Scene Archives

he’s going Thru It

looking forward to running into someone who Remembers awa and seeing what .exe programs immediately malfunction

:3

:D

D:

I knew I was signing up to go through the emotional meat grinder with this scene and yet I was Unprepared

hahah

(laudatory)

oops sorry that took fucking forever to find I thought I had it written down somewhere

:o

teak it’s “Thaumaturge” right, spellcheck doesn’t like the word lol

Yes

oh shit, people making Teak cry in here?

it’s ice

Listen, Catherine gives out points for nerding out in the library. I give mine for emotionally damaging the Dragons.

tbf I also give out points for people emotionally damaging me

ice is also winning there :E infuriating

to be fair you do keep giving me shotguns and going “FIRE AWAY”

^

I mean this is recreationally fun for me, yes

thumbs up for Aurelius

another thumbs up

hell yeah

Quad Wield

Highly Dependent On Card Draw

per row? or all six

a LOT

esp now that we have some glory

usually feels like every other person is hitting for 5ish and the other half is setting up an effect to Do More with round 2 tho

I have to level up in SoG AND sanctuary

shit’s wild

oh right i have more spells in my spellbook for SoG too…

I never do damage on the first round. or like. hardly ever. though I did add glorified rage to Salme’s hand

Hell yeah Rage+

constantly modding her hand to add more burning cards oops

no void flare for her in her actual hand though (yet)

❁

[❁Bash❁]

huh. Was hoping that was gonna work

[Bash+]

there was something for sure and it was easy to do

ahhhh

oh I’ll add that to the site documentation that no one uses :D!

[bash!]

I use that document.

well the changelog is hopeless but at least I have most of the shortcuts. I’ll add the glorious option

: “hunt down Zaya and… kill her“

LOL she’d never

D:

though to be fair, neither she, nor I, was expecting that shotgun blast. well done, ice.

idk if i was either but it felt Really Obvious as soon as she showed up lol

it is hysterical because Salme’s Internal Anxiety Meter considered Wolf being into her, and Awa being into her. She had not considered Aurelius being into her. Or she had considered and discarded it.

and then

tbf they both had to work at it pretty hard

like she was like “I am going to be SO COOL if Awa wants to hook up with Aury’s sister” and then

hahah

it’s still a possibility…!

she is pr hot

she is pr hot

I’m not sure if she’s into men

so what you’re saying is you have a shot

I mean if salme is into women (I still don’t actually know) I think she has potentially a better shot than most. considering zaya and sq are obvs in love, right?

They’re Roomates

oh great now they’re both using je ne sais quoi wrong

get american’d

alternatively “I”M not feeling brave enough, this wall is really small and it’s a long way down“*

???

did you have another shotgun shell in the chamber?

sometimes idle dumb-but-amusing thoughts cross my mind and i have no reason to hit enter

lol okay fair

the wall isn’t that small

naw, just, given how physical salme is there’s a pretty easy sex joke to be made in that precise moment

lolololol

<86> “I’m laughing”

<3

world’s stupidest woman almost resisted the anxiety question but failed

:D

and she does want it now

i feel like going ‘actually that was jorule, not me’ is NOT the right response, despite it being CORRECT. :fishthink:

lol she’d mostly be like “you tuned in for THIS?? weirdo”

re: hand-puppet bit

oh well she’s been making fun of herself using jorule’s bit

she figured aurelius might want to adopt it too, though he doesn’t make fun of her that often

can u imagine………………

if aurelius started to make fun of her? she’d survive.

I think that’s scene?

thank you?

I had fun

you were great

Sorry she decided to be a Weirdo at the end there but eh, that’s what she is

no problem!! pew pew

there is no stopping it at this point

look

aury either gets her playing a role where she doesn’t do that

or has to field the fact that she does

eventually she will internalize that he considers this better

she has!

okay

no

hasn’t internalized that, but she has intellectually realized it

that’s why I was like “… she would actually seek him out not because she Failed but because she’s like “why tf am I talking to jorule and ag when the person I really want to be talking to is like. in this village and likes me for me“*

Good Job

not that the other two don’t but she’s not smagging them

its true we dont even know where AG is yet

you have a guess

I kinda also maybe have a guess

:O

it’d be funny if it’s ember tho

lol

though I am going to have Salme reply to AG but I’m gonna say this either happened before or a long time after Salme decided to hang out on the wall with mr. cpu-whirring-fan

it was really good

loved ice being like “idk man”

like … do you just … let them cook on a backburner and then they … like Tell You What They’re Feeling? how does that even work

(that sounds bitchy it’s mostly me being fascinated by creative processes)

well i mean i THOUGHT the scene with zaya was gunna happen first so that made it, inherently, less clear

but also yes

okay yeah that’s fair

: “JESUS TAKE THE WHEEL” “well alright, sure”

lol I asked teak if I was muddling anything and:

**”If Salme would immediately go to him while Zaya’s out doing errands that are somehow more important than talking to the guy who brainjacked her friend that’s on Zaya and her priorities :P”

the trials and tribulations of Having A Job

alas

Salme, however, gets Work From Home benefits that allow her to take sabbaticals to travel the planes

the benefits of being Glory’s Favorites

are we Glory’s Favorites?

pretty confident it’s not the architect

ohwaefojasoipdfjasoipfjdo;

OKAY fair

man I did tell teak that if Salme/Awa/Aury hadn’t happened the way it did, she’d probably’ve fallen for the Omniclast, so look at what you saved us from.

