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 -- garrisonedGuardian [GG] began pestering arcaneArtisan [AA] at 23:12 --

 GG: (( hey are you online ))

 GG: (( ok nvm then ))

 GG: (( oh nvm that nvm ))

 GG: (( AA ))

 GG: (( alternia to AA ))

 AA: (( Hello ))

 GG: (( hi there! ))

 GG: (( wanna rp? ))

 GG: (( cos i dont think we have, ever ))

 AA: (( okay. you'll have to start though, as Sami wouldn't know your trolltag or whatever ))

 GG: (( ok cool ))

 GG: Hey, Sαm-, r-ght?

 AA: Yes, that's me. Who's this?

 GG: Th-s -s Joss-k Kαtαrn

 GG: -'m α troll

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: - th-nk we met once, αctuαlly

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: Oh....you're the one we rescued on Derse....then had to rescue again because we gave you to Scarlet.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: Sorry about that.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: oh, -t's f-ne

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: thαnk you for thαt, by the wαy

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: the whole rescu-ng th-ng

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: Well sure. A friend of Null's is a friend of mine.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: cool

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: so, Sαm-, whαt k-ndα stuff do you l-ke to do?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: Oh, I like to do arts and crafts and things.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: oh, cool

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: l-ke pα-nt-ng αnd stuff?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: Yeah. Only I made a paintbrush that's haunted or cursed or something with this alchemy stuff and now it's got everyone spooked and I don't even remember what I painted with it.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: holy crαp

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: I just made a bunch of new paintbrushes....but they all came out the same way.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: So I'm not really sure what's going on here.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: gαh, -'m sorry

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: thαt's freαky

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: αll - αlchem-zed wαs some new outf-ts αnd swords αnd stuff

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: No worries. I'm a witch or whatever, so I guess taming naughty spirits is probably something I'm supposed to do anyway.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: hαhα yeαh

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: And SO's looking into it, so I'm sure she'll figure something out.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: w-tch of whαt, exαctly?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: Breath. Still haven't figured out what that's supposed to mean, but it sounds neat I guess.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: huh

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: mαybe -t's l-ke w-nd αnd stuff?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: or mαybe you keep people αl-ve by g-v-ng them breαth or someth-ng

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: αs fαr αs - cαn tell, everyth-ng -n th-s gαme -s lαyered -n symbol-sm

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: - myself αm the kn-ght of heαrt

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: αs fαr αs -'ve been αble to f-gure out, -t hαs more to do w-th the sp-r-t αnd the soul thαn αny romαnt-c sh-t

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: So someone's been telling you how it all works then?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: You've got your sprite or whatever with its second thing in it, I guess?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: no, thαt's just whαt - myslef hαve ph-losoph-zed

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: my spr-te -s not w-th me αt the moment, no

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: I wouldn't even know where to start on philosophizing on this stuff. Maybe if I were on LOGAT or something. LOTAC's all about Katie. You know she's actually got cool powers?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: reαlly?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: She did some weird thing with an hourglass. Like sand magic or something.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: It was so cool.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: oh r-ght, kαte's th-ngy -s t-me

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: Yeah, that's her dumb title. What, do you think her magicky stuff was related to her title?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: probαbly

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: hourglαss sounds t-mey w-mey

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: -dk whαt k-ndα powers heαrt would even get me

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: or whαt breαth would get you

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: But if that were true I'd have witchy powers. And I'm pretty sure I don't, because I haven't met any talking cats or invoked the spirits or whatever. Although I did make myself a cool hat. And a broom. But I just made those for a laugh, it's not like they came to me through DESTINY.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: hmm

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: mαybe you dont hαve just generαl "w-tchy powers"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: mαybe you hαve w-tchy powers spec-f-cαlly pertα-n-ng to breαth

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: Well I haven't seen any talking....breath cats?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: I don't even know what kind of familiar a witch of breath would have!

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: mαybe α b-rd of some sort?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: l-ke αn eαgle or someth-ng

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: What, like a crow or a magpie or something?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: Nah, eagles are for rangers or druids or something.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: hrm

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: Or sometimes wizards.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: crows seem more ddomy thαn breαthy though

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: mαgp-es αre cool though, r-ght

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: I guess so. They've got no attention span though.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: hehe, sounds l-ke some trolls - know

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: (( brb afk ))

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: (( k back ))

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: Anyway, I heard that birds are dinosaurs!

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: (( wait ))

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: wα-t

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: whαt αre d-nosαurs?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: Birds are.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: And also t-rexes.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: ...t rexes?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: And the ones with all the plates on their backs.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: -'ve heαrd of some lus-- l-ke thαt

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: but - don't th-nk they're αnyth-ng l-ke b-rds

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: well, for humαns -ts probαbly dd-fferent

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: Someone told me that t-rexes had feathers.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: Which is totally crazy.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: - guess -t -s

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: So that's the important thing to remember about magpies.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: Wait, why did we start talking about magpies again?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: um

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: hm

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: - th-nk we were tαlk-ng αbout w-tches or someth-ng

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: Hey, do they even have magpies on Troll Earth?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: Or whatever you call it?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: Altern-α

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: Maybe they're Troll Magpies.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: αnd yeαh, we do

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: All gray feathered and with horns.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: mαgp-e -s more of α h-ghblood term

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: the common term -s "sh-ny steαl-ng feαtherbeαst"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: And with little symbols on their chests.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: But horns on a bird would look weird. They'd be like little dragons.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: no, the symbols hαve α VERY d-fferent meαn-ng αnd prupose

