Leeroy Jenkins: Insanity and Stairs

[19:00]  * Lyra_Bel and Alex start descending the staircase
[19:01] <Lyra_Bel> "S'a bit of a long walk, but I mean"
[19:01] <Lyra_Bel> "Don't think there's anything particularly urgent we need to take care of?"
[19:02] <Alexander_Pyrite> "Nope"
[19:02] <Alexander_Pyrite> "Somehow we have nothing but time"
[19:02] <ATtheorytime[DM]> *Tap Tap*
[19:02] <Lyra_Bel> "Hmm?"
[19:02] <ATtheorytime[DM]> Sounds like somebody is pressing their finger against a window pane
[19:03] <Lyra_Bel> "What the... ?"
[19:03] <Lyra_Bel> "D'you hear that?"
[19:04] <ATtheorytime[DM]> *Tap Tap Tap*
[19:04] <Alexander_Pyrite> "Yeah"
[19:04] <Alexander_Pyrite> "What is that?"
[19:04] <Lyra_Bel> "Okay so not going crazy again"
[19:04] <Lyra_Bel> "Or I guess we're sharing it like the deafness thing"
[19:05] <Lyra_Bel> "That makes more sense, yeah"
[19:05] <ATtheorytime[DM]> *Tap*
[19:06] <Alexander_Pyrite> "Great more craziness"
[19:06] <Lyra_Bel> "Eeyup.  I mean, could be a lot worse"
[19:06] <Lyra_Bel> "This is pretty tame so far"
[19:06] <Alexander_Pyrite> "It always starts slow right?"
[19:07] <ATtheorytime[DM]> You hear a muffled voice saying "Aren't you going to open the window?"
[19:07] <Lyra_Bel> "Welp."
[19:07] <Lyra_Bel> "Here we go, then."
[19:07]  * Lyra_Bel tries to find a source for the voice
[19:07] <ATtheorytime[DM]> "Over here"
[19:08] <Alexander_Pyrite> "Hell no"
[19:08]  * Alexander_Pyrite also searches though
[19:08] <ATtheorytime[DM]> Inside of the rock wall by the staircase is a clear window
[19:08] <ATtheorytime[DM]> Except
[19:08] <ATtheorytime[DM]> Not clear
[19:08] <ATtheorytime[DM]> It looks clear
[19:08] <ATtheorytime[DM]> But there's nothing on the other side
[19:09] <ATtheorytime[DM]> It's like an infinitely deep plane of glass
[19:09] <Lyra_Bel> "Well that was easy"
[19:10] <Alexander_Pyrite> "What's on the other side of this weird glass stuff"
[19:10] <Lyra_Bel> "Wasn't here the first time I went down, so I'm gonna say... nothing"
[19:10] <Lyra_Bel> "We're just nuts"
[19:10] <Alexander_Pyrite> "Can we break it?"
[19:10] <Lyra_Bel> "Go for it"
[19:45] <ATtheorytime[DM]> "Uh"
[19:45] <ATtheorytime[DM]> "Could you not?
[19:46] <ATtheorytime[DM]> "I just need you to touch something against the glass"
[19:46]  * Lyra_Bel backs away from the glass
[19:46] <Lyra_Bel> "Why?"
[19:46] <ATtheorytime[DM]> "So I can come to your timeline"
[19:47] <Lyra_Bel> "What."
[19:47] <ATtheorytime[DM]> "See, I'm from a..."
[19:47] <ATtheorytime[DM]> "Different version of your world"
[19:47] <ATtheorytime[DM]> "Where things went just a bit differently"
[19:48] <Lyra_Bel> "Noping right on out of that one.  C'mon, s'not too much further"
[19:48]  * Lyra_Bel continues down the stairs
[19:48] <ATtheorytime[DM]> "I'll explain more in depth, but the portal can only stay ope-"
[19:48] <ATtheorytime[DM]> *Tch* Typical
[19:49] <ATtheorytime[DM]> "Another timeline where Lyra's a bitch"
[19:49] <Lyra_Bel> "Alex, you comin'?"
[19:49] <ATtheorytime[DM]> "Alright, Alex, can you help me with this?"
[19:51] <Alexander_Pyrite> "Yeah I don't see why not"
[19:52] <ATtheorytime[DM]> "Thank you. Just put your palm or a object or something against the glass"
[19:52] <Alexander_Pyrite> "Uh, ok"
[19:52]  * Alexander_Pyrite places the head of the hammer against the glass
[19:53] <ATtheorytime[DM]> "One sec... And..."
[19:53] <ATtheorytime[DM]> Out of the portal steps a figure clad in black
[19:53] <ATtheorytime[DM]> "There!"
[19:54] <Alexander_Pyrite> "Why the black?"
[19:54] <ATtheorytime[DM]> It looks like Lyra, wearing a full black bodysuit, The Bird Mask, and holding a Pen in one hand and wearing a watch on the other wrist
[19:54] <Lyra_> "Black is cool"
[19:55]  * Lyra_ looks down at her watch
[19:56] <Lyra_> "... ok... ok... Check..."
[19:56] <Alexander_Pyrite> :0
[19:56] <Lyra_> "Looks like you've not screwed up too miserably yet"
[19:56] <Lyra_> "I mean"
[19:57] <Lyra_> "Pretty badly so far"
[19:57] <Lyra_> "Like"
[19:57] <Lyra_> "You've done a lot worse than average"
[19:57] <Lyra_> "But nothing too annoying to deal with"
[19:57] <Alexander_Pyrite> "Who are you?"
[19:58] <Alexander_Pyrite> "Other than lyra"
[19:58] <Lyra_Bel> "It's a hallucination, Alex.  Keep walking."