Has A Type

I mean she does though I’m not sure how you’d articulate that typology

aside from “questionable???”

she has a type

liminal/alethic weirdos

lol

also GOD that scene was so good. Just. oewijfpaosfdjoaewfjsopafjeoipd.

happy for u

well that was mostly an attempt to compliment you but I guess I didn’t do it directly enough?

i could tell!!

oh is that how I was supposed to read that?

there’s a joke about my inability to read tone here

yeah sure that works

sorry

what are you sorry for lol

idk I’m failing at compliments?

you are a silly person

(i was more concerned with getting food than compliments but those are appreciated too you dork)

… oh shit food

I should do that too

yeah its important

I am reviewing my options as we speak

it is Biryani Time

I was like “food, I just ate” and then realized it was 6 hours ago“*

owned :(

idk man time is super fake especially since I’ve been off my ADHD meds for like a week now

I was like “why am I so lazy and listless and Bad At Doing Things” and then I was like “oh. lol. lmao”

whats a biryani

aha

it’s an indian dish, so indian flavor profile

the place near us does KILLER chicken biryani

their lamb sucks tho

oh really? I usually have good luck but I’m not picky. They use a different spice profile for it and it’s … weird? like it’s not the biryani spice profile

where all da brontasaurs at

mfw vampire velocoraptors

valais is Doomed

oh god velicoraptors

velociraptors

however the fuck you spell that

its too late,

by the time you puzzle it out they’re already upon you D:

D:

I think Salme would like being a vampire?

I think that’d be fun for her

wrong,

wrong?!

because someone would explain she’s a vampire,

and then for the next 300 years she’d hyper focus on that one time jorule jokingly called her an emotional vampire

pefjapfoids

I mean she already did hyperfocus on that

you lived it

yeah exaclty

and actually being a vampire would make it Worse

nah she’d be fine. the emotional vampire line isn’t what bugged her, it was the idea that jorule didn’t trust her with his feelings.

especially when she’s been trusting him with hers

if she actually was a vampire she’d be like “wtf I don’t feed off people’s negative emotions??”

Blood Only Bozo

though she’d be sad if she couldn’t go out in the … sun? so maybe no vampire velocoraptors

god

imagine telling an almachadta they can’t have direct contact with sunlight

a low tier sun is still a sun……………………………………………….

lololol

:OOOOOOO

we’re vampires that … have no other vampire restrictions

praise then ancestors that overcame the garlic allergy or died trying

may their memory be a blessing

I would like to announce that the stupid lore drop Jorule just got (it is stupid) has been in my head since march. I didn’t know if it was ever going to be relevant but I guess this is the timeline we live in

i feel like the shape of it’d been mentioned before but. Unlock!!!

oh probably. I have a secret folio of all that little backstory bits I’ve distributed because I am starting to forget who I told what but I haven’t gotten through the old logs

I do love the Vibe of AG posting just Whatever they’re feeling while Salme dramatically Sephiroth Posts in response

sure, why not, i guess i can imagine the sephiroth strings and choir going ape shit every time salme pulls out her phone now

I was more referencing the formality and drama of what she’s writing but if that hoes your row then be my guest

except they have to go “SAL-MO-NE” because her name’s not longer enough, super fucked

ewoirajoipfdjoapiefjwopijaerf

<salme> [is the dumbest woman on earth] [AT JORULE]

<salme> [asks for relationship advice from two people who’ve never been in a relationship]

gggggg

tildes don’t parse on the map node but they do elsewhere

which means jorule looks dumb in the library version of their slapfight because they parse and then he says “oh good, they didn’t parse”

I’ve Been Framed

honestly DESERVED

i too was laughing more than i should have at the tactical deployment of #waow

it’s actively annoying sometimes

ope ice you accidentally put Zaya’s song on the default map node layer

oh, yeah that’s the default

yeah but it’s the only one

I was like “where is the rest of the music—ooh”

haha

though you’ve been on an unburnt book kick for a while. any particular reason

I was thinking “When keeping information alive at all costs, and standing up for liberty in the face of death” is interesting

coincidence

it is kinda interesting to compare the map descriptions of stuff as opposed to the Codex page: “The Unburnt Book is every idea that cannot die, that rises from the flames of its own pyre to remake the world. It watches revolutionaries, idealists, devotees, and the prideful.”

ir’s zaya’s constellation, and when i was doing the scene with jorule i just quickly glances through them to see which one might be most appropriate to be standing under, since i’d already decided standing on the ceiling was Happening

yeah every single one is a bit different on the map and that weirded me out a lot early on lol

oifjslkfd “since standing on the ceiling was Happening” I love it. I decided his hair was appropriately arrayed btw because I came down on that being funnier

still RIPing @ myself for never being starlit ever

Checks Out

you got SIDE SCENES to run buddy

though are we getting momo offscreen or is that where the session is going to pick up?

no no long awkward train

that we have to pay for

no thats what zaya’s for

: zaya’s paying for the train yeah, but the train is still being paid for

D:

but dont you wanna see salme squirm

do you actually want to see that?

