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ok

okay

where are we?

when have i ever had an answer to this question when i was not the one going “WE NEED TO DO X”

OKAY. Well Salme was waiting to see if he needed anything IMMEDIATELY after the last scene, but would have left him alone if he had signaled he wanted to be alone. What would he have done?

he did not really need Alone time no so she’s free to hover as soon as her heart desires

lol okay we’re going to the roof

idiots do like high places

yeh

who’s more likely to lose a game of gay chicken: Jorule or Aurelius?

HONESTLY

depends on the stakes

jorule’s losing without question low stakes but will commit harder and harder to any bit the more necessary it is

okay but what is necessary for jorule? because like. I feel like he has committed to many UNNECESSARY bits but maybe to him they idk felt necessary?

oh no that a need is there for any given bit just

jorule is absolutely More Straight than aurelius,

but jorule is also more likely to stare into the abyss and not blink if he thinks it might solve a problem

waiehrfkasjdfjlkas;dfj

okay I am fascinated you have “Jorule is More Straight than Aurelius” as a thought you have On Tap

can I convince you to break that one down?

i mean, pretty easy

jorule is one of the straightest character’s i’ve ever played

aurelius is part annaarr, who grew up around government sanctioned 6+ person orgies polycules

aewhfj;asdfjlk;sdfj’

just imagining SQ has dictated you’ve got to have tried gay sex at least 3+ times on the beast (same with het sex obvs)

first two times might’ve been a horrible fluke

yeah you have to be sure. SQ is a scientist

though I do love the metalogic of “aurelius is part annarr, who grew up on a teakwood world, and thus must be at least theoretically homoflexible”

when in rome, fuck the solider ahead of ya

yeah that’s how that adage goes 100%

gj annarr

out of curiosity, why is Jorule the straightest character you’ve written? was the just the default when you created him? (he’s your earliest one, right?)

legit couldn’t tell you, it just happened that way. probably because he was always more explicitly a very curious but kinda dumb teenager with ADHD so “oh, cute girl” was always a brief distraction (also because it caused Problems more often)

dont usually think about it too hard and sometimes it does or doesn’t manifest itself in relevant ways

lololol is that part of why when Salme was like “heyyyy” @ Aurelius he was like “what about interpersonal issues???”

and I mean that’s fair. I was sort of surprised that you knew because it didn’t seem like info you would know without really thinking about it.

oh that’s because

i had thought about it before lol

back in the void

oh?

yeah??? she told hiim to think about Stuff so stuff was thought about

eoifjasdfjsa

man

I did not realize Salme had such Power simply by Asking Questions and Making Requests

’please do a thing’ a thing is done ‘HOLY SHIT’

well it’s not like I (or she) is finding out that these things were thought about!

how else would answers have been found!!!1

i apologize to no one for that but i imagine hachi will get a Sensible Chuckle from it

idk ice I feel like you just use a ouija board and Decide on things

sometimes at random

sometimes apparently long after I thought you already knew something

you must Commune with the spirits of Aurelius and Jorule and Annarr

thats true

TEAK I’M ALLOWED TO SAY ENGLISH RIGHT

im pretty sure since i didn’t get slapped for bring anything else up before, but

oops

whelp

i’m like

95% confident it’s koshure for me to say that

it’s okay it’s the shade hour we do what we want

WEEB

I ALREADY COUNTED IN SPANISH AND THAT WASN’T GOOD ENOUGH FOR YOU

yeah I didn’t know if you had a teak-assigned weirdo language like I do

oh, no, but you asked for one?

I am not sure how much I asked so much as how much it just happened

<salme> “not to interrogate you” immediately begins interrogation

as salme do

yeah I’m leaning into it at this poin

look

he really did

: “hey when did you start existing???” like gorl

always asking the tough questions

all right. I could certainly have her start Interrogating about outstanding plot items, but I think emotionally that’s a good stopping point?

and it’s not even that late

amazing

I mean if you want to be interrogating I can keep going and see if I can shift-change hachi

hahaha

have you considered going to sleep at a saner hour

I have been Trying my insomnia’s been unhinged. yesterday I only nodded off for a while at like … 9 am?

rip that sounds kinda awful

it lol

is

something?

I woke up at like … 11 … fell back asleep until 1? and then stupid hachi just closes his eyes and is immediately asleep.

but yeah, last night wasn’t even doing anything fun I was just doing nonograms and crosswords trying to convince my brain to turn off

anyway, ty for the lovely little scene where salme didn’t flip out and everything was cute. look. growth.

Good Job Salme

and n/p kat <3

<3

What If I’m A McGuffin

No, they’re a fiiiiiiiiiiish.

: “Awoo”?!? -dying laughing-

Bwahahahaha. Awnooplankton

Awooplankton!

