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Prospit Party Time with Lukas and Lysander

Jan 18th, 2017
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  1. [21:31] <Lysander_Bel> The other thing is an indigoblood troll right now
  2. [21:32] <Lukas_Miller> "hey there"
  3. [21:32] <Lukas_Miller> "you werent here before"
  4. [21:32] <Lysander_Bel> "Sorry to disappoint, yeah"
  5. [21:33] <Lukas_Miller> "do you know what happened outside there?"
  6. [21:33] <Lysander_Bel> "Collapsing building? Not a clue"
  7. [21:33] <Lukas_Miller> "seemed like it would have been a pretty big crash"
  8. [21:33] <Lysander_Bel> "I blame karma"
  9. [21:33] <Lukas_Miller> "...really now?"
  10. [21:34] <Lukas_Miller> "I didnt say it was a building"
  11. [21:34] <Lysander_Bel> "I know, I did. And I have no idea why it collapsed"
  12. [21:35] <Lysander_Bel> "But I blame karma. It definitely deserved to collapse like that"
  13. [21:35] <Lukas_Miller> "oh well"
  14. [21:35] <Lukas_Miller> "why?"
  15. [21:35] <Lukas_Miller> "I saw a person come out of that"
  16. [21:35] <Lukas_Miller> "it looked like they could have been hurt"
  17. [21:35] <Lukas_Miller> "why would anyone deserve that?"
  18. [21:35] <Lysander_Bel> "Well, y'know. S'probably their fault in the first place"
  19. [21:36] * Lysander_Bel snickers
  20. [21:36] <Lysander_Bel> "Some people just deserve to have a building fall on them, y'know?"
  21. [21:36] <Lukas_Miller> "wow"
  22. [21:36] <Lukas_Miller> "thats not subtle at all"
  23. [21:36] <Lukas_Miller> "so what do you know about that?"
  24. [21:36] <Lysander_Bel> "I'm incapable of subtlety, among many other things"
  25. [21:37] <Lukas_Miller> "what kind of other things?"
  26. [21:37] <Lysander_Bel> "Pretty much anything someone would consider useful in any conceivable situation"
  27. [21:37] <Lysander_Bel> "Except one"
  28. [21:38] <Lukas_Miller> "and that would be?"
  29. [21:38] <Lysander_Bel> "I *am* pretty good at remembering faces"
  30. [21:38] <Lukas_Miller> "so weve met before?"
  31. [21:39] <Lukas_Miller> "because you remind me of someone"
  32. [21:39] <Lysander_Bel> "Spent any time on a video game recently?"
  33. [21:39] <Lukas_Miller> "kind of"
  34. [21:39] <Lukas_Miller> "have you?"
  35. [21:39] <Lysander_Bel> "Just one"
  36. [21:39] <Lysander_Bel> "Had a few teammates, too, before they started kicking the metaphorical bucket"
  37. [21:40] <Lukas_Miller> "huh"
  38. [21:40] <Lysander_Bel> "Some human, some dudes, but only a few who fit both criteria"
  39. [21:40] <Lukas_Miller> "interesting"
  40. [21:41] <Lukas_Miller> "and I'm one of those human dudes?"
  41. [21:41] <Lysander_Bel> "Or else I'm even dumber than I thought I was"
  42. [21:42] <Lukas_Miller> "I see"
  43. [21:42] <Lukas_Miller> "you know"
  44. [21:42] <Lukas_Miller> "I never did catch your name"
  45. [21:43] <Thingymabob> The valet gasps
  46. [21:43] <Thingymabob> And covers his ears
  47. [21:44] <Lysander_Bel> "All good, Mekratrig?"
  48. [21:44] <Lysander_Bel> "... Well okay"
  49. [21:44] * Lysander_Bel shakes his head. "I'm Lys. You'll be... either UE or SE?"
  50. [21:45] <Lukas_Miller> "SE"
  51. [21:45] <Lukas_Miller> "Lukas"
  52. [21:45] <Lukas_Miller> "...Mekratrig?"
  53. [21:46] * Lysander_Bel gestures to the valet. "S'his new name"
  54. [21:46] <Lukas_Miller> "okay then"
  55. [21:46] <Lukas_Miller> "totally normal to just give people new names"
  56. [21:47] <Thingymabob> The valet removes his hands
  57. [21:47] <Lysander_Bel> "Is it? Dang, guess I gotta stop then"
  58. [21:47] <Lukas_Miller> "definitely"
  59. [21:47] <Lukas_Miller> "thats exactly what I meant by that"
  60. [21:47] <Lysander_Bel> "Can't just run around being totally normal"
  61. [21:48] <Lysander_Bel> "What would the children think?"
  62. [21:48] <Lukas_Miller> "itd be crazy"
  63. [21:48] <Lukas_Miller> "probably impossible really"
  64. [21:49] <Lysander_Bel> "Probably"
  65. [21:49] <Lysander_Bel> "S'too bad, though. Now I gotta figure out how long it's been normal, and undo all the names I've given since then"
  66. [21:49] <Lukas_Miller> "must be awful"
  67. [21:50] <Lukas_Miller> "hey?"
  68. [21:50] <Lukas_Miller> "are you okay?"
  69. [21:50] <Lysander_Bel> "Sorry?"
  70. [21:50] <Lukas_Miller> "I came out here to check on whoever came out of that thing so I'm still gonna do that"
  71. [21:50] <Lukas_Miller> "not dying or anything?"
  72. [21:51] <Lukas_Miller> "must have been quite the fall"
  73. [21:51] <Lysander_Bel> "Could never get so lucky"
  74. [21:51] <Lysander_Bel> "I'm fine"
  75. [21:51] * Lysander_Bel glances in the direction of the elevator with the faintest hint of a grin
  76. [21:51] <Lysander_Bel> "Maybe a little better'n fine"
  77. [21:52] <Lukas_Miller> "you? really?"
  78. [21:52] <Lukas_Miller> "what happened?"
  79. [21:52] <Lysander_Bel> "Nah, not really. I'm a wreck"
  80. [21:52] <Lysander_Bel> "Check it, the fall took my frigging leg"
  81. [21:53] * Lysander_Bel kicks off his shoe
  82. [21:53] * Lukas_Miller checks out his leg
  83. [21:54] <Lukas_Miller> "thats not new"
  84. [21:54] <Lysander_Bel> (( Thingymabob : we copying Tavros with regards to dream bodies and lost limbs?))
  85. [21:54] <Lukas_Miller> "its been like ten minutes"
  86. [21:55] <Thingymabob> (( Well if your illusion is missing a leg then it's gone))
  87. [21:55] <Thingymabob> ((But you have all the limbs you could ever dream of))
  88. [21:56] * Lysander_Bel drops the illusions over his leg, with the intent to shock and appall via robot limbs
  89. [21:57] == Lukas_Miller [[email protected]] has quit [Quit: http://www.kiwiirc.com/ - A hand crafted IRC client]
  90. [21:57] == Lukas_Miller [[email protected]] has joined #RPGStuck_Disneychannel
  91. [21:57] <Lukas_Miller> ((Dang it))
  92. [21:58] <Thingymabob> He'll be back
  93. [21:58] <Thingymabob> They always come back
  94. [21:58] <Lukas_Miller> ((What did I miss?))
  95. [21:59] <Lysander_Bel> ((I have all the limbs I could ever dream of, and dispelled illusions over the one leg))
  96. [21:59] <Lukas_Miller> ((So no leg?))
  97. [21:59] <Lysander_Bel> ((Which I guess makes me an indigoblood with one human leg?))
  98. [22:00] <Lysander_Bel> ((I'm actually not 100% sure. Aidan, clarify?))
  99. [22:01] <Thingymabob> Yeah you have a human leg
  100. [22:01] <Thingymabob> So like
  101. [22:01] <Thingymabob> Not grey
  102. [22:01] <Lysander_Bel> "... Well that's new"
  103. [22:01] <Lukas_Miller> "what"
  104. [22:01] <Lysander_Bel> "I, uh. Yeah, pretty much what you said"
  105. [22:01] <Lukas_Miller> "why"
  106. [22:02] <Lysander_Bel> "Guess I, uh, am stupid enough to have forgotten which side it's on?"
  107. [22:02] <Lukas_Miller> "dude"
  108. [22:02] <Lukas_Miller> "why does it not match?"
  109. [22:03] <Lysander_Bel> "Long story" Lysander layers back up, several illusions thick, before topping it off with another copy of the indigoblood from before. "Not gonna question it"
  110. [22:03] <Lukas_Miller> "I'm gonna question it"
  111. [22:03] <Lysander_Bel> "Basically, you were right when you told Mekky here that you were looking for whatever thing came out of the rubble"
  112. [22:03] <Lysander_Bel> "Dude, I *just* asked you not to"
  113. [22:04] <Lukas_Miller> "yeah but thats really weird"
  114. [22:04] <Lysander_Bel> "I don't exactly do normal"
  115. [22:05] <Lukas_Miller> "and if I cant get answers to some other stuff I'm at least going to ask why my friend had a mismatched leg"
  116. [22:06] <Lukas_Miller> "just"
  117. [22:06] <Lukas_Miller> "why"
  118. [22:06] <Lysander_Bel> "Sure we can't try the other stuff? It'll be easier by comparison than going into detail on the abomination of nature I am"
  119. [22:06] <Lukas_Miller> "maybe later"
  120. [22:06] <Lysander_Bel> "Nuts"
  121. [22:07] <Lukas_Miller> "I just want to know why"
  122. [22:07] <Lysander_Bel> "Cuz I'm not a troll"
  123. [22:07] <Lukas_Miller> "okay I do want to the what and how but that can wait"
  124. [22:07] <Lysander_Bel> "And when I take off that troll layer, there's a human one beneath. One that apparently has a leg, now"
  125. [22:08] <Lukas_Miller> "apparently?"
  126. [22:08] <Lysander_Bel> "Didn't an hour ago"
  127. [22:08] * Lysander_Bel shrugs
  128. [22:08] <Lukas_Miller> "huh"
  129. [22:08] <Lysander_Bel> "Or mighta. I didn't actually think to check"
  130. [22:08] <Lysander_Bel> "Was busy getting struck by a karmic building attack"
  131. [22:08] <Lukas_Miller> "dont legs usually stay gone?"
  132. [22:09] <Lysander_Bel> "So you'd think. Guess not being normal extends to getting myself mutilated"
  133. [22:09] <Lysander_Bel> "Sucks, too. My *one* redeeming quality'd been that there wasn't more of me"
  134. [22:09] <Thingymabob> The valet gives you a pat on the back
  135. [22:10] * Lysander_Bel looks at him. "What?"
  136. [22:11] <Thingymabob> He says he felt a bit awkward with you too being do forward with each other and it kind of felt like the right thing to do
  137. [22:11] <Thingymabob> He apologies
  138. [22:12] <Lysander_Bel> "Sure, no problem. Sorry for weirding you out, I guess"
  139. [22:12] <Lukas_Miller> "its fine"
  140. [22:12] <Lukas_Miller> "thanks for answering me"
  141. [22:12] <Lysander_Bel> "'Course"
  142. [22:13] <Lysander_Bel> "S'like a dozen people left in the world. Ain't gonna start keeping secrets now"
  143. [22:13] <Lukas_Miller> "makes sense"
  144. [22:13] <Lukas_Miller> "if you want to be fair you can ask me a question"
  145. [22:14] * Lysander_Bel thinks for a moment
  146. [22:14] <Lukas_Miller> "I dont know if it would mean much but I might as well offer"
  147. [22:14] <Lysander_Bel> "Can I bug you for two?"