I feel like jorule has actually gone enormously out of his way to make salme NOT squirm

he has

see you can’t fix problems and then try to get the dragon to glory in problems that aren’t going to happen

I still want a murder on the orient express plot session tho

honestly the other problem with Salme is both that she has never had an Actual Friend in her entire life and two that she’s never been friends with another woman her entire life. her Friendly Acquaintances were all guys because she absolutely has “only girl in a group of guy friends” going for her

something I just realized and sucks for her because women who’re like that often have WEIRD ISSUES

rip

she’ll make a female friend at some point probably

I Believe In You

lol

mostly I was just like … still realizing new depths to salme at this late date, and “absolutely can turn on vulgar sexual talk” and “probably learned that from Mostly Hanging Out With Teenage Boys” were a 1-2 punch

haha

might’ve broken AG oops

oop

amount of panels I’ve attended thus far: 2

amount of panels that have given me sanct thoughts: 2

:O

the panels are very uninteresting chat I’m suffering

rip

yeah you should be here >:(

I am trying a philosohy panel and the moderator is wearing a bow tie and I am ascared

hahaha

one guy is in full on Monk gear

I can’t remember what denomination? carmelite?

this was a Mistake

I do not know what the word “predicable accident” means and no one is telling me

done dishes

Anywhere That’s Convenient Really. maybe still up on the wall, maybe got hungry and wanted food, maybe resumed wandering around

KAT. i just want you to know, in Apoc, there was a session with the title “Murder On The Solipsism Express”

and the first five lines were this:

AURUM: So, there’s a Phantom Train. That’s a thing that happens every now and then in stories like these, isn’t it?

AURUM: The shrill, piercing whistle, from far away…

AURUM: And, yes, it’s slowing down as it approaches. Seems you’re in luck, and this is a stop.

Ezekiel: “GHOST TRAIN BITCHES!”**

Ezekiel fist pumps. “Get ready for a really stupid murder mystery!!!”

Okay that’s actually amazing

… okay that is hysterical

hmmm

are the Apoc logs around?

http://storagebin.wikidot.com/mana:apoc

yeah me and fue painstakenly saved all the mana shit by hand lmao

QUESTION

do scallions actually have a flavor

i just reflexively fling them away from my food with a fork when i see them lmao

!!! ty ice. and yeah they do have a flavor I think?

vague onion/garlicky but like. the memory of onion/garlic but also Green Flavored

hmm

unforbidden funinion pancake

yeah it is good

also jump scared myself with space mana aurelius

since i still had the wikidump folder open from earlier

and the space mana logs were below the 3/4e pages

but i didn’t recognize them until i opened them lol

this is what you get for stealing a character name for the Bit

I was like “why the FUCK do i have a log with both aurelius and jorule in the 2013 wiki dump what???” “OH RIGHT”

f9aeioufjapjsd

I don’t think Aury has a powerful enough heat sink for the amount for work his CPU is doing in real time, sorry 2 say

god he’s so cute

: “ don’t know how to read you yet, and I keep thinking I do”**

<salme voice> yeah good fucking luck

: “Clan Too Many Boots”

oh that’s actually the NAME and not Zaya being funny?

WHAT iLVL ARE YOU BOOTS SIMCHA

someone named Simcha fucked up a raid once with bad boots?

he was notoriously bad at hitting cooldowns for tank busters, which is not great by itself,

but he also just. for some reason. refused to upgrade his boots, since i think he was waiting on a drop or something, despite being a couple tiers low

and i had Feelings about this, as the healer

I’m sorry for your trauma but I did snort aloud at that explanation

even at the time it was Funny

except when he died to flatten damage high rolling, that wasn’t funny until a few hours later

hahah

were they like. angry strangled noises or sad ones? angrysad?

Also fucking died: “By the way, I lied, I have another weird question.”

Aurelius: “I have weird answers.”

I don’t know if I’ve ever experienced that?

Ice still gets to enjoy the illusion of me thinking he’s incredibly chill

though he is a liar—said Aurelius never pulled the hand-puppet thing on Salme, and he definitely did at least once

what when

Thresholds crossed. He doesn’t say anything but:

**”Aurelius stares at Salme for a second, before raising one hand and miming puppet mouth motions. But does not say anything, or think anything strong in particular. Then realizes this is probably pushing it and stops.”

o

I know he also did it jokingly once but I think it was at Jorule’s expense. So Salme’ wasn’t getting the streams crossed (I am rereading for other reasons but just happened to find that)

<salme> “my backstory’s so good i gotta tell it to TWO aliens”

:P yeah

YEAH SHE DOES OKAY

funny story there was probably a version of this scene where jorule took over out of mercy but we seem to have avoided triggering it lol

honestly I’m super proud of him

though man I DO imagine Jorule is watching, shoving popcorn in his mouth, just like, fucking WINCING left and right

running commentary like when someone’s watching a sports game

though, cruel, mentioning the library but not mentioning fucking jorule

content warning: jorule

she didn’t really ask about it so the topic got avoided!1

JORULE DOESN’T GET A CONTENT WARNING BUT SALME DOES????

jorule’s ignorable

like 90% sure you did that just evoke that precise reaction from me

AND IT WAS A REASON TO SAY THE THING SHE WAS SAD HE DIDN’T SAY BEFORE

too bad she doesn’t … KNOW that lol

unless Jorule’s gonna hit up Salme with a play-by-play

lol

well no but it was still important to do it, even if it’s not observed by all parties

absolutely fucking irritating how cute Aurelius is.

