123013-Nullar-Sami

-- aibohphilicGapeseed [AG]  began pestering arcaneArtisan [AA]  at 02:24 --

 [02:24] AG: dude, so, jossik's in a Pit

 [02:24] AG: aPParently he visited scarlet again

 [02:25] AG: because aPParently me and rilset saving his ass and getting him to safety wasn't a huge clue that he Probably shouldn't be alone with her on her terms

 [02:26] AA: ...what?

 [02:26] AG: wait, which Part

 [02:26] AA: I mean....after all that stuff she did to him, he went back to her?

 [02:26] AG: well

 [02:26] AG: that may be more than a little bit my fault

 [02:26] AG: see, I felt really bad for her. all the twinks, really

 [02:27] AG: she's just a Person who used to be a kid just like us going through this same shitty game

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:27] AA: Oh. Yeah, I felt a little bad about that too. I've kind of avoided her since then because I didn't know what to say to her.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:27] AG: and all she wants is her stuPid husband back right, so I was going to try to grow a new one for her with balish

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:27] AA: Huh?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:27] AG: but then it turned out suPPosedly she really actually liked jossik for who he was

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:28] AA: That's....I mean that SOUNDS sweet, but after what she did to him...

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:28] AG: or like that jossik in Particular had to be used to channel the herald

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:28] AG: and jossik was being Particularly annoying to me for like three days in a row so I convinced him he should date scarlet

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:28] AG: and then I guess they talked for a while and he forgave her and they were buds or something who knows

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:28] AA: I'm....not sure I'm following all this.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:28] AG: yeah it's Pretty stuPidly convoluted

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:29] AG: all I know is that three things haPPened a) suddenly rysPor and jossik are no longer dating b) aPParently rysPor is a 'huge dick' according to tlaloc and c) jossik suddenly thought it was a great idea to go back into scarlet's cryPt

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:29] AG: they are Probably related

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:31] AA: Wow. Relationship drama up the wazoo.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:31] AG: yeah for real

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:31] AG: so to summarize, jossik's in a Pit

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:32] AA: Wow. Are you thinking of rescuing him again?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:32] AG: hell no

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:32] AA: Oh.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:32] AG: he's an asshole, and it's not like I haven't already done enough to helP him

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:32] AG: tlaloc's mounting a rescue that will not involve you or me so let's leave them to it

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:32] AA: ...do you think Scarlet's going to hurt him? I'm not sure what else she could do to him after that thing before.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:32] AG: the only reason I was successful earlier was because libby was there to helP me

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:32] AA: It couldn't involve me anyway, I imagine.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:33] AG: and I don't really know what's going on with her but I get the imPression that using her Portals is more dangerous now than it was before, PerhaPs because jack has been alerted to her Presence

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:33] AG: through NO fault of my own of course >_>

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:34] AA: Of course not! I know you and Jack have some sort of THING going on, but I'm sure you wouldn't put Libby in DANGER over it.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:34] AG: shouldn't involve you, yes

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:34] AG: well I'm none too Pleased with her, given the whole thing with balish, but attemPting to kill your Pitchcrush's matesPrit isn't really the way to go about courting them

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:35] AA: Well no, of course not.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:36] AG: but yeah

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:36] AA: You know, Null, I hate to be the one to tell you this, but I think Balish and Libby are....pretty happy together. I mean....I don't want to make you sad or anything, but maybe it's time to move on from him.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:36] AG: /: I have already conceded his flushed quadrant

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:37] AG: I will not give uP the Pitch, that's just wrong. I simPly have to Present myself as a more challening rival

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:37] AA: Oh, okay. This is about....one of those other quadrant dealies?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:37] AG: that will come in time

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:37] AG: yes. black romance is PerhaPs the best romance of all

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:37] AA: I don't really understand any of them but the flushed one I guess.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:37] AA: I've really tried to understand the Pale one, for example, but everytime I get close I just hit a stumbling block.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:38] AA: It just seems like how people are SUPPOSED to treat their friends. Listen to their problems, help them work through them, and help them feel better when they're feeling bad, right?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:38] AG: flushed romance is formed from love, Pale from Pity, and black romance comes around when someone is so incredibly awful and awesome at the same time that you want nothing more than to smash their head into a wall, kiss them, and then do everything they do EXCEPT BETTER.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:39] AA: I guess maybe I don't understand after all then. I don't pity my friends. Most of them are way stronger than me most of the time.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:39] AG: well

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:39] AA: But sometimes they need someone to help them up when they're feeling down, and I'm good at that!