  148. [22:14] <Lukas_Miller> "sure"
  149. [22:14] <Lukas_Miller> "why not"
  150. [22:15] <Lysander_Bel> "Because I'm going to use the offer to pry deeply into your darkest secrets and rend all privacy asunder, or something like that"
  151. [22:15] * Lysander_Bel shakes his head. "Nah. What's the worst thing that's happened to you in this game so far?"
  152. [22:16] <Lukas_Miller> "um"
  153. [22:16] <Lukas_Miller> "I dont know"
  154. [22:16] <Lukas_Miller> "theres been different kinds of bad things"
  155. [22:17] <Lukas_Miller> "but probably either nearly getting eaten by a spider or my mom keeping secrets"
  156. [22:17] <Lysander_Bel> "Those are two pretty different things"
  157. [22:17] <Lysander_Bel> "Unless the secrets were about the spider?"
  158. [22:18] <Lukas_Miller> "no, they were about something we saw on the tv"
  159. [22:18] <Lysander_Bel> "Not as cool as a man-eating spider, but sure. Wanna talk?"
  160. [22:19] <Lukas_Miller> "I guess"
  161. [22:19] <Lukas_Miller> "it was weird and she was being cryptic about 'bad people who arent people' and wouldny me a straight answer"
  162. [22:20] <Lysander_Bel> "So 'things', eh?"
  163. [22:20] <Lukas_Miller> "I guess"
  164. [22:20] <Lukas_Miller> "it seems like something small right?"
  165. [22:21] <Lukas_Miller> "not worth being bothered about"
  166. [22:21] * Lysander_Bel shrugs. "Ain't about the size of the problem"
  167. [22:21] <Lysander_Bel> "S'that it's there"
  168. [22:21] <Lukas_Miller> "fair"
  169. [22:22] <Lysander_Bel> "Blind spot could be the size of a penny or an elephant, but you won't see it either way"
  170. [22:22] <Lysander_Bel> "Except when something cracks"
  171. [22:22] <Lysander_Bel> "Turns it into a question of 'what else?'"
  172. [22:23] <Lukas_Miller> "youre right about that"
  173. [22:23] <Lukas_Miller> "shes not usually like this which is probably why its bothering me more than it should be"
  174. [22:23] <Lysander_Bel> "Out of character is serious business"
  175. [22:24] <Lukas_Miller> "right"
  176. [22:24] <Lysander_Bel> "Okay, so second question. I was gonna burn it on the best thing that's happened, but this seems more relevant, and I've never been good at sticking to my plans"
  177. [22:24] <Lysander_Bel> "Would you rather not have found out?"
  178. [22:25] <Lukas_Miller> "no"
  179. [22:25] <Lukas_Miller> "never"
  180. [22:25] <Lysander_Bel> "Never rather, or never found out?"
  181. [22:25] <Lukas_Miller> "I dont like not knowing things you know?"
  182. [22:26] <Lysander_Bel> "Why not? Ignorance is bliss, and all that"
  183. [22:26] <Lukas_Miller> "I'm glad I found out"
  184. [22:26] <Lukas_Miller> "wouldnt want to unknow it"
  185. [22:26] <Lysander_Bel> "But you'd be able to trust her again"
  186. [22:26] <Lukas_Miller> "because I dont like being in the dark"
  187. [22:27] <Lukas_Miller> "I never said I dont
  188. [22:27] <Lukas_Miller> "
  189. [22:27] * Lysander_Bel gives Lukas a funny look
  190. [22:27] <Lukas_Miller> "I just wish shed tell me what those 'Showstoppers' really are"
  191. [22:28] <Lukas_Miller> "...that made more sense in my head"
  192. [22:28] <Lysander_Bel> "That penny could be hiding an elephant secret behind it, and you still trust her"
  193. [22:28] <Lukas_Miller> "kind of"
  194. [22:29] <Lukas_Miller> "I dont trust her to tell me things but I trust her in other ways"
  195. [22:29] <Lukas_Miller> "different kind of trust"
  196. [22:29] <Lysander_Bel> "Guess that's fair"
  197. [22:30] <Lysander_Bel> "But you're glad it happened?"
  198. [22:30] <Lukas_Miller> "your point still stands"
  199. [22:30] <Lukas_Miller> "I'd be able to trust her about that"
  200. [22:31] <Lukas_Miller> "I don't know"
  201. [22:31] <Lukas_Miller> "but I wouldnt want it to unhappen"
  202. [22:31] * Lysander_Bel grins
  203. [22:31] <Lysander_Bel> "If that's the worst thing the game can throw at you, then I think you'll be fine"
  204. [22:32] <Lukas_Miller> "worst so far"
  205. [22:32] <Lukas_Miller> "who knows whats coming next"
  206. [22:32] <Lysander_Bel> "That's the spirit!"
  207. [22:32] <Lysander_Bel> "It can always get worse"
  208. [22:33] <Lukas_Miller> "probably"
  209. [22:33] <Lukas_Miller> "can I ask you another question?"
  210. [22:33] <Lysander_Bel> "Seems fair"
  211. [22:33] <Lysander_Bel> "Fire away"
  212. [22:33] <Lukas_Miller> "why do you keep changing your handle?"
  213. [22:34] <Lukas_Miller> "seriously"
  214. [22:34] <Lukas_Miller> "its impossible to send you a message dude"
  215. [22:34] * Lysander_Bel thinks for a few seconds
  216. [22:35] <Lysander_Bel> "Same reason I keep changing my face"
  217. [22:35] <Lukas_Miller> "and that is?"
  218. [22:35] * Lysander_Bel adds a layer of illusion over himself, transforming into a little boy, then a grown woman, then back to the troll
  219. [22:35] <Lukas_Miller> "or does that count as too many questions?"
  220. [22:36] <Lysander_Bel> "Only if you don't mind f'I get philosophical on you"
  221. [22:36] <Lysander_Bel> "Or as fauxlosophical as I can manage"
  222. [22:36] <Lukas_Miller> "why not"
  223. [22:36] <Lukas_Miller> "go ahead"
  224. [22:37] <Lysander_Bel> "Everyone's got layers, Lukas. Filters and skins and alibis and mannerisms and whatever else. You don't act the same around family and friends and strangers, right?"
  225. [22:37] <Lukas_Miller> "I guess not"
  226. [22:38] * Lukas_Miller shrugs
  227. [22:38] <Lysander_Bel> "Filters. You show a different top layer, deliver a different message, and people react differently"
  228. [22:38] <Lysander_Bel> "S'not like you change as a person when you're with a matesprit as opposed to a kismesis - just the way you act. The top layer. Rest of you's still there, just under the surface"
  229. [22:39] <Lysander_Bel> "So what's so bad about," he changes again, this time to an identical copy of Lukas, "changing it up?"
  230. [22:40] <Lukas_Miller> "well thats just weird"
  231. [22:40] <Lysander_Bel> "Thanks"
  232. [22:40] <Lysander_Bel> "I try to be"
  233. [22:40] <Lukas_Miller> "nothing wrong with it I guess but it does make it hard to keep contact"
  234. [22:40] <Lysander_Bel> "The handles stay active, y'know"
  235. [22:41] <Lukas_Miller> "...youre kidding"
  236. [22:41] * Lysander_Bel switches to, let's say Mendax, a teenage limeblood
  237. [22:41] <Lysander_Bel> "Last about a week or two before they fizzle out, yeah"
  238. [22:41] <Lysander_Bel> "Something like that"
  239. [22:41] <Lukas_Miller> "well I feel like an idiot"
  240. [22:42] * Lysander_Bel laughs
  241. [22:42] <Lysander_Bel> "Dragged down to my level, and beaten with experience"
  242. [22:42] <Lysander_Bel> "Always gotta watch out for that"
  243. [22:42] * Lukas_Miller chuckles
  244. [22:42] <Lukas_Miller> "I'll have to be more careful in the future then"
  245. [22:43] <Lysander_Bel> "You really will. S'tricky though, since you already turn into an idiot for trying to talk to me"
  246. [22:43] <Lysander_Bel> "Pretty bad idea, that"
  247. [22:43] <Lukas_Miller> "I'd say its worth it"
  248. [22:44] <Lukas_Miller> "not everyday you meet an internet friend in real like"
  249. [22:44] <Lysander_Bel> "Internet enemy, y'mean. Be real"
  250. [22:45] <Lukas_Miller> "internet nuisance?"
  251. [22:45] <Lysander_Bel> "I'll take it"
  252. [22:46] <Lukas_Miller> "I'd still go with friend"
  253. [22:46] <Lysander_Bel> "No offence, but up your standards"
  254. [22:46] <Lysander_Bel> "A lot"
  255. [22:46] <Lukas_Miller> "nah"
  256. [22:46] <Lysander_Bel> "Good point, ignore me. I'm an idiot, after all"
  257. [22:47] <Lukas_Miller> "maybe I like my standards being so low?"
  258. [22:47] <Lysander_Bel> "That would explain why I think they're too low"
  259. [22:48] <Lukas_Miller> "right"
  260. [22:48] * Lukas_Miller thinks for a second
  261. [22:48] <Lukas_Miller> "...so what do you really look like under those layers?"
  262. [22:48] * Lysander_Bel blinks. "'Scuse me?"
  263. [22:49] <Lukas_Miller> "I'm just curious"
  264. [22:49] <Lukas_Miller> "you dont have to answer that one"
  265. [22:49] <Lysander_Bel> "Think I am gonna opt out this time, yeah"
  266. [22:49] <Lysander_Bel> "No offence, just... you know how it is. Or you probably don't, actually"
  267. [22:50] <Lukas_Miller> "I can guess"
  268. [22:50] <Lukas_Miller> "too personal"
  269. [22:50] <Lukas_Miller> "no worries"
  270. [22:50] <Lukas_Miller> "sorry for asking"
  271. [22:50] <Lysander_Bel> "Like if someone tried to read your mind and drag out every secret you've got, y'know?"
  272. [22:50] <Lysander_Bel> "Deep layers matter"
  273. [22:51] <Lysander_Bel> "But nah, s'not your fault I'm broken"
  274. [22:51] <Lukas_Miller> "yeah I think I understand"
  275. [22:51] <Lukas_Miller> "still shouldnt have asked"
  276. [22:51] <Lukas_Miller> "you okay?"
  277. [22:52] <Lysander_Bel> "As ever. Don't worry about it"
  278. [22:52] <Lukas_Miller> "okay"
  279. [22:52] <Lukas_Miller> "if youre sure"
  280. [22:53] <Lysander_Bel> "'Fraid this is something I ain't budging on, yeah"
  281. [22:53] <Lukas_Miller> "I meant that youre sure youre okay"
  282. [22:54] <Lysander_Bel> "Why wouldn't I be?"
  283. [22:54] <Lukas_Miller> "I dont know"
  284. [22:54] <Lysander_Bel> "I'm apparently in more of one piece than ever"
  285. [22:54] <Lukas_Miller> "hah"
  286. [22:55] <Lysander_Bel> "How about you? Holding it together?"
  287. [22:55] <Lukas_Miller> "probably"
  288. [22:55] <Lukas_Miller> "went to sleep to calm myself down but I think I'm good now"
  289. [22:56] <Lysander_Bel> "Good"
  290. [22:56] <Lysander_Bel> "That's really good. Last thing we need's someone flipping out"
  291. [22:56] <Lukas_Miller> "definitely"
  292. [22:56] <Lukas_Miller> "especially... because of everything"
  293. [22:56] <Thingymabob> Luckily the valet does not flip out
  294. [22:57] <Lysander_Bel> "Eeyup"
  295. [22:57] * Lysander_Bel appreciates Mekratrig's lack of flipping out
  296. [22:57] <Lysander_Bel> "Wouldn't be good if someone tried to take my job of getting everyone killed"
  297. [22:57] <Lukas_Miller> "heh"
  298. [22:58] <Lukas_Miller> "guess not"
  299. [22:59] <Lysander_Bel> "Where'd I be if I wasn't the worst anymore? Or if Curve wasn't the nerd he is? Or if Peebs wasn't... yeah"
  300.  
