-- aspirantExegesist [AE] began pestering plotHooked [PH] at 10:18 --
AE: {Arethusa? Are you there?}
PH: LASJFJIFLL??!?!?!JJFDSDS:???
PH: Er
PH: Yleskrlels
PH: ????GGGlje
PH: YES
AE: {!}
AE: {What -- are you all right?!}
PH: Yes, I am here >:)
AE: {I just woke from a terrible dream. I mean, an especially terrible one.}
PH: Yes, I'm fine! And oh?
PH: Did you ... >:\
PH: ... by some mysterious chance ...
PH: ... slee?walk out of your recu?eracoon ...
PH: ... and wind up savaging your neighbors? Or something?
AE: {I do not have any neighbours. >>:( }
AE: {You were... You were hurt. It was horrible. I can't even decide if I want to talk about it! It was so dreadful and I thought talking about it would make it better but it isn't and I cannot shake this awful feeling that something wretched is going to happen very soon.}
PH: You're not ...
PH: ... actually ...
PH: ... talking about it! You're talking about talking about it.
PH: In my ex?erience, that is a very useful technique in ...
PH: ... am?lifying ...
PH: ... dread. >:)
AE: {...I am not certain I wish to know about your experience with techniques for amplifying dread in my present state of mind, but I appreciate the thought.}
PH: No, Lamia! I meant talking about talking about a thing instead of talking about a thing is the technique that am?lifies dread.
PH: ... which would meeeeeeeeeean ...
PH: ... you are ?robably am?lifying the feeling you're having. >:\
AE: {I am going to take a deep breath.}
AE: {That was somewhat calming.}
PH: Hee, Hee. Dee? breaths have been ?o?ular on Trollian lately.
AE: {Have they?}
AE: {Do tell!}
PH: Oh, yes!
PH: Are you sure you don't want to ex?and on your terrible dream?
AE: {I think perhaps it might help more if you distracted me from it? I keep feeling I am on the point of speaking of it but...}
AE: {We were on another world. It was a very bright world, so bright it hurt my eyes. There were rainbows everywhere.}
PH: Ooo, RAINBOWS! How ...
PH: ... insidious!
PH: >:) And badass, as hardly need to be said
AE: {It was terrifying. So much light.}
AE: {And then, you... Were at the bottom of a cascade.}
AE: {And I thought perhaps you were being a bit messy with some anguish-berry jelly.}
AE: {But it was your blood.}
AE: {Mixing with the water. Your pen was nowhere to be seen.}
AE: {And above you was... Someone. Someone who looked familiar in a way I could not place.}
AE: {And you were in a great deal of pain. And I ... Could do nothing. I was not really there. I was only watching, seeing it happen.}
PH: Hmm!
PH: Leaving aside the fact that my blood is NOT the color of ANGUISH-BERRY jelly ...
PH: ... what an awful way to describe it! ...
PH: ... not ?retty at all! ...
AE: {anguish-berries are delicious!}
AE: {And anguish-berry jelly is precisely the colour of your font!}
AE: {I have not actually seen your blood. I certainly hope the dream is inaccurate in ALL respects.}
PH: I don't know. It would be interesting to be in a luminous, rainbow-filled world, even if s?ending one's time in ?ain at the bottom of a cascade ...
PH: ... is ?rooooobably ...
PH: ... not what the tourist ?am?hlets should say!
PH: "Come to this ?retty, broody, dangerous ?lace!"
PH: "Bleed out while Mysterious Figures look on!"
PH: It lacks a certain alluring quality
PH: ... Necessary in vacation s?ots. Unless, I su??ose ...
PH: ... one identifies with Mysterious Figures!
PH: >:)
AE: {>>:/ }
AE: {I suppose.}
PH: >:\
AE: {Maybe you could tell me about deep breaths now?}
PH: Hee, Hee, Hee, Hee
PH: They've just been very ?o?ular!
PH: So many Trolls, trying des?erately to control themselves ... While going off the deep end, s?lashing into the waters of confusion and calamity!
PH: It seems to be an e?idemic.
AE: {Perhaps you could be more specific?}
PH: On an entirely unrelated note, I talked to that ?e? kid!
AE: {...I find myself struggling to take that note's unrelatedness seriously. Probably I am still tired. Did you? How was that?}
PH: I don't think it was necessarily a good idea to send him to me, Lamia. He's so weak it's difficult not to crush him just to see if he's a little harder than he acts.
PH: But he was ?retty cute! >:) I was hel?ful. Hee, Hee!
