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Or if Thesis got a glimpse of the Truth That Burns…

mmm unlikely from what I can tell…? (That came from the Scorpion Queen) though maybe something weird happened when trying to rewind before the story even started??? fairly weird in either case

OH

wait i bet

part of thesis got caught in the gate somehow???

and then when they closes it, they just didn’t remember the gate was there or what happened

hmmm maybe? I think the fact the synthesis had a “it looked back” techne makes me think it had more to do with the recollection thing

though

how would that would that work with a system of pearls remembering

idk how pearlology works but iirc them losing parts of the memories/personalities etc when individual pearls get removed from the cluster was a noted phenonoman

how the heck do you remember their techne tho

what did it do

uh I’m a big nerd with a good memory?

but I don’t remember what it did

:|!

teak might be willing to tell us

maybe

Which is the pinnacle of clarity, as far as techné descriptions go, I think.

oh lol yeah i remember that description lol

clear as mud

kind of tbh???

wait i just realized

that word kind of implies gnosis comes from the stars/constellations???

well I think I pointed this out but if you look at the rite cards, yeah all of the gnosis-gnosis-flavorgnosis-gnosis-flavored cards are sidereal

versus the “tellurian” rites. tellurian is a term relating to “of the earth”

and notably all the tellurian rites (fang, claw, scale, breath) sure do sound like dragon bits

yeah that was always pretty deliberate

but I had no idea what to make of “sidereal” being associated with gnosis & stars. idk if you have any idea.

aside from the stars are obviously OBSERVERS

kinna weird if nothing else

yeah

I mean I’m sure it MEANS something because Teak but

tbqh I was expecting a lot more eyeballs in the septentrione

considering the prevalence of eyeballs on samudra

haha

idk we lost a couple recently

ooof

The Frozen City was fairly perfectly circular surrounding a central point, although the river going through it makes the resemblance a little strange.

wait it was a fucking eye?????

also are you just enjoying talking in this Text for fun?

One could certainly look down on it, and see several things. One of which might be an eye. Far be it from me to dictate anyone’s pareidolia.

teak I’m going to eat YOUR organs

I’d say don’t threaten them with a good time, but that might be beyond even them.

lolf

Hmm, teak if you got stuff lined up for wed, thurs and friday would you have time to knock my thing up tonight…? (can’t imagine it’ll be SUPER long all things considered, but)

(waow teak’s so popular…)

(waow)

(asking teak to knock you up)

Incredible phrasing.

up and out are right next to each other in the word database

Who among us hasn’t kinkily propositioned one of their friends once or twice? In any event, what are you looking for on the Surreality Dial? I think the version of this scene that happens tomorrow night after Padfoot goes to bed is probably going to be a lot more hinged than the version that happens tonight and I can’t promise tonight’s version will satisfy you in any meaningful capacity; then again, as we have established, you’re a pervert, and you might be into that sort of thing.

reading this in editor voice is really fucking me up

rubs at chin

yeah I am 90% you’re still on editor r/n Deliberately

which is Exciting

It would be very difficult for me to be doing this unintentionally. I have to go reasonably far out of my way; it is by design rather inconvenient.

anyway the tentative plan is for jorule to go all Salme on NIP if they are responsive and ask them about Things They Probably Don’t Know, confirm they are NOT a couple a people, and then - ugh! - probably even Ask Them About Their Feelings

probably not in that order

maybe in that order? who knows not me i never know what im doing until it’s done

Oh, I know how that goes.

Anyways, let me consider my options. I might ask to do the scene tomorrow night, I have to look at this from every angle.

: “go all Salme” ice.

sup kat

crying on the plane hoping you’ll entertain me so I can stop crying on the plane.

i threw it out there!

I mean teak being mean to you also counts as entertainment

Alright, you win, I decided this would be interesting.

perform for me, friends! (I am excited to Observe)

…Hm there isn’t a way to Not have an avatar, after selecting one

Correct.

!!!!

side note but upgrading Second Wind doesn’t do anything… (since the upgraded version doesn’t say Draw 2 instead of 1 like it should lol)

lol oops hang on

there, fixed it

it feels insane that i can just wave a magic wand and fix errors like that tbh

:O

ur a wizard

lol jorule is cute and it’s gr8

gj you gave NIP anxiety

RIP

RIP NIP

the incredibly satisfying feeling of hearing icecylee’s CPU fans all turn on

100%

also man my heart

can’t believe I’m having emotions about narrkun

narruto

mission complete

oooooh

good questions!!

i will admit that got me Enough that it distracted from starting the next step of Dinner Cooking when I was supposed to lmao

also I wonder if NIP encountered thr same kind of interference salme and aurelius-jorule got when they tried spark to spark stuff

Basically yes

That’s why I – oh right I asked Ice about that privately, lol, I wanted to reference that scene

oh you’ll just answer THAT

OKAY that almost got me to laugh very loud on this quiet and dark plane

lolf

literally just made a pathetic wheeze I love the power of Jorule having to cope with an aspect of his spark being stoned out of his mind

he, on the other hand, is str8 edge

lmaooo

i know what the last LINE of this scene is going to be

:eyesblur:

: “take salme up on the magic almachadtan mushrooms”

: “do drugs”

WAIT SO the Glory is aware of fuckening. mana campaigns

: “need to ask” == is nosy

getting sucked into ONE neverending story? strange, but okay, a weird cosmic fluke

TWO? SOMEthing is Afoot

uh huh. when Salme asks questions she’s a nosy interrogator but when I, Jorule, ask questions they are Meaningful and Matter

now you’re gettin’ it

the “something” is just “being friends with Teakwood”, RIP

haha

(there’s definitely another world where salme or jorule is watched by the unburnt book instead tho lol)

Yes

I think Salme is secretly also Unburnt Book actually and just the Sword Saint itself is so connected to the Duelist’s Mask but like

if Salme ever does some Unburnt Book shit and I go “hey Salme you’re starlit have fun” don’t be shocked

cf. also Jorule

although the Unburnt Book and the Key-and-Gate have. some overlap tbh

ye ye

the Glory saying “Lol.” is now canon, thanks jorule

jorule is just too busy key and gating his our asses around

ugh I hate how much I lolove the stupid bird (will be afk a bit)

his our asses

its a good bird, brent

and yeah I think thats probably all i got since all the big stuff is ‘idk find out later probably’ for obvious reasons, did get a couple of good confirms, unexpected tidbits and a LOT of tantelizing questions tho

aight i’m going to drop a line and then immediately close the scene, because I’m a shitty little gremlin

WHOMST THE FUCK

What an excellent question!