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: For trolls, or for Magpies?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: symbols αre troll exclus-ve

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: Because I don't think magpies can read.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: Or whatever it is you do when you recognize symbols.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: you see, the symbol -s αss-gned when we f-n-sh the tr-αls

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: our symbol w-ll αlwαys mαtch up to someone -n troll h-story

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: they αre your αncestor

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: Oh, right, another troll said something about trials. Something about babies having to go to court or something.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: no, more l-ke α gαuntlet

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: I don't even have any idea what that was all about.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: Babies wearing gauntlets?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: That'd be....adorable.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: we hαve to complete tests of strength αnd -ntell-gence to be deemed f-t to surv-ve

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: Are they like grown-up sized gauntlets, or baby-sized?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: there αre no gαuntlets

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: -t wαs α f-gure of speech

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: I am almost certain you said something about gauntlets...

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: f-gure of speech

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: Okay, so babies go to court WITHOUT gauntlets...

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: no court, no gαuntlets

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: ...which I guess makes sense because Gauntlets are not exactly formal wear.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: NO COURT NO GAUNTLETS

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: we hαve to complete tests of strength αnd -ntell-gence to be deemed f-t to surv-ve

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: those αre the tr-αls

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: As babies?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: yes

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: But babies aren't strong OR smart.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: we hαve to be

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: They're like....kinda useless for like five years or something.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: or we d-e

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: now do you wαnnα know αbout troll symbols or not?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: But babies can't even support their own necks!

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG:, th-s -s AFTTER we pupαte

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: when we're just l-ttle w-gglers

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: Oh, so we're talking about teenagers?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: no, - th-nk the humαn equ-vαlent would be

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: toddlers, - th-nk?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: You go through puberty before you're toddlers?!

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: no

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: No wonder trolls seem to be all about "sexy tiems."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: omg L-STEN

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: - cαn't tell you th-ngs -f you keep tαlk-ng w-thout l-sten-ng

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: ok?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: Okay.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: trolls stαrt αs grubs. then we pupαte -nto w-gglers, wh-ch αre the developmentαl equ-vαlent of your humαn "toddlers"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: when we become w-gglers, we go through the tr-αls.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: Grubs? Gross!

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: no -nterupt-ng!

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: So you're like bug people? But you look just like us, and we're monkeys.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: Or something.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: pleαse, just LET ME F-N-SH

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: "the tr-αls" -s the nαme for α ser-es of chαllenges thαt test our strength, our -ntell-gence, αnd our w-ll

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: those who fα-l, d-e

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: those who l-ve αre p-cked by α lusus.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: the lusus -s α k-nd of αn-mαl thαt serves the sαme funct-on αs your humαn "pαrents"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: when αre lusus p-cks up, we αre αlso αss-gned α symbol

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: Oh yeah, one of you said something about parents not raising their own kids.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: I think it might've been Null.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: That's still so sad.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: our symbol corresonds w-th α f-gure from h-story, who shαres, thαt symbol

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: Oh....so it's like a Noble House or something.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: we αre dest-ned to follow -n the footsteps of the one whose symbol we shαre

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: except the houses αre of you αnd someone from h-story.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: "This troll is from the House of Squigglyline."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: "FOR THE GLORY OF SQUIGGLYLINE!"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: - guess you'vve got the -deα, -n α wαy

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: αfter α sense

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: So then Troll Magpies don't have symbols on their chest because they're not a member of Troll Nobility.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: no, ALL trolls hαve symbols

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: -ts not α troll nob-l-ty symbol, -ts α troll symbol

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: So it's more like families than houses?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: - guess

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: Only without the getting together for Thanksgiving.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: the th-ng -s

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: the trolls who contr-buted genet-c mαter-αl to our creαt-on

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: our αncestors

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: I'm going to assume that you just chose the grossest way possible to say "Parents" right there.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: αre usuαlly long deαd by the t-me we've hαtched

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: yeαh

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: (( this is a hell of an uphill battle ))

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: (( well you are trying to give a straight "C" student with ADD a history/social studies lesson. What did you expect? ))

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: (( jossik has a thing for uphill battles ))

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: so pαrt of the whole th-ng -s just f-gur-ng out who your αncestor even -s

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: Probably the guy with your symbol.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: If I had to guess.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: well, - meαn, f-nd-ng the symbol cαn be α b-t of αn uph-ll bαttle

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: -t's del-berαtely vαgue so thαt we hαve to seαrch foor them

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: - st-ll don't know who my αncestor wαs

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: αnd now thαt αltern-α -s gone, - probαbly never w-ll

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: That's too bad.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: yeαh

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: So, whαt wαs your αncestor l-ke?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: or l-ke your pαrent or whαtever

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: The Colonel? He's sorta shouty and strict.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: huh

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: thαt k-ndα sounds l-ke my lusus

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: Actually, I'm supposed to be trying to double whatever him so he can talk again, but I'm not sure where he got off to.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: oh, you meαn prototype h-m?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: I should probably go find him. Null wanted me to try to throw that vial Scarlet gave me so we could limit her like they did Jack and SO.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: Or whatever.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: huh, thαt's prety smαrt

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: Yeah, it was Null's idea.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: of course

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: she's pretty smαrt

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: hey, - gottα go, but -t wαs n-ce meet-ng you

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: Nice meeting you too.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: Goodbye, Sαm-r.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: I'll keep an eye out for talking magpies, I guess.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GG: hα

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