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[08:36] -- arcaneArtisan [AA] began pestering acquiredCarne [AC] at 20:36 --

[08:36] AA: Hi Nate!

[08:36] AC: oh god, no

[08:36] AA: Hey, it's okay. Actually, the first thing I wanted to say was that I understand why you were about to shoot me before.

[08:37] AA: It's totally cool. I'm glad someone's looking out for everyone's safety even if it means making the hard decisions.

[08:37] AC: I don't, want to, though

[08:38] AA: I know. I don't want you to either.

[08:38] AA: I've talked to Libby about it, and I think we've worked out a way to avoid that happening in a way that puts you guys in danger again.

[08:38] AC: what is, it?

[08:39] AA: I guess when I use that magic, if I use ALL my colors, these....THINGS get inside my head and take over for a while.

[08:40] AC: things?

[08:40] AA: Libby thinks there's no way to stop them from taking over, but if I go off alone somewhere and "discharge", their possession of me will end before they can hurt anyone or mess up our quests.

[08:40] AA: ...so long as we're not near the end of our World Quest. Then they can use portals.

[08:40] AA: But Libby seems to think that's the only time they can.

[08:41] AA: She also thinks I'll be less prone to getting taken over if I get better at my magic. So I've got to use it more so I can get better at it.

[08:41] AC: just, give me, a warning

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[08:42] AC: nearly had, a heart attack, last time

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[08:42] AA: Well, the warning will be clear enough. When I'm down to just one color....like, Sepia-Toned, I guess, if I have to call on any more colors that's when it'll happen.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[08:43] AA: So if I go Sepia-toned, I'll just go off somewhere by myself and discharge. Unless we're near the end of our world quest, then I'll wait until we finish it.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[08:43] AC: I'm not, a fan, of this plan

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[08:43] AC: too much, risk

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[08:43] AA: Yeah. It IS risky.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[08:44] AA: Especially because, if I have to do it to save one of you, I'm going to have to use my magic to do it.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[08:44] AA: ...which is why...

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[08:44] AA: ...look, I can't GIVE YOU PERMISSION to, becuase Beau would kill me. But if it looks like I'm going to hurt you or one of the others...

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[08:44] AA: ...well, I won't hold it against you, whatever you decide you have to do to stop me. :(

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[08:46] AA: I trust you to do the right thing, Nate.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[08:46] AC: don't

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[08:46] AC: because, I can't

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[08:46] AA: You need to have more faith in yourself, Nate!

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[08:47] AC: nah

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[08:47] AC: I'm a, major, fuckup

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[08:47] AA: You're the Knight of Hope! I mean, c'mon, just listen to that title! That's not the sort of title they give to someone who doesn't do the right thing when the chips are down.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[08:48] AC: what is, the right, thing?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[08:48] AA: I don't know.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[08:48] AA: I'd say trust your instincts. Just like I said you should do with YOU KNOW WHO.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[08:49] AC: my instincts, almost killed you

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[08:49] AA: Well....yeah, but they didn't.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[08:50] AC: no, Beau and Kate, stopped me

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[08:51] AA: Yeah. So you've got friends to help you make the right decisions, too!

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[08:52] AC: I've decided, nothing, this whole game

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[08:52] AC: besides that, my life is, worth more, than Jossik's

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[08:53] AA: Oh....that thing. Man, Jack's games are twisted. I don't even really understand how that was supposed to work.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[08:53] AC: when we play, his games, no one wins

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[08:54] AA: That's definitely true.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[08:55] AA: That's why we've got to use every resource at our disposal to beat him. Even the risky ones, like this magic thing.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[08:55] AC: I'd prefer, hiding, until an opportunity, arrises

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[08:55] AA: That's a good idea too. We can't fight him head on yet.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[08:56] AC: I doubt, you could even, call it a, fight

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[08:57] AA: Yeah. True. The few times any of us have tried, we haven't even gotten near touching him, much less beating him.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[08:58] AA: Oh, but the other thing Libby told me was that she thinks we can fix the gear the spi....the gear *I* broke.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[08:58] AA: It's still hard to believe I'm the one who did that. :(

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[08:58] AA: But anyway, Libby says the keys are Luck and Hope!

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[08:59] AC: if it wasn't, you in your head, it wasn't you

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[08:59] AA: Only she said by "Luck" she meant "Light."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[08:59] AA: So that means you and Beau are the keys to fixing this thing!

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[08:59] AC: then, we're screwed

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[08:59] AA: No way! I know you guys can do it. You just have to believe in yourself, Nate!