Thank you for the scene, that ended up being real good. :D

so much unidentified liminal text

and yeah more interesting than expected lol

hmmm they didn’t say they WEREN’T Amal………….

who’s the only one I can imagine talking like that for a sustained period of time

lmao

go ‘way, nickname, I’m still not ready to use you again yet

da durgan

also didn’t say there weren’t more from the caravan………………….

i didn’t ask about seye b/c that seemed even more unlikely than the others

but

the dragon………………….

listen, dragons are cool. everyone loves dragons

its true theres room for more than one dragon fucker/princess

fug i’d MEANT

to put Joch and Polkien on that list too but forgot in the moment since i was wrangling dinner lmao

[pets]

also Jorule is???? cute and sweet. i’m glad he keeps getting chances to just be a big cutie on screen.

hahah. I guess when he’s in person he’s a bit more likely to slip into his Real personality

cocktail i made smells like an accident at a perfume factory

put more fruit in the cat piss

Real personality :eyes:

I’ve mentioned before he’s deliberately Slightly More Me Flavored here before

yeah but still

: “it’s nice to see you again” WHAT THE FUCK

im a pretty big deal

also it’s weird I read you OOC differently when you’re Aurelius versus Jorule

also super rich blaming this shade bullshit on Salme

mfw too used to discord avatars and they hold fey powers over your perception now

shut up you’re the insane weirdo

listen someone was content to sit in the background and someone had to ask a billion meta questions

SOMEONE HAD TO MANIFEST HIS BEAUTIFUL LAVENDER-HAIRED SELF

well yeah aurelius doesn’t know how to make AF

you cannot Put Content into the world amd then be upset when Some Weirdo engages with the content.

alas

don’t alas me

alak

wor

.. woe

gdi

well ty that was a delight to read

:D

though important question: while jorule was standing upside down, was his hair also hanging upside down or was it behaving like he was standing rightside up

whatever’s funnier

they’re both funny in their own way. gravity working right is hilarious because jorule is kind of image conscious. gravity working wrong is just … of course he’d be upside down but not silly looking

hence leaving it to the audience

also I do gotta say

loved reading that and seeing jorule make almost the exact same choices and say the exact same things that Salme would’ve

trippy af but

you and i luke, we are not so different………………………………………………..!

heheheh

I was kinda like “Salme is the padawan Jorule deserves” earlier

should just show up in a little green frog suit one time

as professor frog?

a frog, in general, but also small green thing reministance of yoda

(frog are kind of Enigmatic in mana tho……………………………)

(in what way?)

i think i have a tool tip for this

can jorule change his appearance when he manifests in the library?

he probably could if he really wanted to

but this current outfit is Very Cool

Frogs

0. So it is written:

1. Frogs cause problems.

2. Each frog causes three problems.

3. And only that frog knows what they are.

7. And so it is written.

but if he wanted to be a little green frog

Okay 1. I love that 2. why does it end with #7

Enigmatic

also because the other three rules in front of it DO go up to seven

but the strong implication that frogs might be up to other shit or have stronger warning labels you can’t see is ominous too

remember when I made some stupid joke about dream-whales not causing problems, but if they did, only they would know what their problems were

forex

Characters

0. So it is written:

1. A character brought to this story is a human with a pure heart.

1.1 People with long, luxurious, fuzzy ears are human.

1.2. The horned beast prince of the deserts of the far east was human.

<span style=“line-height: 1.5;”>1.3. Some penguins are humans.</span>

2. They have a home. This home may be temporary, but it is theirs.

2.1 Detail it within a district page.

3. They know a secret road. Add it to the page on Titania.

4. They start with, or are destined for, a single jewelry piece containing a gem of your choice.

4.1 Its essential abilities will be defined for you.

4.2. Its properties are two elemental weaknesses and a resistance, all of your choice.

4.3. Open one of its locks.

5. Similarly, a weapon and some clothing.

6. They allocate twelve points to Attack, Vitality, Speed, Spirit, Magic and Will, increasing them from six up to ten.

6.1 They also have talents.

7. And so it is written.

i do like frogs being up to other shit

oh huh

I’m still so mad the frog form is also a True Form

there was element explanations on this page, which i know you like to collect

!!

there’s an immensely, IMMENSELY stupid reason the frog form is also a true form btw

As Of Start Of Mana, So Like, Basically A Bit After Myth:

Jinn is thunder and lightning and the howling wind. Jinn stands alone, and concerns itself with virtue and what is right, rejecting personal gain and interest for what is truly correct and harmonious. It is frequently associated with justice, especially at its harshest, which carries out the law regardless of sympathy, but it also can be the principle of mercy - Jinn compels one to set both hatred and love aside, and to act as brings about the best future.

Gnome is the earth, the rock, and its treasures. Gnome is the element of the hearth, the family, and friends: It enshrines the connections running through the earth, like a forest is bound together through its roots, and drives one to act for those close to you above all. Gnome is the spirit of never turning one’s back on one’s friends, of celebrating the joy of life together. Gnome is persuasive for the strength of community it offers, but is also the spirit of factionalism and revenge.

Salamander is fire and smoke and the shattering of chains: It’s about rejecting the way the world is and making the way you want it to be. It acts through strength and shouted rhetoric. To never give up, to act regardless of the odds, that’s Salamander - make a dream that smashes the reality for once! At its best, it’s passionate, mesmerizing in its idealism - at its worst, it’s arrogant and full of dangerous, fiery certitude.

