110814katemerrow

 -- taxidermizingAmaranthine [TA] began trolling aspiringArchon [AA] at 22:14 --

 [10:14] TA: Merrow Niadis, Prince of Time.

 [10:15] AA: Both the name and title you have applied to me are accurate.

 [10:15] AA: I do not however recognize your handle. I imagine you are one of the veterans?

 [10:15] TA: Yes.

 [10:15] TA: Kate Wightt, Sylph of Time.

 [10:15] AA: Oh, I sea.

 [10:15] TA: Yes the Niadis fishpuns are omnipresent it seems.

 [10:16] AA: I was wondering if any time players had survived the old session.

 [10:16] TA: I wanted to make sure you had my handle and could communicate any concerns you had with your team, your powers, or the game to me.

 [10:16] AA: I get the impression that Princes are in short supply.

 [10:16] TA: Princes and Time players, yes.

 [10:17] TA: I nearly died shortly before we scratched, so count yourself lucky.

 [10:18] AA: This game does not seem to be forgiving, it's true.

 [10:18] TA: Many of us were killed by a player from another session actually.

 [10:18] AA: Ah, yes. Jack of Arena, I believe?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [10:18] AA: I have heard stories of him from my Moirail, Darmok.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [10:19] AA: And occasional references from the veterans.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [10:22] TA: ((sec))

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [10:33] TA: All stories are likely unexaggerated and completely factual.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [10:33] TA: He is a terrible person.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [10:33] AA: But he is dead now, is he not?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [10:33] AA: So no longer a concern for any of us.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [10:33] TA: Yes, but still existing on the Ark.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [10:34] TA: Have you been introduced to dream bubbles?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [10:34] AA: I do not understand your meaning. You mean his corpse?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [10:34] AA: I have not heard of dream bubbles, no.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [10:34] TA: When we die we go to Paradox Space inside of dream bubbles where we eternally live out our lives until we realize we are dead.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [10:35] AA: Is this some sort of religious belief?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [10:36] TA: One can interact with said dream bubbles if you pass through them inside of paradox space.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [10:36] TA: And no, it is factual.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [10:37] TA: I could go visit Jack right now if I wanted to.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [10:37] AA: This is troubling. Should we be concerned that he is going to start picking us off like he did our predecessors?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [10:39] TA: Dead players are unable to leave dream bubbles.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [10:39] TA: Also, paradox space is inhabited by dead players from every single instance of the game, including doomed timelines.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [10:40] TA: Likely there are uncountably infinite Jack's out there.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [10:40] TA: If they could kill us we'd already be dead.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [10:40] AA: Oh....I think I know something about this. Acenia mentioned that Bothwell had killed several versions of her in alternate timelines.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [10:40] AA: Presumably these would be the doomed ones?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [10:41] AA: Doesn't that mean there must be countless dead versions of ourselves out there in Paradox Space? In these dream bubbles?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [10:41] TA: Correct.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [10:41] AA: Wait a moment--you said your name was Wightt?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [10:41] TA: Yes.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [10:41] AA: Oh our. I am sorry to be the one to tell you this Kate Wightt.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [10:42] TA: Eric is dead, yes.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [10:42] TA: I know.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [10:42] AA: Oh.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [10:42] TA: I learned this news several months ago from my perspective.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [10:42] AA: Several months ago? It only happened a week or two ago.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [10:42] TA: I know.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [10:42] AA: Is this a Time thing?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [10:43] TA: Yes.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [10:43] AA: Are you able to expand the amount of time you have to act in a short period?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [10:43] TA: As Lily put it about 17 minutes from now, I don't "Fuck around" with the time shenanigans.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [10:43] TA: Speaking of which expect a message from her in about 24 minutes.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [10:44] AA: Kate, I would be greatly indebted to you if you could teach me how to do these things.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [10:44] TA: ((i went back in time to talk to you i didn't message))

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [10:44] TA: ((i should have mentioned that at the start hooho))

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [10:44] TA: Years of practice and patience is the key.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [10:45] TA: But I would be happy to impart my knowlege to you.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [10:45] AA: I do not know if I have years. A matter has just come up of some high degree of urgency. We are looking for ways around it....but if I had months, from my perspective, to accomplish my task while my rival did not...

