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hey he asked

: “the dumbest white boy alive” indeed

and now poor icecylee has to help the party’s resident burning hot mess with her emotions and that’s what jorule gets you I guess

don’t let him off easy!!

YOU

are going to have your moment

is that a threat or a promise

just. ask. =)

an innocent man holds no weaknesses

possibly true. definitely not applicable here.

lmao

teakwood I have an important question

why is aurelius’ tenebrous value glowing, akin to the dragon’s, almost as if it was alethic

turns out the warning message is there for a reason

and teak used the easy tools, and went “EEEEEHH CLOSE ENOUGH”

: “but now you owe me a tenebros check”

which lead to the shitposting i shared in part last night lol

objection

I have no flaws

hol up lemme consults the scrolls

yeah no sorry the scrolls are saying it’s all of us

scrolls written by someone with flaws, no doubt

(that flaw being Judgment Of Character)

damn hes got me there. flaw in the crystal recognized flaw, tho

oooHHHHHH

It’s Good To Be Awoken Tails

Awoken: delusions of grandeur can’t be a flaw if it’s true

100

: “tenebros” this is when two black gnosis characters are in homoeroticisms together

ayyyy

I have procured a dragon to set a DC when they are Ready

Heووo

HMMM

Always Be Rolling

ill eat arte i have no idea how expensive the techne i want is gunna be lol

: “a technique like that could be useful if you ever got -trapped- in the Mask’s memories, or something like it. Good to have in your back pocket!”

… concern.

Help Text With Threatening Auras

Gazed Too Long Into The Abyss

magical gravity bending vision……….. truely this is the weight of Narratives

I’m saying she remembered that line verbatim Dragon can fight me for it

what’s that goon gonna do about it

salme has a good verbatim memory she’s from an oral storytelling culture and as someone who CANNOT remember things verbatim I want the wish fulfillment

honestly it would be weirder, to me, if she did NOT hyper fixate on that line in particular and hard commit it to memory while smoldering

^

she IS gonna do Jorule’s accent All The Time now

it was a good moment

Aurelius having to Auspistice between the Bird Inside Him and his … whatever

absolutely the softest reading of that in existence

hahahah

hm?

let’s just say awoken has a different interpretation of it

lol “let’s just say” I wanna knowww

if you wanna know,

you gotta Ask

IC or out? because like IC might Take A Bit

also Aurelius has big “Spring of Drowned Yeti-riding-Bull-carrying-Crane-and-Eel” energy with his entire self.

I think it’s more fun IC, but if you really want the early version you could twist my arm about it

i have NO idea what that means but it feels chinese poem-

y

:D

OH it’s a reference to Ranma 1/2

she is trying to be Cool about the Bird Inside Him

but

yeah she doesn’t like that

oic

But time flows like a river, and history repeats…

No. Not this time.

: tarucaw

(that’s almost certainly what the winding river was about tho lol)

also mirror and knife emoji in teak’s direction

teak having conniptions at that last line

got to condense MULTIPLE references in that line it was very efficient

got ‘em

<3

get fucked awoken this is formally my role now, you gotta find a new bit

awoken was never the SadBoi archtype so I mean aury’s not moving into an occupied lot…

Salme weak to sad meow meow

I guess sad yip yip since fox?

not used to hachi swinging back at me with the same energy i used myself lmao

I love that you guys managed to create two characters like. designed to get in fights. independently of each other. unintentionally.

I hadn’t really thought about it until aurelius was mid sentence there tbh

and then i was like “oh damn we ARE basically playing the same character but with slightly difference emphasis on similar personality traits huh”

which, none the less, winds up having fairly different stage presence lol

hahahaha

it’s just coincidence that we fit into each other’s clothes and have no problem relentlessly flirting OOC

(ignore one of them being possessed by an alien from a different universe and the other having self destructive tendies born from deep seeded void trauma they can’t remember)

right exactly

EAR WIGGLE

EAR WIGGLE

also dragon it keeps showing I have something in my buffer in the scene when I don’t :(

FOREIGN WORD NICKNAME DETECTED

fox right? I think it’s come up once before

had to close all the pages

yeah well “kettu” is fox, “aavikko” is desert = fennec fox

‘kettu’ means cute and ‘avvikko’ means foxboi

you’re such a turd, ice

IT’S LITERALLY HIS SIGNATURE MAGIC TRICK…………………………

: “I spent Arete being able to do this I’m gonna show it off!!”

SHE DID IT ALL WITH PHYSICAL SKILL

physical skill is just magical skill for dumb people tbh tbh

WOULD IT SURPRISE YOU TO KNOW THAT IT WOULDN’T BE THE FIRST TIME

she went for it

this polycule isn’t going to build itself

he’s an ace sapiosexual I guess it’s fine

Salme racked up too many wins in a row she’s gotta lose now and then

ok but on a scale of 1-10 how fuck up would it be if jorule immediately cut back and was like “damn girl what are you doing cant you stop making bad decisions for like five minutes” b/c lol

jafsa;lkdfjal;sdjlfk;asdj;lfas

that would be so funny but also she’d make a Very Bad Decision then

(not that he’s actually paying THAT much attention to what’s happening right now but the thought obviously crossed my mind lmao)

sir why was it up your sleeve and not in your pants WHAT WAS GOING ON IN THERE

note to self next time u see awoken, ask with no other prompting ‘hey man how do you keep your dick up your sleeve and also why’

hahahahaha

look I had to make that explicitly canon

: “if you want sexy memories, let me tell you about dog dad’s sword-saint days”

when have i EVER given a stupid clan name to anything D:

sorry cats caused ruckus

as cats do

salme looks at the horniest little fey twink in the world and a teenage virgin with two fucked up wolves inside him and goes “fuck yeah.”

honestly she’d probably deserve Jorule popping up and commentating

lmao

nobody deserves that

Also Can’t Really Blame Her Tho yeah

that can be Another Scene because this one is long already but it seems like it would be Quite Useful to have for Samudra, and she’s been working toward it for a while

yeah that probably would have been a much more elegant cut off point if i had not used several words not in the bible lmao

otoh hard cutting on a “a what or a what????” also funny

the best part is she’s just stopped responding to Not Getting Something most of the time. She’s like “no, we obviously don’t want to Talk, I said private?”