Undine is ice and water and ripples: It’s about opening oneself to that which is around you, of letting in the world and acting according to the moment and the esprit-du-temps. To dissemble one’s true intentions, to accept harsh realities, to carry out one’s duty regardless of what one wishes, that’s Undine. Undine can be easy-going, peaceful and conciliatory, and is the patron spirit of doctors and diplomats, but it can also be cruel and cold-hearted - it can look upon tragedy and say “but this is how things are.” or even “it’s better this way.” Undine is also the patron spirit of dying wishes.

Wisp is color and light and glass. Wisp is the element of the natural and the material, of straight-forwardness, of the practical .To work within the tools accepted, to act as is expected of you - and to seek to understand people and the world on their terms - this is the Wisp nature. The everyday people of the world - their stories, their passions, their dramas - are charged with the Wisp principle. To live within the world most call “the world”. At its best, Wisp is reasonable, personable, and grounded. At its worst, it’s skeptical or disinterested.

Shade is fog and darkness and the impossible. Strange things lurk in strange places, and the Shade principle is what draws them out of the cracks of the world to be understood and toyed with. Shade is the element of the secret science, of the strange principles underlying reality, but also the element of superstition, falsehood, and mysticism. At its best, Shade shatters the limits of human achievement - at its worst, it’s too far gone for it to matter.

Luna is moonlight and moon-energy, shining golden and platinum from the heavens. Luna is the element of the foreign, of the distant - an element which arrives from places far beyond and leaves those it touches inextricably changed. The Luna principle seizes you and asks you to be someone other than who you are, and takes you on harrowing journeys through uncharted country. Luna is the element of travelers and foreigners, especially from the light of the sister moon: They carry strange histories with them, and they step free of the bonds of an earthly life.

Dryad is the forest, the jungle, and those that dwell within: The element of the old world, of ancient things, of ancient traditions. The element of contemplation and connection, of the value of history, of the self as product of the world around you. Dryad is the element of home - a force of creation and a force of safety, of the power that rules over and guides the land. At its best, Dryad is sagely and sheltering. At its worst, the command-of-home, the dedication to natural law leads to living like a tyrant or a beast.

damn my One Word Summaries on the BSS PM were pretty on point for this set

who wrote that?

Peter, this was from the meta rules of the campaign

: nods

hmmm actually was jorule always shade and wisp at the same time for you?

you said his three are undine-shade-wisp right?

He’s always conceptually been Shade/Undine, but the way he expresses both of them is very. Wispy

could I ask you to expand on that?

mmmmm

like. He’s someone very curious, and also able to VERY easily get lost in the sauce, in increasingly stupid ways… but he’s also still very. Blunt and direct?

Like… hmm…

Mana probably had 3 Big Shade Energy characters, I think? Jorule, Wilhelmine, and Vlad? But like. Wil was Shade with more shade and jinn and luna bits, very Bizarre Old Wizard That Has Probably Lost Their Mind After Unraveling The Secrets Of Reality One Too Many Times

lololol

and then Vlad was Shade with a really pronounced Dryad base, and Vlad was like a fucking scientist/archeologist, who’s doing a lot of digging for secrets and documenting them and researching them properly and what not

(vlad was a fue character; what about wil?)

and then you got Jorule who’s like… a kid running loose in a Science Museum For Kids, fucking with all the displays and toys and going “AH YES I GET IT” and then building an elaborate gun made out of legos before getting distracted by Pressure Tube Transportation Systems

Wil was one of Terra’s

: nods

also

that fucking description

a lot of it’s vibes so it’s kinda hard to explain but that proably sorta gets the idea across lol

(and jorule is always happy yo share his findings but you have to deal with a jorule-understanding of knowledge he came by in an very unsystematic way)

yeah

just like smol child

but also like an old man

bvcbngdfndkgfhnfklgnj

chrono cross ass track

<3

wooolf

I wanna hug him!

same :(

Also, unrelated, not being able to teleport food to people I want to share it with is a Godsdamned Tragedy.

agreed, [currently actively making begging paws @ you]

I made homemade cookie sandwiches; black cocoa + dark chocolate chip cookies with pomegranate buttercream smooshed between them.

that sounds … amazing omg

it’s a riff on one of the cupcakes I make, “Hades & Persephone”, which is black cocoa cake with pomegranate buttercream, cocoa drizzle, and topped with pomegranate seeds. Teak and Pads have both had them, and loved them.

yeah they’re Incredible

that sounds extremely tasty!

send one to wolf

I want to!!

maybe ember delivers?

ember is currently experiencing existential angst because it doesn’t have fingers or the capacity for efficient locomotion sadly i think it’s safe to say that food delivery is off the table

oh noooooo

cute

that response would have been way more confusing without context lol

‘…I don’t think anyone’s ever done that before, is all. I didn’t know it was a thing that could happen.’

THE DANCE WAS STILL WORTH DANCING

: vibrating

That’s SUCH A GOOD LINE, holy shit!

Right?!

<Baby Wolf> “yeah, obviously??? how else would it work”

>.> I mean, tacitly part of the question is “was there ever actually a baby Wolf at all”

oh yeah it just got me thinking about peek-a-boo object permanence jokes haha

hmhm i guess Glory got NIP more primed for the outline of it before they came back

also possible yeah though I would have expected it to glaze over again without something being different. Maybe NIP’s just more determined to hear it now, after the Big Frustration of missing an entire scene?

which is i guess the same thing really

oooh yes this is so good

ooh no wonder they were specifically worried about implying it was a lie :O

godddddd

padssss

…yeeees?

this is so good

also I want to grab you for a scene just to have salme hug wolf lol

I think that’s scene?

That was SO GOOD

Whoooo, that was intense.

that was amazing and lovely!

what a good scene

hmm… was suddenly wondering if it was always Glory that handled distinct movement in the void, but no, only the train. which means that IS in fact very funny

it’s just funny that “TRAIN COOL” is strong enough to get them to assert dominance for a moment

It did?

