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  1. -- trapmakersArt [TA] began pestering venusianAuger [VA] at 00:59 --
  2. -- venusianAuger [VA] looks around her room and glances down at a picture of Oz, slipping it back into her scrapbook before she slides the book back beneath the bed. --
  3. -- venusianAuger [VA] settles comfortably on her bed, glancing down at her new phone. Another text from a violet. Fuck you. No supplies for you bitch. --
  4. -- trapmakersArt [TA] was a small amused...sensation in the back of her brain, like feeling the vibrations of someone laugh. --
  5. -- venusianAuger [VA] feels strange but ignores it. Gas. --
  6. -- venusianAuger [VA] rolls over and scrolls through her pictures absently. Thank God she'd transferred them to the Cloud. --
  7. -- venusianAuger [VA] rubs her cheek. The nurses had warned her about psionic overexertion. She should...ask them about that weird brain feeling. --
  8. -- trapmakersArt [TA] felt a cloud of disapproval, and something like a bugbite. --
  9. -- trapmakersArt [TA] inside her head. --
  10. -- venusianAuger [VA] rubs her temple. That must be her inner self-loathing coming out. --
  11. -- venusianAuger [VA] pinches the bridge of her nose and smacks her arm. Fuck! Did something bite her? --
  12. VA: Nggggggggggh.
  13. -- venusianAuger [VA] was in a bad mood now. She glares down at her phone. Oh, there's Silver. She's sweet. Try to think happy thoughts. --
  14. -- trapmakersArt [TA] suddenly felt a wrenching pain, as if someone was digging and scratching through her thinkpan. --
  15. -- venusianAuger [VA] screeche in pain and clutches her forehead. --
  16. VA: Ohhhhhhhh ffffff--
  17. -- venusianAuger [VA] kicks at the foot of her bed. --
  18. -- venusianAuger [VA] NEEDS to go to the medward. God that hurts. Her forehead throbs and her mind...hurts. --
  19. -- venusianAuger [VA] is there a fucking angry rat in her brain? --
  20. -- trapmakersArt [TA] finally, as if someone had turned the static of a TV off, she hears a weak, familiar voice, as if speaking behind a thousand rolls of paper towels. --
  21. TA: I like the veil. Very intimidating.
  22. TA: Don't get up, or you'll have more than a headache.
  23. -- venusianAuger [VA] hell no is this actually real. --
  24. TA: Yes, it's real.
  25. VA: Oh my god.
  26. VA: I'm losing it.
  27. VA: I lost it.
  28. TA: I don't know how either, now please don't be retarded for a single second.
  29. TA: Stop it.
  30. -- venusianAuger [VA] grits her teeth. She is the luckiest troll in the world. --
  31. TA: Shutting the fuck up?
  32. TA: Good.
  33. VA: You can read my mind.
  34. TA: Shut the fuck up.
  35. TA: I just said that.
  36. -- venusianAuger [VA] she's hallucinating. She'll go along with this dream, since it hasn't ended in her dying yet. --
  37. -- venusianAuger [VA] draws her knees up to her chin and closes her eyes, trying to listen more. It's cool. If she goes along with it she'll wake up. Whatever. --
  38. -- trapmakersArt [TA] sighs in her brain, the escape of air coming from two hundred buildings away yet still brushing against her hair. --
  39. TA: This isn't a dream. Want me to prove it?
  40. VA: You'll probably prove it by snapping my neck. If you can prove it without injuring me, yeah.
  41. -- venusianAuger [VA] this guy is the worst, even in her dreams. He makes her so sour. So un-Minuet. She dislikes it. --
  42. -- trapmakersArt [TA] sighed, visibly, as Dez went to find an awful meme to describe the situation. He squeezed her brain again. --
  43. TA: Stop talking.
  44. -- venusianAuger [VA] hisses. Fine. She'll stop talking and then just think. Fuck you. She sends strong 'fuck you' signals at him. Silently. --
  45. -- trapmakersArt [TA] makes it feel like he's crushing her skull momentarily, but suddenly hisses very loudly, as if he instead had been hurt. She doesn't feel anything. His voice grows weaker for several seconds, as if she turned down the volume somehow. --
  46. -- venusianAuger [VA] winces and presses her hand against her forehead. Hallucinating. This really makes...no sense at all. --
  47. VA: I don't understand.
  48. -- venusianAuger [VA] massages her temples. There's no way she got stuck with the worst troll in existence in her brain. --
  49. -- trapmakersArt [TA] sighs --
  50. TA: My sentiments exactly.
  51. TA: I don't know what happened, and frankly, it's not important.
  52. TA: You're the chaindux now, you ditzy whore. I'll make sure you're worthy of the title.
  53. -- venusianAuger [VA] 's brows furrow and she gives the air in her room an incredulous stare. --
  54. TA: I made it eight hundread sweeps. Despite the longevity of our misbegoten kind, most don't make half that. So I'm not too mad.