  301. [17:42] <Lukas_Miller> "yeah"
  302. [17:42] <Lukas_Miller> "..."
  303. [17:42] * Lysander_Bel sighs. Then, a second or two later, he starts to laugh
  304. [17:43] <Lysander_Bel> "Least my streak of never keeping a player gets to live on, eh?"
  305. [17:43] <Lukas_Miller> "hah"
  306. [17:43] <Lukas_Miller> "does it count if weve never played anything?"
  307. [17:44] <Lysander_Bel> "M'gonna say yes, because it obviously happened so he wouldn't have to start playing"
  308. [17:44] <Lysander_Bel> "Says a lot that people're letting themselves get offed just to avoid it"
  309. [17:45] <Lukas_Miller> "you know"
  310. [17:45] <Lukas_Miller> "something tells me that isnt quite it"
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  312. [17:46] <Lysander_Bel> "No way. This was definitely my fault. Scum of the earth, remember?"
  313. [17:46] <Lukas_Miller> "well yeah"
  314. [17:46] <Lukas_Miller> "but this many people already?"
  315. [17:47] <Lysander_Bel> "True. Guess there *might* have been another reason or two"
  316. [17:47] <Lysander_Bel> "Like the whole apocalypse and all that"
  317. [17:48] <Lukas_Miller> "of course"
  318. [17:48] <Lukas_Miller> "how could we not have seen that before?"
  319. [17:48] <Lukas_Miller> "but still"
  320. [17:48] <Lukas_Miller> "it sucks"
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  322. [17:48] <Lysander_Bel> "... Yeah. It does suck"
  323. [17:48] * Lysander_Bel shrugs. "But what are you gonna do?"
  324. [17:49] <Lukas_Miller> "keep moving forward I guess"
  325. [17:49] * Lukas_Miller shakes his head
  326. [17:49] <Lysander_Bel> "Eeyup"
  327. [17:49] <Lukas_Miller> "not much else to do that doesnt involve dying"
  328. [17:50] <Lysander_Bel> "Also, Peebs'd haunt us if we spent more than like two minutes mourning him"
  329. [17:50] <Lukas_Miller> "heh thats true"
  330. [17:51] <Lysander_Bel> "Hey, question"
  331. [17:51] <Lukas_Miller> "yeah?"
  332. [17:51] <Lysander_Bel> "If the apocalypse caused all this stuff, instead of or in addition to my game"
  333. [17:51] <Lysander_Bel> "Who caused the apocalypse?"
  334. [17:52] <Lukas_Miller> "that is a good question"
  335. [17:52] <Lukas_Miller> "I dont know"
  336. [17:52] <Lysander_Bel> "Can I like, take credit for it if nobody else stands up?"
  337. [17:52] * Lukas_Miller laughs
  338. [17:52] <Lukas_Miller> "sure dude"
  339. [17:52] <Lukas_Miller> "you can definitely have the credit for ending the world"
  340. [17:53] <Lysander_Bel> "Wait, no. That's too much of an accomplishment, I can't have those"
  341. [17:53] * Lysander_Bel snickers
  342. [17:53] <Lukas_Miller> "too late"
  343. [17:53] <Lukas_Miller> "its already your fault"
  344. [17:53] <Lysander_Bel> "No please, have mercy"
  345. [17:53] <Lukas_Miller> "so why did you decide to end the world?"
  346. [17:53] <Lysander_Bel> "Because I suck, same reason as anything"
  347. [17:54] <Lysander_Bel> "Can't just *not* ruin countless lives"
  348. [17:54] <Lukas_Miller> "I mean"
  349. [17:55] <Lukas_Miller> "you could have been doing them a service if you look at it the right way"
  350. [17:55] <Lukas_Miller> "now less people have to deal with you"
  351. [17:55] * Lukas_Miller chuckles
  352. [17:55] * Lysander_Bel bursts into laughter
  353. [17:55] <Lysander_Bel> "See, this is why I didn't want the claim anymore"
  354. [17:56] <Lysander_Bel> "Way too good a thing for me to have done"
  355. [17:56] <Lukas_Miller> "nah"
  356. [17:56] <Lukas_Miller> "its all your fault now"
  357. [17:56] <Lukas_Miller> "I hope youre happy with yourself"
  358. [17:57] <Lysander_Bel> "No way. Bet it was you, and you're just tryna shift the blame to me"
  359. [17:57] <Lysander_Bel> "Did you destroy the world, Lukas?"
  360. [17:57] <Lukas_Miller> "oh no"
  361. [17:57] <Lukas_Miller> "you caught me"
  362. [17:57] <Lysander_Bel> "Aha! I knew it!"
  363. [17:58] <Lukas_Miller> "my evil plan has been exposed"
  364. [17:58] <Lukas_Miller> "how could I have let this happen?"
  365. [17:58] <Lysander_Bel> "Wait..." Lysander chokes back another laugh. "Wait no, I can't do that"
  366. [17:58] <Lysander_Bel> "Can't figure things out"
  367. [17:59] <Lukas_Miller> "does that mean the world ending is your fault again?"
  368. [17:59] <Lysander_Bel> "I think so. Kinda lost track"
  369. [17:59] <Lukas_Miller> "dang it Lys"
  370. [18:00] <Lukas_Miller> "look youve ruined this too"
  371. [18:00] <Lukas_Miller> "how could you?"
  372. [18:00] <Lysander_Bel> "What can I say, it's my specialty"
  373. [18:01] <Lysander_Bel> "N'I guess destroying the world could count as failing to fail to accomplish anything, right?"
  374. [18:01] <Lukas_Miller> "maybe?"
  375. [18:01] <Lukas_Miller> "there has to be some way to see it as a failure"
  376. [18:02] <Lysander_Bel> "Always. I can't even fail right. My-" he starts laughing before he can finish speaking.
  377. [18:03] * Lukas_Miller starts laughing, too
  378. [18:03] <Thingymabob> The valet does not laugh
  379. [18:04] <Lysander_Bel> "Words're hard", Lysander eventually manages to get out
  380. [18:04] <Lukas_Miller> "oh really?"
  381. [18:05] <Lukas_Miller> "I never would have guessed," Lukas says in between snickers
  382. [18:05] <Lysander_Bel> "Oh, sorry. For me, I mean"
  383. [18:05] <Lysander_Bel> "My one personality trait, and I can't even do it right"
  384. [18:05] <Lukas_Miller> "eh"
  385. [18:06] <Lukas_Miller> "everyone has trouble with words sometimes"
  386. [18:07] <Lysander_Bel> "That was the joke, actually"
  387. [18:07] <Thingymabob> The valet laughs
  388. [18:07] <Lukas_Miller> "whelp"
  389. [18:07] <Thingymabob> He says he gets it now
  390. [18:07] <Lukas_Miller> "oh wait"
  391. [18:07] * Lysander_Bel claps. "Finally got down the delivery!"
  392. [18:07] <Lukas_Miller> "mind if I ask you another question?"
  393. [18:07] <Lysander_Bel> "Yeah, totally"
  394. [18:08] <Lysander_Bel> "You can even have two, if one of them's about how terrible I am"
  395. [18:08] <Lukas_Miller> "do you know how you got here?"
  396. [18:08] * Lysander_Bel looks around the lobby
  397. [18:08] <Lysander_Bel> "Like here in this room, or here on Incarnabulum?"
  398. [18:08] <Lukas_Miller> "the second one"
  399. [18:09] <Lukas_Miller> "I think"
  400. [18:09] <Lysander_Bel> "I woke up. 'Bout a week ago, started dreaming about this place"
  401. [18:09] <Lysander_Bel> "First time involved Zogginator and Hopehely"
  402. [18:09] <Lysander_Bel> "And now it's happening again"
  403. [18:10] <Lukas_Miller> "so it really is a dream then?"
  404. [18:10] <Lysander_Bel> "Eeyup. Think it's part of the curse I'm under"
  405. [18:11] <Lukas_Miller> "curse?"
  406. [18:11] <Lysander_Bel> "Whole game for me, so far, has been tied to stuff from older settings of mine. A couple of those involved dream dimensions, so..."
  407. [18:11] <Lukas_Miller> "huh"
  408. [18:11] * Lysander_Bel shrugs. "Until further notice, I'm assuming we're in a twisted version of Incarnabulum"
  409. [18:11] <Lukas_Miller> "interesting"
  410. [18:12] <Lukas_Miller> "I thought I was teleported here at first actually"
  411. [18:12] <Lukas_Miller> "its happened more than once so why not now?"
  412. [18:12] <Lysander_Bel> "I guess that's fair, yeah"
  413. [18:13] <Lukas_Miller> "but I guess if its a dream for you then its probably a dream for me too"
  414. [18:13] <Lysander_Bel> "It was for Hopehely"
  415. [18:13] <Lysander_Bel> "Apparently our group of chosen ones has hit the point of communal dreaming"
  416. [18:14] <Lukas_Miller> "great"
  417. [18:14] <Lukas_Miller> "but I guess that makes you the guy of my dreams then"
  418. [18:14] * Lysander_Bel snickers
  419. [18:14] * Lukas_Miller chuckles
  420. [18:14] <Lysander_Bel> "Y'know, I used that exact line to refer to Hopehely a week ago"
  421. [18:14] <Lysander_Bel> "First time it happened"
  422. [18:15] <Lukas_Miller> "hah really?"
  423. [18:15] <Lysander_Bel> "Almost down to the word, yeah"
  424. [18:15] <Lysander_Bel> "Obviously stole it from you in the future"
  425. [18:16] <Lukas_Miller> "wow"
  426. [18:16] <Lukas_Miller> "I cant believe you would do that"
  427. [18:16] <Lysander_Bel> "I guess I'm just the worst"
  428. [18:16] <Lysander_Bel> "Couldn't have come up with something clever on my own, had to steal it"
  429. [18:17] <Lukas_Miller> "obviously"
  430. [18:17] <Lukas_Miller> "thats definitely not the obvious stupid joke to make"
  431. [18:17] <Lysander_Bel> "Course not"
  432. [18:17] <Lysander_Bel> "It woulda been if I'd come up with it, but I didn't"
  433. [18:18] <Lysander_Bel> "Which makes it devastatingly clever and witty, or something"
  434. [18:18] <Lukas_Miller> "nope"
  435. [18:18] <Lukas_Miller> "who knows?"
  436. [18:18] <Lukas_Miller> "now I just feel unoriginal"
  437. [18:18] <Lysander_Bel> "You came up with it yourself, though"
  438. [18:19] <Lysander_Bel> "Unless Zoggo relayed it to you, s'not like you wound up looping the idea to yourself"
  439. [18:20] <Lukas_Miller> "but youve already stolen it from me in the future"
  440. [18:20] <Lukas_Miller> "so its been used already"
  441. [18:21] <Lysander_Bel> "Yeah, but not in a way that could have let you copy it from me who copied it from you"
  442. [18:21] <Lysander_Bel> "You made it up, which let past-me steal it"
  443. [18:21] <Lysander_Bel> "No stable time loop bringing it back around for present-you to say just now"
  444. [18:22] <Lukas_Miller> "yeah but that doesnt mean you havent already used it"
  445. [18:22] <Lukas_Miller> "so even if I came up with it"
  446. [18:22] <Lukas_Miller> "its not original"
  447. [18:22] <Lysander_Bel> "By that reasoning, nothing's original, since someone else probably came up with everything by now"
  448. [18:23] <Lysander_Bel> "I could write whatever story I like, but if someone else already had that idea in all of history, it's copied"
  449. [18:23] <Lukas_Miller> "but this is in a short timeframe"
  450. [18:24] <Lysander_Bel> "How short?"