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:40] AG: usually a Pale romance comes about through Pity and... Protectiveness, you find someone to be so... admirable, but also fucked uP, that you want nothing more than to coddle them and fix all of their Problems and just like... touch them and hold them and reassure them. it's very, very intimate.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:41] AG: I mean, that's what the movies tell me at least. my own moirailshiP is not a good standard to go by since my moirail basically worshiPs me and wants to fill buckets with me but I'm trying not to focus on that now

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:41] AA: Well I definitely feel protective of my friends.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:41] AG: Pale feelings are

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:41] AG: okay this is a weird examPle but

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:42] AA: Ouch. He's one of those guys? I've never had one of them latch onto me, but I've heard other girls talk about it. Where they act like your friend but really they just want to be your boyfriend?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:42] AG: imagine you're walking down the road and you stumble uPon an injured meowbeast

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:42] AA: Hehehe, "meowbeast!" That's the cutest thing I've ever heard! Is that what trolls call cats?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:42] AG: it is a great creature of vast size but it's been wounded greatly. it looks uP at you with its deeP black eyes and lets out this just... amazing little mew.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:42] AG: ... if a cat is a meowbeast then PerhaPs

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:43] AA: So Moirails are like....pets?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:43] AG: no no let me finish

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:44] AG: so, you take Pity on this thing. you offer it a Place in your hive, desPite your lusus's Protests. you dress its wounds and bring it back to health. you feed it, even, bring it fresh kills and comb its fur. then, something haPPens to your lusus one day. it curls around you and never lets you go, even though you don't share its blood colour.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:44] AG: you cry into its white fur and tell it all of your Problems, and when the drones come to cull you, it dies Protecting you from them.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:44] AA: Awwwww.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:45] AA: Wait. That last part got sad. :(

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:45] AG: it's... a deeP, inexPlicably wonderfully dangerously deeP connection

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:45] AG: one you would kill or die for.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:45] AG: you may not ever fill a bucket with a moirail, but it is definitely the most intimate relationshiP of your life.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:45] AA: Yeah....that still sounds like friendship to me.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:46] AG: if that's how you feel towards all your friends, then I suPPose that's sweet. but oPening yourself uP in a way like that is very dangerous. if you do it for too many- or even more than one, where I'm from- they will end uP stabbing you in the back

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:47] AA: Nah, my friends would never do that!

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:47] AA: That's what friendship is all about!

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:48] AG: if you say so

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:48] AG: I think my... advice to you

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:48] AG: would be for you to wait until you find that meowbeast

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:49] AG: wait until you're literally struck breathless by how much you want to fix someone because they're so beautiful and Pitiful you can't imagine life without them. that's Probably who your moirail should be.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:50] AA: But I just couldn't live with myself if one of them was hurting inside and needed a kind word to feel better. Or if one of my friends got hurt or killed just because I was scared of dying for them. Heck, that's why I'm in this mess with Kate now where I have to tell her about that thing with Jack.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:51] AA: Or what if I had saved myself instead of Beau when that explosion went off at the smokestack? She might've died! And then she and I would've never...

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:51] AA: ...anyway, I just can't wrap my head around the idea of not helping everyone you can just because you're scared of getting hurt yourself.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:52] AG: well, it's also to Prevent hurting your moirail, to be fair

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:52] AG: in our society, the very thought that you might not be enough of a Person to handle every single one of your moirails Problems, insecurities, or fears, is just downright insulting

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:53] AG: there's something we call 'serendiPity'. I guess it's... like, a four way fate thing.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:53] AA: I thought that was when you fall butt-backwards into success?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:53] AG: the belief that each troll has five trolls out there who are absolutely 100% destined for them, and with whom everything will just click Perfectly

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:53] AA: Wait, five?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:54] AG: well, yes. clubs involves a mediation between two Parties who might otherwise commit black infidelity

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:54] AA: So it's just like....a marriage counseler?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:54] AA: No, wait. Marriage counselers would work for the people who are married, not the people who are about to cheat.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:54] AG: well

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:55] AG: basically, the idea is that you can have more than one rival

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:55] AG: but some black relationshiPs are doomed to be unhealthy or dangerous, or PerhaPs you already have a Partner or w/e

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:55] AG: basically, if it seems likely that one of you will kill the other, or that you aren't a good match, a mediator may steP in to Prevent it or cool things down

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:56] AG: PeoPle in clubs with each other can end uP being very close friends

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:56] AA: Ughh. The whole Black Romance thing really doesn't make sense to me AT ALL. Like the moirail thing, I can at least get why it'd be important to you...