YES!

ps teak

when you get a chance: what the hell did the [unobservable ink wall] stabilize into once the BBS was online???

(…probably describe it as NIP would so i can attach it to the construction page as a memory…)

(…Can you add from Elsewhere? PM if not i guess…)

(he is Jory the Raven thank you)

yeah i did, in fact, go “ah, i see, THIS is why teak kept kicking BBS deployment down the road even tho there was seemingly no reason to do so” as soon as i saw the crystal wall fwiw >_>

oh they didn’t tell you why? they just were like “not yet [wiggles tenebrously]”

and then

tragedy

Salme out here just dropping rhizome facts.

callback to when narrtext said it

also lmk if I need to roll anything

worth a try

poor Salme having to have a Caion is hot moment

im putting together a Team………………… to Burger……………. are you in

YEAH SHE IS

and that’s scene

it was!!! thank you

BTW Caion is like, MISSING an entire ass eyeball now right

could i MAKE him a replacement, a magic prosthetic eye………………..

(or eyepatch, depending on how sealed up it is lol)

ps caion register shifting when he’s talking in text instead of voice is Very Fuuny (but also makes sense)

yeah it has big “per my last email” official Corporate Speak and it’s hysterical considering Caion’s “hallo” vibes usually

ye ye

: “millions of years” would be a typo because Catherine STILL fucks up 100s/1000s/millions and was remembering the comma wrong orz

and i am, apparently, Quite Bad at finding reasons to roll dice but that seemed like it might be one lmao

oh was the millions of years thing you, wasn’t sure if it was you or something i said completely offhand

almost positive it’s been me getting 2,500,000 and 250,000 confused. That is a thing a fuck up like. a lot.

time to embarass urself in front of the Smart Friend

I’m still trying to come up with a diagetic reason for this that isn’t “salme has dyscalculia like catherine”

: “ Respectfully, if you’re not going to tell us who you are, I’d prefer if you kept your unasked-for intercessions to less serious venues.”**

I AM FUCKING WHEEZING

11/10

it’s like microdosing on RP

I think you mean whisker wings

buffalo confusion funnier.

also now i have to decide if aurelius has normal people preferences or mine (which would be funny in a sort of anticlimatic way)

waiting with baited breath for you to channel the correct Burger Opinion

Salme is STILL trapped in the sauce lab btw. they’re on to having her try weird jellies

will i decide before or after they get to the jello shots……………

oh god. imagining just a completely sloshed salme messaging Aurelius to come pick her up literally because they were putting gin in their jalapeño cheddar jam

is it kosher to “DM” two different people in the void on BBS?

use it however you want!

(the me answer would have, of course, been a much funnier ‘honestly just cheese and mustard only’ but no)

just cheese and mustard only

i

also i DO have a good answer for ‘what does a whale even look like’ but that requires a bit of Teak Assistance

honestly I want caion and jorule to have a back and forth on Defining Terms Clealry and Precisely because Caion makes it sound so easy but it is Not.

if i’m feeling REAL fancy and over achiever i will sometimes do spicy mayo + bacon + deep fried onions with a white cheese instead of yellow but like. yeah (i only recently discovered i don’t hate mayo lol)

okay that’s a Respectable Burger and doesn’t sound like a depressing asset from a ps2 game

(mayo is good especially if spicy)

(the icecylees yearn for the wendey’s limited run bacon-gouda burger……… i suspect that probably used some kind of garlic mayo gouda fondo thing)

vegetables feel weird on burger idk what to tell ya

i probably COULD eat one with lettuce but it feels Wrong

and then i just don’t really like whole/raw tomato (except cherry tomatos are okay i guess???) or onion

so Only Cheese Only Mustard is generally the play at fast food

I love lettuce for cronch (also pickles and jalapeños) but I don’t fast food burger very often. burger is at least a 5 guys/shake shack affair

(mmm bacon gouda burger does sound good)

pickles: not even once. also not generally a fan of jalapenos either lol. (i am also willing to replace mustard with ‘bbq sauce grilled into burger’ southern cookout style)

bbq sauce is too sweet

weird. can’t do it.

i do mayo (ideally spicy) or sometimes ranch

honestly aurelius is a champ for putting up with anxiety salme

n/p

also that reminds me of a funny story about jalapanos which i may circle back to when not fooding

also wtf ranch burger, wild

also i swear to god i think having multiple tabs open does something weird to chat new message catching, since this wasn’t marked as having new stuff hen i got home….

otoh timed out trying to refresh activity tab so maybe something weird’s going on somewhere

… can’t reply???? huh

refresh fix, weird

is ranch burger really that wild?

a little odd/unusual

it’s my midwestern heritage. ranch is the Everything Sauce. I dip my fries in it too

i only really both dipping fries in stuff if there’s like, an excessive amount of buffalo/ranch sauce from the chicken already there lol

now I want buffalo chicken :(

huzzah

did you … like … find an eel?

did you discover a reservoir of eel?