Time To Build The White Space App A Second Time,

also a lil A a lil B

(i think the memory sharing still weirds him out a little tbqh but obviously open lines of private communication do NOT and has a lot of examples to pull from, both magical and not)

lol

(the memory sharing should be voluntary, controllable, and mostly for Saving The World tbc. she doesn’t exactly want to share her wretched little memories)

I MAKE GOOD USE OF THE COLORED TEXT

hahah

Asshole Memories

look Jorule doesn’t get to drive this bus

he can come along for the ride if he wants but

why the fuck would i want to drive a bus

oh holy shit i actually hadn’t actually looked at a clock in a while and didn’t realize how late it was lmao

oops

I think we can end there

?

(ndb on my end I’ve been playing an adventure game in the background most of the time too, it just, kinda caught me off guard since I usually start cooking dinner an hour ago lol)

we can have Science Sessions

(oops)

yeah that works

A SNEAK PEAK INTO AN ALTERNATIVE FUTURE FOR OUR TARU OVERLOADS: “Hey fellas, is it gay if when a girl kisses you you don’t know how to react, but the second you see the twink she’s fucking cross the street suddenly It’s Time To Make Our With Her Obviously.”

hahah

(also no shit i read that green line in the same tone i parse tsen’ casual voice and it was Really Funny)

sjdfkladl;skfjaslk;jflkasdkjl;asdfkj;asdkf Salme is just like “huh. not sure how I feel about being the stand-in for Whatever you two are … not doing to each other”

(it was meant to be!)

(she was kind of trying to mimic it)

hell yeah haha

salme absolutely refuses to use flourishing resonance except as a Bit

salme also absolutely embracing her inner fujo a bit and is like “kiss him not me if you want to kiss him dingdong”

(I don’t think it would make her Angry or hurt her Feelings tbc, I think she’d just be like “but … why?”)

hahaha

ALSO thank you for that scene, it was lovely and cute and it was nice of you to play into my interest in emotional storytelling. Aurelius is a blast, but I really like seeing you stretch and display different sides of your writing skills.

no problem! It WAS fun and believe it or not long ass scenes of Just Talking is actually a core part of my RPing history hahah

oh the Just Talking stuff checks out. the “sincerity about emotions” seems to be a long-running character defect.

don’t worry. we’ll Work On It

hahaha

ONLY SOMETIMES

i don’t think it’s actually a strongly reoccuring theme anyway….

well considering your signature character, who you decided to insert into this story, has it, you can’t really blame me for making assumptions

I Mean, Fair

I will consider the fact that I am working with a reduced Source Base in the future

and not make broad sweeping generalizations about icecylee character defects

Being A Bitch is definitely one but i don’t think they’re usually emotionally unavailable?? correct me if I’m wrong I guess teak

I wouldn’t even characterize how you’re playing Aury (and even to some extent the Jorule from what I got) as “emotionally unavailable” so much as like. Pretending Things Matter Less Than They Do. Aurelius certainly Has emotions, you just have to do some work for them.

Jorule has like. Clinical world-ending depression I think?

(I do love that it seems like everyone has PTSD from Leilani)

the most funny thing about leilani is that

for as destructive and chaotic as her very presense on the timeline was when radmir wasn’t around,

it lead to the best ending possible and ALSO meant we didn’t Fight And Kill God, and simply yelled at her about being mean to her sisters enough that she decided to NOT end the world

b-but fighting and killing god

i was as surprised as anyone that i opted for the non-violent option

(also forgive me for being Most Invested in Teak and Hachi’s PTSD)

adflk;asdjfsdaskl;dfj;

BF was funny because me and hachi were like, mortal enemies IC but also the only ones doing anything important half the time too

so he was constantly groaning over everything i did and vice versa

Hello Fuepepe

… how is that. different. here? the constant groaning I mean

oop wrong icon

no it’s funny here :D

also god can you imagine the WORST timeline

is the one where radmir yellow dotted so hard that leilani actually was full undine and bitta DIDN’T go insane and they were the Group Couple instead

that was like 90% of all timelines ice…..

NO WONDER THE ENTIRE TIMELINE WAS ALWAYS ON FIRE

This UI is confusing and new to me but hello

hi <3

It’s MOSTLY discord at this point and used to be much weirder

hello Famous Fuepepe

WHY AM I FAMOUS

IDK you’re married to Ice?

they just talk about you all the time.

lmao

hahah

You’re right this is a shitpost.

Kay has asked Many Questions About Mana and obviously that means you come up a lot too

IT’S SO JORULE THO RIGHT

this is an enormous shitpost and i’m so pleased by it

plz retroactively imagine this was playing in the elevator during ISI

oh also

I mean someone did literally say “Fuepepe is Icecylee’s husband” and I went “Oh, Ice, you’re married?” because I took it literally.

click on this avatar to enlarge

I said literally twice

-someone +Teakwood without question

it could have been hachi?

Sometimes I forget who tells me what in the Mana Lore Dumps

It was probably me but it could have been Hachi, yes. Also yes click on that avatar immediately

IMAGINE THE TRENCH COAT

im an artistic genius

Is the fucking Angel of Darkness shitpost what got you to make an account?

he didn’t know there was a theme song until just now and we needed him to hear it hahahah

I made it because Teak specifically said ‘Fuepepe go do this’

tragic that you missed The Stupidest Shit that was also Cool last night.

These two jokesters (Teak & Ice) have been chortling obnoxiously about it for a Very Long Time.

I chortle obnoxiously about a LOT of things, to be fair.

