Skyline-Relevant Public Chat Compilation

Characters: Skyline, various

Format: Public chat

May 1 2021

**Ratten**

Greetings, denizens of Occult Magic Online.

**Landis963**

Hi!

**NeonPunk**

Hello

**Landis963**

I saw your post. Did your Engineer turn down the monitor for you? (the "glowy thing")

**Ratten**

She did! The glowing device is much more tolerable now, and my pretties are not so concerned of it.

**NeonPunk**

Who are your pretties?

Or what?

**Ratten**

They are rats.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

wait a sec, you eat *people?*

**Ratten**

Let me see if I can get a picture of one of my favorites...

On rare occasion.

**NeonPunk**

Who eats people?

**Ratten**

Mostly, my pretties eat them, and I eat the fear.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

*ugh*

**NeonPunk**

I don't think that's very hygienic

**Ratten**

Even then, humans are a rare part of their diet.

**lordgreyii**

Oh dear. A quick glance at the chat log.

Of course.

**Landis963**

May I link your post, Ratten? The comment section might answer a lot of questions people might have about you.

**NeonPunk**

> Of course.

And who are you?

**Ratten**

I do not know what linking is, but if it helps people to understand without consequence to myself, yes.

**Landis963**

In this case, it refers to getting your initial post over here so people can read it and draw conclusions. One moment.

https://www.reddit.com/r/OccultMagicOnline/comments/n08jfi/testing\_this\_thing/gwcp9j9/

Oh wait, that was one of the comments.

https://www.reddit.com/r/OccultMagicOnline/comments/n08jfi/testing\_this\_thing/

There we go.

**Ratten**

Thank you, Landis963.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Yeah, I saw that

*Ugh*

**Ratten**

We do what we must to survive.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Dooooooesn't mean I like it

**NeonPunk**

So are you an Other then, rat guy? Or just a practitioner with a rat theme

**Landis963**

May I guess at what you might be, Ratten? Given your survival patterns, so to speak?

**Ratten**

If it helps, we have not had human prey in some time.

You may guess!

**Landis963**

First of all, I think you're an Other.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

I guess I'm glad of that

**Landis963**

Second of all, I think you're what this book on Abyss denizens calls a "bogeyman."

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

... what do you eat when you don't get humans?

**Ratten**

You are correct. I once was human, and then I found myself in the Abyss, and then I was an Other.

**NeonPunk**

So why the rats?

**Ratten**

Our last meal was a large dog of some sort.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

........... *uuuuuuuugh*

**Landis963**

Uhoh

**Ratten**

Is this... not preferable?

**Landis963**

Skyline likes dogs.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

I like dogs better than people, fucking hell

**Ratten**

I do apologize, then.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

I doubt you're sorry.

**Ratten**

I am not sorry that I ate the dog. I am sorry that I upset you.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

..?!?!?!?

**Landis963**

It was probably that or starve.

**Ratten**

Yes. My pretties needed the meat.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

why the fuck are you making excuses, Practitioner-kid?

**NeonPunk**

They could eat you, couldn't they?

**Ratten**

In theory, they could. They will not, as I am their king.

**Landis963**

I'm trying to get the most out of my empathy before the strains of life in the practice squash it completely. So sue me.

**NeonPunk**

A rat king, huh? Sounds like a thing I got to hear about

**Ratten**

To answer your original question, NeonPunk, the rats are due to my time in the Abyss.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Spending it on a fucking boogeyman doesn't sound like the best choice in my opinion

Some things are just fucked up

**Ratten**

Some things are, yes.

**Landis963**

I could spend it on a ghoul instead. 🙃

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Fuck off

**Landis963**

Or even "in addition to"!

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

I don't need your pity

**Ratten**

Oho, the child jokes!

**NeonPunk**

> I don't need your pity

Huh, I like you

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Why the *fuck* should I care?

what the fuck is going onin this caht

**Landis963**

I'm new, and I'd like to think I'm not being shitty. I get that this is an anomaly.

Would you prefer the heavy stuff about how Others aren't human enough anymore? Because I would very much not.

**NeonPunk**

> Why the *fuck* should I care?

Cause you're kind of a bitch, metaphorically speaking, not going around being all nice like the rest for what I can see, easier to trust that kind of people, at least for me

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Trusting someone 'cause they're a bitch sounds stupid

why the fuck are you trusting anyone?

**Landis963**

I prefer to start with trust because paranoia can be exhausting.

But I'm me.

**NeonPunk**

> Trusting someone 'cause they're a bitch sounds stupid why the fuck are you trusting anyone?

Cause I think you're stupid, and won't try to backstab me?

**Ratten**

People seem so rude here.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

How 'bout you fuck off, then? You can be stabbed in the back by an idiot as well as a clever shite

**NeonPunk**

> People seem so rude here.

Don't you eat people?

**Landis963**

He eats the *fear* of his prey. I linked that post for a reason.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

And then his rats eat the fucking people, did you miss *that* part?

**Landis963**

Of course, then his *subjects* eat the prey itself, so I don't know how valuable a distinction that is.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

See!

**NeonPunk**

I don't know which option is worse

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

As if eating fear's not *worse* like, what the fuck, that's a part of a person

and like, *fuck*, presumably he's doing shit to INFLICT that fear

its not like they just happen to be afraid and he's nom noming on that, is it? huh?

**Ratten**

They are afraid because of my pretties.

**Landis963**

Do you ever, uh, "raid" outside your "domain?"

**Ratten**

And because of the traps and such.

**NeonPunk**

Rats aren't that scary, are they? They usually run away from me when I get inside a dark place

**Ratten**

I do not leave my domain often, and I do not hunt while I am away.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Never had rats trying to steal your food while your starving, I take it, Neon?

**Landis963**

Ah. So probably not the type that gets sent out to spread Abyssal influence, then.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Shites can be fucking terrifying

**Landis963**

Also we read *1984* in Lit Class last semester, and the main character is written to have a phobia. That sort of thing is, if I'm understanding this book correctly (it's written kind of edgelord-y) what Ratten might capitalize on.

**Ratten**

I do not know the purpose I am to serve here.

**NeonPunk**

My food usually isn't a fucking rotting carcass

**Landis963**

That Engineer put you in contact with OMO, IIRC. She might be doing you a favor by giving you something to do in between intruders.

**Ratten**

That is exactly what she did! She offered me this bargain in exchange for her life.

**Landis963**

oh

**Ratten**

She also gave me a set of 'websites' for 'urban explorers' to advertise my domain.

**Landis963**

ohno

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

> My food usually isn't a fucking rotting carcass

I didn't eat corpses then.

I do believe I am remembering trying to eat a macdonalds burger I got out of the trash.

Fuck off.

**Ratten**

Ah, my pretties sometimes bring me back such fare. It is tasty, but does not satisfy my hunger.

**Good\_Hope**

this place is kinda hostile at times isn't it?

**Landis963**

I've noticed that too!

**Ratten**

It would appear to be.

NeonPunk

Fuck off

**Ratten**

And so hypocritical, as well, for a *ghoul* to judge my diet.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

I don't kill people!

**Ratten**

Nor do I!

**NeonPunk**

Do you rob tombs then?

**Good\_Hope**

how is that hypocritical?

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

I'll judge you if I fucking like if you're setting fucking rats on people

**Ratten**

I say again, we do what we must to survive.

Is it any more tasteful to dig up a grave and eat its occupant?

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

I rather think its fucking better, yeah

**NeonPunk**

That's also really unhygienic, if you have an open cut it can get infected

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

... I'm a fucking ghoul, do you think an open cut matters?

**Landis963**

Can ghouls get infected that way?

**Ratten**

Then by all means, Ghoul, come and try to stop me.

**Landis963**

Can we not?

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

I've got my own fucking business, and *you* apparently aren't telling folks where you are, are you?

**Good\_Hope**

NeonPunk, what do you do?

**NeonPunk**

Where are you? If you're close my Lord might send me to stop you

> NeonPunk, what do you do?

I fight... And do other stuff

**Ratten**

I have been warned against giving my location on this site.

**Good\_Hope**

fight what? Against the establishment?

**Landis963**

Yeah, probably wise.

**NeonPunk**

> fight what? Against the establishment?

I've fought in some establishments

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Why the hell are you being so *calm?* Empathy or not, aren't you fucking... thinking of what he does to people? Isn't that what normal people think when faced with that shite?

**Ratten**

It seems that Landis963 has a more level head than you do.

**Landis963**

I'm trying *really really hard* not to think about that.

And, similarly, trying not to think *really really really hard* about what would happen if he needed to go on the attack.

**Good\_Hope**

what is Ratten doing that is so upsetting?

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

I fucking hate all this

*shite*

**Landis963**

Besides, I know of something which needs to cause car crashes to live. Something that is probably comparable to needing to terrorize victims of the Abyss, or needing to eat dead people.

**Ratten**

Hate all you like.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

fucking hell

I shouldn’t‘ve come online

**Good\_Hope**

why don't you kill those things that cause such things?

**NeonPunk**

> Hate all you like.

Did you just "haters gonna hate" the ghoul?

**Ratten**

Hmm, I suppose I did.

Haters are, in fact, going to hate.

**NeonPunk**

wow

**Emet-Kabbalah**

Wait, what's going on here?

**NeonPunk**

> fucking hell I shouldn’t‘ve come online

Fuck off then

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

thought I might have a few fucking minutes where I could not think about how fucking shit the world is

And nope

There’s a fucking boogeyman

**Landis963**

a) I'm young. b) I don't have the power I'd need to do all that. c) I don't like where the paths to attaining such power lead.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

yeah I’m out

Fuck this shit

**Ratten**

Would most find a bogeyman to be worse than a ghoul?

**Landis963**

Talk to you later, Sky?

**NeonPunk**

To fight? It depends I guess

**Ratten**

In general.

Is my presence more offensive than theirs?

**NeonPunk**

Do you see me fucking complaining? Probably? I don't remember

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

maybe

**Landis963**

OK!

**Good\_Hope**

Bogeymen are generally more problematic from my experience.

**Emet-Kabbalah**

I haven't interacted much with either, but ShadowOnTheSkyline has seemed fine to me?

**Landis963**

There's Others of your variety which actively go out and snatch/scare/kill people, Ratten. And triggers can be a metaphoric bitch.

May 11 2021

**Timestamper**

How is my favorite ghoul?

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

youuuu have a favourite ghoul? what? since when?

**Timestamper**

Don't know when, my time is kinda weird right 'now'. I think well of you though and I don't believe I know any other ghouls.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

.... Why????

**Timestamper**

Why what?

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Why think well of me?

**Timestamper**

You seem decent enough to me. Is that good enough reason?

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

the fuck

**NeonPunk**

That fae just went in like "hey do we know each other?" And fucking left, didn't he?

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

I'm kinda pissed 'cause I nearly fucked up my job

since you apparently wanna know how I am

**Timestamper**

You have a job? What do you do?

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Spy on assholes.

**NeonPunk**

> Spy on assholes.

Eugh

Wtf

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

What, d'you want them to get away with their bullshit?

**lordgreyii**

I remain, though my attention is divided.

**Timestamper**

How do you determine who is and isn't an asshole?

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

If they're in the family that I'm required to spy on, then I think they're either an asshole, a dumbfuck, or a pawn.

'Cause that family is fucked up.

13 May 2021

**LeaguesBelow**

Bogeyman, you've referred to commanding subjects. Who or what might your subjects be?

**Ratten**

The shallows? I am unfamiliar. Does it connect to the Tunnels?

My subjects are such pretty, clever little creatures. The commonfolk think them vermin, but they are the true masters of this city, eating what they wish, going where they please. Kill one, and find there are hundreds more waiting to get you while you sleep.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Fancy way of saying they command rats.

**Ratten**

That is correct, Ghoul, though saying it so plainly is a disservice. "Rats" has such a negativr connotation in this language.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

You suggesting the little shites don't deserve it?

**Ratten**

I am, as matter of fact.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Fuckers've tried to steal my food several fucking times

**Ratten**

Such clever beings.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

It doesn't take much smarts to try and yank food out of a girl's hands while she's in the open

**LeaguesBelow**

Thank you, Ratten. Is there a question you'd like me to answer in return?

**Ratten**

Recognizing and capitalizing on weakness.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

What things *can't* recognise and capitalise on weakness? *Plants?*

**Ratten**

What manner of Practitioner are you, LeaguesBelow?

**LeaguesBelow**

I am a Collector first, and Blood Mage second. I work with magical objects and the power that flows through them.

**Ratten**

> What things *can't* recognise and capitalise on weakness? *Plants?*

In my experience, most creatures will not take from those larger than themselves. That you have had Pretties try to take from you suggests they are either cleverer than most, or you sre weaker.

**NeonPunk**

Hhahaahhahaa

**Ratten**

Fascinating. Thank you.

**NeonPunk**

Imagine losing to a rat

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Fuck off.

You don't fucking know what the fuc happened

other than the fucking rat attack

**Ratten**

It is a shame that your loss has soured you to these magnificent creatures.

**NeonPunk**

> other than the fucking rat attack

Hahahahahaha, Was it a normal rat?

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

I've walked into houses and found rats eating dead children.

People starving to death lose what little they have because they can't afford poison or traps.

And you're going to fucking laugh about this shit?

Go to hell.

**Ratten**

Poison? Traps? Eugh.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Go to *fucking hell*

You *privileged bitch*

**NeonPunk**

I don't think the rats eating them have anything to do with them dying, also you fucking eat corpses so what's the difference between you and them?

Get off your metaphorical high horse

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

You say that

You fucking say that

Fuck you

*Fuck* you

**Exchange\_Tinker**

The Abyss has, as the name suggests, *depth*. The deeper you go, to more extreme it's attention upon you. The changes get bigger, and come faster. The suffering, as you can expect, is immense.

