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[forgottensebayt]

1. [PLEASED] the first session of In Which A Series of Unlikely Compatriots Are Roped Together In a Plan to Destroy The Known World has completed.

2. [AMUSED] and although a full title is impossible to accurately give, given the on-going nature of the game, i am pleased to announce that there were three separate cases of arson, one case of grand larceny and assault of an imperial officer, and three cases of manslaughter only barely averted by the deft quadrant machinations of sappho's yellowblood.

3. [AMUSED] oh. and one confirmed quadrant. although i remain uncertain if Artisann Loveless was in fact angling for that one, or any at all, given the fact her dice roll ended up only as a three out of twenty, even with modifiers.

4. [AMUSED] sappho. pheres. hinnom. perhaps you could add in your own commentary?

5. [CURIOUS] and does anyone else have suggestions on better locales for such events in the future? we took over my communal living stem's lobby for the purposes of this game and locked all of the doors, but the number of people demanding entry proved deleterious to experiencing ultimate immersion. or other means of ensuring that people do not enter to steal our food items?

6. [DISAPPROVING] and please, no recommendations of assault. i have no desire to get blood on the chips. that is disgusting.

Comments

[refiningspacetime]

| Hah | No | I'm afraid an Inability to Feel Exhaustion is One of My Many Virtues | =:) | Even on My Own Behalf |

| Well | I wouldn't Wear Anything Nice to a Ruin | Obviously | I have a Separate Wardrobe for |- That -| And | Yes | ! | I Remember That | It was Our First Discussion | I Think | You were Trying Out a Different Quirk |

| Which | I am Glad You did Not Stick With | To be Frank | This One Suits You so Much Better | =:) |

| That is perhaps the Best Feeling | There's Nothing Like It | To Know Yours are the First Eyes to See an Area in even a Land-Dweller's Century | Haha |

[drown them] [or spray them with a spraybottle]

[obstructedantiquity]

oH, LITTLE RUST, CAREFUL ABOUT THE VERBAGE YOU'RE SPILLING FROM YOUR WICKED-ASS MOUTH. A MOTHERFUCKER COULD READ THAT SORT OF THING AND GET ideas. ;o)

tHAT QUIRK WAS A GODDAMN MISTAKE. SHIT WAS A WICKED MIS-STEP. WHAT IS BINARY BUT A SLIGHT ON THE NAME OF OUR GOOD LANGUAGE? WHAT ARE NUMBERS BUT A YOKE PUT UPON US BY THE FUCKING SCIENSTIFFS? NEITHER HAS ANY PLACE IN OUR GODDAMN TEXTS. MUST'VE BEEN DRINKING SOPOR WHEN I THOUGHT THAT WAS AN IDEA WORTH TRYINg.

gLAD TO SEE WE AGREe.

fOUND A NEW RUIN A COUPLE OF NIGHTS AGO. OUT IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE. NO FUCKER HAS SET FOOD IN IT, FAR AS I CAN TELL: THE DOORS ARE UNBROKEN, THE WINDOWS ARE BARRED. NO OIL FROM A SINNER'S HAND. NO PRINTS FROM THEIR BOOTs.

i WAS FIGURING I'D DO A SOLO-RUN, SEE WHAT THERE IS WORTH TAKING, WHAT THERE IS THAT AIN'T WORTH saving. BUT IF YOU DIG RUINS, TOO, THEN I THINK YOU OUGHTA COME WITH. AIN'T MARRING THE GROUND IF IT'S TWO SETS OF BOOTS, IS It?

oR ONE. ONE AND A HALF. AIN'T GOING TO PRETEND I KNOW HOW YOU GO ABOUT RUIN-CRAWLINg.

aND I KNOW YOU'RE ALREADY SETTING UP SOME RAPID-FIRE DENIALS, BUT LET ME JUST ASK YOU THIS, BEFORE YOU START SPILLING YOUR NO'S: HOW FUCKING OFTEN DO YOU GET AN APPRECIATIVE AUDIENCe? :o)

fOR THIS SORT OF THING. NO INTENT TO OFFEND. I'M SURE YOU GET PLENTY FOR EVERY OTHER CIRCUMSTANCe.

[refiningspacetime]

| Well | No | Not Before You Said That | They couldn't | =:| |

| I assure You | I have a Great Deal of Appreciative Audiences | Ones for Every Type of Circumstance | Already | to be Frank | There is only So Much a Troll can be Appreciated | before He Begins to Tire of It |

| I don't See How You could Find a Ruin that Wasn't Already Opened Anyway |

[obstructedantiquity]

mAYBE YOU OUGHT TO GET THAT RACK OF YOURS TRIMMED. SEEMS LIKE IT MIGHT BE PUTTING SOME PRESSURE ON YOUR THINKPAN, IF YOU CAN'T PUZZLE THIS OUt.

fOLKS HAVE BEEN ALL OVER THE LAND-DWELLING RUINS. BUT EVERYONE STARTED OFF IN THE SEA, IN THE BEGINNING. THERE'S MORE ROOM IN THAT FUCKING OCEAN THAN IN ALL THE SPACE ABOVE IT, AND THEN DOUBLEd.

iT'S A SEADWELLER RUIN. DUNNO WHY IT'S ABOVE WATER. BUT LIYIJI SAID IT WAS EMPTY SPACE ONE NIGHT, AND OCCUPIED THE NEXT, AND IF ANYONE'S SET PALM ON THAT STONE IN THE LAST THOUSAND SWEEPS, THEN I WILL SLIT MY OWN THROAT FOR JAPERy.

