123013-Nate-Sami

 -- arcaneArtisan [AA] began pestering acquiredCarne [AC] at 00:56 --

 [12:56] AA: Hey Nate. How's it going?

 [12:56] AC: same old

 [12:57] AC: why?

 [12:57] AA: Seems like we haven't gotten a chance to talk in a while.

 [12:58] AC: well

 [12:58] AC: I'm not a very talkative person

 [12:58] AC: so there's that

 [12:58] AA: I know.

 [12:58] AC: and?

 [12:58] AC: this has, never been, an issue before

 [12:59] AA: I guess I've just been worrying about how Jack seems to keep coming after us one by one. Like we might not have that much time left. I mean like....any of us.

 [12:59] AA: Plus we've all lost so many people, and I guess it's only just now hitting me.

 [12:59] AC: yep, kinda exciting

 [12:59] AC: like russian roullette

 [12:59] AA: Haha. You WOULD be excited by something like that.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:00] AA: Still. I guess I just want to make sure to spend as much time with everyone as I can.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:00] AA: Did you know Katie's going to have to leave the team?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:00] AC: no

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:00] AC: no one, tells me anything

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:01] AA: Yeah, it's something about Doomed Timelines and that stuff the Big Naked Guy was talking about.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:01] AA: She's gotta take this cog we're after to the other time player's world.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:01] AA: And I guess we can't go with her for some reason. :(

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:01] AC: oh well

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:01] AC: no point, complaining

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:01] AA: But she said that troll she's dating, Kikate....or is it Kakite? I can never remember. Anyway, he's supposed to come over here to join us.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:02] AC: FUCK NO

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:02] AA: Hmm?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:02] AA: Do you not like him?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:02] AC: I'm not, a fan, of anyone, who thinks, with their

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:02] AC: uhh

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:02] AC: dongle

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[01:02] -- arcaneArtisan [AA] snickers. --

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:03] AA: Well, Katie seems to like him, anyway.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:03] AC: I wonder, why

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:03] AC: dongle

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[01:03] -- arcaneArtisan [AA] snickers again. --

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:03] AA: Cut it out! That's so juvenile!

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[01:04] -- arcaneArtisan [AA] is still giggling though./ --

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:04] AC: what?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:04] AA: "Dongle."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:04] AC: what's so, wrong about, dongles?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[01:04] -- arcaneArtisan [AA] starts giggling uncontrollably now. --

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[01:05] -- acquiredCarne [AC] just looks confused --

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[01:06] -- arcaneArtisan [AA] wipes the tears of laughter from her eyes and continues. --

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:06] AA: Anyway, I'm sure Katie knows what she's doing.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:06] AA: I'm sure Kika...Kaki....I'm sure Kitkat is all right.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:07] AC: I'd wouldn't, be so sure, I don't think, anyone knows what their doing

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:07] AA: Gettin' all philosophical on me, Nate?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:07] AC: never

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:08] AC: just keeping, my eyes open

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:08] AC: and my ears, to the ground

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:08] AA: Well, I guess that's good then. I'm not so good at that.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:08] AA: Actually, I found out I need glasses!

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:09] AA: So I'm sure that was the entire problem this entire time, and I've never been even slightly unobservant.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:09] AC: I guess, looking back, that makes sense

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[01:09] -- arcaneArtisan [AA] is smiling in a way that implies she does not expect this excuse to hold water. --

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:10] AC: hmm

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:10] AC: you're, good with people, right?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:10] AA: I like to think so!

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:12] AC: I'm trying, to figure out, how I should, deal, with my, situation

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:12] AA: What situation is that?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:12] AC: Beau, hasn't told you?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:13] AA: I'm....not sure. We've talked about a lot of things lately and...

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[01:13] -- arcaneArtisan [AA] blushes a little. --

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:13] AA: ...I guess I might've been slightly distracted by some of them.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:13] AC: yeah, that is, why I thought, she'd have, told you

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:14] AA: Maybe she did and it just slipped my mind. If so, I'm sorry about that. But I'll listen now!

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:14] AC: well, it's about, Aura

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[01:14] -- arcaneArtisan [AA] nods. --

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:15] AC: Beau and Doir, seem to think, there's something, between, us

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:15] AA: Oh! And is there?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:16] AC: I, don't, know

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:16] AA: Oh. I guess I know how that can be. I didn't know how I felt about Beau until she broached the subject.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:16] AA: Have you told Aura?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:17] AC: hell no

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:18] AA: Well maybe you should!

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:18] AA: But I guess it's probably scary, and you don't like to talk too much even when it's not something Major like that...