TINNED EEL

ok phew now i can hit enter on that thread

was the code push so ice could upload images???

so teak could upload them in a linkable way

amazing.

also my burger order at whataburger

double meat, 1 slice cheddar, 1 slice monterrey jack, lettuce, pickle, ketchup, mayo, toast both buns

catherine and I ate at a place called BUNSLUT

PICKLE EATER

sounds like an FF14 linkshell tbh

you may think it may be a place that is being funyn with german or something, “oh slut means ‘stop’ or whatever”

no they literally have the slutty melt which is a patty melt but with a different name

no i assume it was riffing off eggslut

eggslut?

???? is this a well-known thing???

idk about well known but it is a thing i am vaguely aware of

catherine is boggling irl that somehow we are all aware of eggslut

hahaha

i blame the internet

I feel like this is some sort of fantasy insult from omegaverse fic or smth

OR you are all gaslighting me

: “oh yeah, eggslut. everyone knows eggslut”

can’t even give ice shit about how whale fins and fish fins are totally different because I have to fucking google EGGSLUT

some JP company i think??? that serves egg based food???

https://www.eggslut.com/ this has to be the most pretentious copy I’ve ever read and there’s a coma splice in the second paragraph.

hahahaha

finally gets around to updating the Library Node, now that it’s’ Mostly done and stable.

tyyy your labor is appreciated

mapmeister

cartogenius

I actually read what you wrote this time it was soooo cute and well done. GJ ice.

mostly just copying and rearranging but yeah lol

still! though will you be offended if I copyedit?

naw

go for it

lol you didn’t describe the actual shelves with the books lemme do that

1000% cosigned

love the icecylee

i described them as much as they were in text afaik :E

I added my description

what constellation is the BBS under? It can’t be the Duelist’s Mask, the Empty Space, the Key-and-Gate, or the Lantern-and-Eye

otherwise Icecylee’s choice

uhhh i guess if it’s important to know then it would

either be under falling leaf or dreaming serpent

how convenient it is right next to the lantern and eye

is this what they call… Providence…?

how could you give me gritty, double crossed awoken only to take it away one line later

too hot

>:3c no help forthcoming

<me, irl> “ok I’m getting hungry”

Lets Cooking

I do like that is you response to raw cow slaughter

: your*

A COMPACT RECTANGLE OF MEAT

can I assist with my techne?

=P it’s an endeavor?

awa no dont consume raw pork

hadn’t hand hare

is it

BLUE cheese………………………………

gahahaha

ok who the fuck is not only handing out american cheese but also PAYING you to take it from them,

teak was that just. You

not unlike hussy in homestuck

hahahaha

<3

<3

WOODEN

NICKLE

ALERT

also mfw those poor smucks didn’t have provolone……….

surprise! it’s provolone

goes with everything

please come up with something clever for Freshness Unit pls teak help me I’m dying

(he’s going with Salme to watch/help her grind the meat)

(but like, imagine him handling the basket like a flower peddler)

love how that thread ended with ‘no ive never tried as im not an idiot’ and then you goad him into it at the next immediate opportunity. perhaps awa cannot be blamed for all his questionable ideas

I mean he was gonna do it as soon as he could she’d rather he do it where she can see in case he gets sucked in

does

the writing on the coins look like Ancient Script btw

hmm

mfw they’re rot13ing the eorzean script just to fuck with us

we should’ve asked the weird language guy in cloudset

bruh you made the editor speak up, i KNEW this was a bad idea

ssalmeat

i really wouldn’t tho you might get salmonelia from it

SALMEAT

hgahahah

salmeat

got canonized

before salmone

SALMENELIA

eorifjaosifjapf

I think we should wind down?

yeah

scene?

scene

THANK YOU TEAKWOOD <3 <3

THANK YOU FOR RUNNING TEAK WOOD

Awroooo

Awoo?

Wolf would probably suggest a secured laboratory. Just in case.

Also since there might be experimentation

yeah I was going to propose Caion’s lab

maybe Salme’s already there and Caion’s finished dating the Mask?

to kill that bird too?

you leave the bird out of this it did nothing wrong

bird points at ice

yeah I was going to say this scene is going to kill teak

this is the dumbest conversation on earth

and wolf is still extremely cool and good

<3 sorry for the zoe tragedy

See, Wolf didn’t actually say that, I did, so it’s still in character.

sjdfalsdfjs;ldfkj

hachi laughed aloud when I read that line so you got one +1

THE INSTANT I NEED A GOOD ROLL.

is THIS an endeavor I could assist in, or are you already writing, dragon?

oh wait he took half nevermind

metaphors are Hard

Sorry, asking here so as to not clutter the scene–what do you mean by “experienced both, respectively”

Is what I’m learning about the objects or about the person?

