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 -- arcaneArtisan [AA] began pestering taciturnContagion [TC] at 23:21 --

 [11:21] AA: Meouet! You survived!

 [11:21] AA: And went God Tier even!

 [11:21] AA: What happened?

 [11:22] TC: My last ditch effort turned out to be...

 [11:22] TC: successful.

 [11:22] AA: That's great! What did you do?

 [11:23] TC: I had some weird glittery purple powder in my substance analyzer. I figured I'd rather have gone out on my own terms, and I knew it was toxic...

 [11:24] AA: That makes sense I guess. I just wish I could have helped. I mean....now I guess that would've been a BAD thing, but I still sort of feel like I let you down.

 [11:25] TC: Not at all!

 [11:25] AA: So how does it feel? Everyone's been scrambling to try to pull it off, but you're the first of us to actually do it.

 [11:25] AA: Do you feel powerful?

 [11:26] TC: Honestly, I feel weird. But I think it's because of all the discussion I just had, the experience of being shredded to ribbons, and the new responsibility I have to uphold...

 [11:26] TC: I wouldn't say more powerful, even. Possibly just more burdened.

 [11:27] AA: Oh. I guess I can get that. My Eldritch Painting stuff is as much of a burden as a benefit a lot of the time.

 [11:28] AA: I'm sorry you had to go through that being shredded thing, too. I go through a similar thing when I'm in my dream body, so I know how much that can suck.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:28] AA: Wait, what discussion?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:29] AA: Oh, wait, all that stuff you told me to tell the others....I was so worried about you I didn't even think about it! You did say you learned something about these echoes, right?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:29] TC: You know... the Echoes... they know they're Echoes, but they don't? They're all exactly the same as the real one, from what I can understand. Indistinguishable...

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:29] TC: So... Perhaps the Libby we knew in the first place... was also an Echo.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:30] AA: Hmm. Actually....that would make sense. She made comments about "cheating death." So did Scarlet.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:30] AA: I guess that would technically be cheating death, if you had an echo of you that survived.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:30] TC: Either way, the true Libby is frozen in time, which is why the Echoes are able to act without conscience.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:30] TC: Yes, but if it's just a copy of you, is it really you?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:30] AA: I don't know. Maybe not. But....from your perspective, it would be. Right?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:31] TC: Probably? I don't know. I feel like that's a question for a heart player.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:32] AA: Maybe so.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:32] TC: Sorry.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:32] AA: Also, the echo on this side that looked like Libby just turned into Jack.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:32] TC: Pellok turned into Libby here.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:32] AA: I'm not sure I buy that, either. But I don't know how to respond to it.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:33] TC: My theory, knowing that yours appeared to be Jack...

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:33] TC: Were you able to confirm that the Jack that tasked you with this was the true Jack?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:33] AA: No. The fact that he didn't kill anyone actually kind of draws all of that into question pretty strongly.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:33] TC: Because so far, as I understand it... Jack has been attempting to ruin our game.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:34] TC: From what I just learned, the Echoes are also trying to ruin our game.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:34] TC: Beating the game will destroy them.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:34] TC: They want to live.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:34] AA: But you said our Libby might have been an Echo all along, right?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:34] AA: Was she trying to ruin our game too?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:35] TC: It's possible, but I don't know at what point her original self was frozen. Because if that's the case, the Echo would act in accordance with her whims if she were still alive.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:35] TC: If any of this information is even valid.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:35] AA: Ughh. This is all so difficult. I don't know what the right thing to do is. Do we fight the echoes? Or do we try to help them find a way to survive?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:36] TC: Helping them find a way to survive will doom our game.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:36] TC: Though... with as many players as we've lost already...

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:36] TC: It may already be.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:36] AA: Honestly, I'm not so sure I have a problem with that. If I can keep all my friends alove and healthy...

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:36] AA: *alive

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:36] TC: Which makes me wonder why they're pressing for this change now.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:37] AA: ...who cares if there's a new universe? I mean, we can live in this universe. Just make it nicer.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:37] TC: That's true.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:37] TC: I did say I'd try to find a way to help the Echoes. I don't want to think they're inherently evil.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:38] TC: I am obligated to do as much right now.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:38] AA: Yeah, but I can't let them hurt my friends. And if Melaina's one of them, she's got a black eye coming her way for what she did to Beau.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:38] AA: But I don't want to kill ANYONE if we can find some other way.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:39] TC: I'll see what I can come up with...

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:39] TC: If I've God Tiered, I'm near a quest bed. Which means I'm on a Rage world.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:40] TC: Maybe there's something here that will help me figure out what's going on.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:40] TC: and then I'll be back to you all as soon as I have more info.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:40] TC: I'd hate for us to accomplish this task only to find it was a huge detriment to everything.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:40] AA: Have you tried contacting Scarlet? If it's the machine that killed her, maybe she knows where it's from.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:40] TC: I've never spoken to Scarlet before.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:41] AA: Oh. Yeah, I guess maybe Libby wouldn't have had much wish to get you involved with her.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:41] AA: She's not evil like Jack is, but there's no love lost between her and Libby.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:41] TC: Hm...

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:43] TC: Well... if it will help me find a way to save her, I don't mind breaking that trust. If it means truly saving her.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:45] AA: Okay. Careful though. Trust means a lot to Libby. But I guess you know as well as anyone what would and would not make someone angry.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:46] AA: Scarlet's handle is ravishingCalypso.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:46] TC: Thank you.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:46] AA: Sure thing.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:46] AA: Good luck, Meouet.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:46] TC: You as well. Keep your eyes on those things.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:46] AA: I will. Not that I can trust my eyes anyway.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:47] TC: Be safe.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [11:48] AA: You too.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> -- taciturnContagion [TC] ceased pestering arcaneArtisan [AA] at 23:49 --