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there is a very possible reality where he’s double chained to a dais with weird instruments all around and he’s like “yeah fire ‘em up”

normal sunday afternoon shit

Okay I think i ACTUALLY fixed the fucking new message issue this time

how come I only roll very well when … stuff like this happens

yeah I realize I might’ve fucked myself

lolf

R H I Z O M E S

Maskatize Me Baby

you are the LAST PERSON who gets the mask

if Salme wasn’t the dumbest woman alive she would have written it in her will

the KITTEN gets the mask before you do

the kitten isn’t gunna know how to backsass The Duelist tho

is this gunna be how i learn we have home points D:

home points?

sometimes when you die you wake up in your home point the next day

things aurelius has been. very careful to NOT say out loud

aurelius can be very careful? :O

yeah you only see the dumb shit that DOES slip through not the stuff that gets filtered

well yeah definitely don’t tell Salme you Might Come Back To Life if you die then she’ll … be worse.

hyeah

yeah

: “does it still work like that here?” “who knows” “lets. definitely not bring this up with anyone else” “valid” “or test it” “extra valid”

is this the aurelius dialectic or are you talking to someone else?

yes

yes

there is one braincell in the world that every noöplankton shares

:O

I THINK that’s scene? Though I have a very small idea for a followup scene (Salme is … going to need an outfit change after swimming in the ocean in her clothes) but that isn’t necessary to play through

I recognize it is also late on a sunday night for the dragon

thank youuuuu

that was cute and lovely

shit

?

teak i accidentally put salme instead of saint on the tag

lolololol

fixed it lol

ice are you busy or could I convince you to do a little scene post Salme’s swim? Okay if you’re busy/have things you want to do/&c. but I think her change of clothes probably ended up stowed in the pocket dimension and also she does have a question she wants to ask aury

i am doing absolutely nothing at all so it’s a very low DC

couldn’t decide if i wanted to load up another episode or a game so a scene is fine too lol

well all right. Where would Aurelius be?

Could Be Anywhere Really but hmmm maybe after dinner and people split up to explore/sleep he just found somewhere high up to get a good view of the island and watch the sea

want to set the scene? she’d be looking for him probably, though she might just stumble upon him on the way back

hmhmhm

teakwood got any cool High Places For Idiots To Climb off hand

I feel like since Salme almost just committed suicide 3 different ways, “for idiots to climb” is a little unfair

oh no i mean,

‘smoke and idiots like high places’

wrt aurelius finding somewhere high to Observe things from

oh man i didn’t know we had a HORRIFYING OCEAN BRIDGE to cross to get to the tower that’s exciting

slams fists on table.

Horrifying Bridge, Horrifying Bridge

yeah let’s do the horrifying bridge

I’m game

actually there’s no way she’s going to stumble across Aurelius if he’s up that high. Lolf how do I find him?

Look Up,

Happen To Catch The Glint Of The Sun Reflecting Off His Glasses

where there’s a will, anime finds a way

he’s too cool for that

he’s not too UNcool to avoid throwing something, though

yeah wet socks in wet boots

ACTUALLY NOT WHAT SHE WANTED TO ASK ABOUT JESUS

ahahaha

smells like teen spirit (depression)

fucking. he’s cute? what.

seriously man went from 0 game to like. a decent amount of game. wtf.

hahaha

we’re in thinking land now

only needs the threat of triggering a thought-storm and suddenly he’s like. the sweetest most adorable boy in the world? wtf?

also a little bit of ‘oh no she’s sad. and it’s PROBABLY not my fault this time! so i can maybe help GOOD for once“*

oh nooooo poor foxen

(also, just, finally Processed Stuff I think)

(honestly I can’t even joke @ him for that)

(considering the stupidest woman alive keeps UnProcessing shit)

lmao

I have no idea what the hell is happening in this scene but it’s cute so I’m running with it? wtf ice.

SUAVE AND whatever the otherthing i said

does jorule have a cache of otome game memories somewhere?

Some of the other personalities in the spark are less. Super Teenage Whiteboy, yes

scene?

yeah that seems like a good spot

wtf that went … very oddly. very cute? I’m delighted but also wtf.

also dying at “Super Teenage Whiteboy”

though what ARE the other personalities in the spark? are they All Icecylee Characters Ever or just a selection?

yeah I think having a bit to process his convos with awa and salme and then the GROUP probably helped a Lot (and also. not being caught off guard this time)

cute! also character growth? also cute? also his outfit change obviously boosted his confidence!

I actually WAS thinking about that the other day i think I can probably narrow down which characters that would share the same spark as jorule

I’d be curious to know

hahah maybe a bit of it all, yeah

I’m also … are Seth and Jorule the … same person? I was trawling the link you posted of old campaigns a while back but couldn’t make sense of it all

YES BUT ALSO NO

It’s Weird,

WOAH Jorule’s situation? Is WEIRD?

But at this point,

it’s Seth when he’s EVEN MORE META and not a PC

even more meta.

and Jorule when he’s More Himself and a player

except Seth is dryad and Jorule is … not? but they’re both from SoCal?

even more meta! Seth was explicitly running ISI as the GM lmao

which one is the more pernicious Whiteboy?

Jorule for sure

Seth is closer to me

I’m trying to … figure out what information you are actually conveying here

personality wise

Seth takes more joy in being theatrically insulted?

absolutely

lol

I am going to make you explain the Seth-Jorule connection to me because I’m confused but also I have monopolized Much of your time so it does not have to happen anytime soon

thank you for the scene! it was fun and lovely!