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:56] AA: ...but I would think you would want to AVOID people you hated. Or try to learn to NOT hate them.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:56] AG: oh, man, black romance is my FAVOURITE. it's not just about Petty hate

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:57] AG: well, some of it is Petty

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:57] AG: but it's also about infuriating someone to the Point of being sPeechless, of getting victories wherever you can, of growing and learning and constantly striving to be better

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:57] AG: and also tackling someone to the ground and smooching their stuPid face off [;<

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:57] AA: Well, I mean, other than the "infuriating" part, I guess I can get the rest of it.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:58] AG: haven't you ever Played troll Pokemon red

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:58] AG: the relationshiP between gary and ash is suuuucchh a stereotyPical examPle of juvenile black flirting

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:58] AA: Um....I....maybe?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:59] AA: I played a game LIKE that....but it was not about trolls.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:22px;color:rgb(0,0,0);">[03:00] <span style="font-size:14px;line-height:22px;color:rgb(170,0,0);">AG: well, no matter. I can send you some movies and the like sometime if you'd like. most of mine are set in like ~*older times*~ but I might have some newer stuff too

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:00] AA: Well, that could be fun. Even if I can't imagine ever hating someone and also wanting to smooch them. Besides, I've already got someone to smooch<3

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:01] AG: well maybe humans just aren't as aggressive as trolls

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:01] AG: we're angry a lot of the time so it just makes sense to have someone to smooch while we're angry and someone to smooch when we're not

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:01] AG: Ps MUST BE NICE

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:02] AA: Sometimes I think that's true. But other times I think you guys are just putting on an aggressive front, but are sweeties on the inside~!

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:02] AG: well, the vast majority of my teammates are total loser wimPs as far as trolls go

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:02] AA: And then again, some of you guys don't seem aggressive at all. Like I talked to Maenam and she's a total sweetheart!

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:02] AG: if you had met an adult or two, your oPinion would change very quickly I assure you

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:03] AA: So adult trolls are scary?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:03] AG: maenam is... almost not even a troll. jossik and kikate and glissa and seriad are all Pretty nooktastic

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:03] AG: the others are just wildly immature

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:03] AG: I think balish and I are the only resPectably troll like PeoPle and we're both turning blood traitor so w/e

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:03] AG: don't judge our race by us that's all I'm saying

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:04] AA: Oh, of course not! Everyone's an individual.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:04] AG: I mean I don't know for sure, I've never met one. but, if the movies and the schoolfeeding are anything to go by, then, yes

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:04] AA: I just hope none of you turn scary like adult trolls, if they're as scary as you say.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:04] AA: I like you guys too much to be scared of you!

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:15] AG: ehehehe well we'll all be adults soon enough

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:15] AG: I'm middle aged, if you didn't know

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:15] AA: Huh?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:16] AG: trolls of my blood usually only live about a dozen or so sweePs

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:16] AG: I'm seven sweePs old already

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:16] AA: Oh....I had no idea!

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:17] AG: yes, that is one of the only unexPected benefits of this game

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:17] AG: there may be a way for me to avoid my early death

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:17] AA: Oh, that would be so great Null!

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:17] AG: and be with my friends and quadrantmates as guardians/rulers/watchers of the new universe

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:17] AA: Yeah, I guess if Libby and Scarlet and Jack have lived this long, maybe they would know how to make you live longer, too!