I mean Salme’s into it, but god at what cost

What Could They Be

Dreamin’

WAIT WHAT DOES THAT LAST BEAT MEANNNN

yeah you both super mega killed it. stunning.

if you were curious how much more awkward that COULD have gotten the jorule version of that scene probably involved ‘yeah there was definitely a version of this where I was you instead of him so lol’ as an off hand comment

that would have been. amazing.

but ICE WHAT DOES THAT LAST BEAT MEAN I cannot interpret it telllll meeee

Who knows!

Icecylee :(

:( :( :(

it means he’s sad but was trying real hard not to make it Weird

Sad :(

okay I thought that was it but teak saying “lol jorule” threw me

oh that was teak catching up on da BBS i assume

oh Salme does have a question for Jorule I just didn’t want to do any distractions

I mean aside from the … many distractions I was adding in here

lol

I tried to be quieter during the emotional bits but yeah

that was very good and well done. desperately curious what aurelius is thinking NOW. zaya needs to work on her cross-examination.

thinking about how fuck up potentially finding a will could be

oh god

thinking zaya salme’ing salme before she gets salme’d herself would be funny

thinkin some other stuff too probably

ahaha “here’s a list of reasons you need to talk to half the party, incidentally”

look he’s the first quest marker that gives out a bunch of side quests

also god bless zaya at all turns giving him a reason to not need to make the hard choices wrt knowledge lol

it was funny because Salme would’ve said yes.

salme is a suffering sommelier

it was fascinating to watch Aurelius when given the option to NOT

lol that makes the questions she’s framing to jorule kinda funnier

<3

(seconded)

hmhmhm knowing she has The Dreams does make me a fair bit more confident in my earlier guess that a lot of stars had overlapping Secrets tho

although I suspect The Monster…. probably… did not have that

and it was changed for Wolf after teak noted we didn’t have anyone with that

huh yeah what did the monster have

I mean it’s useful tea because the Sword-Saint didn’t get to know it was ABOUT TO FUCKING HAPPEN

hahah yeah

: “listen there was 13 of you, there was gunna be some overlap due to Necessity, that’s just good storyboarding”

big “well, one of us has to change” energy

god

first of all the first immediately thought to that was salme and awoken both stepping into the room wearing salme’s samudra outfit and awoken saying that, b/c obviously,

9euroiafdsujaoiperdsfjaewiopejsfoiapesd

oh my god

I need to draw that

second of all it just occurred to me how funny it would be for someone to go ‘so what’s your girlfriend like anyway’ and him to then just navigate to The Void subform and show the screen

awa or aury?

oh god does Aurelius notice how many posts have happened between Salme and Jorule?

aury rly but

it DOES say 250 Right There even if you have to squint to make it out

oh god it’s 250

AG makes up for it in word count

she’s a helper

I did kinda look at the library to be like “man, what would someone’s first impression of the cast be from looking through the library marginalia” and then I was like “… ah”

at least she doesn’t have log access?

For Now

stop trying to angelize zaya with seye

girl has enough problems

that would be deeply fucked when SQ could just pull out their laptop instead

I really think she’s probably lost the charger

yesssss

’nomai’???

seconding explanation por favor

also “preëmpt”

the diaresis is a good diacritical mark

which conversation?

yeah it was salme and wolf

https://strangepaths.aludel.xyz/scenes/archives/the-academicians-lab-iii

Wolf was rotating fast enough to do weird things to gravity

jorule, off to the side, laughing after having avoided having to explain time dilation even after hinting at a few times

salme will circle back to it probably

also jorule loves explaining shit

it makes him feel fancy

haha he was very deliberately not expanding on it at least

also what if a nooplankton is an angel-fish :fishthink:

man I can’t figure out if Salme buys that Jorule doesn’t think, or if she thinks he thinks a lot.

that

was a lot of the word “think”

also kind of want burger for lunch but dont wanna sit and eat at the decent place, and it’s like a ten minute walk back from it… but also don’t ever want mcdonalds…………… maybe it is as normal subway time

:thinking:

you deserve burger

it’s not convenient at all tho lol

i got 8 shows to watch today and several of them are Shows Basically Only Watchable While Eating :E

make them bring you burger

you have no gil sinks

indulge

i dont

think you understand what living in a small town is like

I figured you’d still have like. Something. But.

I guess I should check my urban privilege

I am sorry for my cultural insensitivity

the One thing that does deliver is the pizza factory

and it is comically overpriced lol

the burger place and subway are right next to each other tho so i guess we’ll see when i get there!! wooosh

godspeed

Fare thee well, oh hungry traveler

And may thy fare also be well

Teo I can LITERALLY feel you chuckling to yourself

Yes

I live for the word plays

You really need to decide

It was hate like a day ago :P

I can’t think of any variation in my behavior that would cause this

I contain snacks

split the difference, meatball sub

yumm

fuck yeah meatball sub

what a specific period of time

Lucja has an internal clock

and is bad at small talk

They were being a hermit for a very long time

do you have Games on your endjinn

lol

although thought randomly occurred to me so i guess i have to make a vaugely foreboding marginalia post

uh oh

oooh I have out of character answers to that shit

Reibello has THEORIES

Oh???