  451. [18:24] <Lukas_Miller> "depends on how long ago you said it"
  452. [18:24] <Lysander_Bel> "A week"
  453. [18:24] <Lukas_Miller> "and you still remember doing it"
  454. [18:25] <Lysander_Bel> "So it's only copying if there's someone who remembers thinking of it first?"
  455. [18:26] <Lukas_Miller> "I dont know"
  456. [18:26] <Lukas_Miller> "but it doesnt feel as funny knowing youve used it before"
  457. [18:26] <Lysander_Bel> "Well, it should. S'a good line"
  458. [18:27] <Lysander_Bel> "Like an inside joke, gets better when you know the context"
  459. [18:27] <Lukas_Miller> "sure"
  460. [18:27] <Lukas_Miller> "lets go with that"
  461. [18:28] <Lukas_Miller> "so guy of my dreams"
  462. [18:28] <Lysander_Bel> "Sounds good. Long as we're being perfectly clear that I didn't come up with something"
  463. [18:28] <Lysander_Bel> "Eeyup?"
  464. [18:29] <Lukas_Miller> "any idea why were communally dreaming?"
  465. [18:29] <Lysander_Bel> "Probably the same reason for the rest of the game"
  466. [18:29] <Lysander_Bel> "Because why the heck not?"
  467. [18:29] <Lukas_Miller> "hah"
  468. [18:29] <Lukas_Miller> "maybe that is it"
  469. [18:30] <Lukas_Miller> "its this way because there isnt a reason for it to not be"
  470. [18:30] <Lysander_Bel> "Eeyup"
  471. [18:30] <Lysander_Bel> "Or it really is based off Incarnabulum, and this is my fault"
  472. [18:30] <Lukas_Miller> "do you think it might be?"
  473. [18:31] <Lysander_Bel> "Dunno. Depends on if it turns out to be a good or a bad thing"
  474. [18:31] <Lysander_Bel> "So far, I'm leaning towards 'not', but y'never know"
  475. [18:31] <Lukas_Miller> "I guess not"
  476. [18:32] <Lukas_Miller> "does this place have an actual name then?"
  477. [18:32] <Lysander_Bel> "Probably, yeah"
  478. [18:32] * Lysander_Bel looks to the valet
  479. [18:32] * Lukas_Miller turns to the valet
  480. [18:34] <Lukas_Miller> "so do you know where we are?"
  481. [18:34] <Thingymabob> He says yes
  482. [18:34] <Thingymabob> He then goes on to say how he hates names so he never learnt it
  483. [18:34] <Lysander_Bel> "R'y'gonna tell us?"
  484. [18:34] <Lysander_Bel> "Well nuts"
  485. [18:34] <Lukas_Miller> "dude"
  486. [18:34] <Lukas_Miller> "dont you live here?"
  487. [18:35] <Lysander_Bel> "For what it's worth, you *do* have to respect someone who follows their principles that much"
  488. [18:35] <Lukas_Miller> "well yeah"
  489. [18:36] <Lukas_Miller> "but theres a point where you should probably know what the name of the place you live is"
  490. [18:36] <Thingymabob> He says he never needed to know it
  491. [18:37] <Lukas_Miller> "well darn"
  492. [18:37] <Lysander_Bel> "Hold up. How many people show up from outside of this place?"
  493. [18:37] <Thingymabob> He says 2
  494. [18:38] <Lysander_Bel> "Are they us?"
  495. [18:38] <Thingymabob> He says yes
  496. [18:39] <Lysander_Bel> "Neat. So they never had to bother naming it, since everyone would already be able to recognize 'the world'"
  497. [18:39] <Lysander_Bel> "My money's back on Incarnabulum"
  498. [18:40] <Lukas_Miller> "thats the only name so far"
  499. [18:40] <Lukas_Miller> "so I guess thatll be the one well go with"
  500. [18:40] <Lysander_Bel> "Good ol' victory by default"
  501. [18:40] <Lysander_Bel> "My number one winning strategy, when nobody wants to bother disagreeing"
  502. [18:41] <Lukas_Miller> "couldnt it be your only winning strategy?"
  503. [18:41] <Lysander_Bel> "Only is still number one"
  504. [18:41] <Lukas_Miller> "very true"
  505. [18:41] <Lukas_Miller> "number one it is then"
  506. [18:42] <Lysander_Bel> "Thing is, though, and here's where it gets tricky"
  507. [18:42] <Lysander_Bel> "It's also my least effective option, since it's the only one"
  508. [18:42] <Lysander_Bel> "Which is why I'm able to use it"
  509. [18:42] <Lukas_Miller> "genius"
  510. [18:43] <Lukas_Miller> "because you definitely couldnt ever use anything better than the worst"
  511. [18:43] <Lysander_Bel> "Definitely not. That would be unlike me"
  512. [18:43] <Lysander_Bel> "Out of character is serious business, after all"
  513. [18:44] <Lysander_Bel> "And I'm not exactly someone to be taken seriously"
  514. [18:44] <Lukas_Miller> "and we wouldnt want that"
  515. [18:44] <Lysander_Bel> "Nah, down that path lies madness"
  516. [18:45] <Lukas_Miller> "and theres been plenty of that already"
  517. [18:45] <Lysander_Bel> "Way too much"
  518. [18:45] <Lukas_Miller> "so now you have to keep being your awful self Lys"
  519. [18:45] <Lukas_Miller> "just so we can avoid more madness"
  520. [18:46] <Lysander_Bel> "Eeyup. If I don't, then people start going mad, which is a bad thing for me to do"
  521. [18:46] <Lysander_Bel> "Which loops me back around to being awful"
  522. [18:46] <Lukas_Miller> "you just cant win"
  523. [18:46] <Lysander_Bel> "Not without paradoxing the universe to oblivion"
  524. [18:47] <Lysander_Bel> "Which admittedly *does* seem like something I'd wind up doing"
  525. [18:47] <Lukas_Miller> "just wait a few days"
  526. [18:47] <Thingymabob> ((feel free to keep going but I gotta go for like an hour))
  527. [18:47] <Lukas_Miller> "theres still plenty going on out there"
  528. [18:47] <Lysander_Bel> ((kk, later))
  529. [18:47] <Lukas_Miller> ((Bye))
  530. [18:48] <Lysander_Bel> "True, yeah. Wouldn't wanna cut anything short if people're still busy"
  531. [18:48] <Lukas_Miller> "of course not"
  532. [18:48] <Lukas_Miller> "youre not that awful"
  533. [18:48] <Lysander_Bel> "I'm awful, not a monster"
  534. [18:48] <Lukas_Miller> "exactly"
  535. [18:48] <Lysander_Bel> "S'a fine distinction to be made"
  536. [18:49] <Lukas_Miller> "I've still got a lot of exploring to do when I wake up"
  537. [18:49] <Lukas_Miller> "the universe can end later"
  538. [18:49] <Lysander_Bel> "It already did end, though"
  539. [18:49] <Lukas_Miller> "oh"
  540. [18:49] <Lukas_Miller> "right"
  541. [18:49] <Lysander_Bel> "I'll just have to end it again. When you guys're done your stuff, I mean"
  542. [18:50] <Lukas_Miller> "that sounds like a great plan"
  543. [18:50] <Lukas_Miller> "just give everyone some time before you end it all"
  544. [18:50] <Lysander_Bel> "Well, you came up with it"
  545. [18:51] <Lukas_Miller> "because you could never come up with a good plan"
  546. [18:51] <Lukas_Miller> "not at all"
  547. [18:51] <Lysander_Bel> "Not without destroying a universe"
  548. [18:51] <Lysander_Bel> :P
  549. [18:52] <Lukas_Miller> :P
  550. [18:52] <Lukas_Miller> "oh yeah"
  551. [18:52] <Lukas_Miller> "I asked you a question so its your turn again"
  552. [18:52] <Lysander_Bel> "Right, so it is"
  553. [18:53] <Lukas_Miller> "so guy of my dreams"
  554. [18:53] <Lukas_Miller> "what would you like to ask?"
  555. [18:53] <Lysander_Bel> "First of all, did you wanna take that extra one to ask about how awful I am, or whatever the caveat there was?"
  556. [18:53] <Lysander_Bel> "Someone as awful as me is clearly only focused on how to redirect the conversation back to himself, after all"
  557. [18:53] <Lukas_Miller> "yeah sure"
  558. [18:54] <Lukas_Miller> "so when did you first realize how awful you really were?"
  559. [18:54] <Lysander_Bel> "Always. S'been a universal fact of my life"
  560. [18:54] * Lysander_Bel nods resolutely
  561. [18:54] <Lysander_Bel> "Alright, now that that's out of the way"
  562. [18:55] <Lysander_Bel> "That exploring you were talking about. Related to scenicExplorator, I'm guessing?"
  563. [18:55] <Lukas_Miller> "yep"
  564. [18:55] <Lukas_Miller> "what about it?"
  565. [18:56] <Lysander_Bel> "What led to that? S'a pretty niche interest to have in a world that's already been explored"
  566. [18:56] <Lysander_Bel> "And I'm assuming you didn't take it knowing eventually there *would* be a new world to explore"
  567. [18:56] <Lysander_Bel> "So... what gives?"
  568. [18:57] <Lukas_Miller> "I like the thought of finding new places"
  569. [18:57] <Lukas_Miller> "a life where you dont know what youre going to find next?"
  570. [18:57] <Lukas_Miller> "even just seeing areas most people would never see is really interesting"
  571. [18:58] <Lukas_Miller> "I've always wanted to travel too"
  572. [18:58] * Lukas_Miller shrugs
  573. [18:59] <Lysander_Bel> "... What are the chances you live somewhere underground, if you don't mind me extending my turn a bit longer?"
  574. [18:59] <Lukas_Miller> "youre fine"
  575. [19:00] <Lukas_Miller> "but what do you mean by that?"
  576. [19:01] <Lysander_Bel> "Underground. Like in a basement or something, or even somewhere forested would work"
  577. [19:01] <Lukas_Miller> "not actually underground but I did live on the edge of a forest"
  578. [19:01] <Lukas_Miller> "does that count?@
  579. [19:01] <Lukas_Miller> "
  580. [19:01] <Lysander_Bel> "Eh, close enough"
  581. [19:02] <Lysander_Bel> "See"
  582. [19:02] <Lysander_Bel> "I lived in a plane. Constantly going all over the place"
  583. [19:03] <Lysander_Bel> "Never went outside"
  584. [19:03] <Lukas_Miller> "really?"
  585. [19:04] <Lysander_Bel> "Eeyup"
  586. [19:04] <Lukas_Miller> "huh"
  587. [19:04] <Lysander_Bel> "Kinda feels like we wound up on the wrong sides of the coin, here"
  588. [19:04] <Lukas_Miller> "yeah it kinda does"
  589. [19:05] <Lukas_Miller> "too bad we couldnt have switch places"
  590. [19:05] <Lysander_Bel> "Cue Freaky Friday flip"
  591. [19:05] <Lysander_Bel> "And also time warp backwards or something"
  592. [19:05] <Lukas_Miller> "something like that"
  593. [19:05] <Lukas_Miller> "living in a plane would be really cool though"
  594. [19:06] <Lukas_Miller> "at least for me"
  595. [19:06] <Lysander_Bel> "It gets old"
  596. [19:06] <Lysander_Bel> "Even if you do get out at the stops, I imagine"
  597. [19:06] <Lukas_Miller> "probably"
  598. [19:07] <Lukas_Miller> "but it sounds a lot better than never going anywhere new"
  599. [19:07] <Lukas_Miller> "staying in one spot gets boring quickly"
  600. [19:07] <Lysander_Bel> "Yeah, but a plane is one spot that's tightly compacted"
  601. [19:07] <Lysander_Bel> "Musta been at least places you could walk to"
  602. [19:08] <Lukas_Miller> "only the woods around my house"
  603. [19:08] <Lukas_Miller> "only so much to see there"
  604. [19:09] <Lysander_Bel> "Woods're cool"
  605. [19:09] <Lysander_Bel> "Gather friends, LARP or whatever"
  606. [19:09] <Lysander_Bel> "Unless you wind up memorizing the whole place"
  607. [19:10] <Lukas_Miller> "which is pretty much what happened after a while"
  608. [19:10] <Lysander_Bel> "Go farther"
  609. [19:10] * Lysander_Bel shrugs
  610. [19:11] <Lysander_Bel> "Should be a huge distance before you run into the far edge, right?"