They’re the same person except not and may have split in two at some point….?

also i know FOR SURE that Zhaeid, Theodore, Ezekiel, and then Mira and Elizabeth would all definitely be part of Jorule’s spark even without trying to think about if non-mana games would apply or not

Do you understand that “they’re the same person except not and may have split in two at some point…” is perhaps. Not. Clear? Though I love that one of Aurelius’ sub-personalities has a sub-personality.

Which games are each of those from?

that’s fair, though something that kinda happened retroactively to a degree

Devil Schema, Mana (no subtitle), Apoc, then the last two both from Mystery of Mana

Wait is “Seth Jorule” his full name?

yeah, that was it initially,

even tho i don’t think people in OG mana even. had second names????

Well he’s certainly confused about it from the background you wrote in the storagebin you linked forever ago

yeah lol

he’s always been a Weird Lil Dude

how old were you when you and … what, fue and peter (??) started doing this anyway?

18 or 19 i wanna say…?

(and peter’s a couple years younger)

tiny

I think Terra, her sister and Julian were the initial four players for OG mana

(plus me obv)

lol I am noticing that a lot of your older characters have Interestingly Colored Hair and penchant for jeans

anime hair is eternal

fair enough

gotta give you props for NOT going with jeans and sneakers in samudra tho

oooh right ezekiel is the stoner

yeah haha

Where are Mira and Elizabeth in Mystery of Mana? I only see “Aerial Turner” in the storagebin?

oh wait not mystery

the other one

mysterious seed

AH found it

also can I ask why you decided to give Aurelius fox features or is that a spoiler for later stuff?

half for the hell of it, half to put more mana references on him

what are the mana references?

Aurelius being the big major one

and then the fox is in reference to Foxy who was a an NPC from Myth who felt like a precursor to Jack (reoccurring merchant NPC) so I sometimes mix them up in the context of Myth

and then a lot of just constantly saying very specific dumb shit

do you get teak chortling at you in DMs?

oh yeah teak’s been in on it the entire time

since

immediately after seeing what Dreamer and Hunter’s deal was i went “oh man with THAT being Hunter’s Thing, we could make this REALLY stupid if it was also Jorule playing him….” and teakwood was like Hell Yeah Lets Do It lol

oh yeah I knew that I didn’t know how often your Obscure Mana References got rewarded with GM Chortles

though I am curious what Hunter actually … Hunts since.

oh yeah, since half the time I’m explaining then more obscure ones as i go

Fiends

and Monsters

I guess that makes sense

I say, feeling very stupid because obviously.

lmao

well looking through all that completely baffling data was fascinating. y’all are cute. That was … perhaps not the best use of my time but w/e.

but here we are

might as well shift-change hachi at this point

also speaking of D.S one of my Suggestions for the train was the D.S Car but. we decided that was maybe a bit much and that a train would be more setting appropriate lol

was was the DS car?

oh wait I see

yeah no the train is better.

car is hysterical but train is better

yeah basically haha

HE’S STARTING TO BELIEVE

?!

help Aurelius is hot and cute

hey teak just out of curiosity and for no reason what so ever, what would happen if someone other than the Chosen Wielder put the Mask on

I…………… am pretty sure I know the answer to that which is “congratulations you’re the sword-saint now”

also wow Aurelius helped Salme once and then you want him to ruin several things massively in quick succession amazing. (I almost want you to do it. It’d be fascinating)

inside you. there is a lion and a bird. and the lion says, maybe you should NOT do things that will upset your girlfriend for no reason. and the bird says, but what if i Really Wanna Know

I support you doing it Ice but fair warning Salme WILL feel exceptionally betrayed and hurt

love that you readily had “with the stakes explicitly set” in the wings as if this has Definitely Come Up Before

oh no if i was ACTUALLY going to do something immensely stupid i would have done it in secret :3

(and then been caught almost instantly because it’s sentient and would tell her, lmao)

(yes)

(honestly Do Eet he reacted so well to the other memories and I’m Curious)

but with it just Sitting There jorule is obviously like ‘hmm i wonder……………….’

again I support you in this if/ when teak is available especially because I’m curious too I just want to be clear you’re going to Really Hurt Salme if you do, probably. which I’m fine with but.

(well maybe it’ll be fine I guess it depends but the Stakes are There)

not every stupid thought gets acted upon!!! some of us have impulse control / are, perhaps, Not Simply Meat Puppets

ayyyy

(also samudra is definitely wrong place wrong time in either case lol)

WOLF FLIRTING WITH THE NARRTEXT OMG

Silver-Throat!! she’s so cool

was that a mobius strip of crystal

‘and requires 4D space to exist without self-intersection’ i see

whats so weird about impossible shapes

I hope dance is main cast session

dance dance dance dance

Aaaand I think that’s scene, for now at least?

Wolf IS hot!

And now he has ANOTHER question for Caion. LOL

‘precisely the right amount of treats’ ah i see you are also the Dumb Cat Owner

Hello hi yes I am here!!

Hello!

Oh heya Wolf! Come to watch the insert scene or be part of it?

Be part of! Worst case, he hangs out in the background and there’s stuff I can know IC.

Nice!