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:18] AG: well. I believe libby and scarlet died

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:18] AG: they are sPecial cases

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:18] AG: but jack, yes, and maybe the others know the methods

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:19] AA: Others? There are others?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:19] AG: sorry, I meant libby and scarlet

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:19] AA: Oh.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:19] AG: and this herald if scarlet is successful in channeling him through jossik's dream self as she Planned

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:19] AA: Man. You're not worried about what will happen to him if that happens?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:20] AA: I mean what if the herald like....takes him over?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:20] AG: he has another body

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:20] AG: and my resPonsibility toward him has ended

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:20] AA: Yeah, but when he goes to sleep...

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:21] AG: it can't be any worse than what will haPPen if you do, can it

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:21] AA: ...I guess this is that moirail thing again, huh? Feeling responsible toward him would be like....pale flirting or something?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:21] AG: sPeaking of you've been kind of dancing around that issue

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:21] AG: well, keePing someone alive doesn't have to be a moirail thing, but he's done his best to set himself uP as a Platonic enemy of mine so

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:23] AA: Hmm. I guess. But then again, it makes me think about what Nate was saying to me just now. "Keep the herd strong, you're less likely to be picked off."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:23] AA: I mean that makes it sound more like strategy than friendship, but it can be both!

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:25] AG: ehehehe yes Probably

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:25] AG: anyway I should Probably head out

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:25] AG: I was going to message scarlet believe it or not

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:25] AG: this headset doesn't exactly make for easy conversations with two different PeoPle

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:25] AA: Headset?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:26] AG: yes, I alchemized a comPuter that sPeaks into my ear and Picks uP my sPeech

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:26] AG: to get around the whole missing eyeballs thing

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:26] AA: Oh! That's cool! That would make it a lot easier...

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:26] AA: ...wait, what?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:26] AA: What happened to your eyeballs?!

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:26] AG: ehehehe really, I thought everyone knew by now

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:27] AA: No one mentioned it to me. :( I'm so sorry, Null!

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:27] AG: seriad gave my name as the next to get a Punishment from jack

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:27] AA: Oh. :(

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:27] AG: I'd never even met the bitch before

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:27] AG: she got my name from kikate iirc

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:27] AA: Man, that sucks. I mean I know how scary it is when he's there making you make that choice, but I can't imagine choosing someone else...

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:28] AG: I suPPose naming someone you don't know must have seemed easier to the weak nookstain but whatever

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:28] AG: jack offered to let me keeP one eye, but balish ended uP fucking that uP

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:28] AG: long story

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:28] AA: Oh. And that's why you have that hatelove for him now?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:28] AG: that among other reasons, yes

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:28] AA: :(

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:29] AA: I'm so sorry that happened to you, Null.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:29] AG: ehehehe it's alright

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:29] AA: I guess I know I made the right decision before, then. But it also makes it all the more clear that I've got to tell Katie the truth.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:30] AA: So she doesn't risk having to make it herself....or one of my other friends.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:30] AG: I have my moirail to reassure me about it if I ever get uPset asteriscks meaningful nudge asteriscks

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:30] AG: well, a decision definitely has to be made if jack gives anyone a choice

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:30] AG: just, try to be ready to make the smartest one

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:30] AA: I think I did.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:31] AG: (X>

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:32] AA: I mean I just have to make sure I never sleep again and it'll be like it never happened.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:32] AA: So no big deal.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:32] AG: /:>

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:33] AG: well. I'll try to talk to him.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:33] AG: he isn't on much, and I don't know if I can do anything but

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:33] AG: it's worth a shot

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:34] AA: -_- It's nice of you to try, and I appreciate the effort. But I don't have much hope that Jack's going to suddenly be reasonable or nice.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:34] AA: And I don't want you to take the risk--what if he decides to punish YOU for meddling?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:36] AG: ehehehe I think he knows by now I intend on meddling

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:36] AG: I'll get my little Paws in all of his fires and fuck uP all his irons

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:37] AG: he uh

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:37] AG: may or may not have offered to make me his

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:37] AG: what was the twink word

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:37] AG: 'betrothed' or something,

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:37] AA: ...you mean he wants to MARRY you?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:37] AG: he seemed to think that was the only way to keeP me from dying when he accomPlishes what he's set out to accomPlish in this game

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:37] AA: Oh geez, Null. I mean I don't want to tell you how to live your life....but I REALLY don't think that would be a good idea!

