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[zipperbent]

[hey what up. this is Bolin's face. NOW IN BEAUTIFUL 3D! up close and personal. say hi to it!]

Oh hi. This doohickey was in my pocket. I'm...not really sure how it got there! But it has a lot of buttons and I figured if I pushed enough of them, something would happen. Probably a terrible life decision but I've been known to make terrible life decisions from time to time.

[paaaaaaaaaaaaaaaauuuuuuuuuuuuuuse]

Soooooo. Here I am. Talking at weird technology. Alone. By myself. Yup! That is what I do.

[some angry tittering, and Pabu the fire ferret runs up Bolin's shoulder and shoves his nose in Bolin's ear.]

Eesh, sorry buddy, sorry! I didn't mean alone alone.

[a pause, as man and fire ferret stare at each other. then Bolin faces the camera again.]

I am lost and confused and apparently I missed a few huge details in the time it took me to travel from where I was to where I am. I might be damaged goods.

Help.

Comments

[errandry]

You can stick it on your to-do list! So, deities, curses, alternate dimensions, free rent—you get all that already?

[zipperbent]

Consider it stuck.

[aaaaaaaaaaaand the overwhelmed feeling returns, hooray.]

Deities no, curses yes, alternate dimensions.........sort of? Free rent, definitely not! Absolutely free, with no hidden catches?

[errandry]

As long as you're not secretly immortal with hundreds of years under your belt—pretty sure, yeah! And the deities run the place, but they don't come down to talk to us a whole lot.

[zipperbent]

...What if I were secretly immortal with hundreds of years under my belt?

Deities. Gods? I'm in the city of the gods?????

[errandry]

Thennnn you probably shouldn't have said that just now.

It's not a city of gods, they just hang around the place!

[zipperbent]

I'm not actually immortal. I was just curious.

--But why? Don't they have better things to do? God things?

[errandry]

I guess not...? None of 'em ever talk about anything else. Nice save, by the way.

[zipperbent]

Oh, they talk to each other where we can listen in. Oh good. That's totally normal. Gods talking. Soooo mundane.

[EXCEPT NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!]

Thanks. I try.

[errandry]

There's a lot of weird stuff here. And it's not like they act like gods a whole lot...

[zipperbent]

Soooo, no smiting. Vengefully. Vengeful smiting.

[errandry]

Nah, it's pretty much just the curses! Which're way more like status effects.

[zipperbent]

Status effects? Oh, because they screw with your mental state. And your...physical state....

[errandry]

I meant 'cause they're temporary! And once they're over you don't have to deal with 'em anymore. It's like Berserk, or Silence, or Frog...

/TAGS BACK LATE BECAUSE I CAN

[zipperbent]

What, what, and what?

/HOURS LATER

[errandry]

—oh yeah, you wouldn't know about video games, huh. Basically they kinda take over while they're around, but the effect totally fades after midnight!