Yeah I’ve been keeping tabs on it since I saw he made his character name Aurelius which was Hachi’s character in space mana.

some would argue it is our preferred method of communication

Yes but it’s worse when you’re in cahoots with Ice

It’s much better when you’re smugly talking about how Ice doesn’t know what the fuck he’s talking about but is nevertheless making confident assertions

i’m cahooting with EVERYONE all the time, that’s my secret

hmm.

Poor fucking Hachi just getting trolled 24/7 by this guy

Site will flicker at some point shortly

It’s important to troll Hachi because we don’t get to see him as much as we used to 15+ years ago.

making confident assertions with no real evidence or basis rules tho and it’s very funny when no one else realizes it’s 99% bullshit

we back? we back

i also literally asked hachi if it was OK before the start too which is what makes it extra funny

I mean Jorule tends to test shit and let it work itself out anyways. Like when you decided to just step into the AF world boundary into Winter and almost were erased from existence but Flip pulled your dumbass back. Or when you almost got erased taking 10 KP damage when you decided to screw around in the white sea of sparks…

dont forget the time he decided to figure out if breathing was mandatory or not

we sure did a lot of Science and Learning in myth!!!

was breathing mandatory?

Less so in later games, but Myth was the first real one not counting the short lived first era game with Seth. So boundaries were tested a lot. (Breathing was mandatory in the sense that he would waste a day and respawn the next morning. So mostly mandatory…)

it WAS :(

I’m just imagining Ice like “I will make a character so depressed and stupid”

It’s Dangerous To Be A Shade Pionner

I mean he was literally a Dark Knight that renamed his attack to ‘Paint it Black’ I think he knew what he was going for.

god I need your stupid character ranking chart from “aggro lesbian” to “silly li’l guy” now that I have more context

some day i will get to play Jace Carver in a campaign and then we will all have to hope to god Jorule does not show up there

ice did you have a goth phase IRL or were you just living the dream in RP?

Ice usually plays assertive leader characters who get shit done but every once in a while he plays someone else and I’m forced to do it. (Vlad lmao)

uhhHHH hand wobble kinda sorta not really? there was a Get Into Metal and Start Wearing More Black and Grow Out Hair phase and while the middle one ended the other two did not (altho i do still have the long black overshirt from back then than still wear it to this day)

ah yes vlad definitely Got Shit Done that’s the right word to use to describe what happened,

i mean he’s not wrong,

things did happen with alarming frequency

oh no

Listen Teakwood no other player has gone ‘Theodore… do you trust me…?’ while riding the Luna stream on a canoe and then just tips us off the starry way into the void and Peter has to panic afk for 45 minutes to figure out what the hell was down there. (The Pure Lands and the Mana Tree.)

loooooooool

No one was poking at the seams in Mana so I made a scholarly asshole who would.

: “no one was poking at the seams in Mana”, statements made by the totally deranged

IKR

this mother fucker forgetting about Wilhelmine somehow and also that Xsia briefly isekai’d himself into the real world and talked to some nerd ass girl about david bowie’s performance in The Labyrinth

I will let you guys reminisce but I really must stress that at a time when I should be hashing out my dissertation topic and studying for my comprehensive exams I have instead devoted a nonzero amount of hours to learning the RP Lore of you weirdos (… laudatory?) and the fact that I am starting to recognize names and players is probably dire?

god how was i playing one of the least weird and least harmful to reality characters in Mana lmao

gahahahahah <3

hahaha

Because Peter specifically said ‘NO JORULE.’ and sprayed you repeatedly with a water bottle and Theodore came out.

:D

jokes on peter though jorule never would have had a three hour session about professor frog

Frogs cause problems.

cackle

Frogs cause problems.

I literally almost was like “what’s the luna stream and why was vlad deranged enough to want to poke at the seams in Mana” and then realized I probably … should be working on other things

That story could go on A While it’s true lol

loooooooool

Belatedly you are also insane for making an entire website + backend for your game Teakwood. Amazing.

Though I suppose you did have a long time to prep it. :D

[bows] hilariously MOST of this only sprung up between like last October and December lol

the Rite/Cards/Deck interface was MOSTLY present for…. a long time

but then I was seized by several distinct fey moods in sequence

Did you use those for anything else in the past, then?

teakwood thinking about EE and homestuck and goes what if… I could be that dumb, too…?

I was definitely thinking Homestuck. Less so EE.

Ice and Peter built the Dragon deck for me -years- ago and then Sanctuary got back burnered for a hot minute and then the Happening Meter suddenly hit maximum and stayed there

huh weird why does italics eat that teakwood lmao

Yeah fair you had a lot going on then.

oh yeah we have colored text here of various different varieties and typefaces and they’re all important in some way or another also there are some load-bearing easter eggs on the website also most of the website other than Elsewhere and the Archives and a few other things is diegetic information available to the characters

and I needed to have built the entire site from scratch to do all of the incredibly dumb fucking bullshit I knew I wanted to do

huh why DID italics fuck that up, that’s weird and not intended behaviour

Colored text is powerful …

> Can you change things with basic tags or do you have your own **keywords** and identifiers?⁂

Okay most of those don’t work

I have found like a couple load-bearing easter eggs but not enough T-T

: basic markdown stuff _generally will ^{^work} ^ however

(backticks work for escaping text; that’s how Ice decided he was going to Be Jorule. Strikethrough works)

I’m more familiar with HTML than Markdown so I’d have to look that up.

what makes the super/subscript

single tilde and carrots

caret and tilde, respectively

_testing ^testing

ty

I admit the meta potential is strong with different text options. >.>

glancing back over scene and damn there were a lot of really cute exchanges in that huh

YES

god

also imaging how much potentially worse the whole angel descends bullshit could have been if she made a move first and not after the fact lmao

fixing this goddamn stupid italics edge case is so much harder than it should be lol

oh yeah when i was doing dishes i realize WHY it was doing that but,

i assume you also know why by this point too lol

it’s absolutely horrific lol

it probably shouldn’t be an issue player side at least but I’m almost surprised it hasn’t happened to you yet

HAHAHAHAHAHAH GET ULTRA MEGA TURBO SPARKLE FUCKED

:O

this is the dumbest motherfucking thing i’ve ever committed to a repo but it works baybee

i am committing CRIMES for you, my friends. crimes.

