#AA3333

[whichcraft]

Okay, so. I get that there's a good chance people who did this probably aren't going to want to confess to it, but sitting on information never helped anybody be a better team player so like...I'm just going to admit to it and if you did it and don't want to, that's fine.

Anyway. This is a question for people who did the quest last month about taking someone else's color. Stealing it, I guess. I did, which I realize makes me an incredibly shitty person, but apparently even the town had an opinion on it. I think, anyway.

After I did it I started having these dreams? Like nightmares. Of the person whose color I'd taken, walking away into the woods. I was chasing after them but I couldn't catch up, and they didn't hear me when I yelled for them, and then finally they just...vanished. I lost them in the woods.

So. Me and some people, we went into the woods. Because it was always the same path, in the dream. Same landmarks and everything, and I saw it over and over. And those same landmarks were actually in the woods, it turns out, ones I remembered well enough to follow in real life.

Anyway, some weird shit happened and I think...whoever used to live here, that's something that happened before. People going into the woods and disappearing. True love getting broken up and wrecked by...something or other. And not just one person. Like, a lot of people.

Point is there were really two things I was figuring on accomplishing here, which are:

1) The stuff I saw and dreamed about sounds a hell of a lot like the story that Mr. F. keeps posting to the forums every time we get a new round of quests and I don't think that's a coincidence.

2) Of the people who took someone else's color, did anybody take the color of someone designated the same color as them? I'm wondering because Mr. F's fairy tale says back in the day fraternization between different districts was a bad thing and I wonder if that includes "mixing" colors like stealing someone else's. Like, could a blue take blue with impunity, but if they took red or yellow they'd get whomped for it.

If you don't want to own up to #2, that's fine. Leave a note on the bulletin board in town and I'll check it every so often, or something. I just want to know because I think it's important.

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#EA0000

[theshowsover]

[color!]

I did. I was asked to.

The person whose color I took is also a red. But the same thing happened to me.

[whichcraft]

Huh. Okay, so there goes that theory.

You had dreams about them walking away into the woods?

[theshowsover]

Yeah. It ended with them vanishing.

[whichcraft]

How many times did you have the dream? Like, a lot, or just once?

[theshowsover]

Every night for about a week. Then my boyfriend suggested I play one of the music boxes we got as a reward. It helps you sleep.

[So who knows if it would have kept going after that.]

[whichcraft]

...Huh. So the town gave you nightmares, but a thing that the town gave you previously took them away. That's...really interesting, actually. Means there's a balance in the magic — one isn't necessarily taking precedence over the other.

[theshowsover]

[Sounds like this person knows more about magic than he does.]

Is that a good thing?

[whichcraft]

It can be? Sometimes there's different, like...hmm. Not levels, but like...priorities?

Typically when a spellcaster is more powerful, one of the results of that is that their spells will tend to take priority over another caster's spells, even if something the other caster does could theoretically counter it. So like, if I were really strong and I cast a spell to turn somebody's window into a sheet of ice, and then a less-powerful caster came along and set the house on fire, it's possible that window would stay frozen because my spell would beat out theirs, even though if they were all on the same level, the fire would probably melt the ice.

[theshowsover]

So all it really means is that the magic balanced out, or that the magic to make us have nightmares was weaker than the music boxes.

[whichcraft]

Something like that. I'm not some whoop-de-doo scholar of magic or anything, I just know some stuff about it based on experience.

Practically speaking you tend to want to get nervous anytime you come across somebody's magic that's like. Visibly stronger or more priority than anything else around it. That's usually the stuff that's bad news.

#FFF59D

[photoshooter]

so you think the town didn't like that you took someone's color?

[whichcraft]

I don't know, actually. I mean, the nightmares were bad and everything but I don't know if it was explicitly supposed to be a punishment? Or if it was just...an opportunity.

I think the town wanted to tell me something, I'm just not really sure what that is yet.