  55. TA: Even if I was killed by a FUCKING DISGRACE LIKE YOU.
  56. VA: Are you serious? Why should I even listen to you? What if humoring this makes your presence...stronger?
  57. TA: Couldn't even fucking finish me off on your own.
  58. -- venusianAuger [VA] 's fangs bare. --
  59. VA: You're the disgrace. You got killed by me.
  60. TA: I had to HELP you decapitate me, piss off.
  61. -- venusianAuger [VA] grimaces and digs her fingers in her bed. Calllllllm down. --
  62. VA: You wanted to die because your life sucked so bad.
  63. VA: And now your afterlife is just as bad.
  64. TA: Oh, trying to calm down and hide from your fucking anger again?
  65. TA: Going to give the world that worried smile and cheerfulness?
  66. -- venusianAuger [VA] makes a strained pout face. --
  67. TA: Fuck off with that.
  68. TA: Nothing I hate more than a liar.
  69. VA: Get out of my brain and go in someone else's then!!!
  70. TA: And if you're going to be the Chaindux, you're going to act like one.
  71. TA: Oh, fuck no.
  72. -- venusianAuger [VA] will NOT grit her teeth or break shit. --
  73. VA: Or can you even???
  74. TA: I would if I could, squire.
  75. -- venusianAuger [VA] pinches her nose. --
  76. TA: But if I can, I have NO CLUE!
  77. VA: WHY????
  78. -- trapmakersArt [TA] sounded enraged by this. --
  79. VA: WE DON'T EVEN KNOW EACH OTHER!!!
  80. TA: BECAUSE I'VE NEVER BEEN A GHOST, YOU FUCKING DIMWIT.
  81. -- venusianAuger [VA] slams her hands down on her very adorable fluffy yellow comforter. --
  82. VA: YOU'RE THE DIMWIT TRAPPED INSIDE OF A DIMWIT!
  83. VA: YOU'RE THE BIGGEST ASSHOLE I'VE EVER--------
  84. -- venusianAuger [VA] BREATHE, through your nose, like a bull. --
  85. -- venusianAuger [VA] whew whew whew. Stay calm. You are literally arguing with air. --
  86. -- venusianAuger [VA] covers her mouth. --
  87. -- venusianAuger [VA] said...a curse word? --
  88. -- venusianAuger [VA] groans into her hands. No. She broke her code. --
  89. TA: Sorry, I stopped listening for a second.
  90. TA: Want to keep yelling? I don't think the other cavaliers heard you. Moron.
  91. TA: "Oh did you hear the new chaindux? she's such a DITZY BITCH THAT YELLS AT HERSELF!"
  92. TA: You fucking idiot.
  93. -- venusianAuger [VA] stares up at her ceiling. Her lips twitch--it's definitely not in a smile. It's more like a murderous horror look. --
  94. VA: I'm going to have you placed in a robot body.
  95. -- trapmakersArt [TA] was just seething now, clearly enraged. --
  96. VA: Then I'm going to decapitate it.
  97. VA: I will kill you over and over again.
  98. TA: Then I'll kill you first.
  99. VA: No you won't. You're garbage and lost to a new recruit.
  100. TA: You won't be able to drown me that time.
  101. TA: How's your arm?
  102. VA: I can short circuit you just fine.
  103. -- venusianAuger [VA] glares. --
  104. TA: I ripped out a big part of you and I was dying the whole time.
  105. VA: You're bad at managing your anger and you killed the class because you were pissed at me.
  106. TA: You're a fucking joke, who only one because your psionics are situationally powerful.
  107. TA: You have no combat experience, no battle sense, no SKILL.
  108. VA: You make bad decisions even after being alive for fucking ever.
  109. TA: Not even the highest possible strength for your caste.
  110. -- venusianAuger [VA] has never really argued before. Her hands twitch. --
  111. TA: Who cares about the class?
  112. TA: They were even weaker than you.
  113. VA: You've had all the experience in the world and you lost because you can't control your anger.
  114. VA: And you're lecturing me about not freaking out constantly.
  115. TA: Heh...
  116. TA: Yeah, that one's true.
  117. -- venusianAuger [VA] groans and rips off her veil. She flushes. Cool, she insulted him successfully. Wait, fuck. Stop that. --
  118. TA: When you spend your whole life building traps, you get angry when someone gets past them like they're nothing.
  119. -- venusianAuger [VA] thinks 'sorry I'm better than you' and doesn't say it before realizing it's pointless because he's in her brain. --
  120. VA: ...yeah. Sorry.
  121. VA: I didn't think about it like that. I thought it was just one of the things you were good at.
  122. VA: Since you were good at...everything.
  123. -- venusianAuger [VA] buries her face against her knees. --
  124. TA: I'm not good at everything, Minuet.
  125. TA: I'm just very good at two specific things.
  126. TA: Like most trolls.
  127. TA: Besides the Lord-Commander, he's pretty great at lots of things.
  128. -- venusianAuger [VA] groans against here knees. This is the strangest fucking nightmare in the world. Why is she having a....friendly conversation with the worst troll--no. That's not true. He did her a favor, which is more than almost anyone's done for her, so. --
  129. VA: Then go into his brain.
  130. -- venusianAuger [VA] clenches her eyes shut. She has heard too many people talking about the Lord Commander's dick for her entire lifetime. --