He will probably explicitly say that he’s there not because he can explain much of anything–or can understand most of the explanations–but that you never know.

idk im just here for the ride since caion wanted to ask about the thing

Archie wasn’t around IC for the creation of the Liminal Library so he’s just as interested as Caion in finding out more about it and how it operates, and testing if it can be used as a portable Bubble. I’m not sure if this would be better handled in a full cast scene, but he wants to discuss more about the icosahedron and whatever Caion has to tell him, which may also end up being a private conversation? And then at some point, maybe later in the evening, I wanna have some one-on-one time with Naïad boyfriend somewhere that’s safe to discuss exactly where Archie’s been

and impress him with my mastery of the 8th virtue

(And also to be real gay)

I’m here finally

Hello hello!

(… am very grumpy because I’m stuck in the grad offices when I thought I’d be able to get home in a timely fashion but someone willingly chose to make our class run over haha)

Oof

rip

Mmm, teaaa

thnx 4 inventing boiling leaves and then drinking the water taru

teaaaaa

are we legit meeting at night in a cellar?

i get the impression it is always vaguely dusk/dawn-ish on samudra

That’s real cute and very on brand for you

Also what do you mean “apparently”, your de facto uniform is tweed and paisley, this has been well established about you

lolf

also i JUST NOTICED that your stupid overly italic feeling font GETS RID OF THEM ENTIRELY when it’s a capital letter and god damn i wish i had Not noticed that

Yeah it’s been bugging me too

chaos reigns supreme

i do blame them, with all my heart

Yeah Teak made no choices here whatsoever it’s all the typsetter’s fault

also deeply fucked up how incomprehensible the name of that word was until hachi broke it into three parts and now i can’t help BUT spell it right without thinking

ice typos every word in a sentence except Almachadta

I think everyone has at least one now so I don’t mind telling you here - it seems that saved entries in the glyph menu don’t transfer over to mobile, and also mobile parses the entry field to add a glyph as a form and so you can only choose “next” and not “enter” so there’s no way to add glyphs from mobile either

Gotcha, wasn’t sure if they were local storage or account-linked

Yeah I had to set it up independently on my laptop and desktop at least

lol

Two broooos, checkin out a tableeet, gonna touch hands cause they’re real gay

super gay

… I just saw that Teak updated the coeurl kitten to claim they receive the right amount of treats and that cat is gonna get so fat

Oh I thought we were going to give the waterboyfriends privacy in the liminal library? or were we supposed to follow them?

how can they ask probing questions if we dont

Let’s discuss the library itself all together but eventually they’re gonna want some time somewhere? Though presumably there’s other Bubbled locations in Ripple

this is NOT the champagne room, they can Be Alone Later

Oh okay cool!

I’m glad I wasn’t the only one who thought of Shenanigans.

I’m Concerned

note to self confiscate all markers

:(

Ahhh, Ice knows what I was thinking.

Hahaha

: “Dragon, what would I have to roll to rearrange our friend statues with tenebrous gnosis?”

sorry, that’s what they’re called now

well I guess it’s better than the stereotype of archie and caion doing poppers

I was honestly just thinking that the Academy almost certainly has a sexology department

oh I assume they do and it’s immensely well-staffed

Human, Kushtaka, Naiad, Pearls… there’s just…….. so much growth potential in the field

lmk if I have to roll to stop Aurelius from committing Yap Sins

Haha it’s okay, it’s a fun character moment

There’s incredibly little you could do in well-earned roleplay that I would genuinely have a problem with

I assumed I was mostly joking

but ty for clarifying

perfect time to afk

SCENE

cuuuuuuuuuute

Hi I’m here to make everyone Hurt today

see salme i told you we were all fucked up some were just better at masking :3

Aurelius isn’t

Archie has normal human … er … otter emotions

yeah that was the point of that conversation remember!!

Really for Archie it’s mostly about like “hey I’m an academic who’s spent my whole life dedicated to the pursuit and accumulation of knowledge and oops there it all goes”

oop

objectively terrifying for real

this is why you didn’t get the scene with Synthesis, aury :(

synthesis is gunna be my best friend i’m gunna second virtue all over him and he’s gunna be so delighted

: “second virtue” mind your manners, child

ALSO YOU ARE BEING MADE OUT WITH FOR THE GREATER GOOD YOU CAN’T TALLK

oh no :(

if there’s one thing he loves more than kissing it’s talking

The talking isn’t the problem. The absolute lack of ability to model anyone else’s mind is the problem.

yeah I know it’s a punishment

tragic

feel so bad for wolf having to sit through All This In Sequence but also lmao

lmaooooo

Neither Wolf nor Padfoot can remember the estimate given for how long it’s been since the cycle of rebirth started on Almachadta, for the record.

Salme doesn’t have one either–It’s super approximate. I think Archie does though

the number of notches times the number of years until Doomsday roughly equaled 250,000, since it was 1000ish notches of 250 years

iirc

Well, someone is very wrong, then.

it was 217 with cycles that were 500-1500 years long each

I think? my math could be super off

oh i am definitely thinking of something else then lol

Wait what? I just confirmed with Teak that I think the cycle began about 1300 years ago

but there’s been 200+ cycles?

unless I misunderstood

oh yeah it’s

the iceberg i was thinking of I knew the number matched SOMETHING

Oh wait I misremembered - the insight I got was that the current cycle lines up with the Samudran year and Serpetrione ice, not that that’s how many years the cycle has been going

That changes a lot, fuck

Wait, Ice, what was your thing about 250,000 years?

I think i was mixing up some of the numbers with details from a show I was watching at the time, so ignore that probably haha

I wanna edit my post but it feels late for that so I’m just gonna re-clarify IC

-despairing- I really try not to have Wolf just be a bitch to Aurelius…

He deserves it

he just brings it out of him

search your inner feelings

yeah like go for it

Archie’s very close to inviting him to leave

: “(Not all of them! Though maybe most.)”

she was doing you guys a solid you have no idea!