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:38] AG: idk maybe, I think it's more strategic than, like, romantic at this Point.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:38] AG: well okay it's a little romantic to me but yeah

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:39] AA: Ughhh. But I mean what if he does to you what he did to Libby?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:39] AG: what, take my eyeballs, ehehehe

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:39] AA: And KILL YOU.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:39] AA: Don't forget that part.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:39] AG: well yes that is a concern. but he wasn't thrilled about her and I think he killed her before comPleting her Primer

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:40] AG: well anyway

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:40] AA: You're not making me any less scared for your safety, Null. :(

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:40] AG: keeP this to yourself

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:40] AG: it's my business and I'd like to make the decision on my own without anyone gossiPing

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:40] AA: ...okay. Your a friend, and I trust you to handle this on your own.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:40] AA: But I hope you're REALLY SURE you know what you're doing. :(

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:40] AG: besides it's not like he's ever around for me to say anything about it ehehe

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:41] AG: I think

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:41] AG: that he's just like us, but a little more fucked uP. and I think that maybe I could helP him.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:41] AG: and I also think his goal is an admirable one if we go about it just a little bit differently

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:42] AG: but there are definitely tons of things going on around here that I don't have the slightest inkling about so mostly right now I'm just listening and trying to understand

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:42] AA: I don't know. Being flipped up is one thing....but I think Jack might have crossed the line between "Damaged woobie" and "Psychotic Torture/Murder Addict."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:42] AA: But I guess I shouldn't say these things about your boyfriend.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:43] AG: ehehe he would be an amazing black Partner if he could control himself that's for damn sure

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:43] AG: boyfriend, er, well, he does seem to have a Prominent bulge

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:43] AG: idk if I can really consider him my friend though

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:43] AG: we are... maybe, allies,

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:43] AG: but even that's doubtful

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:44] AA: Wait, you're not dating but he's already talking about betrothing you?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:44] AG: well twinks do things differently

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:44] AG: they have Primers, and use them to find comPatible matches, and then uh enter into... unions...,

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:45] AG: idk it's all very confusing

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:45] AG: libby and balish would know more than me

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:45] AA: "Primers?"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:45] AA: Like....manuals for how to get started at something?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:45] AG: it's like

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:45] AG: guidelines for... what you deem accePtable in a significant other

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:45] AG: if you aim too high and you're not attractive enough, you have to start all over.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:45] AG: or something.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:46] AA: Ughh. Is all alien romance SUPER WEIRD?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:48] AG: ehehe that certainly seems to be the case

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:50] AA: So....do you think Scarlet is safe to talk to? I feel kind of bad for her because I think she might be even more lonely than Libby....but after what she did to Jossik, I figured she was Bad News.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:50] AA: But then Jossik goes and starts dating her, and now you're saying you want to talk to her again...

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:51] AG: I think you can trust her

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:51] AG: to act in Pretty consistent ways I mean

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:51] AG: like, she's insane, and she's maniPulative

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:51] AG: but she's also Powerful and sometimes has good intentions

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:51] AG: you should be very on guard when sPeaking to her

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:52] AG: her only Powers seem to be maniPulating relationshiPs outside of her cryPt

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:52] AG: as long as you stay out of there and get in good with the black queen (well that's irrelevant to you considering you're not ever sleePing again suPPosedly,)

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:52] AG: you should be fine

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:53] AA: I might try to reach out an olive branch then.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:53] AG: I was thinking of doing the same

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:54] AG: I wanted to see if my Part in getting jossik to her was worth a Prize

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:54] AG: my strife sPecibus seems remarkably limiting. I don't know whether to go ranged or even closer melee. trying to figure out the best way to fight blind is hard /:

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:55] AA: ...I'm not sure I get Troll Culture, Null, but I still really don't like the sounds of this Jossik thing. I mean I'm sure you wouldn't do anything BAD, but it SOUNDS kind of bad when you explain it the way you are.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:55] AA: Like you sold out a friend or something.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:56] AG: I encouraged him to do something I thought may be dangerous because he was bothering me at the time

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:56] AG: it definitely wasn't the most moral of actions but it seems like it might benefit me now

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:57] AA: I just hope Jack's not being a bad influence on you, Null. I mean no one's perfect, but you don't want to just USE people or something.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:57] AA: :9

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:57] AA: :(, rather.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:58] AG: everyone uses everyone else, sami, even if it is just for 'good feelings'