  131. TA: Fuck off.
  132. VA: Wish I could?
  133. -- venusianAuger [VA] rubs at her cheek. --
  134. TA: Don't think about the Lord-Commander's bulge like that, you disgusting and thirsting harlot.
  135. VA: I'm--
  136. TA: He has burned entire planets for their disloyalty!
  137. -- venusianAuger [VA] clenches her hands. --
  138. VA: I AM NOT???
  139. VA: I WAS ACCUSING -YOU- OF IT.
  140. TA: Hmm...
  141. TA: You're wrong, per usual.
  142. TA: You took the chains, right?
  143. -- venusianAuger [VA] lays her head back against her pillow. --
  144. VA: Of course I did. I promised you.
  145. -- venusianAuger [VA] says it as if it's obvious. She wouldn't break a promise to a dying man. --
  146. -- trapmakersArt [TA] felt a smile in the folds of her brain. It was anything but nice. --
  147. -- venusianAuger [VA] shudders. He's disgusting. --
  148. VA: Listen...
  149. TA: They're light enough that even a ripped rustblood could use them.
  150. TA: Shut up.
  151. TA: I'm teaching.
  152. -- venusianAuger [VA] bites her lip but shuts up. He's actually teaching her instead of toying with her. She listens attentively because she knows a good lesson when she hears one. --
  153. VA: Understood, sir.
  154. TA: Grip them at their center of mass - the hilts of the hooks. They'll be your at rest position if you use them traditionally - if you take advantage of your psionics then you can possibly eclipse my own utilization. But for now, I demand you learn to use them traditionally, as relying too heavily on psionics will lead to mental fatigue and you will die.
  155. TA: I've met many lowbies who relied on their silly fire or ice powers on Alternia and thought it'd be enough to stop me in the fleet.
  156. -- venusianAuger [VA] gives a firm nod. She was planning on training as much as she could physically with them besides--psionics were something she wanted to use as a nasty surprise, not a first resort of attack. She thinks on his words and-- --
  157. -- venusianAuger [VA] shudders. Why are they on the same wavelength. --
  158. VA: Makes sense.
  159. TA: Now, you noticed when I tossed the hooks and used them to fling myself at you, yes?
  160. -- venusianAuger [VA] nods. The image presses itself into her brain. That was kinda horrifying. --
  161. TA: That's an advanced technique, but with me teaching you, you'll learn it far more quickly than I ever did.
  162. -- venusianAuger [VA] breathes out. Her brows furrow. He's the real deal. Her own brain can't manage this much good-natured? poor-natured? condescension and bullhsit this knowledge. --
  163. -- venusianAuger [VA] nods. --
  164. -- venusianAuger [VA] will never understand this old horrible man. She rubs her head please don't squeeze her brain for that comment. --
  165. VA: I appreciate it.
  166. TA: I know you'd think I'm horrible.
  167. VA: Because you are.
  168. VA: I guess sweeps of wanting to die eroded your morals.
  169. TA: I've lived about...twenty times longer than you will, at least. That's just natural lifespans.
  170. TA: I never wanted to die.
  171. TA: I wanted to live forever.
  172. TA: But no troll gets that, not even those spoiled immortals.
  173. -- venusianAuger [VA] , slowly, uncomfortably--he's in her brain and body, after all--lowers herself to rest against her bed, curling up. --
  174. VA: You did in the end, right?
  175. TA: I got to look you in the eyes and shove the shovel deeper - that's more control than most get.
  176. TA: I was 800 sweeps old, Minuet.
  177. TA: You can't understand me just as I can't understand you.
  178. -- venusianAuger [VA] presses her cheek against the pillow. Her own personal grudge against this guy isn't going to eclipse the fact he's the best fighter she's ever seen. So she wasn't ditz or whore anymore? --
  179. -- venusianAuger [VA] sighs. --
  180. TA: No, you're a ditzy whore.
  181. -- venusianAuger [VA] rolls her eyes very hard. --
  182. VA: Do you really have to read my mind?
  183. TA: But I'll make you into one that's worthy of a title that's struck fear into every fleet in the Empire.
  184. TA: I can't not read your mind.
  185. TA: I think.
  186. TA: It's like you're saying it anyway.
  187. TA: Anyway, anyway...
  188. -- venusianAuger [VA] can definitely get behind that. She presses her hand against her cheek. Nariat definitely wouldn't believe in fate or destiny--he probably thought this was a shit end of a bargain. She felt...bizarre about it. --
  189. VA: Wasn't like I was gonna dishonor you anyways.
  190. -- venusianAuger [VA] grumbles this. --
  191. TA: When you throw the chains, you need to measure in your head about the distance. You have fifty feet of chain to use, it'll keep coming out of your strife card until you use it all.
  192. TA: And you can retract it just as easily.
  193. -- venusianAuger [VA] nods. That's good info to know. That's a hell of a lot of chain. A lot to keep track of. --
  194. VA: Most people don't really utilize their strife card.
  195. TA: Quickly firing and retracting is how you can push yourself forward.
  196. VA: That's one of the reasons you were able to move so fluidly. Right?
  197. TA: Most people are too young or foolish to see the value.
  198. TA: Even Lord-Commander Blackice neglects it.
  199. -- venusianAuger [VA] listens intently. She's not interrupting--she's trying to wring the information from his words. She's not gonna forget it. She nods. --
  200. VA: That's stupid. If you have an advantage, you should use it.
  201. VA: Thanks.
  202. -- venusianAuger [VA] thinks about her strife card. She'll have to practice that. --
  203. TA: Most trolls just don't think about it. Talk to Maximah about it somekind, he's actually mastered the art of utilizing your modus in combat.
