pacing is how

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Unua? The Clockwork Knight

Tweakwood is when they’ve had too much coffee

ꙮ i have had SO MUCH of that session echoing in my skull fully formed for fucking YEARS lol holy fucking shit

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The Wolf-Priest

I mean, Wolf fuckin’ hated the Architect’s attitude but he didn’t think he had a choice and now he does! Maybe it’ll kill him, but better than…that order.

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Aurelius

yeah aurelius definitely was not vibing with the architect either lol

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The Archivist/Archie

I privately told Teak earlier that my character was gonna have a moment of telling the team “Hey maybe we shouldn’t just automatically take the Architect at his word” but then I privately confirmed that the Architect would know and so I kept that as an inside thought

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Unua? The Clockwork Knight

Teak, I understand why the car ride kicked this into high gear

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The Dragon

: “Hahahaha, yeah”

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Unua? The Clockwork Knight

Fuck yeah man

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The Dragon

all of you fucking going into Settings and nicking up ruled btw

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Salme, The Sword-Saint
  • Daina also Disliked the Architect but is apparently not a decision-maker, so I’m glad other people made that choice*
Lupine Observer

That was a blast to watch unfold, fuck yeah! <3

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Salme, The Sword-Saint

ope

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The Wolf-Priest

How did you DO that?

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Salme, The Sword-Saint

ich habe keine ahnung

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The Awoken

hahahah yeah how

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The Dragon

:

* tests something?

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Unua? The Clockwork Knight

Ich verstehe nicht ahnung

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The Dragon

Nope that’s not it

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The Wolf-Priest

We gotta work on troubleshooting my audio this week

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Aurelius

i also laughed a lot at the libra stuff teak btw i just had to type a bunch of other shit at the time >_>

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Unua? The Clockwork Knight

PAds - do you have Firefox? If so, I would be interested to see how the bug compares. might be useful data

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The Dragon

there was a lot of Teakwood Bullshit happening. feel free to explain any or none of it

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Unua? The Clockwork Knight

Also - if you change tabs, the music requires re-fiddling

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Aurelius

hahaha

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Aurelius

i was warned there would be references but was not prepared for how many and how varied………………………….. excited to slam face first into some i don’t have any context for

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The Archivist/Archie

everything about this has been real good so far, eagerly looking forward to next week

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The Dragon

: “Yeah there is something REALLY wrong with the auto-mute, I’ve identified some problems that may in fact just Be The Problems Padfoot Is Experiencing, I’ll poke around at it.”

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Unua? The Clockwork Knight

ngl, when I saw Libra, I immediately attempted to see if I could acquire it via shenanigans in the deck menu

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Aurelius

hahah

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The Dragon

: “the problem with shit you have no context for is you’ve been in every single one of my goddamn games lol”

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The Archivist/Archie

I figured that at least some enemies would have unique cards and to have that suspicion confirmed so spectacularly in session two is fucking incredible. Also I’m still hung up on the implications of that we may have gotten to the Sanctuary in the first place via Rite

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The Wolf-Priest

…did that just happen to anyone else?

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The Archivist/Archie

Yup

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The Awoken

teak did you push the code

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The Dragon

: “Out of mild curiosity did anyone just now TRY something in any way unusual”

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Salme, The Sword-Saint

Server error?

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The Awoken

push the code teak

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Unua? The Clockwork Knight

Oh that wasn’t you, then?

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The Wolf-Priest

I was literally doin’ nothing

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The Archivist/Archie

Same

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The Awoken

same

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Salme, The Sword-Saint

Uh I was logging in on mobile?

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Aurelius

I think i skipped… one…? there’s def been some campaigns you were in i wasn’t at least, and also given how thick the weave is i assume there’s a fair bit of Non-Campaign references spread around too

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Unua? The Clockwork Knight

timestamp 11:05

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Salme, The Sword-Saint

But that doesn’t seem right

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The Dragon

: “That was a complete server crash lol”

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Aurelius

oh huh

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The Dragon

: “Which like, the fact that ‘complete server crash’ is ‘minor blip and maybe an eaten post’ is pretty cool imo but still oughtn’t be happening.”