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:18] AC: yeah

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:19] AC: don't like, to talk

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:19] AA: ...okay, how about this--picture yourself on a date with her. It goes well, and you share your first kiss. Does that seem really nice to you, or really weird to you?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:19] AC: uhh, ok, I guess

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:20] AC: but this is, still the most, preposterous, thing ever

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:21] AA: Does your heart get all worked up when she's around?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:22] AC: a little, that may just, be my, fight or flight, reaction, pumping adrenaline, throughout my body, though

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:23] AA: Ahaha! But why would your fight or flight reaction kick in just because Aura's there?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:23] AC: fear, of other, people?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:23] AA: Hmm. Do you feel that way around me? Or Beau? Or Doir for that matter?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:24] AA: It's okay, I'm not going to read anything into it if you do.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[01:24] -- acquiredCarne [AC] just gives an angry glare --

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:25] AC: but, no, I guess, I don't

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:25] AA: Hmm. So it definitely seems like you feel something different for her than you do for us!

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:26] AC: maybe so, but, it doesn't matter

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:26] AA: It doesn't?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:27] AC: nah, she wouldn't, like me, I'm a cowardly, psychopathic, mentally damaged, asshole

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:28] AA: You're not cowardly!

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[01:28] -- arcaneArtisan [AA] smiles and pokes him in the ribs. --

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:28] AA: Okay, here's what I think:

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:30] AA: You're never going to know how she feels about you until you ask her. And I don't think you're going to know FOR SURE how YOU feel until you ask her, either.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:30] AC: nope, too scared

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:30] AA: Aura's a nice girl, Nate. Even if she doesn't think of you that way, I know she's not going to make fun of you for how you feel.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:31] AC: ehh, it'll make, things weird, though

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:31] AA: I don't think it has to. I think that depends on you and Aura.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:31] AC: weird it is, then

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:31] AA: Hey Nate.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:32] AC: que?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:32] AA: If you were out hunting, and you ran across soem REALLY hard to hunt animal. Like....I don't know, a snipe or something.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:32] AC: oh no, I got tricked, by that one already

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:33] AA: You've got it in your sights, and it turns and you're not sure if it notices you.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:33] AA: Do you take the shot? Or do you just give up rather than risk scaring it off before you can fire?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:34] AC: kill an animal, without it knowing, of my presense? I have more honor, than that

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:34] AA: No, no, this one definitely sees you and knows you're there. But it's just as unsure as you are.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:35] AC: I don't know, I usually hunt, on instinct

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:35] AC: I don't really, like thinking, it hurts

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:35] AA: Hmm. Maybe that's the answer then.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:36] AA: Stop thinking about this Aura thing, and go on instinct.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:36] AC: run and hide, got it

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:36] AA: Are you sure that's your instinct talking? And not you overthinking it? ;)

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:36] AC: let this, all blow over

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:37] AC: overthink? me?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:38] AA: It could happen! Romance stuff is confusing. It makes the brain go all mushy.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[01:38] -- arcaneArtisan [AA] smiles and looks off into the distance for a second. --

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:38] AC: my brain, has been, mushy, for some time

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:38] AC: skull fracture, does that

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:39] AA: Hehehe. Well fine. If you're sure that's what your instincts tell you and not what the "But, but, but what if...?" gland in your brain messing with you, then that's probably what you should do!

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:41] AC: why, does all, this, shit, have to be, so complicated?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:42] AA: Hey, at least we're not trolls.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:42] AA: You think our romance stuff is bad, their stuff is TOTALLY CRAZY.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:42] AC: crazy how?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:43] AA: Well for starters, I think they would consider this conversation we just had to be romantic!

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:43] AC: the hell?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:43] AA: Because they've got some sort of weird Friend Romance thing--it doesn't involve smooches, but it's like a Committed, "You can only have one friend you confide in and talk through their emotional problems" thing!

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:44] AC: why?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:44] AA: I've got no idea!

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:45] AC: certain individuals, would be, better versed in, handling, different problems

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:45] AA: I was trying to talk Balish through something because he seemed like he was having a hard time, and I was told I was "paleflirting."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:45] AA: And then Null said I was like, constantly paleflirting with EVERYONE.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:46] AC: eheheh

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:47] AC: those, crazy trolls, trying to, supress our, human heritage

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:47] AA: And they've got like three other "quadrants" on top of that.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:47] AA: So yeah. I think we've got it EASY.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:48] AC: the more, I learn about them, the better I feel, about being, human\

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:48] AA: Hehehe.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:50] AA: Most of them seem to be nice once you get to know them. But they definitely make some things WAY more difficult than they need to be.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:50] AC: heheheh, I've only, talked with, a few, pissed most of, them off

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:51] AA: I think a lot of them just sort of pretend to be pissed off and grumpy. Like Balish always tries to seem grumpy, but he's doing me this huge favor, and it sounds like it's going to be a lot of trouble for him, and he's not even asking for anything in return.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:52] AC: at this point, the problems of one, affect everyone

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:53] AA: I guess that's true.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:53] AC: basic survival, keep the herd, strong, you're less, likely to get, picked off

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:54] AC: we've got, to watch, eachother's backs

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:54] AC: which is, why I'm a liability

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:54] AA: Yeah, we do.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:54] AA: Wait, why would you be a liability?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:54] AA: You're a great hunter, good at keeping "your ear to the ground."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:55] AC: coward

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:55] AC: I'd sell anyone, off to survive

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:55] AA: Pfft. I don't think you would. You're better than you think you are.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:55] AA: You're just sensible about choosing your battles, and so you've got this idea in your head that you're a coward.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:57] AA: But that's good! We need that. If Doir had thought to ask you before going to face Jack alone, I'll bet he wouldn't have had that thing happen to him.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:57] AC: no, I'd have, let him go, like I did

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:58] AA: And if Kate and I had been more cautious about that healing magic, I'd...