  204. TA: Which...I think is incredible, considering his age.
  205. VA: How old is he?
  206. TA: Just 40.
  207. -- venusianAuger [VA] lifts her cheek up, as if she's talking to someone nearby, before remembering--yeah, he's just in her head. --
  208. VA: Maybe it has something to do with...having a lot of time to think.
  209. VA: If you can't distract yourself with other people as much, you learn things quicker.
  210. TA: Yes, and he's a natural. Just like I was, but smarter.
  211. -- venusianAuger [VA] pushes that down. That sounded like she was speaking from experience. Stay out of the brain. --
  212. VA: I'll see if I can watch him.
  213. TA: He's not plagued by my bloodlust. Being dead, I can see that now.
  214. -- venusianAuger [VA] can't help it. She hisses. --
  215. TA: My lust for killing was ultimately my downfall, the chaff was too easy. I got fat and weak on squires.
  216. VA: It's because you're a highblood.
  217. VA: Can't really help it, right.
  218. TA: You can.
  219. -- venusianAuger [VA] weakens at that. She'd prepared for the 'yeah you're right' speech. Her hand fists into her sheets. --
  220. TA: But you will never understand.
  221. -- venusianAuger [VA] won't and she's glad for it. Her bloodlust is normal for her caste. She won't have to...deal with that. --
  222. TA: You will never understand the struggles of the Rage that infests all highblooded hearts, it's our curse.
  223. TA: And, apart of our strength, if we can master it.
  224. VA: It must be very difficult to be able to take out your anger at everyone around you without repercussion.
  225. TA: That's an aspect the Lord-Commander outshines us all at, in my opinion. It's why I respect him so much.
  226. -- venusianAuger [VA] bites her lip. That was mean. Why the hell did-- --
  227. TA: Look at him take a wound in combat, if you have the fortune of doing so.
  228. -- venusianAuger [VA] tries to push like a thousand memories down. Why does he have to be in her brain. --
  229. TA: He doesn't fall into a beserker rage like a weaker troll.
  230. TA: In fact, his attacks slow, and become more targeted and devestating.
  231. VA: Yeah. Stop popping a boner over it.
  232. -- venusianAuger [VA] says this, but doesn't mean it. She's thinking on his words. --
  233. TA: Every punch is calculated, and his heroic demeanor betrays a hunter's grac-
  234. -- venusianAuger [VA] coughs and covers her mouth. She's not gonna laugh. --
  235. -- trapmakersArt [TA] quickly gives her a migraine by ripping apart her memories. He weakens for several minutes afterwards, and silence reigns. --
  236. -- venusianAuger [VA] is certainly remorseful after the migraine. The silence is worse than the horrible nightmare of having him in her brain. --
  237. -- venusianAuger [VA] closes her eyes and sighs. So insinuating he wanted to bang Ozeath was a no-no. Got it. --
  238. -- trapmakersArt [TA] his voice returns, quiet and weak. --
  239. TA: It seems I still struggle with my curse, to my ethereal detriment.
  240. -- venusianAuger [VA] twitches. --
  241. VA: No, I'm making it worse.
  242. TA: You are.
  243. TA: But I am ultimately responsible for it.
  244. -- venusianAuger [VA] closes her eyes. --
  245. TA: Something I didn't learn until I died.
  246. TA: Unfortunate.
  247. VA: Yeah, I wish you had that realization when you were alive and I was begging to be your friend.
  248. TA: But, I'm not bothered.
  249. TA: Friends?
  250. -- venusianAuger [VA] frowns. Peaceful. She presses her forehead againt the pillow. --
  251. VA: Are you serious? Dig around in my brain.
  252. VA: You can see it all anyways.
  253. VA: I was trying to make you like me.
  254. -- venusianAuger [VA] sighs. It never works because highbloods are insane. --
  255. TA: Your obsession with friendship is a part of your multiple tramuas and a source of weakness.
  256. VA: I didn't say dig that deep in!
  257. -- venusianAuger [VA] grimaces. --
  258. TA: I didn't, I can just tell.
  259. -- venusianAuger [VA] sighs. --
  260. -- trapmakersArt [TA] sounds smug. --
  261. -- venusianAuger [VA] yeah yeah. She grumbles. --
  262. TA: Now...
  263. TA: where was I...
  264. TA: ah yes, the Lord-Commander.
  265. -- venusianAuger [VA] begs every celestial--FUCK --
  266. -- venusianAuger [VA] drags her nails painfully along her cheeks, drawing blood. --
  267. TA: I need to explain the curse to you so you can PROPERLY appreciate your highblooded comrades.
  268. VA: Can we please have this talk another time, sir.
  269. TA: ...very well.
  270. -- venusianAuger [VA] does NOT want to pity the people who have fucking stepped all over her and done horrible thi--oh. --
  271. VA: ....thanks.
  272. TA: I understand your desire to learn to utilize the chains.
  273. TA: Now...
  274. -- venusianAuger [VA] closes her eyes, cheeks stinking, and focuses on Nariat's voice. The chains. THAT was something she could get behind. --
  275. TA: Lets see..
  276. TA: Hm.
  277. TA: I forgot what I was going to say.
  278. -- venusianAuger [VA] frowns. She IS interested in the chains, but she finds it strangely calming to just talk to him. Her obsession with friendship, she supposes. --
  279. VA: I am sure you'll find something else.
  280. TA: No, no. Hold on.
  281. TA: We went over the center of balance...the chain grappling...
  282. TA: Ah! Yes! Pulling!
  283. -- venusianAuger [VA] tugs her blankets over her shoulders and her hair fans out on her pillow. Pulling--utilizing the strife modus for better functionality. --
  284. VA: Sir, I noticed you did not use your legs often.
  285. VA: Was there a reason for that?
  286. TA: Just as you can bring yourself towards your heretical foes, you can bring them to you. Possibly kill them in the process, and slam them into others.
  287. -- venusianAuger [VA] thinks. That does make sense. Close ranged combat was not her specialty--but slamming them into a room full of dangerous traps had served Nariat well. --
  288. TA: Ah, I needed to keep a center of balance when using the specifici style I became accustomed with. It required a center of balance to force the movements of my enemies.