  611. [19:11] <Lukas_Miller> "but theres still an edge"
  612. [19:11] <Lukas_Miller> "and a forest is only one kind of place"
  613. [19:12] <Lysander_Bel> "Guess so, yeah"
  614. [19:12] <Lysander_Bel> "Well"
  615. [19:12] <Lysander_Bel> "What's the place you wound up after starting the game?"
  616. [19:12] <Lukas_Miller> "a forest"
  617. [19:12] <Lukas_Miller> "funnily enough"
  618. [19:12] <Lysander_Bel> "Well nuts."
  619. [19:13] <Lukas_Miller> "but my house was in a grassy plain"
  620. [19:13] <Lukas_Miller> "and the forest had a few absolutely massive trees in it"
  621. [19:13] <Lysander_Bel> "That's... something, I guess?"
  622. [19:13] <Lukas_Miller> "yeah"
  623. [19:14] <Lukas_Miller> "but its still something new"
  624. [19:14] <Lukas_Miller> "you know?"
  625. [19:14] <Lysander_Bel> "I guess, yeah"
  626. [19:14] <Lysander_Bel> "Different is different, y'work with what you get"
  627. [19:14] <Lukas_Miller> "where did it put you?"
  628. [19:14] * Lysander_Bel shrugs. "Volcano"
  629. [19:15] <Lukas_Miller> "...what?"
  630. [19:15] <Lukas_Miller> "really?"
  631. [19:15] <Lysander_Bel> "Eeyup. I said it was this amalgam of stuff I'd thought about, right?"
  632. [19:15] <Lysander_Bel> "S'why this is Incarnabulum"
  633. [19:15] <Lukas_Miller> "yeah you did"
  634. [19:15] <Lukas_Miller> "one of those places is a volcano then"
  635. [19:15] <Lysander_Bel> "Well... a couple of those places happened to have volcanoes"
  636. [19:15] <Lysander_Bel> "Yep. And one of them stuck around"
  637. [19:16] <Lukas_Miller> "huh"
  638. [19:16] <Lukas_Miller> "that sounds dangerous"
  639. [19:16] <Lysander_Bel> "Horribly, yeah"
  640. [19:16] <Lysander_Bel> "But hey, not like I can die or anything, right?"
  641. [19:17] <Lukas_Miller> "cant you?"
  642. [19:17] <Lysander_Bel> "Nah. Nobody else down there wants me, keep kicking me back up"
  643. [19:18] <Lukas_Miller> "hah"
  644. [19:18] <Lukas_Miller> "...so"
  645. [19:18] <Lukas_Miller> "theoretically"
  646. [19:18] <Lysander_Bel> "So theoretically?"
  647. [19:18] <Lukas_Miller> "do you have any idea how someone might find where it put you?"
  648. [19:18] <Lukas_Miller> "just theoretically"
  649. [19:19] <Lukas_Miller> "I definitely dont want to explore the volcano or anything"
  650. [19:19] * Lysander_Bel laughs
  651. [19:19] <Lysander_Bel> "Be careful with it, there are slavers"
  652. [19:19] <Lukas_Miller> "that sounds wonderful"
  653. [19:19] <Lukas_Miller> "in a volcano?"
  654. [19:20] <Lysander_Bel> "Eeyup"
  655. [19:20] <Lukas_Miller> "why?"
  656. [19:20] <Lysander_Bel> "Leader's a tiefling, they're resistant to fire"
  657. [19:20] <Lysander_Bel> "Also, probably just to fit more stuff together"
  658. [19:20] <Lukas_Miller> "huh"
  659. [19:20] <Lysander_Bel> "If they put everything somewhere that made sense, it'd take weeks to travel from one place to another"
  660. [19:20] <Lukas_Miller> "so thats a 'no' on the volcano then?"
  661. [19:21] <Lysander_Bel> "S'not a no, but it's a 'careful'. Think your best option'd be to fly"
  662. [19:21] <Lysander_Bel> "Get a bird's-eye view, y'know?"
  663. [19:21] <Lukas_Miller> "makes sense"
  664. [19:21] <Lukas_Miller> "but normally I cant fly"
  665. [19:21] <Lysander_Bel> "Get a really frigging big trampoline"
  666. [19:22] <Lukas_Miller> "dont have one of those either"
  667. [19:22] <Lukas_Miller> "this plan sucks"
  668. [19:22] <Lysander_Bel> "Sorry. Maybe you should come up with one instead"
  669. [19:22] <Lukas_Miller> "maybe"
  670. [19:22] <Lysander_Bel> "Or just get teleported, since you were talking about that being a thing"
  671. [19:23] <Lukas_Miller> "it is a thing"
  672. [19:23] <Lukas_Miller> "its how I got to the forest and to my house"
  673. [19:23] <Lysander_Bel> "Then there y'go, then. Get your wizard to poof you over"
  674. [19:23] <Lukas_Miller> "I thought it was how I got here until I learned it was probably a dream"
  675. [19:24] <Lysander_Bel> "Yep, remember that part"
  676. [19:24] <Lukas_Miller> "except I dont know how to make it happen"
  677. [19:24] <Lukas_Miller> "it just does"
  678. [19:24] <Lysander_Bel> "Oh. Well nuts"
  679. [19:24] <Lukas_Miller> "best power ever"
  680. [19:24] <Lukas_Miller> "I'll figure something out eventually"
  681. [19:24] <Lysander_Bel> "Unintentional random teleporting. Sounds like quite the power, yeah"
  682. [19:25] <Lukas_Miller> "you know it"
  683. [19:25] <Lysander_Bel> "I'm tryna think of ways I could set up a beacon or whatever"
  684. [19:25] <Lukas_Miller> "but I still want to see that volcano at some point"
  685. [19:26] <Lukas_Miller> "maybe"
  686. [19:26] <Lysander_Bel> "Wouldn't be too tough to get back to the plane and try to find *you*, but the trouble is getting back"
  687. [19:27] <Lukas_Miller> "there has to be some way to do it"
  688. [19:27] <Lukas_Miller> "this whole thing cant be very collaborative if people can only meet up in their dreams"
  689. [19:28] <Lysander_Bel> "Yeah. S'tough to figure out what the point is"
  690. [19:28] <Lukas_Miller> "probably because we dont have all of the information yet"
  691. [19:29] <Lysander_Bel> "Eeyup. Oughtta look up a walkthrough or something"
  692. [19:29] <Lukas_Miller> "think that would work?"
  693. [19:29] <Lukas_Miller> "seems like a little bit of a stretch"
  694. [19:29] <Lysander_Bel> "S'find out. I'll look it up when I'm awake and have a computer again"
  695. [19:30] <Lukas_Miller> "good idea"
  696. [19:30] <Lukas_Miller> "let me know if you find anything"
  697. [19:30] <Lysander_Bel> "Yeah, 'course"
  698. [19:30] <Lukas_Miller> "thanks"
  699. [19:30] <Lysander_Bel> "Just makes sense to share information when everyone's in the same boat"
  700. [19:30] <Lukas_Miller> "not knowing things sucks"
  701. [19:30] <Lysander_Bel> "Amen to that"
  702. [19:31] <Lukas_Miller> "that sounds like a plan"
  703. [19:31] <Lukas_Miller> sharing information is probably our best be to understand... all of this"
  704. [19:32] <Lysander_Bel> "Eeyup. Way better'n everyone reinventing the wheel every time"
  705. [19:32] <Lukas_Miller> "exactly"
  706. [19:32] <Lukas_Miller> "like what those machines are supposed to be for"
  707. [19:33] <Lukas_Miller> "besides entering they havent done much"
  708. [19:33] <Lysander_Bel> "Yeah, that too. And the floaty sprite guys"
  709. [19:34] <Lukas_Miller> "I know what mine does"
  710. [19:34] <Lysander_Bel> "Should actually go back and torture my one some more"
  711. [19:34] <Lukas_Miller> "he screams"
  712. [19:34] <Lysander_Bel> "Wow. *Nice*"
  713. [19:34] <Lukas_Miller> "and doesnt answer any of my questions"
  714. [19:34] <Lukas_Miller> "but mostly screams"
  715. [19:34] <Lukas_Miller> "I know right?"
  716. [19:34] <Lysander_Bel> "Have you tried screaming at him?"
  717. [19:34] <Lukas_Miller> "no I have not"
  718. [19:35] <Lysander_Bel> "Should try"
  719. [19:35] <Lukas_Miller> "I dont have much to lose"
  720. [19:35] <Lukas_Miller> "might as well"
  721. [19:36] <Lysander_Bel> "Everything's worth a shot when everything makes equal zero sense"
  722. [19:36] <Lukas_Miller> "exactly"
  723. [19:36] <Lukas_Miller> "so I'll just go ahead and scream at the floating deer head when I wake up"
  724. [19:36] <Lukas_Miller> "that sounds perfectly sane"
  725. [19:37] <Lysander_Bel> "S'one of my plans, this is about as sane as it gets"
  726. [19:37] <Lukas_Miller> "hah"
  727. [19:37] <Lukas_Miller> "I guess so"
  728. [19:37] <Lukas_Miller> "you planning to do anything when you wake up?"
  729. [19:37] <Lysander_Bel> "Mostly to see if I can get back to the plane and look into travelling with it"
  730. [19:38] <Lysander_Bel> "And look stuff up, and bug my neckbeard spirit minion"
  731. [19:38] <Lukas_Miller> "wait what"
  732. [19:38] <Lukas_Miller> "neckbeard spirir minion?"
  733. [19:38] <Lysander_Bel> "Sprite. I gave it a fedora and some fingerless gloves"
  734. [19:39] <Lysander_Bel> "Wanted to make sure it was something awful enough to deserve putting up with me"
  735. [19:39] <Lukas_Miller> "wow"
  736. [19:39] <Lukas_Miller> "and how did that turn out?"
  737. [19:39] <Lysander_Bel> "About as well as expected"
  738. [19:40] <Lukas_Miller> "I just threw in an old deer antler of mine"
  739. [19:40] <Lysander_Bel> "Fair. You did yours before I did, right?"
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  741. [19:41] <Lukas_Miller> "when did you do yours?"
  742. [19:41] <Lukas_Miller> "who did yours?"
  743. [19:41] <Lysander_Bel> "Uh... I think it was UE"
  744. [19:42] <Lukas_Miller> "then I think I was after you"
  745. [19:42] <Lukas_Miller> "UE did mine too when PB..."
