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[windeity]

(color!)

hey sup
despite this slightly less attractive shade this is dave
i mean john is here but i am too
and as the arguably more attractive of the two of us im going first
i got more votes at prom that means its true
but anyway just mentally call up my red i know you can do it
obviously the rumors of our demise were greatly exaggerated
or like
not that exaggerated 
that definitely happened
but things are copacetic now
aside from the weird few days where i felt like a reject mascot from a kids show

what dave is TRYING to say is that hey, we're back. it looks like guren maybe sort of explained what happened (sorry guren! and okuyasu! and everyone else?) 
i think the boogeyman was defeated right? if we could get details on how it all finished that would be pretty good.
here's a fun fact for you: when you come back from the dead, you get to look all sketchy and weird. i'm not sure we even recognized each other, we were just in our house assuming we were supposed to be there.
we would have been in touch sooner but i don't think we could have been. 
it's been a couple of days though...dave probably has a more specific count.

four days total dude
two days gone two days in weirdass mode
im not gonna go into minutes and seconds thats useless to anyone not me
it was like being a coloring book only instead of waxy crayola goodness we were being filled with like
speech and not looking creepy as fuck
gotta say godtier revival is a lot neater than that bullshit
and also generally more reliable bc idk how much we can rely on the sketch bullshit
probably not dying is still an excellent course of action for anyone who prefers not being dead
you know
as per usual
in more important news two days spent puttering around banging on the piano led to a life changing decision and were starting a band
i would say a boy band but were accepting of all genders
and instruments
and like musical creeds
although imma judge you a bit for musical tastes probably but like you can still come and join and hang and jam
and john will judge you less probably
maybe
or at least hell smile goofily while he judges you so really what have you got to lose
other than free time which lbr we all have way too much of
were still arguing about band names or if an informal jam session even requires one
hint john has awful naming sensibilities and mine are amazing

ok more like the opposite of that is true! jeez.
but like he said, we are actually open to people coming over and playing at our place.
the piano is technically portable if we feel like it but i kind of don’t want to, so just let us know. thanks!
oh. is there anything else we’ve missed in the last four days? thanks again.

Comments

[messianic]

No, I've been fine.

You mean that you're not immortal even a little bit here, right?

[windeity]

yes, that part.
usually at home we can only die under very specific circumstances and i was not too anxious to test that out but it just worked out that way.

[messianic]

It seems like that's the case for everyone in their own strange ways...

[When he thinks of how Ryoji was turned to stone despite what Ryoji was--]

Some sort of weird side effect of the magic here, maybe?

[windeity]

it is possible.
the rest of my aspect is fine and i can still fly and stuff.
that seems to be the only thing that doesn't work.
but dave's timetravel does weird stuff here.
the magic here does not like certain things being messed with.
that's all i can figure out.

[messianic]

That's what I think too. Like... okay, bear with me, but what if we think about it as a fairy tale?

So like that's why Dave's time travel doesn't work. Because it would mess with the flow of the story.

[windeity]

it kind of fits the "think of this as a movie" thing so i'm following along.
it's possible though, you're right! if we are just characters in someone else's fairytale, they would be able to control what we can and cannot do here.
do you think maybe later they would give us certain things back?

[messianic]

Certain things? Like your powers and abilities, you mean?

I think it depends on how much it interferes with the "story", you know?

[windeity]

yes, those certain things. i have timeline powers too, but i do not know if they are missing. i just wonder about them.
it would be nice to know what the story is at least.

[messianic]

You won't hear any arguments from me. If we at least knew the story, maybe we could have a better idea of what we're supposed to be doing here.

[windeity]

it's probably the same as any kind of story. "once upon a time there was a guy who messed up, but in order to save everything he had to enlist a bunch of help."
or something.

[messianic]

And we're the help? I guess that makes as much sense as anything else.

Seems kind of heavy-handed though.

[windeity]

hm. you're right.
ok. if you were mr. f, what kind of story would you tell about yourself based on what we know already?

[messianic]

That's a good question. I guess I'd tell a story that made myself seem kind of sympathetic? If I was asking for help somehow, or something like that.

[windeity]

so as pathetic as possible without going overboard.
maybe the situation here isn't as bad as we've been led to believe.

[messianic]

It could be. Or it's worse, and we've only got the story as a front.

We really just don't have enough info still. It's a little frustrating, I'll admit that.

[windeity]

have you been watching the quest board? is it me or does the post itself keep changing?

[messianic]

With a couple of lines every couple of weeks? I've noticed it too. It's like we're being told a bedtime story.

[windeity]

which means we're definitely being watched...
think it's true? the story.

[messianic]

i'm not sure... There isn't enough information yet, I think. This could be a regular fairy tale, or it could be something else entirely.

[windeity]

like an autobiography?

[messianic]

It could be. If it is, then I think we should probably pay really close attention to it.

If it's not, though, wouldn't we just be on the wrong track entirely?

[windeity]

i'm not sure. there's always some truth in stories. it's just about figuring out how much there is.
i don't think we would be on the wrong track entirely, but we can always course-correct later.

[messianic]

That's a good way to look at it. Okay, I'm on board with Operation: Look at the story the way John does.

[windeity]

sweet, i've always wanted to head an operation!
we should probably write it down somewhere though in case something happens to the forum or it changes.

[messianic]

I didn't think of that either, but that's a good idea. It'd be a shame to lose any of it, in case we need it later. It'd be just like some sort of fantasy movie for the helpful hints to go away right when we need them.