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i got the impression flipping the Undead Switch basically just meant playing NG+ but you got access to the character creator again too………… but

hi teak

I think that is a more LIKELY read of “undead” tbqh but we don’t know!

Awa starting his NG+ run is p funny

also Hello Teakwood

on a metaphysical layer,

it’d be weird to have two shape changing races that function more or less the same way

b/c if they’re basically just naiad, it’s not like other races aren’t on multiple planes :E

well naiads also are made of water and the shape shifting is ancillary to that so I don’t … think … it would ever be equivalent

the only reason I think your NG+ theory might not check out is Duškomira seems to have been undead long enough to be referred to as Duškomir before she transitioned, which implies character creator access after the immediate undeadifying, yeah?

I don’t follow?

Oh. So. Duškomira is trans, right? In the Rite-story, she’s referred to as Duškomir (first claw card) which is her Undead Name (when she was alive it was different). The implication being that she was dead for at least x time before she transitioned. And if she changed her appearance once she realized she was a woman then it’s not a NG+ situation since that realization doesn’t line up with her undeadification?

of course this functions on the assumption she changed her appearance once her egg cracked and maybe she didn’t!

i don’t think anything in particular implies the changes didn’t happen upon re-Awakening as an undead…? just they they were different before and after the fact

easy way to find out tho

kill someone?

d…don’t think getting to valais and then killing someone there counts as “easy” atm

no it super does

what? just asking Duškomira? you think we should do that?

instead of Murder Science?

yeah

yeah talking to people is hard

murder is the answer.

oh yeah speaking of, whenever you get around to reading LS Chat i need an answer to the question salme asked jorule lol

Now I want to see Old Man Jorule

I am sure by “older” he meant like. 30. but just imagining him showing up like 80 years old and Cranky is funny

yeah

older as in previous incarnations fwiw

oh he got to be not 17 a couple times??

you don’t just copy and paste your sheet over, there’s minor differences and updates!!

once he was 19!!!

btw my roommate told me jorule and salme should start a podcast and I think that would be one of the worst things in the world but also very funny

hahaha

I’m not sure what it would be about (the secrets of the universe and of other worlds’ universe?) but it would probably not be informative

salme must never find out what a podcast is because she’d immediately want to start one

literally is already trying to

?

overly obtuse joke via misinterputing SEVERAL of the words in that sentence to arrive at launching a fiend into space to tell people about our world

oh lol well I mean

it is the same impulse really

well not quite actually. a podcast would be more fun and less of a “record of us if we die” kinda thing but

the overwhelming urge to Yap motivates both

jorule and salme podcast can review the fashion and amenities of different planes from the perspective of an alien and a hillbilly

ye-haw

though really it’s more “medieval peasant” for her

though actually … has jorule been to like … Our World? Since he has a concept of like … China and Japan?

Ezekiel was fairly explicitly From Earth, Or A Place Basically Indistinguishable From It

before getting pulled into the library along with 5 other weirdos from various other worlds

:thinking:

lol imagining Ezekiel being into east asian history when n he wasn’t blitzed out of his mind is a little funny, from what you’ve said of him

I mean I’m sure the knowledge would come more from pop culture but still

terra’s character was named solberg,

and u better believe i called them zoidberg all campaign long

oh my god

amazing

extra funny because all teak says about Ezekiel is what a good boy he was

but you were a menace

good and obnoxious

I need to get back on reading those apoc logs you linked. I guess I could do that when I wake up at 4 am completely Awake and unable to sleep.

i give ‘em a solid better than doing nothing out of ten

you really know how to sell something

> Ezekiel: Haha. Fuck Trees.

Well something is consistent across the spark I guess

they thought they were clever

jokes on trees tho you can go above ‘em

you sure showed them

love everyone so far having Goals and then you fucking roll in

amazing that teak starts typoing more to match you

stunning

all right finished prologue will try to sleep again

love ayato calling out wolf being a Homosexual

lololol lol lolololol

… yeah “not on purpose” okay wolf.

yeah why else was he meditating?

dtusiyjpc k fsahhlnys a yk

he’s … amazing

: “sordid rendezvous” is what the scent where ravhi and wolf finally meet

God damn it, you know they’re going to do that when it happens. I hate you.

;)

<3

yw

yeah he’s going to allow himself lupine pleasure soon enough

Goddamn it, Cat! -scandalized-

….yes?