So…not the same person, living them in sequence, but the same person…but…

So we’re talking about Zosimi?

Zosimuses. I’m going to insist on Zosimuses.

Zosimusen?

Zosimeese.

it’s actually Zosimoi

my bad

Shitposting about plurals aside, am I correct in my thinking that what’s being conveyed is that we’re not talking a sequence, we’re talking…instances?

Gnosis Flavored Zosimos

(okay Zosimeese is … good)

That’s the one that made me laugh out loud at the thought.

>.> I will ask any actual musicians to correct that metaphor if need be.

naw yeah B on a sax vs B on a trumpet is recognizably the same and different, metaphor makes sense to me

Or, like…a B chord is a B chord no matter which order you play the notes in, but it’s not, you know?

Eh, we got therre.

saturated in gnosis! i think i kinda got what you meant but the music metaphor def fits better haha

yeah that’s a killer metaphor and it gave wolf a moment to synthesize information

and we’re learning about the Zosimeese

The neurodivergent experience: needing to create a queue for the simultaneous revelations everyone’s had.

lofjaosdjffsd

to be fair, I don’t think Salme’s had many revelations. she’s just trying to parse wolf’s revelations

Revelations, thoughts, realizations, whatever. LOL

I think anything I could add would start this scene up AGAIn and it is late for pads and this seems like a nice note?

Yeeeerp!

that was SO good omg

very cute

very

holy shit

also have a really stupid-as-fuck theory about the zosimeese

<3 <3 <3

which is what if it was one guy used to having convos with himself being like “I BET I COULD MAKE A WORLD BETTER MADE OF EACH KIND OF GNOSIS” and then had a competition with himself

Could Be tbh

That’s the plural now, I don’t make the rules.

yeah it’s true

jorule interacting with caion is really fucking cute send text

ctrl+enter generally works for that

ice

I keep trying to give you compliments why are you being like this?

i for one blame teakwood

HOW is it teak’s fault?

he made it ctrl+enter instead of just enter

oh okay that is, I suppose, fair

the personality issues are all yours tho

D:

I hate that your dumb little frowny emoticon actually works on me

I’m so easy to emotionally manipulate it’s embarrassing

I’m like “oh no, did I hurt poor icecylee’s feelings?” and it is always a trap. that thought is a trap.

lmao

how the hell have you only interacted with people that use emoji in the utmost serious and proper way all your life

I super haven’t but for some reason on the sanct website it hits harder?

the power of italics compels you

I think because it doesn’t auto-transform into an unsettling discord emoji really does it?

the old ways

there’s something much more emotionally honest about D:

<3

also my stupid shitpost didn’t format right

looks fine enough

unless it was supposed to have more single line returns

double, in the pellucid

all right

I am going to follow my good & smart friend ICECYLEE’S suggestion and try to go to bed at a Reasonable Person time.

that doesn’t sound real

D,:

the dulcet tones of hachi’s snores compel me

honk mimimimi

it’s cute!

I will not respond to bbs posts on mobile. I will go to bed.

Thinking

i failed

rip

i am decidedly not requiescat in pace-ing

:D

borgor science…….

he’s really not wrong tho you need a Precise level of browning

yoiyoiyoiyoi

I’m awake, I swear

hewwo

Here

momentarily taking a break from the endless garlic

endless garlic?

like endless breadsticks, or endless shrimp, presumably

My former associate was clearing out garden beds that had been overrun with alliums, so I took a literal armload of baby garlic off her hands. She was out of room in the fridge after harvesting all her other garlic, spinach, and arugula

that is

a lot of garlic

’sup hoes??

I have NO idea what I am meal prepping this week, but believe you me, it will be PUNGENT

Also, I would like to inform you that, unlike expected, Walmart’s “chili lime peachy rings” are not fucking around

oooh

Hello yes I am here now after fighting with technology for a sec

I was like, oh, tamarind-ish candy, they’re just selling these on a cash wrap endcap in fucking Ohio, these will be interesting but not actually spicy right?

lol

That sounds real good

And, being an idiot full of misconceptions, I just popped a whole ring into my mouth and started chewing.

lololol

hahahaha

The most devious part is that it took, like, two chews for the spice to register

And these are peach rings, basically, so we’re talking dainty little Victorian maiden chews, no

We’re talking “chomp chomp oh god“

that made me audibly wheeze

Oh dear

…and so now I have a whole 3oz bag oof these and I don’t know what the fuck I’m gonna do with them

I am so intrigued by these I might actually drive out to a WalMart

Come visit Chicago and then bring them with you

Yeah same, I literally don’t even know where my nearest Walmart would be here but I wanna try one now

I need too try one of these when I come over tomorrow!

It’s tiiiimeeeeee

They’ll be around! There’s no way I’m getting through this bag tonight. Or ever.