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Aurelius

squint

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Aurelius

teak was my theme ALWAYS on the list and i somehow just never noticed it or did you add it on the sly when you played it

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Unua? The Clockwork Knight

Teak, your REDACTED is still REDACTED in codex entries

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Unua? The Clockwork Knight

It was on there

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The Awoken

ALETHIC DICE, huh…?

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The Awoken

how fuckin’ weird

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Aurelius

I Guess I Know What All The Random Language Song Titles Are Now, Probably

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The Dragon

Altan Arslan was always on the list, yeah

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Salme, The Sword-Saint

dice dice

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Unua? The Clockwork Knight

I’m not taking a knife to my dice

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Aurelius

makes perfect sense vs the other stuff hachi!!

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Unua? The Clockwork Knight

Alethic dice are simply reverse Schrodinger dice. The more you observe them, the dicier they are

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Salme, The Sword-Saint

I see

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The Dragon

site will flicker in a few minutes

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The Awoken

yeah yeah it makes perfect sense but I’m trying to make perfect sense of the knock-on-third-order-sense

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Aurelius

that was a fun word to look up however many months ago without context and go “HUH” at tho lol

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Unua? The Clockwork Knight

YEP

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The Dragon

flips both of you upside down

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The Dragon

: “Also Ice you should have known that word already :3”

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Aurelius

i said however many months ago for a reason!!

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Salme, The Sword-Saint

oh lmfao I was getting my etymology wrong

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Salme, The Sword-Saint

wow. what a teakwood concept.

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The Dragon

vjgfuhbduohdfoiujhoi

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Aurelius

unless you’ve used it before even that, in which case, IN MY DEFENSE i need to FREQUENTLY look up MANY words when you jump into the purple prose pool and do not always rememeber them for long

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Salme, The Sword-Saint

I simply steal Teakisms like a magpie and then become increasingly incomprehensible to others

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Aurelius

haha

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The Dragon

hachi does that word ring any bells for YOU

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Aurelius

(it looks too much like Aleith for me to parse it as anything else……….)

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The Awoken

ALEITH DICE, eh…?

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Aurelius

actually hilariously i think the place it had the most chance of popping up anywhere else would have been in ZG

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Aurelius

unless it was an 11 campaign thing in which case i have to restart the above AND add on the Raine Filter

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Aurelius

restate

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The Dragon

do you remember the Interloper’s true name

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Aurelius

uhhhHHHHH

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The Dragon

(it was Aletheia)

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Aurelius

which one was the interloper, the middle one? i don’t think it was sophia

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Aurelius

oooooh

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The Dragon

lmao the Interloper was the fucking Big Bad you gigantic goofus

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Aurelius

yeah no i mean uh

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The Awoken

to be fair to ice

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Aurelius

Vera / Interloper / Sophia

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The Awoken

there were a LOT of A names

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Aurelius

wrt The Middle One

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Aurelius

with vera being the younger and sophia the older

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Salme, The Sword-Saint

… wait. there were two people named truth and then … wisdom?

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The Awoken

It Was Complicated

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Aurelius

i don’t think we saw the interloper’s name for more than one or two sessions tho so i definitely did not remember, BUT NOW THAT YOU MENTION IT it is kinda coming back

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Aurelius

(doubly so since like with the Raine Filter Leilani was goin’ on a fucking tirade and not really listing to anything they said………………………………. >_> )

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The Awoken

multiple states of being, time loops, it was an epistemic boondoggle

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Aurelius

like i couldn’t entirely tell you what happened at the end, exactly, but i DO remember i basically yelled at the final boss long enough that we skipped the fight lmao

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Aurelius

‘do you feel bad now’ ‘im starting to :(‘ “GOOD”

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The Dragon

loooool