I don’t think the intro text was NIP (or at least, if it was, not the portion we currently travel with). I think it’s specifically the broken-Dragon. The one at the bottom of ye olde wikie pagee. It reads very much like that voice.

see that was what I thought at the start too

until it became clear right can’t have a single multi-eye by itself was a distinct entity, ESPECIALLY knowing the editor made them (and has no marker), and that I’ve seen the avatar the dragon uses, too lol

I’ve also seen that avatar. I think it was just not present at the time.

Rightcan’t have an eye? Like this you mean? ꙮ

got there… eventually

also wait has the dragon avatar been used in more than one session

I would have to check.

i can only recall the one at least

I don’t … think so; I’ve looked before

but also, and critically, we were specifically fucking with a metaphysics that this world does not currently conform to there

I do not recall more than one usage. But I cannot claim perfect memory in this area.

it is a really good question though

I don’t understand your glowy text line from earlier.

oh i was attempting to use one of the eye markers and didn’t parse

so i put ‘oh yeah that doesn’t work’ in the edit lol

Did you confirm editor made nip?

yeah I snuck in a session before NIP came back. it was, as expected of a session between Jorule and the Editor, probably one of the weirder ones https://strangepaths.aludel.xyz/scenes/archives/at-the-end-of-the-obsidian-road-iv

I saw that scene

wait what about that confirmed the glory made NIP?

Where did it say that?

^^

stares

what the christ, i know there was a line where they said they made them…………..

I … really don’t think there was?

did i have an insanely detailed dream about that, that’s slightly more likely than teak removing from lines from the logs to gaslight me

Teak over here running Inception on all of us

I do not think teak is gaslighting you

i know it was there in plain text i read though it’s definitely not in any of the three logs it could have been in lol

I think your dream brain gaslighting you?

I do not think teak is gaslighting you by removing the logs

I think teak is full of terrible glorious shenanigans

And that there’s probably been some clue here THE WHOLE TIME

but like. I was there ꙮbserving that scene and I feel like if it had been said in plain text I would have probably screamed about it?

ok well i guess i can remove the absolute certainty i had about that line of thought then lmao

wouldn’t. have been the first time i had a dream about a session but probably would be the first time i had a dream about a session as if i was typing and it was just adding a couple lines to an already extant log

ice maybe jorule is real. he’s gaining consciousness and taking over your dreaming body

What if we gave you an axe? Or a saw?

LOL

lmao owned

on the bright side neither of us will ever be as confidently wrong about something in the waking world as fue

may I request the fue lore?

i think i’ve told the story before

about him and the Small Obscure Island Nation Coins

fun fact: the initials of Small Obscure Island Nation Coins anagram to COINS

haha

oh is this the one where he just like

somehow got convinced that something was referecing kiribati or smth?

yeah i definitely don’t remember what the name of said small island nation was, but yeah

teak probably does I was just going with the one I can name of the top of my head

Luĉja is so cute

teak’s langarwali dal is probably real tasty

also just had a cursed thought. “maybe the planes self-destruct on the same sequence like AFAB people have their periods sync up if they live together”

I wish Americans believed in langar.

LOL

holding

with this little arete, I can’t afford to force an explosion. Gonna have to wait and hope for a 12 followed by a 9+

holy shit that is a gnarly description

OOOH Luĉja being Creepy and Weird

well not creepy and weird but. angry and determined.

Scene?

That was a lot of fun

Thank you for taking the time

hell yeah

god eyes (threatening)

ooh that’s neat if you liminal in a character code it keeps your font and just glowifies it

haha <3

Ice, just wait til you see what I have in store later this week

:O

… jorule

:3c

I don’t have timestamps. what earned salme the “smooth” comment?

it is a mystery

something that wasn’t smooth, probably

yes, obviously lol

:O

sorry Salme is like “hmmmmmm. I am here to INFODUMP“

the dumbest thought came to me in a vision as I started doing dinner prep while watching this scene: “I like my women how I like my steaks; red and hard to digest.”

HAHAHAHAH oh my god

she thinks she’s doing a really good job breaking it down

might make a library pamphlet: “So You heard Your World Is Dying: Thoughts and Implications”

lolf

good job salme now she has to try and sleep on this instead of the train

dude I can’t believe aurelius was just going to Let Her Read About It

especially because I’m not sure how clearly it’s even stated

he mentioned the world dying!

YEAH BUT THERE’S LOTS OF CONTEXT THAT’S GONNA HELP MS. UNBURNT BOOK

yeah and she said she wanted reading material and didn’t ask further

man no wonder annarr died a virgin

wow rude

not sure force feeding her existential despair would have made her LESS gay anyway >:|

she is not being force-fed

she is slurping up existential despair like spaghetti

… she is … like. pretty gay

slurp

but idk maybe there was a chance?

but like part of the reason Salme was so like “aaaaaah” about Zaya was because she was like “oh I’m a Lot Like this person but suckier”

luckily she’s been yelling at herself in her own DMs for the past 12 hours for thinking like that tho

The World May Never Know,

and honestly tru……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

wrt the last part.

not the first. the first she’s like “no. I get this”

One of us eh

Archie Stonks are on the rise again

pdajdsfoipasdfjopas

<salme> “you … you wouldn’t pick aurelius???????”

love jorule shitposting at salme when she was legitimately trying to wingman for her boy

that just makes it FUNNIER

there is also a version of this scene where salme was too online and pulled out her phone for a live bird reaction

thank fuck we didn’t invent push notifications or sound alerts

she’d have muted her phone

haha

uhhhhh

oh I thought ice was going to get to decide if Annarr Was Expressive

damn you’re good at this game teak

yes (i looked it up)

actually i guess those are la noscea

and thanalan is… tuco-tuco?

you get the ending comment teak and then scene?

