Ria: pester everyone.

[twintimes]

You are once again RIA POLOLANIK and you're currently pretty upset. This is because upon waking up from PROSPITIAN SHENANIGANS the Land of Rifts and Echoes has once again changed, and the cave you napped in is now completely void of beautiful sparkling and horrifyingly pointy gems.

Ria: panic.

Ria: contact everyone who is currently online.

You just went to sleep for a few minutes. It wasn't your fault, was it?

-- disjoinedCulinarian [DC] has signed on. --

DC: uhm I hope I'm not InterruptIng
DC: I just hAve one quIck questIon
DC: hAve you tAlked to MA recently??
DC: And I meAn mIsterArchImIme
DC: not methodologIcAlAnalyst
DC: just to be cleAr

Comments

[austereastronomer]

That's interesting—that's very similar to what someone I know experienced.
She actually had a block of water just sitting on the surface, apparently.
I wonder if it's still there...
I found some doors that I could swear hadn't been there before underground, too.

[twintimes]

I wonder If It hAppened to everyone lIke thAt, but I hAven't been Able to Ask everyone And mAke sure
At leAst It's defInItely not An IsolAted thIng

[austereastronomer]

I'm beginning to wonder if Phaest was quite as good with computers as she said she was...

[twintimes]

..who?

[austereastronomer]

The troll who wrote and provided the game to me and my teammates.
Although I myself wonder if she really did write the entire thing.
It seems kind of... more expansive in scope than one could create in a lifetime, let alone a handful of sweeps.

[twintimes]

mAybe thAt's why the whole thIng Is As full of hIckups As It Is..

[austereastronomer]

At this point, it would not surprise me.
I'm unsure that she knew much of what the game would be like.
Although I do imagine that playing this game to its completion, whatever that may be, is preferable to whatever would have transpired otherwise...
But if she ever turns up again I'm going to have a few words for her.

[twintimes]

unless I'm recAllIng thIs wrongly the plAnet wAs gettIng destroyed by meteors At the tIme
so I thInk beIng here Is better thAn dyIng
In the sAme wAy thAt possIble deAth Is AlwAys better thAn certAIn deAth