The way that this track gets a visceral response out of me now

haha

…“It Looked Back”?!

YES I’m so hype

Yeah!

oboy

…why’d the music stop?

yeah!

Yeah I was like I don’t remember the end being that abrupt

Oh nooo, we have to listen to it again <3

Well, it looked back, but it didn’t play back

Brb food!

Glad no one went for the obligatory “Dude that always wears shorts in a blizzard”

gahahaa

Yeah, that’s Fen.

Very briefly considered it then went ‘actually i guess i would have less dumb outfits laying around…’ lol

lolol

denim jacket did give me pause

just stealing jorule’s outfit wholesale probably would have worked a little better but went for second best option instead, since. yeah. lol

Back! Also I almost went the shorts route because otter fur but decided to opt for some good ol’ pining

Wolf hates cold as much as I do.

Over the past year I’ve traded a bit of cold resist for a bit of heat resist which has been nice in that it’s enabled me to be more of a beach person, which is kind of a whole Thing here

Don’t love the E33 vibes here, oh Dragons mine

…why does it have electrope?

…hadn’t clocked that rakaznar was electrope before, lmao

It does indeed have many uses…

I’m not afraid to say it about my own character: aww

Remind me that if we come back here in Disc 2, I need to use the shield like a snowboard

Friendly Metal is my new favorite genre

The temptation to attempt to battering ram the stuck doors is present.

Sad I cannot eat the scenery currently

not enough alfalfa, yeah

Does it Never End, oh dragons mine?

why is there FF13 music in FF11

ahahahaha

who composed this because it was NOT mizuta

lol this is much more chill than I was thinking considering the scene title

actually the longer this goes on the less it sounds like 13 and more like a Trails song and that’s extra funny to me

ice I was sort of thinking the same thing hahah

I don’t know to what extent I should declare my intent to roll and to what extent I should just roll

what an excellent question, teo

Always Be Casting Dice

can do!

Also, Archie, side scene science experiment idea

I’m listening?

I have an idea on how to break wards

are we gonna break this place wide open

That’s what I’m worried about / I know we can’t not

oh no I meant intentionally

I recall, I just wanted confirmation if that was a guess or confirmed

merci

oh well let’s plop it down in the town of ripple

hey teak what does KGP stand for

Kinder Gentler Path

Kinder, Gentler, Path, no?

… the thing YOU named

Which clearly means its for children, ja?

: punts teo

like futball

dabs

secretly i did not name it, teak did, decades ago

okay but you named it in this campaign

there’s a lot of things that combination of letters could have stood for

Kentucky Ghost Police

Kinetic Gin Points

Kabbalah Game Prep

Komitet Gosudarstvennoy P…oopyface

-dies laughing-

And you punt me for saying Kinder

you punt the teo, like the futbol :(

Am too lorge to be futbol

pls no punt

you punt the teo, like the refridgerator :(

ahahaha

I think the refrigerator would win against me

thank you for prewriting teakwood

<3 yes but also that was … beautiful

strange considering it’s all backwards………………………

Again, “ARE WE PEOPLE” shows up

Yeahhh increasingly thinking the answer to that might be “no”

:D :D :D

oh I figured it was a Jorule thing but

lolf

I’ve been assuming we’re not for awhile for various reasons

what is “people”, really

Miserable pile of secrets

I do love that I can tell 60% of the time when ice forgot to use the jorule font for aury

my b, forgot there was a land bridge

big same

There was a Lot going on at the time

I had no idea, had to ask catherine haha

I don’t think it’s land bridge. it’s plain-ass wooden bridge but it’s in “The Question of Fear”: Ksenija

slowly turns, and- peers, and chuckles under her breath, because a wooden bridge has grown its way across the gap in the water between Cloudset and the island. It’s hollow, and utterly, riotously bedecked with flowers.

Close Enough, wood’s like land

tree land

hahaha

Naturally Occuring Bridge

also rare glimpse of the Upset Awa

island-to-table bridge

also yeah I feel a lil bad for him :( he was trying to be helpful in his way, though Archie has a lot to say about the idea that you can think away suffering

: “rare footage of daigo actually angry”

Yeah, that was definitely…Wolf using some very quick eidesis and recognizing that Awa wasn’t meaning to set him off, but it was…definitely happening.

HOT DAMN GIRL

THE STUPIDEST THING TO ASCEND ON

as opposed to DAMN HOT GIRL, which, given the GNOSIS, may also be accurate

ALWAYS WHEN WE RACE

Aury get off your G-D phone and hang out with your friends

Oh nooo Awoken :( that’s a rough Starlit roll

that’s okay. he’s becoming an orb

YESSS WOLF

BEST OPTION

REALLY DICE?

LMAO

A ONE.

it’s MY island, bitch

…I’m going to blame his compromised emotional state.

