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 -- graciousTerminator [GT] began pestering abyssalArrow [AA] at 17:21 --

 AA: Kikate. It's been a while.

 GT: { Hey }

 GT: { Yeah too long }

 GT: { I just escaped some bulls }

 AA: Oh my.

 GT: { And several hungover trolls }

 AA: I haven't contacted you recently because my computer was at home.

 GT: { Ah }

 AA: I have only just recently acquired portable computing.

 GT: { So you were out adventuring then }

 GT: { How's that been going? }

 AA: Yes. We had great success mostly.

 AA: Except that one of our team members is dead and another is missing.

 GT: { Dean died, yes }

 AA: The dead one, however, was more trouble than he was help, so that is counted as a bit of a success.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { The mssing one is news }

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: Yes, we do not know what happened to Leon.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: As such, our splintered team has merged into one six man team.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { }

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: Hopefully we can find Leon again.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { I hope so too }

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { Don't even get me started on teams }

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: What's wrong?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { I ended up being elected the leader of Team Justice }

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { And it's not that I can't handle it but }

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: Is that one of the 6-troll teams?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { Yes }

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { We were just such a mess! }

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

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { Well for one my land happens to be that of Wine and Depravity }

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { And some of us couldn't control ourselves around the former }

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: That is not good.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: What ended up happening?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { I managed to smuggle us into a certain establishment via the appeasment of a certain bull's fetish }

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { And then we were attacked by imps }

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: I'm curious about the fetish...

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { Oh }

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { I threw him against the wall and shoved a katana against his throat }

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { Apparently he's into that }

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

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: That also explains the "escaping from bulls".

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { It wasn't escaping per se }

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { }

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { It was more me just walking outside }

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { How could I face them? }

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: You could, perhaps, use deception and stealth to outwit them and pick them off.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: Though I suppose that's harder to do with a sword.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { Oh no perhaps I wasn't clear }

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { I think the bulls are my consorts }

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { They're friendly enough, albeit stubborn }

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

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { The imps proved to be the problem }

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { Upon their attack the bulls flew into a rampaging panic }

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

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { I managed to clean them up for the most part while Jossik flopped around in a drunken stupor }

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { And the others scrapped gold off the walls }

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { What an impression for the Mind Hero's team to make }

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: You are of Mind?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: I don't actually know your designation yet, I am curious.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { I'm the Bard of Mind }

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { I've been eXperimenting with my aspect a lot lately, as it happens }

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: Interesting. I don't know what any of these titles mean, but I have also been experimenting.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { In fact during the imp struggle I managed to hone an incredible amount of power }

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { But it was overwhelming, and I lost it }

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { My grip on it, I mean }

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { Nothing resulted }

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: I seem to be able to manipulate temporal states. I can reverse damage to things or accelerate degradation.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: It's difficult, however.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { A time player }

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { Incredible... And I'd imagine so }

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: Yes, I am the Sylph of Time.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: I haven't the faintest clue what a Sylph is.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { Your syntaX can compensate for lack of understanding of your diction }

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { I guarantee that if you said "Sylph" to someone they would think you knew just about everything there is to know about Sylphs }

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: Haha. Perhaps, but it is a strange word.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: I don't think the title itself is very important, but what you learn from it.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { Right }

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { I've been hearing that we're supposed to evolve into our aspects }

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { As some learning eXperience, as you just said }

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: Evolve into them?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { Well }

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { My recent eXperience was a great eXample }

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { I was sort of surprised when I heard about my aspect }

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { Mind never seemed to be my thing, I'm driven by emotions and friendships }

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { Not necessarily logic, as Mind would imply }

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { But here in my team's session }

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { Where everyone else is too drunk to function }

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { I realize the importance of it }

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

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: I'll admit, I'm not sure where my powers fit into my team.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: I recognize the usefulness of it, but it seems situational at best.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: I'll need to experiment more.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { Time encompasses so much though! }

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { You say it's situational but literally everything we're eXperiencing now is just one timeline that could only happen through a certain sequence of events }

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: It does, but at the same time, I don't think I am able to time travel, despite my attempts to.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: My abilities are limited to temporal states, at least so far.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { Well of course }