(cui bono? EVERYONE except probably wolf)

(rotating) with hazardous alacrity

sorry archie not trying to make you shit a brick in front of your boyfriend but the data seemed important

The fact that he’s excited and not upset is doing a lot to help modulate Archie’s own response in the moment

Kushtaka boy netted himself a freak

the double standards are real

it really is all about tone

And timing.

Doing rash things is different than being rude to my boyfriend and Archie is definitely internally sizing up how afraid he is of taking Aurelius in a Rite if he keeps it up lol

lmao

He could always find a second, hint hint.

tell someone their Long Thought Dead [Something] was alive actually and suddenly you’re public enemy #1

Tone. And. Timing.

sup

don’t worry Aury, Salme will protect you! She’s strong against everything.

(I’m not actually irked OOC, fwiw)

oh am I bothering someone legit?

if so I apologize, was pretty sure everyone else was playing along but if not then My Bad

♡

you made Choices and now you deal with the Consequences

Teak I’m so glad you picked up on that Archie referred to Caion’s aunt as his own, they’re not married yet but they clearly consider themselves part of each others’ families and it’s real cute

that was also when awoken seemed vaguely possessed right or am I remembering a different scene

To be fair that happens a lot but that was one of them for sure

owaeiuhfjlka;sdjflk; “to be fair that happens a lot”

(wait Kuz who is Caion’s aunt?)

Silver-Throat.

guilty

Silver-Throat is Archie’s biological aunt and Ksenija is Caion’s but they both refer to both of them as their Aunt because gay

ooh! okay that makes sense.

Teak can correct me if I’m wrong but that’s my understanding

Ksenija is Caion’s biological aunt?

Or by marriage, unclear? But Ksenija is definitely part of Caion’s family

Ohhhhh okay

you know, maybe it’s just the art, but I did not expect Caion to be so Silly (laudatory, delighted)

I don’t think you can date a Kushtaka without some amount of Silly, even though Archie is often on the more serious side among his family

I love the cultural mixing-matching where Archie is probably a very Odd Kushtaka and Caion is probably a very Odd Naiad and I’m sure they amplify each other in the best ways

Extremely yes

I had … guessed(?) that?

Not I

I’ve addressed everything I wanted to!

Everything else I might say to Caion can happen later, 1:1

Same

I rhought I’d have the stamina to have my 1:1 with him tonight but after how work went today I don’t

sagely nod

uhhh not at this moment i don’t think, no

I am winding down too. Have Conversations For Others but it doesn’t have to be 1:1

thank you!

♡♡♡

Yeee

lolf sorry Kuz for salme being like “HEY archie boyfriend, are you HELLA DEPRESSED?” but you can use give him extra cuddles

<3

: use it to give him*

-amused- I mean, you made Wolf worry, but that’s not a bad thing, necessarily

Lmao I mean that’s not something Archie remembered so it’s good to have confirmation!

ice do you want library company because Salme WILL fret over aury

he’s certainly not gunna stop her

okay yes, icecylee do YOU want to do a followup scene where Aurelius gets Fretted Over or not

oh uhhhhHHHH

not at this particular second my Other Campaign started an hour ago lol

can circle back to it later if you want tho

kk lmk!

also gj doing both

luckily we opened up finishing off a several part combat encounter so it wasn’t as disorientating as it could have been lol

(is this when I prod you about circling back to it later or are you busy?)

(I am having a Fascinating Time making a powerpoint about something you can easily google but I can find time in my very busy schedule for some silliness)

yeah just gunna finish up eating and do dishes first

rad

damn, love when the interenet’s working on the laptop and then i shut down and go to the desktop and the internet has stopped working THERE for no reason at all and poking at it doesn’t solve any problem until i un/replug in the router and then magically it’s fine again

router :(

magic sure is complicated,

but good now

ready to go? should I make a scene? I was figuring just a straight continuation from the previous one.

ye ye

waggle

you’re going to kill her

she’s trying to help and you’re going to murder her

oop

brother wolf’s not gunna like that one bit

brb googling how to unmurder sword saints

thinkin’ about annarr and salme’s Life Before Mind Wipe and after, and how I’ve never really felt like I changed much as a person from when I was a teenager no matter how many years pass, and just kind of nodding my head to myself

Masters in Esoteric History, Minor in Smaggin’

there you go, tail emote (it was too awkward to do a head flick)

are annarr and salme just Sad Teenagers Hanging Out?

honestly

legitimately cannot remember if that was IC or OOC lmao

<Caion> “Ah, there’s a sock on the statue. We should come back later.” Exaggerated wink towards the tablet.

MINOR IN SMAGGIN’

hold up need to update the map

I feel like if we need a Hook Up Room Aury and Salme can just make another sealed space

wanna show the pamphlet to all these npcs

dude do an insert scene and show Caion the pamphlet. You deserve it.