[photoshooter]

that's what i'm thinking too. because it wasn't just that quest. the same thing happened to noct and nobody took his color, this piece of ice or glass or something got stuck in him in the ice castle.

actually um i need to talk to you about that, but maybe not right here.

the point is he sounded a LOT like i did when my color was gone. like he couldn't feel stuff. it's coming too close together to be a coincidence, right?? and the one thing we know is the town WAS missing its color before we got here, and now it's getting put back in weird places.

[whichcraft]

Yeah, I think they've pretty much hammered home the theme that no color = bad, color = good. But the fact that we keep running into that thing, the part about seeing what happens when your color is gone, that's sketchy. Like maybe it's trying to show us what happened here way back when.

...I'm. Pretty sure that's what happened when I went into the woods, actually. I think I saw something about the way back when.

[photoshooter]

like

a vision.

[Prompto chews on that for a while.]

if the color stealing quest was put there on purpose so the town or mr f or whoever could show you what happened, then there must be something that we still have to do. or that it wants us to do. but we have to know what's going on first.

so as the town gets more and more color from us, it......gets closer to telling us what it really wants. putting us on the main quest instead of letting us loose on all the side ones. you know? like in video games.

video games are a lot like fairy tales, too.

[whichcraft]

Kind of a weird thought, isn't it? Like, setting us up to do shitty things because that's the only way to show us the ramifications of the shitty things.

I'm still kind of stuck on the part about how in the story about the rainbow hen guy, all the districts were really separated and color crossovers were frowned upon. But we get rewarded for it, we do the quests and it puts mixtures of our colors back. Or different people live together and their houses turn green or orange or purple. It's almost like the town did a hard reset and started over from scratch.

[photoshooter]

well having more variety is a good thing in general, right? like biologically and stuff. i think i learned that in school, it's an evolution thing. and with colors




huh.







do you think we're more like paint or like light?

[whichcraft]

The fact that there are yellows at all means it's more like paint, I think. Light's primary colors are red, blue, green. Pigment is red, blue, yellow.

[photoshooter]

i guess that'd go with the hex codes and stuff, too, like printer ink. i was just thinking....#ffffff is the hex code for white, i get that. but if it were more like light..........

well, if colors are US in some way, and mixing the colors is the aim, then wouldn't #ffffff already be the result? all the people that used to live here blended together into one. white's got all the colors of the rainbow in it, right?? so maybe they were asking for our help all along!

but i guess it can't be that easy. when our colors mix for the houses and stuff, that comes out more like paint too so you must be right. and i thought i was onto something, too! (＠´＿｀＠)

#273299

[sirnyxalot]

(Colour)

I took color from a blue. It was an accident and I stopped immediately, but the price was the same. Not my proudest moment. I didn't think of trying to follow the nightmares, though. Probably should have.

Want a hand next time you go out there?

[whichcraft]

Yeah, I think it's better to go into the woods with backup than to try it solo. It's pretty nasty out there.

Did you have any particular attachment to the person whose color you stole?

[sirnyxalot]

You can call on me whenever you need. Just give me enough time to get ready.

Have you gone to make a "wish" yet? Could be related.

That's a pretty accurate definition, yeah. I kept thinking he'd be gone when I woke up. Made it pretty hard to sleep by the end. I hate how easy it is for this place to shake me up.

[whichcraft]

I haven't, but I want to. I've got a couple of wishes I could use granted.

Anyway, what I found in the woods wasn't an encounter I'd recommend. There were some things out there, and we found them.

[sirnyxalot]

I need to head out there myself, and not even I would want to go out there alone right now.

So what I'm getting is that whatever happened before was especially bad. And we're likely on the same track?

[whichcraft]

You think we're allowed to spoil what we want to wish for? Or will that ruin it, if we spill before we're out there?

Oh, I definitely think that fairy tale guy is gonna get himself into some deep shit. I also think the town is maybe putting on a show about it, trying to tell the story of what happened to him or something. What happened to everyone.