In which Phrody and Lysander don't make out

<zoroastrianTextuary> ==START==
<zoroastrianTextuary> [continuing from the point where we left off]
<zoroastrianTextuary> well, it is your decision if you want to come along.
<Samstrel> I suppose. I don't have anything better to do
<zoroastrianTextuary> great! i'll be over in a second.
<zoroastrianTextuary> [switching to paragraph mode]
<zoroastrianTextuary> In a literal few seconds, you hear a knock from your tower window.
* Samstrel is now known as Phrody_Tibalt
<zoroastrianTextuary> A young boy...girl...? You really can't tell that well, is hovering outside your tower.
<zoroastrianTextuary> (( https://my.mixtape.moe/iprppt.png pretty much this without the cat ears, and in some gender-neutral prospit pajamas))
<zoroastrianTextuary> ((also this is ZT's face reveal))
<Phrody_Tibalt> Who are you?
<zoroastrianTextuary> He seems to be sort of short, around 5 feet tall.
<zoroastrianTextuary> "You may know me as zoroastrianTextuary, but it is quite a long name to say. Call me Zogg for short."
<zoroastrianTextuary> "ZT might be fine, too."
<Phrody_Tibalt> "You're ZT? Why are you here?"
<zoroastrianTextuary> "I thought you said you wanted me to show you around Prospit, correct?"
<Phrody_Tibalt> "Well, yes. But how did you get here in the first place?"
<zoroastrianTextuary> "Your tower's not hard to miss."
<Phrody_Tibalt> "...Tower?"
<zoroastrianTextuary> "Yes, tower."
<Phrody_Tibalt> "I live in a house."
<Phrody_Tibalt> "What is this tower you speak of?"
<zoroastrianTextuary> "You're not in your ordinary room."
<zoroastrianTextuary> "You're in a replica of your room on a tower on the moon of Prospit."
<zoroastrianTextuary> Phrody_Tibalt
* Lysander_Bel has quit (*.net *.split)
* Phrody_Tibalt has quit (*.net *.split)
* Phrody_Tibalt ([email protected]) has joined
* Lysander_Bel ([email protected]) has joined
<zoroastrianTextuary> ((netsplit has been fixed))
<zoroastrianTextuary> ((we'll carry on for as long as possible))
<Phrody_Tibalt> (ok)
<zoroastrianTextuary> ((i at least want to get to the part where ZT goes to lysander's tower))
<Phrody_Tibalt> ((we can try))
<zoroastrianTextuary> ((it's pretty early on))
<Lysander_Bel> ((I mean, if it's all the same))
<Lysander_Bel> ((Y'could just stop right before that happens so I can at least keep on pestering ZT))
<Phrody_Tibalt> ((well, let's get the show on the road then))
<Lysander_Bel> ((As opposed to getting draged into IRC purgatory))
<zoroastrianTextuary> ((you pestering ZT will prettym uch be a cycle of "please" and "no"))
<Phrody_Tibalt> ((we'll figure it out, let's just keep going))
<Lysander_Bel> ((Better'n nothing))
<zoroastrianTextuary> ((what sam said))
<zoroastrianTextuary> "There are three other towers like this one. A coplayer has already awakened, like you have."
<Phrody_Tibalt> "Oh, I see."
<zoroastrianTextuary> "I'd like for you to meet him."
<Phrody_Tibalt> "I thought you were gonna show me around?"
<zoroastrianTextuary> "Yes, after we get him."
<zoroastrianTextuary> "He's a bit...interesting...at first."
<zoroastrianTextuary> "Follow me! And if you hadn't known yet, you can fly here," Zogg says, as he begins to fly in the direction of another tower in the distance.
<Phrody_Tibalt> You follow him, stunned at your abilities.
<zoroastrianTextuary> Zogg stops at the tower, knocking next to the window.
<zoroastrianTextuary> "Lysander!"
<zoroastrianTextuary> ((Lysander_Bel))
<Phrody_Tibalt> "Oh god, him?"
<zoroastrianTextuary> "Give him a chance, people are different in real life sometimes."
<Lysander_Bel> "Morrigan"
<Lysander_Bel> "S'Morrigan"
<zoroastrianTextuary> "Lysander, come out!"
<zoroastrianTextuary> "Who's Morrigan?"
* Lysander_Bel is currently a thirty-something woman dressed in a thick black sweater and wearing an overly-intricate brass helmet
<Lysander_Bel> "I said no"
<Lysander_Bel> "M'busy"
<zoroastrianTextuary> "Busy doing what?"
<Lysander_Bel> "Being Morrigan"
<Lysander_Bel> "Staying indoors"
<Phrody_Tibalt> "Uhh.... what?"
* Lysander_Bel blinks
<Lysander_Bel> "So y'*do* exist, eh Hopehely?"
<zoroastrianTextuary> "Lysander, you can be Morrigan in the waking world!"
<Phrody_Tibalt> "A what?"
<Lysander_Bel> "I could, yeah.  So?"
<zoroastrianTextuary> "So don't waste your time being Morrigan here!"
<zoroastrianTextuary> "Be you!"
<Lysander_Bel> "Why would I want to do that?"
<Lysander_Bel> "S'not get too crazy here"
<zoroastrianTextuary> "I'm not going to write a song about it, just trust me!"
<Lysander_Bel> "Dude, more musical numbers is the closest you'd get me to the door"
<Lysander_Bel> "... Or window, as the case may be"
<zoroastrianTextuary> "..."