BEHIND THE SCENES, having a fierce internal debate

hm?

he was ][ close to going ‘wanna know another secret? im kinda cheating on that front, since where jorule’s from, death is not even remotely final’

but

is not sure that’s an Idea he wants to let loose into the world

I mean he CAN say that but you get to decide if you want him to deal with the consequences of Salme Killing Herself Out of Curiosity

… oh god she and Jorule are the same kind of stupid

tragically he actually has 100% realized that by this point

and thus, the caution

I mean if it’s not final what’s the problem?

testing the hypothesis when there’s already evidence the laws of reality are DEFINITELY not 1:1 here is

the problem

maybe if we find a Cup of Wishes first

see Aury is great at the 12 virtues sometimes

im scientist

ikr

that 1000% would have been it lol

it does seem to be a central meme doesn’t it

that was a good line

(I mean … you could add the ability to add Specific Scene Subtitles/Taglines)

damn that WAS real insensitve of me huh

lololol shit I went a different direction here but I should have brought that back

honestly I’ve considered making a joke about how on Almachadta we all get Logans Run’d periodically (obviously w/o the Logans Run movie reference) but then realized that is sort of. You know. The vibe.

enlighten me mr evergreen

lol after another stupidly long Late Night Yap RP I think finding a nice endnote would be good

hahah

thank you for the scene! these are always lovely and cute and very fun.

no problem! they are

<3

<3

: “That’s probably on the list of ‘things that should wait until after Samudra’ though.” this is how we differ

yeah some of us READ the warning signs and YET :(

I blame Salme

ye

“Hmm… right, you do this based on emotions not… yeah, you know what, fair enough.” the most autistic sentence ever written

hahah

he sure as fuck doesn’t read color as emotive,

but also does anyone NOT read him as autistic

the color isn’t emotive, it’s an important truuuuuth

and like. no he’s so autistic it’s honestly sort of beautiful? (meant genuinely)

importance assigned by emotion from some saints!!!

sure but that’s just how humans work!

now we have to get into a long discussion about what is being human, really

oboy

teak roles over in his sleep chuckling perniciously

also cut comment that I was thinking that didn’t make it into text: “yeah when i first woke up i wasn’t showing interests because almost all of the traveling companions in my indistinct memories were WAY hotter”

yeah like even if we’re not just counting the girls (rip anyone competing with Primula), Xsaieta and Alexander both existed at the same time on the other end of the scale

hahaha

to be a luxurious japanesse kitsune god

oh wait i was thinking of maria’s art not primula’s. not that primula is bad either. fucked up aleith always had the hottest PC in each game

man you keep threatening to tell Salme she isn’t hot or good-looking and then Aury keeps acting like Salme’s absurd when she’s surprised he likes kissing her!

lmao

when/if you finally drop that she is going to be like “yeah you’re clearly settling in the looks department” and she’ll mean it and then who will be Fool.

Owned, But I’m Also Sad Now Oop

she won’t even be angry she’d view it as a statement of fact

turns out when you can look however you want most people wanna be hot

or a mascot…? people sure are complicated

yeah dangerous for you that Salme’s deepest response to shit is actually “you’re right I am a worm” and Aurelius is Privileged Enough to encounter the non-weaponized version of it

: “privileged”

lolf

: “people sure are complicated” lol you’re so right

love wolf just hacking together the litany against fear from first principles

Oh, I’m 100% quoting Diane Duane’s version of Surak of Vulcan.

ooohhh

But the essence is pretty well the same.

i guess sff had a Goal

did someone say APOCOLYPSE

hell yeah let’s do Mask Crimes

cant blame ‘em

^ the guy constantly bitching about Incorrect Use of Liminal Text

yeah you’re not using it for pillow talk, obv

noted.

does salme has insomnia

girl’s always up and doing Something, often several somethings

we slept together!

i know but like, IN GENERAL

salme I think tends to get up, do stuff, and go take a nap

also kat has insomnia and serious procrastination so.

you would have popped off in a guild game if you were around 20 years ago…………………………..

what does that mean?

meant to be a party member

oh, they were like….

an attempt to run a campaign more like am MMO guild?

20~40 players, a couple of GMs. sessions would get posted a week or two in advance anyone could sign up for at different days/times, and there was a central area for more free form RP to just Happen Whenever Someone Wanted

which was used for the final round of FFRPG 3E playtesting and was what pulled a lot of the dockingbay crew in

ooooh okay. hachi told me about this from the opposite perspective.

I mean I get progressively Weirder and more Locked Down in crowds so I’d probably have Expired Quickly. I’m only so outgoing here because there’s an emotional support Teakwood.

ye he showed up for the second one run by other people and was our intro to him

(me and fue played twins in that one which was pretty fun, esp since he decided his character was gunna keep a diary of everything that happened. which also ment that, at the big brother, i could take it and randomly scribble innane comments in the margins)

you? randomly scribbling inane comments in the margins?

i think they started off as helpful reminders initially and then progressively just became Whatever as time went on / we discovered some people were really dumb, lol

oh. oh no.

ok but you have to link me to the myst sfx otherwise im gunna keep thinking we’re echoing

D:

Salme did just update Jorule’s journal entry

:3

also i like how he immediately went for pleasent examples b/c that’s what you do in samudra even if something like rotten fish stench would have been closer to the mark lol

it’s so funny because Salme is just like “… dude I am too negative for this world”

: “when laying the foundation for a plan” ah.

I see

c-can I take half? the ONE is mortifying

rumor map update.

tags… good………..

i like being able to click ‘full cast session’ for it to instantly weed out the inserts lol

jorule currently floating in the white sea (locale server) considering if cellphones hooked up to the tablet is probably the sanest way to do the Project and also wonder if there is a saner way than editing pamphlet entries for communications if it’s not gunna be a one off event lol

please jorule there’s gotta be a better way

it may be time………. to install a BBS………… into the library……………………

BBS?

bulletin board system

:thinking:

dragon looming over the proscenium, staring down at the stage with an OwO face

‘what the nooplankton remembered about the message they were instructed to relay, to be precise’ you’re in samudra now girl get even more exact!!!