AE: {You mean... }
AE: {...He was so weak that you...}
AE: {...Restrained yourself? >>:?}
PH: Well, I enjoy talking about shi??ing, and he was so ...
PH: ... eager ...
PH: ... to learn ...
PH: ... that it wasn't too difficult to ignore instinct. >:)
AE: {So what you're saying is it was in fact quite a good idea to send him to you!}
PH: No?e. I'm saying I don't think it was necessarily a good idea to send him to me. I mean ...
PH: ... ?resuming, of course ...
PH: ... that you want him to stay healthy, and such. >:) He's just so ... Ahahaha.
AE: {Well, you'll note I did not send him to your hive. But point taken.}
AE: {And... Yes, I know.}
AE: {He is very "Ahahaha" indeed.}
PH: >:]
AE: {But I suspected you might see some unmoulded potential there.}
AE: {And also I know that you have been languishing of late for more acquaintances to write into your fictions.}
PH: BlahhhhhhhRRRRRHHHHH!!!!!!
PH: I?
PH: Am?
PH: Giving up on shi??ing.
PH: I am hanging my ?en u?.
PH: There will be no more fictions.
PH: No more.
PH: None.
AE: {>>':/ }
AE: {Goodness.}
AE: {What has brought this sudden resolution about?}
PH: Hee, Hee!! You believed me?????????????????????
AE: {Not for a moment. But I thought you might wish me to play along.}
PH: The doomsday armageddon a?ocaly?se could ha??en, Lamia, and I would still shi?!
AE: {If I were to actually believe such a preposterous declaration you know you would find me in rather acute distress, Arethusa!}
AE: {Your previous hornswogglery, I mean.}
PH: But it's true, ?e? will make an admirable addition to my stable of trolls to write about.
AE: {You keep them in stables? With the musclebeasts? Arethusa, that IS scandalous.}
PH: ?e?eir <3 Lamia? ?e?eir <3 Aascam? ?e?eir <> Ezreki? ?e?eir <3< Cymoth?
AE: {...}
AE: {Arethusa.}
PH: Yeeeeeeees, Lamia?
AE: {There seems to be a symbol between Pepeir's name and my own.}
PH: >:O
PH: Whaaaaaaaaaat
AE: {As your editor, I feel I must point out its inappropriateness. }
PH: REALLY?
AE: {Clearly your finger slipped.}
AE: {And there is a symbol where there ought not to be one.}
PH: I am ...
PH: ... a little bit? ...
PH: ... stunned! What symbol SHOULD be there? >: o
AE: {This one: }
AE: {Which is to say, nothingness.}
AE: {A blank space.}
AE: {A space which is blank and uncluttered with symbols.}
PH: When making a shi??ing diagram, it would be just silly to leave out symbols. >:)
PH: You certainly seem to feel strongly on this ?oint.
AE: {Further, Pepeir <> Ezreki? Really?}
PH: Hee, Hee!!!
PH: You object to that as welllllllll?
PH: Maybe you should show me YOUR shi??ing diagram, Lamia.
AE: {I suppose it would depend on whether you were planning fiction with some semblance of verisimilitude or crack!fic.}
AE: {If the latter, well, ship away. I cannot say that I will be breaking a bottle of finest grubahol against its prow, but you are the authority.}
PH: And yet no diagram!
PH: My heart, it bleeds!
PH: My soul, it sings a ?laintive melody!
PH: My bones, they burn!
AE: {Very well.}
PH: >:D
AE: {Arethusa c3< Pepeir c3< Ezreki}
AE: {Since you asked so nicely.}
PH: Hahahahahahaha! Who's su??osed to be auspisticizing in that ?articular fanshi??
PH: Also?
PH: That is less a ...
PH: ... shi??ing diagram, and more the blue?rint to a single shi?.
PH: Tsk!
AE: {You, clearly. I know your heart longs to mediate!}
PH: Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!! >:) Not TOO bad, Lamia!
PH: ... although ...
PH: ... reeeeeeeally ...
PH: ... I ...
PH: ... wonder ...
PH: ... at you not claiming that s?ot yourself. My eyes are wide with sur?rise! Since you're already trying to be so hel?ful, that is!
PH: >:) ?ity we can't just switch off. Although I su??ose we could ... Drat, too bad I killed Octavi off already ... That would have made an EXCELLENT twist in ...
PH: ... well, I su??ose I could just bring him back to life. ?erha?s with a kiss!