  289. -- venusianAuger [VA] thinks a real quiet 'sorry for interrupting' too. Two people in one brain was cramped. She thinks on that. --
  290. VA: Did you teach yourself?
  291. TA: Yes.
  292. TA: I picked up chains initially because it was a dare, actually.
  293. -- venusianAuger [VA] opens her eyes and smiles slightly at that, waiting for the explanation. --
  294. TA: It was only when I used them to strangle that troll later on that I realize their potential.
  295. TA: The troll used a hookKInd, so I incorporated that, and invented the hookchainKind
  296. TA: It's difficult to master, and even more difficult to counter.
  297. TA: Unless they have a gun. But then, why are you putting yourself in a situation where they can use it?
  298. VA: Good point.
  299. -- venusianAuger [VA] kind of dislikes guns in general. Troll's too weak to just kill someone properly in combat. That's rude. Stop thinking that. --
  300. VA: Nariat?
  301. -- venusianAuger [VA] hums softly. She supposes she has permission to ask a question. If not.....eh. --
  302. VA: Why did you kill them?
  303. -- trapmakersArt [TA] there was a long silence. --
  304. TA: Because I could.
  305. -- venusianAuger [VA] closes her eyes. She wants to learn from him. --
  306. VA: How long were you alone?
  307. TA: Longer than you'll ever need to suffer, Cavalier.
  308. -- venusianAuger [VA] tangles her fingers in the sheets. She can understand that. Even just a few sweeps of being alone had...made her bad. If she was cobalt, like him, she's not quite sure what would have happened. --
  309. TA: Now...
  310. TA: Lets see..ah, yes.
  311. TA: The hooks are wonderful for parrying, they're like using daggers in close combat. If you have to, use residual chains to trip your oppoent just by trailing it around you.
  312. TA: And bleed them.
  313. TA: Some trolls grow to an absolutely ridiculous size.
  314. TA: There was one that was 15 feet tall, once.
  315. TA: I strangled her to death.
  316. -- venusianAuger [VA] winces. She'd been listening closely. --
  317. VA: Was that one because you could as well?
  318. TA: Prodigous size alone does not stay the sharpened blade.
  319. TA: No, it was because she thought she could kill me.
  320. -- venusianAuger [VA] believes it. Some of the huge trolls she had dealt with were... --
  321. VA: ....the stupidest.
  322. VA: Good.
  323. VA: She deserved it.
  324. TA: She was a fuckgill.
  325. -- venusianAuger [VA] sits up straight. --
  326. VA: Was she a seadweller?
  327. TA: Yes. Just as you can't understand me, I can never understand the aquatic royals.
  328. TA: Lord-Commander Blackice seeks a worthy successor - I don't think one exists.
  329. TA: None of them can handle that power.
  330. VA: Yeah, I agree.
  331. VA: They're all insanae.
  332. -- venusianAuger [VA] sits back. --
  333. VA: But that's...
  334. TA: Insane, Minuet.
  335. -- venusianAuger [VA] shakes her head. --
  336. TA: It's pronounced insane.
  337. VA: Oh my god--sh--
  338. -- venusianAuger [VA] buries her face in her hands. --
  339. TA: Fucking moron.
  340. VA: We were having a moment!
  341. -- venusianAuger [VA] hisses. --
  342. TA: No, we were not.
  343. VA: Whatever!
  344. TA: Mutual hatred is not a foundation for comradery.
  345. -- venusianAuger [VA] grimaces. --
  346. VA: I don't hate you.
  347. VA: Just because you hate everyone doesn't mean everyone else does!
  348. TA: I was refering to the seadwellers, fool.
  349. -- venusianAuger [VA] were you??? She can't read his mind so...whatever. --
  350. -- trapmakersArt [TA] not yet, at least. --
  351. VA: Yeah, but that's the hemospectrum.
  352. TA: The hemospectrum is not perfect, Minuet.
  353. -- venusianAuger [VA] tenses. --
  354. VA: That is blasphemy and you shouldn't speak it.
  355. VA: Even inside of my head.
  356. TA: Fuck off.
  357. TA: I forgot more of heresy than you'll ever know.
  358. -- venusianAuger [VA] grips the sheets. What the fuck was wrong with this man? --
  359. TA: Tell me, Minuet.
  360. TA: Do you see any fault in a system where lowbloods, highbloods, and seadwellers can not ever REALLY understand one another?
  361. TA: Look at the First Knight and her matesprite.
  362. TA: They love one another oh so much, but to be with her, the First Knight will need to give up her trollhood to do so.
  363. -- venusianAuger [VA] breathes out. --
  364. TA: Does that sound functional to you?
  365. VA: ...
  366. TA: To change yourself at the fundamental level?
  367. -- venusianAuger [VA] realizes, with a little horror, he's right. --
  368. TA: To be with someone you like just because they rut you liked a wild beast?
  369. -- venusianAuger [VA] grits her teeth. --
  370. VA: That isn't why they're together.
  371. TA: Fuck off.
  372. VA: You fuck off. Lowbloods aren't animals.
  373. TA: You don't know shit about their relationship.
  374. VA: You don't either.
  375. TA: We're all animals, you fucking idiot.
  376. TA: No, but I know about trolls.
  377. -- venusianAuger [VA] rolls her eyes. God this guy. --
  378. VA: Fair.
  379. VA: But Ozeath wants it that way.
  380. TA: Of course it's fucking fair.
  381. TA: Ozeath wants it what way?
  382. TA: Be specific, broad.
  383. TA: Moron.
  384. -- venusianAuger [VA] sighs and strokes her hair. That's just how he speaks. Whatever. Idiot. --
  385. VA: He's guarding the throne for a Tyrian to take it, Nariat.
  386. VA: I thought you admired him.
  387. VA: I don't understand.
  388. TA: Oh, I do, but he isn't perfect.
  389. TA: He's hiding from his own fears and insecurities that limit what he's capable of doing - perhaps in a few hundread sweeps he'll understand himself as well as he understands death and blood.