Hello! I’m just finishing up eating, so lemme get to my computer, sec…

Hiya!

grabs popcorn

-waves-

It’s gonna feel so good for that name to just be Archie again after this scene

Also it occurs to me, I wonder if the Obsidian Road has world-specific Rite music

Alright, I’m here. -grins, wolfishly- With a deck specific for this fight.

I was wondering that - I assumed it was just the default Rite music we heard outside Sanc

(It might be utterly terrible, honestly, but. It’s thematic!)

Style points are awarded

Also, I have one of Fen’s cookie sandwiches.

(am here)

<3

So the funny thing I realized about how this sparring is gonna go is that Archie’s deck really can’t do the thing it’s designed for unless he has at least one ally, since the core of his deck is about aggressively gifting away as many cards as possible. So either Archie succeeds in convincing one of Salme or Wolf to just kinda sit around being a person to give rites to or he gets 2v1’d and gets to realize the Power of Friendship in real time

>.>; NGL, Wolf’s deck may have been designed with Archie’s tendency towards buckwild amounts of card draw in mind. (I’m justifying it to myself as…Archie would like to experience some visceral and grounding sensations, and, ah…Wolf will be happy to alter his fighting style to provide.)

(cute? hot?)

Sorrowful Memory incoming?

(who knows)

…among several other cards, yes.

Please, as they say, look forward to it.

:EYESBLUR: @ that title

WELL THAT’S A SCENE NAME, TEAK

hot

I have questions, comments, AND concerns!

As do I. Mostly questions, but still.

and existential dread!

nah that was last scene

I mean, when do I ever not have that?

It seems like it’s one of those freebies that we keep getting. I’m not asking for it, but it keeps showing up!

: -hums- Tell us why, given life, we are meant to die, helpless in our cries…

Also real quick - Teak, are you intro-ing the scene or should I? We left off last scene with Archie hiding himself away in the ziggurat, is that the tower referenced by the scene or is this a new location?

[bops in existential angst]

[bops in life-affirming music]

Also, we can’t do this without playing the truest song of Archie’s people…

I appreciate you

Bahahahaha, YES!

dangit I’m trying to get into an Emotion here lmao

(bops in feigned annoyance but perfect rhythm)

<3

Hahah, sorry-not-sorry?

blessed by the music player never playing songs in sequence for me

>.>; I should sing a cover of that like Reibello did for Altan Arslan

omg

I volunteer to be your washboard player

Yeessssssss

(teak site refreshing is getting real bad fyi trying to do library stuff; it’s not just ice)

Hey, Teak, can you send me a copy of that song in DMs…?

oh wait oh god oh fuck

the Narrator is back and we gotta get him to go away

Nah, they had a talk with Wolf, they chillin

They’re filled with determination, it’s fine

kk I’ll keep an eye on it. I was just surprised as it refreshed on me mid-type

lol kk. I thought Ice said he had been having problems too. I’ll poke him about it if he doesn’t chime in.

I think I was having that problem too…?

nope it saved what I was writing! just had to click a couple times

sorry took a quick sec to catch up on Wolf’s scene >.>

No worries, makes sense

should wolf and salme be somewhere together or doing something?

Sure, probably…eating?

eating!

we’ve got snacks in the mini-FU

i THINK i’ve lost text writing up a post on either the BBS or Marginial…? but i hadn’t gotten far enough to see if refreshing would have brought it back either fwiw since it was easier to just retype one sentence lol (it changing my post tag on auto refresh was more devious)

CUTE

today in weird Sanctuary googling: “do otters perceive capsaicin” (the answer is yes)

[nods sagely] because Redwall

I mean Archie for sure does because he’s reacted to spicy food before (such as the very first time everyone ate in Ripple) but I was just generally curious

ea-nasir mention!

EA-NASIR MENTIONED

Excuse me, I have a 1-star yelp review to leave about some ingots of copper…

: cackles

: “optional”

I no high place.

-sighs- “optional”…

that sounds like a Story

I suspect that’s the campaign AFTER this one.

No conlangs are optional

also just structurally: Archie’s gonna want to continue this conversation a little bit longer and he’ll soften up but not fully relent until after the Rite, which he’ll be the one to ask for. If you get to a point where you want to fast forward through some of the philosophy and get to the part where you punch the sad out of him please say so, also know that this is Archie as a character arguing and not me. I am nothing if not a former debate kid at heart sometimes

Naw, it’s all good. Wolf has his points to make, and he doesn’t require you to agree with him.

: “fast forward through the philosophy” … stares at her scene history yeah that’s me.

thinking intensifies at teakwood

Yeah, I’m honestly more concerned that we won’t get to the Rite because we keep arguing the philosophy

war crimes teakwood

maybe arguing about philosophy was the rite all along?

ice don’t pretend you won’t love learning a conlang

that is in fact NOT a trait me and teak share lol

I doooo

Fun fact: I am terrible with any language not English. To some degree because I’m so good with English.

Fun fact: That’s not as true as you think it is

temptation to respond to ‘didn’t spent as much time as i’d like on this’ with ‘idk living through it all the first time felt like enough to me’ is strong, but probably won’t……………

:E

:3

Salme is not going to be on her phone during this, but jesus Ice.

haha

ahaha i had the page open to see if it had mentioned the body settling line (it did not)

and then while i was there happened to see the body text on the way down

and couldn’t just. not add something

what the hap is fuckening over here

teakwood enjoyed a comment i left on a library entry

(catherine did not)

good boy

best

oop I thought we already were outside

also awwww

I thought we were already outside too

Wait, are we? If so, that’s a Padfoot Mistake

And we can get rid of that

I hope it’s not a nightmare :(

zoe deserves only the Best dreams

I think it’s a “space in the void is kinda weird” thing and not a mistake lolf

Don’t worry about why I just queued up “The Plagues” in my Spotify…

the prince of egypt song?