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [10:47] TA: Oh?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [10:47] TA: Tell me.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [10:48] AA: Someone has started trying to fill my matesprit's primer.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [10:48] TA: Primers... yes.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [10:48] TA: Fickle things.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [10:48] AA: And I fear if whoever it is has already made himself known, he must be all but finished with it.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [10:49] AA: If we don't find a way around it, I cannot assume I have more than two weeks to finish it. And it is possible that I cannot complete it before him regardless, as I will need those same two weeks.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [10:50] AA: Unless I can somehow bring Acenia with me on this journey through time.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [10:50] TA: And if you could go back in time?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [10:50] AA: Would I be able to change the past?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [10:51] TA: Don't be absurd.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [10:51] AA: For some reason I had a feeling that might be the case. Because it would have to have already been changed, right?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [10:51] TA: You will not interface with yourself or anyone else but me during this time.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [10:51] TA: But.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [10:51] TA: You will be able to complete the tasks related to your primer that you need more time for.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [10:52] TA: Such that when you arrive back at the correct time, you can present your completed primer to Acenia.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [10:52] TA: I will, however, need to look into the feasibility of this.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [10:52] AA: That won't work. Part of the requirement is that I must deliver presents to her each day for a set period.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [10:53] TA: You had already done that, had you not?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [10:53] TA: You are simply doing two things at once.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [10:53] AA: No. We have been on separate teams.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [10:53] AA: So I haven't had the chance to be with her for a long enough consecutive period to give them.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [10:53] TA: Then you can pick up the slack of your current self? Did she mention she hadn't received your gifts?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [10:54] AA: Not specifically....but she reacted to the gift with the assumption that it was from me, which means that she must not have received my gifts yet.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [10:55] TA: I see.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [10:55] TA: That is an issue.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [10:55] AA: If we could find a way to prevent this new suitor from delivering a gift tomorrow, or some other day for example, and I could start back before he did, I might be able to beat him still.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [10:58] TA: If you were to, for instance, start today, and he failed tomorrow, you would beat him, so long as you kept up.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [10:58] AA: Yes. I would need a way to get to where she is though.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [10:58] AA: I would need time to find a few more species of pumpkin, and for my garden to finish growing.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [10:59] TA: You have to deliver in person?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [10:59] AA: I think the wording of the primer is such that I could have an agent make the deliveries for me.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [10:59] TA: That can be arranged.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:00] AA: But I would still need to be able to get the presents to the agents.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:00] TA: You will prepare two weeks worth of gifts and give them to your ancestor, who can deliver them.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:00] AA: And for the last three days, I would need to be in person I believe.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:00] TA: And then rejoin your time.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:00] AA: To Maenam?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:00] TA: Yes.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:01] AA: All right. So that takes care of the presents. But they are the less time consuming task before me.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:01] AA: How do we deal with finding the pumpkins and growing my garden?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:02] AA: I suppose even if I could not just speed up my garden personally, if I could return in time to some point suitably distant and begin a separate garden, and return at points within its cultivation to care for it, that could be taken care of.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:02] TA: I will stipulate again, before you get your hopes up, that I am not sure whether or not this is feasible in the first place.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:02] TA: I have never taken someone through time with me before.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:02] AA: Understood.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:02] TA: ((aka she just shot it down gg))

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:02] AA: (( Yeah, I figured. ))

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:03] TA: ((gotta figure something else out lolol))

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:03] AA: (( I have reason OOC to believe that none of Merrow's plans will work. ))

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:03] AA: (( He does not know that though. ))

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:03] TA: That being said, I would prefer to figure out that much first, before we continue discussing specifics.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:03] AA: Understood.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:03] TA: One moment.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:03] TA: After several hours of research into the topic...