  390. -- venusianAuger [VA] closes her eyes. He wasn't, but she couldn't hold his seldom rages against him. Ozeath was at least trying. That was more than any seadweller had shown her. --
  391. VA: A few hundred sweeps and I won't be here.
  392. TA: Yes, it is. Highbloods are the bridges between the mud and the sea.
  393. TA: No, you won't.
  394. TA: Unless you become a robot like those other fools.
  395. -- venusianAuger [VA] digs her fingers in the sheets. She hadn't been thinking about that either. --
  396. TA: Too weak to die.
  397. VA: Too strong to die.
  398. -- trapmakersArt [TA] actually laughs at her, sharp and bitter. --
  399. -- venusianAuger [VA] stills. --
  400. VA: Nariat, if you hadn't been in your body, you would have mastered your anger a lot earlier.
  401. TA: Oh yes, too strong to die, so they desperatly hide themself in cold steel and circuits to extend their lifespan past what they were meant for.
  402. TA: I wouldn't be Nariat.
  403. TA: It wouldn't matter.
  404. VA: The Condesce kept her Helsman alive.
  405. TA: I wouldn't be a troll.
  406. -- venusianAuger [VA] isn't letting go of this without a fight, dammit. She's shaking. --
  407. TA: Oh yes, and look upon his cursed existence.
  408. VA: I don't care.
  409. TA: Oh?
  410. TA: Would you like that, Minuet?
  411. TA: To be eaten constantly to fuel an Empress who sees you as a toy's ship?
  412. VA: Not for any Empress.
  413. -- venusianAuger [VA] smiles slightly. --
  414. TA: The Helmsman lived eternally, yes, but the whole time he was dead.
  415. VA: My powers would be useless for one of them, Nariat.
  416. VA: Water in the vacuum of space is useless.
  417. VA: Me being useless worked out.
  418. TA: Hey, Minuet.
  419. TA: Shut the fuck up, you absolute fucking moron.
  420. -- venusianAuger [VA] groans. She recognizes that tone of voice. It's the 'I'm gonna slam you you dumb idiot'-- --
  421. -- venusianAuger [VA] yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep. --
  422. VA: It's not like I'm gonna throw my life away for some stupid--
  423. -- venusianAuger [VA] bites her tongue because that's blasphemy. --
  424. TA: :)
  425. VA: Fuck off, Darkgrin.
  426. TA: Oh yes, I know.
  427. -- venusianAuger [VA] did another curse. Auuuuauuauagh. --
  428. TA: I know that very same emotion.
  429. TA: "Why should I die so that he may live? His only boon be gills!"
  430. VA: This isn't troll Star Wars.
  431. VA: You aren't me but in an old nasty body.
  432. -- venusianAuger [VA] prepares for another barrage of insults but pushes onwards. --
  433. TA: No, I'm better than you.
  434. TA: Because I do not follow like a sheep.
  435. -- venusianAuger [VA] yeah. She breathes out. --
  436. VA: How am I doing that.
  437. TA: You are already so close to seeing the flaws in our necessary construct, but you're so scared in the weakness of your faith that you'll gouge your eyes out to avoid understand that which connects us all.
  438. TA: Blood.
  439. TA: And bones, and hate.
  440. TA: You shove all these natural emotions down so your faux sun may rise.
  441. VA: You had eight hundred sweeps to figure it out and you never did anything with it.
  442. TA: Well, you know why we fear the sun, Minuet?
  443. TA: It'll burn us.
  444. TA: To. A. Crisp.
  445. -- venusianAuger [VA] twists her fist in the sheets. --
  446. VA: You're wrong about a lot of things.
  447. TA: Okay.
  448. -- venusianAuger [VA] breathes out. --
  449. TA: I'm done talkig. Explain how I'm wrong.
  450. TA: :)
  451. -- venusianAuger [VA] hates his stupid fucking smile. --
  452. VA: Either we're all the same or the hemospectrum is correct. You can't group it into three distinct groups.
  453. VA: We all suck!
  454. VA: You suck.
  455. VA: You do. In the end you're the same as me. Except I'm dead and you don't even have a corporeal body.
  456. VA: You hate the idea of a cyborg body because it rips away trollhood. That makes no sense.
  457. -- venusianAuger [VA] sits up and grimaces, standing up from her bed. She starts to pace. --
  458. TA: Minuet, how do you view the Empire. In what time frame do you think?
  459. VA: I've been alive for a short time. I can only see it in my time.
  460. -- venusianAuger [VA] grimaces. --
  461. TA: Ding, ding ding.
  462. TA: You know what we're getting at.
  463. TA: How long will you live relative to a blueblood? A seadweller
  464. TA: ?
  465. -- venusianAuger [VA] grits her teeth. --
  466. TA: :)
  467. VA: I'm living as long as I need to.
  468. TA: Oh no no.
  469. -- venusianAuger [VA] knows that's a garbage answer. She frets as she paces around her room, the carpet pressing against her feet roughly. --