<padfoot> [is scandalized[

<padfoot> [increases homoerotic longing tenfold

cute

<3

REAL FUCKEN CUTE

RIGHT!?

fuuuuuuck that

is

so

cute

GAAAWWWWWDDDDD

AOE gay pining

: “the proud other deserves better than a ghost”**

uwaoouu ._.

UH EXCUSE ME

WHOMST THE FUCK

Another Angel.png

?

the “someone or something”s avatar is called “another angel.png”

i don’t think there’s any way for us to see the names of image files outside of, uh, certain updates on the Map?

:D

or well not if you’re a reasonable person

D:

D,:

YES <3

Actually, one more lyric…

There we go. Scene.

skaldfjasdkjl;asdf

(what song was that?)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZc5zo7_j9c

Midsummer’s Eve, by Kamelot.

sneak sneak sneak.

Fun fact–that’s also one of my personal favorite songs to sing

I think my “comfort range” on that song would be actually what Wolf’s range is–I think of him as a baritone, while Kamelot’s singer is a (very wide-ranged) tenor

I can match him, but I have to be warmed up.

you’re going to make teak explode homosexually

though yeah wolf as a baritone makes sense

Trufax

I mean, yes, my personal comfort range is baritone, but I can push into tenor with a little warmup

SHIT, I just remembered I never sang Song of the Ancients for you while you were here. >.>

That’s true!

I mean, I’ll make a recording if someone wants, just don’t make me listen to it myself. >.>;

Yes! Actually, I’ve got a little time–I’m WFH tomorrow–voice chat for that?

man it would be real cool to see everyone animated

(the idea of a Sanctuary AMV is …)

Yeah, I even know what Wolf’s appearance in the first of those two would be

oooh? what do you mean?

o/

o7

I’m so ready for Liminal Bullshit

is there a place where we wanted our scene to take place? I’m not sure if there’s a specific location you have to use, or if it makes sense to just do it in the kitchen so we have storage for the ingredients ready right away

the last time this happened it was somewhere and then we took it to a kitchen so being in the kitchen proper should be best

Hell Yeah

<3

I Love Him So Much

(me, having to backscroll to find something Reibello said so I can copy over the right c for his name)

(pleasant sssshing!)

oooo okay that’s helpful

not yet at least. I’m expecting this scene to be part Archie and Awoken finally getting to talk because we really haven’t had any one-on-one conversations the whole game so far, part interdimensional shopping, and part Archie trying to study in any capacity how any of this even works

also that’s a sick outfit

gotta match your energy now lol

<3

if you’re putting food away but your tongue is involved I feel like that’s just called eating

(gives you an ice cube)

you’re cute

hahaha

I finally got a new diffuser for my essential oils after my last one got lost in the move and I’m so excited for my room to smell pretty again

:O

honestly a vibe

gahahaha

lol as if Awa comes up with bizarre names and not the fucking most straightforward wisp-ass titles to ever exist. “clan saving worlds.” hrmph.

(editor’s note: Archie would have collected the items he wants to leave with people off screen, this is me making it text)

exciting new laptop feature: it randomly decided I had a different monitor resolution and then adjusted itself back?

It kept happening over and over and the screen would go black every time it adjusted so I’m switching to my phone because it’s just genuinely not usable :(

unzesty D:

I knew I’d probably have to get a new one soon but it looks like soon might be now-ish

Apologies in advance for any slowdown on my end but I’m good to continue

o7

I’ve decided that secretly this is a trio scene, because if there’s anyone Archie wants beside him as he delves into the bizarre, it’s - well, it’s Caion, really, but the Prince is a veeery close second

<33

I love how reverently Archie has come to describe The Burger Party

it’s cute

also

fun fact about the burger party cheese

i can whip up descriptions if dragon is occupied

Teak you’re the only person I know who could make me tear up a lil and be oddly charmed by a description of mushrooms

that was a perfect description

teak’s really good at it

you’re all so cute

Also wait question, Archie wants to see what it’s like when the Prince invokes liminal gnosis. That’s still happening even though there’s no roll needed, right?

oh ho ho ho ho

(distant chanting) coin! Or! Box! Coin! Or! Box!

