Faerzen & Lyra plan the trial

[23:11] <Faerzen_Norstov> <You see Faerzen in her golden dress floating through the air towards the gas station with her wings fully extended behind her as if she were gliding>
[23:12] <Lyra_Bel> Faerzen!
[23:12] <Lyra_Bel> Necklace on, now!
[23:12] <Faerzen_Norstov> <no response>
[23:13] <Lyra_Bel> Turn it on
[23:13] <Lyra_Bel> Things are about to start to suck, I think
[23:13]  * Faerzen_Norstov glides down closer to the gas station
[23:13] <Faerzen_Norstov> Hey, Lyra.
[23:14] <Lyra_Bel> Turn the necklace on
[23:14]  * Faerzen_Norstov floats down to the ground
[23:14] <Faerzen_Norstov> Oooookay?
[23:14] <Faerzen_Norstov> Why?
[23:14] <Lyra_Bel> Got your visual on me?
[23:14] <Faerzen_Norstov> Do you plan on going somewhere?
[23:14] <Faerzen_Norstov> Yes I do.
[23:14] <Lyra_Bel> Not willingly
[23:14] <Lyra_Bel> But we both know it'll happen anyway
[23:15] <Faerzen_Norstov> ....
[23:15] <Lyra_Bel> I've been thinking
[23:15] <Lyra_Bel> This isn't a real trial, or it's not intended as one
[23:15] <Lyra_Bel> The whole thing with the contract is
[23:16] <Lyra_Bel> Let's call it a distraction
[23:16] <Lyra_Bel> We need to be here when the recess ends, right?
[23:16] <Faerzen_Norstov> Yes, that is a possibility I have been considering as well.
[23:16] <Faerzen_Norstov> Yes, we do.
[23:17] <Lyra_Bel> So the question is, what happens that forces us to fail?
[23:17] <Lyra_Bel> I dunno about you, but the answer seems pretty obvious from my end
[23:17] <Faerzen_Norstov> There are a great many things that could force us to fail.
[23:17] <Faerzen_Norstov> Which one do you have in mind?
[23:17] <Lyra_Bel> Body swap
[23:18] <Lyra_Bel> I'm gonna get shunted back to your planet, and then I'll start losing limbs
[23:18] <Faerzen_Norstov> I have a similar predicament being my dream self at the moment
[23:18] <Faerzen_Norstov> My dream self has a predilection to random bouts of sleepy spells
[23:18] <Lyra_Bel> Tell you what, then.  When I swap, I'll bring prime-you here with me.
[23:18] <Lyra_Bel> And if you swap, you do the same
[23:19] <Faerzen_Norstov> Agreed.
[23:19] <Lyra_Bel> But that's why you need the necklace on
[23:19] <Faerzen_Norstov> Indeed.
[23:19] <Lyra_Bel> If it's me, then you can prove I'm still on my way
[23:19] <Lyra_Bel> And THEN, you can accuse Carl of sabotaging us
[23:19] <Faerzen_Norstov> Alternatively, I could attempt to forcibly body swap myself before the trial
[23:20] <Lyra_Bel> Worth us both trying that, yeah
[23:20] <Faerzen_Norstov> Do you have any proof that Carl can affect your body swaps?
[23:20] <Lyra_Bel> Nah
[23:20] <Lyra_Bel> But it seems a little too convenient, right?
[23:20] <Faerzen_Norstov> Yes, but that is absolutely no grounds for me to go accusing Abyss of anything
[23:21] <Lyra_Bel> With the wings, it won't take long to come back, so it'll almost certainly be right beforehand
[23:21] <Lyra_Bel> Mysteriously disappearing right before an important deadline?
[23:21] <Faerzen_Norstov> Here is my proposal
[23:21] <Lyra_Bel> That doesn't seem at all like foul play?
[23:21] <Faerzen_Norstov> You don't seem to have too much control over switching bodies, but I can choose to switch by going to sleep. I can even have Reggie here help me with that
[23:21] <Faerzen_Norstov> I can fly home before the trial and go to sleep
[23:22] <The_Refined> < How long IC since Lyra last slept? Shouldn't she be really tired? >
[23:22] <Faerzen_Norstov> Then fly here with your prime body.