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:00] AC: why, would I believe, in the sack, of shit, I am?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:01] AA: Man, is not believing in your own inner strength a Hope Player "Thing" or something?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:01] AC: why?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:01] AA: Null was all down in the dumps about her Hope-y powers, too.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:01] AA: But I talked to her about it and she seemed to feel a lot better.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:02] AC: yeah, she seemed, fine, when I talked, to her

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:02] AA: Oh, you talked to her?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:02] AA: She....didn't send you any documents, right?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:02] AC: no

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:02] AA: Okay, good.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:02] AC: why?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:03] AA: I don't know, just checking.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:03] AC: now, I'm just, confused

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:04] AA: Null's got a unique sense of humor. That's really all there is to say on the matter.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:04] AA: Anyway, I think you need to have faith in yourself. Why don't you think you're worth believing in?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:04] AC: I'm me

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:05] AA: That's not an answer! I'm me, too!

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:05] AC: the only thing, I'm good at, is hurting people

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:06] AA: And what am *I* good at? The only things I've acomplished in the last week are screwing up our quest, freaking out my girlfriend, failing to keep something VERY PRIVATE a secret from Doir, put on the sweater I was explicitly told not to touch, and get my brain invaded by video game demons!

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:07] AA: I don't think it's supposd to be ABOUT being good at things. I think it's just supposed to be about getting less bad at things as time goes by.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:08] AC: I'm pretty bad, at learning

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:08] AC: I doubt, I can, really improve, in a timely manner

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:09] AA: Well then do it in a slow manner. Like that turtle that raced the rabbit.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:09] AC: win due, to other people's, laziness?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:09] AA: Win due to you being less lazy than your opponents!

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:10] AA: That turtle would've never won the race if he gave up hope.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:10] AC: if that turtle, was smart, it wouldn't, have agreed, to that race

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:11] AC: it got, lucky

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:11] AA: I read about this in one of my books. It was the one set in Fantasy Wales I think.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:11] AC: whales?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:11] AA: There are two types of luck. There's random lucky breaks that no one can control....well, I mean, I guess Beau can, but that's not the point.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:12] AA: But then there's the kind of luck that comes from keeping your eyes open and noticing when you can make your situation better, when anyone else would've overlooked that.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:13] AA: Five people trip over a rock made of some super rare, super valuable material, but only the last one recognizes it as valuable.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:13] AA: And it's not because he's "lucky," it's because he thinks about the things that happen to him and figures out how to use them to his advantage.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:14] AC: I guess

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:14] AA: Anyway, I think you could be that kind of lucky. Because that's all about always having Hope.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:14] AA: And you're the Knight of Hope.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:15] AC: I'm still, not sure

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:15] AC: Jossik told me, knights are protectors

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:15] AA: So then that means you're the one who keeps our hope alive?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:16] AC: sure, the guy, who threatens, to shoot, his friends

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:16] AC: this can't, end poorly

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:16] AA: If I had hurt or killed one of you....I know I would've lost all hope, Nate.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:17] AA: So you definitely protected my hope, there.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:17] AC: don't look, for connections, where there are none

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:18] AC: I did nothing, until after, you were normal

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:18] AA: Yeah, but you didn't know I was normal.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:19] AA: Look, the point is--I believe in you. You're way better than you think you are.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:19] AC: probably not

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:19] AA: And I think you can prove that to yourself by working with Beau to salvage this quest I screwed up for us.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:20] AC: nah

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:20] AA: Please Nate? Just try?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:20] AC: Beau and I, got into a fight, earlier

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:20] AC: I doubt, we can, work together

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:20] AA: ...was it because you tried to shoot me?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:21] AC: that's the, only reason, anyone wants, to talk to me

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:21] AA: That's not true, Nate!

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:22] AC: but it is

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:22] AC: people, forget about me, until I do something, stupid

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:22] AA: What about the other day? When I was catching up to you and you told me about your problem with Aura?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:23] AA: Catching up WITH you, rather.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:23] AC: one outlier

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:23] -- arcaneArtisan [AA] frowns. --

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:24] AA: I guess maybe we don't talk as much as we should. But I just figured because you're so quiet all the time, you usually didn't want to talk to ME.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:24] AA: Like that you were one of those guys who just likes to "hang" or whatever without saying anything.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:25] AA: Have I been neglecting our friendship, Nate? :(

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:25] AC: nah

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:26] AC: I can, deal with it

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:26] AA: I'm so sorry. I've been so caught up with all the stuff going on with me that I haven't even been paying you the attention I should!