[refiningspacetime]

| A Seadweller's Ruin | ? | Really | ? |

| I mean | That isn't Entirely Implausible | There's old Mechanics at Work in Many of Them | I wouldn't even Pretend to Understand Them | Less Popular Now | of course | Than the Traditional Psionics | But They used to make the most Marvelous Things out of Steam and Pipes | And Nuclear Energy |

| And | Of Course | In the Early Fortieth Century | in the Pre-Empire Days | There was a Certain Fondness in the Early Sweeps for Things that Could Submerge and Rise At Will | When the Ochre Sultanate was Warring with the Amaranth | After the Kwalmei Genocide | They Rebuilt Their Capitol on Platforms that They Could Sink at Will |

| So When the Ochre came the Second Time Around | And Entered the Buildings | and Began to Cull the Residents | The Wardens Submerged the City | and Drowned Everyone Within |

| I mean | I Don't Expect that It is a Fortieth Century Ruin | Those are Very |- Very -| Old | But | Someone could've Easily Taken the Same Principle | in Later Times | before We were all Civilized under the Empire |

| which is to Say | Ah |

[obstructedantiquity]

ah?

[refiningspacetime]

| I would |- Love -| to Visit This Temple with You | All Things Considered |

| Is There Room on the Boat for Hinnom | You | and I | ? | I am Assuming that We are Taking Liyiji's | Of Course | and not Renting One | because I am Afraid | although I do Enjoy Swimming | I haven't the Faintest Idea of How to Operate a Boat of Any Sort |

[obstructedantiquity]

ha.

iS THAT THE TOLL I'M PAYING FOR MY GENEROSITY? HAULING THE LITTLE FERAL CULLBAIT WITH US LIKE EXTRA BAGGAGE? OH, MY RUST BROTHER. IT'S LIKE YOU'VE NEVER EVEN PAID MIND TO THE SHIT YOUR RAIL TELLS YOu.

dON'T YOU KNOW I cull MISTAKEs?

[obstructedantiquity]

bUT SAVE ME YOUR WOE. I SAID THERE IS NOTHING I WON'T FORGIVE ONLY A SCARCE MOMENT AGO, AND WHATEVER FILTH PEOPLE WANT TO PIN TO MY HEM, I AIN'T A GODDAMN LIAR. DIDN'T BREATHE A WORD ABOUT THE LITTLE THING BEING AT THE TABLE BEFORE. I CAN BITE MY TONGUe.

i HAVE NO SUIT TO PRESS WITH YOU, SAVE AN URGE FOR YOUR COMPANY. IF HAULING A FERAL AROUND LIKE THE MOST ILLEGAL OF PACIFICATION FABRICS IS WHAT BRINGS YOU PEACE, THEN SHOVE THAT LITTLE SHIT INTO YOUR BAG AND HAUL IT ON BOARD. LIYIJI WILL DEAl.

hE'S COMING UP IN TWO NIGHTS. MAKE SURE YOU'RE THERE, RUST. THIS RUIN IS WICKED AS FUCk.

[refiningspacetime]

| Yes | Well | People |- do -| Keep telling Me that | But I've yet to Actually See the Proof | You seem Perfectly Reasonable to Me | Certainly Reasonable enough to Know that a Troll who can Speak | Write | and Socialise | is not by |- Any Means -| Feral |

| We will See You Then | ! |

[postalprestidigitation]

(- wAiT + WhAt -)

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[refiningspacetime]

| Ah | My Apologies for Volunteering You | without First Discerning Your Interest | I made an Assumption There | for which I suppose was in fact Over-Stepping |

| I Assumed that You Would Enjoy Coming to See the Ruins | ? | If It is an Aquatic Environment | or a Former One | then It is Not Entirely Dissimilar to the Place in Which You Live |

| And It should have a Great Deal of Things that Will Interest You | ! |

| If You would Rather Not | Though | Especially Given the Company Which We will be Keeping | I Will Understand Entirely | Genuinely | ! |

| This is Not Something I Mean to Press You Into | and I Regret if It may have Come Across that Way |

[postalprestidigitation]

(- dUdE + DuUuUuUuUdE + StFu + oFc i wAnT ToMb cOmE + YoU DuMb fUcKeR + I LiKe rUiNs + aNd i lIkE HaNgInG WiTh yOu + aNd iTs nOt lIkE I GoT AnYtHiNg eLsE To iNtErRoRtAiN Me + hOo hOo hOo -)

(- bUt + bOo + iDk hOw tO DrIvE + AnD My mOm iS ToO SmAlL To rIdE -) (- I MeAn + sHe's nOt oNe oF ThOsE RlY BiG StUpId lUsUsEs + sHe's lIkE + SuPeR SuPeR SuPeR TiNy -) (- sO IdK HoW I'D GeT ThErE -)

(- I CaN'T TaKe a sKiTtErBuS!! -)

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[refiningspacetime]

| Well | As long as You are Aware | You are in No Way Obliged | ! | This is Really Something that I should have Asked About First | before Simply Assuming | So | My Apologies Again |

| | | Hah | Yes | I have Seen Your Lusus | Hinnom | =:) | I do Believe that Any Attempts to Ride It would simply Result in Damage to It | Given that It Usually Rides |- You -|

| But | If You Really Do want to Come | Then I Will Retrieve You | Don't Worry | ! | Let Me Figure out the Logistics | and I will get Back to You | on Where You should Go for Us to Meet |