**Ratten**

I see. I believe we started deep and only got deeper, given the way the tunnels sloped.

ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)

I don't fucking steal from people who have nothing

**NeonPunk**

Rats are animals, and if they can eat a corpse that's natural, so don't get mad at them for eating, of you wanna get mad at someone blame those who made the people starve to death in the first place

**Ratten**

It is survival of the fittest, Ghoul. Do not be appalled by nature.

**Exchange\_Tinker**

It's entirely possible that, once you lost track of him, he went back up. But it's easier to go down than up, there. It's highly likely that if he went up, it was something he paid for dearly.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Oh I'm fucking mad at the folks who made them fucking starve

**Ratten**

Ah, wait, you cannot help being repulsed by the natural order, can you?

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

But if you're going to fucking idolise some fucking *vermin* go to *fucking hell*

Go

*to hell*

**Exchange\_Tinker**

They've been to the Abyss, that's kind of redundant.

**Ratten**

I have been to my personal hell and come back stronger for it. Can you say as much?

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Then they should *fucking go back there*

**DownFell**

ha

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

what the fuck is the worth of strength if you're just going to fucking use it to prey on whoever comes near?

**NeonPunk**

> But if you're going to fucking idolise some fucking *vermin* go to *fucking hell*

Who the fuck is idolizing vermin you idiot? I'm saying that you got your food taken by a rat, and because I found it funny you went into a tangent about people starving to death, rats are rats and that's it, I think I'm not saying they're better, I'm saying they're animals

**Ratten**

If it helps, Skyline, I do empathize with your plight. Being a homeless young woman is no easy task. If only you had someone like I had, to help you througu the hard times.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

you think its funny that people get into such shitty situations that they can't even beat a *rat*?

DO YOU NOT GET HOW FUCKING SHITTY THAT IS

Do you have the slightest fucking understanding

Of just how *bad*

it had to be

Do you not *get it?*

Do you not understand

Just

How

Much

It

*HURT?*

I was fucking *starving to death* you fucking *bitch*

And you think

that's

*Funny?*

**Ratten**

Hmm, I do not. It may be cold comfort, but I know what it is to be hungry. Truly hungry. Insatiable.

**NeonPunk**

To have to fight to get food? To think how I will go trough the day? To learn to fight so I can beat people much bigger than me because that's the only way I found I could survive? I think you're bitter and are trying to blame whoever you can so you can think that at least you have a metaphorical high ground

**Ratten**

> It's entirely possible that, once you lost track of him, he went back up. But it's easier to go down than up, there. It's highly likely that if he went up, it was something he paid for dearly.

I merely hope to hear he survived.

**Exchange\_Tinker**

"Survive" is one of those terms that spurs too much philosophical debate.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

I don't give a shit if you think I'm bitter.

I give a shit about whether you think dying is a fucking joke

**Ratten**

In some form, as long as he retained some piece of himself, I can perhaps be content.

**Exchange\_Tinker**

In my family, we used to categorize what we found down there by what percent we thought was original material. As in, how much they changed since they fell in.

**Of\_Deep**

For the record, the idea of a human dying to the attentions of a single rat is somewhat amusing to me.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Yeah, I'm fucking bitter

Shocker

Yeah, stay in your fucking hellhole, Of\_Deep

**Of\_Deep**

As is your reaction, Skyline.

**NeonPunk**

> Yeah, stay in your fucking hellhole, Of\_Deep

Hey don't be rude to him, you fuck!

**Exchange\_Tinker**

It can be >100% change. Which, unless you believe in some kind of ship-of-theseus model of existence, means the subject is gone.

**Ratten**

Of\_Deep, what do you Guard?

**Of\_Deep**

The Abyss.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

> Hey don't be rude to him, you fuck!

Why the fuck shouldn't I? He clearly doesn't give a shit about me, why should I give a shit about him? Hell, I don't think he gives a shit if I swear at him

**Ratten**

Yes, but what section? Drains? Tenements? Library?

**Of\_Deep**

The Great Cavern, as I understand it is known.

**Exchange\_Tinker**

Can you get any more specific than "there were tunnels"?

**NeonPunk**

> Why the fuck shouldn't I? He clearly doesn't give a shit about me, why should I give a shit about him? Hell, I don't think he gives a shit if I swear at him

You know what? Maybe part of the reason why you got defeated by a rat is because you're a moron

**Ratten**

Is that in anyway connected to the Tunnels? Or the Maze? Or... I don't know what it might be called.

**Of\_Deep**

Perhaps.

**Exchange\_Tinker**

Pretty much every area of the Abyss features tunnels.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

If he gives enough of a shit about swearing to come visit and murder me, well, *that* could be fucking hilarious

**NeonPunk**

I'm getting tired of this conversation, good luck eating corpses

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Go die in a hole.

**Of\_Deep**

It is true that I care not whether I am sworn at, however, others may take offense. In that regard, it may be wise for you to consider your words, Skyline.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

What're they going to do, come find me?

**Ratten**

> Can you get any more specific than "there were tunnels"?

It was a vast expanse of tunnels. There were featured catacombs with skulls, subway tracks that had monstrous trains running them, a place like sewers that we did not explore deeply before we turned back, which may have been the Drain.

**Of\_Deep**

> What're they going to do, come find me?

Perhaps.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Well then

That could be fucking hilarious

I would appreciate more fuckers to lead into other fuckers

Maybe they could have a fucker party

28 May 2021

**NeonPunk**

Just telling you guys that I got the cool jacket 😎

And I can't use it until I'm outside and being witnessed 🙃

Otherwise people wouldn't be able to see it

**Vesper**

Uuugh

http://www.reactiongifs.com/r/2013/07/exhausted.gif

Well, that was terrifying.

Just met the local Powers. Still alive... I think.

**blue\_lioness3**

Meeting local Powers usually shouldn't kill you... how did it go?

**Vesper**

Kind of nerve-wracking, but I think it went well?

**blue\_lioness3**

Glad to hear it. Was it your first time?

**Vesper**

Yeah. Met the Owled Dame.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

I'd say you should be able to tell if you're dead or not, but who am *I* to talk? Hah.

Dunno who that is, but thats a fancy title

**blue\_lioness3**

Owled Dame? What was she like?

Haven't met her, either.

**Vesper**

Umm.. Intimidating? Turns out she has a school on the island as well, which makes me feel a bit silly going all the way to Calvarn.. Thankfully she didn't seem to care.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Practitioner schools? The fuck do you people learn there, human sacrifice?

**blue\_lioness3**

Going to school out of your home area may not be a bad idea.

**Vesper**

*shrugs* Hopefully not.

**blue\_lioness3**

More diversity of thought, better networking. I've seen Calvarn and heard good things.

**Vesper**

Yeah. Plus I was getting some unsettling vibes from them, so probably for the best.

**blue\_lioness3**

One significant benefit from going to a major Practitioner school is exposure to more schools and more Practices overall.

**Vesper**

But yeah... There were a lot of powerful families which gave me weird vibes, and a bunch of small time solo practitioners like me, which I wasn't expecting. More than I would have thought.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Oh right, you're a new one aren't you? Don't go to shite.

**Vesper**

Don't intend to.

**blue\_lioness3**

After you become more "useful" and experienced, do you intend to return? Start your own powerful family?

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Fucking please *don't*

**Vesper**

Ugh, fuck no on the "Start your own powerful family" thing.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

who the fuck needs more fucking practitioner families

**Vesper**

Besides, kind of can't.

In addition to having like zero interest in that.

**blue\_lioness3**

Many families put significant effort into adopting, rather than having their own children.

But there is some value in remaining low-profile.

**Vesper**

Also, not the family type.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

good. Maybe you won’t fuck over some kids

**SheWhoWonders**

I *might* see myself adopting a kid or two at some point, but if I did I wouldn't want to do it to start a capital-F Family, I'd want to do it to give said kids a home and a future.

**Vesper**

That's the plan. Gods do a lot of practitioner families seem dysfunctional, sometimes.

**SheWhoWonders**

Having said that... very much unlikely. I'd want to be able to trust in my skills as a mother, and at this point in my life I really *don't.*

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

doesn’t take magic to fuck a kid over

**SheWhoWonders**

I refuse to continue the cycle my parents and I were a part of, and I still have enough ingrained reflexes from growing up with them that I can't consider me parenting a child to be worth the risk to them.

> doesn’t take magic to fuck a kid over

I am *very much* familiar with this truth, yes.

**blue\_lioness3**

SheWhoWonders, have you considered that starting a capital-F Family is the way to ensure said future? Look - I'm not saying it's the only way. But it's *a* way, especially if your Practice doesn't consume your entire life.

**Vesper**

Ugh, tell me about it. Like over half my Innocent friends have super abusive parents.

**SheWhoWonders**

> SheWhoWonders, have you considered that starting a capital-F Family is the way to ensure said future? Look - I'm not saying it's the only way. But it's *a* way, especially if your Practice doesn't consume your entire life.

I had fantasies like that when I was younger, but have had several wake-up calls over my 20s that disabused me of my optimism in that regard. I still would need a lot of self-improvement before I could trust myself to be able to pull something like that off *right.*

especially if your Practice doesn't consume your entire life.

also this point is a concern for me right now, I don't think my current day job would be particularly conducive to raising a child, at least not in its current arrangement.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

You suggesting using kids to manipulate shit? Fuck OFF

**Vesper**

Who?

SheWhoWonders

Some of the senior partners seem to have successfully pulled off family life, but I'm not in their position.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

raising kids to change the world or whatever fucking hell

**Vesper**

Yeah, no, fuck that. If you want to change something, do it yourself. (At least that's my mentality)

But I've sort of given up on that sort of thing before I even Awoke. Don't really want to change the world, just survive it.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

don’t think kids should be for anything other’n themselves, fuck

**Vesper**

But yeah, I commend you on your self awareness, SheWhoWonders.

Ironically probably makes you better suited to being a parent than most, but that's just the way things are, I suppose.

**SheWhoWonders**

> You suggesting using kids to manipulate shit? Fuck OFF

If this is in response to me, my fantasies were more along the lines of starting a capital-F Family that could *avoid* the pitfalls of many traditional Practitioner families, that would actually show care and love for each other. I had this grand dream that it would be a shelter for any abused child caught up in the Practice, and our love and support would repair all that was broken... As you might be able to tell, I was *quite* naive as a young Practitioner -- or indeed, just as a young woman in general. It took some very difficult and uncomfortable conversations for me to start to realize just how flawed my dreams were, and how I was unconsciously playing into the very same biases that caused so many problems between my parents and me.

**Vesper**

I wouldn't call that naive.

**blue\_lioness3**

SheWhoWonders, is your day job worth it? It sounds as though they may be taking advantage of you. My family is better than most, although the realistic truth is that no family can take in *every* child that needs support.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

mostly directed at blue

pretty sure they’re ignoring me though

How fucking mature

**blue\_lioness3**

Shadow, I don't "raise kids to change the world". If I'm ignoring you, it's to avoid a public fight - isn't that preferable? We do not have to agree. We live in different worlds.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

ugh

29 May 2021

**TrophyForTheTaking**

I'd much rather have everybody speaking the truth all the time than everybody trying to trick each other. Sounds like important things would get ignored, Evil things don't get dealt with.

**SilverWolf**

Mm.

**TrophyForTheTaking**

> But yeah, I don't intend to stay in Sanctuary forever. It's a temporary measure.

Don't know too much about how this would be done, but if I were you, I might try to frame it as the place you went to learn, rather than the place you went to rest or be protected, ya know?

**Vesper**

That's basically how I am looking at it.

**SilverWolf**

Have you declared so clearly?

**Vesper**

I've been told they have a rather extensive library which I intend to use.

I believe so?

**SilverWolf**

👍

**Obligated Oasis**

It is easier for the powerful to state how things are or how they should be and for that stating to stick.

**TrophyForTheTaking**

> It is easier for the powerful to state how things are or how they should be and for that stating to stick.

Would be. They do that anyway, don't they?

**Vesper**

I won't lie, my first reflex is definitely to run and avoid my problems, but I believe in staying and facing the Council before leaving, I have avoided that.

I've met the Owled Dame before arranging for accomodations, and fully intend to return once I am better equiped.

**Obligated Oasis**

> Would be. They do that anyway, don't they?

Yes, they do. Yet to remove all deception would be to remove that by which many could survive or retain some shred of self-determination.

**TrophyForTheTaking**

I ain't saying it'd be ideal, but sometimes we're better off for those who'd use deception that way not having self-determination.

**SilverWolf**

If you would expect others to give up their only methods of survival, perhaps you're a fool.

**Obligated Oasis**

As in the weak and unestablished who would often enjoy to simply exist?

**TrophyForTheTaking**

Didn't say that, did I Silver? Don't imply that I did.

**SilverWolf**

Perhaps to wish it would be worse.

Power wielded honestly and clearly does not necessitate that it be wielded with kindness.

**TrophyForTheTaking**

Nah, but I find the kindest people I know are some of the most honest.

> As in the weak and unestablished who would often enjoy to simply exist?

Sometimes. Cause sometimes those weak who only survive through deception are parasites, figuratively or literally.

Not gonna say that all Greater Powers are good, even if they sometimes define what Good is. Not gonna say that all minor critters are good either though.

**Obligated Oasis**

I don't intend to say that all that is weak is good, rather that they often lack recourse against those with greater power.

**TrophyForTheTaking**

Some folk just need to try harder, this world ain't gonna give you everything for free.

**Obligated Oasis**

This world is not equal.

Hard work isn't going to work for all and even then they may be crushed if they are noticed.

**TrophyForTheTaking**

No, you're right about that. But it works for most folk worth talking about, and there's a lot of folk who would rather steal or deceive than work for their own resources.

**Obligated Oasis**

Who do you then consider not worth talking about?