Melpomene says no

yeresh wolf doesn’t have it in him to REALLY cheat

The one should be a root throwing the pack back at Luĉja

Holy crap, that’s more like it!

THE DICE MUST FLOW

reminder: he did NOT wait for that orb to land. He is Walking the Strange Paths up into the fucking AIR

I’ll let you narrate what happens with Awoken’s rolls before I make my own

-amused- oh, Awoken gets THOSE rolls and I get a ONE.

we have some nice flowers!

You both got ascensions and I got FLOWERS.

(sticking out hands) please may I have a crumb of Arete

I got an Arete, which is secretly what I wanted, because I may have gambled all mine making a crystal

it was a good crystal

It was a very good crystal, brent

^

Caion <3

I’m not sad I did it, I just realize that my crazy schemes require me to getthat d12 to kaboom

and we’re gonna need some juice for that

I love the fantasy fridge

fantasy fridge is MVP I am going to request a minifridge to take with us

oh my god

hear me out: the new room in the Library is a kitchen where we can keep a morsel or two from each place we visit so we have a place we can turn to for some home cooking whenever we’ve had a rough one

oooh kitchen could be good

proper kitchen and not having to deal with campfire is honestly not a bad idea and def not something aury or jorule would fight anyone over lol

Canonical in what way?

get back here

Much Text, Many Burger

[chases]

WOULD I FIND FOUR COINS IN THE KITCHEN, DRAGON

haha

ice if you no-sell burger quest I’ll kill you.

hahahahah

hahaha

oh god if the Library ends up being the Estate I would Simply Perish

Gotta see if I can find Swim Bird next time I go inside

Sure do

Nerd

Most certainly

do we have lemonade on samudra

no, it’s on Mu

I REMEMBER ASKING ABOUT THIS

b/c i ask the important questions

Heck

OK

I was gonna make an arnold palmer

I also wish there was lemonade

true story catherine and I ate at a place that had this RIDICULOUSLY SWEET strawberry lemonade, and we cut it half-and-half with water, and it was still somehow ridiculously sweet

I’ve only recently started having Arnold Palmers and they really do fuck. Though for me I gotta go with sweet tea, one of my friends is from the south and it brings back so many memories

thats a lot of sweet

Caion and Archie’s ongoing bit brings me so much joy. But any time we open on a food scene is great. Honestly it feels unsettling when we don’t because I got so into the rhythm of using those scenes to ease back into the character

hahaha

the answer can just be that you don’t

I still need to read Redwall >.>

lolf

Aurelius knows what the fuck is up

salme most likely to be a robot in disguise with all the spice

hahah

Before we get into Philosophy Time can I ask for like a five minute break real quick? I just wanna refresh my water, put away some leftovers, etc

lmao

What otters? -blinks- beside Archie?

If I legitimately missed a beat and there’s people other than us here, I’d like to edit that

Yeah I think there are other people here helping prepare and serve the food

Then I need to edit that, because it’s not a question he would have asked around outsiders. (Caion doesn’t count.)

Caion is one of us

yeah sorry all of cloudset is up here

I got the impression the ship crew was still around, at least. Imagine having them sail us to a cook out and then we’re like, “NO, jsut stay on shore and SMELL it”

Listen, I don’t…there’s been a lot going on. -grumpy-

she made awa steal an entire beef shoulder. that’s a lot of hamburgers

oh yeah no you’re good, haha

Can we just scratch Wolf’s thing and Aury’s response? Sorry.

:D

X, despite wanting to figure out what the most unhinged thing I can burger here is

Ok cool! Yeah my request to take five real quick still stands, gotta cycle fluids real bad

<3

thinking about salme going ‘are you SURE lucja’s also as silly as you’ as he invents Flaming Mustard to mess with Awa

Lucja eats rocks, they have no concept of how far is too far

lava is just spicy soup!

Lava is the most forbidden snack!

DAMN IT FEN, I WAS ABOUT TO TYPE THAT

lol

ok glad i hadn’t started typing to move on yet so that got in there lmao

For those of you wondering - the technique there is how you take a good slice of marinated tofu and turn it into a pretty good facsimile of a fried chicken sandwich

yeah that was. pretty great.

I assume we can take a small amount of leftovers in our mini FU

burgers again!

I’m good to continue now btw! Though I don’t mind relishing (heh) a bit more Cozy Burger Time

I’m good whenever, I have done a silly food thing

I have also thoroughly perused Glory options

I’m good now that I’ve lavished some attention of Woof

narrator what are you doing you don’t even have a mouth :(

oh kuz, archie got a hair ruffle from Salme too if you missed it. she’s a-ruffling

the ghost yearn for burger

Did anyone end up building the Death by Status deck for their character? Because oh man does some Glory make that even more broken

hmhm ok i think once wolf gets in counter quip in we can proally “eventually, the party winds down, and:”

I have not, but also I haven’t perused my options

oh wait

ahahahahah hell yes

the dream whales need to taste it as well

oh that’s even better

you got it archie

all right I am ready to move on. bless archie for thinking of NIP

<3

I can relate because I too want a taste and cannot because fiction

If I ever bother to buy beef in the near future, I’ll see how much altering the fried tofu recipe needs and let you know

beef does NOT deep fry terrible well in my humble opinion, but.