[23:22] <Faerzen_Norstov> Then regardless of what happens with your body swap, both bodies are at the trial so it doesn't matter.
[23:22] <Lyra_Bel> ((IC, she woke up right before doing the dungeon with Maskwraith))
[23:22] <Lyra_Bel> That'd work best, yeah
[23:22] <Faerzen_Norstov> Alternatively, you could just do that yourself.
[23:22] <The_Refined> < ok >
[23:22] <Lyra_Bel> Could
[23:23] <Lyra_Bel> But then I'd get shoved to Derse, or somewhere I CAN'T recover from
[23:23] == The_Refined has changed nick to Regent
[23:23] <Lyra_Bel> Maybe develop another body on Prospit
[23:23] <Regent> Oh by the way Lyra
[23:23] <Lyra_Bel> Hey Reg
[23:23] <Regent> Sorry to interrupt
[23:23] <Lyra_Bel> S'fine
[23:23] <Faerzen_Norstov> I can also make a request of book Regent in anticipation of any of these problems
[23:24] <Regent> Did you ever talk to Tarane or any of your friends about this?
[23:24] <Lyra_Bel> They don't know
[23:24] <Lyra_Bel> Probably better that way
[23:24] <Lyra_Bel> Tarane's apparently been mutilated, and Alex is probably dead or evil
[23:24] <Regent> You don't think you should warn them that you could turn into a murderous monster bent on destroying them?
[23:24] <Faerzen_Norstov> Nick and Byron both know about this trial. I refrained from telling them any specifics lest they become embroiled in this as well, but I felt it important that they know.
[23:25] <Lyra_Bel> If I hit Maskwraith-level, knowing I'm coming won't help them
[23:26] <Faerzen_Norstov> I beg to differ, but please let us not get caught up in another argument about this.
[23:26] <Lyra_Bel> Sure
[23:26] <Regent> Alright
[23:26] <Lyra_Bel> ... Although...
[23:26]  * Lyra_Bel starts sending messages
[23:26] <Faerzen_Norstov> What are you doing?
[23:26] <Lyra_Bel> ((Which I will do after finishing this pastebin))
[23:27] <Lyra_Bel> Writing a will
[23:27]  * Lyra_Bel chuckles
[23:27]  * Faerzen_Norstov sighs
[23:27] <Lyra_Bel> I'm telling Nick happy birthday
[23:27] <Lyra_Bel> And saying goodbye to Alex
[23:27] <Lyra_Bel> Okay?
[23:27] <Faerzen_Norstov> Are you messaging Nick that?
[23:27] <Lyra_Bel> Yeah
[23:27] <Faerzen_Norstov> I..... actually was planning on surprising him
[23:28] <Faerzen_Norstov> He doesn't remember exactly what day it is
[23:28] <Lyra_Bel> Well, beat ya to it
[23:28] <Faerzen_Norstov> fuck
[23:28] <Lyra_Bel> Whatever day it is, at least make sure it's a Monday
[23:28] <Lyra_Bel> Byron and I already agreed on that
[23:28] <Faerzen_Norstov> Welp, there goes that plan
[23:28] <Lyra_Bel> I specialize in ruining plans
[23:28] <Lyra_Bel> Usually my own
[23:29] <Lyra_Bel> :P
[23:29]  * Faerzen_Norstov sighs again
[23:29] <Lyra_Bel> Sorry
[23:30] <Lyra_Bel> Didn't think you knew
[23:30] <Lyra_Bel> Didn't think anyone did
[23:30] <Faerzen_Norstov> Nick told me before the game started, he remembered something important was coming up this week
[23:30] <Faerzen_Norstov> but after everything this game has done, he couldn't quite remember what
[23:30] <Faerzen_Norstov> I was..... informed of the details of this date.
[23:30] <Faerzen_Norstov> I presume in a similar manner to how you were.
[23:31] <Faerzen_Norstov> It's really the only logical way you could know.
