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… I just

realized

if Aurelius doesn’t have human ears how do the sunglasses stay on?

force of will

through the power of the head equipment slot

o ic

they latch onto his head

crab sunglasses

(I say this like Salme’s mask isn’t like. basically magnetic)

salmask

cursed

aurelius fridge revelation being like ‘wait, calling an endjinn a ‘clockwork knight’ is actually kinda racist wtf’ is so funny to me lol

excited for Aury’s Endjinn Rights arc

also love your “solutions but not explanations” edit

greetings

lmao get rekt

ahahahahah

zoe is such a king

i, too, was DEEPLY confused about why i could hear very quiet music while it was still sleeping time and didn’t sound like it was coming from the office or a car outside

TEAKWOOD

tasna et al didn’t ever land in the void, right? just straight from one plane to the other with the Old Gates?

I don’t know that we know that yet. We also don’t know if tasna isn’t fucking astral projecting or smth

yeah it’s a shame they’re not within arms reach and a bunch of exposition isn’t happening rn

astral projecting has been my assumption since we found her statue tho yeah

I assume that’s a question that will get answered next session and that the exposition happening is US talking

but what do I know

you don’t think “so we open the gate and stepped into THE VOID” would be meet with a “excuse me, WHAT happened????” if that was completely different for them??????

I don’t KNOW?????? it didn’t happen on screen????? clearly if we were doing a straight back and forth q and a it would have been????? they’re old. they can be patient in their confusion.

lol I’ll shut up maybe teak will answer you

thats why im askin!!

hmm i wonder if there’s a way to TEST if they’re like, actually physically here and it’s not just a projection

i guess that’s a lil scene to run probably……………………….

ye ye

I’m curious about the gates on valaïs and mu especially

why’s that

well we have 0 knowledge of them mostly

I actually should go through and grab all the relevant flavor text from the rite cards and see what we can piece together

especially before the group session

iirc there’s something about xilai that implies he got plonked unceremoniously on the beast

hmm

lolf ice I already had a tasna node

I’m gonna merge them

i didn’t see it but i am blind

it’s over by samudra and has the default icon

pls add for tasna and xilai

yeah a search/filter would be Very Useful

<3

also ty so much

O

compiling the heck out of that tedius to gather information!!

Salme’s eternal hope is that someone smarter than her will help put stuff together if she does the legwork.

I’m just a nerd

you should tell whoever wrote it they did a good job

yes!

Ice, when you have a sec, if you could look at the “So Your World Is In Peril” folio and tell me how it reads? Diagetically it exists to be given to new NPCs, but extradiagetically I wanted it to be useful in case someone might want to peek in on the game without backreading 8 million logs

no on ramps, only billions of scenes

D:

adding in log titles is so cheeky you might Murder Teakwood

I was trying to make is cross-referenceable

murder teakwood (in a way he’d enjoy)

teakwood likes being murdered, yes

the checkiness was incidental though

but yeah it looks good so far!

okay. I’m trying not to cram in too much detail but think of things that are mechanically relevant

also Salme realized something else reviewing her memories (me reading the logs) and is going to pester Jorule about it.

olawd

ice do you still have a record of what Aurelius actually sent to Tasna’s farcaster btw?

as trying to decode your morse code has been … a struggle

… I like how I keep prefacing things with “ice” like you’re not the only awake and likely to see me typing right now

nope i just put it in a generator and then copy/pasted over

: cries in information loss

there’s absolutely no need for it

I wanna know what it said :(

using the power of SCIENCE

i found the date of the first session it came up (ie written under the scene name)

opened the corresponding elsewhere log

then ctrl+F translat

and found the specific one I was using!!!

https://charactercalculator.com/morse-code-translator/

thank you you wonderful creature

which does indeed give back error free messages

so you too can once more enjoy me leaving very rude messages on someone’s answering machine

faoiertjewoifjoipawes

okay that is

the most rude I’ve ever seen aurelius OR jorule be

did you send any other messages or just those three?

every time I go

: “ok that didn’t make it into the session since we had to wrap up / found a better line to end on, just pretend i did this other thing” WE NEVER DO, FOR SOME REASON, AND THEN GET CONFUSED WHEN I GET ALL YOWLING ABOUT IMPORTANT SHIT NOT BEING IN A SCENE,

which is to say no I’m pretty sure it was just those ones

and then the stuff with archie and caion in the void

… I’m sorry lol what was supposed to be in that scene that wasn’t there?

don’t remember at this point but it’s also not important lol

Oh okay I thought I had accidentally stepped on your toe and you were yowling about something specific

oh naw

i would not All Caps if i was Actually Mad lmao

OH I figured that, but that I had be like [clownshoes] “hey ice what about [missing a completely obvious thing]”

god now I’m to writing the part where jorule fucking manifests

salme editoralizing the HELL out of this

god this was so funny:

The Archivist/Archie looks over at Aurelius with relief. “Please tell me you can control when that happens.”