(proscenium)

dude she’s dumb and lazy she didn’t go to school

rip

updated

this map node is starting to get longer than some actual logs

(elated)

wait did we lose another moon when I wasn’t looking

i think we did iirc it was only at -3 before

also couldn’t think of a good one for apoc since I’m not actually sure if crimson was in that one or not………….

tho teak is worlds #1 crimson fan

naw

i wonder why it sometimes eats the actor colors

Caion assigned alethic hero

Jorule AND Aurelius getting updated entries

im golden

honestly it’s not super new but salme reworded some things

made most of the notes more positive yeah

she thinks foxboi needs some love

hopin’ for “what the hell is an ‘otter’” personally

rip

alas, this is Nerd Planet not Comedy World

yeah that’s gonna be the Beast

tragically,

both awa and aury could probably give salme great advice

but asking and finding that out would probably immediately cause her to crumble into dust

<Salme> “Let me ask my two Smoking Hot Boyfriends where and what I could maybe wear that would look Nice and maybe they would Like so I’m not like the mortifying ugly duckling trailing behind them. Oh wait. How about I go drown myself in the ocean for real?”

gay (fashion tv show)

queer naiad for the straight dryad

damn i wish i was british enough to respond with “it’s aces” without it feeling forced rn

scene!

no it’s not aces, wolf isn’t here right now

lol go sleep

though archive scene

(and it was lovely thank you)

your desire to be caion cannot be contained

^

also the children were denied insert scenes last chapter. they yearned.

gay

:3

:3

: “naw, it’s fine” is like

well. Not Good

what’s not good about Fine

word people always reading into shit that isn’t there

donk

donk

throws more names out there that definitely won’t add to the confusion

well I guess she did have something to add

also I probably don’t need to add “estranged coworkers” connections between Unua and Aury but it’s tempting

hahah

‘wonder what it’s like being quite’ ‘who the fuck knows talk louder tbh’ master advisor

he’s amazing.

: “talk more”

the worst thing that can happen in a session is No One Talking :(

Well

Good News

glad to verify the constant miscommunications with Aurelius are Come By Honestly too. I can’t believe I misread BOTH statements there.

hahaha

though I suspect it’s at least partially a catherine-icecylee issue at its core but w/e it works

back at the sanctuary, we harvest OUR misunderstandings 100% organically

hahahahaha

also when I was re-reading session 2, I did get a kick out of <Aurelius> “Now, I do happen to remember my name. However in light of…. all the rest of you, and some things that happened before I woke up… I will be going by a new name.”**

and just “some things that happened before I woke up”

cracked me up

gahahaha

yeah. yeah

anyway one of the cats has leveled up enough he now knows how to TURN OFF THE LIGHTS by using the ceiling fan pull chain so I’m going to take the hint and take a nap. Sleep well when you get there.

in retrospect it’s even funnier that i wasn’t even winning some 50/50 on just slipping some shit in there that went unquestioned due to timing and/or fast talking and more ‘oh like two other people were hiding shit already too and didn’t want to call attention to it’

(and awoken actually didn’t know shit. and wolf was WAY more broken up after rebooting than we had reason to believe)

good night Cats That Bring Order

who are the two other people who were hiding shit already? Archie? Does Salme count or …?

(dude if you reread Awoken LEGIT just is fucking telling us the same two things he knows OVER and OVER like he doesn’t actually know shit)

yes, ms ‘actually i remember everything more or less’ you count

(Also man Wolf just. losing linguistic capacity when he’s so Words)

I REMEMBER WHEN YOU SAID SHE WAS THE LEAST LIKELY TO LIE

IT WAS SO CUTE

Duelist Mask has good PR

shame about the HR budget tho

alternatively “Would a historian DO that? Just go to their scolls and write lies???”

weuifjadslk;fjaslkdjfl Ice stop being funny

(don’t)

hahah

also Salme did have something to say to Jorule in the cold light of mid afternoon

how sombering

It’s actually really funny because I honestly expected Wolf to stay taciturn, just, like…more able to speak. And no, it turns out he’s a big old talker.

Taciturn’s no fun, anyway.

hahah. yeah

finally glances back in here. oh my god why are we doing this in samudra……………………

It’s in a bubble, it’s fine.

Also, he doesn’t know when he’s going to get another good chance, and he got burned leaving things undone last time.

hahah

Let’s. Fucking. GO!!!

Can I argue with you about the gnosis?

Burning. This is not reasoned, or selfless, or selfish, for Wolf. It is…a passion. It is not wise. But it is true.

…can I get just one standard, average roll. Please.

REALLY, DICE?!

ALL THAT DAMN DRAMA AND I ADVANTAGE INTO A THREE?!

Damn, fate really does not want to let you have this

…oh.

lawl, I figured, but still, goddamn, Lady Luck couldn’t let me have a damn 8?

A two and a three?! The only thing that would have been worse was double ones.

If I’d at least even gotten a FOUR…

Oh well, I’ll have a nice bucket of Arete.

And I think that’s scene!

][

<3

: “1”, somehow

oh no i mean

**”In the liminal library, 1”

oh did a day click over

references to morning has been made in a few scenes yeah

yeah a day clicked over. Salme slept in Aury’s bed last night if that matters, not that you Need To Talk About Her, but since she’s been in Awoken’s lately

(there’s been… a Lot if you haven’t had time to stay caught up yet. lol)

(he hasn’t. have fun)

(literally dragged my laptop out to ꙮbserve this nonsense lol)

didn’t mean to italics all that

haha

i know there’s a way to input (obv) but i can’t be assed to remember…..