In which I’ve sucked at using the Linkpearl and have decided to make all my cute thoughtful lil gifts to NPCs text in a scene

very

no awa, it’s land dolphins that hunt in packs

Also I’m sticking with ravioli as an Almachadtan dumpling mostly because it’s what Archie already tested the recipe with, I’m sorry if we decided it wasn’t authentically traditional :(

no I’m here

I’m here! Thank you for clarifying the eyes thing because oh god

hahahahah

I also had … a moment

I did have a split-second to think about that yes

(also no complaints about the ravioli, especially as all my dumb brain could provide was “pierogi” and then it just took over with “pierogi pierogi pierogi”)

Honestly valid

I want potato and cheese pierogi now

yah

(I even asked my roommate for ideas, and they just … completely unhelpfully went “what other dumpling could you need other than pierogi”)

that is an idea he’s actually floated

Hot new gamer power fantasy: a world where the soap gene doesn’t exist and everyone in all the worlds can appreciate how tasty cilantro is

One last one after this - peppers and fish sauce from Ripple, with a note to Archie’s family

what’s the instrument

Uhhh didn’t think about it that hard. Quick, what’s a Beast string instrument

Sitar??

Oh yeah those are deeply rad, I’m in

: “he feels, briefly, the brush against his gloved hand of another. For just a brief moment.” uhm.

I didn’t recall but

did you get like … magical saffron?

Elpis flowers? Saffron threads? The world may never know!

Wait was that not the vials?

I’m happy calling scene there, maybe?

yeah :>

It’s a cute last moment

Thanks for the scene tonight! I appreciate you sticking with me when technology was getting in the way. This one was very sweet and long overdue

thank you for the scene!

it went great and was definitely tender

thank you for running teak!

Testing something

Testing something

Test again

Test again

One more time

One more time

One more time

Oh, excellent. I can work with that.

(singing) one more time~

HOLY SHIT

HELLO

PADS DID YOU KNOW THAT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN?????

(sings) Mangetsu ga abaki daishita ENERGY

given he’s describing it i would say yes

:P

Mr. Wolf Priest is absolutely Never Allowed to Critique Anyone for Rashness Ever Again

Stillness and Song …

Okay, why didn’t THOSE line breaks work…?

: “does it*

fuck up

if it’s

*in quotes?”

It might be the glyphs, too. Don’t worry about it, I’ll make it work.

the quotes will fuck you up fyi

that’s why my poem is not said in dialogue lol

!!!!!!!

oh I think I know the thing you’re doing

it’s hot

The glyphs fuck the breaks too, it seems

testing

putting each glyph

on its own line

:eyesblur:

YES

YES! HOT!

oidjfhngopiusdfngpoingpuo

Sweetie, we both are. >.>

hahahahaha

why is wolf shooting a music video in the void

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

I guess pads did allude to wolf in a sanctuary AMV

you make a compelling argument teakwood

my glyph collection is lacking :(

teak will edit them in for you. they did for me

oh cute. good.

<3

: “What exists, between the stillness and the song?”

that goes hard

>.> Bide a moment, last minute collaboration is happening.

Biding. :)

Realized belatedly that it would work better if I fed the “culminating” song to the GM. >.>;

>.> I’m going to be a nervous wreck as soon as I come down from the writer’s headspace

(offers big wolfy hugs whenever you need ‘em)

Alright, that’s it. -falls over-

I’m going to run away now and curl up into a ball.

I have been holding off my brain weasels about this with both hands since I came up with it at…-checks clock- 12pm earlier today, so.

you needn’t do that. it was lovely!

will have to reread in full to parse what happened but

That was fucking lovely, darling. (hugs you tightly)

It didn’t work quite like I wanted without the actual MUSIC, but.

it was Good you don’t need to feel worried

I mean, once I recognized a song, I pulled it up on spotify and listened to it. I think the only one I didn’t recognize was the final one ( the one you had to send to Teak, I assume).

Wolf’s new Room is also inspired by a song, but I chose to forgo the lyrics

The culminating song is “The Looking Glass” by Kamelot; the room itself is a very literal riff on “The Garden of Everything” by Yoko Kanno.

I spent literally all day thinking about how the songs would fit together and what imagery they’d evoke. -laughs-

Ahh! Okay. I’m not as versed in Kamelot’s songs, admittedly. >.> And it being based on Kanno’s songh make sense!

…say what?

And you wove the imagery beautifully!