Aurelius: “…Maybe?”

: “…Maybe?”

maybe i’m in control :thinkfish:

maybe!

curious how aurelius felt walking around knowing he had some weirdo inside him

: “ Aurelius’ workaround for the gate does not require that we be onsite where the door is, so instead we go to The Quarry near the Courtyard. Aurelius calls upon Jorule, with whom he shares a special connection, and Jorule manifests in our world. Jorule is able to weave gnosis together to use a different kind of magic, native to his world, to create a gate to the void, called a Kinder, Gentler Path. “**

pls enjoy a Very Editorialized version of events.

very

I figured. That Jorule would be like “you Do Not have to Explain the whole Annarr + Jorule = Aurelius thing” and that he was probably right

it’s A Lot

it’s also not really someone really Needs To Know I don’t … think?? Like if someone did want to Catch Up On Content then sure, but.

Salme ALSO not mentioning her Freakouts, Often and Varied

: “Here Is Where I Got Very Upset And Fought With Aurelius For A Day”

: “Wolf Almost Punched Jorule In The Face Here”

: “Here Is Also Where I Got Very Upset”

: “And Also Here.”

yeah we’re doing the novella, not the epic

I was about to make a joke about “yeah, all those moments in the iliad where achilles throws a fit” but that … very much does happen

yeeeaaahhh

gunna be thinking about “naturally occurring carved doors” for a while

shut upppppp it was a failure to explain myself :E

Poor Salme having to contend with Catherine brain farts

that doesn’t make it less funny

that ambiguity was not unintentional

honestly I really hope someone asks Salme about Aurelius’ boyfriend, Jorule

which

where does Jorule fall on “I would fuck my twin.” he’s straight but

ya’ll weirdos

I mean

yes

ah, yeah, “incense”. made from rolling sticks of powder lined up on top of a desk. Wink wink nudge nudge.

haha

teak you have Duškomira using the wrong carat direction i believe

she’s esperantoing

that’s fine lol

I was just like “… this is slightly oooooh”

:salute: here to be weird and detail oriented

:D

what the fuck is happening here

you forgot to disable salme’s attack mode

you can’t turn that off :(

RIP

she’s being very polite

awa only knows how to hit the on button anyway

: “ gate network with a really obtuse and unfriendly coordinate input method” fucking lmao

what do you mean ‘you people’

you people?

joking about salme’s recent lines

roöd. she’s doing the hard investigative work!

not respect

: no*

?

… salme was talking about the portal they go through

but didn’t want to use the portal to muddy the terminology

BUT THANKS FOR THE INFO TEAKUMS

hey guys there’s a door in the ziggurat

IT“S ALL JOKES ABOUT HOW ICE CANT READ UNTIL TEAKWOOD DOESN’T EVEN KNOW WHAT THE FUCK THE ZIGGURAT LOOKS LIKE HUH*

HUH!!!!!

:E

:E :E :E :E :E

stop giving me shit!

oh yeah i guess you could read that overly literal and confuse yourself yeah

first ice about the “natural carved doors” and now “IN the ziggurat” from mr. teakwood

carved doors, as they naturally appear in the enviroment

yeah. carved by the carving beetle, native to almachadta

mfw the disrespect you are showing to these beetles implying things Just Happen when left there and like they didn’t put in the hard work to get the carving done :(

maybe actually it’s the false dichotomy between the natural world and human work, and really we must remember that humans are animals and animals can be architects and it is all one Circle Of Life

well we can’t call it a mirror and portal was confusing

if it grew that way it wasn’t fukkin’ carved!!!

you know I don’t think I have to take this from you, icecylee :E

oh my gOD THIS IS THE DUMBEST CONVERSATION IN THE WORLD

thats ok im giving teak shit now not you

pealing yowls

I think the fact that it is 3-way violence is really A Lot

love teak managing Gay Pining with the trans lady

(because I am So Right and Smart All The Time the knives come out the instant I misstep)

(it’s hard being brilliant)

kk

yay

:D

SpeedRice

rice prep is pr easy

fair enough I just thought it was funny that teak was back before I really noticed the brb

shit i mean if you’re taking more than 2m to do a side of rice and not getting Real Fancy about it somehow something probably went Horribly wrong