  746. [19:42] <Lukas_Miller> "...yeah"
  747. [19:42] <Lysander_Bel> "... Right"
  748. [19:42] <Lysander_Bel> "Well"
  749. [19:43] <Lysander_Bel> "By the time I was going, the fact that your choice turns sentient shoulda been public knowledge"
  750. [19:43] <Lysander_Bel> "S'too bad nobody warned you to pick something more helpful"
  751. [19:43] <Lukas_Miller> "I guess"
  752. [19:43] <Lukas_Miller> "oh well"
  753. [19:43] <Lukas_Miller> "I cant really do anything about that now"
  754. [19:44] <Lysander_Bel> "Yeah"
  755. [19:44] <Lukas_Miller> "I even watched UE's Mario hat turn sentient"
  756. [19:44] <Lysander_Bel> "Guess that's fair. No use beating yourself up over not knowing"
  757. [19:44] <Lysander_Bel> "... Huh"
  758. [19:44] <Lukas_Miller> "yeah"
  759. [19:45] <Lysander_Bel> "Guess there're worse options"
  760. [19:45] <Lukas_Miller> "in my defense I was entering him first"
  761. [19:45] <Lukas_Miller> "no one knew what was happening then"
  762. [19:45] <Lysander_Bel> "Okay yeah, guess that's fair"
  763. [19:46] * Lysander_Bel sighs
  764. [19:46] <Lysander_Bel> "So many things we could have already done better if we'd known how"
  765. [19:47] <Lukas_Miller> "but its too late for that now"
  766. [19:47] <Lukas_Miller> "we just have to keep trying"
  767. [19:47] <Lukas_Miller> "right?"
  768. [19:47] <Lysander_Bel> "Eeyup. Better'n giving up"
  769. [19:47] <Lysander_Bel> "Too easy if we do"
  770. [19:47] <Lukas_Miller> "exactly"
  771. [19:48] <Lukas_Miller> "giving up wouldnt be a great idea"
  772. [19:48] <Lukas_Miller> "still a lot to do first"
  773. [19:49] <Lysander_Bel> "Yeah. Like not die, and also check out a volcano"
  774. [19:49] * Lukas_Miller laughs
  775. [19:49] <Lysander_Bel> "And eventually get that game session started"
  776. [19:49] <Lukas_Miller> "and thats the best reason to keep going"
  777. [19:49] <Lukas_Miller> "I still want to play that game"
  778. [19:50] <Lysander_Bel> "Really?"
  779. [19:50] <Lysander_Bel> "I mean... the world sort of ended"
  780. [19:50] <Lukas_Miller> "of course"
  781. [19:50] <Lukas_Miller> "it sounded like it would have been fun"
  782. [19:50] <Lukas_Miller> "and something kind of normal right now would be really nice"
  783. [19:50] <Lysander_Bel> "... Are y'sure you weren't listening to someone talk about some other game?"
  784. [19:51] <Lysander_Bel> "Mine doesn't seem right if you're looking for fun and nice"
  785. [19:51] <Lukas_Miller> "thats subjective"
  786. [19:51] <Lukas_Miller> "maybe I want to see why you cant keep any players?"
  787. [19:51] <Lukas_Miller> "or maybe it just sounds like a fun thing to do"
  788. [19:51] <Lysander_Bel> "Because I'm objectively awful"
  789. [19:52] <Lysander_Bel> "Also, lies and slander!"
  790. [19:52] <Lukas_Miller> "if you were objectively awful you wouldnt have any players in the first place"
  791. [19:52] <Lysander_Bel> "You sure? You're joining regardless of if I am or not"
  792. [19:53] <Lukas_Miller> "what if I dont think youre awful and I want to join because I think itll be fun?"
  793. [19:53] <Lysander_Bel> "Then frankly, you're dumb enough to deserve the misery you're in for"
  794. [19:54] <Lukas_Miller> "then bring it on"
  795. [19:54] <Lukas_Miller> "I still want to play"
  796. [19:54] <Lysander_Bel> "You absolute madman"
  797. [19:54] <Lukas_Miller> "if we get the chance to of course"
  798. [19:54] <Lysander_Bel> "We will. No way I'd let you get out of suffering that easily"
  799. [19:54] <Lysander_Bel> "Not after this grevious strike to my pride as a failure"
  800. [19:55] <Lukas_Miller> "and who better to make me suffer than you?"
  801. [19:55] <Lysander_Bel> "Nobody, for I am the best at having people suffer from being around me"
  802. [19:55] <Lysander_Bel> "Except when I fail at that too"
  803. [19:56] <Lukas_Miller> "you cant really be the best at anything can you?"
  804. [19:56] <Lysander_Bel> "Nah, that'd destroy the universe"
  805. [19:56] <Lukas_Miller> "didnt that already happen?"
  806. [19:57] <Lysander_Bel> "Yes, but now there's another universe"
  807. [19:57] <Lysander_Bel> "And this one can't get destroyed again until after you and the others've suffered through my game"
  808. [19:57] <Lukas_Miller> "then I guess we just have to play"
  809. [19:58] <Lukas_Miller> "then if youre good at it the universe can end again"
  810. [19:58] <Lysander_Bel> "Ah, I getcha. So when I fail, the universe gets to survive"
  811. [19:58] <Lysander_Bel> "So that you can continue to suffer"
  812. [19:58] <Lukas_Miller> "exactly"
  813. [19:59] <Lysander_Bel> "Clearly, this all has been planned out perfectly"
  814. [19:59] <Lukas_Miller> "that makes perfect sense"
  815. [19:59] <Lysander_Bel> "To maximize your own misery"
  816. [20:00] <Lukas_Miller> "thats what I get for trying to be your friend"
  817. [20:00] <Lysander_Bel> "Definitely a poor decision there, yeah"
  818. [20:00] <Lukas_Miller> "eh"
  819. [20:00] <Lukas_Miller> "worth it"
  820. [20:00] <Lysander_Bel> "Lies and slander!"
  821. [20:01] <Lukas_Miller> "nope"
  822. [20:01] <Lukas_Miller> "totally worth it"
  823. [20:01] <Lukas_Miller> "you may be terrible but youre a good friend Lys"
  824. [20:01] <Lysander_Bel> "No way"
  825. [20:02] <Lysander_Bel> "Just look at the situation tryna befriend me has gotten you into"
  826. [20:02] <Lysander_Bel> "Guy of your dreams shows up, tells you about his dramatic past that you would have *killed* to get to live through, and how he gets to explore this cool volcano that you can't find. Then you have to play an awful game that never ends until you start enjoying it, which can never happen because it's that bad"
  827. [20:02] <Lukas_Miller> "yeah but look at it this way"
  828. [20:03] <Lukas_Miller> "I've met the guy of my dreams and he has been really cool to talk to and has been actually answering my questions as I'm answering his"
  829. [20:04] <Lysander_Bel> "I think if you're gonna disagree with me like that, I'd rather not look at it your way"
  830. [20:04] <Lukas_Miller> "there has also been plenty of laughing together"
  831. [20:04] <Lysander_Bel> "Of course there's been laughing, the world ended"
  832. [20:04] <Lukas_Miller> "you dont have to look at it my way"
  833. [20:04] <Lukas_Miller> "but I'm still going to say it"
  834. [20:05] <Lukas_Miller> "so thanks"
  835. [20:05] <Lysander_Bel> "What if I ask you politely not to?"
  836. [20:05] <Lukas_Miller> "too late"
  837. [20:05] <Lysander_Bel> "What if I go back in time and ask you politely not to?"
  838. [20:06] <Lukas_Miller> "it probably wouldnt work"
  839. [20:06] <Lysander_Bel> "How about asking impolitely?"
  840. [20:06] <Lysander_Bel> "C'mon dude, I'm begging here"
  841. [20:06] <Lukas_Miller> "nah"
  842. [20:06] <Lukas_Miller> "its too late now"
  843. [20:07] <Lukas_Miller> "I've already said it"
  844. [20:07] <Lysander_Bel> "You're cruel, y'know that?"
  845. [20:07] <Lukas_Miller> "and youre terrible"
  846. [20:07] <Lysander_Bel> "That's the spirit!"
  847. [20:07] <Lukas_Miller> "but youre still my friend"
  848. [20:07] <Lukas_Miller> "so hah"
  849. [20:07] <Lysander_Bel> "That's not the spirit!"
  850. [20:08] <Lukas_Miller> "but its the truth"
  851. [20:08] <Lysander_Bel> "You and I have very different meanings to the word truth"
  852. [20:08] <Lukas_Miller> "unless you dont think of us as friends then I guess its up for debate"
  853. [20:08] <Lysander_Bel> "Or else one of us has a weird accent that only affects the one word"
  854. [20:09] <Lysander_Bel> "... Cheap shot"
  855. [20:09] * Lukas_Miller grins
  856. [20:09] <Lysander_Bel> "Fortunately, I am exactly awful enough to take the swing anyway"
  857. [20:09] <Lysander_Bel> "We are most certainly not friends"
  858. [20:10] <Lukas_Miller> "why not?"
  859. [20:10] <Lysander_Bel> "Because"
  860. [20:10] <Lukas_Miller> "because why?"
  861. [20:10] <Lysander_Bel> "Hey, you don't get two questions in a row"
  862. [20:10] <Lukas_Miller> "aw man"
  863. [20:10] <Lysander_Bel> "I answered the first one, that means it's my turn"
  864. [20:11] <Lukas_Miller> "fine"
  865. [20:11] <Lukas_Miller> "fairs fair"
  866. [20:11] * Lysander_Bel doesn't say anything, but instead simply smirks
  867. [20:11] <Lukas_Miller> "oh"
  868. [20:12] <Lukas_Miller> "I see what youre doing"
  869. [20:12] <Lysander_Bel> "I'm sure you do. I've never been very good at hiding things"
  870. [20:12] * Lukas_Miller fake-pouts
  871. [20:13] <Lysander_Bel> "Dude"
  872. [20:13] <Lysander_Bel> "I spent my formative years on the *internet*"
  873. [20:13] <Lysander_Bel> "You're going up against laughing babies and cats right now, there's nothing you can do to break my will here"
  874. [20:14] * Lukas_Miller tries to point harder, but fails and starts grinning
  875. [20:14] <Lysander_Bel> "There we go"
  876. [20:14] <Lukas_Miller> "I have no idea what youre talking about"
  877. [20:14] * Lysander_Bel smirks back
  878. [20:15] <Lysander_Bel> "But y'see, the trick is"
  879. [20:15] <Lukas_Miller> "that was totally real sadness right there"
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  881. [20:15] * Lysander_Bel swaps forms again, this time to a small child
  882. [20:15] <Lysander_Bel> "I have laughing babies and cats at my disposal"
  883. [20:15] <Lukas_Miller> "whelp"
  884. [20:16] <Lukas_Miller> "I've lost then"
  885. [20:16] <Lysander_Bel> "Everyone does, once they start talking to me"
  886. [20:16] <Lysander_Bel> "That in itself is sort of a losing situation no matter what"
  887. [20:16] * Lukas_Miller tries to look sad again, this time just looking at the ground and letting his face fall
  888. [20:17] <Lysander_Bel> "Sorry kiddo, not gonna work"
  889. [20:17] <Lukas_Miller> "I guess not..."
  890. [20:17] <Lukas_Miller> "I'm not good enough to get it to work"
  891. [20:17] <Lysander_Bel> "What can I say, I'm a cruel monster"
  892. [20:18] <Lysander_Bel> "But you knew that"
  893. [20:18] * Lukas_Miller starts smiling again
  894. [20:18] <Lukas_Miller> "yep"
  895. [20:18] <Lukas_Miller> "a cruel monster who's still my friend"
  896. [20:18] <Lukas_Miller> "so hah"
  897. [20:18] * Lysander_Bel screams in mock agony
  898. [20:18] <Lysander_Bel> "It burns!"
  899. [20:19] * Lukas_Miller smiles more
  900. [20:19] <Lukas_Miller> "hear that Lys?"
  901. [20:19] <Lukas_Miller> "youre my friend"
  902. [20:20] <Lysander_Bel> "Lies and slander!"
  903. [20:20] <Lysander_Bel> "You're obviously experiencing stockholm syndrome from spending too much time in this room with me"
  904. [20:20] <Lukas_Miller> "yeah probably"
  905. [20:21] <Lukas_Miller> "how about when I'm back at my house I let you know if youre still my friend then?"