I forget, is opening a KGP an Aurelius/Jorule thing or could any of us do that? Deciding how intently Archie’s gonna watch the process

Yeah, I think the trick would be to cook the burger and then just get a thin crisp coating on it. This is why I usually do this recipe with tofu.

iirc anyone could technically do it now

That is my recollection

(as like, a rider of it explicitly being the Easy, Safe method of gate travel For The Group)

out of curiousity, how common is using runes/glyphs here? is this Aury’s Weird Magic BS or is this pretty common in samudra (probably … not as common on almachadta?)

: “once you’ve hit the ??? spot to snoofle the void on a plane” is such an incredibly precise, coded phrase

imagining a tapir doing a nose wiggle at the void now

oh yeah I just wasn’t sure if they were … .the same glyphs? lolf that’s silly of me, but appreciate the clarification

a Good Question

Is the session continuing after we go through the gate or are we gonna pick up next time on the Strange Paths? I just need to know how conclusive-feeling I want to make Archie leaving, lol. He’s going to be the last one to leave, if that’s alright

: ideally i’d like to at the VERY least explain the Truth That Burns to the group so they have some time to chew on it between sessions, anything more than that is up for negotiation

Perfect, sounds good

I would like to get to the zig

I prefer the zag

Jorule Explains Some Shit!

also thank you EVERYONE for participating so joyfully in borger

And Luĉja brings Ember a burger :D

<3

The Train That Cares

awwww

i could either start this on the train or as we get to the zig, probably the latter so you can get your description of the Blue Infusion and song out of the way?

w/e’s easier

InBlueSion

the previous two times I cried this session were somewhat expected, I didn’t think the train would be the thing that makes three

also “wiggling invitingly” is the most Teak-ass phrase I’ve ever heard (positive, affectionate)

fascinating.

editor likes to describe the train

huh that happened last time too, i guess the editor really likes the train

There’s something important there, I just don’t know what it is.

hum…

yeah

I can FEEL the Teakwood :3c through the screen

Constantly.

that’s the only expression they know how to make

that an :thinkfish:

working for me

I’m hearing it

Working for me.

Anyone wanna be real sad?

i had to refresh to get it going, but that’s probably because I had a second tab on the site open

Teo - hit me

First song that Synthesis might not have heard.

fuck

Damn it, Teo

that’s why I took out the pearl lol

Hachi you the mvp

Still choosing to believe that he’s trapped. And we have the playback device so at least some of him is hearing it

aww yeah eyeing Wolf’s package XD

turns her attention to what now

-snorts- Not like YOU would, Teo…

… okay 1. I am going to edit that and 2. I am punting all three of you like football

<3

</3 </3 </3

-eyebrow……………………….wiggle-

:E

lol

playing cards or tarot cards

omg!!!!!

Bet That Bitch Is The Fool

OBVIOUSLY

I mean…yeah

look at his character art

wolf has the opportunity to do something incredibly funny yes

also man you weren’t kidding when you said there was a Number of character beats to hit today lol

An Atomic Full Cast is what you end up with after a bomb goes off

HELL YEAH TAROT BULLSHIT! REIBELLO FLAVORED PLOT POINTS

I bow down at your scene economy

also I am sooooo stoked

so many “wolf reads cards” insert scenes

If i had a dollar for every weird Tarot game I owned…I’d make like five bucks back on spending all this money on board games lolf

lol

I assume this is Rider Waite and that’s Strength and not Justice, from the imagery

Almost certainly, rather than Crowley or something

So, the art design is based off of the “Numinous Tarot” deck which is my personal favorite, and it is…generally aligned with Rider-Waite but idiosyncratic in its own ways

Oh that’s very pretty

100% strength

Very curious what WORLD is gonna look like

lol I’m not going to ask ice to swap between Aurelius and Jorule for this b/c I understand it’s a pain in the ass, but what is the “vessel” doing with J astral projecting rn?

Numinous Tarot changes the suits slightly–not the meaning mostly, just the representation–and it endeavors to be gender-neutral. So it’s “Founder” instead of “Emperor,” for instance.