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:58] AG: the very act of interaction is maniPulation

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:58] AG: but, yes, I'll try to keeP from the more sinister side of things

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:58] AA: I guess I just can't see it that way.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:59] AA: But yeah, I'm glad. I know you've got a good heart, Null.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:22px;color:rgb(0,0,0);">[04:01] <span style="font-size:14px;line-height:22px;color:rgb(170,0,0);">AG: well, thank you, sami

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [04:01] AG: coming from you that means a lot I think

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [04:01] AG: or maybe a little considering you Probably think almost everyone has a good heart (:

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [04:01] AA: Well yeah! Most people definitely do.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [04:02] AA: Although Jack's really challenging my belief that it's true of EVERYONE. :(

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [04:02] AA: But maybe you know him better than I do.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [04:02] AG: Probably not, actually. I know a little about his goals, but not his motives

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [04:02] AG: I'll try to Push the subject next time we talk

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [04:03] AG: this will sound silly

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [04:03] AG: but what I know of jack is the guy who invited me to his Planet to show me a silly traP for my asshole friend

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [04:03] AG: who Put on a wig made of my other friend's hair to try to look like a hero and imPress me

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [04:04] AG: who offered to break the rules of his own game to try to let me keeP an eye

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [04:04] AA: Wow. That's actually....kind of humanizing.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [04:04] AA: Or...twinkizing?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [04:04] AG: I think that maybe he's not quite as bad as we think

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [04:04] AA: -_- I would really like to believe he's got a kind heart under it all....maybe we could get him to stop hurting my friends without having to get strong enough to use force.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [04:05] AG: maybe. I think that as long as we have different goals than him that's unlikely

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [04:05] AG: and he seems to think us beating the game and getting our new universe and his goals are, uh, mutually exclusive

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [04:06] AG: if that's the right way to say it idk

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [04:06] AA: So how does he deal with you?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [04:06] AG: with a great deal of amusement, I think, maybe

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [04:06] AG: ehehehe

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [04:07] AA: It's not fair that he can just bully his way through all of us just because he's stronger than us. I mean did he ever even think of just TELLING us his plan and seeing if we'd help?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [04:07] AA: I mean maybe he's told you. But he started hurting us before that.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [04:08] AG: no, that Probably never occurred to him. aPParently his game ended with him 'having' to murder all of his teammates so he could take on the last boss alone without worrying about them stabbing him in the back

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [04:08] AG: so maybe it just doesn't occur to him to think allies are worth the risk, who knows

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [04:09] AA: And at this point, it's probably too late. I don't even know if *I* can forgive him for all he's done. Much less my friends...

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [04:09] AA: ...even if we agreed with his goal, I don't think we could ever work with him. :(

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [04:09] AG: well the way I see it, Pardon me for saying so, he's only been violent in times of extreme recklessness and stuPidity

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [04:10] AG: you being the excePtion to that, of course

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [04:10] AG: and Possibly me and seriad

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [04:10] AA: -_- Yeah. I bet he's going to try to punish Katie EVERY time she uses her power, too. And why? She wasn't even doing anything against him!

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [04:10] AG: there are Probably Parts to the situation I don't know though. he has a big thing for games and rules and bullshit like that

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [04:11] AA: I think maybe he's just being a territorial jerk. "Time is MY thing! No one else gets to play with it!"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [04:11] AG: maybe! she could ask him, if she wanted to, I think that might be a good idea,

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [04:11] AA: Ughh. I don't want any of my friends to talk to him ever again, if I can help it.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [04:11] AG: I mean I can try but I can't just inundate him with questions and requests when he get online next time

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [04:12] AA: You included. But I know better than to try to dissuade you from that.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [04:12] AG: I think as long as no one acts like a fool and tried to worshiP him like human dean did, it would be Pretty beneficial to try to coax out of him what he's Planning and why

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [04:12] AG: ehehehe well thank you for that

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [04:18] AG: well I really should be heading out, sami

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [04:18] AG: it was nice to talk to you again

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [04:18] AA: Okay, it was nice to talk to you too.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [04:18] AA: Good luck.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> -- aibohphilicGapeseed [AG] ceased pestering arcaneArtisan [AA] at 04:18 --