[19:58] <Lyra_> "Answer my questions first, then I'll explain"
[19:58] <Lyra_> "I can walk with you, this won't take too long"
[19:58] <Alexander_Pyrite> "Um alright"
[19:58]  * Alexander_Pyrite continues to walk
[19:58] <Lyra_> "So..."
[19:59]  * Lyra_ follows, checking off boxes on a hologram projected from her watch
[19:59] <Lyra_> "Have you seen anybody who matches the following description:"
[20:00] <Lyra_> "A guy with a bird mask like mine on the front of his face and a human face seen onto the back of his head?"
[20:00] <Alexander_Pyrite> "Sounds like nick but he doesn't have a face in the back of his head"
[20:00] <Alexander_Pyrite> "Last I checked at least"
[20:01] <Lyra_> "Grey skin, horns?"
[20:01] <Lyra_> "Or at least horn stumps?"
[20:02] <Alexander_Pyrite> "Oh no"
[20:02] <Alexander_Pyrite> "I guess he's a troll then, nah"
[20:02] <Lyra_> "Alright"
[20:03] <Lyra_> "How about a morbidly obese guy, yellow hood, bird mask, blood stains everywhere, always eating something?"
[20:04] <Lyra_Bel> "Ours is the one with the black wings"
[20:05] <Lyra_> "Let me run through the list, you'll get your turn"
[20:05] <Alexander_Pyrite> "Are we thinking o the same Byron
[20:05] <Lyra_> "Take that as a no?"
[20:05] <Alexander_Pyrite> Because my Byron has no bloodstains or mask"
[20:05] <Lyra_Bel> "What're you doing, listing off the various ways each of us get corrupted?"
[20:05] <Lyra_> "Alright, you're normal there then"
[20:06] <Lyra_> "I told you. I'll explain after"
[20:06] <Lyra_> "Girl, grey hair, pistol, halo over her head?"
[20:06] <Alexander_Pyrite> "Not that I know of"
[20:07] <Lyra_> "Another version of me or her?" *pointing at Lyra*
[20:08] <Alexander_Pyrite> "Not me personally"
[20:08] <Alexander_Pyrite> "Hasn't there been another Lyra somewhere?
[20:09]  * Lyra_ looks at Lyra
[20:09]  * Lyra_Bel continues, having still not looked at the newcomer
[20:10] <Lyra_> "Has there been?"
[20:10] <Lyra_Bel> "Only the one who dumped her contract on me"
[20:10] <Lyra_Bel> "She's dead"
[20:10] <Lyra_> "I see"
[20:11] <Lyra_> "Any lasting effects of that?"
[20:11] <Lyra_Bel> "What?"
[20:11] <Lyra_Bel> "No."
[20:11] <Lyra_Bel> "I don't care"
[20:11] <Alexander_Pyrite> "Mildly yes" I say to lyra_
[20:11] <Lyra_> "That's an awfully defensive response..."
[20:12] <Lyra_Bel> "I'm not letting you rattle me"
[20:12]  * Lyra_Bel shrugs
[20:12] <Lyra_> "Could you describe those to me?"
[20:12] <Lyra_> "Just in a sentence or two"
[20:12] <Lyra_Bel> "Her being dead hasn't made any difference"
[20:13] <Lyra_> "Alex seems to think otherwise"
[20:13] <Lyra_Bel> "What are you, probing for a knife to twist?"
[20:15] <Lyra_> "I really hope that the aggressiveness of my alternate selves doesn't say anything about myself"
[20:15] <Lyra_> "No, I'm just trying to get this form filled so I can figure out to fix your mistakes"
[20:15] <Lyra_Bel> "Trying to make me self-conscious won't work either.  Heard it all before"
[20:16] <Lyra_Bel> "Or ashamed, or whatever it is you're trying to pull"
[20:16] <Lyra_> "Well that doesn't matter because this isn't about you"
[20:16] <Lyra_> "Alex"
[20:16] <Lyra_> "You said there were some lasting consequences of an alternate version of her?"
[20:18] <Alexander_Pyrite> "Um yeah"
[20:18] <Alexander_Pyrite> "Lyra is legally insane"9
[20:18] <Alexander_Pyrite> "But that's about it"
[20:18]  * Lyra_Bel grabs her iPhone Emerald and earbuds, and starts listening to a video of people writing
[20:18]  * Lyra_ rolls her eyes
[20:18] <Lyra_> "Ever the drama queen, isn't she?"
[20:19] <Lyra_> "Anything else?"
[20:19] <Alexander_Pyrite> "Mildly"
[20:19] <Alexander_Pyrite> "Nothing else really"
[20:19] <Alexander_Pyrite> "I mean she is a bit more stressed"
[20:19] <Lyra_> "Any big things?"
[20:21] <Alexander_Pyrite> "Not that I can think of but she isn't the most..."
[20:21] <Alexander_Pyrite> "Sharing person with her feelings"
[20:22] <Lyra_> "So she came into this timeline, dropped a contract on Lyra, and then died?"
[20:22] <Lyra_> "Izzat what happened?"
[20:23] <Alexander_Pyrite> "I do not know"
[20:23] <Alexander_Pyrite> "I'm not reall super in the loop with all those
[20:23] <Alexander_Pyrite> This•"
[20:24] <Lyra_> "Alright"
[20:24] <Lyra_> "Anybody else show up like me or her and generally mess things up?"
[20:27] <Alexander_Pyrite> "That maskwraith guy"
[20:28] <Alexander_Pyrite> "does he count"
[20:28] <Lyra_> "What does he look like?"