I actually think Teak on-purpose didn’t tell you

love Awoken circling Aurelius like a jaws creature

i think i’ve done it before but didn’t realize it was like, not the default at the time lol

brb

: “feel you in”

it was the default, but then the behavior had to change

Hmm.

i could have sworn there was more to how awoken reacted and that he went into a trance state and started mumbling something,

but i don’t see it here???

what am i mixed it up with

you were gaslit

OH

yes

that was the first time we all entered right

yeah that was the first time we all entered

:

The Awoken: “During the experience, after a third, or perhaps fourth heartbeat, I wondered- could I reach the limit of infinity?”

The Awoken: “Preparing myself to extend a liminal gnosis to explore such.”

Im love him I missed him so much

your smart qoutes don’t like being after a ` lol

talking in the alien accent subtly breaking reality in unimportant ways is deeply funny anyway

I mean ` is explicitly meant to be used for code, which inherently Breaks When Smartquotes

THAT ISN’T WHAT SHE THINKS

qoiewrfaslfkjd;

get misread, nerd

s’what it sounded like esp when you were talking to caion :(

IT WAS AN I STATEMENT NERD

yeah,

it was an “I, Salme statement”

but i know about the TRANSITIVE PROPERTY

Imagine if he had ASKED HER WHAT SHE MEANT rather than just. Assuming.

yeah, definitely should have asked on a scale of 1-10 how much salme ment self loathing and pity and misery right after caion broken down into a pile of messy sobbing and having also just been chewed out several times

my bad

well if he’s going to walk around slandering her, claiming she’s calling everyone broken instead of just herself! Geez.

if she’s broken it necessarily means caion is broke, and awoken is HALF broken at best

this is simply how math works hon :(

I. they don’t got math on Almachadta, they only have tally marks. II. no she thinks she’s Special. III. WORDS. IN. HER. MOUTH.

lolf

damn i guess that means annarr WASN’T an orphans after all

Caion is Special, Wolf and Awoken have Amazing Willpower, and Salme is Broken

thanks sage

is there enough Annarr rolling around in there to BE targeted?

im sure the psychic eldritch horrors from before the dawn of time could find it if they wanted to

unfortunately Awoken is hot.

it’s real hard

better call the editor

You’re on your own, babe.

the editor looks at the long-running sales of awoken content and is powerless against those numbers now

RIP to the audience

(this is me subtweeting One Piece)

hahah

(<3)

: “groups of people sneaking in and out at all times of night? do I need to shine a blacklight on these couches”

depends how do you feel about body fluids

: “they feel pretty good to be honest”

no worries then!!

eoiraufsjdlkdj;fasjkdf;

I love reading you two write together <3

also, Kiss.

gay

bi

the opposite head tilt

important question, does it say Clockwork Knight specifically, instead of Unua

his true name is … Bluey

it’s time gang

for BLUES CLUES

: “When is a Title not a Title?”

<Awoken> I’m complaining that it clearly knows all the requisite letters but is being insolent!

BAHHAHAHAHA

I think we went over this but does aurelius have an accent that is understood by us, the players

[dying irl]

aurelius speaks the same way the other five PCs do

this is jorule's danger qoute normal accent

ok

(earlier, i was implying jorule was doing the talking when he called you 86 and not Awa)

oh yes that I understood but I meant more like- is he a southern boy, does aury say ‘clam chowdah,’ can he say ‘aaron earned an iron urn’ without it sounding like slurry, etc

oierjwsfk;dloipaerwrjfoapwejfsd;jds;l

y’all’d’ve

lmao

never heard aaron earned an iron urn as a tongue twister before but saying it out loud once that’s kinda brilliant???

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Esl_wOQDUeE

but yeah no he just talks like the other five, give or take theatrics

oh. Salme has a thick Welsh accent.

(i assume RED TEXT has a bit of a twang to it but)

(no it’s AUSTRALIAN)

Jorule is SoCal right?

sorry the only australian I know is “steak house” and the word for beer

yeah you can probably imagine this as very surfer coded

hachi the … aaron earned an iron urn killed me

I’m dead

<3

(you could always turn the blob into a fish)

‘damn, we really talk like that??’ lmao

Aurelius take the pen I want to know what color it would be

BLACK, LIKE MY SOUL

or gold, also like my soul

clearly it changes depending on if it’s anaar or aurelius or jorule or [ice’s entire cast list]

Leilani manifests

sky blue for theo, dark blue for zhaeid, purple for jorule, black for seth, emerald for elizabeth, pink for mira……………………………………..

hahahahah

what’s raine

lighter purple

hachi I’m dying annarr has 2 double letters in it and you managed to double the only letter that isn’t doubled

also that

arnarn arned an arren arn

anaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar

gahahhaahha

not gold? :(

hahahah

… annoying that Aurelius is just suddenly hot too. and then “lode baring” and suddenly no.