<zoroastrianTextuary> "Phrody, may you please help me here?"
* Lysander_Bel shakes his... her... Morrigan's head
<Lysander_Bel> "Let's not do this violently, please"
<Phrody_Tibalt> "He's pretty odd. I'll leave this to you."
* Lysander_Bel is now the lycanthropic Foster
<Lysander_Bel> "And at that, I pledge my debt to you"
<zoroastrianTextuary> ((i still believe))
<Lysander_Bel> "See, Zogg?  Hopehely's got the right idea"
<zoroastrianTextuary> "Who's Hopehely?"
<Phrody_Tibalt> "I'm wondering that too."
<Lysander_Bel> "That'd be you, Phrody"
<Lysander_Bel> "Try not to think about it too hard"
<Phrody_Tibalt> "Uh, alright."
<Phrody_Tibalt> "I think I'll leave you two alone."
<zoroastrianTextuary> "Lysander, your plane is going to get thrown out of the sky in a week and you better enjoy your time here by getting out of your tower this instant!"
<zoroastrianTextuary> "...if that was too harsh, i apologize."
<Lysander_Bel> "It honestly seems easier to enjoy myself in here, dude"
<zoroastrianTextuary> "Why enjoy yourself in here..."
<zoroastrianTextuary> "...when you can enjoy yourself out there?"
<Lysander_Bel> "Because in here isn't out there"
<Lysander_Bel> "And out there is out there"
<Lysander_Bel> "See the difference?"
<zoroastrianTextuary> "Remember what I said about a journey of a thousand miles beginning with a single step?"
* Lysander_Bel finally risks a glance at the two newcomers in the window.  Foster has no problems with the vast plains of Vistan - this is fine.  This is... fine...
* Lysander_Bel decides his computer screen is a better thing to look at after all
<zoroastrianTextuary> "Fine then, be one of your characters."
<Lysander_Bel> "S'all anyone ever does"
<Lysander_Bel> "Don't see why mine are so much worse than yours"
<zoroastrianTextuary> "I am sure they can take a step out here."
<zoroastrianTextuary> "...flight...?"
* Lysander_Bel sighs
<Lysander_Bel> "It ain't that simple, Zoggo"
* Lysander_Bel is now the remarkable well-dressed Gino
<Lysander_Bel> "You can wear whatever layers ya like.  Doesn't change who you are, right?"
<Lysander_Bel> "Still the same festering pit under the skin"
<zoroastrianTextuary> "But YOU can!"
<zoroastrianTextuary> "And this is how!"
<Phrody_Tibalt> "Zogg, I'll let you two bicker, I'm going back to my tower."
<zoroastrianTextuary> "No, no-no-no-no-no-no-WAIT--"
* zoroastrianTextuary sighs in defeat.
<zoroastrianTextuary> ((the dream is dead))
<Phrody_Tibalt> ((I gotta sleep dude))
<Lysander_Bel> "Easier to introduce two people when you don't do half the talking for them"
<zoroastrianTextuary> "...oh."
<Lysander_Bel> "Viszlat, Hopehely"
<zoroastrianTextuary> "...."
<zoroastrianTextuary> "i assume you don't want to stay here for much longer, Lysander."
<Lysander_Bel> "Gino, please"
<zoroastrianTextuary> "just go back to sleep here, and you'll wake up."
<zoroastrianTextuary> "...gino."
<Lysander_Bel> "It doesn't make a difference to me, Zogg"
<Lysander_Bel> "Same cage, different colours"
* Phrody_Tibalt has quit (Quit: http://www.kiwiirc.com/ - A hand crafted IRC client)
<Lysander_Bel> "... N'there she goes"
<zoroastrianTextuary> "if you say so."
<zoroastrianTextuary> "it was nice meeting you in person."
<Lysander_Bel> "Likewise"
<Lysander_Bel> "Even if I only got the one look"
* Lysander_Bel sighs, a raspy noise that speaks to Gino's years of smoke inhalation
<Lysander_Bel> "If it was that important to you that we talk, I can still pester her once I'm awake"
<zoroastrianTextuary> "i guess that works too."
<zoroastrianTextuary> "i must take my leave now."
<Lysander_Bel> "'Fore ya go"
<zoroastrianTextuary> "?"
<Lysander_Bel> "First, wanna make sure I don't make a total fool of myself here"
<Lysander_Bel> "That was GM, yeah?  groundedMythologist?"
<zoroastrianTextuary> "correct."
<Lysander_Bel> "Good.  Nothin' worse than guessing the wrong person and acting all smart-aleck about it"
* Lysander_Bel chuckles to himself
<zoroastrianTextuary> ((i actually have to go here))
<Lysander_Bel> "Second and last.  This game's worth playing?"
<zoroastrianTextuary> "it's hard, and if there was another choice, i would take it."
<Lysander_Bel> "A necessary evil, then"
<zoroastrianTextuary> "much loss will be had, your family, your loved ones."
<zoroastrianTextuary> "but if you manage to triumph, the reward you take will be much greater than any other."
<Lysander_Bel> "They're all long gone"
<Lysander_Bel> "So I'm in"
<zoroastrianTextuary> "oh."
<zoroastrianTextuary> "well, I'll see you in the waking world."
<zoroastrianTextuary> Zogg disappears with a burst of green energy and static, leaving you by yourself.
<Lysander_Bel> "... Vale, Zogg"
<zoroastrianTextuary> ==END==
* Lysander_Bel leans back in his chair and goes back to sleep.