hell yeah

Yes, that one. (The reality is that I was watching a very good analysis of it from a music theory perspective, but it might also be somewhat thematic to my deck. >>)

ooooh send that link along sometime STP

IMPENDING ROBOT HUGS

<3

why did I kid myself like I wouldn’t respond to library bullshit during a scene

Because if you kid yourself, you grow up to be the GOAT?

you’ve posted through more serious scenes where you absolutely wouldn’t been touching a phone before, the signs were there

imagine if Archie Ascended there lmao

Yes that IS the correct Rite BGM

One assumed

Draw 3 as a quick is very powerful, y’know.

lil’ bit

Yeah, Feint makes me really sad I’m not a Claw fighter

I almost sniped that and clearly should’ve

Was it ever a draw 2 at some point or did I make that up? 3 is pretty strong for sure

let’s see if it’s a miscalculation on the level of void flare

Naw, Archie emptying his hand is, uh…exactly what Wolf wanted him to do.

oh I see what you’re up to! Very spicy indeed

I gotchu

It wasn’t 2, but you did used to have to spend Glory to put it in your deck. There’s a Lot of stuff that probably could use a balance pass, but, considering how rarely we Rite about anything it’s probably not super important and teak doesn’t particularly care either lol

gave myself 1 more stress for having targeted Wolf with the Forbidden Pact

[quick] draw 3 actually is factually batshit tho lol

I volunteer to be the stupid that we decide on

Isn’t it also one of the strongest draws in the entire game?

(there’s also an alternative world in which i go apeshit and redesign it entirely from the ground up but that’s probably not a world that exist while the campaign is happening lol)

Like, draw 3, no consequences, quick

Also, Kuz, Defuse has a Draw 2 effect on it, you should have cards in your hand.

quicks have to go … first or last? I can’t remember

But they shouldn’t be wounds

quicks first

Quicks have to go first.

ty

I think it is the strongest draw, yeah. Draw 2 no consequences quick is still powerful but a lot more reasonable IMO

yeah it’s nutso, probably shouldn’t be quick tbh

(I can feel Ice trying not to yowl about game balance but losing that battle)

I would say keep the quick but I’m gonna not get distracted

(You should draw your two cards, though.)

(I know, I know, I’ll be quiet! -chagrined-)

someone got a coin to flip or should I just roll a die and say evens are heads and odds are tails?

The latter, I think

No, please, keep us on track! Is there a way I can put a card from my hand into my deck? I draw a Wound which shouldn’t have been there yet

Uuuhhh that’s a good question

I don’t remember if there’s an option from hand - you can play it to field and use the radial to send it back to deck

you can put it on the table and then put it into your draw pile from there at the very least

that works! Also idk if this is just a my monitor thing but when I’m looking at Rites in my hand it cuts off part of the rules text which is why I didn’t see the draw 2 part, lol

nodnod

Your hand window don’t scroll? Weeeeird

I blame the Architect

It does but because the menu at the top and music player at the bottom are set to overlap any content in the middle it cuts it off so scrolling doesn’t actually show me anything more?

Oh yeah, should i have taken a stress for targeting Archie?

One stress for targeting Archie!

The most violent boop

I feel kinda bad now

He wanted visceral sensations…

You didn’t feel sorry for the spicy food, don’t feel sorry for the sparring match he asked for

lol

also interesting that NIP keeps calling him The Archivist

fighting your friends generally feels weird and bad even when you agree to it! There’s a safety in knowing that it’s just some sparring but I think Archie not only wants the physical sensation but also to experience emotionally what it’s like to get smacked around by his friends a bit

in like the least horny way possible

draw 4 when you refresh, plus any bonuses, right?

: puts AO3 “under-negotiated kink” tag back in the box“ IC

Correct, unlike my initial spelling

also real quick, cards like [Defuse] and [Wild and Pure and Forever Free] specify handing out or discarding Rites specifically, which status cards aren’t, so the only way to get them out of my hand is refreshing? Is that right?

yeah, having to Refresh to clear statuses is intended

in which I can’t click the right buttons to save my life

me every time we Rite

they’re yours to do with as you please for the rest of the Rite

You can use them! Archie just uses Defuse to get his deck as small as possible as quickly as possible because it enables the [Feint] / [Brilliance] loop

Question on Omen Forgery: since it targets any card in my DECK, can it also target cards in my discard?

So noted.

(does playing Hex on me count as “targeting” me b/c if so the Presence gets 1 tiny dink of damage

When did you draw that Curse, Cat?

In that draw?

nope

hex

it happened before you played devil’s feast

Ohright

RAGE VOID FLARE? Is it your birthday?

:D

what are you doing with a void flare

: “what if I just, like, killed him”

it’s her sparring deck!

: “That burger is MIIIIIIIIINE”

cant believe u’d copy ur boyfriend like that (after getting deleted)

it’s like Aury is there with her <3

(the two rites i upgraded with glory were Wind Up and Void Flare >_> )

I considered upgrading VF, but upgrading Rage into a base VF seemed hella good

god what is upgraded VF even

truly disgusting

third hit

… oh my god

I debated not taking a second passive so I could do Rage+ and VF+

rage would be a good upgrade too but decided to go with Gut Feeling passive instead

wolf I’m … wheezing

(I still haven’t done my upgrades for my actual deck)

testing

hmmm weird okay

I went to Settings and changed back to Archie but it’s not reflecting here? The first time I hit change nickname and it said it went through, I tried clicking it again and it gave me the error of nothing changed

but it’s showing up right in the Dramatis Personae list?

Did you do that in ANOTHER tab?

… maybe

Old ones won’t update until you refresh

one more time

ayyy there we go!

same brain cell

(which is a Weird for most, but potentially useful for teak / me lol)

I can’t believe teak won’t give you the character switcher so I can make you have scene with both Jorule and Aurelius

I mean, based on the rite, this ain’t a scene, it’s a god damn arms race

Luĉja can only speak in FOB lyrics for one scene, go

lmao

Am I more than you bargained for?