[20:29] <Alexander_Pyrite> "Nick"
[20:29] <Alexander_Pyrite> "With a mask"
[20:29] <Lyra_> "Names tend to... Not stick through the timelines"
[20:30] <Alexander_Pyrite> "Oh"
[20:30] <Alexander_Pyrite> "Well he's got brown hair"
[20:30] <Alexander_Pyrite> "But shorter tan me"
[20:30] <Alexander_Pyrite> "From the midevial times"
[20:32] <Lyra_> "Not enough"
[20:32] <Lyra_> "Say more"
[20:32] <Alexander_Pyrite> "Uh"
[20:33] <Alexander_Pyrite> "He has wings?"
[20:33] <Alexander_Pyrite> "He draws"
[20:33] <Lyra_> "Bird Claws?"
[20:33] <Alexander_Pyrite> "Sketches, sorry"
[20:33] <Alexander_Pyrite> "WhAt?"
[20:33] <Lyra_> "Metal claws. Look like talons"
[20:33] <Lyra_> "Have 'em?"
[20:34] <Alexander_Pyrite> "Not that I last saw"
[20:35] <Lyra_> "He buy into the whole bird thing? Screeching, crows, acts really angsty, likes the blonde chick?"
[20:35] <Alexander_Pyrite> "Yeah the blond dude/chick but nothing else"
[20:35] <Alexander_Pyrite> "As far as I know"
[20:35] <Alexander_Pyrite> "Never met the dude, only Nick non insane"
[20:35] <Lyra_> "Hmm. Alright"
[20:36] <Lyra_> "That's everybody?"
[20:37] <Alexander_Pyrite> "Yeah I guess"
[20:37] <Alexander_Pyrite> "Why"
[20:38] <Lyra_> "Well, 'Maskwraith' and Contract Lyra were never meant to be here"
[20:38] <Lyra_> "They broke a lot of stuff"
[20:38] <Lyra_> "I'm gonna fix it"
[20:46] <Alexander_Pyrite> "How exactly are you going to do that?"
[20:47] <Lyra_> "Ways"
[20:47] <Alexander_Pyrite> "Ways which are...?"
[20:47] <Lyra_> "By doing stuff"
[20:47] <Lyra_> "Depends
[20:47] <Lyra_> "
[20:47] <Lyra_> "Here to assess the damage first"
[20:51] <Alexander_Pyrite> "How's the damage?"
[20:51] <Lyra_> "Dunno. I have the general idea but I need specifics"
[20:52] <Lyra_> "Probably gonna have to fight Bird-Idiot"
[20:53] <Alexander_Pyrite> "You mean overpowered bullshit bird guys
[20:53] <Lyra_> "Yeah"
[20:53] <Lyra_> "The one that took over Nick"
[20:54] <Alexander_Pyrite> "Great"
[20:54] <Alexander_Pyrite> "Isn't he immortal bullshit or whatever"
[20:55] <Lyra_> "Nah"
[20:55] <Lyra_> "It's SABATH"
[20:55] <Lyra_> "Everybody dies eventually"
[20:55] <Lyra_> "The moment that they start wanting to live"
[20:58] <Alexander_Pyrite> "You are certainly lyra."
[20:58] <Alexander_Pyrite> "so what's the plan"
[20:59] <Lyra_> "Dunno"
[20:59] <Lyra_> "I'm just scouting"
[20:59] <Lyra_> "I just got here"
[21:00] <Lyra_> "Anyways, try not to die"
[21:00] <Alexander_Pyrite> "I thought you were the fixer"
[21:00] <Lyra_> "Fixing comes later"
[21:00] <Lyra_> "Cya. Bye."
[21:00] <Lyra_> "Try not to let her bitchiness get to you"
[21:01]  * Lyra_ extends a pair of black bird's wings and flies out of the mausoleum
[21:04] <Alexander_Pyrite> "Alright then"
[21:04] <Alexander_Pyrite> "Hey lyra"
[21:04]  * Alexander_Pyrite taps Lyra prime on the shoulder
[21:04] <Lyra_Bel> "Mm?"
[21:04]  * Lyra_Bel removes an earbud
[21:05] <Alexander_Pyrite> "She's gone"
[21:05] <Lyra_Bel> "Great"
[21:06] <Lyra_Bel> "So, how'd you do?"
[21:06] <Alexander_Pyrite> "What do you mean?"
[21:06] <Alexander_Pyrite> "All I did was answered some questions"
[21:06] <Lyra_Bel> "That so?"
[21:06] <Alexander_Pyrite> "Yeah?"
[21:07] <Lyra_Bel> "Nothing too horrifyingly existential?"
[21:07] <Alexander_Pyrite> "No just about people"
[21:07] <Alexander_Pyrite> "And non people"
[21:07] <Lyra_Bel> "Huh"
[21:08] <Lyra_Bel> "Weird"
[21:09] <Lyra_Bel> "Then... what was the point?"
[21:09] <Alexander_Pyrite> "I don't know"
[21:10] <Lyra_Bel> "I mean, that wasn't exactly debilitating like the last few were"
[21:11] <Alexander_Pyrite> "That had happened before?"
[21:11] <Lyra_Bel> "The, uh, other hallucinations?"
[21:12] <Alexander_Pyrite> "I mean have you hallucinated you"
[21:12] <Lyra_Bel> "Not until now"
[21:13] <Alexander_Pyrite> "Well ok then"
[21:14] <Lyra_Bel> "Well, s'done now I guess"
[21:14] <Lyra_Bel> "So..."
[21:14]  * Lyra_Bel shrugs and continues descending
[21:18] <Alexander_Pyrite> "Yeah"
[21:18]  * Alexander_Pyrite continues as well
[21:21] <Lyra_Bel> "I mean"
[21:21] <Lyra_Bel> "You'd think, illusion of myself, it'd try and, I dunno, make up some horrifying secrets that would ruin me if they got out or something"
[21:21] <Lyra_Bel> "But no, just... asked questions?"