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:58] AA: ...huh? You talked to Doir before he went?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:58] AC: no

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:59] AC: I saw him leave, I said nothing

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:59] AA: Did you even know where he was going?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:59] AC: no

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:59] AA: Well then how were you supposed to know you should stop him?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [01:59] AC: but splitting, up is stupid

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:00] AA: Well yeah. I guess that's true. We should always try to stick together.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[02:00] -- arcaneArtisan [AA] sighs. --

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:00] AC: people who, wander off, die

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:00] AA: But Doir's like a steamroller. Once he gets moving, it can be hard to stop him.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:00] AC: that's why, I've been, keeping my distance

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:01] AA: So it's understandable why you might not have wanted to say anything. Especially if you didn't know there was immediate danger.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:01] AC: there's always, fucking danger, everywhere

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:01] AA: But I also know what it's like to blame yourself for these things. I know I probably couldn't have done anything to help, but I still feel like what happened to Dean is my fault for wandering off.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:02] AC: don't make, this a competition

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:02] AC: I let Jack in, I win

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:03] AA: I'm not! I'm just saying I know why you feel that way. But I don't think either of us are REALLY to blame for any of that stuff.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:03] AA: I mean how were you supposed to know what Jack was when you let him in? And how were you really going to stop him, even if you had?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:04] AC: easy, do nothing

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[02:04] -- arcaneArtisan [AA] sighs. --

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:04] AA: At this point I'm not even sure he wouldn't find a way around THAT.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:05] AA: It's like he's got cheat codes or something.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:05] AC: probably, can't fight fair, I guess

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:05] AA: Normally I hate cheating in games. But at this point, if I had access to some....I'd totally use them. To stop him from hurting any more of my friends.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:06] AA: I guess I never realized how much he had hurt you, because it wasn't as dramatic as what he did to Dean, or Doir, or me.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:06] AC: you?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:06] AA: Oh, um....nothing. My mind must've been wandering.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[02:06] -- arcaneArtisan [AA] looks away. --

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:07] AC: fine, more, shit, people, won't tell me, always treating me, like a child

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[02:07] -- arcaneArtisan [AA] looks sad. --

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:08] AA: It's not that. I just....don't want you guys to worry. I'm fine.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[02:08] -- arcaneArtisan [AA] sighs. --

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:08] AA: Look, he messed with me when I was in that time warp, okay?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:08] AA: Made me play one of his stupid little games.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:09] AA: And I guess I "won" in the sense that I stopped him from hurting Katie, but it's kind of hard to call it a win, all things considered.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:09] AA: More like "Not a total loss."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:10] AA: But you have to promise not to tell Katie.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:13] AC: fine, you have my word, a secret to, my grave

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:13] AA: Thanks. She's the real reason I didn't want to tell anyone. I'm afraid if she found out Jack came to mess with me because of her using her powers, she'd blame herself.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:15] AC: wait, because of, her powers? isn't it, selfish, not to at least, warn everyone else?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[02:16] -- arcaneArtisan [AA] furrows her brows, looking concerned. --

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:16] AA: Do you think so?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:17] AA: ...I guess I hadn't even thought about it. But you might be right!

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:17] AA: Oh man, if someone else gets hurt...

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:17] AA: ...yeah, Jack would TOTALLY mess with them.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[02:17] -- arcaneArtisan [AA] facepalms. --

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:17] AA: Oh man, I've been so STUPID. I'm putting everyone in danger....but I don't want Katie to blame herself, either!

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:20] AC: fucked if you do, fucked if you don't, but I gave, my word, I won't go back on it

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:20] AA: Thanks Nate. But I guess I should tell her myself.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[02:20] -- arcaneArtisan [AA] sighs. --

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:21] AA: Man, it's going to be way worse now that I've waited too long before telling her, too. Poor Katie...

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:22] AA: Thanks for talking with me, Nate. I think I'm going to go think about how to break the news to Katie.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:23] AC: probably a, good idea, I guess, I'll keep thinking, about how, to deal with, my problem

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:24] AA: Oh, right, that....well, before I go, I'll just say one last piece of advice on that:

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:24] AA: Stop thinking about it. Just spend more time with her, and do what feels right at the moment. Don't make any decisions until it's actually time to decide about them.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:24] AA: Just like if you were on a hunt.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:26] AC: that's, actually good, advice, I'll try that

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:26] AC: see ya

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:26] AA: See ya.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> -- acquiredCarne [AC] ceased pestering arcaneArtisan [AA] at 02:27 --