<3

should i be Worried, having now seen the title of the scene

(not that i’ve actually ever watch black mirror, but y’know)

: “man, what the fuck?” and then “illuminating” is real good

:O

I do like MAGIC SPHERE but Aurelius is like “wait, photography???”

which I suppose he was correct to do

Aurelius has acquired [tomogachi]

CE finally spawned

CE?

surprisingly more difficult with more people aruond

no drop :(

otoh tank privilage means 8 stacks isn’t fatal if you don’t have the boss autoing you

: “I Can’t Believe It’s Not Annarr” [wheeze]

[settles in for emotional devastation]

half the calories!

there’s either a sex joke, a cannibalism joke, or, if I were a brave man, both, somewhere in there.

fiendogram

<icecylee> “It’d be real fucked up and sad if we found his will”

well GUESS WHAT

getting sidequests from your past self

owned

that’s how you get around the gil cap on moogle mail, hachi

sidequest rewards for future self

: “Not juevos, that’s eggs… whatever the hell they were calling Heroes with a spanish j sound “ [literally burst out laughing]

little strips on the side

what does that MEAN

were they on poloroids and they cut the white part off

or was he talking about the negatives

ah

oh wait ‘mattered the least’ ok no yeah i get ya

accidentally skipped over the word least lol

huzzah second pop, probably solo this time

(you should consider looking at the safes)

(when you’re done doing iceyclee things)

sobbing

this wouldn’t be so bad if “once an hour” didn’t seem like a HIGH frequency for the pop

:thinkfish:

that means Beast probably isn’t actually THAT much larger that Almachatda, discounting inside vs outside radius

I had been assuming it was MUCH larger since you kept mentioning the constellations not changing lmao

yeah

the fucking

false skybox

tell him that there’s an infinite ocean you should be able to see from the reach and blow his mind

I mean

don’t. but it would be funny.

maybe if it could retain its memory

rip can’t believe it’s not annarr

jorule

literally

all i could think when that scene was happening

sdofijal;sdfj;lasd

was “IT WASN’T LIKE THAT WHEN I LEFT IT WITH ZEID”

so had to double check

kdjsfosfjasl;dfjdaslk;

lolololol

no, no, please explain Jorule to I Can’t Believe It’s Not Annarr

and then explain Ayato Haunting The Naginata

“I’m haunted by the ghost of a dumbass.” I love him

“Yeah. I mean I guess it’s interesting but it’s kind of a whole Thing and you look like a newspaper cartoon character now, so, yeah.” Also this.

see it’s great because it’s cute and he’s a good, cute boy

and he also mispelled both npc names

good thing archie was in the table and out of the aoe

midas is right isn’t it????

midra

wtf teak

that bitch better be a mithra

well he’s zaed’s nephew so?

no excuse for zaedulf tho i blame ff11 crossover event making me think of zeid

… sorr

its ok that just meant i could fix them before they got logged :D

just imagining poor Midra with his unrequited pining for Annarr getting a letter from Annarr beyond the grave telling him to hook up with a cute boy

but

his name is spelled wrong

tarucaw

yeah

goodest boy, but still funny

<3

ye

we trails posting now boyz

the sub-ocean???

(it was very good I liked reading.)

ooooooooh

wtf is LLR

but

OH

Falling Under Ul’dah Parses

I didn’t realize “sub-ocean” was you referring to Samudra

INFINITE WATER IN ALL DIRECTIONS

i get it

… do you think we could clip through the beast and hit samudra with enough momentum?

aha

Would Not Recommend

most of you don’t know how to homepoint

and i don’t trust having to envoke a GM Call

does Jorule count as a trained professional?

I do like “in disc 1”

yeah the areas are more fleshed out on disc too, they cut corners on 1 to save space

yeah it’s the cutting-corners that allow the kind of exploits that let us build momentum to clip through to the sub-ocean

but fine I guess we don’t have to use birdhax and try this shit

Yeah I have questions about that

mostly “how do you do it”

and “are there others”

fucking Salme is going to end up being the dumbest motherfucker alive just staring into mirrors constantly

hahaha

<random npc> “Why is she staring into a mirror and walking backwards?”**

<aurelius> “We’ve given up on her.”

face whichever direction your heart tells you… and believe

<salme> [thonks into another wall while facing whichever direction her heart tells her]

oh that does remind me I had a question for SQ

shocking

I mean I just asked it on the linkpearl

and shush you, it’s actually a mechanical question

everyone else in the party all “wait, you can’t?”