Tragic Rice Cooker Accident

ppst ice I’m confused. you updated: “The other two doors are currently locked. Kitchen -> Observatory + Game Room” but the Observatory has two more locked doors—they’re detailed in the above two paragraphs

oh i forgot i updated it

so the note to update it later is hilariously unneeded

oops

reminded me to update the liminal library entry at least

scene!

thank you that was cuteeeeee!

also

Informative

interesting that undead get to remake their bodies however they want when they undeadify???

so you’re saying I can become weirder…………………………………………

assuming you are undead yeah

seye…. seye why did you give salme a gay llama emoji. what. what is this going to be used for

seye is the best

gay pining extends to malpacas

major disc 2 arc spoilers

horrifying

I gave her a lot of emoji!

the footprint one was a little suspect too, make no mistake

That’s for stepping on people!

perfectly normal thing to do via text message

ya

: “i think your connection to the collective unconscious is just optimally designed to annoy people, is what i think” AHAHHAHAHAHA

what a bonkers way to describe walt whitman, jorule

aint reading that entire ass biography, knowing he worked for a bearuo was enough

he’s literally like

the most famous civil war era american poet—it’s fine

yeah i REALLY didn’t wanna talk about the american civial war in sheep-fiend thread

: “Jorule what’s America? Jorule can you explain chattel slavery? Jorule, what’s reconstruction?”

; ;

fry poor little salmes mind explaining slavery tho

god considering what monotheism and conversion did

’jesus christ this really is a kind world’

Jorule explains the Spanish Inquisition and Salme is Fucked Up

: “it worked out ok tho we got a lot of monty python memes from it in the end”

: “explain monty python”

:(

honestly she’d probably enjoy monty python? that seems like a thing she’d enjoy.

puttin’ on the Talkies for Salme to keep the ennui at bay

ugh I was going to try to write more in my “the story thus far” guide but I’m just looking at samudra like “why. are there so many Concepts here”

eoifjaospdfjasdf

Salme becomes and iPad baby

hahah

god what was everything salme learned from Duškomira

maybe I should sleep before I try to do any of that

fucked up that Think Planet had a lot of Thoughts, i agree

it was fucked up!

we Thought so much

and I have to decide what to put in a glossary, what to explain in text … it’s decisions

rip

I got like 2 hours of sleep last night I’m too stupid for this I’ll start talking about “naturally carved doors”

double rip

the forest children do not respect the gay llama teakwood :(

Salme did believe that Jorule wasn’t lying about it being a llama. she was just taking the piss. but I felt like “pride flag” would be too … weird for her to know?

just imagining her reaching into the collective unconscious and dredging up the discourse about internecine fights about hyperspecific flags for hyperspecific sexualities

’tumblers should have stayed cups…………………..’

you’re telling me

ye

hmm so i want to go out and buy food today… honestly not really………………….

yeah that sounds like even MROE of a hassle than buying ready made food,

gunna instead open my fridge after walking into the KITCHEN and being done with the excursion

there’s a new hero on the block and it’s clan emberlight

I’ve been

poasting slowly on my phone for hours rather than

sitting up and getting my computer

Piňata with swarm of angry dragons inside that raze your civilization

w…would not recommend

those are either some small dragons or a big pinata

clown car esq pinata and dragons

pinata filled with miniature dragon fireworks could be cool

Aaaand I am here. You may be getting a very loopy version of Wolf, because his player is rather loopy right now, but that kind of fits, honestly

eyyyy

I think Wolf would be finding Luc, so if you wanna scene-set? Wherever Luc’d be at.

: “It’s not a child with a stick, I think I’ll be fine” pfft

fascinated to know Luĉja is carrying around some grain liquor. Love this.

They had some on them to pour out for the homies in the last side scene they were in.

somehow, despite reading that scene as it was happening, I missed that part. Should reread and do a react

…what’d I do? >.>

-grumbles- When I want to kill the roll…

ooof dice not showing up tonight

I mean, after that insane identical double-ascend the other night, that…has to have burned a few whole bars of luck.

I almost rolled liminal, because the odds of exploding were better, but I had to try radiant

woooooo

Aaaand scene

Thanks for taking the time, both yas

damn is that the first time someone did mind melding stuff and didn’t get a weird/over the top result

-snorts-

Good scene and cute

also wow those linkpearl posts

very fun reading

also I just realized

if the “undead” of valaïs can control their appearance, is the traveler’s guide basically judging them for being a bunch of goths and furries?

idk it says they’re beautiful like 5 times in a single paragraph so

probably ont

fair enough

is salme finding him in the observatory or should he check in on her

finding him

hm

unless he wants to check in on her?