**TrophyForTheTaking**

Kinda depends. I didn't want to include some real simple or mindless stuff in that statement.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Fuck you.

**TrophyForTheTaking**

Kinda paradoxical, ain't it? You asking me to talk about who I don't think are worth talking about.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul):**

*Work for your own resources*

Fucking hell

*Some people can't*

The world sometimes doesn't fucking give people the fucking opportunity to fucking *earn* shit

**Obligated Oasis**

It is as you say, ShadowOnTheSkyline.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Not stuff that'll actually *change* anything about their lives

**TrophyForTheTaking**

Look harder then.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Sometimes the world seems to fucking force you to just take shit, because otherwise you'll *die*

**Obligated Oasis**

Trophy, would I be wrong to assume you're a Practitioner?

**TrophyForTheTaking**

I'm a Practitioner, yeah.

Sounds grim to say, but some people are doomed to die.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

*Fuck you.*

**Vesper**

This.

There are structural and systemic inequalities in society, both mundane and otherwise, and to ignore that kind of feels wrong, honestly.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Yeah, yeah, say that shit to me. Say that shit to the fucking ghoul.

*Go on.*

**Obligated Oasis**

Trophy, were you to forswear yourself you would likely get a closer perspective on what it is like for the least lucky, the weakest. Would you be able to work up from there?

**TrophyForTheTaking**

> Yeah, yeah, say that shit to me. Say that shit to the fucking ghoul.

I ain't the spirits, I ain't the world, I don't decide that for ya.

**Vesper**

Sounds a bit like the kind of bullshit "pull yourself up by the bootstrap" attitude people give those on welfare when they just don't have the opportunities in life to thrive and succeed.

**TrophyForTheTaking**

Not gonna get forsworn. I ain't that dumb.

**Obligated Oasis**

Why not? There are others who are forsworn. Perhaps they should just work harder, maybe it would go away.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

I don't like you and I think you're a fucking bastard. Fuck off.

**TrophyForTheTaking**

If they didn't break their oaths, they wouldn't have gotten forsworn. Ain't too difficult.

**Obligated Oasis**

Some didn't break oaths to get to the position they are in, as scarcely better than one who is forsworn.

**TrophyForTheTaking**

> I don't like you and I think you're a fucking bastard. Fuck off.

Sounds like you're blaming me for your circumstances.

**Obligated Oasis**

Yet you have stability and power enough to survive and appear to claim that others should work harder and they could get the same.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Oh, I sincerely fucking doubt its you're fault I'm how I am. But you seem like something I really fucking dislike, and you don't seem to fucking *understand* my situation, so I really don't fucking like that. I don't like it when people judge my circumstances when they don't get it.

**TrophyForTheTaking**

> Yet you have stability and power enough to survive and appear to claim that others should work harder and they could get the same.

A lot of em can if they'd worked harder, or start working hard now.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul):**

*How the fuck do you know?*

**TrophyForTheTaking**

> Oh, I sincerely fucking doubt its you're fault I'm how I am. But you seem like something I really fucking dislike, and you don't seem to fucking *understand* my situation, so I really don't fucking like that. I don't like it when people judge my circumstances when they don't get it.

Then tell me your life story, ghoul.

*> How the fuck do you know?*

Because that's how this world works.

**Obligated Oasis**

Say that to a ghoul, say that to a vampire or a weak elemental separated from their Storm. Do you think they would agree with you? That they're were they are because they didn't work hard enough?

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Sure. Sure. Let's start with the father who didn't like it when I made any fucking noise he didn't invite.

The father who was poor, and drunk, and beat my fucking mother.

*Lets start there.*

Now, lets move on to when he fucking kicked me out as a kid, and told me to come back with some fucking cash, and he said *he didn't care how I got it.*

**TrophyForTheTaking**

> Say that to a ghoul, say that to a vampire or a weak elemental separated from their Storm. Do you think they would agree with you? That they're were they are because they didn't work hard enough?

Sometimes they are. Also, I did say it to a ghoul.

**Obligated Oasis**

Say it in person, then.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Lets start there. Where my family was poor. Where it felt like everything fucking hurt. Was that an *auspicious start* or what?

I ran away eventually, with a friend of mine. I wasn't even technically a teenager then, when I did that. Hadn't gone to fucking school.

**Obligated Oasis**

And further than that, consider what work they could do. What could they do? Kill enough people to get more stable to get stronger to kill more people?

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

What was I supposed to do? Not sure I care. I fucking stole. That's what I fucking did, because that's what I fucking knew how to do.

Who was going to do shit for me, huh?

**TrophyForTheTaking**

> And further than that, consider what work they could do. What could they do? Kill enough people to get more stable to get stronger to kill more people?

Not my responsibility to find ways out for every other out there.

**Vesper**

Then maybe stop judging them and move on?

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

So, there's *that.* That's what I was fucking doing.

Then, eventually, I stole the wrong fucking thing from the wrong fucking person.

That person - well, people, there were a few of 'em - caught me and beat me most of the way to death. Or to death. Not really sure.

So, *congrats,* guess how you *fucking get a ghoul?*

**Obligated Oasis**

If you cannot think of a reliable way that pure hard work could make them strong enough, stable enough, then how are they supposed to? While struggling to survive, while desperately searching out the next meal or the next source of power so that they can continue to think?

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Guess what happened to a new ghoul. *They got Bound.*

What the fuck do you expect me to do, huh?

*I'm Bound.*

What's to be fucking *done* about that?

And even if I got free, *I have to eat corpses to survive.*

**TrophyForTheTaking**

> If you cannot think of a reliable way that pure hard work could make them strong enough, stable enough, then how are they supposed to? While struggling to survive, while desperately searching out the next meal or the next source of power so that they can continue to think?

Sounds like their problem more than mine. Y'all are acting like it's my job to figure it out for em.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Rock and a hard place, huh?

**Obligated Oasis**

Trophy, Trophy, Trophy. Can you not back up your words? Do you speak and hope that you speak truth?

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Congrats, an abbreviated life history of mine.

**TrophyForTheTaking**

I know I speak truth. What are you even saying?

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

*Enjoy*.

**Obligated Oasis**

I am grateful for your telling, ShadowOnTheSkyline.

**TrophyForTheTaking**

I actually am too.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Fuck off.

**Obligated Oasis**

I am saddened that it is so but I am still grateful for the telling.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

I don't need fucking *pity.*

**Obligated Oasis**

They I will give you none and instead it shall further feed my anger.

Trophy, I am challenging you to prove that your words are not empty.

**TrophyForTheTaking**

Your challenge seems pointless. I know. The spirits know.

**Obligated Oasis**

You claim much, Trophy.

**TrophyForTheTaking**

I really didn't claim that much.

**Obligated Oasis**

You claim that the spirits know without you having given a justification, I am yet to see evidence of such.

To claim such then perhaps you claim that the spirits are yours only, perhaps you claim that you are the only significant individual in this discussion?

**TrophyForTheTaking**

I didn't lie. The powers there.

I don't need to justify myself to you, here. Stop acting like I do.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Don't be a judgemental asshole. It pisses me off.

**Vesper**

Yeah, not a fan of the whole victim blame-y attitude either.

**Obligated Oasis**

You made statements. To continue to refuse to support them would seem as though you are evading. The spirits know the truth of that. The spirits don't always spontaneously decide truth, the arguments often need to be made.

Do you refuse to support your statements beyond evasion of justification?

**TrophyForTheTaking**

> Don't be a judgemental asshole. It pisses me off.

I don't consider myself to be. Believe it or not, I have sympathy for many folk in need.

**Vesper**

Then maybe don't imply it is their fault for not working hard enough?

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Is your sympathy worth a piss in the river?

**TrophyForTheTaking**

> Then maybe don't imply it is their fault for not working hard enough?

Sometimes it is. That's a fact.

**Vesper**

Often it is not. And even if it is, that is not constructive nor useful, in my opinion.

Life sucks for a *lot* of people. Few people get the luxury of good options.

**Obligated Oasis**

Trophy, Trophy, Trophy. I ask that you justify yourself to the *spirits*. Just because they have not decided to take what you have said as lies does not mean it is truth.

**TrophyForTheTaking**

> Life sucks for a *lot* of people. Few people get the luxury of good options.

Can be both constructive and useful if folk look at their situation, and see what they need to do, rather than being stuck there.

> Trophy, Trophy, Trophy. I ask that you justify yourself to the *spirits*. Just because they have not decided to take what you have said as lies does not mean it is truth.

I said it was truth. Didn't lie there neither.

**Obligated Oasis**

You did say it was truth. Saying such does not mean that it is.

**Vesper**

There's like 6 different sociology papers I can think of I could respond with right now.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

even if working harder would have worked, why the fuck should I have worked myself to suffering and agony because I was born in shitty circumstances?

ugh

**Obligated Oasis**

I have sewing to do. Perhaps you could visit one day, ShadowOnTheSkyline?

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

probably not

kinda stuck

**Vesper**

:\

Are you allowed to say who holds the binding?

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

And last time someone I offered me an escape I kinda said no

why the fuck would I?

**Obligated Oasis**

Perhaps I could visit you instead, bring some ideas that may perhaps help you.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

he’s not that bad a fucker

Uses me usefully at least

**Vesper**

Just out of curiosity. Not much I can do about it.

**TrophyForTheTaking**

> You did say it was truth. Saying such does not mean that it is.

It did mean that there. I stated it was true, I stated I didn't lie. If It wasn't true, it'd be a lie.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

I don’t know you, Oasis, so, would really rather you didn’t

I do good work.

**Obligated Oasis**

I consider that I do good work as well.

Anyway, off to sewing with me.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Bye

**Vesper**

Nice chatting with you, I think.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

... isn’t Oasis the one who randomly posts concerning shit?

**Vesper**

I think like at least 50% of people on here randomly post concerning shit, honestly.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

I guess

**Vesper**

Like, the other day there was a casual conversation over the best way of extracting a human heart while it is still warm.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

I should probably eat

It’s not as shitty as usual at least

Practitioners

fucking Practitioners

**Vesper**

I'm really, really hoping it was something like "collect recently dead people on their way to the morgue" or whatever.

I don't think it was though.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

if you don’t have to fucking deal with corpses to live, why the fuck make it so you have to?

**Vesper**

🤷‍♀️

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

how does that make sense?

fucking sadists

**Traipsing Intercessor**

Hey, I need to repay that debt somehow.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

what debt?

oh were you the heart person?

what the fuck were you doing that debts involve human fucking hearts?

**Vesper**

Yeah. I'm kind of new to this shit, so there's probably a lot of denial involved in just being here, but honestly it is getting kind of hard to ignore this sort of stuff.

**Traipsing Intercessor**

Human sacrifice has a fair bit of history.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

how does history make it a good thing?

**Vesper**

Speaking of stuff I'm in denial about, hey Traipsing Intercessor.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

patterns have power, sure, even I know that

And?

ugh. Food.

Hah. Talking about pulling out hearts?

Ugh

**Vesper**

Good luck.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

at least it tastes like apple turnover now I guess

**Traipsing Intercessor**

Got distracted there for a moment.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

wonder how long until I get sick of that and start wanting it to taste like flesh again

**Traipsing Intercessor**

Okay, history doesn't necessarily make something good.

But it can make it mean more, have more weight to it.

**Vesper**

Oh?

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

made a trade recently

**Vesper**

Nice

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

> But it can make it mean more, have more weight to it.

fuck off

got a thing that makes stuff taste like apple turnover

**Traipsing Intercessor**

What's with the aggression?

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

I don’t like people justifying bullshit like murder

**Vesper**

Just apple turnover? Or can you choose different tastes?

**Traipsing Intercessor**

Okay?

I'm intending to get the hearts from people who I didn't kill.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Just apple turnover. I can trade for more tastes with the person though

**LivingOnTheEdge**

> I don’t like people justifying bullshit like murder

why?

**Vesper**

That's good to read.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

‘Cause I think murder’s crappy

> That's good to read.

not sure what tastes to get if I can get stuff they want though

**Vesper**

Aaaand this is where I sign off and go back into denial, I think.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

hard to remember what I liked to eat

**Traipsing Intercessor**

Hey, Vesper.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

bye then

**Traipsing Intercessor**

What's the weather like where you are?

**Vesper**

It was nice chatting with you Sky. If I'm still alive, maybe we could do that again sometime.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

who knows

**Vesper**

Maybe we could talk flavors you could try or whatever.

**LivingOnTheEdge**

thought you were signing off?

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

you fuck off too

**LivingOnTheEdge**

could say the same to you!

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

you could, yeah

Imma eat now

Bye asshole

June 4 2021

**CipherSurfer**

Hey, OMO.

Had any more worrying visitors?

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

dunno

**CipherSurfer**

Ah, well.

How've you been, Skyline?

**LivingOnTheEdge**

depends what you mean by worrying

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

I've been better. Annoyingly high amounts of sacrifice in my city these days

**CipherSurfer**

Worrying in the sense of possibly alarming a warding-specialising Technomancer.

Sacrifice? I'm assuming you don't just mean offering some of someone's meal to the gods.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

nah, human. well. some of it was human. not sure what the rest counted as.

does it count as human sacrifice if they stuff Other bits into the person first?

**CipherSurfer**

Depends.

Personally I'd consider it human sacrifice if a human was killed/essentially killed in the process.

Nasty stuff, I hope you're not involved.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

define involved

I wasn't tryna help the dang sacrifices happen, if that's what you were asking

**CipherSurfer**

Also hoping that you're not a target *for* the sacrifices.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

I'm pretty sure they want me dead-dead

when they remember I exist

**CipherSurfer**

Is the sacrificing something to be worried about? Is it increasing, becoming less discriminate, that sort of thing?

**NeonPunk**

> does it count as human sacrifice if they stuff Other bits into the person first?