  470. TA: You don't need to, you have to. Unless you rip away what makes you a troll.
  471. TA: Then, you're just bolts and iron!
  472. TA: And can change yourself as you please!
  473. TA: But!
  474. TA: A soul meant for a troll, trapped in a cage?
  475. -- venusianAuger [VA] rolls her eyes. --
  476. VA: Our BODIES are cages.
  477. TA: Oh no no no.
  478. VA: You could never have ruled because you didn't have gills!!!
  479. TA: Such a restricting view.
  480. -- venusianAuger [VA] waves her hands in the air. --
  481. VA: You're so fucking old!!!
  482. VA: You hate everything!
  483. TA: No.
  484. -- venusianAuger [VA] floats a notebook with her psionics because it helps, okay? The notebook rocks in the air as she continues to walk in tight circles, covering her face. --
  485. TA: I simply hate this blindfold we've wrapped around our collective occular globes.
  486. -- venusianAuger [VA] grimaces. She'd never been a politics-reader, or...really, a reader of any sort. She was fucking stupid. She wasn't the troll who needed this guy in her brain. He was smarter than her. --
  487. VA: Can we pause on this point a minute?
  488. VA: I want to ask you a question.
  489. VA: Not start an argument.
  490. VA: I just...actually have a question.
  491. TA: I have an answer.
  492. -- venusianAuger [VA] fidgets and sits on her carpet. --
  493. VA: Nariat, I can't leave him alone.
  494. VA: There aren't going to be any bluebloods or violetbloods or anyone else calm enough to be around him!
  495. VA: His moirail is a jadeblood!!!
  496. -- venusianAuger [VA] presses her palms against her eyes. This nightmare sucked. Their lifespans were FUCKED. --
  497. -- venusianAuger [VA] knows that wasn't a question. Sue her, she was suddenly dealing with her own mortality and the horrible world-shattering idea that Ozeath would be all alone. --
  498. TA: Yep.
  499. TA: Sucks, doesn't it?
  500. TA: Do you still think we're all the same?
  501. -- venusianAuger [VA] is not going to cry. She presses her hands tighter against her eyes. --
  502. VA: Yes.
  503. -- venusianAuger [VA] grits her teeth. --
  504. TA: Why?
  505. TA: :)
  506. TA: I don't think you do.
  507. VA: We all feel the same. We all eat and sleep and--we feel!
  508. -- venusianAuger [VA] pounds her fist against the floor. --
  509. VA: Just because he's dealing with anger and his lifespan's stupid fucking long doesn't mean the same.
  510. TA: For the first twenty...fifty sweeps, perhaps.
  511. TA: Oh Minuet...
  512. -- venusianAuger [VA] grits her teeth. Then she will get a robot and fill it full of fucking cobalt blood you dumb piece of shit. --
  513. VA: Don't. Talk to me. Like that.
  514. -- venusianAuger [VA] HATES it. Don't fucking pity her. Don't talk down to her. --
  515. TA: What're you going to do about it?
  516. TA: (:
  517. VA: I could always kill myself and let your chains collect dust in an attic.
  518. -- venusianAuger [VA] can't do that. She has to stay alive. --
  519. TA: You could.
  520. TA: I can't stop you, really.
  521. TA: In this instance you have the power.
  522. TA: Every time I try to silence you, I feel myself slip a little more.
  523. TA: So...you can do that. But you won't.
  524. -- venusianAuger [VA] winces and pinches the bridge of her nose. That was something good to know. He could grow weak enough. She could force him out of her head. But... --
  525. -- venusianAuger [VA] 's throat feels raw. She isn't lonely any more. --
  526. -- venusianAuger [VA] really wishes he couldn't just read her mind. That makes it worse. She can't hide anything from him. Why can't he just be a strange whisper in the wind? Something not inside of her? --
  527. -- venusianAuger [VA] wipes her eyes. She's....those are tears. Fuck. Fuck. --
  528. -- venusianAuger [VA] buries her face in her knees. She hates crying. She HATES it. Her fangs grit and her hands shake. --
  529. -- trapmakersArt [TA] goes into a coughing fit, and grows silent. --
  530. -- venusianAuger [VA] breathes and winces in pain. Trapping the sobs in her throat hurts. She tries to rub her temples and ease the feeling away. It's not happening. Of course he is no help. She scrubs at her eyes and breathes, slow, for a few minutes. --
  531. -- venusianAuger [VA] wipes her eyes. Oh, shit. There's another wave of horror. --
  532. -- venusianAuger [VA] clutches her head. Ozeath will cull her if she finds out anything. Insanity is poison and violates trollkind. --
  533. -- venusianAuger [VA] needs to get this guy out of her brain. Fuck fuck fuck. Or--fuck, anything out of her brain and into a fucking stuffed bear. --
  534. -- venusianAuger [VA] isn't asking for help. Nariat isn't her fucking moirail or her friend or anything. In fact, she doesn't have any of those!!! She has a jadeblood that's gonna die one day or become an unfeeling robot. And a blueblood that is in love with his ideals and Kronia. Fuck. --
  535. -- venusianAuger [VA] lifts her hand and rips off a post from her bed with her bare hands. The wood splinters satisfyingly. --
  536. -- venusianAuger [VA] will not destroy her room. She is not a highblood. --
  537. -- venusianAuger [VA] already destroyed her phone, fuck. She throws down the pole. --
