Council of the Dawn: Fourth Wall Crisis

[1:03]Gideon Wilhelm: "Any of you ever think about how we all might be artificially rendered figments of the imaginations of cruel lunatics with nothing better to do than pretend they're fighters for the greater good of a world that doesn't exist?"
[1:03]Zereth Awanda: "Nah, that's crazy."
[1:03]Ramses Firetender: "/I mean, if we're here, the world certainly exists, doesn't it?/"
[1:04]Cira Molkoh: "I am aware. My god is cruel, and wishes for my suffering. Why else do I have such a needlessly tragic backstory?"
[1:04]Zereth Awanda: "...wait... why does that make sense...?"
[1:04]Gideon Wilhelm: "Then how do you explain how we all simultaneously forget a bunch of stuff and learn a bunch of new stuff every two years?"
[1:04]Cira Molkoh: "It gets better. Liliva and I have the same god. Notice how we're never in the same room at the same time?"
[1:04]Zereth Awanda: "I suppose the gods of the realm dictate what's worthless and what's not... such as Tether."
[1:05]Cira Molkoh: "/That's what I'm up against/."
[1:05]Ramses Firetender: "/I don't know about you, but I can't even remember what happened more than 6 weeks ago... /"
[1:05]Ramses Firetender: "/Just like, I was TOLD to remember something./"
[1:06]Zereth Awanda: "...I don't think my god has any idea what he's doing. I only started thinking about more than Jolt, Verthunder, Verfire, Veraro, Verstone, Verfire, Verstone, Acceleration... so on and so forth."
[1:06]Gideon Wilhelm: "What's even more fucked up is, as I'm saying this, I'm watching the words slowly scrawl into being in the corner of my vision.  Sometimes they even disappear for new words to come in, and neither I nor anyone else seems to remember them ever being there."
[1:06]Zereth Awanda: "...I thought more about things about 6 months ago..."
[1:06]Cira Molkoh: "Remember when conjurers had stoneskin? Why can't I cast fluid aura, anyway? I can out of combat, but when I'm in it... I forget the spell."
[1:07]Khongkhai Noykin has logged in.
[1:07]Zereth Awanda: "Right!? And I used the be able to Verraise peope all of the time but as of 6 months ago I just... can't!"
[1:07]Gideon Wilhelm: "Why can't I practice my healing spells on the striking dummies?  I mean I know it won't do anything, but for some reason my body just won't!"
[1:07]Zereth Awanda: "Can we also talk about how when we're in combat everything seems to stand still except for ONE person? Be it friend or foe?"
[1:08]Cira Molkoh: "And I feel protect slowly fading from my memory... Like, two or so weeks left for it?"
[1:08]Zereth Awanda: "Oh dear, that's not good..."
[1:08]Zereth Awanda: "...I really like that spell."
[1:08]Cira Molkoh: "I know, right? It's overpowered this patch-I MEAN THIS MONTH."
[1:09]Zereth Awanda: "Can we also talk about my damage output? Ever since the latest patch it's been INSANE! I used to do nothing but die as of this most recent patch."
[1:09]Ramses Firetender: "/Even weirder, despite feeling super awake, I feel like I might glimpse out of existence for a good 12 bells at a moments notice. Call ita gut feeling./"
[1:09]Gideon Wilhelm: "It's like that but for half my damn spells!  And how did you know?  I keep thinking about Patches and how the entire world just stops existing for an entire day!"
[1:09]Zereth Awanda: "Oh, well I hope you return Rases."
[1:09]Zereth Awanda: Ramses*))
[1:09]Ramses Firetender: "/ooh, wait. There it -/"
[1:09]Ramses Firetender has logged out.
[1:09]Cira Molkoh: "Honestly, this not-patch has been awful. I've learnt then forgot then learnt like, 10 levels of red magic."
[1:09]Zereth Awanda: "You're an exceptional student!"
[1:10]Cira Molkoh: "Except for the amnesia. And the self immolation."
[1:10]Zereth Awanda: "...what's a little amnesia, you know?"
[1:10]Zereth Awanda: "My god dictated that I recieved it because it was 'fun'. It certainly was not..."
[1:10]Cira Molkoh: "I don't know. Why don't we ask the 12 members who've had it."
[1:11]Cira Molkoh: "Red, when will your god fuck with your head?"
[1:11]Zereth Awanda: "We could....do... the gods really just like amnesia because it's a way to tell the character's background in an interactive way?"
[1:11]Zereth Awanda: "....odd."
[1:12]Zereth Awanda: "Wait... yeah Red! When will your god do something horrid to you? Mine's got me on this path that I don't really like..."
[1:12]Cira Molkoh: "If only the gods had some sort of central repositor for the background stories they give us, with a simple acronym. Like... RPC or something. Then they wouldn't have to put us through that."