D:

it was implied in that scene that yes, SQ could see things Salme could not. :(

That Counts

he’s enough of a nerd to keep them on forehead

it is to ice

well ok,

wolf HEARS it instead i guess

and i was assuming lucja could but I guess I don’t particularly have any strong basis for that

awa fucks with liminal enough i figured he could see it if he focused too but maybe it’s just intuition all the way down lol

I am not certain hachi is aware how that boy works

: “how do you know which world your hand is going to, and where on the world” “that’s the neat part, I don’t! :D”

vibes

instinct

stubborn-ass motherfucker

c-cute

lol

OH actually speaking of

if someone WERE to go into the library, would they notice Wolf’s renovations? or does he get to Reveal Them Dramatically?

i’d assume the door to the garden is open for business after having been unlocked, like all the others,

no fuckin clue about the sensory deprivation chamber tho

fuck

: “sensory deprivation chamber” I

made a horrible noise

what

it was a funny joke?

oic

I recognize my expression of humor was unclear

i couldn’t tell if that was a ‘lol’ ‘you’re so fucking dumb (positive)’ or ‘you’re so fucking dumb (negative)’ and had a ‘what the fuck else would YOU call it’ on hand

I snorted reading it and something very odd and unpleasant happened in my sinuses, but “fuck,” unadorned, either is usually an expression of humor or of emotion

in this case it was humor + wtf just happened when I made that horrible noise

aha

anyway even rereading I can’t parse … did Wolf make a room in the annex that was actually a magical forest? it’s not supposed to be the unsundered world is it?

Lakeside Cabin Zone

which, imo, isn’t really all THAT different from Forest Atelier Lit By The Centrelight on the weirdness scale

well aside from the matter of scale, no. I just wanted to make sure I was reading it correctly as “the ideal of a forest” and not “a facsimile of the world before”

all of the rooms are weird. the kitchen looks out onto samudra!

Fair

the game room is maybe the LEAST weird because it doesn’t have windows

though I’m sure there are Weird Things about it

infinite drink

yeah

infinite dart too probably.

lolf

also I want to state for the record that I’m pretty sure that even though SQ “taught” Salme to play pool, she mostly just … won 5 times in a row without Salme getting to shoot at all

imagine getting hustled when there wasn’t even money on the line

it’s SQ I feel like there’s no other option for how that played out

well. there’s one other option but I think Salme’d be having even more of a flip out about it

awwww wow she really must like her

that checks out

honestly more than Salme expected

she’s a good girl

[nods]

I am sorry for misunderstanding the Queen

I feel enlightened

(I was lightly joking)

(gentle japes)

regale in the majesty

I do stand by “Jae’s a good girl” though … the people whom salme would call “a good [insert here]” is probably somewhat … odd

as she’s also team “Jorule’s a good boy”

wouldn’t go that far

[salute] best of luck

sobbing at this shit ass spawn/drop rate

oh huh the upgrade on that is NOT displaying correctly

is it not?

oh wait no it is

too much StS2 was like “i don’t see the keyword where it should be????” but no that’s because these are formatted a little differently lol

hmmm

lol

lol

merci bcp

taru don’t say Fuck

deliberately the opposite of what I asked for D:

ahoy

LUCHBROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

hewwo

teo just read your SQ scene (I am eepy gorl today) and it was v. v. good

goodest robot

SALME-CHWANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN

Herro

WOLF-DONOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

you’re hachi, not sanji

… or franky?

hachiji

franchi

both somehow at once

sanchi

’sup hoes??

FEN-KUNNNNNNNNNN

lawl

Hi! I’m here. Forgot to say anything because I was catching up on Luĉja’s scene, certified banger that it is

HAAACHIIIIIIII

ARCHIE-SAMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

I will also

join

hachi’s cutest

I mean.

[nods unbiasedly]

Oooh, I get to be sama? I’m flattered!

I guess he is a literal professor

y’all too kind

I see the inn updated its sign again :3

that was me!

I kept your bit and teak carried it through

<3

Awoken really blessing us with the fits lately, damn

yesssss

mr narrator how are they gunna put on a show if they cook in the library where no one can see :(

AURUELIUS-NO-OROCHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII

ice has Cooking Show Opinions

im just sayin aint no one watching iron chef if they just keep pullin precooked shit out of a microwave

you fool

also oh 97 lol no wonder it felt so oppressively hot outside ok

you stage the ingredients

well some of them

I did consider whether we would need a decoy group making a show of cooking out front so they don’t see all of us in statue form

But it makes sense that the prep kitchens are private and the food is presented to the judges at the table

other option—methexis the entire audience and they can watch via Salme and/or Wolf

Oh that’s hilarious, fuck yeah

opsec!!!

teak indulging himself r/n i see

there’s a scale,

sometimes it’s not maxed out

Such is the privilege of a pure-heart, or something

Oh shit can someone escape the Burning glyph for me real quick? I forgot I don’t have it ready on mobile

thank

ye

Delightful

hachi

wolf …

ok so eventually i was gonna ask teak “so if someone poisoned food and the person ate it like an hour later do they still have a rite”

Same brain cell

yeah you two are dangerous together

Hey, I never said I was gonna do it! It was just to know if we should be on the lookout!