[21:22] <Alexander_Pyrite> "Yeah"
[21:22] <Alexander_Pyrite> "pretty boring actually"
[21:23] <Alexander_Pyrite> "had a similar personality and everything... just it asked questions and then left"
[21:23] <Lyra_Bel> "Huh"
[21:23] <Lyra_Bel> "Leading questions, at least?"
[21:23] <Lyra_Bel> "Trying to draw you towards a specific conclusion?"
[21:28] <Alexander_Pyrite> "No, more like she was trying to gain information so she could do something"
[21:28] <Alexander_Pyrite> "apparently she was trying to help save us"
[21:28] <Lyra_Bel> "Please tell me you don't believe it"
[21:28] <Lyra_Bel> "Because that'd be another effective attack"
[21:29] <Alexander_Pyrite> "dont know"
[21:29] <Alexander_Pyrite> "she doesnt seem good at all so im not hopeful"
[21:29] <Lyra_Bel> "Convince us the problems are taken care of, then let us get killed when we put our guard down"
[21:30] <Alexander_Pyrite> "i mean she didnt do anythnig to convince me she was actually gonna do it"
[21:30] <Alexander_Pyrite> "she was a lyra without any plans apparently"
[21:30] <Lyra_Bel> "Heh"
[21:31] <Lyra_Bel> "Which means she musta had one"
[21:31] <Lyra_Bel> "Which means it's banking on our paranoia"
[21:31] <Lyra_Bel> "Do nothing, convince us it's horrible but hasn't quite hit yet"
[21:31] <Alexander_Pyrite> "so the goal is to just do nothing and not be convinced"
[21:31] <Lyra_Bel> "Bingo"
[21:32] <Lyra_Bel> "Our counterattack is to ignore it"
[21:32] <Alexander_Pyrite> "sounds good"
[21:32] <Lyra_Bel> "Same as with all the hallucinations"
[21:32] <Alexander_Pyrite> "So whats at the end of this path"
[21:32] <Lyra_Bel> "My frozen corpse"
[21:32] <Alexander_Pyrite> "right, looting yourself"
[21:32] <Alexander_Pyrite> "still weird"
[21:32] <Lyra_Bel> "Heh, s'pose so"
[21:33] <Lyra_Bel> "Like what I said about Byron, you learn to adapt or you die"
[21:33] <Lyra_Bel> "Or worse"
[21:33] <Lyra_Bel> "Gotta remember the worse"
[21:33] <Alexander_Pyrite> "yeah like going insane?"
[21:33] <Lyra_Bel> "Eeyup"
[21:34] <Lyra_Bel> " 'cept alone"
[21:34] <Alexander_Pyrite> "right that"
[21:34] <Alexander_Pyrite> "ill make sure to remember to count"
[21:34] <Lyra_Bel> "What?"
[21:34] <Alexander_Pyrite> "like you always said when i was going crazy to slowly count"
[21:35] <Alexander_Pyrite> "Ill make sure to remember that"
[21:35] <Lyra_Bel> "Right, yeah"
[21:35]  * Alexander_Pyrite smiles at lyra
[21:35]  * Lyra_Bel smiles back
[21:35] <Lyra_Bel> "S'like"
[21:35] <Lyra_Bel> "Numbers always stay the same, right?"
[21:35] <Alexander_Pyrite> "yeah"
[21:35] <Lyra_Bel> "They give stability when you can't tell what's real"
[21:36] <Alexander_Pyrite> "i suppose thats comforting, never thought about that"
[21:36] <Lyra_Bel> "And in this game, anything could turn out to have been fake all along"
[21:36] <Lyra_Bel> "I swear, if we'd actually tried to fight Lanased, it'd turn out that the threats were all in our heads, and we just murdered some innocent dude"
[21:37]  * Lyra_Bel scowls
[21:38] <Lyra_Bel> "Sorry about that, by the way"
[21:40] <Alexander_Pyrite> "No worries"
[21:40] <Alexander_Pyrite> "wouldnt be the first time i killed a spider"
[21:41] <Lyra_Bel> "No, but I mean"
[21:41] <Lyra_Bel> "Letting it get to that point at all, instead of knowing to go on the offensive right out the gate"
[21:41] <Lyra_Bel> "I screwed up.  Thought I knew him, didn't"
[21:42] <Alexander_Pyrite> "this games fucked up"
[21:42] <Alexander_Pyrite> "im not mad"
[21:42] <Lyra_Bel> "I'll be mad for you, then"
[21:42] <Lyra_Bel> "Because darn it, I'm MAD about this"
[21:43] <Lyra_Bel> "I thought... Darn it, I thought he was *nice*!  I let myself think there was the slightest possibility of an NPC with a trace of compassions."
[21:43] <Lyra_Bel> "Stupid."
[21:44] <Lyra_Bel> "Let myself be convinced he had the potential to be helpful, an asset or, Sabath forbid, maybe even an actual friend"
[21:44] <Alexander_Pyrite> "well we did get some nice garments"
[21:45] <Alexander_Pyrite> "And hey, at least you are allowing yourself some hope"
[21:45] <Lyra_Bel> "Which we could have gotten for free"
[21:45] <Lyra_Bel> "Hope doesn't help"
[21:45] <Alexander_Pyrite> "even that goes against the grind of sabath"
[21:46] <Lyra_Bel> "Hope that got broken the first time I tried to rely on it"
[21:46] <Lyra_Bel> "Can't trust an NPC to actually help.  Like Kek, or the horses, or Carl.  Useless, the lot of em."
[21:47] <Alexander_Pyrite> "doesnt seem like a normal game"
[21:47] <Alexander_Pyrite> "arent the npc's mostly supposed to do that?"