  906. [20:21] <Lysander_Bel> "Sure, that seems fair"
  907. [20:21] <Lysander_Bel> "By then I'll be able to block you if you say something I disagree with"
  908. [20:21] <Lukas_Miller> "since youre such an awful person of course"
  909. [20:21] <Lysander_Bel> "Absolutely. Wouldn't be able to handle a dissenting opinion"
  910. [20:22] <Lukas_Miller> "but what if you dont block me after I say it?"
  911. [20:22] <Lysander_Bel> "Why wouldn't-?" Lysander catches himself. "I would"
  912. [20:23] <Lukas_Miller> "and I'm sure youre sure about that"
  913. [20:23] <Lysander_Bel> "As sure as I am about anything"
  914. [20:23] <Lysander_Bel> "Which isn't a lot, since I'm always wrong, but still"
  915. [20:24] <Lukas_Miller> "hah"
  916. [20:24] <Lukas_Miller> "...can you stop being a small child though?"
  917. [20:24] <Lukas_Miller> "its kind of weird"
  918. [20:24] <Lysander_Bel> "F'y'didn't want weird, you picked the wrong person to talk to"
  919. [20:25] <Lukas_Miller> "the whole changing thing is weird in the first place"
  920. [20:25] * Lysander_Bel obliges, however, and instead becomes an old woman
  921. [20:25] <Lukas_Miller> "its just extra weird to have to look down to talk to someone else"
  922. [20:25] <Lysander_Bel> "I'm sure this is better"
  923. [20:25] <Lukas_Miller> "much better"
  924. [20:25] <Lukas_Miller> "thanks grandma"
  925. [20:25] <Lysander_Bel> "Happy to help"
  926. [20:26] <Lysander_Bel> "Happier to find out what happens if I keep aging up until I hit the 'little old lady' point and you have to start looking down again"
  927. [20:26] <Lukas_Miller> "go ahead if you want to"
  928. [20:27] <Lukas_Miller> "itll just be weird again"
  929. [20:27] <Lukas_Miller> "and I think I'm getting used to weird at this point"
  930. [20:27] <Lysander_Bel> "That's the stockholm syndrome kicking in"
  931. [20:28] <Lukas_Miller> "yeah probably"
  932. [20:28] <Lysander_Bel> "My awful is contagious"
  933. [20:28] <Lukas_Miller> "oh no"
  934. [20:28] <Lukas_Miller> "how terrible"
  935. [20:28] <Lysander_Bel> "Precisely, yes"
  936. [20:29] <Lukas_Miller> "how could you do this to me?"
  937. [20:29] <Lysander_Bel> "Gee, I dunno"
  938. [20:29] <Lysander_Bel> "Maybe it's because I'm awful"
  939. [20:29] <Lukas_Miller> "wow"
  940. [20:29] <Lukas_Miller> "I never would have guessed"
  941. [20:29] <Lukas_Miller> "are you sure?"
  942. [20:29] <Lysander_Bel> "Surprising, I know"
  943. [20:29] <Lysander_Bel> "But like likes like, after all, so I really had no choice but to try and convert you"
  944. [20:30] <Lukas_Miller> "I should have seen this coming"
  945. [20:30] <Lukas_Miller> "I've been betrayed by a friend"
  946. [20:30] <Lukas_Miller> "oh no"
  947. [20:30] <Lysander_Bel> "Is it still a betr- it's not a betrayal if you had to have known it was coming"
  948. [20:31] <Lukas_Miller> "I think it still counts"
  949. [20:31] <Lysander_Bel> "Then yeah, you've been betrayed by one you inexplicably call a friend"
  950. [20:31] <Lukas_Miller> "how terrible"
  951. [20:32] <Lukas_Miller> "but that doesnt make you not my friend anymore"
  952. [20:32] <Lysander_Bel> "Then you probably deserve it for being such a bad judge of character in the first place"
  953. [20:32] <Lukas_Miller> "you cant get rid of me that easily"
  954. [20:32] <Lukas_Miller> "yeah probably"
  955. [20:33] <Lukas_Miller> "how could I have ever become friends with such a horrible human being?"
  956. [20:33] <Lukas_Miller> "who doesnt even think of me as a friend"
  957. [20:33] <Lysander_Bel> "You didn't, you just convinced yourself you did"
  958. [20:33] <Lysander_Bel> "Somehow"
  959. [20:33] <Lukas_Miller> "whelp"
  960. [20:33] <Lysander_Bel> "Should really be more careful about letting that happen"
  961. [20:34] <Lukas_Miller> "I should yeah"
  962. [20:34] <Lukas_Miller> "but its too late for me now"
  963. [20:34] <Lysander_Bel> "Yep, 'fraid so. You've been converted"
  964. [20:34] <Lukas_Miller> "its still worth it"
  965. [20:34] <Lukas_Miller> :P
  966. [20:35] <Lysander_Bel> "First of all how dare you"
  967. [20:35] <Lysander_Bel> "Second of all, lies and slander!"
  968. [20:35] <Lukas_Miller> "...Lys and slander"
  969. [20:36] <Lysander_Bel> "Lies and sander"
  970. [20:36] <Lukas_Miller> "oh my god"
  971. [20:36] <Lysander_Bel> :P
  972. [20:36] <Lysander_Bel> "S'a reason I like that phrasing so much"
  973. [20:36] * Lukas_Miller just stares
  974. [20:36] <Lukas_Miller> "I cannot believe I didnt catch that sooner"
  975. [20:37] <Lukas_Miller> "thats amazing"
  976. [20:37] <Lysander_Bel> "Don't worry, I didn't come up with it"
  977. [20:37] <Lysander_Bel> "That's how it can be amazing"
  978. [20:37] <Lukas_Miller> "oh good"
  979. [20:38] <Lukas_Miller> "I was worried the universe was going to end again there for a second"
  980. [20:38] <Lukas_Miller> "who came up with it then?"
  981. [20:38] <Lysander_Bel> "Yeah, sorry to worry you there"
  982. [20:38] <Lysander_Bel> "I dunno, think it was Mum"
  983. [20:38] <Lukas_Miller> "cool"
  984. [20:39] <Lysander_Bel> "She mighta picked it up from the agency, though"
  985. [20:39] * Lysander_Bel shrugs
  986. [20:39] <Lysander_Bel> "A mystery for the ages, since they're all dead"
  987. [20:39] <Lukas_Miller> "the agency?"
  988. [20:39] <Lukas_Miller> "what?"
  989. [20:39] <Lysander_Bel> "Adopted"
  990. [20:39] <Lukas_Miller> "oh"
  991. [20:39] <Lukas_Miller> "gotcha"
  992. [20:40] <Lysander_Bel> "S'why there's no Dad to talk about"
  993. [20:40] <Lukas_Miller> "makes sense"
  994. [20:40] <Lysander_Bel> "Yeah. S'not that big a deal"
  995. [20:40] <Lysander_Bel> "Just means it might not have been her to come up with it"
  996. [20:41] <Lukas_Miller> "yeah okay"
  997. [20:41] <Lukas_Miller> "but its still a good pun either way"
  998. [20:41] <Lysander_Bel> "Aww"
  999. [20:41] <Lysander_Bel> "Now I gotta stop"
  1000. [20:41] <Lysander_Bel> "*Thanks*, pal"
  1001. [20:41] <Lukas_Miller> "please dont"
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  1003. [20:42] <Lukas_Miller> "what if its the kind of good that happens because its so awful?"
  1004. [20:42] <Lysander_Bel> "Sor- what do you- I don't understand what you mean"
  1005. [20:43] <Lukas_Miller> "its so bad that its good"
  1006. [20:43] <Lysander_Bel> "Hmm. I guess that might work"
  1007. [20:43] <Lysander_Bel> "Long as we're still clear I'm not creative or intelligent enough to have come up with it"
  1008. [20:43] <Lukas_Miller> "were clear"
  1009. [20:44] <Lysander_Bel> "Okay good. Just making sure"
  1010. [20:44] <Lysander_Bel> "S'not a mistake I want to be made, as I'm sure you understand"
  1011. [20:44] <Lukas_Miller> "I get it"
  1012. [20:44] <Lukas_Miller> "cant have anyone thinking youre good at something"
  1013. [20:45] <Lysander_Bel> "Course not. That'd destroy the universe"
  1014. [20:45] <Lukas_Miller> "exactly"
  1015. [20:45] <Lukas_Miller> "and we wouldnt want that"
  1016. [20:46] <Lysander_Bel> "Yeah, not so soon after I blew up the first one"
  1017. [20:46] <Lysander_Bel> "You guys don't deserve that"
  1018. [20:46] <Lukas_Miller> "we deserve better than that yeah"
  1019. [20:46] <Lukas_Miller> "so you have to keep being awful"
  1020. [20:47] <Lukas_Miller> "just to preserve the universe"
  1021. [20:47] <Lysander_Bel> "Pretty much, yeah"
  1022. [20:47] <Lysander_Bel> "Plus, if I stop being the worst then that means someone else has to get the title"
  1023. [20:47] <Lysander_Bel> "And nobody deserves that"
  1024. [20:47] <Lukas_Miller> "what a noble sacrifice"
  1025. [20:48] <Lukas_Miller> "thank you for that"
  1026. [20:48] <Lysander_Bel> "Dunno if I'd say that. Doesn't sound very awful when you put it that way"
  1027. [20:48] <Lysander_Bel> "Call it a selfish grab for infamy or something"
  1028. [20:48] <Lukas_Miller> "sure lets go with that"
  1029. [20:49] <Lukas_Miller> "how can you be so selfish?"
  1030. [20:49] <Lysander_Bel> "Probably because I am the worst person"
  1031. [20:49] <Lukas_Miller> "exactly"
  1032. [20:50] <Lysander_Bel> "Can't be the worst without, y'know, being the worst"
  1033. [20:50] <Lukas_Miller> "of course not"
  1034. [20:50] <Lukas_Miller> "hey if this is a dream then how are we supposed to wake up anyway?"
  1035. [20:50] * Lysander_Bel thinks for a moment
  1036. [20:51] <Lysander_Bel> "In Incarnabulum, you either die, have someone cast a certain spell on you, or just fall asleep normally"
  1037. [20:51] <Lysander_Bel> "I'm thinking that third option seems like the one to try first"
  1038. [20:51] <Lukas_Miller> "probably"
  1039. [20:52] <Lukas_Miller> "sounds like a plan then"
  1040. [20:52] <Lysander_Bel> "Yeah. Question is, though..."
  1041. [20:52] <Lukas_Miller> "when were ready to wake up at least"
  1042. [20:52] <Lysander_Bel> "Anything sha- uh... I wanna try something, but I need something sharp"
  1043. [20:53] <Lukas_Miller> "I can make things appear when I'm in my tower room"
  1044. [20:53] <Lukas_Miller> "why do you need something sharp?"
  1045. [20:54] <Lysander_Bel> "I wanna check how many of the rules here are Incarnabulum's. There, your body gets reformed every time you project your dream self there"
  1046. [20:54] <Lysander_Bel> "S'why you can die to wake up"
  1047. [20:55] <Lysander_Bel> "Knowing that'd give us a lot of freedom to figure out what *else* we can do"
  1048. [20:55] <Lukas_Miller> "so you want a knife so you can stab yourself?"
  1049. [20:55] <Lysander_Bel> "Just a pinprick'd be enough to tell, but yeah"
  1050. [20:56] <Lukas_Miller> "I can do that for you when were ready to leave then"
  1051. [20:56] <Lysander_Bel> "Sure, works for me"
  1052. [20:57] <Lukas_Miller> "just... dont show me"
  1053. [20:57] <Lysander_Bel> "Not good with blood?"
  1054. [20:57] <Lukas_Miller> "nope"
  1055. [20:57] <Lysander_Bel> "Wait shoot!"
  1056. [20:57] * Lysander_Bel facepalms
  1057. [20:57] <Lukas_Miller> "hah!"