[23:31] <Lyra_Bel> He told me, yeah
[23:31] <Lyra_Bel> Not really clear on why
[23:31] <Lyra_Bel> That'll have been the note, I s'pose?
[23:32] <Faerzen_Norstov> Among other things exchanged via undesired whispers in my ear, yes.
[23:32] <Lyra_Bel> Of course
[23:32] <Lyra_Bel> Can't forget the undesired whispers
[23:32] <Lyra_Bel> He seems pretty fond of those
[23:32] <Faerzen_Norstov> When I look at him....
[23:32]  * Faerzen_Norstov shivers
[23:32] <Faerzen_Norstov> You know, can we please talk about something else?
[23:32] <Lyra_Bel> Sure
[23:33] <Lyra_Bel> Shieldwraith?
[23:33] <Faerzen_Norstov> What is there to talk about there?
[23:33] <Lyra_Bel> Nothing, I guess
[23:33] <Faerzen_Norstov> Well, I suppose there is one thing I would like to mention
[23:33] <Lyra_Bel> Mm?
[23:34] <Faerzen_Norstov> I archived our chat conversation in a log file so it is available as evidence in the trial
[23:34] <Faerzen_Norstov> For one particular reason
[23:34] <Lyra_Bel> Yeah, so did-
[23:34] <Lyra_Bel> Wait
[23:34]  * Lyra_Bel beams
[23:34] <Lyra_Bel> Oh heck yes
[23:35] <Faerzen_Norstov> What is the matter?
[23:35]  * Lyra_Bel snorts
[23:35]  * Faerzen_Norstov looks warily at Lyra
[23:35] <Lyra_Bel> Just cuz I'm smiling doesn't mean something's gone wrong, y'know
[23:35] <Lyra_Bel> I've been recording
[23:35] <Faerzen_Norstov> Well, pardon me if past experiences tend to show a pattern otherwise.
[23:35] <Lyra_Bel> I can PROVE Shieldwraith happened
[23:35]  * Regent starts quietly humming happily
[23:36] <Faerzen_Norstov> Have you viewed the recording?
[23:36] <Lyra_Bel> Uh.  Not yet, no
[23:36] <Faerzen_Norstov> I think that is a very important thing that we do then
[23:36] <Lyra_Bel> Well okay then
[23:36] <Lyra_Bel> Inside, so we don't have any unwelcome viewers?
[23:37] <Faerzen_Norstov> Agreed.
[23:37]  * Lyra_Bel glares pointedly at Carl
[23:37]  * Lyra_Bel heads inside, draws a blank canvas against a wall, and starts fiddling around with the shades to try and figure out how to project from them
[23:38] <Faerzen_Norstov> I have a projector built into my glasses if it would be of assisstance
[23:38]  * Faerzen_Norstov flicks on hologram projector
[23:38] <Lyra_Bel> Sure, but your glasses don't have the recording
[23:38] <Lyra_Bel> How do we... ?
[23:38] <Faerzen_Norstov> You can send files via EsperChum
[23:38] <Lyra_Bel> Y'mean Pesterchum?
[23:38] <Lyra_Bel> Or is that the future version?
[23:39] <Faerzen_Norstov> Yes, it is.
[23:39] <Regent> < heh >
[23:39] <Lyra_Bel> Which is surprisingly compatible with the modern one, really
[23:39] <Lyra_Bel> I assume the backwards-compatibility was DLC?
[23:39] <Faerzen_Norstov> Not particularly. There has always been backwards compatibility.
[23:40] <Lyra_Bel> ... Huh
[23:40] <Lyra_Bel> Byron said everything was DLC in the future
[23:40] <Faerzen_Norstov> It was on its way out though with Faucet standardizing everything.
[23:40] <Faerzen_Norstov> I suppose Byron was from right in the heart of the Faucet empire.
[23:40] <Faerzen_Norstov> Perhaps it was different there.
[23:40] <Lyra_Bel> Oh really?
[23:40] <Lyra_Bel> Good to know
[23:40]  * Lyra_Bel sends Faerzen the file
[23:41]  * Faerzen_Norstov switches the projector to 2D mode and looks at the white canvas Lyra drew, opening the video file
[23:41] <Lyra_Bel> So when he says he's busy "pep-talking the masses"...