[1:12]Gideon Wilhelm: "I dunno, I feel like mine's been really trying to push me to dance.  I got a book on interpretive dance and scoffed at it for a while, but I really don't see the point."
[1:13]Zereth Awanda: "Huh... oh... oh no, can we take a moment to appreciate that we aren't one of the poor sods with gods that dictate them to reside in the Quicksands...?"
[1:13]Cira Molkoh: "I wish my god would push me for something. I was designed like, months ago to be a whitemage. Then I never actually /got/ the plot for the stone. It's cruel. I just want holy."
[1:14]Zereth Awanda: "Haha~ My god seemed to have just lucked me into so many events~!"
[1:14]Gideon Wilhelm: "Aye, at least we have that.  I seem to inexplicably park there for a while in the hopes that someone will approach me that I might dash their hopes for amusement.  I'm even put in outfits I would never wear in my life."
[1:14]Cira Molkoh: "Or at least, I think I want it. I do all this work and get all these merits and for what? To /not/ get any power progression?"
[1:15]Zereth Awanda: "...Cira I get this odd feeling our gods speak often... do they plot our suffering?!"
[1:16]Cira Molkoh: "Hmm, maybe. I seem to exist a lot around you. Almost as though... even though most of my time should be working, I only remember these brief segments involving you guys."
[1:16]Gideon Wilhelm: "...I could've sworn I heard them talking a bit ago.  Laughing at us.  But now there's... silence.  We've engrossed them.  With naught more than an occasional mechanical clicking sound to mark their presence."
[1:16]Zereth Awanda: "Wait... hear that? Laughter... THEY'RE NEAR!"
[1:16]Cira Molkoh: "Oh gods oh gods"
[1:16]Zereth Awanda: "D-do we run? Do we hide?!"
[1:16]Cira Molkoh: *pop*
[1:17]Zereth Awanda: "W-when did you put that on!?"
[1:17]Cira Molkoh: "I am compelled to stand very still while I speak!"
[1:17]Gideon Wilhelm: "Let's go back inside and pretend that none of this happened.  We tell no one.  Ever.  Not even Kiyo."
[1:17]Zereth Awanda: "Agreed... C-cira!"
[1:17]Cira Molkoh: "Mmmf cnnnt speffk
[1:18]Zereth Awanda: "...wait... I like this one..."
[1:18]Zereth Awanda: "How come I never usually wear this?"
[1:18]Cira Molkoh: "...Why do I feel like..."
[1:18]Zereth Awanda: "This looks... quite fetching!"
[1:18]Cira Molkoh: "Something..."
[1:18]Cira Molkoh: "Bad..."
[1:18]Zereth Awanda: "...Cira?"
[1:18]Zereth Awanda: "CIRA?!"
[1:18]Zereth Awanda: "Are you alright!?"
[1:18]Cira Molkoh: "Yeah."
[1:18]Zereth Awanda: "...can you... get up?"
[1:19]Zereth Awanda: "...wait... what's this I feel?"
[1:19]Zereth Awanda: "I...I'm a white Mage?"
[1:19]Cira Molkoh: "I think this is death."
[1:19]Cira Molkoh: "Like character death."
[1:19]Gideon Wilhelm: "There was... a line at the top edge of my vision... when you did that, it suddenly darkened.  I notice it when we're fighting things, too, it'll slowly empty."
[1:19]Zereth Awanda: "S-since... when can I?"
[1:19]Cira Molkoh: "But I guess, like every other shitty story."
[1:20]Zereth Awanda: "...Huh....."
[1:20]Zereth Awanda: "Fair."
[1:20]Zereth Awanda: "You know, Cira, is this why I haven't died when I very well should have?"
[1:20]Zereth Awanda: "Wait... is this why Gur and Kiki lived!?"
[1:21]Gideon Wilhelm: "I feel like this conversation is going to slowly taper off until such time as our gods are bored and we end up killing a god or something that we'll never remember or mention afterward."
[1:21]Cira Molkoh: "Feels right. Also, when we do that? I'll be a really strong white or red mage."
[1:21]Cira Molkoh: "Or bard, maybe. My god is into them right now. Watch."
[1:21]Zereth Awanda: "I know right? I remember being... so many things."
[1:22]Gideon Wilhelm: "I have this Scholar stone I can roll with that apparently doesn't work when I'm around you guys."
[1:22]Cira Molkoh pulls out a full bag of soulstones. "I am actually a pretty unkillable god."
[1:22]Zereth Awanda looked over his bag and nodded. "...seems right."
[1:23]Gideon Wilhelm: "I have all of those too, I just can't be fucked... 'gearing' any of them aside from this one?  I think that's the word I keep hearing."
[1:23]Zereth Awanda: "I just want to ask my god why the hells do I use so many different stones?!"
[1:23]Zereth Awanda: "It's like he gets bored..."