You looked more Seattle but you feel pretty LA

tbh being able to open a second tab and change names and half the first tab stay is EASIER than swapping each line tbqh lol

It’s at this point, we discover that Lucja has been poking the music device randomly, but lining up the tracks to the battle somehow

Luĉja on the sidelines with a boombox

yeah that’s one of the moments where I successfully have made myself cry

Got me, too, you little…

<3

yesssss goood

(kuz check discord DMs from me when u have chance)

I’m happy to have that be the last line of the scene unless anyone wants to do anything else

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

no that’s perfect I think

unless pads/teak have something else

The only thing I could think of for him to add would be teasing Salme, so nah

:P he’s done rather a lot of that

<3 <3 <3 I know it was a surprising start in many ways but thank all three of you so much for trusting me to lead us down this little mini-arc for Archie, I couldn’t be happier with how it played out in game

good! I’m really happy you’re happy with it!

Oh no, Salme gets teased, how horrible, she’s defenseless.

it was a lovely little arc (and it was interesting to see how Wolf vs. Archie struggled with TTB in different ways)

Yeah, like…Wolf’s only real concern, in many ways, was “oh god am I accidentally doing horrible things to people because I Want a Backstory”

meanwhile Archie is getting hit with the one-two combo of having a “look upon my works, ye mighty, and despair” moment and also “oh god am I even lonelier than I ever realized”

(I like it when Salme gets teased! I’m laughing a lot at him just letting her SQUIRM about asking if he’s alright. that was so funny)

: hugs Archie AND Wolf

I mean, Wolf was just…“I know what you’re doing and it’s very kind of you but also you can just ask.”

hugs all around! Family!

No Title Gang gets another member

she’s trying not to interrogate people as much! (DC: infinity)

It would take a miracle

:E :E :E

Wolf definitely was immediately chewing on…the Tower, because what’s the Tower in his Tarot deck? That.

The tower from his dreams, being struck by lightning and shattering…

Yeah that’s what

deeply curious who/what’s on each card (not that I know much of anything about tarot lol)

The vast majority of the cards are going to stay in their generic forms, and some cards may gain plot-inspired stuff as the game goes on

I thought of too (but I don’t think Salme knows tarot? unless you want her to know enough to know the basic meanings to have someone to bounce these things off of)

They’re not all us…yet, anyway

THE TOWER IS THE UNFUN CARD

WE KNOW YOU DO

Also, Salme’s on Temperance, btw

it’s also funny when you do the exact opposite and give a deeply bizzare scene an insanely meandering, bland title. The power to name scenes……… an impressive power………………………..

Not ‘revealed’ yet, but I thought you’d be amused.

: Salme’s on Temperance????

Well, her and Melpomene

okay that will be fascinating

Remind me to send you a pic of what the “base” card looks like

: nods

But I gotta get towards bed, work tomorrow

Thank you, all!

<3 Have a good night, y’all!

G’night! <3

sleep well!

other things i am not doing: following up on salme’s ‘i am who i am’ comment with further lyrics from an old Dido song that, it turns out, almost but don’t quite line up anyway and sending me on a ten minute adventure to figure out what song i was misremembering to discover that, BUT, the temptation was there

Aurelius a big Dido fan?

i dont think aurelius would have context for it but i could see jorule being a fan prob, esp since that song’s been stuck in my head for two and a half decades

oisdJflk;asdjf;l what’s the song?

: “sanctuary cast’s favorite ‘90s and ‘00s female singers”

Here with Me

which firmly inserted itself into my brain via being used as the OP for Roswell, even though I didn’t even watch that much of the show?????

amazing

I mean it’s kinda like I know the Friends OP despite going out of my way to never have to watch a full episode of Friends

Anyway, Salme would be a big Garbage fan and would probably be into Hole

damn, that’s impressive if you lived through the era

Aqua is obv the other jorule pick

I only ruined my streak when we had to watch a couple episodes for high school psychology(?)

okay but how does jorule feel about enya?

er not aqua, no doubt (tho barbie girl is, of course, a hilarious song to think about for him wrt sanct)

what enya songs do i know

okay getting aqua and no doubt confused is … extremely funny to me? anyway salme and jorule would probably both like no doubt. too bad salme has never encountered modern music.

ikr (i geeenerally try and avoid modern stuff with jorule too since it gets Weird, but old or Fake Future stuff is fine >_> )

you’ve probably heard orinoco flow (it has that “sail away sail away sail away” chorus)

(tho ezekiel was pretty explicitly from Modern Earth Ish………..)

(too bad jorule was too blitzed out of his mind to remember much of it)

legitimately

not sure I’ve ever heard the start of this song before

chorus obv tho yeah

this is probably something jorule would make fun of evelyn for listen to, which is funny to think about

yeah I think it got used in a lot of commercials?

(I only know enya as well as I do because before I listened to music my friends figured out they could give me a burned CD and I’d listen to just about anything)

(Ice are there any Breath passives you think are super useful? I’m debating on whether to take some of those or focus on rites)

haha

uhHHHH

given how things have turned out in practice

Opportunity Cost is probably the only one I’d give any strong consideration to, if you wanna fuel other people instead of yourself

: nods my deck is built around support/battlefield control (though I’m considering moving away from that) but it does seem like most people have a lot of draw power anyway

i dont have a ton but i did take a passive to give myself a mini mulligan for my opening hand at least lol

Could Be Me

dude you don’t need draw power mr. murders everything in your path

im WAY better at murdering things with very specific cards in hand tho

too bad there’s no way to cheat

allow me to introduce you to our lord and savior, Scry and Big Draw Effects (neither of which i took)

yeah b/c you can just cheat

also literally fucking laughed aloud when jorule was like “sorry that was more hostile than intended carry on” he’s. amazing.

sometimes you just type and then glance up and go ‘oh, hm, well i guess in text that looks a bit more rude than intended’

aoewijfahdgoiaewhpfijasd;flkja;ld

jorule 70% of the time, without the glance up

:thinking:

you ever think about how fucked up it is that a semi colon is the base key and a colon is a shift key btw

I use semicolons more than colons because I’m a sicko

if teak pops in here I’m curious what they’ll say though

but a semi colon is a modified colon………………………………………

okay that is a fair point

that makes one of us

i should say mean things about vlad while I know fue’s not paying attention FISHTHINK

(yes)

’this is already over 100 messages long’ ‘damn remember when i said it’s a good thing salme didn’t have access to social media lmao’

okay but does jorule have access to social media and is he live tweeting this bullshit

the power of sumafo

no, why do you think we had to make a BBS from scratch

I’m just saying Jorule would be Worse on social media than Salme could ever be

also

I cannot believe

you just made CK the KK slider of endjinn

listen jorule didn’t get any threads on encounter locked, that was vlad’s fault

he really has no one to blame but himself for only wearing capes

salme doesn’t know that! salme doesn’t know what locking a thread does! Jorule would be a hit on Twitter though. Old Twitter I guess, before it became … whatever it is.