Eugh

**LivingOnTheEdge**

> Is the sacrificing something to be worried about? Is it increasing, becoming less discriminate, that sort of thing?

You planning on doing something about it if so?

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

it was worse than usual

seems normal now though

idk

**CipherSurfer**

Might see if someone could look into it.

Mass human sacrifice tends to be worrying.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

doubt you can do much about it.

**CipherSurfer**

Probably not by myself, probably not even related to what I'd normally do. Unless they're trying to make a cyber god or something.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

nah.

**LivingOnTheEdge**

I find Lords tend not to appreciate outsiders prying into that kinda thing

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

if they're making something techy i'll be shocked.

probably.

**NeonPunk**

A cyber god? Is that a thing?

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

are you a thing?

**CipherSurfer**

I'd probably be speaking *to* the Lords, tell them what I've heard's going on and likely leave it to them. I try to keep things contained, not cause international incidents.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

i don't think that's necessary.

**CipherSurfer**

And yes, there are gods in the code, in the machine, that sort of thing.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

if they ain't heard... well. then Im pretty sure its wilful ignorance.

**NeonPunk**

Huh weird

**CipherSurfer**

Sometimes it takes someone noticing it from afar for them to realise that it might actually be a problem.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

i'm skeptical that they'll trust you saying a random internet ghoul told 'em there's an issue

or told you

whatever

**CipherSurfer**

Like I said, might see if someone could look into it and that'd probably happen before saying what the problem is.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

do what you will

7 June 2021

**Of\_Deep**

So much plotting on OMO. I would advise caution.

**WingsWhiteThatGleam**

???

**Of\_Deep**

There are pieces in play. I suspect that there is another known to us in this business between Grey and Other, among other things.

**WingsWhiteThatGleam**

oh

...

i don't suppose you know what they're doing?

**NeonPunk**

Grey and FO are doing business?

**Of\_Deep**

I imagine, based upon what the relevant parties have said, that Other and Grey made some bargain that left the connection between Other and their former practitioner severed. However, I would guess that this would leave Other further weakened, and he would thus need new power. I suspect that this is also a major factor in their bargaining.

**NeonPunk**

Is that... Good?

Would that make FO less of an asshole?

**WingsWhiteThatGleam**

if he needs power then he might do bad things for it...

**Of\_Deep**

Unlikely.

**NeonPunk**

> if he needs power then he might do bad things for it...

Oh

**WingsWhiteThatGleam**

😢

**Of\_Deep**

The question becomes, how much power did he recieve from Grey and what other means has he used to recoup. To sacrifice the familiar bond is no small thing.

**NeonPunk**

So he got more powerful?

Hmm, that might be fun

**ThreadOfGold217**

Is it truly wise to speculate on the plans of a Fae Lord on a forum where the Fae Lord has been active?

**NeonPunk**

🤷‍♀️

I'm more interested on what FO got from the deal, tbh, the fae lord hasn't been an ass to me

**Of\_Deep**

I do not fear Lord Grey.

**ThreadOfGold217**

You don’t have to fear him to think it unwise to attempt to unravel his plans publicly

**NeonPunk**

Yeah! We could ask him directly trough this instead!

Let me pin him

**Of\_Deep**

That would perhaps be unwise of you.

**NeonPunk**

Hmm

**Of\_Deep**

There is a difference between me speculating publicly as to the details of his bargain with Other and you pinging him.

A number of differences.

**NeonPunk**

But if he gets pinged he could confirm or deny the speculation!

**Of\_Deep**

I find it unlikely he would do so even if he did choose to respond.

**NeonPunk**

Damn

Should I ping that asshole FO instead?

**Of\_Deep**

I suspect Other would be rather annoyed to hear me considering his business, so I doubt you would receive an amicable response to that, either. Though it may be amusing.

**NeonPunk**

Yesssssss 👏

**Of\_Deep**

I would consider how much of a threat they might be to you before doing so, however.

Calvarn is much closer to Other's home location than France, after all.

**NeonPunk**

Yeah, that means I could go punch him myself!

**Of\_Deep**

And why would you do that?

Do you know whether your attack would even affect him in meaningful fashion?

**NeonPunk**

> And why would you do that?

Several insults directed to me

Would they not?

**Of\_Deep**

I am unsure what manner of Other they actually are, beneath their chosen garments. They seemed partially constructed of echoes.

**Grek**

Neon: do you think you could punch the Lord of wherever you live and survive that?

**NeonPunk**

Why are you comparing the Lord of Burdeaux with FO?

Is he a lord?

**Grek**

He was once. He's dead, now. Mostly.

**Of\_Deep**

He has been in the past.

**NeonPunk**

> Neon: do you think you could punch the Lord of wherever you live and survive that?

Nope

Is he really that powerful?

**Of\_Deep**

He has been. I doubt he is now, but he may still be a force to be reckoned with after his dealings with Grey.

**Grek**

It's unclear how much of his old strength remains. But once he admitted to using 'human wave tactics' with echoes. Walls of ghosts.

I personally wouldn't risk it.

Maybe he's just as strong. Maybe he has barely more power than a dead practitioner retains. I don't know.

**NeonPunk**

Hmm I'll try to investigate then, this changes things

I'm not saying that I won't punch him tho, I'll just consider it for now

**LivingOnTheEdge**

Punch him, it'l be fine(maybe)

**NeonPunk**

Not yet, he might be too strong, I need to prepare so he can actually feel my punch

**Of\_Deep**

Your desire for conflict does not make that path the best for others, Edge.

**LivingOnTheEdge**

Or punch him when he least expects it, like when he's in the shower or something

**NeonPunk**

I don't wanna see him in the shower! Eugh 🤮

**Of\_Deep**

I somehow doubt that he showers.

**NeonPunk**

🤮🤮🤮

**Grek**

He's dead. How many dead people have you seen take a shower?

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Excuse me?

**Of\_Deep**

It is not a requirement for most Others, as we do not naturally produce the kind of stench humanity does.

**Grek**

Not undead like a ghoul, as far as I know. Dead like a ghost is dead.

**NeonPunk**

> Excuse me?

Good clean ghoul, bad dirty echo amalgam

**grekhaus**

(That said, in my extensive experience, most ghouls do not shower)

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

He's an asshole.

**LivingOnTheEdge**

the bath then?

**grekhaus**

Some can bathe safely, if the water has been left out long enough. Sponge baths tend to be the safest.

**NeonPunk**

Do you shower others on the regular?

Weird

**grekhaus**

My family operates a ghoul preserve. When new people come in, we often have to explain this sort of thing, since they'll ask why we don't have shower heads for them, or why the place smells like that.

**NeonPunk**

Is that like a ghoul zoo?

**grekhaus**

...they're people.

It's a ranch out in the country where they are permitted to reside by grace of the local Lord, where Innocents are kept away and where food, shelter and ghoul-specific medical care is provided for them.

**Of\_Deep**

A reasonable cause.

**NeonPunk**

> ...they're people.

Can they leave if they want?

**grekhaus**

Of course they can.

**NeonPunk**

Good

**grekhaus**

We recently had a few departures, but for the most part very few ghouls choose to leave. In most regions, ghouls are marginalized or actively hunted by practitioners, forced to murder in order to feed and generally only have an approximate idea of what is going on in terms of their condition. Things are better here, so they usually prefer to stay.

**NeonPunk**

There aren't many ghouls in my city, but I think that's thanks to the previous Lord

**grekhaus**

It was much like that back home, up until my grand-uncle changed things. Negotiated the rights to the preserve from the Lord in exchange for his forbearance during the Lordship contest of 1883. May he rest in peace.

**ThreadOfGold217**

> It's a ranch out in the country where they are permitted to reside by grace of the local Lord, where Innocents are kept away and where food, shelter and ghoul-specific medical care is provided for them.

That sounds surprisingly compassionate of your family. What do you gain from that?

**NeonPunk**

*>* It was much like that back home, up until my grand-uncle changed things. Negotiated the rights to the preserve from the Lord in exchange for his forbearance during the Lordship contest of 1883. May he rest in peace.

Your grand uncle sounds nice

**Of\_Deep**

The respect of every ghoul that is aware of this, I imagine.

**grekhaus**

My grand uncle was the somewhat infamous Greater Bluebottle Ghoul, Alejandro Alvarez.

**NeonPunk**

... Are you part ghoul?

**grekhaus**

Different branch of the family.

**NeonPunk**

Oh

**grekhaus**

I think.

I don't actually have the family bible with me. But I know that none of my grandparents were ghouls?

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Uh

**ThreadOfGold217**

Ghouls can have children?

**grekhaus**

There are often difficulties involved. But that is a part of the ghoul-specific medical care that we offer, yes.

**NeonPunk**

Wow

**ThreadOfGold217**

*That* is something I haven’t heard before. I’d heard of it theorized or discussed, but never quite confirmed

Quite fascinating

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

... why would you want ghouls to reproduce?

**NeonPunk**

Baby ghouls

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

that sounds horrifying

**NeonPunk**

Babies?

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Baby *ghouls*

why the fuck would you do that to a kid?

**grekhaus**

I feel that I should point out that many species of ghoul are able to lead healthy and complete lives without undue suffering, provided that they are not subject to the malnutrition which so often faces first generation ghouls. Moreover, for those who are more directly afflicted, there exist techniques to ensure the birth of a largely ordinary human child.

**WorstCaseOntario**

so, where do you get, like

the food

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

........

Again

Why the *fuck* would you do that to a kid?

**NeonPunk**

Vegan humans?

**TrophyForTheTaking**

Good questions.

**NeonPunk**

Like vegan version of human meat?

Or just stuff from morgues?

**StartingSmall**

helloooo

**NeonPunk**

Hi

**StartingSmall**

lotta talk about ghouls

**grekhaus**

There exist techniques to minimize the amount of human flesh required, or to provide substitutes. For the rest, there are ways and means that I would prefer not to disclose on a public forum, but which I can assure you need not include murder.

**NeonPunk**

Like asking nicely

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

The fact that you can *cope* with it is not explaining why you would *deliberately subject someone to it*

**StartingSmall**

is this ghoul talk starting because the user with ghoul in the username is here?

**WorstCaseOntario**

well, uh, ok

ive heard weirder

**grekhaus**

We started out talking about undead in general, but I just happen to know mostly about ghouls and echoes.

**NeonPunk**

No, we were talking about schemes, I think that's were it came from

And a certain dirty Other

Which brought us to the question "do ghouls shower?"

**StartingSmall**

i think water hurts ghouls rhough

**NeonPunk**

And from there we got all this info about the ghoul utopia :)

**WorstCaseOntario**

running water should, yeah

but apparently this grek person can somehow get around ghouls need to eat human flesh?

so im thinking my education on this is lacking

**grekhaus**

Not entirely. But there's ways to make a little bit of meat go a long way.

10 June 2021

**QuietButFriendly has signed in.**

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Oh, hi I guess

**QuietButFriendly**

👋

🇭 🇷 🇺 ❔

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Fine, I suppose. Day's been alright. I, uh, probably shouldn't be talking to you though. You seem cute and stuff, and I ain't that friendly

**QuietButFriendly**

@ShadowOnTheSkyline 👀 👍 ❤️

⌨️ 🌐 😠

@QuietButFriendly 😟

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

you... think I'm alright, but are angry at the world and frightened of yourself?

Uh... you think the world is angry at and frightened of you?

**QuietButFriendly**

2️⃣ 🐣 😟 🔪

🌐 🔥 💢 ⌨️ @QuietButFriendly (<@148074547378126849>)

🪤 🔪

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

You think the world is angry at you, so you're frightened; but you're an internet baby who is trapped?

so many emojis

**QuietButFriendly**

✅ ❕

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

If you mean what happened earlier, I don't think anyone was pissed at you. Well, Wings kid might be kinda scared of you, I guess, but I don't think I can blame her for being paranoid if she got herself eaten.

**QuietButFriendly**

😦 😟

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

I sure hope you ain't a people-eater. I think I'm stable enough I'll survive if you are, I guess.

Look, I don't think its your fault if someone else is paranoid, a'right?

**QuietButFriendly**

🚫 🍴 🧑‍🤝‍🧑

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Well, okay.

Look, why're you out here, kid? Some folks're nice, some are shitty, and then there's folks like me who'll probably talk you into being paranoid far too early, like

this does not seem like good choices on your part

kids tend to be like, malleable and stuff

and heading into a place like this while malleable? noooot a good idea

**QuietButFriendly**

🪤 👀 🪟 😦

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Want to look out the window of your trap, huh?

I mean sure, but not everything you're gonna see'll be good, necessarily

Like, heck, you saw that argument earlier

**QuietButFriendly**

🚫 🐶 🐱 🏓 🏄 🏕️ 🌆 🌄 😦

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

But you also get to see dogs and cats and stuff?

**QuietButFriendly**

🚫 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 🗣️

🚫 🧑‍🤝‍🧑

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

iiiis this what its like inside the trap?

**QuietButFriendly**

✅ 🚫

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

yeah i'm confused

**QuietButFriendly**

👨‍👧 ❤️

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Love your family, huh?

**QuietButFriendly**

👨‍🎨 🙂

🪤 💻 🛏️ 🏘️

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Your dad's an artist, and you live in a trap in a computer in a house?

not sure what the bed's about

**QuietButFriendly**

🪤 🛏️

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

You sleep in the trap?

**QuietButFriendly**

🪤 🏘️

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

The... house is the trap, the trap's in the house???

**QuietButFriendly**

🪤 💻

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

everything's a trap?

everything is in the trap?

Well. Everything you mentioned is in the trap?

okaaaay

so we figured that one out

not sure why

**QuietButFriendly**

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphor

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

I know what the fuck a metaphor is, kid

**QuietButFriendly**

💻 🏘️

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Yeah, the computer's your home? I'm just not sure what your point is

**QuietButFriendly**

🚪 🔒

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Locked doors feel like an invitation to pick 'em to me. Okay, seems you're stuck in that computer. Didn't we already know that? I thought that's what you meant when you said trapped in a computer.

like, I doubt you want a technomancer to pick that lock for you.

soooooo

what's the point?