: “for you”

THERE WERE SUPER CUTE EXCHANGES

<ice> “I don’t know if you’ll enjoy what I’m doing with my character.” writes the most moe fox boy ever

wait hm did I fuck something up “Testing this” and then this bluh

Nope that’s fine ok thank christ

hahaha

Aurelius and Jorule have had their entries updated

:)

oh damn that reminded me about the gold coin

IS THERE ANYTHING WEIRD OR NOTE WORTHY ABOUT THAT IN THE VOID

also teak is badri’s entry supposed to be alethic or should it probably actually be flourishing???

that was me fucking up the node like 13 times

aha

updated everyone

so yeah probably flourishing

also check out the scorpion queen

Salme will Absolutely Refuse to Learn the Word Angel. That is an entire-ass Raven With Depression.

hahaha

Technically,

she did not cheat,

and he is being a sore loser about a sucker punch

aint no rule in the book that says a scorpion can’t utilize knowledge as a weapon :(

: “sucker punch”

: “sore loser”

have some self respect that sucked

hahah

ice am I going to get into a wiki edit war with your shitty bird alter ego

<Jorule> “aaaah, just like the good ol’ days”

updated

:) :) :)

gunna laugh so hard the first time other people click on that node

:) :) :)

I have no diagetic explanation for this other than Salme was thinking Really Hard about Good Comebacks for Big Honking Crow of Darkness and that’s why this entry is Like This

Also now curious if there’s a character limit

sometimes you just get angry enough that the words find a way

and sometimes you know what the internet is and pretend you’re Posting Through It

probably the funniest part is that the history pretends like you deleted the entry and then redid it entirely every update so the history update entries just get longer and longer lol

oh god I need to look at the history

tragic that it tracks you as Aurelius making updates and not Jorule

ikr

archie gunna have so many more questions about the pamphlet………………..

yes

also

just imagining AURELIUS being like “what … the fuck?”

really had to fight not to lean into the bit about “no selling” things.

hahahah

salme kinda ignores Asshole Bird Memories about things like Walkie-Talkies or whatever, but I think abstract colloquialisms would be really rough to explain

ahaha yeah there was one I used earlier, or during the sesssion? that even made me pause for a second after I said it and wondered if any of worlds beyond beast would have been able to make sense of it

also like how each paragraph keeps getting steadily longer and longer, somehow

also ANGLE BIRD

maybe it was a mispelling?

she doesn’t know

angle bird……………………… it’s good

it got

dumber

somehow

just kind of like. “god. where do you even START with a response to this” lol

teak has to build a jorule pesterlog just to handle this specific edge case

fundamentally the problem is that salme wants to ask questions and angle bird wants to answer them

probably

yeah

yeah

neither one of them knows how to shut the fuck up by nature and self anointed trade

oh yeah didn’t he start out as like … a bard? minstrel? whatever?

yup!

Don’t Worry, We Have The Technology To Make It Dumber

ogod

you led fue here lol

its where we keep The Music

hi hachi

shouldn’t you be asleep?

Shift Change

yeah this is standard hachi waking hour

for some reason I thought it was a bit later

oh well that works out

there are so many references I want to make and cannot :(

hahaha

tag you’re it

assuming Jorule doesn’t just dip on this bullshit

he does have the vibe of a guy that googles himself tho

tfw it’s finally long enough I feel compelled to put this on my vertical monitor, which is CLEARLY a sign things are spiraling lmao

it’s fine. we’re good.

teak is going to die when he sees This

I can also feel Awoken just pointing aggressively and screaming “distraction”

it is a very big distraction at this point

I really feel like you and Teak both kind of deserve it for Manifesting Bullshit. Like you can’t genuinely get all surprised pikachu about someone trying to Understand The Bullshit.

not in the slightest

aurelius gunna glance at this later and be like “this sure is the truth burning, i was not wrong in making that called shot, oh well, it’s fine.” lol

iofjakl;sdfksl

she’s honestly fine she’s just trying to help out a Troubled Bird and is gonna get rebuffed for it and will hopefully get some answers.

do wanna grab u and hachi for a “okay what the fuck kinda story genres are you guys on about” here during our own sanctuary minipause

once we’re sure awoken isn’t going to try to murder aury

or you know. after you guys rite it out or w/e

awoken would never murder a friend

right

right???

: vibrating aggressively

I reckon y’all are doing Shenanigans

you should

look

at jorules node

on the rumor map

oh my fucking lord

I’m not reading all that

It Just Keeps Going

hits enter

severely unneccessary loredump about an unimportant NPC

it is, mercifully, self contained. For Now.

hahahahahahha

anyway the real important node update was Badri’s

not whatever horseshit is going on in angel land

angle

awoken also got a node update!

two, even

now we’re talkin

‘very delusional’ accurate

:D

ice’s addition. you can thank him

slut-saint oh my god T-T poor guy

ok but

there are absolutely tijuana bibles regarding sword-saints in history

my source is highly trusted

god that doesn’t fully parse but i know it’s funny

oh for sure

teak’s not awake to contradict me I think there was at least one weirdo sword-saint who kept the mask ON when they had their liasons

: “GM’s asleep post lore”

you KNOW someone would

300%

actually I wonder if the Mask can be like “… irrelevant. nope. erase”

christ. this is absolutely homestuck levels of karkat memos

aint no way at least ONE of them wasn’t a The Mask Stays On kinda Freak

im karkat

this is definitely the situation where you’re both karkat and dave at the same time

hahahahahahha

gay

yes, that too

tonally Salme is bringing some Jade energy which was a surprise but.

deeply appreciate you sneaking that meme in there before i got the response too btw

jade- keeps it together and has plans and reminders and has a caring disposition

also jade- loses her absolute shit after dying and being prototyped

Ice

Ice

thinking react

hi

you know she’s going to have to ask

GONNA HAFTA

some real mouse and cookie shit happening over here

Jorule teaches Salme earth slang via the rumor map

no one is happy

lmao

maybe I’ll get to comment on Aury’s autistic rizz but like. diagetically.