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:03] TA: I am afraid that it will not work.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:04] AA: It must be convenient to be able to get such research done.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:04] TA: Your acclimation to time is not sufficient enough to withstand the temporal spaghettification.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:04] AA: I see.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:04] AA: And I don't suppose we could slow time enough that I could BECOME acclimated in a short amount of time?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:05] TA: A similar issue arises in that sense.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:05] TA: Believe me, if I could speed run all of you to your perfect power level I would.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:05] AA: Yes. I suppose it would be unrealistic that the game would not have accounted for that sort of thinking if it were willing to assign Time powers in the first place.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:06] TA: Well.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:06] AA: Still, I can't believe there is no way to exploit these powers beyond the terms of the obvious.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:06] TA: The instances where verteran players join new players are few and far between...

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:06] TA: The fault lies not with the powers themselves, as far as I can tell you simply are not strong enough.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:06] AA: I suppose I will have to see if there are any other ways to buy time.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:07] TA: I cannot take anyone without a certain degree of mastery over time with me through time.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:07] AA: Rather than simply sitting around and killing it.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:07] TA: At the point where you would be strong enough to travel with me, you might as well just take yourself there.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:07] AA: That is disappointing but not surprising.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:07] TA: Yes.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:08] AA: I apologize for having burdened you with this, in that case. I can see I have gotten ahead of myself.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:08] TA: It is fine.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:08] TA: I spent about 15 years alone on my planet simply because I had gotten ahead of myself.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:08] TA: A topic for another time though, I'm afraid.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:08] AA: I am still interested in learning what I can about my aspect though, if you are willing. While I think of other contingencies for dealing with my unknown rival.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:09] TA: Princes of Time destroy time and with time.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:09] AA: Perhaps I cannot push myself to veteran levels instantaneously, but perhaps we can at least accelerate my command of these powers.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:09] AA: Destroys time?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:10] TA: Yes.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:10] AA: That sounds....cataclysmic.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:10] TA: The simplest application would be to simply destroy one of the enemy's package's time.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:10] TA: Make it arrive late.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:10] TA: Make it not exist until the next day.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:11] TA: It should not be out of your reach to do that much.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:11] TA: Destroying its entire timeline would likely be something for much later, but just a day should not be impossible.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:12] AA: Clever. I imagine I would have to get ahold of it though.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:12] AA: It is worth keeping in mind.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:12] TA: The details are for you to figure out, Merrow.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:12] TA: I'll simply provide you with the techniques.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:12] TA: The tools are in your hands.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:13] AA: Hmm.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:13] TA: I must go now, contact me whenever you wish.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:13] AA: All right. Thank you Kate Wightt. And I am sorry I could not do more to protect your offspring.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:13] TA: Do not trouble yourself about it.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:13] TA: He has died infinitely many times, as have I.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:14] TA: Until next time.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:14] AA: That is a very rational way of looking at it. But it seems a little detached.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:14] AA: Is this something I can expect to happen to me, as a Time Player?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:14] AA: This detachment from the events that surround us?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:15] TA: To counter your clan's fish punnery: only time will tell.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:15] AA: Sigh. It feels like a Prince of Time should be the one to give Time commands. Not the one to be commanded by it.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:16] AA: But I suppose I am stuck, for the time being.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:16] TA: Give it time, and it will give it back.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:16] TA: For a time, yes.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:16] TA: This is becoming silly.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:16] TA: I really must be going.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:16] AA: Immensely.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:16] TA: Bye now, and good luck.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:16] AA: Yes, very well. Though how you could possibly pressed for time is a mystery for another day.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:16] AA: Farewell, Kate.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:17] TA: It's a mystery to everyone.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> -- taxidermizingAmaranthine [TA] gave up trolling aspiringArchon [AA] at 23:17 --