Long Form Rites Have Been Mentioned Before (in the world building channel)

(has flashbacks of the oops-all-poisoned-illusory-food fight)

Salme making good on that promise, dang

YEP

<salme> important announcement: jorule is a good boy

lol ty for giving me space to do that it was … important to her? and she had to be Weird and Performative about it

skyrim dinner

hell yeah

loaflets

Sometimes you just gotta a whole loaf

Did you put butter on it or anything?

an Entire Loaf

Loaflet

olive oil & balsamic?

look she’s been working on this thing on and off since Almachadta I figured this wouldn’t be a bad moment.

immediate meme response to Archie “There are two otters inside of you…”

Lmaoooo

fuidjalkdsfjls;d

one otter has pockets full of secrets and one otter needs to hug everyone ever

CALLED ME TF OUT

Extremely real

gahahahahahah

thank god someone doesn’t

1077

I haven’t been lately either

honestly good Salme doesn’t need her shame exposed like that

I’m not sure how much you all want us in the kitchen? am happy to do Various Prep Work but yeah

bio, brb

Because we established that a lot of the prep is done I think it makes sense to fast forward to the assembly for the most part? On the walk to the Kitchen, Archie’s gonna exposit what’s left to do

I think a lot of the work is already done - Kuz can exposit some assembly, I’ll pitch in, but I think the more interesting thing will be the judging & full party stuff

awoken sort of wants to be the snarling guard/hypeman of the tablet, hollerin’ like he’s a wrestling manager, jimmy hart style

It would be nice to have at least Aurelius and one of Salme and/or Wolf there to be our taste testers for the Almachadtan ravioli and Beast momo (in addition to Luĉja’s judgment) but as many people can be involved as would like

I am happy to tag along and salme Will Taste Test but that woman will eat anything

relatable

lol does the library look any different [stares at Wolf]

yeah wolf

I’m not caught up, what happened?

Wolf did some renovations in the annex, but we are not sure how visible those renovations are

(this was more for backread, but fair)

that was also how i parsed it fwiw

probably wouldn’t see it on this trip

I’m going to have to make a map aren’t I

Have is a strong word, but

me!

I had to pick something and my brain provided Only Stupid Answers

Truly

hahaha

Freshness Unit–FU

back

welcome back!

please be the taste-tester pads Salme will eat trash

Luĉja eats rocks and you trust him :P

Bouncer Awoken is amazing

he’s so good

: “hachi plays bouncers, pirates, and shounen protags” and “awoken is all three” stays winning

Extremely real

Wolf, do you wanna establish real quick whether you’re in the kitchen or standing guard?

I just don’t know whether to address you lol

I mean, wherever he’s useful/intended in your plans…?

…is being hamstrung by the fact that his writer has no idea what mushroom powder tastes like… >.>;

Bide just a second…

No rush! Archie’s gonna give some more specific prompting as well

Gotcha. Usually alone, not spiced with anything?

Yeah exactly! The only thing it might need, like many things, is a lil salt

lolf salme

you wouldn’t put mushroom powder on a melon

Nor should you, probably

I just remembered I have So Many Thai peppers in my fridge…

Gotta make another batch of prik nam pla. And this time I’m gonna wear gloves so my fingertips don’t hurt for three days like last time

looooooooooooooool

rip

It was Decidedly Unzesty

You see, when your fingers are stronger than the knives, you worry a lot less about accidentally your own fingers

transmute your fingers into knives

Honestly, thought about it

Mood

the seekrit sauce

Is there someone who specifically prepared a statement?

I didn’t but if you hum a few bars I can fake it

I can do it but didn’t want to thunder-steal

I also didn’t. Luc?

bro this is your challenge

I definitely didn’t prepare shit

^ yeah I figured it’d either be Archie or Lucja

Yeah, like, it’s…not thunder stealing, this is the Archie and Luc show, imho

oooh as hype man

Ok! I’ll do it!

I can wing it if I need to, but go for it my dude

it is proper to do a acrobatic fucking pirouette off the handle

I’ll announce y’all in and then you can hit the big stuff

Go for it!