THANK YOU IT WAS DELIGHTFUL TOO

or dsofijsopjf YEAH

:3

he truly is

there’s not much to do in purgatory, you understand dont you ag

he could be a giant lavender raven

thats true we COULD be eating books right now

jory would NEVER eat books

you literally fed him a piece of paper with writing on it

paper != book

it’s a snack

it’s like

scrap paper

yeah and maybe he’s HUNGRAY now

and the books aren’t paper? they’re rocks? except the weird key-and-gate books

I mean Salme has been in the library working on a monumental fucking work of memory extraction. Jory probably got fed. Or do you want me to do bi-daily micro-scenes of Salme interacting with her fiends

absolutely

I am

tempted

to do this as a bit

you are a silly person

…………………………………… I mean

yeah

obviously?

: gestures at my extensive body of work

yeah

I am Noticing AG is not keeping their essay promise

ikr

time for completely out of context posting

I’m

I kinda hope Aurelius has barely looked at the Linkpearl and just Gets Random Chicken Wings

lolf sorry narr-kun but you don’t have BBS access anyway

also in further observations of If Sanctuary Had A Fandom: ice constantly getting called out and/or praised for such a brave and avant garde portrayal of DID

lol

: gong noise

I expect this will be an entire session

man seeing jorule being Cute out of DMs always weirds salme tf out

as in jorule is not Cute at her and when she sees him do it she’s like “… baffling”

speaking of being cute

salme’s utter bafflement at someone going ‘aurelius is NOT the most dateable person in your group’ was very funny

tru

yeah but

some of them even got hot sauce

like “fuckable” and “dateable” are two different things

i definitely started typing ‘most smaggable’

and then was like ‘no wait that’s awa’

and had to fix the sentence

oh yeah like … yeah

teak ask how salme would rank Who Zaya Is Interested In and: she’d rank them: “are you sure you aren’t into aury because I will COPE, wolf, awa, are you … absolutely sure it’s not aury???, lucja, herself, archie”

below robot, above furry

definitely the funniest possible position

zaya has history and connection with robot!

you’re not wrong,

but that does not make it LESS funny either

I mean, yeah

(the robot is like her weird uncle but i don’t think salme has any reason to know that lmao)

I mean to be fair once we get out of aury/awa/wolf salme struggles because she’s like

a kinsey 2 and heavily biased towards humans and metahumans

is 2 a lot or a little

like just … absolutely the most Boring Sexuality Imaginable in a teak campaign

0 is 100% straight, 6 is 100% gay

ah

3 is 50-50. she’s probably more like a 1.5?

idk man it could have been a scale that goes into negatives

lol imagine after ALL this being like “hmmm … actually Salme is a lesbian”

confused by awa’s hair and aury’s generally hands off approach, clearly

aury’s basically just stone butch it’s nbd

haha

if Salme included jorule in that ranking btw: “are you sure you aren’t into aury because I will COPE, wolf, awa, are you … absolutely sure it’s not aury???, jorule(?), lucja, herself, archie”

me “why the fuck can i not find the new post on dream whales” five minutes later “BECAUSE IT WAS FROM ME AND I ALREADY SAW IT” thanks phantom update notifications

:( pat pat

ice vs. ice who will win?

not ice

rip

okay

THIS is what salme was working on: https://strangepaths.aludel.xyz/library/a-story-is-a-lie

DAMN

she would probably not leave it public and there’s no marginalia, but ice I want you to laugh at the ToC

you know NIP can see into the library girl :(

(though she might leave it public if you think it’d be funny/interesting/useful)

shit that’s long as hell

yeah only read the ToC comments

it started as my “keeping track of salme’s lore drops” and then it became her doing therapy on herself

and then I decided that’s what she was doing between the scene with aury and the scene with zaya

makes sense

please laugh at the commentary some of it’s Pretty Funny

’i think this is where the annarr kicked in’ is pretty funny since you do know that OOC now but

I mean Altan Arslan did play? and that is … like. very much an annarr song

Of course, this is about me, not him.

yeah this one was real good too — Trying to impress a cute boy with a magical pocket dimension with simple sleight-of-hand tricks. Truly, why did people not fall over themselves to ask me to dance?

aifjasfl;dkjasl; “Salme’s Forum Signature”

True AlmaChadTa Facts

True Ones

lol there’s one toward the bottom that is just. chef’s kiss

you know this is IC because it completely skips and does not even want to THINK about that first night on samudra

:D

(other than being carried back, maybe that a little, but it’d require more context and she probably fell asleep on the way back tbh)

tbf I’m not sure there’s anything about 1. backstory 2. storytelling 3. her being like ‘… wow I am like … really insecure aren’t I?’