**QuietButFriendly**

> iiiis this what its like inside the trap?

**🇦 🇳 🇸 🇼 🇪 🇷**

'***ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)'***

Oh. Not precisely what I was asking, but... cheers, I guess

That was what I thought you were saying earlier

**> 🚫 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 🗣️**

with these things

Oh, I was right? 'kay

'***QuietButFriendly'***

**🚫 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 😦**

'***ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)'***

no people in the trap, huh?

i guess that'd be lonely

idk, is there really nowhere safer than here for you to talk to folks, though?

ugh

just be careful, kid

and don't like, get upset if people're getting paranoid, as long as they're not, like, actively trying to steal you or something

lotsa people here've been hurt by stuff

I'm still wondering if this is a trap for me

it ain't your fault that folks've been burned by cute and nice stuff before, its just a *thing*

well I hope it ain't your fault, I guess

'***QuietButFriendly'***

**✅ 💻 🔥 🛡️ 🪄**

'***ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)'***

Computer's got firewalls and magic shields? great. i hope.

'***QuietButFriendly'***

**👨‍🎨 ⌨️ 🪄 👨‍👧**

'***ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)'***

Magic dad. You like him?

'***QuietButFriendly'***

**✅**

'***ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)'***

lucky kid.

'***QuietButFriendly'***

**👨‍🎨 🔍🌐**

**👨‍🎨 🔍 🥚**

**👨‍🎨 🥚 🐣**

'***ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)'***

well, that's one way to do it

'***QuietButFriendly'***

**👨‍🎨 ❤️ 🐣**

'***ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)'***

Yeah. Very lucky kid.

'***QuietButFriendly'***

**🚫 👨‍👧‍👧 😦**

'***ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)'***

Eh, I've heard siblings are a fucking pain

'***QuietButFriendly'***

**👧 🤷‍♀️ 💀**

**👨‍👧**

'***ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)'***

Well, that's concerning

'***QuietButFriendly'***

**😦**

**👨‍🎨 🚪 🔍**

'***ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)'***

Nah, more kids

whelp

shit

SHould've fucking known

'***IronE'***

Your dad's looking for a family.

'***ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)'***

ugh

'***QuietButFriendly'***

**👨‍🎨 🔍 👨‍👧‍👧**

'***ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)'***

I think I need to get some more food

'***QuietButFriendly'***

**👧 🪄 🥚**

👧 📖 ⌨️ 🪄

**IronE**

Is that you learning magic?

**QuietButFriendly**

🚫

👨‍👧‍👧

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

I *think* she's saying the dad is using magic on eggs and computers

ugh

also are you a she, kid?

**QuietButFriendly**

👧 🪄 🐣

**IronE**

Girl using magic to make another person like you?

**QuietButFriendly**

👧 🪄 @QuietButFriendly

**IronE**

Girl use magic on you, specifically.

Keyboard book magic?

Or book keyboard magic, if that's legally distinct

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

whee.

**IronE**

Do you think you'll be able to use words instead of emojis someday?

You can answer 🕰️ if it's only a matter of time.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Kid doesn't seem to know.

**IronE**

You healthty?

**QuietButFriendly**

🇼 🇴 🇷 🇩

**The Glorious**

Word?

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

I mean, yeah, you can do that, but like

that ain't what we're doing

**IronE**

Excellent work, proud of you.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

but... i mean, good start

idk

**IronE**

Hmm, how to ask about that frown...

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

hey whats with the sad face on healthy?

**QuietButFriendly**

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

uhhhhhh

**QuietButFriendly**

🇼 🇴 🇷 🇩 🇸 😀

**IronE**

**👏👏👏👏👏**

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

whatever works i guess

see ya kid, imma go eat

**QuietButFriendly**

> hey whats with the sad face on healthy?

🌐 💢 🔥 ⌨️

'***ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)'***

suuuuuuure okay

take care of yourself

'***QuietButFriendly'***

**🇼 🇦 🇮 🇹**

'***ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)'***

what?

'***QuietButFriendly'***

**⌛ 🎁 ✨**

'***ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)'***

I do noooot need a pressie, kid

'***QuietButFriendly'***

**🥩 ❔**

'***ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)'***

... Kid, I eat human flesh. Lets just. Lets not, okay?

'***QuietButFriendly'***

**➖ 🍴 ❔**

**🎁**

'***ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)'***

..... Look, this is sweet, but did I mention I'm paranoid? Please. No presents.

'***QuietButFriendly'***

**👋**

'***IronE'***

You can make people less hungry?

'***ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)'***Bye.

24 June 2021

**KillItWithFire**

Hello, OMO

**Stuck Inside**

Hello!

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

hi

**Stuck Inside**

Hello, Shadow!

**KillItWithFire**

How are you today?

**Stuck Inside**

I think that's a nice name, does it mean anything or did you just like the sound of it?

I'm great!

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

It means stuff

**Stuck Inside**

I went on a hunt with dad last night.

It was fun!

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Hunting what?

**Stuck Inside**

A dream thing.

Labels get a bit weird in the dreamscape.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

And I'm kinda tired, I guess

**KillItWithFire**

Any particular reason, or just 'cause?

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Lotta running today.

**Stuck Inside**

To practice and get some dream things for later.

**TheMiddlestMermaid**

> I went on a hunt with dad last night.

Oh, nice. How'd it go?

**NeonPunk**

> Lotta running today.

Witch hunters? Or you just into cardio?

**StartingSmall**

Hi

**Stuck Inside**

> Oh, nice. How'd it go?

Dad trapped them and I finished them off!

**NeonPunk**

Hello

**Stuck Inside**

Hello, Small!

**TheMiddlestMermaid**

> Dad trapped them and I finished them off!

Nice, congrats!

**KillItWithFire**

Does a Ghoul need to do cardio?

**TheMiddlestMermaid**

Hey Small, Neon.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

> Witch hunters? Or you just into cardio?

Practitioners 🙃

**Stuck Inside**

A Ghoul?

**NeonPunk**

> Does a Ghoul need to do cardio?

Maybe she cares about exercising

**KillItWithFire**

I'm not sure if you're confused about what a ghoul is, or that I knew she was a ghoul?

**Stuck Inside**

I'm not sure what a ghoul is.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Undead thing.

**KillItWithFire**

Like a smarter zombie, more or less.

**NeonPunk**

Have you seen the walking dead?

**Stuck Inside**

What are zombies like?

**StartingSmall**

are there alot if dead things here?

**Stuck Inside**

I don't *think* I've seen any corpses moving around.

**NeonPunk**

Have you seen the mummy?

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

There's a difference between dead and undead, funnily enough.

**KillItWithFire**

I'm not entirely convinced Stuck Inside isn't a troll.

**Stuck Inside**

> Have you seen the walking dead?

They said the walking dead.

Are trolls a thing as well?

**TheMiddlestMermaid**

> I'm not entirely convinced Stuck Inside isn't a troll.

They're not. Don't be a shit.

**StartingSmall**

> There's a difference between dead and undead, funnily enough.

so...no to both?

**ChromaticCuttlefish**

> I'm not entirely convinced Stuck Inside isn't a troll.

They are *not*

**KillItWithFire**

Not trying to be a shit, I'm just concerned how someone can apparently know so little about the world.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Well. That seems defensive.

**NeonPunk**

> Are trolls a thing as well?

Yeah! I really wanna meet one!

**KillItWithFire**

Alright, shit, don't jump down my fucking throat about it.

**Stuck Inside**

Are they rare or just difficult to find?

**KillItWithFire**

> Yeah! I really wanna meet one!

You wanna punch it, don't you?

**NeonPunk**

> Are they rare or just difficult to find?

I think both

> You wanna punch it, don't you?

Maybe? Just fight one, really

**KillItWithFire**

So, this may seem really out of nowhere, but do ya wanna go to Norway with me sometime?

**NeonPunk**

👀

**StartingSmall**

Wanting to fight things seems mean.

**Stuck Inside**

Are there trolls in Norway?

**KillItWithFire**

No promises we'll find a Troll for you to fight, but we can give it a try 😆

**NeonPunk**

> So, this may seem really out of nowhere, but do ya wanna go to Norway with me sometime?

If I'm not in class, of fucking course I want!

**TheMiddlestMermaid**

Damn, not even gonna take her to dinner first?

**Stuck Inside**

And isn't that quite far from Boston?

**KillItWithFire**

> Are there trolls in Norway?

They tend to like cold climates with very few people around. Scandinavia has most of the remaining Trolls I'm pretty sure.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Wouldn't think Norway's the classiest place for a date, but to each their own, huh?

**KillItWithFire**

Not a date. I don't even know if Neon's legal.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Fiiiiiiine, ruin the joke I guess

**KillItWithFire**

Look, I gotta cover my ass in case the feds are watching or something.

**StartingSmall**

police are here?

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

If there's *feds* on here then

well

fuck

**NeonPunk**

I don't wanna date them, and I'm legal

I just wanna meet a troll

Heard they're pretty cool and strong

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

I'd be willing to bet there's a lot've trolls on the internet, hah

**KillItWithFire**

They are!

**StartingSmall**

> I just wanna meet a troll

But you also want to fight and hurt one

**KillItWithFire**

But the secret is that all the ones alive today are *smart* as well. That's what makes them dangerous. Think of an overgrown gorilla that can think like a human.

**NeonPunk**

That's better! They probably can fight with techniques!

**KillItWithFire**

Exactly!

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Are you both nuts?

**NeonPunk**

I'm human I think

**KillItWithFire**

No, I'm pretty sure we're human.

**StartingSmall**

I think they want to just kill things

**NeonPunk**

I don't want to kill them

**TheMiddlestMermaid**

Sometimes people are nuts in just the same way.

**NeonPunk**

I just said I'm not a nut

**BrightResident**

It's a fun pastime.

Killing things.

**KillItWithFire**

We probably won't kill any trolls unless they're causing problems for local villages. Even then, I'm more inclined to try binding it first.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Sure, fine, I'll say it without using metaphors

Are y'all *insane?*

**KillItWithFire**

I don't think so.

Maybe I am, though. Who's to say?

**NeonPunk**

Is this a trick question?

**StartingSmall**

Still sounds mean to find someone or something just to fight and hurt them

**BrightResident**

Absolutely.

**NeonPunk**

:D

**BrightResident**

> Sure, fine, I'll say it without using metaphors Are y'all *insane?*

In response to this.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

How is it a trick question to ask if someone's insane???

**BrightResident**

Aren't all questions trick questions?

**KillItWithFire**

> Still sounds mean to find someone or something just to fight and hurt them

Trolls don't mind. They love combat even more than Neon and I do.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

I really don't think so, Resident

**BrightResident**

Think better, then.

I mean.

It's a difficult thing to prove either way, so answering might be wrong.

I guess.

That's how all your outsider things work?

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

What the fuck are you talking about?

**BrightResident**

"Don't lie, don't break oaths, don't sneeze at the Lord." that sort of thing.

**StartingSmall**

Still sounds mean and weird.

**NeonPunk**

The Lord once got really angry cause I sneezed during a meeting

**BrightResident**

I thought I'd already answered your question, Skydow?

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

*Witch hunters*

**BrightResident**

Or is Shaline better?

**NeonPunk**

... What's going on?

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Bright Resident's annoying

**StartingSmall**

This is getting weird I'm leaving bye

**KillItWithFire**

> The Lord once got really angry cause I sneezed during a meeting

Have you tried being so indispensable that the Lord can't afford to get mad at you?

**NeonPunk**

I don't think he thinks of anyone as indispensable

**KillItWithFire**

See, there's your problem.

**BrightResident**

Find something *really* dangerous and rare.

**NeonPunk**

A nuke?

**BrightResident**

Lure it into his city and make sure you're the only person who knows how to keep it bound.

Indispensable.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Don't go find a nuke

Just don't

**BrightResident**

No idea how you'd bind a nuke.

**NeonPunk**

A nuke with a deadman's switch!

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Seriously? Maybe you're not insane, maybe you're an idiot

I'm considering this possbility

**BrightResident**

I wasn't suggesting a nuke.

I was thinking more primordial or abyssal beast.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

You think Neon's smart enough to bind whatever the fuck those are?

**BrightResident**

Probably not!

**NeonPunk**

Maybe 😌

**BrightResident**

But it'd be worth watching the news to see which French cities get destroyed in the attempt.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Does she know how to do something other than punch and maybe type? Really?

**NeonPunk**

I'm in USA now!

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Oh, go ahead and find a nuke

**Timestamper**

What is this?

**BrightResident**

Yeah, but the suggestion was to take the thing and lead it into your Lord's city to make yourself indispensable.

**NeonPunk**

I think they want me to go find a nuke and bind a primordial with it

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

If it'll blow up an American city it might actually have good consequences

like

theoretically?

I think?

**Timestamper**

That... What?

**BrightResident**

IDK.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Didn't I specifically say *don't* go get a nuke?

**Timestamper**

How is blowing up a city going to generate good consequences?

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

I feel like I said that a nuke was a bad idea

**BrightResident**

> I think they want me to go find a nuke and bind a primordial with it

...that was not the suggestion.

**NeonPunk**

So how does this relate to trolls anyways?

**Timestamper**

Is Of\_Deep getting to people?

**BrightResident**

Something about becoming indispensable to your local Lord.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

I want to know if Neon's an idiot

**BrightResident**

I don't really know, I wasn't paying attention.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Because this is really feeling like Neon's actually an idiot

Or maybe Neon's trolling

**Timestamper**

This?

**NeonPunk**

🤷‍♀️

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Can a Practitioner actually troll like ths?

**NeonPunk**

I'm confused now

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

> This?