[21:47] <Alexander_Pyrite> "help?'
[21:48] <Lyra_Bel> "In theory"
[21:48] <Lyra_Bel> "But so far?"
[21:48] <Lyra_Bel> "I think something might be wrong with this game's coding or something"
[21:48] <Lyra_Bel> "Or they're like that to mold us into the shape Sabath wants"
[21:49] <Lyra_Bel> "Because we wouldn't have to deal with this if we'd just killed Lanased in the first place"
[21:52] <Alexander_Pyrite> "what do you mean?"
[21:52] <Lyra_Bel> "Same issue I had with the queen of Derse"
[21:52] <Alexander_Pyrite> "this emotional hurt yeah but that would wear off quick"
[21:53] <Lyra_Bel> "Start out nice, and then when they decide the only possible way to get what they want is with death threats"
[21:53] <Lyra_Bel> "I mean"
[21:53] <Lyra_Bel> "I dunno about you, but I woulda delivered the gift if he'd just asked!"
[21:54] <Lyra_Bel> "Even without the clothes.  It's no harm, so why the heck not, right?"
[21:54] <Lyra_Bel> "But no.  Instead he's gotta railroad us into it with deadly spiders"
[21:55] <Lyra_Bel> "Or the queen.  She's got me all psyched up to go to war against Prospit, but then lolnope, there goes my arm!"
[21:55] <Alexander_Pyrite> "Are you sure you would have delivered it"
[21:55] <Alexander_Pyrite> "also you were going to go to war with prospit?"
[21:56] <Lyra_Bel> "I would have if he'd asked me to without the threats.  Now I'm trying to figure out a way to screw him over"
[21:56] <Lyra_Bel> "And yeah.  I was ready to help Derse win the war"
[21:57] <Lyra_Bel> "This was before the Queen decided she wasn't being evil enough, and started waving around her spears"
[21:57] <Lyra_Bel> "And... well, I've already told you what happened after that"
[21:59] <Lyra_Bel> "So.  That.  That that THAT is why I don't want you to try and shelter me, okay?"
[22:00] <Lyra_Bel> "Sabath is adapt-or-die.  Can't do that if I don't know what it's like to play the game"
[22:00] <Alexander_Pyrite> "that doesnt make a ton of sense"
[22:00] <Alexander_Pyrite> "but ok"
[22:01] <Lyra_Bel> "Maskwraith paid off Lanased the first time, let me think Lanased didn't need payment"
[22:01] <Lyra_Bel> "Screwed me over when I tried the next time"
[22:02] <Lyra_Bel> "You did a bunch of stuff when my legs weren't working.  If that happens again, I won't be able to function nearly as well as if I'd had some practice with it"
[22:02] <Lyra_Bel> "Y'know what I mean?"
[22:02] <Alexander_Pyrite> "Do yu think you arent going to be able to use your legs again?"
[22:02] <Alexander_Pyrite> "and yeah."
[22:02] <Alexander_Pyrite> "i get it."
[22:03] <Lyra_Bel> "Thank you."
[22:03] <Lyra_Bel> "So, that said"
[22:03] <Lyra_Bel> "I intend to take AT LEAST two of the Spiders of Damocles"
[22:03] <Lyra_Bel> "I'm already wearing a bunch of course, but now here's an excuse for Lanased's mooks to sting me without needing to worry about cluing me in"
[22:04] <Alexander_Pyrite> "What are spiders of damocles?"
[22:05] <Lyra_Bel> "The 'five' spiders in your suit"
[22:05] <Lyra_Bel> "Two bites are fatal, he said, right?"
[22:05] <Alexander_Pyrite> "yeah"
[22:05] <Alexander_Pyrite> "for a normal person"
[22:06] <Lyra_Bel> "Well, gimme half"
[22:06] <Lyra_Bel> "You aren't the only one risking his life for this stupid sidequest"
[22:07] <Alexander_Pyrite> "how do i find hem?"
[22:07] <Lyra_Bel> "Hmm..."
[22:07]  * Alexander_Pyrite holds his arms out
[22:07]  * Lyra_Bel grins
[22:08] <Lyra_Bel> "Gimme the box and it'll be their issue"
[22:08] <Alexander_Pyrite> "alright then"
[22:08]  * Alexander_Pyrite hands it over
[22:08]  * Lyra_Bel captchalogues the box
[22:09] <Lyra_Bel> "There.  Now they've gotta follow me to make sure it gets delivered"
[22:09] <Lyra_Bel> "Easy"
[22:09] <Alexander_Pyrite> "so we're splitting up?"
[22:09]  * Alexander_Pyrite sounds a bit dismayed
[22:09] <Lyra_Bel> "Hopefully not"
[22:10] <Lyra_Bel> "But at least a couple oughtta be on me by now, just in case we do"
[22:10] <Lyra_Bel> "They can't take the risk of letting me disappear with the cargo, right?"
[22:10] <Alexander_Pyrite> "true"
[22:10]  * Lyra_Bel turns the card over in her hands a few times
[22:10] <Lyra_Bel> "Whaddaya think it is?"