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:26] AA: Can you forgive me? :(

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:26] AC: no

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:27] AA: T_T

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:27] AC: because, you shouldn't, be sorry, for anything

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:27] AA: If you feel like I only talk to you when you do dumb things, I definitely SHOULD be sorry!

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:27] AC: I'm used, to it

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:28] AA: You shouldn't HAVE to be used to it.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:28] AC: ehh

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:28] AA: Seriously Nate. I want you to come to me ANY time you have something on your mind and just want to talk about it.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:29] AC: if, it'll get, you to, drop this, fine

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:29] AA: Good! I'm glad.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:30] AC: aren't, you always?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:30] AA: Not when my friends are feeling down.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:31] AC: wow, that was cornier, than usual

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:31] AA: Hehehe.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:32] AA: I really want you to try to work with Beau on this, Nate. I know I can get her to do it, if you can forgive her for getting mad at you earlier.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:32] AC: it was my fault, I pressed some buttons

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:33] AA: Well, either way. Will you work with her, if I can get her to work with you?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:33] AC: I'll give, it a shot

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:33] AC: don't expect, much

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:33] AA: Oh no. My hopes are raised to full mast.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:33] AA: They can't go any higher.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:34] AA: I've got Dame Fortune and Sir Hope on my side. This can't possibly fail!

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:34] AC: I already, regret this

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:35] AA: You won't when you guys TOTALLY ROCK THIS THING, Nate!

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:35] AC: is there, actually any plan?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:35] AC: or we just, throwing shit, at the wall

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:35] AA: Not really. I just know that you two are the key to it. Maybe just Hope Magic and Light Magic it?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:36] AA: Or maybe we use Luck and Hope to find the other piece and then alchemize them.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:36] AC: throwing shit, at the wall, I see

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:36] AA: It's always worked for me! :D

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:37] AA: Seriously, that's how I made my 5th grade art mural.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:37] AC: with shit?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:37] AA: Well I mean....not LITERALLY. I was throwing all sorts of crap at the wall though.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:37] AA: Watermelons, spaghetti, yarn, toothpicks, whatever.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:38] AC: you know, if it were anyone else, I'd think you were lying

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:39] AA: Hehehe.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:40] AC: I'm flip, floping on whether, this game is the best, or worst, thing that's happened, to me

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:40] AA: Could it possibly be both?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:41] AC: I don't see, why not

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:42] AC: I bet, you like it, since, you get to be, with Beau

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:42] AA: I think it's both for me, too, actually. So many people have died, Dean went crazy, Jack has hurt people I cared about and made me scared to sleep at night, the Colonel's a crazy macho shirtless guy now, Demons have invaded my head, I'm wearing this flippin' sweater...

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:43] AA: ...but yeah. I'm with Beau. And I get to spend times with my friends in real life instead of just on the internet. And I've made new friends who I would've never met without this game, like the trolls and Libby.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:43] AA: And I got to fly.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:44] AC: flying is, pretty fun

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:44] AA: Yeah.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:44] AA: And I'm learning so much about who I am and who my friends are.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:45] AA: Plus, I haven't had to take a math test in ages.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:45] AC: pfft, I just, skipped school, when there, was a test

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:45] AC: or whenever, I didn't, want to, go

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:45] AC: which was, often

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:45] AA: Man, I wish I could've gotten away with that. The Colonel would've had my guts for garters if he caught me skipping school.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:46] AC: to be fair, I was, working, bringing home, my kills

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:46] AA: Yeah, that'd change things.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:47] AC: yeah, I never really, got much, time to relax

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:49] AC: probably, why I'm, kinda quiet

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:58] AA: Yeah.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:59] AA: Well, like I said before, you should always feel free to come talk to me if you have something on your mind.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[09:59] AA: So you don't have to STAY quiet, if you've got something to say!

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[10:01] AC: alright, beat me over, the head, why don't you

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[10:01] AA: Hehehe.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[10:02] AA: Okay. I'm going to go now. Thanks for agreeing to try. I know you'll come through for us, Nate.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[10:02] AC: I'll try, I guess

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[10:03] AA: And you'll succeed! Because you're Nate, the Knight of Hope!

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[10:03] AA: Later Nate.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[10:03] AC: bye Sami

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[10:03] -- arcaneArtisan [AA] ceased pestering acquiredCarne [AC] at 22:03 --