Aurelius Is Not There ATM

AAAH okay I thought this was like the library

…why is there praying…?

because there is a way to say what he’s gotta say in the most grating way possible and salme is sure hoping he doesn’t take it

Oh, praying about Jorule, not Wolf. Got it.

blinks in meta

yep!

mfw suddenly get Multiple checks in as this starts. of course lol

Is awa also in their lane, thriving?

o no

hahah

RIP

the truth that … keeps getting shunted off in terms of being told

what we wanted to happen: aurelius gets pulled away

what happened: ice got pulled away

Catherine lmao

:D

I thought we agreed that happened off screen?

we did

jorule doesn’t see things that happen off screen!

ice didn’t consent

it’s not logged :D

Sucks to suck then lmao

they threw a li’l fit about it and everything

THANK YOU TEAK

that was exactly what I was alluding to

oh yeah don’t worry it’s the second coolest thing that happened to you, no reason to cover that directly. :E

I just want to say that Salme is 50% torn between helping her friend Jorule explain something difficult (and showing up for her other friends upon them hearing a difficult truth) and 50% inclined to grab awoken and just go off and having Private Time and leaving Jorule to fend for himself.

it had to hit someone D:

Rest in pepperoni

I am somewhat heartwarmed by the fact that literally everyone’s reaction was “oh god rescue it”

Well, excepting Jorule, but, y’know.

yeah fair warning Archie’s gonna continue to Not Take This Very Well

I mean it’s completely legitimate to Not Take It Very Well

Yeah, no kidding, Wolf ain’t taking it well either, but having someone to help is helping him stay stapled together.

ya’ll had it, and he didn’t feel like him going for it would have helped fwiw. needed a breather moment

For Archie it’s almost a dark form of relief - if he convinces himself that there’s nobody and nothing on Samudra worth hanging on to then it doesn’t matter anymore if he fails, he can distance himself from it all

oooooof

Booo endsinging

I mean fascinating character beat

NO ENDSINGING

oh oops unless it’s not allowed?

It’s…not a good place to stay but an understandable place to deal with.

Lol, naw, that’s an FFXIV reference

It’s a very good character beat

You gotta hit the lows before you can climb

100%

^^that

As the resident endsinger, I just generally advise against it! XD

help, Jorule is being hot (in a way that will probably be terrifying in its implications)

lolf

there is NO ONE to help you here, friend

wolf <3

100%

Look - I’m helping!

FYI - It’s late as hell, I’mma go pass out. It’s been a long ass week.

g’night! <3

Yeah, it’s…late.

Thanks for running, thanks for playing, ggs, terrifying realizations and delicious borgot

borgor

borgor

sleep well!

Do we want to wrap it here or is there more to go over? It is indeed late

Wolf’s done his best, I think…that’s all I’ve got, for the moment.

I trhink this is a decent place to cut and then do scenes inbetween

yeah though

ye that’s the big important thing

-hugs all y’all-

(anything extra can be latter and/or over BBS, if anyone DOES want more. smash cut to awoken making the CUT THE FEED gesture)

Yeah! Archie’s not gonna get better right away, I’m expecting it honestly might take multiple sessions for him to more fully get a grip again. He might be a little bit of a dick during that time, or at least more impulsive, stretching the limits of what he’s willing to do when he feels like nothing matters. Right now he just needs time to process

lmao ice

okay I wanted to say that but I’m done

Yeah, I’m good.

I think that’s scene?

Thank you all for the session! <3

thank you! extra late, extra long session!

Thanks for the session!

THANK YOU FOR RUNNING TEAK WOOD

<3 <3 I had a gr888888 time <3

that’s only 6 8s. pretend it’s a hachi-roku reference

ye, i can definitely pester NIP about some… other things in a side scene at this point lmao, would kinda ruin this as a good end point

VOID WEEK VOID WEEK

yeah I wonder if they’re having their own Fit

or at least keeping to themselves

yeah i did notice he checked out LIKE A COWARD

this was the first time NIP heard the truth that burns as well

oh dang

Archie-NIP mutual existential crisis insert scene incoming

OH YEAH lmao

we skirted around it a lot but the direct truth was out of ear shot

who all knew that particular twist? everyone but me and Wolf?

no, just awoken and salme

awoken because … jorule made certain assumptions, and salme because she threw a shitfit about it

early on in almachadta

Gotcha. Wait, then what was the thing Jorule mentioned about Luĉja remembering “his name and other things”?

that was when Luĉja remembered his name and such in an insert scene with teo and teak

https://strangepaths.aludel.xyz/scenes/archives/the-seas-edge-i

oh yeah

that’s a good one if you hadn’t seen it yet

.

IT LOOKED BACK

I GET IT

tarucaw

is … “it looked back” as in … it looked back (in time) or is it something else?

it looked back (over the journey so far) yeah

it does make me wonder … is this what shattered thesis? and why did it shatter thesis?

if it was a vision of the past, who knows

if it was time rewinding at blistering speeds and then snapping back, maybe it broke ‘em like a rubber band stretched too hard :thinking:

lolf what a way to talk about it