[22:11] <Alexander_Pyrite> "knowing maskwraith"
[22:11] <Alexander_Pyrite> "no idea because i dont know maskwraith"
[22:11] <Lyra_Bel> "Heh, fair enough"
[22:11] <Alexander_Pyrite> "maybe a bomb"
[22:11] <Lyra_Bel> "Yeah, maybe"
[22:12] <Lyra_Bel> "Or some psychologically-crippling thing from his time"
[22:12] <Lyra_Bel> "Maybe one of dead-Faerzen's feathers or something"
[22:12] <Alexander_Pyrite> "or
[22:12] <Alexander_Pyrite> "who knows"
[22:12] <Alexander_Pyrite> "it could be a legit present"
[22:13] <Lyra_Bel> "Very possible"
[22:13] <Lyra_Bel> "I was trying not to think of that option, but it's possible"
[22:14] <Alexander_Pyrite> "yeah"
[22:14] <Alexander_Pyrite> "so how much farther till we reach the corpse"
[22:14] <Lyra_Bel> "Staircase took maybe an hour the first time, then a bunch of walking"
[22:15] <Lyra_Bel> "Used to measure the time in how many naps it took to get there"
[22:15] <Lyra_Bel> "S'pose that's not an option anymore"
[22:15] <Alexander_Pyrite> "why the hell is this corridor so long"
[22:15] <Alexander_Pyrite> "what possible purpose could this serve"
[22:16] <Lyra_Bel> "Maybe it's a, like..."
[22:16] <Lyra_Bel> "What's the word?"
[22:16] <Lyra_Bel> "In a video game, when you can't pass a certain point without getting a key item first"
[22:16] <Alexander_Pyrite> "a checkpoint?"
[22:17] <Lyra_Bel> "Yeah, maybe"
[22:17] <Lyra_Bel> "Need to visit Lanased and get warmth before you can pass through"
[22:17] <Lyra_Bel> "If not, you die and end up in the cave with Reggie"
[22:17] <Alexander_Pyrite> "and look dope as hell doing it"
[22:17] <Lyra_Bel> "Darn right"
[22:17] <Alexander_Pyrite> "not the dying part'
[22:17] <Lyra_Bel> "Yeah.  Should be done with that part"
[22:18] <Lyra_Bel> "Just gotta go get the item drops"
[22:18] <Alexander_Pyrite> "and the corpse itself"
[22:18] <Lyra_Bel> "Eeyup"
[22:18] <Alexander_Pyrite> "Im sure we could make something out of it, or at least give it a proper burial"
[22:19] <Lyra_Bel> "I ain't dead"
[22:19] <Lyra_Bel> "One body out of four"
[22:19] <Alexander_Pyrite> "i have only two bodies"
[22:19] <Lyra_Bel> "So if one of you died, then MAYBE you get a burial"
[22:20] <Alexander_Pyrite> "probably not the one in the cage on derse"
[22:20] <Lyra_Bel> "Let's say it's the halfway mark.  If we can get two of my corpses together, then they deserve one burial shared between them"
[22:20] <Lyra_Bel> "Adds up to about the same amount of dead body as one of your corpses"
[22:21] <Alexander_Pyrite> "sure"
[22:21] <Alexander_Pyrite> "never thought I'd do corpse math"
[22:21] <Lyra_Bel> :P
[22:21] <Lyra_Bel> "At least the numbers stay the same"
[22:22] <Alexander_Pyrite> "yep"
[22:22] <Alexander_Pyrite> "next time when i go insane I'll count corpses instead"
[22:23] <Lyra_Bel> "Perfect.  That can't fail horribly at all"
[22:23] <Alexander_Pyrite> "No way the thought of dead friends can hurt my mental state"
[22:24] <Lyra_Bel> "Exactly"
[22:24] <Lyra_Bel> "That's just common sense"
[22:25] <Lyra_Bel> "I mean, what else are you gonna do, NOT exacerbate the problem?"
[22:25] <Lyra_Bel> "That'd be ridiculous"
[22:25] <Alexander_Pyrite> "especially in this hellhole of a game"
[22:25] <Lyra_Bel> "I hear ya"
[22:26] <Lyra_Bel> "S'like it doesn't matter what you do, it'll go spectacularly wrong anyway"
[22:26] <Alexander_Pyrite> "yeah sure"
[22:27] <Lyra_Bel> "Gotta host a betting pool over the ways Faerzen's party can go wrong"
[22:28] <Lyra_Bel> "Because it clearly will"
[22:29] <Alexander_Pyrite> "nah"
[22:29] <Alexander_Pyrite> "it seems so random that it might just work"
[22:29]  * Lyra_Bel smiles
[22:29] <Lyra_Bel> "Y'know, maybe it will"
[22:29]  * Alexander_Pyrite smiles as well
[22:29] <Alexander_Pyrite> "maybe"
[22:30] <Lyra_Bel> "Speaking of..."
[22:30] <Lyra_Bel> "Next topic of discussion.  Are we going to this as a, um, couple?"
[22:30] <Lyra_Bel> "I mean, I don't wanna draw attention away from Nickolai and Faerzen, since it really is basically their event."
[22:30]  * Alexander_Pyrite makes a :0 face
[22:30] <Alexander_Pyrite> "Uh, i suppose"
[22:31] <Alexander_Pyrite> "I mean we are here sorta"
[22:31] <Alexander_Pyrite> "alone"
[22:31] <Alexander_Pyrite> "in"
[22:31] <Alexander_Pyrite> "formal attire"
[22:31] <Lyra_Bel> "Well YEAH, but in front of everyone?"
[22:31] <Lyra_Bel> "I dunno if this is a thing we should be advertising"
[22:32] <Alexander_Pyrite> "I mean its not really all that much of a thing at the moment"
[22:33] <Lyra_Bel> "I guess"
[22:34] <Alexander_Pyrite> "so lets keep it more subtle"
[22:35] <Lyra_Bel> "Yeah"
[22:35] <Lyra_Bel> "But on the other hand"
[22:35] <Lyra_Bel> "Tarane's already blabbed to Byron, so it's not much of a stretch to assume everyone already knows"
[22:36] <Alexander_Pyrite> "shit right i forgot i mentioned that"
[22:36] <Alexander_Pyrite> "sorry, by the way"
[22:37] <Lyra_Bel> "S'fine"
[22:37] <Lyra_Bel> "We're s'posed to be toeing the line anyway, right?"