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { I mean none of us have this aspect thing mastered, to my knowledge }

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

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { And once we do who knows how powerful we could become }

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: It's hard to imagine that the game would allow us to become too powerful.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: Don't most games have limits on this sort of thing?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { Usually yes }

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { But there are occasionally eXceptions }

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { Cheats, if you will }

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { Jack would be an eXample }

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

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: How else would he be so powerful?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { The only other eXplanation I can think of is motivation }

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: Unless... is there something akin to a "New Game+"?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { A restart, you mean? }

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: Yes, but you keep all of your items and "levels".

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { So }

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { Are you suggesting that he may have come from another session then? }

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: How else would he have known so much and be so powerful?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: But, if he had played this before, he would know exactly what to do and would be able to lord over our session.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: Hence his title, Lord of Doom.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: There aren't any Lords in our gemini session.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { Right }

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { Unity will be our only method of victory }

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { If our teams don't tear each other apart }

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { Though I can't imagine human dissesion being too awful amongst your team }

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: It was, but again, it has been addressed.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { Heh }

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: The trolls will be capable in your hands, I'm sure of it.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { You flatter me }

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { An insane troll has requested that he place a bracelet upon me, in order to track my location and mark me a traitor }

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: Who is that?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { Rilset }

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: I have yet to have the "pleasure".

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { Hmph }

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { He manages to maintain a facade of well-meaning }

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { Yet he's been blinded by love }

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

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { I believe that is the human word for it }

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { He seeks a flushed quadrant with a troll being held captive by Jack }

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: Hold on. This is news to me.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: Jack has a troll?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { I'll trust you not to tell the other humans }

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { If they don't know it may be for good reason }

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { Though I know not the reasoning behind that }

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: I'll respect that.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { One of our own has indeed been captured by Jack }

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { In addition, Jack also intends to cut her eyes out }

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: This is bad news.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { A rescue operation has been planned }

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: If only there were a way for the humans to assist...

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { Yet Rilset will not trust me until she is safe }

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { There may be in the future }

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { But we are not so inhuman as to forsake our team members }

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { We will recover her }

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: I wish you luck.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: Who is the troll?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { Nullar }

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: She is on derse. I saw her not long ago there.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: Are you awake yet?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { Yes }

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { On Prospit, yes }

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: Oh. I was hoping you were a derse dreamer.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { }

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { I'm sorry to disappoint }

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: It's alright.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { It would've been nice to see you as well }

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { Hopefully a meeting between the two of us will happen sooner than later }

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

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: I am getting a bit impatient, to be honest.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { The time player becomes inpatient }

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { What cruel irony v.v }

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

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: You may be onto something, however.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { It's interesting }

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: What if I can accelerate myself?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { That'd be incredible... }

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { I was wondering about that }

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { There could be limitless alternate-timeline Kates created by a future self of yours }

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { Who knows what kind of things we've accomplished in those timelines, yknow? }

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

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: But how to interact with them?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { I feel like a Time player's strength is not so much interacting but observing }

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: How do you mean?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { Time can be fickle }

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { Wouldn't want to cause any paradoXes or mishaps }

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { Not that you'd make that sort of mistake }

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { But even with no interaction }

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { The insight of looking into your past, future, and alternate versions of the two }

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { It's incredible }

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: I'm no seer, but I'll try to keep my eyes peeled.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: Perhaps this is your mind aspect coming out, without you even realizing it?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: Helping people realize what they are capable of?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { Perhaps }

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { Yet I hadn't even considered that possiblity }

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { Haha }

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: Still, something bothers me.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { Hm? }

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: Does Rilset think you have something to do with Nullar's disappearance?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { No }

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { }

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { }

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: So... why does he think you a traitor?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { I think I just fell in love with the wrong person }

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

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: Excuse me if I'm a bit...

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> AA: I don't understand.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { Nono it's okay }

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { I'm leaving anyways }

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> GT: { bye thanks }

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> -- graciousTerminator [GT] ceased pestering abyssalArrow [AA] at 18:27 --

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

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

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