Bad Decisions Have Been Made

[storytelleroftime]

THIS IS A PSA ON BEHALF OF TEAM ABSINTHE! MOSTLY ME THOUGH!

Please do not pull off blood sacrifice.

75% of the time that will fuck you over. Source on that figure: A retrospec employee who literally tripped and got stuck in a chest and we had to rescue. So his info might not be uh, the most accurate thing in the world but still.

But seriously don't. I lost a finger and I got nothing but dark miasma, everyone thinking I was a crazy person, and suffering. And only TWO of those are an ordinary part of my life. Nine fingered typing is infinitely harder than you would think it would be! It's really inconvenient and annoying. Along with, well, missing a pinkie. That's a bad thing.

So I'm putting this up here to make sure no one repeats my mistake, and at least, someone gets something out of this.

Comments

[cattack]

Why did you think it was a good idea in the first place?

[storytelleroftime]

...Did you not hear my little ramble? It's because I'm a terrible person! And I wanted to show this relic that I was willing to change that. And in order to change, you have to sacrifice something you already have. And you can't demonstrate mental sacrifice, so I just instead did a physical sacrifice.

Read more philosophy, geez.

[cattack]

I heard it, but it makes no more sense now than it did then!
Do you not think staying around in a monster-infested bunker to help those who have gone missing would qualify?
Why would you jump immediately to permanent disfigurement?!

[storytelleroftime]

That doesn't count, does it? After all, I did that because I had nothing better to do, so might as well accomplish something useful. Not out of the goodness of my heart or anything.

{And thus she starts playing the apathy game again.]

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[maskreant]

thus it begins...

Miss Mayvin's life with nine fingers.

[cattack]

The scabbard didn't know that!

[cattack]

I tried to preserve her finger in case it could be reattached, but it seems not.

[storytelleroftime]

IT WAS A MAGICAL ARTIFACT! How did you know it can't figure out intentions!?

[storytelleroftime]

Yep. It's a true adventure. And by adventure, I mean inconvenience.

[cattack]

I didn't, but I also didn't jump to cutting off fingers!

[maskreant]

making a post about this doesn't do you any favors on the crazy department, but i digress.

[ Yeah... let's just move onto better things. ]

i want to say i'm sure no one else will think about cutting their fingers, but

now i don't know. so. good call?

are you doing all right?

[storytelleroftime]

...And what do you know about being a bad person? Sitting there with that smug sense of moral superiority. Just because you are respected and validated for your typical beliefs, you think you're better than I am, huh?

[storytelleroftime]

Yeah, I'm fine. I'm adjusting decently enough, for the most part.

[cattack]

I have no interest in comparing suffering or arguing moral superiority.
Nor the social validities of our beliefs.
But you yourself admit that your dismemberment was pointless, and counterproductive.
Do you just not care about yourself at all?!

[storytelleroftime]

Of course I don't Cleo, if you want my honest opinion on the subject.

[cattack]

Why not?!
And there are better ways to handle that than dismemberment!

[storytelleroftime]

I'm not accomplishing anything useful. And neither have I done so in the past. So, in the grand scheme of things, I'm pretty disposable, even if I would prefer living.

And there definitely are.

[cattack]

A life is not disposable!
A person is not disposable!

[storytelleroftime]

Well just living doesn't mean you're worth anything either!

[explodosafe]

[Maggie... He still feels responsible for letting her 'lose' her damn finger.]

So everyone thinking that you haven't got all cats in the shelter and dark miasma are the NORMAL parts of your life? Now I'm seriously worried.

[storytelleroftime]

Well the miasma isn't. But people thinking I'm crazy and suffering are. Albeit, nothing to the extent of losing a finger.

[maskreant]

you did your best. it's not like you knew someone would decide to sever their finger.

[maskreant]

that's good.

you did Prof. Izunia a frighten... have you learned your lesson?

[vitis]

wow.
only 75% chance? there go my plans for the rest of the day :(



seriously, though. overkill, much?

[storytelleroftime]

"A frighten" isn't really proper grammar but... what exactly did I do to Ardyn?