[23:41]  * Faerzen_Norstov holds breath in anticipation
[23:41]  * Lyra_Bel shuts up too
[23:42] <Faerzen_Norstov> (( Regent ?))
[23:42] <Regent> ( ? )
[23:43] <Faerzen_Norstov> ((we're watching the video file))
[23:43] <Lyra_Bel> ((What is video?))
[23:43] <Regent> ( remind me when you started recording? )
[23:43] <Lyra_Bel> ((When the recess started))
[23:43] <Faerzen_Norstov> ((we both started recording right at the beginning of the recess))
[23:43] <Lyra_Bel> ((This is just the part after their conversation, though))
[23:44] <Lyra_Bel> ((The one before she started walking back))
[23:44] <Regent> ( Video seems normal )
[23:44] <Faerzen_Norstov> ((normal as in what Faerzen described?))
[23:44] <Lyra_Bel> ((Normal for who?))
[23:44] <Regent> ( For the cave? Yeah )
[23:44] <Regent> ( Faerzen's sight )
[23:45] <Faerzen_Norstov> ((so just Lyra looking up at the ceiling of the cave screaming and yelling and then eventually stabbing herself))
[23:45] <Regent> ( yeah $
[23:45] <Lyra_Bel> ...
[23:45]  * Faerzen_Norstov lets out his breath
[23:45] <Lyra_Bel> Well
[23:45] <Faerzen_Norstov> *her
[23:45] <Lyra_Bel> Shoot.
[23:45] <Faerzen_Norstov> I'm not sure whether I am relieved or not.
[23:46] <Lyra_Bel> Well put
[23:46] <Lyra_Bel> I don't even know if relief is an option here
[23:46] <Faerzen_Norstov> Well put.
[23:46] <Lyra_Bel> We're just figuring out the specifics, right?
[23:47] <Lyra_Bel> Either I'm crazy, which is kinda good, or Shieldwraith is able to mind-screw me, which is very very bad
[23:47] <Lyra_Bel> But either way, there's pretty much no way this can be construed as anything but the work of an utter whackjob.
[23:47] <Faerzen_Norstov> Indeed.
[23:48] <Lyra_Bel> So, case closed I guess
[23:48] <Faerzen_Norstov> Yes, there is the whole deal about you having psychological episodes of unknown origins. However, there is also something else.
[23:48] <Lyra_Bel> Whatcha got?
[23:48] <Faerzen_Norstov> Something from our conversation that I think is different.
[23:48] <Faerzen_Norstov> I think it will also be very helpful in our argument.
[23:48] <Lyra_Bel> I'm listening
[23:49] <Faerzen_Norstov> You mentioned having significant doubts about whether or not this was real, a game, or an after-death dream
[23:49] <Faerzen_Norstov> That blurring between dream and reality
[23:49] <Lyra_Bel> Yeah
[23:50] <Faerzen_Norstov> That is a very powerful point in legally determining insanity
[23:50] <Lyra_Bel> Cotard Delusion
[23:50] <Lyra_Bel> I said that already
[23:50] <Faerzen_Norstov> Yes, you did
[23:50]  * Lyra_Bel grins
[23:50] <Lyra_Bel> Aww yeah
[23:50] <Faerzen_Norstov> But we have some evidence about this now
[23:50] <Lyra_Bel> So we do
[23:50] <Faerzen_Norstov> I talked to book Regent about what in this mysterious legal system exactly counts as insanity.
[23:51] <Faerzen_Norstov> Being unable to distinguish dreams from reality is one of the few things that is explicitly spelled out in the long document.
[23:51] <Lyra_Bel> Perfect
[23:52] <Lyra_Bel> Case closed, right?
[23:52] <Faerzen_Norstov> I hope so?
[23:52] <Lyra_Bel> Except no
[23:52] <Faerzen_Norstov> We will need to find out.
[23:52] <Lyra_Bel> Because that's accepting a tie
[23:52] <Lyra_Bel> We want to WIN