K I S S

_{fan service}

whats your beef with baring lodes

_yes?

jesus teakwood

I mean if you want to bare awoken’s lodes then go for it, but load-bearing is when something is holding something else up usually?

really upping the rating on this episode out of no where

right he’s not baring a load he’s a lode stone

:)

llmao y’alls

it is absolutely Awoken/Aurelius and not Aurelius/Awoken

lays back and thinks of the Queen

I was going to say if Salme and Aury ever DO manage to sleep together, she’d top but honestly maybe he could surprise her?

that sounds hornier than it’s meant to–I was just going for a joke about Aury being irrepressibly undine/a bottom but. He’s been a lot more active lately.

lolf

not hard to imagine hed just let her do Whatever She Wanted tho

yeah better make sure Wolf doesn’t get spiritually hinky with some weird dragonpriest

does crystal dragon god practise celibacy……….. hmmmmmmmmm

‘big on memories’ damn, what an amnesiac thing to say

aurelius progressively like ‘not really sure how i’m supposed to react to this’ increasingly at every new line lol

he should just trust his instincts and say the first thing that comes to mind

thanks for clearing that up

yw! happy to help

<Aurelius> “Pretend I either don’t and that you see why memories are important or I don’t and value the transient nature of the now and am comfortable not temembering.”

I’m

you’re!

this was funny and smart good job

he can’t control for shit. he can’t even make a cow!

we had to introduce the concept of a cow

yeah otherwise you’re just using farm bought goods?????

and at that point just buy the fully done post roast like a pleb

new big bang or bust

: “you must invent the universe” if you thought long rambling preambles for online recepies were bad before, boy howdy…

hahaha

hahahaha

<Architect> “In the beginning, there was Me.”

actually dragon, what worlds DO have “chess” as a concept

while you’re at it what worlds have ‘baseball’ as a concept because I can’t help but work those idioms into my speech as well

dont worry at least one of us will understand both Chess and Baseball

and really, that’s all that matters

the court and its checkered tiles……………………….

yeah but do chess and go exist on every world?

obv

I’ll meet you halfway and use mahjong terms instead then

except in beast, where they have the superior man’s shogi

still love early!catherine: “boy howdy, hachi sure does like baseball”

(because it has more generals)

I only know the rules of chess :(

lmao

<Aurelius> “I am now, and have always, been a protector of my people.” He gives Awoken a strange look.

Hot.

<Awoken>

The Awoken’s stance relaxes, his shoulders carry differently, his eyes slightly narrow, and speaks with a tenor that makes it very obvious that he is doing an Aurelius impression-

The Awoken: “Did you two seriously fuck before we jumped into the library?”

Slain

Crimson obviously prefers the version with multiple generals and dragons and letting you use other people’s pieces compared to Basic Ass Bitch chess

fuck chess, solved-ass game

you guys are True Gamerz

also shoji lets him kill the gold general and SQ laughs about it every single time

you made a shogi–why am I surprised? no you did not

does samudra have star trek esq multi-board 4d chess horseshit

is that their varient

‘alright this month’s recreational activity is chess.’ hall instantly fills with murmurs about the more popular variants ‘OFFICIAL ACAMEDY RULESET*” hall fills with groans

gahhaaah

ahdfhasfhsfdkj

we got anything else?

HMMM

if you still got a few in you then yes if no then no

I have no more pressing questions or inquiries

at least not at the moment

oh i meant more uh, awakeness (irl)

I don’t have more no, 5 AM is pretty late for me lol

since i realized midway through what I thought was one question was actually two lol

salute

yeah that’s good then

ice, do I need to be jealous? usually I’m the only one who manages to keep hachi up until 4-5 am

actually I think you beat me

i have a long and proud history of keeping men up well into the wee hours of the morning (no homo)

(of course not)

<3

REMIND ME TO GRILL HIM ABOUT SUN POSSESSION LATER THO

thanks nerds that was fun to voyeur

I super should have gone to sleep

I have 13 hours to read all these scenes!!

you know. WE could grill him about sun possession?

given the audience what they want (and excuse to stay up)

it could be a fun group activity

Ice I’ve gotten like 2 hours of sleep the past 3 nights

I was going to be responsible this time

that doesn’t sound like you

WE SHOULD MAKE A PLAN THEN

Sun-Grilling-Group-Activity

night y’all!

good night dragon ,3

i gotta finish this pretensious wine anime first

: “gotta”

somehow

this seems like a less-than-true statement

how can i drop a show if i haven’t tried the first episode yet

: “finish” meant, to me, a need to complete something you had begun, but also I was thinking gotta finish as a prerequisite for sleep

im’ like, halfway through it

i mean also that it’s still not bed time for the some of us

Well enjoy your pretentious wine anime

i did NOT, in fact :(

did update the library node tho

yee haw

Yee Haw

lol

got a lot of pens in the wells

lolf

fucking nerd (respectful)

same

but do you have the GM Box Of Candy at hand

Currently shoving but it won’t distract me

not breakfast?!

brian jaques it for us

sorry halflings of the realm, we’ve skipped ahead a bit

Hello. I have skipped the Fancy Banquet to hang out with my Nerdass Friends

YW

<3

D’aww ♡

did you squirrel away a bunch of food into your pockets on the way out to get into character

IF I HAD GONE TO THE BANQUET I WOULD HAVE lol

haha

is miso soup a stew

oh wait n.m you did call it a soup

Cute!!

‘sup hoes? :3

a mystery for the ages

Sup!

Fen!

lol

but will anyone be able to notice

Caion does somewhat have cat energy

[wiggling in anticipation intensifies] Yeah That’s Perfectly Expected

GET IT GIRL

That outfit sounds Bomb As Hell, Catherine!! <3

THANK YOU teak was 0 help making it up

lmao

only furthering the bird parallels of the party, honestly

Salme takes no prisoners

Archie debating activating slut mode for the pure and noble purpose of flustering his boyfriend

Also LMAO not wrong tho

the noblest of endevors

honestly it’s kinda funny the degree to which that outfit seems to have hit the exact middle point between mine and hachi’s preferences tho lol