: “he just keeps explaining”

: “god it’s so hot.”

ijosfdalk;dsjflkasd

hahahahahahah

bam

the entry is so long it doesn’t show up fully in the changelog

this is. so stupid.

there’s a changelog????

it just got dumber!

yeah the little buttons in the upper left

fuck me lol

also oh shit I gotta run

right one is for layers, left is history, and you can click on full archive for a deeper dive

catch you kids later

have fun!!!

i am going to bed Basically Now too so that will have to be my last shenangin for the night

see you hachi!

I think that’s a Good Enough shenanigan. I need to shower anyway and decide if she has anymore questions. I don’t want to ask anything that’s actually like … game-mechanic relevant anyway.

sleep well! thanks for the shenanigans

(though I have noticed that Jorule’s spelling is more solid and I like to imagine he’s running these through grammarly before posting)

hahahah

passive spell check is Turned On and red squigglies are clickable

makes sense but not as funny

the funniest part about the eye was that without looking too close at it initally it kinda parsed as an emoji out of the corner of my eye and i was like “damn maybe we DO need to pump the breaks” but no it all seems above board!! Barely

feel free to impress your friends with your newfound mastery of alien humor tho, sure to be a big hit with those from the beast

zzz

salme has a very important question to ask saranzaya now

oh my god

i click on the rumor map with profound trepidation in my heart

oh my GOD lol

hahaha

deeply curious how any of that lead to a question for saranzaya

you’ll find out!

But It’s So Far Away

oh huh

that fix to the music box on mobile extended to desktop,

which probably wouldn’t be super noticable generally, but i think it took me from 8 visible lines down to 7 lol

and 6 on smol monitor

also ‘how do you even know who saranzaya is,’ i begin to type, having briefly forgot i marked her name on the map so it’d be easier for me to find it again

ALTERNATIVE OUTTAKE REACTIONS TO BEING KISSED: “Hrm. fold arms over chest. Your Kiss Of Death technique is a bit lacking, as well.”

know how I know aury’s gay

how is that hachi

(i’m in suspense…! now im gunna be extra sad when the punchline isn’t “he’s in a campaign with The Awoken”…!)

sadly the answer is “his reactions to being kissed by a woman” :(

:(

how does that help you fight fiend tho………………….

honestly aury gives more “has 0 concept what sex is.” he’s got flirty energy with a bazillion people but the idea he’d know what to do with any of them feels less and less likely

even awoken I think would depend on AWOKEN to do anything

maybe he could seal the deal with tsem?

pfffffffff

Big Dog Chasing Car Energy

aury kabedons awoken and surprises both of them but then doesn’t actually realize what he’s supposed to do next so they’re just standing there.

Just Like In My Animes

hi teakwood

i can’t tell if I’m supposed to recognize the melody of that but it does a good job of like, feeling like liminal (non-setting version) Green-y (setting specific) Zone

why does samudra have so many more tracks than any other world

favoritism

f’real

doop

yeah seems fine

double checking here too

<3

BIG green text

mfw reibello gets arete for dying in french

mais oui

where would Salme find Wolf?

Hmmm. If we’re going right on the tail of his last scene, still sitting with Ember.

I think that makes sense. Salme probably went and paced a little anxiously after HER last scene and would probably be ready to seek counsel from the good yeresh.

a scene intended to be “yeresh wolf, how do boys work? also tell me about your apprentice” turns into “SO THOUGHTS ON VENGEFUL MURDER” good job Salme you are really proving archie’s concerns Valid

:)

ice that little smiley face feels vaguely offensive but I couldn’t even say why

sdfjasl;djflas; CUTE

I feel very delighted to see him getting to be a little more casual. not that formal, fluidly controlled wolf isn’t Great but. we gotta stay a little silly.

WOLF SAID SHIT

idk what to tell you if a :) offends other than Blame Teakwood and also maybe you are parsing it right, who knows

COUREL SHIT

idk maybe I am just enjoying too much the teakwood pasttime of “recreationally yelling at icecylee” and just looking for excuses.

lol did realize last weekend that I have been probably mispronouncing your username this entire time

:D :D :D

ice-SIGH-lee is probably not correct

of course I also say almachadta wrong

I think that’s how several people say it b/c god knows there’s not a correct reading, like some kind of ancient and forgotten kanji

Actually, I /have/ been pronouncing it wrong all this time, because I’ve been pronouncing a third “c” in it that doesn’t exist.

hahah

I’ve been reading it as “Icecyclee” this whole time. Damn.

I actually was doing that Quite A Bit before I decided I needed to Full Name Icecylee often enough that I had to learn how to spell it. IDK about you but I have the dyslexia where you just add/remove random letters.

Icecyclecec

cicecyclcecec

hahaha

Clycideleed

these are all the Same Word in my brain

you don’t know that. maybe icyclydeleigh is a time-traveler and is from one of the famous iberian regnal lines?

maybe ice’s real name is alfonso?

<_<

he doesn’t seem like an alfonso but who knows!

also see salme we’re all fucked up and winging it what’d i tell ya

hush, icefonso

D:

alfonsice

-dying laughing-

salme trying hard to be like “there’s no way wolf was ever uncool and out of control.” (remembers early badri in the mask’s memories) “okay maybe there was but my worldview can’t handle contemplating that too deeply right now so.”

teak you’re going to jumpscare the shit out of me when she does look at ember and they have a cute lil topical song on hand or something

lol

> For a moment, he looks like he’s being absolutely pelted with coins

I laughed aloud

Fair warning, btw, Catherine, that depending on how this ends up starting to wrap up, Wolf might have one more comment. (Just wanting to make sure stuff doesn’t necessarily slam to a hard stop, while I’m thinking about it.)

