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Hello, everyone! As you've probably noticed, we've been having a few problems - I mentioned earlier that something got knocked out of balance, and we had to recalibrate, but in a few days we should be able to drop the emergency measures. Please be aware that there is an incoming storm, class four. General orders for that kind of thing are to report to management for any known threats and follow instructions, but so far what's known is "that might be a little annoying" and "hope it isn't". Theoretically it'll probably be related to the holiday, I think, because a large group of souls focused through the needle of a pin on one thing can sort of shape a thing around them.

That's sort of a really inaccurate way to put it on the technical side of things, but I think it's the easiest way to understand it! At any rate, we'll know more once we're in the thick of things. Please take care as usual; resources aren't exactly what some of you seem to think they are, and we had to expend rather more than usual in the past month or so to keep things with a few of you steady.

Joanne Wiseman
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weirdly nice is my default mode haha! Sorry it tires you out though, I'll try to tone it down a bit

hmm but I think with philosophy, you don't really have to know that much? It's something that everyone can have their own opinions on

I don't know much about it either, I was only repeating what I'd learned growing up

you'll actually try to tone it down just because I asked?

[Didn't even ask, really.]

oh

you sounded smart?

yeah? I don't want to make you uncomfortable

haha thanks

next time let's talk about something you like talking about

I don't really have any idea what I like talk about

oh?

hmm maybe you could talk about chocobos? Or your text adventure games?

ah

[Well... He doesn't really know a whole lot about chocobos, just that he thought they were cute and superior to horses. That he'd really liked when Minako had helped him meet one.]

the games are just kind of practice...

practice for...a bigger campaign?

yeah I guess

I see! Well if you ever need more practice and don't mind me as a test subject, I'd love to try more text adventure games

mm

I'll try to remember

you're pretty different from the target player but I didn't mind it

hehe I'm glad, I felt pretty silly sometimes, wondering if I was doing it right

I don't think there's a right way to do it...I think that's the point

but the main goal is to not have your character die, right?

not really

you could make a new character and still play after a heroic sacrifice or bad mistake

you just make a story

hmmm okay, I'll try and think about it like that

I was thinking about it like a video game before, where it has a linear story

that doesn’t make a lot of sense... you didn’t have to meet No. he didn’t have to be stabbed. it’s a story you’re in but it’s still a world where stuff just happebz

it seemed like you were leading me in that direction, so I went with it, but...hm! Next time we do it I'll try not to limit myself

yeah

you can do whatever you want

I put a bruise in Arisu’s inventory as a joke since he wasn’t defending himself and he wanted to discard it so I let him

phff that sounds hilarious

physics don't need to apply then, got it!

if you can justify it to the dm it’s fine

what's the most weird/fun thing someone's done during one of your text adventures? Aside from Minato's bruise going into his inventory

[He starts typing, then realizes...all the examples that come to mind are Minato...

Heck.

...Okay, after a while of thinking,] someone dropped change as a distraction and I made the hungry snake distracted by it and try to eat it and they thought the snake needed the change for something

that was weird

[Not so much the "fun" part, maybe.]

[If he hadn't mentioned Minato's name she wouldn't have known otherwise...]

snakes are close to dragons, which love shiny things, so who knows!

Thanks for telling me about it, Lalli

[it's not his fault he's biased, he's gay and useless.]

that's a weird small thing to thank some for am I that bad at talking

(this is half a joke)

??? it's not a weird small thing imo

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