one imagines the entire initial wading into the waters things was brought on by Xtreme Insecurity but fair

oh yeah but like she didn’t even … really think about it enough to recognize it? and she’s preoccupied about a certain subject

he didn’t bounce immediately there was A BREAK DOWN IN THE AUDIENCE and everyone left the circus >:(

clearly if he had had a slide deck it would have gone better

it’s true, the otters do yern for detailed power point presentations of theories

though also in retrospect this entire STATEMENT is hilarious: “I was kinda planning a whole dog and pony show about it after we left but whoo baby it’s gunna have so little impact by then at the rate we’re going”

: “so little impact” == triggered 2 existential crises, one like a 7 on the richter scale

no one could have seen that coming

expected the robot to shrug, wolf to maybe get annoyed by the idea, and archie to ask for Proofs lol

well 1/3 is … a failing grade

also all of them had been regularly conversing with NIP by then ; ;

again that slide deck would have saved you

rip skimping on the presentation

a real tragedy, we didn’t even get to talk about maria and then embarrass ourselves by her presenting as primula instead

:( pat pat it’s okay Jorule at least gets to flirt(?) with her on the BBS?

damn she’s gettin’ progressively madder at herself as she goes lmao

yeah have you gotten to the part where she starts joruling at herself?

i mean that started when she went ‘no wonder no one invited me to dance’ tbh but

oh yeah but she steals his tic a couple times

lol

ahahahahah

— We’re worried about being nosy again? AGAIN? WOW SALME NO WONDER YOU BECAME THE SWORD SAINT YOU MUST REALLY LOVE FUCKING CYCLES OF MISERY

YES

that one got a hearty lol

that was the one I was like “bear with me you’ll laugh”

the whole reason this went from a straightforward tracking document to an IC self-therapy session is because seeing these things RIGHT NEXT TO EACH OTHER was like. behavior that seems sort of … normal with lots of gaps between it is just like … even she’d be like “… girl. gorl. people love you?? OBVIOUSLY”

gg yes re

honestly I’m half inclined to be like “she stayed up all night doing this and ragequit @ herself and Did Not put it back on the proper hidden bookshelf*

god lol

how much do you want her to wake up to a ‘lol salme this isn’t private’ note

honestly? hysterical

on the upside jorule and salme having the exact relationship they do,

mean’s aurelius will see that note and then respectfully close the book

instead of start reading it non-the-wiser

lololol he’s such a good boy

though god what would he even think about all this? would this just give him anxiety?

probably

she’s actually doing great

Still Neurotic, But Doing Much Better

like a small anxious dog who’s been properly thunderjacketed

Safety First! :D

okay did … jorule like. hijack aurelius, cook his stuff, eat it, and aurelius just … woke up like

: “huh?”

probably got some warning and some of the food just

: “why are people randomly delivering me food at 8PM”

jorule also yearns for a snack

a little appetizer platter, as a treat

honestly he does enough emotional labor he deserves it

… oh my god

cursed idea: therapyspeak jorule

hahah

lol did jorule catch salme’s “in retrospect, did I actually have a bit of a crush on jorule early on?” and then she noped out. So hard.

that was a good reminder to put the green glyph in my toolbox

HAHA you hadn’t even bothered to do that?

all three people!!

all three people?

it was on the laptop but i kept forgetting to dig it up for the desktop

oh when she was referring to awa, aury and jorule, which, yeah I did notice that lol

yeah I mean she’s herself around jorule but it was … h/o I’m responding to the latest question

okay have canonized Salme’s I’m A Dumbass rankings

BBS eats numbered lists btw

rip

this:

> And of course, the Truth That Burns. It doesn’t … matter, this folio isn’t about him, but on recall I can see Jorule here. I can hear him. And that’s still Aurelius too, but. Light. Light. Maybe I shouldn’t look at these early memories like this.

from when she learned tTTB. She was looking at it and she was like “… that’s some very Jorule-coded behavior I was having BIG FUCKING FEELINGS ABOUT”

and then she was like “that way lies madness”

oh yeah. yeah

but yeah I mean she plaintext told Jorule she has no filter around him and she trusts him to accept her

fucking

insane that happened

:3

yeah yeah

again teak is constantly like “jorule is a big sweetie actually” which is true

hachi also admits this, but has been like “but at what cost”

lolf

salme, after they had a fight and she was like “FINE WE CAN FRIEND BREAKUP” has noticed he has gone out of his fucking way to be like. an amazing friend. but she’s not going to comment on it

she’s an idiot oh my god

lololol that’s not quite what he said

lol

<teak, wearing their Wolf Is Hot goggles> Wow everyone thinks Wolf is hot

(he is hot but again everyone is)

OBJECTIVELY,

wolf could definitely start an orgy clan on beast and fill a small hall, were he so inclined, given the sort of person he is and the sort of people beast is lowsey with

yeah that is an obvious and uncontroversial statement of fact

love “wolf could definitely start an orgy clan”

awa’s of course more a ‘get the entire pub drunk and regale everyone with tale tales, winds up getting drug off by anywhere from one to several people’ type i reckon

which is perhaps why samudra was Low Activity on that front…………………………….