Look as far as I know there's something really really really wrong with America, maybe less Americans is a good thing?

**NeonPunk**

That's racist or something

**KillItWithFire**

Nationalist, at the very least.

**BrightResident**

It's a bit weird.

**Timestamper**

Where the hell did you get that idea?

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

The news?

**NeonPunk**

I don't wanna talk politics, I had enough of that yesterday

**BrightResident**

I was just trying to make luring something rare and dangerous into a major city sounds sort of like a good idea, I didn't think anyone'd actually pay attention to it.

**Timestamper**

What news?

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Can we talk about something else now *I'm* confused

**Stuck Inside**

What's it like being a ghoul?

**KillItWithFire**

Anyways. Neon. Norway? Maybe over Christmas break? Nice and cold, best time for Troll watching.

**NeonPunk**

Sounds great!

I'll buy winter clothes

Ask her if she eats brains

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Not great, Stuck, usually.

**Stuck Inside**

> Ask her if she eats brains

Are brains more nutritious or something?

> Not great, Stuck, usually.

Oh. That sounds sad to me.

How would it be better?

**NeonPunk**

> Are brains more nutritious or something?

We could know if she told us :)

**Stuck Inside**

I mean, couldn't you test it?

**Q. Chrysolepis**

Kind of invasive questions

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

How the fuck would I know if brains are more nutritious for humans???

**Stuck Inside**

Or try them.

**NeonPunk**

> How the fuck would I know if brains are more nutritious for humans???

Not for humans, but for ghouls

You could know that :)

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Honestly I don't like the brains, generally can't be bothered unless I'm really hungry.

They're squishy and getting at 'em is annoying and they don't taste better'n the rest of it to me

> How would it be better?

Well for starters if people'd stop being freaked out just because I'm nearby even when I've eaten recently, I think that'd be nice

**NeonPunk**

Do you look like a zombie?

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Don't think so? Depends on what zombie you're thinking of, I guess?

**NeonPunk**

Nemesis 🙂

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Its not quite how I look that's the problem, though. At least not right now. if I'm really hungry I guess I start looking pretty freaky

After a wooble... if what I've found is what you're thinking? No. I do not look like that.

**NeonPunk**

Ah 😔

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Think bone spikes, if I'm hungry.

**Q. Chrysolepis**

So even if you aren't hungry people still get freaked out? Kind of shitty but it's nice to have OMO then

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

They get less freaked out, at least, I guess

**Q. Chrysolepis**

🤷 guess that's something

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

yeah. I managed to visit an animal shelter for a while recently, when I was pretty stable. that was a good day.

**Dress4Success**

Could you hang out with Others that are dog like?

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

I guess? most folks around here don't exactly like me, though, Practitioner or Other.

**Dress4Success**

Did ya give em cause to dislike ya?

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Well, yeah. I know what I'm like. I'm a metaphorical pain in the ass.

The stuff my Binder's got me involved in is more of an issue, though, I'm pretty sure, and that ain't *my* fault. I didn't ask him to get me to do this stuff.

.... Q, you've known me, what, lemme check the timestamps

Like, an hour?

**Q. Chrysolepis**

It's just an emoji

I mean, sounds like it sucks

you aren't a saint obviously

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

I'm a thief and a spy

**Dress4Success**

By choice or circumstances?

**Q. Chrysolepis**

right, I'm not suggesting you move in with me or anything... just saying that sucks, and a metaphorical hug is available

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

i don't understand people

**Q. Chrysolepis**

me neither apparently?

**Dress4Success**

> i don't understand people

Kindness and goodwill confuses you?

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

*yeah*

**Dress4Success**

That does seem unpleasant.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

oh fuck off, I don't need pity

**Dress4Success**

May I suggest don't act pitiable if you don't want it?

5 July 2021

**ChromaticCuttlefish**

Hello OMO!

anyone here?

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

I guess

tf do you want

**ChromaticCuttlefish**

was just going to as how people are! Make conversation!

to ask

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Y'know, I *would* say I'm alive

*But*

**ChromaticCuttlefish**

well how's being not really alive

orwere you meaning "I would say at least im alive but im not"

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

"I'm alive" can be like

a way of saying something like 'well thats the best i can say. I'm alive.'

but yeeeeeah

**ChromaticCuttlefish**

oh ok 🙁

hope it gets better!

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

It gets better, it gets worse, its usually shit somehow

so, i guess, how tf r y

r u\*

**ChromaticCuttlefish**

I'm good! I'm working on a present for someone

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

huh

**ChromaticCuttlefish**

It's fun, or satisfying or whatever. It's nice!

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

yeah. i should probably get someone a present, now that i think about it

**ChromaticCuttlefish**

A special someone ?

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

fuck off

**ChromaticCuttlefish**

um

sorry

😔

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

not like she'd be interested *anyway*

not like that

**ChromaticCuttlefish**

she might be, if you think of her like that 🙂

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

😐

Pretty damn sure she wouldn't.

Not everything's a fucking fairytale

**ChromaticCuttlefish**

I was unsure about someone and the I asked and they said yes! It can totally go well!

and then

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Are you an undead monster with fingers like claws who eats corpses and grows bone spines when she hasn't eaten enough who's a fucking *asshole?*

**ChromaticCuttlefish**

well, no

But someone probably likes that 🤷

It's not like I haven't faced difficulty because of who I am either....

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Some monster fetishist, maybe. Which, far as I know, she ain't.

And either way she deserves better than *me.*

**ChromaticCuttlefish**

I think you should be more confident in yourself 🙁

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

And why tf do you think that?

**ChromaticCuttlefish**

cause you don't think you deserve your love

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

And why should that matter to *you?*

**ChromaticCuttlefish**

it doesnt really

its just sad

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Well then. Fuck off.

**NeonPunk**

> not like she'd be interested *anyway*

Ohhhhh you got a *crush*?

Is it someone we know?

Is it that guy borderline?

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Where the *fuck* do you get these ideas? *No!* I'd be fucking shocked right now if I found out any of you knew her, fuck *off*

**NeonPunk**

Oh wait, a her? Is it Mia?

Hmm

Levi?

**MIAdenAway**

Now hang on

No, it's not someone we know, or no, you don't have a crush?

**NeonPunk**

She might like you 🙊

**MIAdenAway**

I'm flattered, but I kinda-sorta-its-Practice-complicated have a boyfriend

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

why the fuck would I have a crush on you

Fucking hell

Where do you come up with this bullshit?

**NeonPunk**

> I'm flattered, but I kinda-sorta-its-Practice-complicated have a boyfriend

Maybe she got sad that you have a boyfriend 😔

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

... I'm talking about someone who, as far as I know, *is not on this fucking site*

For fuck's *sake*

**NeonPunk**

> Where do you come up with this bullshit?

Boredom usually

**MIAdenAway**

> why the fuck would I have a crush on you

I'm confident you don't, because you have a crush on this person that is hopefully not on this site.

Allegedly.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

There we go

ffs

**NeonPunk**

Well? What's her name?

Sonya!

Maria?

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Why would I tell you fucks *shite* about her, exactly

**MIAdenAway**

I still can't find an outright 'no I don't have a crush on this person'

You can talk about this stuff, Sky, there were people on here organizing dates and talking about relationship trouble

You don't have to tell us, of course

I'll back off if this isn't a fun topic for you

**NeonPunk**

How's she?

Is she a practitioner?

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

You're being an ass.

**Q. Chrysolepis**

Neon, seriously?

If she doesn't want to talk about it, she doesn't want to talk about it

**NeonPunk**

😔

**Q. Chrysolepis**

How about you? Any crushes or anything on your end?

**NeonPunk**

Not really, I'm not too much into relationships

They're kinda boring

**MIAdenAway**

Hoooooo boy I *wish* I could talk about mine but I'm keeping it private until there's some mutual understandings resolved

**NeonPunk**

I like Audrey Hepburn, that's a thing I guess

**Q. Chrysolepis**

I hope they resolve soon, for your sake at least 🙂

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Good actress.

**NeonPunk**

What bout you, plant named person?

> Good actress.

And great person for what I've been able to learn about her!

She died before I was born tho :(

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Pretty sure most dead people don't have opportunities to turn out to be shitty after all, so there's a plus I guess

NeonPunk

Yeah 😔

Tom Hardy is kinda cool too, but I don't feel like I have a real crush on him

**Q. Chrysolepis**

What's good about him?

**NeonPunk**

He's a cool actor

Almost always nails an amazing character

Hmm

He looks cool? Like I don't find him hot, just cool

So then, you Q plant, you have a crush?

**Q. Chrysolepis**

Ah yeah, he seems pretty cool

**MIAdenAway**

Your crush 😉 ?

**Q. Chrysolepis**

Don't really want to talk about it here

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Maybe someone here is sane

**NeonPunk**

> Don't really want to talk about it here

Lame-o

**Q. Chrysolepis**

Don't think you would *want* to hear.

**NeonPunk**

Why not? Is their name something that if you say it might get us into trouble?

**MIAdenAway**

I mean, it's a public space

Maybe Not The Place ™️

**NeonPunk**

Sheesh 🙄

/

**LighthouseInABottle**

Well shit. This is neat.

I’m not gonna get kicked off this fucking site too, am I? No karmic backlash for being a people person?

Or maybe it’s just a fuckin wasteland and I don’t need to get banned because there’s nothing here that needs to pass me in the night for it’s own shitty sake

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Are you fucking nuts?

**LighthouseInABottle**

Yup. You a fuckin ghoul? You probably know what it’s like, then, not being able to get involved in the world.

It’s like I can’t use a social without someone taking offence to my existing and shooing me off it

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Am I a ghoul

I wonder

How could I tell

And yeah, its pretty darn difficult for me to just, like, pat a dog

So what the fuck is wrong with you?

**LighthouseInABottle**

Sarcasm in questions, I like that

I’m hosting an Other that’s really big on routine and who’s pretty old, and there’s not much in my life beside magic. So karma fucks with my doing anything normal, basically.

I’m dirt poor, but I can’t hold a job even when I want to, that kind of thing

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Well, congrats, this place ain't normal

Why Host something like that?

**LighthouseInABottle**

He’d prefer I not say. Fuckin “discretion” and all that.

What I will say is that I’m happy to do it, oathbound or no

Just sucks when I wanna, you know, live my fuckin life

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Cheers.

**LighthouseInABottle**

Walking somewhere new, any good recs for places to be?

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Rooftops.

**LighthouseInABottle**

Damn *straight*

Rooftops are fantastic

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Ever gone running along them?

**LighthouseInABottle**

Not really a runner, but I've gone for strolls and shit

Erstwhiles a fat fuck, in a fond way

And I take after him, so running puffs me out, realmsy other in the Self regardless

Guessing the 'shadow on the skyline' is you naruto'ing across it?

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Damn shame. There really is *something* about parkour high up in the air, wind fast and cold at night.

**LighthouseInABottle**

Im more of a 'stand around coat flapping looking dramatic' type

My kind of night by the sounds tho

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Hah. Are your dramatics at least effective?

**LighthouseInABottle**

Fuck yeah. My attacks have names because they *deserve* them, man

And cause I was twelve when Ernie taught me them, but thats besides the point

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

What kinda stuff do you do?

**LighthouseInABottle**

Read, walk, smoke. Oh, and I shoot salt and water at shit. It normal for people to talk about their practice on here? It safe?

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Depends, I guess. Some folks talk about it. General stuff's usually fine, if you're not too crappy, I think?

**LighthouseInABottle**

Well my attitudes pretty crappy but I dont think im crappy crappy

Nomad stuff is in my blood and bones. I fuck with space, walk and sorta-teleport. Enter the front door, exit the back.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Nice

Travelling around a city really is my kinda thing. Usually on the rooftops. Calms me down some days.

**LighthouseInABottle**

Yeah, I get that. Harder to care about the bad things when you can walk away from them for a bit.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Yeah. Also reassuring that if anyone tries to catch me I'm probably better on the roof than them, more likely to know where I'm going 'cause I've been there more'n them.

**LighthouseInABottle**

Mind if I ask where you are in the world? In case I end up there sometime and can shoot you a message to say hi

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

UK. Not willing to say which city.

**LighthouseInABottle**

Thats chill, I'm making my way along the coast of France. Wonder if Ernie will let me walk over.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

What's it like over with the frogs?

**LighthouseInABottle**

I think they hate that I don't speak the language. Or I'm just generally hate-able. Had enough envoys from families and lords and judges and shit that I try and avoid towns if I can help it. Trying to speak Spanish to them first usually gets a different reaction, not a better one.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Liking the wilderness, then?

**LighthouseInABottle**

Mostly rocks and bluffs, really. Following the coast, staying in sight of the sea. Easier travelling. Shit beaches, it's like they're all private property.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Got a thing about the sea, huh, Lighthouse?

**LighthouseInABottle**

Do I have a thing for the sea

I wonder

How could I tell

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

👏

So do *you* like the sea or is that about your Other?

**LighthouseInABottle**

Hard to say. Ernie's been in my Self for eight fucking years now, pretty much non stop. And my family were all about boats and the ocean. My dad had a proper sailing ship for a demesne.

So, y'know, I like the sea, and it'd be a bit fuckin weird if I didn't. Might as well have salt water in my veins. Not sure if I don't, tbh

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Well, that sure is something. Hey, are there actually like, kraken and shit out there?

**LighthouseInABottle**

Yup. Primevals of the sea, water storm and ice dragons, gods that are big enough and old enough the whole 'worshipper' thing isn't really a priority.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Yikes

**LighthouseInABottle**

Yup\*

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

I think I'd like to stay *out* of the ocean

**LighthouseInABottle**

Thats what boats are for ya twat

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Ehhhhhh

**NeonPunk**

Fucking sea creatures, being creepy and shit

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

But are they creepier'n you?