[22:37] <Lyra_Bel> "Just barely uncomfortable with how things are progressing"
[22:37] <Alexander_Pyrite> "I guess?"
[22:37] <Alexander_Pyrite> "what does that mean tough"
[22:38] <Lyra_Bel> "Sabath.  If you're comfortable with things, something's gone wrong"
[22:38] <Alexander_Pyrite> "yeah i get that but what is constant uncomfortableness"
[22:38] <Lyra_Bel> "Like"
[22:38] <Alexander_Pyrite> "dont we just get used to it?"
[22:38] <Lyra_Bel> "Yes, yeah"
[22:38] <Lyra_Bel> "And then it ramps up again"
[22:39] <Lyra_Bel> "So that you're still just barely uncomfortable with this new change"
[22:39] <Alexander_Pyrite> "even, uh"
[22:39] <Alexander_Pyrite> "our relationship"
[22:39] <Lyra_Bel> "S'pose so"
[22:39] <Alexander_Pyrite> "what exactly does that entail?"
[22:40] <Lyra_Bel> "Well"
[22:40] <Lyra_Bel> "Okay, first of all, ground rules for whatever IS happening"
[22:41] <Lyra_Bel> "Can we not do a bunch of cagey BS?  I can't exactly read people, so if there's something on your mind, please PLEASE don't wait for me to clue in"
[22:42] <Lyra_Bel> "Deal?"
[22:42] <Alexander_Pyrite> "yeah sure"
[22:42] <Alexander_Pyrite> "ill just speak my mind then"
[22:42] <Alexander_Pyrite> "YOu can do the same i guess"
[22:42] <Lyra_Bel> "Okay"
[22:42] <Lyra_Bel> "I'll start, unless you want to?"
[22:43] <Alexander_Pyrite> "Sure go ahead"
[22:43] <Lyra_Bel> "The thing I said, stretching the boundary and staying uncomfortable with the way things are going"
[22:44] <Lyra_Bel> "I'm not ready for this.  It's pretty far out of my comfort zone.  I mean, I want to TRY, but..."
[22:44]  * Lyra_Bel shrugs unhappily
[22:44] <Lyra_Bel> "I don't even know if I'm mentally capable of reciprocating"
[22:44] <Alexander_Pyrite> "mentally capable of reciprocating what?"
[22:44] <Lyra_Bel> "Pretty much everything"
[22:45] <Alexander_Pyrite> "Alright i am not following"
[22:46] <Lyra_Bel> ""Pushing the line", in my case, is being in a... thing... with you at all"
[22:46] <Lyra_Bel> "If that makes sense"
[22:47] <Alexander_Pyrite> "Yeah ok"
[22:47] <Alexander_Pyrite> "i suppose it does"
[22:47] <Lyra_Bel> "Like I said, though.  I want to try."
[22:47] <Alexander_Pyrite> "yeah yeah sounds good"
[22:48] <Lyra_Bel> "... So there's my dirty laundry.  Anything on your mind?"
[22:49] <Alexander_Pyrite> "Not really"
[22:49] <Alexander_Pyrite> "Im super uncomfortable here as well because i ran away from any kind of human contact when i was a kid and ave never dated anyone"
[22:50] <Lyra_Bel> "Perfect, so we're equally lost"
[22:50] <Alexander_Pyrite> "sounds good"
[22:50] <Lyra_Bel> "If something's bugging you, lemme know, yeah?"
[22:50] <Lyra_Bel> "No point turning on one another over something that a simple conversation could work out"
[22:52] <Alexander_Pyrite> "yeah sounds good"
[22:52] <Alexander_Pyrite> "i think thats good for relationships"
[22:52] <Alexander_Pyrite> "at least from the shows ive watched"
[22:53] <Lyra_Bel> "Exactly, yeah"
[22:54] <Lyra_Bel> "Talk through the issues instead of letting them get to us"
[22:55] <Lyra_Bel> "Victor and Othala"
[22:56] <Alexander_Pyrite> "what?"
[22:56] <Lyra_Bel> "Sorry, nothing"
[22:57] <Lyra_Bel> "Reference to a thing"
[22:57] <Alexander_Pyrite> "is it a good refrence?"
[22:57] <Lyra_Bel> "Pretty great, yeah"
[22:58] <Alexander_Pyrite> "how did victor and othala turn out?"
[22:58] <Lyra_Bel> "I think they died"
[22:58]  * Lyra_Bel shrugs
[22:58] <Lyra_Bel> "They were pretty minor characters"
[22:59] <Alexander_Pyrite> "Oh"
[22:59] <Alexander_Pyrite> "are we minor characters?"
[22:59] <Lyra_Bel> "I have no idea"
[22:59] <Lyra_Bel> "Heck"
[23:00] <Lyra_Bel> "Maybe this whole game is a romcom between Juan and some dude from that one memo way back when"
[23:00] <Alexander_Pyrite> "what"
[23:00] <Lyra_Bel> "And we're one-offs that show up for like one gag panel"
[23:00] <Alexander_Pyrite> "who are those people"
[23:00] <Lyra_Bel> "Exactly, yeah!"
[23:00] <Lyra_Bel> "Man"
[23:00] <Lyra_Bel> "That'd be..."
[23:00] <Lyra_Bel> "I dunno what that'd be"
[23:01] <Alexander_Pyrite> "that would suck"
[23:01] <Alexander_Pyrite> "because we're gonna get klled off"
[23:01] <Lyra_Bel> "Good point, yeah"
[23:01] <Lyra_Bel> "Or we get forgotten"
[23:01] <Lyra_Bel> "That wouldn't be too bad"
[23:02] <Lyra_Bel> "Sabath just kinda forgets we exist"
[23:02] <Alexander_Pyrite> "what would we do until we dissapear"
[23:02] <Lyra_Bel> "Hmm..."