hahaha

oh don’t worry she’s lost all sense of shame

I Must State for the Record that Salme was the recipient of Multiple Heartfelt Talks about Sexuality from Badri, even though she was … old enough to have had SOME experience by the time they met, and even though she absolutely did not want to Receive those talks.

honestly maybe Badri and Wolf should kiss. They certainly do the eyebrow thing enough.

who’s the magpie, is it archie, he does seems to get into everything

: stares

Unfortunately, I keep writing characters that are Very Ace, though it would be amusing if Badri had made a pass at one point.

dont look at me im starfox

she didn’t have time to (rotate) that second bird metaphor. Jorule is “crow” and she wanted to keep with the corvid theme thus.

lol I’m sorry she suddenly became the saddest, wettest cat

i think u mean sum kind of water fowl

damp sparrow in the rain

actually no they usually puff up it’s cute

damn uncle wolf

deserved tbqh

: “how old is everyone?” Aury and Salme proceed to both act like teenagers at best

Awoken is … god only knows

hahaha

he’s like 12 and 22 at the same time I think

wolf definitely gives “guy in his 30s faking it more than making it sometimes but everyone thinks he adults so good”

i’m not sure if annarr was in fact as old as i thought and it’s just jorule being a bad influence on aurelius, or if maybe he was younger than i thought on my end hahah

I mean again aurelius himself is like 6 days old so he gets a pass

I guess awoken is also like 6 days old

damn salme get better taste

(though I definitely was like “she’s like mid-30s” and she’s 26 tops actually oops)

(actually how old is jorule supposed to be? I mean he’s Infinite Having Seen The Death of A Million Worlds but)

finally got good enough to beat badri at 19, hasn’t felt a real emotion since then until waking up, checks out

oof read for filth by cyicelee

17, Forever, much like the Idols of old

is the Idols of old a reference to something?

no like, the popstar/idol spectrum lol

oh okay I was original like “… like … in the kpop sense?” and I’m glad I wasn’t too off there

yeah haha

also pads I know it’s getting late for you. I have a couple wrap-up beats but can wind down.

salme is a yapper, tragically, because catherine is a yapper

Eh, I don’t work tomorrow. It’ll taper off when it tapers off.

\o/

you!

you make her speak in flourishing sincerely!

-bows, smugly-

Can’t Argue That One

also dragon lmk if I need to roll to give wolf a really nice massage I guess

also also dragon: is there a way to have present colors for each gnosis color in the color picker? it’s driving me nuts that all the flourishing connections are slightly different shades of green

(I am at least 75% at fault for this)

Sorry, Catherine–it’s not a question that parses to Wolf save how he answered it. Circumstances may toss him, edgelords may confuse him, but Wolf is Wolf, all the way down.

don’t apologize! I love it!

SO MUCH FOR FIGURE IT OUT ON HIS OWN HUH MASK

Listen, if you help heal over a little of someone’s core traumas, sometimes you get gifts, I don’t make the rules.

haha

I’m briefly AFK for bio but I’ll be right back

HE ASKED

ALSO

AURY WAS LITERALLY OFFERED THE GREEN TEXT AND WAS IN A SNIT ABOUT IT AND SAID NO

(salme really wants the burning text)

what

when

i don’t remember that lol

in the only dark place full cast scene:

[right after wolf gets his flourishing resonance ability back:]

Salme, The Sword-Saint reaches up and tweaks Aurelius’ ear. “I don’t understand it either. But would you want to help me figure it out?”

⁂

Aurelius: “No it makes perfect sense, this is stupid let’s go.”

She was gonna just tell him lolf

talkin’ about different things again!!

well he COULD use some of that curiosity!

instead of being jorule-pilled about it

you just want to taunt ice

fwiw, at that particular moment,

but I do have some thoughts of how to explain it IC

he was going “THEY GOT GREEN, FLOURISHING TEXTS, BECAUSE THEY ARE HAVING. SOME FUCKING. CHARACTER GROWTH AAAAAHHH tarucaw this is dumb, moving on”

yeah again. jorule-pilled

poor Salme keeps trying to be like “Aury, let’s do esoteric bullshit together!” and when he’s not huffing JoruleFarts he’s good about it, but when he is he’s like “why BOTHER I already KNOW EVERYTHING and it’s NOT A PHASE, moooooom”

dont entirely remember what he thought she was talking about? probably was responding to another question entirely, at NO point did he/I think you were offering to give green text knowledge he woulda taken that in a heart beat lmao

in the industry we call that Fumbling

well she’s also not really a shade character so she’s not going to be like “hey do you want to talk in cool green text” so sometimes you maybe have to read things a little broadly. Like she’s not going to be like “here’s the little symbol-dongle I use”

WINTER

also ice awoken has to talk to aury at some point don’t let me forget (I won’t forget this is just me priming you)

LETS GO

i gotta EAT

i also gotta finish this run

and then eat but i eat and type at the same time all the time

I mean I do that too but I gotta like. peel myself away from the keyboard a stop blearily looking at this scene and going “ooh it’s a heater”

haha

(I accidentally a nap)

TALK TALK TALK TALK

(Sorry pads it took forever to figure out how to word that and separate out what I think I might know vs. what salme has theories about)

Naw, that’s fine! It’s a Thing!

literally forgot the word “nickname.” had to work backwards from “nom de plume”

eyyyyyyyyyy

1. not her boyfriends 2. very dissatisfied with “magpie” but for some idiotic reason this girl thought “fox” would be too on the nose

they’re just more of her conquests…………………….

you don’t get to say that until you read this scene

Alas, I /am/ getting to the point where I’d like to wrap within the next 15 minutes or so.

hahah

and bluejay wasn’t????? this saint

gahahahahahahah

I think we’re at the downturn in the action, pads

lol sorry for being The Longest Scene Pusher Ever tho

You say that like I haven’t enjoyed every damn minute of this scene. I’m a big boy, when I need to go to bed, I’ll tell you.

.. okay ty ..

oh my sad little face got eaten ._.

:D

okay that’s the mic drop line

unless you want to do something else

Nah! I’m good! Thank you SO very much for a lovely scene.

that was very good. great job too! I had a blast!

thank you!