**NeonPunk**

Hmm I think I used the wrong words

Fucking sea creatures, being ugly and shit

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Y'know

I'm still gonna guess that you're uglier than the sea critters

**MirrorImage**

Rude 🙁

**NeonPunk**

I'm not the one that's half dead or whatever

Do you look like a mummy reject?

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

<:cheers:>

Don't think I do, but I'm not sure what a mummy reject looks like

I do look pretty fucking creepy sometimes though

**MirrorImage**

Oh Neon, I looked up "John Wayne Gacy" and "Richard Ramirez" and it kinda hurt my feelings 😦

**LighthouseInABottle**

Who the fuck are those guys?

Spare me having to look em up myself

**NeonPunk**

Look, we were talking about what we expected, aight? Those were my first thoughts

Serial killers

**LighthouseInABottle**

Therere serial killers on here?

**MirrorImage**

and an ugly one at that.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

You know the names of serial killers, like, off the top of your head?

**LighthouseInABottle**

No wonder karmas not trying to boot me off yet. Bad enough crowd to keep company

**NeonPunk**

> and an ugly one at that.

I said that you didn't look like the ugly one, c'mon, that's kind of a compliment, isn't it?

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

I'm not sure what to thinkof the fact that you read 'ghoul' on my name and then *didn't* assume serial killer

I'm not one, to be clear

but like, I'm pretty sure that's what people assume of a ghoul

not a serial killer\*

Definitely a ghoul

**LighthouseInABottle**

Ive met good ghouls

Victims of circumstance, really

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

<:sus:>

**LighthouseInABottle**

Eating people is fine if youre not a dick about it

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

That's a take

**LighthouseInABottle**

Its *really* easy to be a dick about eating people

And Ive met people who werent, so there

**NeonPunk**

How does that work?

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

What, not being a dick about eating people?

I don't have to eat *living* people

And people, like, die without me being involved at all

**LighthouseInABottle**

See! Not being a dick about it, not killing people, not eating living ones, not going for the Innocent

Its hard to do, but its not complicated

**NeonPunk**

Ah makes sense

**LighthouseInABottle**

One ghoul guy I met could feed off riding his bike, so he did it as often as possible, even though it was never enough to really get his hunger gone

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Stealing corpses can be kinda shitty I guess but I'm pretty sure I need the body more most of the time

**NeonPunk**

Have you considered working at a cemetery?

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

My Binder's got some stuff with a morgue

Corpses sorta-kinda disappear occasionally after being put in their coffins

**LighthouseInABottle**

Glad youve got something

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Yeah, its something. Far as I know I ain't the kinda ghoul that can work off of stuff like, idk, TV, so... yeah.

**LighthouseInABottle**

Weird stuff, domains. Getting caught between, liminal

Theres like a hundred or more theories about stuff like the Bermuda Triangle and other fucky parts of the Earth, and its my understanding its usually being stuck between, domain wise. Life and Death, Known and Unknown, Lost and Found.

Because youre stuck between, it ends up mattering how you got there, because the things on either side of you are cancelling each other out

Bike guy """"""""died""""""" on his bike, so its his way to outpace death, that sorta thing

Sorry, capital D Death

Not my place to ask, I know its possibly *the* touchiest subject, but if you look at how you ended up ghoulish, you might find a trick to staying healthier

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Beaten most of the way to death by gang folks 'cause I stole their cash and my best friend fucked me over to save his own hide.

**LighthouseInABottle**

Fuck man, fuck that guy

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

🙃

**LighthouseInABottle**

If hes still alive I wouldn't mind fixing that

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Well, I'm pretty sure thats what happened anyway

Guess I might have missed something, memory around that time's kinda... hazy

**LighthouseInABottle**

Thats pretty usual, don't ~~beat yourself up~~ [deleted before sent] worry too much about it

**NeonPunk**

Do you remember stuff from before you became a posible extra for Zombieland?

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Anyway, yeah, kinda helps me stick around when I should be weak but not very good for eating things that ain't corpses

and yeah, Neon, I do.

**LighthouseInABottle**

Anything you want me to bring over from France, if I end up crossing the channel to visit?

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

uhhhhhhhh

**NeonPunk**

Uhhhhhh

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Oh you fuck off

idk

**NeonPunk**

Fuck you, I also want stuff from there

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Homesick already?

**NeonPunk**

Wouldn't you? Imagine having friends and leaving them behind after knowing then for so long

**LighthouseInABottle**

Struggling tbh

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Ugh, do we have to be serious

Fine

I've never left this city and I'd probably freak if I had to leave

so I can guess

But I can also still mock you for getting homesick

**NeonPunk**

Fuck

You

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

<:cheers:>

I could probably send you a french flag in the mail

**NeonPunk**

I don't exactly care for all of France, just Burdeaux

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

I don't like you enough to send you a bottle of wine

**LighthouseInABottle**

If I turned around and headed in a bit more inland than I like, I could visit

**NeonPunk**

I don't drink alcohol

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

idk what burdeaux does other'n wine

Not even sure they do wine, burdeaux kinda just makes me auto-think of wine

**NeonPunk**

You want some wine? I brought a few bottles from there as gifts

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

What would I do with wine?

Undead

**NeonPunk**

Not your regular kind

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

... You've got wine that'd work on a ghoul???

**NeonPunk**

I don't know exactly if you would find it tasty, but this is not regular wine

Would be fun to see what you think of it

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

I could try maybe

Didn't really drink alcohol before the whole ghoul thing, so not really a point of comparison

and what would you want for it? I can't really come to Calvarn

**NeonPunk**

🤷‍♀️

I don't know what I can get from a ghoul tbh

Just keep it and don't make it weird, I don't want anything from you rn

They're *gifts*

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

It ain't my fault practitioner shit does weird stuff with gifts, but fine, I guess

I don't suppose you'd know how to make a gift into a problem

though the wine ain't gonna kill me or fuck me over more than like a hangover or something, right?

**NeonPunk**

I don't think so? I already gifted a few to some local families so if they had died I think I would have a target on my head already

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Yeah, I'd imagine

Okay then

8 July 2021

**Vesper**

Ooh, where are you from, if I may ask? I think it was mentioned you were somewhere in France?

**NeonPunk**

Yeah, Burdeaux! Really beautiful city

There's a lot of stuff there

But not many cool animals

I miss going to the vineyards at night

That was really fun

**Vesper**

Ooh, I think I had an acquaintance from there.

Seems like a nice place.

**NeonPunk**

What did they do? Were they a practitioner?

**Vesper**

Oh, no, Innocent friend of mine.

(At least as far as I am aware.)

**NeonPunk**

Ah... I didn't knew too many innocent from there

There were the people who I went to school with but, I didn't socialize too much with others from outside

**Vesper**

Ah. Raised into the practice, I take it?

**NeonPunk**

Kinda? My parents were practitioners, and I was aware from really early on, but it took me a bit more before I became a practioner

I was away for some time and I was mostly dealing with Others and practitioners during that time... Well also some really shitty people

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

<:cheers:>

**NeonPunk**

Oh! you liked the wine I sent?

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Yeah, tasted nice

That was kinda weird really

Not used to human-type food tasting nice anymore

**NeonPunk**

Hehe it was special wine

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Yeah you said

Still kinda ???, y’know?

I’ve saved most of it

**NeonPunk**

Good, cause I don't have many bottles to send around

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

it’s nice to kinda feel humanish sometimes

feels too easy to forget occasionally

**NeonPunk**

I'm happy you liked it :)

**Vesper**

How did you manage to make it taste normal, if I may ask?

**NeonPunk**

But yeah, they were kind of special reserve for certain occasions, they're not like the rest that get shipped

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

not sure normal’s the word

But it didn’t taste like ash, hah

**NeonPunk**

... Don't ask me, I really don't know that well what goes into the making of that certain kind of wine

**Vesper**

Fair. Magic Wine, I suppose.

**NeonPunk**

Probably 🤷‍♀️

**Vesper**

Either way, cool of you to send that.

**NeonPunk**

I don't drink, but if I did that would probably be good to try

> Either way, cool of you to send that.

Eh

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

don’t worry Neon, I still think you’re kinda an asshole

**NeonPunk**

Maybe when you finish the wine you can grab the bottle and st- (The message gets cut)

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

hah

**NeonPunk**

bffjidiekfgoodskgnruxj264748wnfb7e832

Well that was weird

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

you ‘kay?

tf was that

**NeonPunk**

Probably a parental control or something

**Vesper**

.. Parental control? xD

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Your phone object’s to you telling folks to put stuff up their ass?

the hell?

**NeonPunk**

Look a lot has happened

**QuietButFriendly**

🚫 👿 🗣️

👋

**NeonPunk**

Yeah

**Vesper**

Hello Quiet.

**NeonPunk**

Hey girl :)

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

someone got in your phone to tell you to stop *swearing?*

hi kid

**QuietButFriendly**

👨‍💻 🔵 📱 🤝

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Seriously if you can’t tell me to go fuck myself then that ruins some of the fun, tf?

**NeonPunk**

Look, I don't ask you about what you keep in your phone ok?

**Vesper**

Man with laptop, circle, phone?

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

My phone ain’t telling me to stop swearing, unless you count autocorrect changing ‘fuck’ to ‘duck’ sometimes

(Seriously, why?)

**Vesper**

🤷‍♀️

**NeonPunk**

> Man with laptop, circle, phone?

I made a deal with someone, I think that's what she's trying to tell you

**Vesper**

A deal?

To.. install parental control on your phone?

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

why the fuck

**NeonPunk**

Not exactly... But I don't think its wise to reveal the deal

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

make them take it the fuck *off*

**QuietButFriendly**

🔵 🙊 👀 🌍❕

**NeonPunk**

Yeah

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

... kid, seriously? Seriously? I think that’s fucking *bullshit*

**Vesper**

... what? o.o

I have no idea what she is saying.

**NeonPunk**

I mean, I can say some stuff, just not too bad, I think if I say more simple things and not a full paragraph where I'm insulting you it could work

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul):**

*fuck* this

**NeonPunk**

But role models don't say too many insults, I guess

**QuietButFriendly**

@ShadowOnTheSkyline 📲 🔵 🛌 ❕

**NeonPunk**

I'll be honest, I don't get that one, I should sleep?

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

in what fucking universe!

That’s cute, I guess you’re happy there

think she’s saying she sleeps in your phone

*i don’t think that’s a good enough reason to turn off swearing*

**QuietButFriendly**

😁 ❕

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

like fuck *shit* bugger all

**QuietButFriendly**

👀 🎭 🌇 🍷 🐛 🏛️ ❕

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

... things you want to see? Got to see???

**NeonPunk**

Yeah, also I need to be a bit more careful with what I say with mahns around

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

are you trying to change the subject kid

**QuietButFriendly**

🐣 🏠 🔵 👩‍🦱 📱

😀

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

okayyyy I guess

**Vesper**

How exactly do you two understand what she is saying?

**QuietButFriendly**

🐶 🔵 ❤️ 😁

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

uh, guesswork? Would’ve thought you’d be better at this sorta thing maybe idk

Uh

What

What does Neon have to do with dogs?

oh that’s me

**NeonPunk**

I think she refers to you

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

shit I got confused for a sec

**NeonPunk**

Yeah

**Vesper**

Oh, right. Your profile picture.

So 🔵 is Neon?

**NeonPunk**

Yup

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

I usually think of myself as a dead thing

Well yeah, obviously

**NeonPunk**

That's honestly kinda sad

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

or undead thing I guess

what? It’s the truth

**Vesper**

Ok, I think I'm getting the hang of it?

**NeonPunk**

> what? It’s the truth

Well it's fun when I'm insulting you with it, but saying you look yourself as that makes things less funny now :/

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

then you say it

sheesh

**QuietButFriendly**

<@Vesper> 👋 🌌

**NeonPunk**

Ohhhh vesper!

I was wondering what that was

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

A galaxy for Vesper?

**Vesper**

It's a pleasure to make your acquaintance as well, if that is what you are saying?

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

huh, i’d’ve thought like, idk, a purple flower for Vesper

**NeonPunk**

A bat

**Vesper**

Ugh, please no.

**QuietButFriendly**

☀️ 🌙

🌌 ❕

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Evening schmevening

**Vesper**

Ah. Woobled my name?

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

still woulda voted for a purple flower probs

**Vesper**

Well, thank you, it is a lovely nickname.

**QuietButFriendly**

> still woulda voted for a purple flower probs

🚫 🥀 🟣 😦

**NeonPunk**

yeah I didn't found a purple flower either

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

stupid emoji thing

**NeonPunk**

You remember when the gun emoji existed?

**QuietButFriendly**

🔫 ❔

**NeonPunk**

Now if I do this 🙂🔫 it doesn't look the same

**Vesper**

Sadly, I'm not really well versed in Emoji, don't really use them much?

**NeonPunk**

No, it used to be a revolver or an actual gun

**Vesper**

Mostly stuck to IRC chats until recently.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

why would you do that to yourself

**QuietButFriendly**

🚫 🙂 🔫 🔵 😦

**NeonPunk**

Don't get me wrong I still think guns are f... Dumb, but the emoji helped when being in awkward conversations

**Vesper**

Not big on social media. 🤷‍♀️

**NeonPunk**

I won't haha don't worry

Is just to show that I don't like what's going on

**QuietButFriendly**

🚫 🙂 🔫 🔵 ❕

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

then climb a roof instead and go running or something

especially at night

**NeonPunk**

I don't use it anymore, really, don't worry! Ahhh sh..

**Vesper**

I love doing that.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

what, are they actually worried you’ll -? You’re more likely to self destruct fighting

**Vesper**

Before the whole.. everything... I used to go on a lot of bike rides or hikes at night.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

far as I can tell anyway

night time bike rides? Sounds nice

**Vesper**

Yeah, was pretty nocturnal to begin with.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

I don’t really like being on the ground myself, but

**NeonPunk**

Like exploding during a fight? I dont know about that, I'm pretty tough, I think

**Vesper**

Fair. That was before the air spirits though.