  1058. [20:58] * Lukas_Miller grins
  1059. [20:58] * Lysander_Bel narrows his eyes
  1060. [20:58] <Lysander_Bel> "You win this round"
  1061. [20:58] <Lysander_Bel> "By which I mean it's your turn"
  1062. [20:59] <Lukas_Miller> "so the Lys..."
  1063. [20:59] <Lukas_Miller> "without the answer being 'reasons' or some other vague non answer, because why am I not your friend?"
  1064. [21:00] <Lysander_Bel> "So that I can say I don't have any"
  1065. [21:00] <Lysander_Bel> "There. My turn"
  1066. [21:00] <Lukas_Miller> "okay"
  1067. [21:01] <Lysander_Bel> "Also, you should realize that I can be totally lying through my teeth right now"
  1068. [21:01] <Lukas_Miller> "yeah but I might as well trust your answers unless you decide to tell me the truth"
  1069. [21:02] <Lysander_Bel> "Alright, fair"
  1070. [21:02] <Lysander_Bel> "Couldn't do anything about it either way, I guess"
  1071. [21:02] <Lukas_Miller> "yeah"
  1072. [21:03] <Lukas_Miller> "but back to your question"
  1073. [21:03] <Lukas_Miller> "no I'm not good with blood"
  1074. [21:03] <Lysander_Bel> "Oh yeah. You didn't even answer me, you just skipped ahead"
  1075. [21:03] <Lysander_Bel> "Jerk"
  1076. [21:03] <Lukas_Miller> :P
  1077. [21:03] <Lukas_Miller> "well theres your answer"
  1078. [21:04] <Lysander_Bel> "Guess so, yeah"
  1079. [21:04] <Lysander_Bel> "Never much minded, myself"
  1080. [21:04] <Lysander_Bel> "You get used to pretty much anything eventually"
  1081. [21:04] <Lukas_Miller> "yeah"
  1082. [21:04] <Lukas_Miller> "but everyone has different issues"
  1083. [21:05] <Lukas_Miller> "I've never been able to get over that one though"
  1084. [21:05] <Lysander_Bel> "Nothing wrong with that"
  1085. [21:05] <Lysander_Bel> "Blood for you, and my bane is being not-awful"
  1086. [21:06] <Lukas_Miller> "hah"
  1087. [21:06] <Lukas_Miller> "like I said"
  1088. [21:06] <Lukas_Miller> "everyone has their own issues"
  1089. [21:06] <Lysander_Bel> "Eeyup"
  1090. [21:06] <Lukas_Miller> "sometimes theyre something as simple as not being able to be a decent human being"
  1091. [21:07] * Lysander_Bel laughs
  1092. [21:07] <Lysander_Bel> "And sometimes they're serious problems, like disliking blood"
  1093. [21:07] <Lukas_Miller> "oh yeah 'serious'"
  1094. [21:07] <Lukas_Miller> "its stupid is what it is"
  1095. [21:08] <Lukas_Miller> "but not much I can do about it"
  1096. [21:08] <Lukas_Miller> "or at least nothing I'm willing to do"
  1097. [21:08] <Lysander_Bel> "If it wasn't stupid, it wouldn't bug you"
  1098. [21:08] <Lysander_Bel> "S'how it works. People get bothered by stupid things, and that just makes it so much worse"
  1099. [21:09] <Lukas_Miller> "I guess"
  1100. [21:09] <Lysander_Bel> "Like, you probably don't think you're specifically phobic of the idea of getting killed and eaten by cannibals, right?"
  1101. [21:10] <Lukas_Miller> "nope"
  1102. [21:10] <Lukas_Miller> "but of course that would be a bad thing"
  1103. [21:10] <Lysander_Bel> "Course not. Because that makes *sense*, that's a fear that most people have"
  1104. [21:10] <Lysander_Bel> "Maybe not a very *active* fear, but still"
  1105. [21:10] <Lysander_Bel> "You get what I mean. Wouldn't be worth mentioning if not for being uncommon"
  1106. [21:11] <Lukas_Miller> "right"
  1107. [21:11] <Lukas_Miller> "its just annoying that I cant get over it"
  1108. [21:11] <Lukas_Miller> "you know?"
  1109. [21:11] * Lysander_Bel shrugs
  1110. [21:11] <Lysander_Bel> "I know"
  1111. [21:11] <Lysander_Bel> "Also, I'm counting that as your turn after I asked about cannibals"
  1112. [21:12] <Lukas_Miller> "okay fair"
  1113. [21:12] <Lukas_Miller> "I've had more than my fair share of questions"
  1114. [21:12] <Lukas_Miller> "if you want you can have a lightning round or something and well call it even"
  1115. [21:13] <Lukas_Miller> "ending on your turn"
  1116. [21:13] <Lysander_Bel> "Dunno, seems like I could drag it out longer if I just wait as long as I can"
  1117. [21:13] <Lysander_Bel> "Especially if you don't notice some of them"
  1118. [21:14] <Lukas_Miller> "whatever works for you"
  1119. [21:14] <Lukas_Miller> "it didnt last that long anyway"
  1120. [21:14] <Lysander_Bel> "Not a huge amount of time, yeah"
  1121. [21:15] <Lukas_Miller> "oh well"
  1122. [21:15] <Lysander_Bel> "Anyway, though"
  1123. [21:15] <Lysander_Bel> "If I were to do a hypothetical lightning round"
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  1125. [21:15] <Lysander_Bel> "I'd need to have at least a starting base point to ask off of"
  1126. [21:16] <Lysander_Bel> "So"
  1127. [21:16] * Lysander_Bel finds a chair to lean back on, arms crossed
  1128. [21:16] <Lysander_Bel> "Tell me about yourself"
  1129. [21:17] <Lukas_Miller> "like what?"
  1130. [21:17] <Lukas_Miller> "you already know some stuff about me"
  1131. [21:17] <Lysander_Bel> "Whatever makes you interesting"
  1132. [21:17] <Lysander_Bel> "Tell me one thing I don't already know about you"
  1133. [21:17] <Lukas_Miller> "okay"
  1134. [21:18] <Lukas_Miller> "I've grown up with having dogs except for really recently"
  1135. [21:18] <Lukas_Miller> "does that count?"
  1136. [21:19] <Lysander_Bel> "Sure. Were... I'm curious as to how recently you mean"
  1137. [21:19] <Lukas_Miller> "about a month I think"
  1138. [21:20] * Lysander_Bel nods
  1139. [21:20] <Lysander_Bel> "Rough"
  1140. [21:20] <Lukas_Miller> "he was an old dog"
  1141. [21:20] <Lukas_Miller> "I'm kind of surprised he lasted as long as he did"
  1142. [21:21] <Lysander_Bel> "Still doesn't mean it doesn't suck"
  1143. [21:21] <Lukas_Miller> "yeah"
  1144. [21:21] <Lysander_Bel> "Least he made it out on his own terms, and not from the regular apocalypse"
  1145. [21:22] <Lukas_Miller> "heh I guess so"
  1146. [21:22] <Lysander_Bel> "Always a silver lining, a layer or two in"
  1147. [21:23] <Lukas_Miller> "you just have to look hard enough"
  1148. [21:23] <Lukas_Miller> "but he had a good life"
  1149. [21:23] <Lysander_Bel> "Good"
  1150. [21:23] <Lysander_Bel> "Shouldn't take an animal in if you can't make sure they do"
  1151. [21:24] <Lukas_Miller> "of course not"
  1152. [21:24] <Lukas_Miller> "but he seemed happy"
  1153. [21:24] <Lysander_Bel> "Then that's what matters"
  1154. [21:25] <Lukas_Miller> "yeah"
  1155. [21:25] <Lysander_Bel> "N'hey"
  1156. [21:25] <Lukas_Miller> "it is"
  1157. [21:25] * Lysander_Bel chuckles softly
  1158. [21:25] <Lysander_Bel> "By the time we've all lost the game, you can go see him again"
  1159. [21:25] * Lukas_Miller snickers
  1160. [21:25] <Lukas_Miller> "I guess so"
  1161. [21:26] <Lysander_Bel> "Been waiting a month for you"
  1162. [21:26] <Lysander_Bel> "I'm pretty sure not feeding a dog for that long counts as animal abuse"
  1163. [21:26] <Lukas_Miller> "oh no"
  1164. [21:26] <Lukas_Miller> "and I'm sure hes been waiting patiently"
  1165. [21:26] <Lukas_Miller> "but hell have to wait a little longer"
  1166. [21:27] <Lukas_Miller> "were not dead quite yet"
  1167. [21:27] <Lysander_Bel> "Well, give it a minute. You still wanted to run into a volcano"
  1168. [21:27] <Lukas_Miller> "I need to get to the volcano first"
  1169. [21:28] <Lukas_Miller> "maybe I'll be eaten by a spider or something"
  1170. [21:28] <Lysander_Bel> "True. And if I'm one of the people tryna work out how, then it'll definitely take a while"
  1171. [21:28] <Lukas_Miller> "I'm sure"
  1172. [21:28] <Lysander_Bel> "Guy'll just have to wait a bit longer"
  1173. [21:28] <Lukas_Miller> "I'm not dying just yet"
  1174. [21:29] <Lukas_Miller> "and hopefully neither is anyone else"
  1175. [21:29] * Lysander_Bel grins. "That's the spirit"
  1176. [21:30] * Lukas_Miller smiles
  1177. [21:31] <Lukas_Miller> "no messing that up okay?"
  1178. [21:31] <Lukas_Miller> "no ones else is going to die"
  1179. [21:31] <Lysander_Bel> "Right. No messing it up"
  1180. [21:31] <Lukas_Miller> "good"
  1181. [21:32] <Lysander_Bel> "N'if it does, then..."
  1182. [21:32] <Lukas_Miller> "if there's any part of you that can do something good then it should be used for this"
  1183. [21:32] <Lysander_Bel> "There's not. But what I *can* do is focus every bit of my failure on making sure we all die"
  1184. [21:33] <Lysander_Bel> "See where that gets us"
  1185. [21:33] <Lukas_Miller> "that might just work"
  1186. [21:33] <Lysander_Bel> "S'always about the loopholes, when you can't do anything right"
  1187. [21:36] <Lukas_Miller> "oh I'm sure"
  1188. [21:36] <Lukas_Miller> "but what if you mess up the loophole?"
  1189. [21:37] <Lysander_Bel> "Usually then I just wind up dying horribly and being reborn like a terrible phoenix from its own pathetic ashes"
  1190. [21:38] <Lukas_Miller> "well then"
  1191. [21:38] <Lukas_Miller> "I think thats enough for the 'lightning round'"
  1192. [21:38] <Lysander_Bel> "Yeah, probably"
  1193. [21:38] <Lukas_Miller> "I think I'm going to head back up to my tower room"
  1194. [21:39] <Lysander_Bel> "Go for it. I'll... probably check out the roof again"
  1195. [21:39] <Lukas_Miller> "good luck"
  1196. [21:39] <Lukas_Miller> "talk to you later?"
  1197. [21:39] <Lysander_Bel> "Yeah, totally"
  1198. [21:39] <Lysander_Bel> "On Pesterchum if not here"
  1199. [21:39] <Lysander_Bel> "Since I'm thinking I might just skip straight back to tryna figure out the waking world"
  1200. [21:40] <Lukas_Miller> "good"
  1201. [21:40] <Lukas_Miller> "then see you later Lys"
  1202. [21:40] <Lukas_Miller> "and good luck"
  1203. [21:40] <Lysander_Bel> "You too"
  1204. [21:40] * Lysander_Bel stands up, and heads towards the elevator
  1205. [21:40] <Lysander_Bel> "Hyvasti, kaveri unelmieni"
  1206. [21:41] * Lukas_Miller waves goodbye and heads out the front door
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