[23:03] <Lyra_Bel> "Well"
[23:03] <Lyra_Bel> "I'd probably trawl YouTube, spend the rest of my natural life watching ASMR videos"
[23:03] <Lyra_Bel> "Oh, actually, if Sabath forgets us, then that garden you mentioned might actually work out after all"
[23:04] <Alexander_Pyrite> "and we just spend our days as farmers on ashland?"
[23:04] <Lyra_Bel> "Or move some seeds to cliffland and conscript the horses into farm-slaves"
[23:05] <Alexander_Pyrite> "Are they intelligent enough to do that?"
[23:05] <Lyra_Bel> "Meh, doubt it"
[23:05] <Lyra_Bel> "Apparently they're able to talk, but I mean..."
[23:06] <Lyra_Bel> "My info source isn't exactly reliable"
[23:06] <Alexander_Pyrite> "and who is that?"
[23:06] <Lyra_Bel> "Reggie"
[23:06] <Alexander_Pyrite> "those guys again"
[23:06] <Lyra_Bel> "Eeyup"
[23:07] <Lyra_Bel> "Entirely possible he was making it up to get his way, though"
[23:07] <Alexander_Pyrite> "how could overestimating the horses help him?"
[23:08] <Lyra_Bel> "He didn't wanna possess one and carry me around, so he lied and said they were sentient"
[23:08]  * Lyra_Bel shrugs
[23:08] <Lyra_Bel> "Not that hard to believe it coulda happened that way"
[23:09] <Alexander_Pyrite> "well i guess that makes sense"
[23:09] <Lyra_Bel> "This was back when he acted like Bro, instead of how he is now"
[23:09] <Alexander_Pyrite> "ah"
[23:10] <Lyra_Bel> "So horse slaves, possible but not certain"
[23:10] <Lyra_Bel> "If that works, we could make them deal with the farming and spend our time online"
[23:10] <Lyra_Bel> "Weird how the internet still works, actually"
[23:10] <Alexander_Pyrite> "yeah"
[23:10] <Alexander_Pyrite> "I'd not question it though"
[23:11] <Alexander_Pyrite> "never know when some god would get all vengeful and set it down"
[23:11] <Lyra_Bel> "I dunno, I kinda wanna try and question it"
[23:11] <Lyra_Bel> "Ooh, good point"
[23:11] <Lyra_Bel> "It'd suck"
[23:11] <Lyra_Bel> "The one good thing about this game is the free wifi"
[23:12] <Alexander_Pyrite> "how fast is it anyway?"
[23:13] <Lyra_Bel> "Never had any lag, so I guess pretty good?"
[23:13] <Alexander_Pyrite> "can we just download whatever we want and play random games for as long as we want?"
[23:13] <Lyra_Bel> "Oh man, that'd be awesome"
[23:13] <Alexander_Pyrite> "that wouldnt be terrible"
[23:13] <Lyra_Bel> "And the world's over, so we don't need to pay for all the DLC"
[23:14] <Lyra_Bel> "Set up a weekly Call of Modern Tom Clancy's Rainbow Gear or whatever tournament"
[23:15] <Lyra_Bel> "I don't remember how Faucet combined them, but you get the idea"
[23:15] <Alexander_Pyrite> "yeah"
[23:16] <Alexander_Pyrite> "I bet byron would trash us though"
[23:16] <Lyra_Bel> "Then gotta get some games from my time"
[23:17] <Lyra_Bel> "I would wreck you all at Minecraft"
[23:17] <Alexander_Pyrite> "isnt that like a sandbox game?"
[23:17] <Alexander_Pyrite> "they capitalized the fuck out of that shit"
[23:17]  * Lyra_Bel sighs
[23:18] <Lyra_Bel> "Had to go and ruin it, didn't they?"
[23:19] <Alexander_Pyrite> "it was faucet"
[23:19] <Lyra_Bel> "Darn it Faucet"
[23:19] <Lyra_Bel> "Stop ruining the world in the past-future-whatever"
[23:20] <Alexander_Pyrite> "yeah it wasnt the greatest company"
[23:20] <Alexander_Pyrite> "thats sorta why i randomly ran away"
[23:20] <Lyra_Bel> "Right"
[23:21] <Alexander_Pyrite> "jesus when is this corridor ending?"
[23:21] <Lyra_Bel> "Ten years from now"
[23:22] <Lyra_Bel> "It never ends"
[23:22] <Lyra_Bel> "I did that whole stupid thing on Derse over the course of twenty-minute naps taken in between three hours of walking down here"
[23:23] <Alexander_Pyrite> "jeeeze is there any way we could make a car or something out of the pen?"
[23:23] <Alexander_Pyrite> "speed this up?"
[23:23]  * Lyra_Bel stops
[23:23]  * Lyra_Bel facepalms
[23:23] <Alexander_Pyrite> "or a bike?"
[23:23] <Lyra_Bel> "I'm a moron"
[23:24] <Lyra_Bel> "I actually Googled bike designs a bit ago for exactly this purpose"
[23:24] <Lyra_Bel> "And then I forgot"
[23:24] <Alexander_Pyrite> "heh"
[23:24] <Alexander_Pyrite> "Lets do it"
[23:24] <Lyra_Bel> Roll 2#1d20+5 to put bike designs to good use
[23:24] <`DICE> Lyra_Bel rolled 2#1d20+5 to put bike designs to good use [ 1d20=19 ]{24}, [ 1d20=14 ]{19}