Cuuuute

I don’t know what I expected but it sure as hell wasn’t that

We AEW now

oh my god

MY FUCKING HERO

take it from there, y’all

Plate ‘em up now, funk soul brother…

Working on it

A bar has been set and must now be matched

Or should I say, bars

(This is Archie teeing Luĉja up to talk about the Beast changing btw!) (I was gonna write something to continue the rhymes but realized I’m not good at doing that quickly)

Sorry went to grab a drink

Are we just mask off opsec now?

dealer’s choice

I guess! Awoken said what he said and earlier our competitor explicitly mentioned Archie as a chef from another world

Decided to roll with it because it’s not Samudra, yeah

The world (of flavors) is so big y’all

heheh

That’s all I wanted to say before tasting and judging!

This fuckin nerd

this fukken interpretive dance

you signed up for the Theatrical Cooking Competition, you don’t get to complain when there’s Theater involved :|

salme did not sign up for this. she is happy to support her clan, but she manifestly Did Not Sign Up For This

lolf

delicious and refreshing…………

Archie’s gonna hand out the red elixir among the party to toast with later! Everyone will get a chance to try and to share!

Oh wait, it’s already happening, I misread, lol

what makes a drink refreshing

um,

idk something that makes you happy when you drink it

Truly the most helpful answer my brain can think of is “it’s not un-refreshing”

like vanilla coke

is coke refreshing,

ok

Like hot chocolate isn’t refreshing unless you’re cold, it’s thick and heavy on the tongue

hahahaha

Archie’s is makgeolli!

lucja over here drinking diabetic blood

googling makgeolli. what the heck

It’s the Best Thing

: “diabetic blood”

The closest comparison is cloudy sake but imagine if that was even more delicious and also slightly fizzy in the way fermented drinks like kombucha are

makgeolli is weird and great

What would I even roll to try to listen in? Archie is totally not above some moderate eavesdropping

I really don’t think we can

(cackles)

It’s okay, y’all, Caion would be more upset if I didn’t

get it

I’m so embarrassed aaa

Didn’t clock that Tosch has his sash over his eyes and thought “mobility cane” was the kind that you support weight on amd that he didn’t see the thumbs up earlier because Archie was behind the door

tfw you don’t realize the person you’re trying to catch the attention of is literally blind

hahahahahahh

lol

lol

Archie: “why didn’t you see the signs?”**

Tosch: “I’m literally blind, dude, you gotta use your words”

eyezoom.jpg

teak I have accidentally deleted the glyph I am trying to use so many times

lolf

bless ice for putting them in the library I guess

do you wanna fix that before I hit

enter

Who first said this time will be different? That was an Omniclast quote right?

I remembered the words but not the origin

PVs to Salme at least

PV?

polite visitors

I’m so sorry but I might need you to explain what Salme and Aurelius meant by those last lines to SQ, I feel like I’m missing context

salme is a big SQ supporter, esp because she sees similarities in what SQ and the Sword-Saint do,

Aurelius in general is not big on SQ, and especially thinks SQ’s ego makes her goals self defeating,

tho i don’t think either of these opinions has come up much around the group proper

Wolf hit Salme with a stray AOE attack about “giving up”

Mmm, okay got it

and she got hackle-y and defensive because she’s Weird about this

(which is not a thing he could have known and I am Not Mad)

-blinks- Where did he say a single word about giving up?

well she took “ How ironic, that you simply took the place of his mechanism of continuity” that as a dig at herself too

she’s being a bitch it’s not you

TBF, he didn’t even mean it as a dig at SQ…though he didn’t NOT mean it that way, admittedly…

it was very Ayato of him

it is an established character trait of salme that she reads into others’ words things that weren’t said

…well, when you put it THAT way he’s going to have regrets…

askdfjasoipdfjoasd

-points at Aury- Now that? That’s growth.

yeah he’s a good boy

but also, in the spirit of duality, WAS making that same dig at SQ, on purpose instead of accident

just before that lol

<Aurelius> Fuck that scorpion

Admittedly, if that was an Ayato-leak…well…he does really not like Scorpions. Just…different kind. Ish.

I don’t think it was an Ayato leak. I think Wolf is ALSO good at handing out Statements that Ring With The Force of Judgment

without it being an outright insult.

…fair

For a split second I almost forgot that the music player is shared among everyone, just narrowly avoided soundtracking this scene with the dream-whales song

omkfljdslf;dj

lmao

oops

Yeah I did forget that today is a first Saturday, oh well

oops!!