  538. VA: This is useless. This isn't getting me anywhere.
  539. -- venusianAuger [VA] rubs her forehead. --
  540. VA: Sorry. Stupid of me. You can't feel my sensations, right? The wood won't bother you. Just ignore it tonight.
  541. -- venusianAuger [VA] will superglue it later or something, god. She's never done something like that before. She shakily paces, waiting for Nariat to speak again. Come back. --
  542. -- trapmakersArt [TA] is gasping, as if for breath - is very labored. --
  543. TA: I...apologize. I think I talked too much, i overexerted myself.
  544. -- venusianAuger [VA] shudders and tries to focus on his breathing. Oh nonononono. --
  545. VA: No, don't say sorry, please don't fucking drown again.
  546. -- venusianAuger [VA] digs her fingers against her temples. --
  547. -- trapmakersArt [TA] the more she focused on his breathing, the easier it seemed to become for him. --
  548. -- trapmakersArt [TA] sounded as if he was gargling, and then spit something...alot of something out. --
  549. -- venusianAuger [VA] gives a pained cry. Of course that's how it is. She has to pay complete attention to him. She doesn't want him to die again. She tries to focus on his breathing and winces at the noise. Think about his face. --
  550. TA: So.
  551. -- venusianAuger [VA] rubs her face. Sorry for drowning you again. She won't say it out loud. --
  552. VA: So.
  553. -- trapmakersArt [TA] becomes clearer, voice losing some of that echo-quality it had been before. --
  554. TA: Think of an answer?
  555. -- venusianAuger [VA] gives a relieved sigh. It works. He had scars all over his fucking face--thinking about his ugly mug is repulsive for many reasons, but she tries to call it to memory as she listens to his voice. An answer? --
  556. VA: It's been one night.
  557. VA: I need more time.
  558. -- venusianAuger [VA] rubs her face. She knows it's a cop-out. --
  559. TA: I'll give you time.
  560. -- trapmakersArt [TA] accepted it. --
  561. -- venusianAuger [VA] sags in relief. A greater kindness than he'd done before. --
  562. TA: ...Where was I before?
  563. -- venusianAuger [VA] drags her shaking hands across her face. He was unbelievable. --
  564. TA: What have we been talking about?
  565. VA: I don't know. I got kind of distracted by you almost dying on me again.
  566. TA: Yes, it was inconveinient huh?
  567. -- venusianAuger [VA] focuses on her breathing, now. Her hands are trembling. She can't get angry again. She tears up. --
  568. VA: That isn't what I meant.
  569. VA: We have to be careful.
  570. -- venusianAuger [VA] rubs her arms. She's exhausted. She feels too tired to move to her bed. --
  571. VA: It was close. I could feel it.
  572. TA: I...know what you mean. My grasp is tenuous, at best.
  573. TA: We need to be careful, or I can't make you a proper Chaindux.
  574. -- venusianAuger [VA] shudders and pinches the bridge of her nose. --
  575. VA: That's going to take probably my entire lifetime, buddy.
  576. VA: I need to meditate on you every day.
  577. VA: And I need to make sure I talk to you.
  578. -- venusianAuger [VA] drags her hands through her hair. --
  579. TA: Being the Chaindux is more of a state of mind than anything else. It's...a purity, understanding and accepting the bindings we all carry, the differences between us all, the incompatable compatability of our system.
  580. TA: But...you're right.
  581. TA: :)
  582. -- venusianAuger [VA] sighs. Highbloods and their purity. She rubs at her eyes and stands up slowly, shuddering as she realizes she still has on her damn Chaindux outfit. She carefully unzips it and starts to fold it, placing it carefully on her nightstand. --
  583. VA: Someone else should have killed you.
  584. VA: A blueblood.
  585. -- venusianAuger [VA] leaves it at that. She pats her uniform and goes to sit on her bed, tired, feeling her sheets press against her. Familiar but not enough to lull her to sleep after this...nightmare? Dream? Insanity? --
  586. -- trapmakersArt [TA] was silent. He didn't know the answer either. --
  587. -- venusianAuger [VA] rubs at her eyes and looks at the wall. It would be easier if she could see his damn face. Pick a place to focus on. --
  588. VA: If I sleep, will you die?
  589. VA: Or....do you know?
  590. TA: I certainly hope not.
  591. TA: We'll find out in the morning.
  592. TA: Or rather, you will.
  593. TA: :)
  594. -- venusianAuger [VA] shudders. Stop being so callous about your own un-life, fuck, Nariat. --
  595. VA: I'm serious. Do you even want to be here?
  596. VA: It's not a joke.
  597. VA: If you want to stay there, stay there. I'm not going to kick you out.
  598. VA: Just....set up shop in there. I don't use my brain anyways, right?
  599. TA: Of course I don't want to be here. I wish I was dead...welll...deader.
  600. TA: But, I'm here.
  601. TA: And I'll not waste an oppurtunity.
  602. -- venusianAuger [VA] can't understand that. More than anything else, she wants to live. She rubs her eyes and curls under her covers. --
  603. TA: Sleep, idiot.
  604. -- venusianAuger [VA] can't even manage a verbal 'fuck you'. She's so tired. She presses her cheek against the pillow. --
  605. -- venusianAuger [VA] will only say this word once. --
  606. VA: Please be there in the morning.
  607. -- venusianAuger [VA] buries her face in the pillow and closes her eyes. Time to pass out. --
  608. TA: I'll try.
  609. -- trapmakersArt [TA] said it barely above a whisper, begining to fear this himself. --
  610. -- trapmakersArt [TA] what a strange universe this was. --
  611. -- trapmakersArt [TA] ceased pestering venusianAuger [VA] at 03:06 --
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