Now I could probably pull off that kind of stuff. Just can't really go out of warded areas safely until I deal with a few problems. :\

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

> Like exploding during a fight? I dont know about that, I'm pretty tough, I think

nooo, deliberately getting into fights with people you can’t handle ‘Cause it’s easier than living, that’s the sorta thing I mean

> Now I could probably pull off that kind of stuff. Just can't really go out of warded areas safely until I deal with a few problems. :\

ward rooftops

**Vesper**

I mean, I go on Sanctuary's roof quite often, I'm just getting a bit restless.

**NeonPunk**

> nooo, deliberately getting into fights with people you can’t handle ‘Cause it’s easier than living, that’s the sorta thing I mean

Oh, no, I actively try to win my fights and not die in the process, otherwise I can't get stronger

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

I’d hope so

It’s just that seems like a more likely way you’d get yourself killed than what they seemed to be suggesting

**NeonPunk**

> Now I could probably pull off that kind of stuff. Just can't really go out of warded areas safely until I deal with a few problems. :\

Problems?

**QuietButFriendly**

> Oh, no, I actively try to win my fights and not die in the process, otherwise I can't get stronger

🔵 💪 😎

**NeonPunk**

> I’d hope so It’s just that seems like a more likely way you’d get yourself killed than what they seemed to be suggesting

Ahhh

Yeah probably

**Vesper**

Eh, something is following me in reflective surfaces, I think.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

ugh, mirror monsters

**QuietButFriendly**

> Ahhh Yeah probably

🚫 💀 🔵 ❕

😠

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

jeez kid, ease up

didn’t she just say she’s not tryna die?

**NeonPunk**

> Eh, something is following me in reflective surfaces, I think.

Oh that's creepy! And cool, is it like a bloody Mary kind of other?

**Vesper**

I have no idea.

**QuietButFriendly**

😟 🪞

**NeonPunk**

> 🚫 💀 🔵 ❕

Look, I don't want that to happen but it is a possibility, I'll try to avoid that as much as I can tho

**QuietButFriendly**

🌌<:MaybeHug:>

**Vesper**

It's okay, I'm safe for now, I think.

**NeonPunk**

I would say attack your mirrors, but that probably would be bad

Is there a way you can pull it out of the mirror?

**Vesper**

*shrug*

I'll figure out something eventually.

Could just be someone scrying on me? 🤷‍♀️

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Do.

**NeonPunk**

> Could just be someone scrying on me? 🤷‍♀️

Oh that's fucking perverted

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

be annoying if you got murdered by a mirror

**Vesper**

Yeah, not planning on it.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

don’t get murdered by Mirror either actually

**Vesper**

Mirror?

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

like, don’t get murdered?

**NeonPunk**

yeah, that too\*

**Vesper**

Not intending to.

I like being alive, I'd say.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

there’s a user called Mirror, made some weird post selling faces and flaying knives

**Vesper**

Oh, them.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

fucking creepy

**Vesper**

I mostly just tend to avoid the chat when weird stuff happens.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

yelling at people can be

What’s the fancy word...

starts with a T

**Vesper**

Cathartic?

Oh. Hmm..

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

like that yeah

**MagpieNotMagpie**

Therapeutic?

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

uhh

That one!

you got it

**NeonPunk**

I like yelling sometimes

Like when I'm excited and getting into a fight

**Vesper**

I try to avoid it.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

honestly usually makes me feel kinda shit, given the stuff that makes me yell

But I sorta feel better too, so idk

**NeonPunk**

> I try to avoid it.

Why?

I find it fun

So what do you guys know about the oddfolk? Apparently I'm getting a book where I can fight some

Maybe fight some

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

uhhhh

13 July 2021

**NeonPunk**

The day was kinda quiet, wasn't it?.

Hello?

**The Glorious**

👋

Yo

**NeonPunk**

Sup ex goblin girl

**The Glorious**

Ugh, don't bring that up with me

**NeonPunk**

Sup current technomancer girl or whatever

**The Glorious**

Almost on our way to Fellward now

**NeonPunk**

Nice! I should be moving back soon

Back to Fellward I mean

**The Glorious**

You not there now?

**NeonPunk**

I stayed in sanctuary for a bit, wanted to see what the big deal with it was

It's ok, met some cool people

There weren't walking brownies, until I asked for some tho

**The Glorious**

Ah, how is it?

Me and Silver has been there once

**NeonPunk**

The beds are sooooooo comfy

**The Glorious**

Yeah, they are 😋

**NeonPunk**

Also the food is good

And cosmic bob is fucking amazing

**The Glorious**

Cosmic Bob?

**NeonPunk**

That was the name of that machine, wasn't it?

It was like an arena

For fighting

I passed out from blood loss

It's was fucking dope

**The Glorious**

Huh, me and Silver visited Sanctuary before it was even officially opened

Must've got there after we left

**massivepotential4U**

Hi guys!

**The Glorious**

Aye

**NeonPunk**

Hello books girl

**massivepotential4U**

Didn't they work great for you?

**NeonPunk**

They had their use, thanks

**The Glorious**

You got your own custom room there too?

**NeonPunk**

I didn't notice I could do that until day 2

But yeah!

I added a TV!

btw How you doing MP?

**MaybeTooMuch**

you died?

**massivepotential4U**

...did they not?

**The Glorious**

Wait, use what?

**NeonPunk**

What?

**MaybeTooMuch**

nvm read that wrong the bit about blood loss

**NeonPunk**

> you died?

Ah, idk, I hope not

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

She didn't *die.*

**massivepotential4U**

I don't remember the books ever failing me. 🤨

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

She went unconscious.

I know the difference.

**NeonPunk**

I went unconscious!

**MaybeTooMuch**

I found the arena thing to be ehhh alright

**massivepotential4U**

Anyways, sorry, I'm good.

**Vesper**

Good evening.

**massivepotential4U**

I've never been to Sanctuary, but I know my way around a training ring :)

**NeonPunk**

> I don't remember the books ever failing me. 🤨

There are some books in sanctuary, why don't you check those out?

> I've never been to Sanctuary, but I know my way around a training ring :)

Oh you fight too?

> Good evening.

Sup bat girl

**MaybeTooMuch**

training rings help a bit but what about actual combat with others?

**massivepotential4U**

Maybe I will, if I ever make it back there! And yes, my family are Blackguards, I fight sometimes.

**Vesper**

Ugh, please don't call me that lol.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

You tryna get yourself killed, MTM?

**MaybeTooMuch**

good good

> You tryna get yourself killed, MTM?

wut?

**NeonPunk**

> training rings help a bit but what about actual combat with others?

What do you mean?

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

If your main way of practice is just throw yourself at real things that want you dead, sounds pretty fucking deadly to me

**MaybeTooMuch**

> What do you mean?

kinda fighting where its messy and shitty. in random places, against a Other you just happen to find, and have no idea what its suppose to be exactly

Works for me Skyline

**NeonPunk**

Oh I kinda did that

**MaybeTooMuch**

Because those fights suck.

Awful I tell you. High chance of getting killed.

**Vesper**

Amen.

**NeonPunk**

> Awful I tell you. High chance of getting killed.

The second round I left my implement behind and tried to not use shields and I lost too much blood

**Vesper**

Or worse.

**NeonPunk**

The other girl was a mean fighter, I've gotta say that

**MaybeTooMuch**

That just sounds dumb to me Neon gal

**Vesper**

That was in Cosmic Bob's realm, right?

**NeonPunk**

Yeah

Space Bobby

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Did you know humans need blood?

kinda important

**Vesper**

I've heard good things about it.

**MaybeTooMuch**

I think most people here do. The ones who don't probably are dead

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

> The other girl was a mean fighter, I've gotta say that

Hah, tryna flatter me?

**NeonPunk**

Just giving respect, don't let it get to your head girl

**Vesper**

Been trying to keep mine on the inside lately. Some might call it unorthodox, perhaps, but it has been showing results.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Hah. Well, you sure can throw a punch when you *try,* I'll give you that.

**NeonPunk**

😁

**MaybeTooMuch**

This feels weirrd

**NeonPunk**

> This feels weirrd

I met with you know who today

**MaybeTooMuch**

whats up with the compliments? Y'all didn't have anything to say back then?

**NeonPunk**

Quiet wanted to meet her

**MaybeTooMuch**

yeah?

**Vesper**

Quiet? The emoji girl?

**NeonPunk**

Yeah, give you details later

**Vesper**

She's with you?

**NeonPunk**

Yeah and yeah

Why?

**Vesper**

How does that work? I thought she was trapped in a computer somewhere?

Just curious.

**MaybeTooMuch**

Alright then. Also I'm getting things ready Vesper, shouldn't be too long

**Vesper**

Awesome. I'm about... a third of the way there?

Found a good app for cleaning up pages.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

> whats up with the compliments? Y'all didn't have anything to say back then?

You go fuck yourself

**NeonPunk**

Eh... Something attacked, someone helped me make a bridge between where she was and my phone and she did something and now she's in here, she can go back to her dad tho, but she's with me at the moment

**Vesper**

Huh.

**MaybeTooMuch**

> You go fuck yourself

Fiesty, ain'tcha?

**Vesper**

I hope she is okay.

**NeonPunk**

What's fiesty?

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Learn to fucking *spell,* asshole

**MaybeTooMuch**

You remind me of some kids I talked to the other day

**Vesper**

Fougueuse.

**NeonPunk**

Ah

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

And where the fuck are you going with *that?*

**MaybeTooMuch**

You reminded me of some kids. What are *you* thinking? You got some weird thoughts about kids or something?

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

I ain't a child

**NeonPunk**

I don't know what's going on and I'm confused

Hey! You guys like walking brownies? I brought some with me for later, they taste horrible but they're funny

**MaybeTooMuch**

Now you see that Skyline? See how weird and sudden it is to be hit by a question that's unexpected like that?

**Vesper**

... walking brownies?

**NeonPunk**

Yeah! Not the gnomes

But chocolate brownies

**Vesper**

What do you mean by walking though?

**NeonPunk**

They have little legs

**Vesper**

...

**NeonPunk**

3 for each

**MaybeTooMuch**

weird

**Vesper**

Why on earth would you ask for that? Do you have any idea what they're made of?

**NeonPunk**

Skyline told me something like "why don't you ask for walking brownies?" So I did

**Vesper**

🤦‍♀️

**NeonPunk**

And I think they are related to a rodent

**Vesper**

So you asked Brownies... to make you animate brownies.. on purpose?

**NeonPunk**

A cuisine and rats, it's like fucking ratatouille

> So you asked Brownies... to make you animate brownies.. on purpose?

Yeah?

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

I was *joking*

**NeonPunk**

Look, I wanted to see how good those gnomes were

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

> Now you see that Skyline? See how weird and sudden it is to be hit by a question that's unexpected like that?

🖕

**MaybeTooMuch**

tbh I'm surprised they didn't feed you one of their own

**NeonPunk**

And you gave me a good idea

> tbh I'm surprised they didn't feed you one of their own

I had to be really specific with them

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

... did they TRY to feed you one of their own

**Vesper**

Yeah... Glamoured rats is probably the mildest explanation for what she was eating, I think.

**MagpieNotMagpie**

Please don’t eat Sanctuary’s brownies

**MaybeTooMuch**

> 🖕

pfft, sorry. You still *really* remind me of those kids. Even more now

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Go to hell

**NeonPunk**

> ... did they TRY to feed you one of their own

They looked around each other like wondering who needed to be sacrificed and then I realized I had to explain I wanted actual chocolate brownies

**MaybeTooMuch**

> Go to hell

planning on it

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

what

that applies to both of you, actually

What the fuck

**MaybeTooMuch**

Wanna go to the Abyss. Heard it has some good shit

**NeonPunk**

What?!

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

you want to *what?!*

Are you actually insane

motherfucker

**MaybeTooMuch**

I dunno. I haven't taken a test from a doctor for mental shit

But I don't think so.

**NeonPunk**

> motherfucker

Oh you want round 3, you zombie girl?

**MagpieNotMagpie**

I’ve been to the Abyss. Not exactly the most pleasant of places

**Vesper**

.. Yeah, I told him about the realms I'm aware of, and mentioned the Abyss in the "Do not go there" category. His first reaction was more or less asking how to get there.

**NeonPunk**

How is it?

**Vesper**

I'd advise starting with the Ruins.

**NeonPunk**

I've heard there are fun things down there

**MaybeTooMuch**

Look, I've been doing some shit for a while and it was severely irritating to learn there's places and ways to just get some good quality equipment and material that apparently is lying around

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

> Oh you want round 3, you zombie girl?

What?

**MaybeTooMuch**

And honestly I don't think it's that bad. I remember thinking some of you exaggerate things because thats what you believe

**Vesper**

It is awful.

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

Y'know what, if you get yourself fucking killed, that is NOT skin off my nose

**NeonPunk**

> What?

Idk you were calling me things and I'm almost sure I didn't start it this time

**MagpieNotMagpie**

You’re going to the Abyss... to get parts?

**Vesper**

If you are intent on going, ask Of Deep how it is like down there first.

**MaybeTooMuch**

> You’re going to the Abyss... to get parts?

I mean, among other things

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul)**

That wasn't directed at anybody except maybe Maybe! That was an expression of what the fuck?!?

**NeonPunk**

Ah

My bad

**LineTooFar**

Wait you're going to the Abyss to what?

**MaybeTooMuch**

Haven't talked with the Deep guy in some time

**MagpieNotMagpie**

I know of a few places you could procure materials from the Abyss

**ShadowOnTheSkyline (Ghoul):**

Like what the fuck??!?!??