It ok, I’ll just be late

I’m good I think

I’m happy with that!

not I

hmm i think so, anything i could add probably leads to a couple more questions

Heheh, soups good

it was delicious

Absurd Soup Celebration Interlude is an alternate title

it was Very Good

good scene everyone

… cannot relate to that one

thanks for game teak

thank you teak!

rip

i want

gnocci soup……………

and some kind of bisque………………..

best i can do is a kinda saucy spaghetti

ewww

just

imagined drinking spaghetti as soup and it was Bad

lol

did you mean: ketchup in water

DIE

kat i just want you to know

that in this new zone there was a mini boss that was like, a magic book come to life

and did math attacks and shit, but one of its raid wides was “Marginilia” and every time it did it i went “:O I KNOW THAT WORD”

omg

I am

so proud of you

werfyua;sodfjal;sdfj;lasd OH MY GOD AURELIUS

OHKO

he’s so good, but I love just how PASSIONATE he is about this he is considering how taciturn he is, and then his kinda “anyway, play sounds fun” at the end

dont wanna rant at the wrong person

we can do a scene with them going to the play if you have Any Interest (I figure it’s Baz Luhrman’s Romeo + Juliet but with lesbians, in modern dialogue (possibly rap), with Bigger Weapons and a happy ending) or just have them Comment on it but I want them to have gone.

also Aurelius/SQ blackrom setup is real I guess

oh I would narrate it

if this was a show you would absolutely decidate at least half an episode to it, but, table top I think just knowing what happened and mentioning it probably is a much saner option lol

yeah. or we could have them talk about it afterward in a scene and just make up random shit they liked/didn’t like, which could be fun. but lol teak I would never make you write a random play off the cuff

laugh hysterically at myself a someone on stage going ‘i bite my thumb at thee, sir’ and then three people on the other slide leaning back going ‘say whaaaaat’ before drawing battle horns and whatever the second dumbest monster hunter weapon is

yes absolutely that’s the energy

again a post-play talking about what they liked/disliked scene could be fun, especially since I figure Mercutio is still there in drag like in the movie

ye that can probably happen

<3

lol whenever Aurelius drops punctuation Salme is like “uh oh”

jorule confirmed for hoarder

you never know when you’re gunna need to introduce firearms to an off the grid hillbilly enclave

is that … is that a thing that happened?

if you exaggerate every single part of the sentence several degrees, yes

… is this a reference to Salme getting a gun or did this happen twice?

yes

A

: “off the grid hillbilly enclave” is

honestly I feel like Annarr seems more likely to have been raised by doomsday preppers

Salme did grow up in the biggest city in Almachadta. Like. from 13-adulthood

he lived in the big city and was watched by the government, you take that back

ioauejfdjkas;dlfjsl;

the feds got him

like by Almachadtan standards Salme is very much From The City vs. Wolf, I think

of course. By Almachadtan standards

yeah fair

NO GRIDS THO…………..

NO GRIDS

teak has confirmed that our Trophy Spoons were Correctly Spoon Sized

yeah but they’re like

the deep asian spoons

and not the thin european ones he was hatin’ on

yeah eating … ice cream with that kind of spoon would be a challenge

that said: Salme would probably try

Big Bite

Big

I am just imagining SQ challenging Aurelius to Rite, with her fucking UNBEATABLE CARD, to try to make him eat his words, and how much that would only make him MORE annoyed at her

just Loud Sighing between every move

frame 1 resign

oh right I forget that’s an option

that would chap her ass so bad

just imagining her initiating the rite AGAIN with another resignation. I actually wonder how many times you can do that.

infinite

I feel like at Some Point the Glory has to step in and be like “be serious”

ice do you

do you really think hachi isn’t going to immediately Launch Himself At The Moon??

i think he’s going to wait for the orb to land first, yes?

… yeah probably. that seems likely.

okay that was either you or me misreading each other

caion gunna teach salme the joys of being a cuck

… that is not The most cursed sentence you’ve ever written, but it’s Up There

lol

also you’re the reason Caion is shy about his approach to romance

not like, you specifically, but people like you

thats literally what he wrote :(

the fuck is a villanelle

he absolutely did not write “I enjoy my time in the cuck chair”

it’s a poetic form

where you repeat lines and recontextualize them in every stanza

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47536/one-art this is probably the most famous one (and one of the best ones imo)