AE: {There is certainly literary precedent!}
PH: The most ridiculous way to bring anybody back to life! >:) And the most traditional!
AE: {I do not think I am claiming that spot, however. The thought of Ezreki finding his vaunted Kismesis in Pepeir is... }
AE: {...Arethusa I find I am suddenly quite cheered up. That is so ludicrous as to have me smiling! You have shown the foresight of a true Seer.}
PH: >:\
PH: Aus?isticizing is NOT a bum? on the road to a full-fledged Kismesis, damn it!
PH: It's not an "eliminate the Aus?istice and attain Blackrom" situation.
PH: ... And ...
PH: ... Hee, ?e?eir's fragile little s?irit would be crushed
PH: If he could read you talking about his chances like this
PH: Mind you, I think the s?irit is already ?lenty crushed, so I su??ose when I say "crushed" ... I mean, further damaged
PH: S?lintered, if you will, to an im?ossible number of fragments
PH: He looks u? to you, you know
PH: Buuuuut I am very glad you're cheered u?! >:)
AE: {First, I never implied Auspisticizing is a bump on the road to a full-fledged Kismesis! You know I share your appreciation for all the nuances held in the Ashen.}
AE: {Also I bristle at the suggestion that I shipped you in a spot only to have you ELIMINATED.}
AE: {Further, between you and me, I think Pepeir might possibly be... A bit ... Deviant?}
AE: {He only seems to want to fill his quadrants with females.}
AE: {I suppose there is nothing WRONG with that, mind you.}
AE: {It's only that it's a bit baffling. Have you noticed? It isn't just him either.}
AE: {I have begun to suspect something in the water.}
PH: Oh, Lamia. Just because his taste is s?ecialized doesn't make him any less a troll!
PH: His weak attitude might. >:) But he still has time to sha?e u?!
PH: And, oh? No, I hadn't noticed.
PH: Maybe ... Maybe the seatrolls have something to do with it.
PH: They've released some kind of s?ecial hormone control, and it's filtered into the rainclouds, and from the rainclouds, SWE?T across ALL of ALTERNIA
PH: in a torrent!
AE: {....That isn't actually all that out there. Hmm.}
AE: {Besides, who knows? Seatrolls are mysterious. It is possible that there is a cult beneath the waves of only male/female pairings in quadrants!}
PH: ... Interesting ...
PH: (*PH: Gaze, all possessive misty-eyed rapture, at Seatroll poster.*)
PH: (*Which NOONE must EVER KNOW YOU HAVE*)
PH: Ah well. If ?e?eir, or any of the other Trolls of our aquaintance, only choose to shi? themselves with the o??osite gender, that's their ?erogative. Nothing wrong with it. >:)
PH: I once knew a troll who only liked other trolls with asymmetrical horns.
PH: She refused to even consider someone with two of the same.
PH: .... So one of her would-be Flushed swains cut off one of HER horns and sent it to this troll in a box.
AE: {Ah, devotion!}
PH: Unfortunately, it was returned with a note saying, "Sorry, not asymmetrical enough."
AE: {Ooh, ill burn.}
PH: Indeed!
PH: The Flushed swain tried to fix the ?roblem, and ...
PH: ... well, now the swain is dead. Chainsaw accident.
PH: Messy.
PH: Hilarious, but messy. >:\ And somewhat unfortunate.
AE: {Indeed!}
PH: jIEFJDFOAKL!!!KS
AE: {Well... Quirks and preferences are one thing. They may help guide us to our OTPs, even. But... To bias oneself against half the population of Alternia? Surely that limits one's -- }
AE: {Oh dear.}
PH: AJOIERO!NOO!N@@!JDAM?@?!?!JL!
AE: {Time to go?}
PH: ARGH.
PH: No, continue.
AE: {What is happening?}
PH: It's nothing of great moment!
AE: {Your typing begs to differ~!}
PH: My ty?ing never begs!
AE: {Very well.}
AE: {Actually, I should go. I feel the need for some tea. Are you quite certain you're all right?}
PH: Erm.
PH: Hold on, let me just make SURE there are no rainbows about, bathing Mysterious Familiar Strangers in color and light!
PH: Ye?, all looks as usual here.
PH: >:) I do a??reciate the concern! Thelreklejwlree
PH: DAMN IT
PH: E?W?E??????
PH: The keyboard is fine, too
PH: >:) Have a good day, Lamia!!!!!
AE: {...Good day.}
-- aspirantExegesist [AE] ceased pestering plotHooked [PH] at 11:55 --
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