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 [02:17] GA: i guess doir could just mind astral zap over to him? that possible?

 [02:18] GT: You've been there before, you can travel there at the speed of thought

 [02:19] GA: okay i do that

 [02:20] GA: "hello snail guy. i am the hero and am here to learn stuff from you."

 [02:21] GT: The escaryogi sits in his razor blade lotus, regarding creation. His eyestalks swivel towards his astral visitor.

 [02:21] GT: "Where do flowers come from?"

 [02:21] GA: "yeah hello im here"

 [02:21] GA: "they come from seeds"

 [02:22] GA: "and evolution"

 [02:22] GT: Where does knowledge come from?

 [02:23] GA: "living things interpreting their surroundings?"

 [02:24] GT: What is the difference between flowers and knowledge

 [02:25] GA: "knowledge is... neural... signals, and ideas and observations and stuff, and flowers are planty cell stuff."

 [02:26] GT: What does the flower seek

 [02:26] GA: "sunlight and reproduction."

 [02:26] GA: "do you only speak in questions. like those alien guys from star trek who only spoke in metaphor."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:27] GA: "doir, his arms wide!"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:27] GT: What purpose would a statement of fact have, are not questions pregnant with knowledge

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:28] GA: "good point, i guess."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:28] GA: "heres a question: can you help me discover my true powers and all that?"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:29] GT: We can only show you the way, if your eyes are open.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:30] GA: "doir, his eyes wide."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:30] GA: "sorry about leaving so suddenly last time, was kinda savin the universe and shiz. but its fine now, i got five years to spend learnin it up."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:31] GT: What is a Page?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:31] GA: "the class? uh, the shitty one that sucks."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:32] GT: Is that all you have heard

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:32] GA: "also, something about pain and hardship. and being important, but also the universe is calling me stupid?"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:32] GA: "and some metaphor about wagons, i think."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:32] GA: "lynching pins."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:33] GT: What is it you seek?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:34] GA: "to be more than the useless cloudcuckoolander comic relief! i want power, to be an important hero and save my friends!"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:35] GA: "and to be less stupid. thats kind of getting old imo."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:35] GT: What is power?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:35] GA: "having *all* of the mind powers! and the hacking knowledge, too, but thats probably not your domain."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:36] GA: "and mastering them and stuff, too."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:36] GT: How can you learn a power that you can not define?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:37] GA: "i uh, i dunno."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:38] GT: What should a hero seek...can he finish a quest if he does not know what he seeks?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:38] GT: And in understanding what it is he seeks, what does he obtain.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:38] GA: "he obtains what he seeks!"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:41] GT: You have taken an important step

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:41] GA: "heheh, cool."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:41] GA: "whats next, obi wan?"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:42] GT: Contemplate the Mystery of the Rope

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:42] GA: "aw man, i hate that rope. it sucked, and nobody was strong enough to pull it."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:44] GT: Some have Wings, Some Have Ladders, and Some have Ropes.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:44] GT: You have a rope, young hero

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:44] GA: "oh, you mean for climbing up to power. ropes are the hardest, ladders are middle, and wings are the easiest."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:44] GT: Contemplate the Mystery of the Rope and embrace it's hardship...and learn it's power

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:45] GA: "okay!"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:45] GT: Why are wings the easiest

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:45] GA: "cause you can just fly up. i have wings, not metaphorically but physically, and they make getting up real easy."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:45] GA: "though you dont really put in any effort with wings, so i guess you dont really get anything out of the journey."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:46] GT: Why is a ladder more difficult then wings?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:47] GA: "cause you gotta use your arms and legs and go up every rung instead a' just flappity flap."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:48] GT: Where can a ladder take you?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:49] GA: "up or down. or i guess sideways if you use it like a bridge, but generally theyre better than chutes."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:49] GT: How is it diffrent from wings

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:49] GA: "well, it can get you to the same places, but slower and it looks less cool."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:50] GT: Can a ladder bring you to the sky?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:50] GA: "no, they cant."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:51] GT: Can wings bring you to the sky?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:51] GA: "yeah"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:52] GT: Why can a ladder not bring you to the sky?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:52] GA: "cause ladders need support, and they arent usually long enough? i suppose they technically could though."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:53] GT: If ladders must rest against something, what is true about where they can go?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:54] GA: "anywhere where there is something to rest on?"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:55] GT: Where others have gone, a ladder can rest and the climber can climb. A simple rope however...how is it diffrent from a ladder?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:56] GA: "well, you can just tie a rope to any place you want and go up, though its a lot more difficult and you get a good workout from it."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:56] GA: "so you get the destination with the added reward of having a difficult but strengthening journey."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:57] GT: Can one simplely rest a rope against a place where someone has gone before to climb?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:57] GA: "i guess."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:59] GT: You can? A rope is not so solid a thing young hero.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [02:59] GA: "oh, whoops, misunderstood. yeah, you gotta tie it, or maybe attatch it to a grappling hook and throw it up or something."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:00] GT: You do not have the luxery of hook or a convenient tie off point.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:00] GT: If this is true...what is the lamentable limitation of a rope

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:00] GA: "i cant do shit with it if its not tied up already?"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:02] GT: Heirs and Maids have wings, The others have Ladders...but the lonely page has a rope.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:02] GA: "wow i really got the short end of the stick didnt i"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:02] GA: "fuck you universe"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:04] GT: Despair not

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:04] GT: You have already touched on it, the power of the rope.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:04] GA: "yeah im a super astrally ghost"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:05] GA: "can i tie the rope to a tree, knot it into a noose and hang myself in an act of rebellion?"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:06] GT: A rope can go where only wings could otherwise take you.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:06] GA: "so, basically, i can do everything heirs and maids could do but i get a shitty way of doing it?"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:07] GT: And if you climbed there rather then flying...what have you gained that they have not by soaring?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:08] GA: "really strong arms."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:13] GT: Indeed.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:13] GT: Have you come to understand, how it is you will learn your next power?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:13] GA: "may...be?"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:14] GT: The escaryogi returns to his meditation

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:14] GA: "i actually have no fucking clue. oh man. shit."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:17] GA: "seriously can i have a hint or something. im totally lost here."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:17] GA: "do i have to climb a rope? is... is that what i gotta do?"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:18] GT: You must find what it means to have a rope...and return when you have learned a new power

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:18] GA: "yeah but. but how do i learn a new power. like. what."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:18] GA: "do i just go stand near someone and concentrate really really hard until i can read their mind or something"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:19] GA: "or try and possess someone while in ghost form"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:19] GA: "or do i gotta like. pull up some skill tree and unlock it."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:19] GA: "seriously man im really fucking stupid im not gonna learn shit unless you spell it out for me what i gotta do."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:19] GT: That is not our way

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:20] GA: "well, shit."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:20] GA: "yeah you can expect me back never-o-clock dude"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:21] GA: "im not gonna figure that out. thats like. way beyond me."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:23] GA: "screw you, snail guy. ima go find some stairs or somethin."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [03:25] GA: Ghosty astrally doir z-snaps and minds his way outta there like nobodys business.