I mean I could see awa having a cult but it would be

a very different vibe?

weird death cult not a sex cult

if you believe hard enough and also wire fifty thousand magic coins into my bank account, the power of tenebrous energy WILL put you on a space ship to a new world when THIS one finishes killing itself

adfajsdlkf;sdjfk

no I think he’d have a sex cult

and a death cult?

both?

different floors on the same building

well yeah that’s just True about cults in general

… does aurelius know zaya is a giant lesbian?

is this just going to be NO ONE telling salme zaya is a giant lesbian?

hmmm no idea

when the heck did AG say that

does sound like a thing he’d say tho

it’s in their DMs

https://strangepaths.aludel.xyz/bbs/the-void/27#post-654

that just takes me to the bottom for some reason

huh. If you search “moment” it’ll bring it up

aha at the tail end of a very long very ag paragraph that’s why it didn’t stand out in my memory lol

I can’t believe it didn’t stand out

my mind was filled with dinosaurs :(

you know

fair

Jorule’s gonna steal Primula’s angel of mercy title at this rate

lol

salme’s literally having a westworld malfunction

teakwood please laugh at my fucking BRILLIANT joke

so good i couldn’t not hit enter

Kat and Pads “I will use resonant speech to enforce narrative themes and to draw special attention to particularly poignant lines.”**

Archie “I will use resonant speech to blend in better and not arouse suspicions from the people that once knew us”**

Ice “RESONANT SPEECH IS FOR SHITPOSTS”

I mean.

checks out considering your shitposts end up enforcing narrative themes and containing poignant lines reasonably often like

somehow

im a professional

tru you are professionally full of shit

ye ye

yeh

good job teak

’sapphotender’ was so fucking inspired tho couldn’t stop giggling at myself when it came to me

(I get the sappho part of the joke but I don’t get the wordplay. would explain?)

(… is jorule going to have to introduce the term “lesbian” to the world of sanct?)

sabotender is an adorable little cactus monster popular in the final fantasy series, and also, i believe just the Literal Word For Cactus in spanish???

but there’s also a LOT of different varieties of sabotenders that have existed over the course of the years, and the naming scheme is generally [some other descriptor or dumb joke]-tender

like the jumbotender just being a massive house sized once

lololol oh okay that is a really good bit of wordplay

Also fcukin jorule i laughed

I cannot wait to get home and catch up

But A++ for sapphotendet lmao

Brother, the word for cactus in Spanish is cactus

oh it was some language, i can’t be held accountable for misremembering which, especially when they are prone to wearing sombreo

and the not-rain version of ponco

I think it’s still just called a poncho

and yeah, Japanese, Spanish, really similar languages (I say, somehow finding “Saboten” plausible as a Spanish word)

iirc they actually kind of are and spanish speakers have a way easier time picking it up than english ones because their sentence structures are closer or something????

oh that’s fascinating actually

though I mean. English speakers often struggle with other languages generally because they’re often more reliant on inflection than word order to communicate meaning. At least in my experience

also we’re dumb as bricks

oh maybe that was it

Honestly, big same on the Spanish/Japanese. I took some of my notes on Japanese things in Spanish bc it just made more sense.

well the preponderance of Portuguese loanwords makes some sense considering the Portuguese/Jesuit presence in E Asia

Chuis ici

Uhhh where would make sense if Lucja is thinky-but needs space to fight

Salme has just had a bath so can be wandering around Anywhere

There.

Endjinn Pacing lol

man had to skim to find the line that gave Salme her lightbulb moment about Luĉja’s memories and got OHKO’d by the Aurelius-Zaya meeting/reunion

Why is Lucja’s name appearing as a few groups of ?s in the user list…………….

How strange.

Not A Bug then, ok

Not a Bug.

I bet you could even guess what at least 2 of those words are

dumb and ass prolly

: I am trying to guess what the one word I have NO IDEA about is

Bold of you to assume I know what it is

I had to fucking think about that SO HARD

it’s hard wanting stuff, it’s hard wanting stuff and no one understands

do not take that as vindication

[Salme would’ve had an easy ask for Aurelius actually]

[it maybe would have even been cute]

tragic for you then that it is the robot going crazy with alethic knowledge

yeah I don’t think “take me on a date to your favorite bakeries” would’ve hit the same

Luĉja would have just bought a container of dates to go with the bread

its the one up two streets, no wait it was back two, then take the right, no the left, no the right, wait left was right after all. then it’s the one with the blue roof, wait no, the argent one. actually can we start over

okay well I know one rite I’m adding to my solo sparring deck. that’s … broken 1-v-1

whomst

Hello.

man I even kinda knew what was going to happen and I’m still like “the fuck”

what characters do i know with a three letter name

dog??? surely not………………………………….

if it’s just going to be fucking Teo isekai’ing himself in here I’m gonna die

lol

That would be pretty funny

tho i am wondering if you wanted to do this before i posted the code IC or not lol

lmao had this in the works well before

I’ve had the rough idea since I knew the eye was there - once it got cracked, I knew it was time to jump on it. Then I slept on it, and had an even better idea.

just funny timing then right on

what the heck is goin’ on here

hi hi hachuhu

teo don’t look

[can I use 2 regular rites AND one quick with Command, or not?]

yeah, assuming you do the quick first

hmmm won’t work anyway still good

You add that curse?

just did~

15?

ye

lmao

OH NO

I made sure I made a deck that wouldn’t ko you before we got here

OOPS

hm I think … I have a fix

this is why you dont call in a red when you’re doing blue gg

I THOUGHT THEY HAD HIGHER TOLERANCE I FORGOT THEY’RE NOT SCALE

it’s not THAT much higher lmao

oh okay they’re still alive

also take one stress for hitting me lol