again I figure she’s just weaving and Takes A Break

hm or probably spinning

yeah y’know

I think he’ll check in on her

she was pretty ruffled last scene

where I pulled that from https://theskylive.com/mars-info

did u find mars…

lol idk I just wanted to have that as a reference to “ok he’s briefly looked through it before”

that’s a juicy paragraph

YEAH IT SURE FUCKING IS

I was just about to ask “can I put that on my techne list” haha

narrator was just descibing three mentioned constellations nothing weird goin on

lol I thought we were going to have to do some funky magic and then “adjust the telescope” just appeared

I have to say “methexis” is not a particularly sexy word

I mean the act is pretty sexy

me’sa not sure why you’sa don’t think so :thinkfish:

also interesting awa is apparently a practised hand as Wielding Massive Ass Specialist Telescopes,

what why i did nothing wrong

I think it’s more that this telescope is magical and he’s a practiced hand at celestial bullshit

it being enough to carry over to a magical telescope is still interesting!!

yeah we’re learning a lot about awa here

no bright neon signs visible from space huh

teakwood did it kill you a little inside to type that or did you get some kind of perverse joy in being able to say it and having it work because Magic

me baiting glory

I’m onto your bullshit.

well we now know the beast is at least a celestial object

planet not plane

definitely no high powered telescopes on the beast, cause if there was teak would have to reveal the library is inside a meteorite base space craft, huh

SQ will build one for Salme :)

did we get the telescope centered on where we are right now?

yeah Salme’s having A Time about it

I’m gonna say More Or Less, it’s still Queenstown, Major

(we’re not in queenstown we’re in the middle of nowhere. but awa’s got it)

also I’m curious if salme can maintain the methexis bond

o rite

we’re at the Mountains Near The Uphill Battle

near the Shark Attack

it okay, we got the scope aligned

teak would you explain what you mean with that first part? is it simply that narrkun described the moons as illuminated, but there’s no clear source of light, or are the moons not full

I read it as “you viewed it from the scope, and it’s all sunlit, but no sun- when viewed from teh ground, everything you see is sunlit, but no sun-“

: “this is in fact Very Weird”

yeah

the moons still appear full to awa though, right? or is that immaterial (actually do the beast moons have phases?)

hahahaha

: “swollen” didn’t like that

<3 <3

wait does that get him an explosion or should I just spend 1 more

haha she beat me to it

I wanted to

<3

<3

oh ho

that………… would explain the moebius sea

sure would!

THEY WERE SPACE WHALES AFTER ALL

… omg

: hugs I’m so happy for you

:D

I was actually going to propose that for my constraint

I am glad you are no longer pained by your mouth surgery!!

infection, perhaps? but that’d be really noticable

you have TMJ, right, Teak?

yeah

: nods

and like, it’s very clear to us now that we’re looking at it, that we are in fact seeing infinite cloud carpet in space

(excited to make ice explain normative astrophysics IC as Jorule)

yeah and water

(sorry the vibes seemed Right)

it’s both a true request she wants to explore but also, It Is Late

Holy shit it is late. I was mostly thinking it would be fairly brief but. I think maybe this should instead be a very esoteric sexy fade-out given the normal person schedule.

yes

last line is yours and then scene

<3 omg cuteeee

thank you both

we discovered SO MUCH shit

holy shit vibrates

hachi did we hit up everything you wanted to?

we sure as fuck did

:D :D :D

that was amazing thank you so much Teak that was a ton of writing

AND THANK YOU HACHI FOR LETTING ME TAG ALONG

: “tag along” like I’d be able to do methexis shenanigans without you

well I still appreciate it

hahahaha yeah nothing is gonna save you there

also thx for the arete

yw! again that had been my Plan for a long time, and actually I was going to say it makes sense to be able to do principally during methexis

was my take away from that suupposed to be: A) our sealed space is in the empty sky, somehow B) almachadta is a literal melon

I think … yes?

a big ol space grape

a space gusher

it’s definitely a metaphorical melon, if not a literal one

TOO LATE

WE’VE ALREADY ENTERED THE RIND-ZONE

lololol

I missed u ice

I Won The Run Tho, and successfully assembled a New Chair (which took a billion years for some reason)

it’s naturally a bit higher up than my other chairs tho at its lowest setting and that’s gunna be weird to get used to

what happened to previous chair? just died?

basically all the cusion on the seat was Non-Functional and i probably could have found a different, cheaper solution but i figure it i’ve been using a chair long enough that the seat has worn down to the wood i can probbaly justifying a new one

yeah that seems reasonable indeed

Please Take Care Of Your Butt

nice chair good

One of the very few things I miss about working in the office was that we had Herman Miller chairs and if I ever have a ludicrous amount of money that’ll be one of the first things I spend it on

hugs extremely tight

makin’ soup with the sous vide machine

soup vide