Luĉja wore a coat in Almachadta!

I Want To Believe… I Could Have Been Space Dril…

truly he would have been a hit. just imagining him subtweeting stuff happening around him but into our normal-ass fucking world, so everyone thinks the Being In Space thing is a bit.

shit. a fox is a dog running on cat hardware

but

what’s the cat running on dog hardware i can’t remember

??????

Teak Help

hmm i don’t think that was it, i’ll just leave out the second part

I feel like Jorule is about to try to feed Salme some taxonomic bullshit

lmao

did you … did you re-read your logs to figure out the eclipse thing? or did you just taunt fue and get corrected?

no i saw teak forgot to turn off voice and popped on

and then while i was here we were lolin about dumb shit

and then i was like “wait were YOU there for that” and pulled it up to check

and there it was, 250 more damage than remembered

Salme’s still not 100% on if Jorule knows what sex is

the use of bizarre slang doesn’t help

:D

I’m so sad Salme doesn’t have the context to interrogate that further

@dragon are “smagg” and “smang” synonyms because if so …

yes

regional accents

it sounds funnier when it’s softer

it’s funny either way

salme learning a whole lot about flexible mortality here in the void it seems

oops

don’t worry it won’t give her ideas

fun fact ‘i can’ instead of ‘angels can’ was a VERY deliberate Safety First choice

in wording

too bad Salme’s used to reading into Jorule’s words :)

especially since he immediately deflected which he usually doesn’t when he’s talking about being Really Kool

notices deflections, spirals anyway

she’s selectively observant

or rather: she’s very observant but that doesn’t supersede being a person when SOMEONE keeps hammering home how much she sucks.

:P

i really wonder why sometimes I do not get message notifications here, but like, only on the desktop??? fucking bizzare

sometimes I get a brief notification flicker? like it shows (1) and then immediately disappears?

oooh

??

lololol

Does it never end?

Uh-Oh

oops salme didn’t check her phone

she doesn’t think this is a life-endangering thing

oh might be different

she just had two people tell her they were functionally immortal, based around a concept of Home (which was being heavily stressed), and she’s had some bad impulses when Upset before

and just sent a text going ‘doing something dangerous send help if it ends bad’ lmao

oh you know the concept of Home did not really convey through Luĉja but yeah no Jorule only rated this a 5

she’s not that upset!

He can only Return from whence he Came

I think you need a stronger concept of Home Point to really get that

and she’s been working on “what is a home” for a Lot longer

(his is basically the oppposite of jorules tho but. yeah)

but also what the fuck prompted Gotta Do A Godcall, Unannounced, In Our Safehaven, Right Before Leaving For Dinner lol

she’d been planning on it!

the void seemed better than an ACTUAL PLANE

mfw the void dweller does not agree

dude it’s fine. we’re just having a poetry jam session

as one does with the antichrist

christian theology has no hold here!

UNLESS

Oh did Jorule also mention inmortality?

ye

but it’s tied to home ownership

I’m not sure how Almachadta works wrt private property to be quite honest so I’m not sure how well the homeowner at 17 joke landed for Salme, but I laughed

haha

I am enjoying Jorule yelling helplessly

to be fair, I did set it up that way

: “do whatever you want” “christ alive what the fuck”

love the use of “interstices”

and that’s scene for me

THANK YOU

I know that was weird, but that was everything I wanted and more

ah yes, my favorite name for NIP, a hit TV Series from 1998-2015

I love that instead of using a dictionary like a normal person you just … shove things into google

places a hand on kat’s shoulder

o no

normal people do not have a finnish to english dictionary laying around off hand

https://www.sanakirja.fi/

anyway it usually just translates foreign words

but that one had too many Actual Results lol

yeah she’s not familiar with the actual IRL overtones of the term

do you think the omniclast is wind-coded for jinn reasons or …?

absolutely not

he’s felt very gnome coded in every instance

hmmm how so?

his primary driving motive seems to be “Freedom”

What

Oh man I can ruin a word, Catherine, you still here?

Consider that you can pronounce hamburger with a syllable split on hamb and URGE

yes I’m still here

though

Good, please enjoy the terrible thought I had about burgers

that one might OHKO me

I hate it, personally

hey if we stick an antenna on CK can we get space radio, teak?

beep boop

: static noises

if we stick a tall enough antenna on CK, will they pick up radio signals from space?

whatever jorule is listening to, for instance

omg wanna get lucja a sombero now

yee haw

man I’m just now looking up the other resonance glyphs and I’m

⌬: primarily used in chemistry to represent the benzene molecule (C₆H₆). Visually, it depicts a hexagon with an inscribed circle, which is a key symbol in organic chemistry. This design specifically represents the delocalized pi-electron system within the benzene ring, a more accurate and modern way to illustrate its aromaticity and stability compared to drawing alternating double and single bonds (Kekulé structures).

gonna make me learn quantum physics gonna make me learn chemistry

It’s funny, ebcause for me, that emoji has alternating double bonds instead of a circle

It’s very teakwood.

Hexagon glyph for the hexagon planet

yeah it depends on the font

ope

oh just poor NIP “my counterpart…?”

oh nvm they’re more resilient that I gave them credit for. Luĉja is so cute tho.

