Kaprao: Recruit some more players.

[flowerwhisperer]

So you have recently learnt that your half your session somehow went and died one way or another and you are all POSSIBLY REALLY BONED now. For some reason a part of you isn't really surprised that it's come down to this, but then again you are already used to bad things happening.

But that is besides the point! You are going to go and try RECRUITING NEW PLAYERS and hopefully avert everyone dying horribly. You have some people in mind, which is to say there are people you'd really rather not die from meteors because they don't deserve it. You just have to...figure out how to explain that it's either a potentially really dangerous game or imminent death by meteor.

Damn.

PS: urm
PS: he||o

Clearly you will not be interrupted in your efforts.

Comments

[flowerwhisperer]

urm
my forest was set on fire and everything hurt for a whi|e
but i am okay

You are personally more relieved that she isn't dead yet oh thank god.

[elaphaea]

( but you are...recovered now? )
( thank goodness. )
( is...your forest still burning, though? your poor lusus... )

[flowerwhisperer]

urm
it is a|ready burnt
and
urm
he's
gone

[elaphaea]

( what!? )
( oh no... kaprao... i'm so sorry... he was always such a gorgeous lusus, too... )
( should i come over to your forest? )
( i don't know how quickly i can get there... the fire makes it sort of difficult to travel... )
( but i don't want you to be alone! )

[flowerwhisperer]

urm
that wou|d be
kind of
difficu|t right now
urm
wou|d you hear me out?
and maybe be wi||ing to suspend some disbe|ief

[elaphaea]

( well, i mean... yes i suppose it would be rather difficult... what with the fire and the meteors... )
( and yes, of course i'll hear you out... )
( is there something else going on? )

[flowerwhisperer]

what if i to|d you i am a part of a group
p|aying a game designed specfica||y to escape the meteors
which apparent|y entai|s having my hive transported to
uh
another dimension
i don't know how it's possib|e but it is it seems
and right now
ha|f of the orgina| group is dead or otherwise gone
and now i'm here trying to recruit more peop|e to save from meteors and to a|so try and ensure the surviva| of the remaining members

[elaphaea]

( ...what. )

( i'm sorry, that was very rude of me! )
( but... that is... sort of a lot to take in... )
( are you being serious right now? i mean... it is unlike you to tease... but i'm not really certain if you are just speculating or fantasizing... )
( ...or if this is something that is actually happening. )
( or at least... that you believe is actually happening... )

[flowerwhisperer]

i am
very serious
and i have no sense of humor anyway
as ridicu|ous as it sounds and i cannot be|ieve i tried to exp|ain that
urm
if you know austereAstronomer or artfu|Transgressor they can confirm this

[elaphaea]

( okay, i am going to try to believe you... )
( especially since this is so important to you... and you say that others' survival depends on it... )
( i don't really know AT but i have spoken to AA from time to time... and it is true that she seems extremely trustworthy... )
( but all of this... a game? )
( how on alternia did you ever find out about something like this in the first place? i don't know that it ever would have occurred to me that a game could stop a meteor... )

[flowerwhisperer]

to be honest i'm not sure how this is even possib|e
my former moirai| started having visions of the meteors
and managed to persuade a friend into |ooking for a way to escape them
somehow her answer was to program this game
and it works
apparent|y?
and i somehow got invited

[elaphaea]

( wait... kaprao... your "former" moirail? )
( why didn't you ever tell me about this? i... i'm really sorry to hear about it... )
( are... are they still around... or did they... die? )

[flowerwhisperer]

urm
it was kind of
recent
and i had a lot of things to worry about besides
he's
gone

[elaphaea]

( oh ... oh gosh i am so sorry... that's really awful... )
( i guess... well, with everything that's happening now... a lot of trolls are going to die, aren't they... )
( probably me too... )
( i mean... unless... i guess, unless this thing you're telling me about works... )

( i'm sorry, i should be comforting you... believe me when i say i know how painful the loss of a quadrant can be, like a whole part of yourself... )
( my mind is just so scattered right now; i don't know how to handle all of this at once. )

[callouslystalwart]

One of ~my~ guildmates recently reported blacking out during a scouting run... ~~CS
Of course, ~I~ know there is absolutely no way whatsoever that you have anything to do with that! ~~CS
~I~ simply thought that you might be interested since it happened near your "territory". ~~CS

[elaphaea]

( why yes... that IS very interesting... )
( i can't think of any reason why i might want to harm one of your guild mates... )
( it isn't as though they regularly destroy perfectly valuable fauna specimens in their endless quest to... what is the term... level up. )

[callouslystalwart]

Valuable? ~~CS
You almost sound like one of ~us~ when you put it like that... ~~CS
Valuable in what way? ~~CS

[elaphaea]

Yours is the most long-suffering of sighs.

( i would really prefer that you did not make such comparisons... )
( but if you really must know... most of the wildlife that you and your... comrades... consider as training fodder is in fact extremely important to my research. )
( which, i might add, i can hardly conduct if you keep on... killing them. )

[callouslystalwart]

Ah yes... ~~CS
Your "research". ~~CS
Did ~I~ interrupt your "research" just now? ~~CS

[elaphaea]

( ...well, ah, not at the moment, admittedly. )

Possibly you should learn to be slightly less honest.

( as a matter of fact, however... i am currently in the middle of a rather important conversation. )
( so i really do not have time for this, perrix. )

[callouslystalwart]

...And suddenly you're too important for ~me~? ~~CS
~I'd~ be hurt if you were, you know, actually important. ~~CS
~I'll~ admit that ~I~ am still curious, though. ~~CS

[elaphaea]

( much as it may be difficult for you to get through your dense thinkpan... i do sometimes speak with other trolls... )
( and otherwise pursue activities that don't involve chasing you and your... fellow FLARPers... out of my forest. )

You should probably just stop chatting with him or block him or something, but it's just a little too hard to pass up the opportunity to taunt him right back.

( and... for your information, i am currently trying to determine if there is a way to NOT get crushed to death by meteors... )
( if i survive this and you don't... would that make me more important than you? )

Possibly you should also learn to have a little more self-control.

[callouslystalwart]

Meteors? ~~CS

You, uh. Haven't been outside of your HIVE yet today. Considering that it is literally an UNDERGROUND LABYRINTH, you have no idea that meteors are a thing.

Normally you'd be a bit more dismissive, but you don't think you've ever actually known Pherae to lie. Besides, meteors would be way too stupid of an excuse to make up just to get away from someone who would most definitely make fun of you for such an outlandish claim.

Is that why ~I~ can't seem to get a hold of anyone? ~~CS

troll insults, idek

[elaphaea]

...seriously.

( honestly, perrix, you... )
( you...really don't know what i'm talking about? )
( there are meteors falling from the sky... burning up the planet and killing... a lot of trolls... )
( parts of my forest are on fire... and i know a troll whose lusus was killed... )



( HOW CAN YOU BE SUCH A GRUBSUCKLING THICKPAN? )

[callouslystalwart]

There's that fire ~I~ like! ~~CS
Honestly, though, Elapha, you could find ~me~ to blame for anything. ~~CS
~I'm~ a villain for not having a meteor fall on or nearby ~me~ yet? ~~CS
~We~ don't all live in the wilds. ~~CS

Wait, wait... Much as jabs about standards of living are TOTALLY NECESSARY, there are actually some more important things going on right now. You've been MULTITASKING by doing some research in another window and yeah, meteors are totally a thing. Totally a thing that's totally going to kill you.

So what exactly are you and a mysterious third party doing about these meteors? ~~CS