IM STARLIT? :O

also updated Salme’s connection to Wolf’s node if you want to see, Pads

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_pheasant#/media/File:Chrysolophus_pictus_walking.JPG < this is Aurelius’ bird

Ooh! I’ll take a look at that tomorrow–I can tell I’m gonna fade fast as soon as I come down from the focus

Oh an yeah I guess that end line WOULD make Aury starlit

no rush! it’s not going anywhere :)

Aww. cute <3

ice I’m going to kill you for ruining the bird theme there is simply no good alternate bird.

lmao

ok hear me out:

griffon

lion bird!

I mean like yeah, Salme has a Finnish nickname for Aurelius based on being a fox, but also she was sitting on “crow” for the bird inside him, but then the bird inside him is a different guy!

… I hate you because I DID consider that and it made me mad

>:D

also I am literally just sending teak pictures of birds

lmao

I am on a bird encyclopedia looking at birds

I hate you

oh no

there are some real cute birds out there. also some real stupid birds. also birds that are cute but with … impossibly stupid names?

birds!

Marbled Godwit, Long-billed Dowitcher, Surfbird

https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Ruff/overview actually he’s great

SURFBIRD

I’m going to just post about birds here to make you (and any other unfortunate who comes by) look

I guess that is within my power

ok ice I am ready whenever you are

o noes…………. cute birds…………….

awoken’s gonna go find aury so wherever he’s at

I assume he’s turning the interior of the ziggurat into a train rest stop complete with konbini

: “Brown Noddy” not to be confused with the “Black Noddy”

aurelius is the “Red Naughty”

awoken is the “Blue Naughty”

: “Sandwich Tern”

dsjkfsd;flkj

he definitely wants to install some benches and shit outside since the ziggaraut seems to be doing itself

: “Magnificent Frigatebird”

also might be a lil bit I guess me and fue are doing one more run before he starts raiding but you napped so you’ll be up

yeah i’ll be up

frigatebird has a fukken CHEST

oh many the picture I saw did not show me their throat sacs so I had. no idea. holyshit

ah I have arrived at the boobies (red-footed, blue-footed, masked, brown)

https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Anhinga/overview what the hell is this thing

: “The name Anhinga comes from the Tupi Indians in Brazil, meaning “devil bird“ or “evil spirit of the woods.“”

evil stork

also good ice this will give me time to catch up on reading scenes while eatin’

the bird of darkness

:OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

maybe that should be jorule’s bird

he can be your devil or your devil

or … your devil

hachi how old do you think awoken is?

old enough to know better, young enough to not care

thanks hachi

we’re 80s refences all the way down

im a helper <3

but also I’m now (rotating) it

definitely Older than he looks but not like. 500 years. or 50 years. maybe 25-30. a ripe twink

: “a ripe twink”

I’m

okay.

same tbh

anyway, kingfishers! man those guys have heads that are disproportionately large for their bodies

More bird names: Northern Beardless-Tyrannulet, Greater Pewee, Clark’s Nutcracker, Bridled Titmouse, Great Tit (classic), Red-vented Bulbul, Bushtit, White-rumped Shama, Sprague’s Pipit

people just be claiming birds, clark and sprague

fucking bird namers, man

I wanna know who Clark was and why they wanted their nutcracker immortalized in this way

oh many the main pictures for the common grackle is Good: https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Common_Grackle/overview

How… Common.

dude looks like he Seen Some Shit tho lol

right? I love it when birds eyes just look unhinged

ok going to do dishes then we can rolololol

OK

teak what’s a guy gotta do to start making some benched and maybe a little hut/tiny building with a brochure racket and like, a big ass sign to hang on top of it with the name of the train stop on it

You feel like you can’t quite do that yet, but you feel like it’s… almost there. Like you can almost reach out and touch it.

you’d think it’d be easy with the excess of mana, but no :(

you gotta apply for permits

hmm why are my headphones not outputting sound correctly

Teak edging Ice at doing Any Fun Bullshit on the obsidian road

i just wanna make it nicer :(

now you gotta listen to alien magic science shit instead

for reasons beyond my understanding unplugging the connected from the computer and plugging it back in, instead of doing the same with the headset fixed it so [hachiface]

bad news for aurelius about some of the more questionable train stations I’ve been to

D:

really embracing those undine roots to not care about the serial killer stare

honestly if you wind up in peril you will have profoundly earned it.

its ok im moving to a light source near a crowded area (there’s a dead guy under a pile of skins nearby)

: “there will be witnesses”

: “if I start thinking about the way the awoken is staring at me it’ll be all I ever think about” mmhmm ok allegations not being beaten here

no if i started worrying there’s a difference!!!

hahahahhahahahahaha

oh man I love this

oh fuckin’ boy

what up

I saw that

you didn’t see shit

I absolutely saw that

what did you see, i don’t THINK you should be seeing anything???

what’d he do?

I saw the dramatis personae shift in a particular fashion

oh. no.

oh the fucking

lmao okay

yeah I was gunna Do Something

then decided not to

lol. lmao

i cant believe the user list gave it away…………………….

no you should definitely do it. I want to see awoken react

if you’re going to make me DM a Rite you needed to start this scene much earlier than 3 AM lol

i was about to be silly tho then decided after the initial encounter and then VERY BORING conversation with salme slash Forum Warrior Clash, also with Salme, he probably was not hanging on every random conversation word for word

why would that have provoked a rite,

and also, even if it did i know how the rules work :3

: “why would that have provoked a rite” says area man who’s been getting by on weird charisma for longer than he should’ve been able to

he can’t make out with me if he’s stabbing me,

SHUT UP TEAK WOOD

^ confirmed

yeah I Know You Well

: “Alright” thumbs up emoji

listen he is very clearly Doing Preamble For A Much Grander, Sweeping Lense On Metaphysics and like

sometimes you just gotta hit X to continue instead of going ‘boy why cant you speak clear english’ after every line!!!