Luĉja - “Well, the first voice is my friend, the second one probably is too!”

They just a simple little guy (big robot)

mfw the narrator is the west world robot and not the hulking metal knight

lolf

: “Can a person defecate messily into their own village well?” I’m

hell yeah

merci beaucoup

scene

Thank you!

TINNED EEL

eel!

I’m going to just … rest my eyes until it is Time. someone ping me via discord? (I will not be asleep, trust me; I am simply having The Nausea)

o7

wb

I am also back

yay

Tinned Eel+1

but that’s hard.

ok fine I’ll lead

hachi …

100%

googling that gives a lot of results in teh native language

SEE

fuck yall

oh, eyewitness

hachi’s got it

i did that earlier and they were like “??? why you google that and not just open your handy finnish to english dictionary you have nearby”

hahahaha

i gave you a link!

it’s a good dictionary

it gives you the declensions and everything!

after the fact!! that’s still more effort that just hitting paste into the url bar tho :(

hahahahaha

: “just puttin’ them On Notice”

it’s like when you stare directly at a security camera when you walk into a building

and yet, they said it

oops

lolf

lololololol

I love every time Aurelius does something Salme’s just like “huh. magic?” even when he’s just being a weirdo

the perils of owning a wizard hat and robe

wizard hat?

sunglasses are like a wizards hat if you’ve never met a wizard before i guess

I was waiting for aury to debut his gandalf fit

: “I didn’t think Tsem was that cute, but I can kind of see it…”

eoafijdskl;akdjsf

you could just say it

hahahaha

it was pretty sublime

lol sorry hachi relying on narrator to describe badri’s house because I don’t think I ever knew

the narrator is also a character

this is true

I should have asked on the train, if I could call him ‘dad’

but after all, who’s going to stop you

I could just say it

you could just say it!

you could just say it

CUUUTE

: “isn’t everything substantial and DELICIOUS on almachadta???” thanks teak

lmao

LANGUAGE

yeah, they know this one already here

trust me that kid knows the word “fuck”

it’s cool

I feel like badri lasted 2.5 minutes trying not to drop the f-bomb in front of the kiddos and then stubbed his toe

everybody on their phones at the dinner table

finally, some normalicy

hypothesis: neither Aurelius nor Jorule actually know what a cat is

you don’t knwo what a cat is

no as a certified Cat Lady I am very familiar.

Salme is too by virtue of being played by me and therefore being a Cat Person

NOT FALLING FOR THIS TRAP, SALME

Lol

you know, your trust issues in thinking everything is a trap is starting to really stand out

But what is scene, if not trap?

I mean the cat question was definitely a trap

the way you wrote “The Sweet Biscuit bin is opened up and he begins to chew on it.” makes it sound like he’s chewing on the bin like he’s a goat

gahahahaha

i mean

yeah?

the biscuits are for the kid

aifdjalskd;f;lskdf

lol this can be wrapped up whenever. I’m waiting for a beat that Feels Right but I have nothing else to add that doesn’t open a Whole New Can Of Worms

btw teak I am going to try to attract nidhogg on The Beast with the [Sweet Tea] in my inventory

just as an aside

just as an aside

thank you for bringing that back

I had forgotten

hahah

hahaha

aaaye

aewouifaslfdkj

OKAY scene?

thumbs up

that might be scene <3

uh ty everyone that was very long and rambling

LOL HACHI YOU WANT TO DO ANOTHER SCENE YOU DON’T HAVE TO SLEEP RIGHT?

<3 <3 <3 I really appreciate it

Catherine,

awjfaslkdf;dsf

did you have something in mind

’aurelius, please come to bed. (so we can immediately leave you alone in it to do something else)’

yeah the Question I posed. I mean Aury can be there too that’d make everything 3000% worse and more awkward probably

IM JUST SAYING IT KEEPS HAPPENING (and is funny)

does it keep happening?

more than once

oops

the question you posed…?

look it’s very weird managing the three of them sharing a room and then having one of them (usually not me for reasons) disappear for ??? reasons

also thank you teak for GMing like machine

<3

salme probably does tell Awa and Aury about her omniclast encounter but it’s probably not worth playing out

she just feels a bit guilty about not telling them

Stern Looks And Reminders You Should Have Mentioned It First but otherwise ofc

well she did mention it first

just not to anyone who’d be very useful

Awa would clap, probably?

:D

:D

had another “who the fuck is the hunter” moment when I looked at the scene archive

lmao

jorule: won’t give izaak and ember speech-to-text capability, won’t teach salme emoji. What a monster.

salme can’t google + click copy then paste and i’m sure not looking up the alt code

a true monster

salme doesn’t know what google is!

jesus please don’t let salme know what google is

she also does not need to know: emoticons, abbreviations, or other things. though she’s mostly gathered “lol” and, obviously, has picked up “<3”

mercifully tomestones do not have internet access

you <3 at people that are hot when they do something for you, yeah. standard usage

… is that standard usage?

as far as you know!

I mean, she used it sarcastically at jorule

she can tell it’s heart. she’s low-tech, not like.stupid.

damn, i can’t believe sarcasm doesn’t need to follow standard grammatical and definitional rules :(

:O

fucked up you put the apostrophe in y’all in the middle of the word

regional varient

yeah? what region?

Not From The South

lolf

you’ve consistently spelled it that way so many times that I was briefly gaslit into believing that is the correct form

couldn’t tell you why but i’m pretty sure that was how i learned it

well apparently it’s a consistent enough (mis)spelling there’s a writer’s digest article about it?

: and a southern living article

(also love aurelius dodgerolling the FUCK out of salme being like “hmmmmm maybe I AM a little self-absorbed?”)

i assume because ya’ll is closer to how you SAY it, and a lot of other contractions have ‘ll too

he weren’t gunna argue The Truth

fair enough

and yeah, I think that being how other contractions works makes ya’ll feel. not Wrong. though apparently it Is Wrong according to a couple strongly worded articles