you know at this point I don’t think it’s Awa’s communication skills that are suspect

wolf only thinks im dumb, but he can’t understand awa!!!

wait now i made myself sad

why? because wolf thinks you’re dumb?

thats in the implication

(also i am, as always, Just Kidding)

(I am Aware)

tbf I don’t think wolf thinks you’re dumb. I think he thinks you’re 12.

ooof

also maybe people would have a better estimation of Aury’s intelligence if he would stop intentionally misreading things in the most frivolous way possible, but what do I know

yeah what DO you know Miss Immediately Went Off The Rails On A Fucking Bender

I do know that Aurelius is a good boy who cares a lot but also is bizarrely conflict avoidant and subs in being blase for addressing actual concerns

Salme is unhinged I am literally never going to claim she isn’t

that’s why she’s got all those frayed ends

let’s talk more about Aurelius’ Magic Asshole

does it lead to a Magic Prostate or …?

there is definitely a Male G-Spot that is pressured upon when Mana happens

ahahahahaha

lol

at “slightly-off angles” or “slightly-off angels”?

BITCH WE JUST SAID LESS CONFLICT WOULD BE GOOD ACTUALLY

angles

like an angle bird

wait why are you yelling at me ._. I’m just an observer

angle bird

: “oh okay I was being too cryptic, hang on” adds more heat to the fastball

tragic

bruh you can’t hit me with the cheeky anime girl move like that, you need a license for it

I’ve already done the tsundere wink-and-raspberry-blow I cannot be stopped

man just imagining Awoken in a japanese high school sailor uniform he’d kill it

haha

teak you said everything we can basically see is diagetic right

everything but the logs and elsewhere

songs are kinda weird But There’s Something Inbound

(presumably the user list is also not, like diagetic… but we’re obv using arete/techne etc)

too late awoken looked directly at arete counts

I see you’re past venting spleen and onto flirting relentlessly, hachi

THINKING EMOJI

thinking thinking thinking blue thinking

can’t believe we have street pass functionality

hahahahahhahahahhahaha

a spotlight but it’s black light, just for jorule

again “jorule googles himself” staying a winning observation

not my fault awoken’s over here performing summoning rituals

I’d say something about awoken intentionally poking the bear but teak’s reading this and I have to be careful how I intone those words

gay

yes exactly

shit. we did say that didn’t we

YOU DID

… it was me actually ._.

who started it

i helped! :D … ._.

gorl denied valor of being wildly inappropriate in the ooc chat

you did help though you did a great job

just imagining Awoken wandering around speaking in a breathy voice ^{like this. oh, Aury, look at your big, strong arms}

wolf just staring in the distance, sharing a look with ember

wolf is probably just like “that ain’t none of my business”

actually, what color ARE aurelius’ eyes when they’re not glowing odd colors?

<wolf> “I think I figured out why Salme wasn’t getting the responses she was expecting.”**

<ember> wide eyed blinks

HMMM

they look black in the art…? but that’s clearly Artistic Liminations

pls awolfoken, why isn’t Salme getting the responses she’s expecting?

RUDE

Hmm did I mention his eyes? lemme check session one

<wolf> “Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay.”

no i explicitly did not mention them

poor salme. attracted to two gay 6-day-olds

are they black? are they red? maybe brown????

and yeah I actually could have just told you that

because I looked?

teakwood beast people are hella anime right

I had to look to jog my memory!!!

I know I’ve been avoiding making them clear to see, generally,

but also salme did just sit right next to him without any glowing or glasses so

yeah I specifically didn’t have her mention the color because I realized I didn’t know

ice what color are aury’s eyes

Awa doing some sweet wingmanning for his sidepiece lol

actually the real, only sane answer

is that they’re hazel

annarr’s might have been different tho but they’re 1000% hazel since session one

<awa> “no you should consider trying pussy this girl is SUPER into you”**

<aury> (apparently the gayest, most uninterested man in the world) “huh”

: “don’t worry aury I plan on wrapping this story up in under nine months”

ashdifuawejakfsjdaalk;edsjflk;aejofijaieofpsij

hahahahah

I love “the only real, sane answer is that they’re hazel” divine revelation strikes again

They’re mixed colors, but also a distinct color all their own. :)

they are hazel but not regular hazel

they’re ANIME hazel

what does ANIME hazel look like?

the kind that give off big brother (aniki not oniichan) vibes

I was just about to say “wow ice that’s a cute detail” and then fucking hachi bulldozes my brain with “wtf is the difference between regular hazel and anime hazel?”

lmao

is anime hazel not the brown/green/blue swirly mesh???? what are you getting at

I mean I just figured they were FGO Archer colored

I don’t know why I wrote FGO and just not FS/N but I’m gonna say it’s because I played one a lot more than the other

hachi you can’t just say FGO Archer when you know there’s like, dozens or more of those

lol

hahahah

i think archer just had normal ass brown eyes???

yeah I’d say that’s brown?

whatever this is what I saw https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/p__/images/9/93/Emiya4.png/revision/latest?cb=20171107171114&path-prefix=protagonist

find your own anime comparison!!

tragically that did not load

same

fug

I figured green-brown hazel? but also I was thinking of like. human eye colors

well still find your own eyes but also ANSWER AWOKEN

jokes on you I HIT ENTER FIRST

but also did not answer so i guess checks out

it’s okay you can admit you’re jealous she got to Awa first

though all you have to do is ask and I’m sure he’d be happy to take aurelius into his tenebrous embrace

but yes I was thinking actual human/dog hazel and not, “basically just brown b/c we can’t be assed to do this weird detail” lol

me, frantically thinking “does ANY biome have mountains?”

did sanctuary have a mountain in the background

I’m gonna say it did

almachadta has mountains!

not very big ones

GOOD ENOUGH

but like, appalachians

awooo

that was a lovely little moment hachi

ok internet’s back

your internet chose the funniest time to die

that was really annoying, especially since the backup internet isn’t connecting at all :’D

IT SURE DID gemme asec lol