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#FF8080 (backdated to before the event)

so there's this ~~hag~~ old granny in the forest. the last time i met her she asked us riddles and if we answered it correctly we'd get to ask one question. and if we got it wrong we got punished. which is unfair. i know riddles are normal for fairytales but some of us are just really bad at riddles!

anyway. lan wangji and i went into the forest a couple of days ago to see if we could find her again. since it seems like if we focus on something we can usually find it.

and we did find her! and she answered one question from each of us and wouldn't answer anymore like a real cheapskate.

but according to her, mr. f is the town, which honestly makes that whole 'clean up the town' quest we got in the beginning really, really weird.

but also, those pages we've been getting? apparently, the people who have those pages in the book get to go home in the end. which also brings up some new questions but it also makes me feel like i deserve a refund for that stupid mirror i got from the wish quest. since if those people's pages weren't in the book then the mirror had been lying!

[And she doesn't want to think about the implications of that...where did those people go?]

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[ still tear-blue ]

I don't even have a page!

[That he knows of.]

Edited 2019-08-22 03:15 (UTC)

maybe you can get it from a quest?

or maybe you can write your own?

[She's actually concerned though. She doesn't want anyone to be stuck here!]

When I tried to write too much in the book, it just disappeared.

maybe you need to write something shorter?

The one I saw had all kinds of info about the guy! It was like a profile page.

Edited 2019-08-23 03:42 (UTC)

summarize! only stick to the most important stuff! if you need more than 10 words to talk about yourself then you've already failed!

What am I supposed to say in less than 10 words?

This is Keigo. He is cool.

not a bad start.

and you still have four more words!

Please send him home.

having the page in the book already means you'll get to go home though! don't waste four words on that!

I don't know what else to say! What would you write?

hm...

he'll get laid someday?

You're a genius!

ikr?

i'm the best!

Wait a minute.

Why did you say someday and not soon?

Someday could be in 50 years!

or 100!

[Why is she like this.]

I won't be alive that long!

75 then?

I'll be alive but I won't want sex anymore!

don't worry. guys are horndogs until they day they die.

but if you're really worried it can be 60 year instead.

I'm going to write "soon"!

'soon' is also relative, you know. to an immortal, 'soon' might be 1000 years later.

That's just the kind of thing the town would do! Soon when you think about the entire life of the universe.

I don't care! I'm trying it anyway! I don't have enough words to be more specific.

[You could have written 'today' or 'tomorrow'. But Kaoru doesn't think that'd be realistic, so...]

good luck. remember to use protection.

[ Color. ]

This is Lan Wangji. The pages were a reward for completing quest 60, which was to cut down a tree from the Wood. It seems that either way one looks at the information we have been given, it is incomplete or some of it is incorrect. We have no way to know which part is incorrect. It would be a good thing to not discard either hopes or facts.

i wonder how many people completed that one...?

it's just frustrating. this whole time we thought at least the people who were gone were safe. but now that might not be true.

and i don't even know what this means for people who went home then came back...

I do not know. Perhaps not all who completed reported it. You know better than most if returning was likely real or not. The rest, chances are one or both of the sources of information is incorrect, incomplete, or not fully understood. Another riddle.

it...felt real. but it's not like powers like that don't exist. I'm supposed to have stronger resistance to abilities like hypno, but if it's magic then it's hard to say.

i hate riddles! [She's already complained about it but it's worth complaining again!] i'll just leave it to the smarter people to deal with it. i'm the muscle, not the brains.

Do you hate riddles because something unpleasant happened when you got them wrong, or because they are like a test?

both?

honestly, tests are the worst. but being punished because i'm not smart enough to answer a riddle is also terrible.

Congratulations to those who have pages and get to go home, if that woman is to be believed. Did she mention anything else? What did she say to you the first time you found her?

Anyway, I'm still not convinced there isn't another way to return home. The lake in Flavo shows visions of our homeworlds, there's shells of people who wear clothes from our homeworlds, and some have returned. I think we're still missing a piece.

well, the first time, she told us that the reason the town lost colour was because everyone forgot something. and shiho, izuku-kun and i found out later that that something was love.

but she pretty much only answered our questions and didn't add anything else.

and she didn't say this, but unlike the other creatures in the forest she didn't just appear there. she's a being made of magic and she's been there for a very long time.

according to shiho anyway. and she's been an apprentice to an 'old lady living in little cottages in the middle of a forest' specialist.

we're definitely missing something. but...i'm not so sure about the lake in flavo. it's noy only showing my homeworld. it also seems to be showing a future that should already be changed.

[it had freaked her out to see it, but the more she thinks about it...and having gone back recently, she feels like it's...not possible for that terrible future to still happen.]

Love??? Are you kidding me? That's some grade-A bullshit.

[ How the hell was that forgotten by-- hell, even the previous residents? The guy went out into the woods because of love to find the hen! Mythra feels like chucking a chair out her window. ]

It's showed only flashes of my own world, although it seemed to be things from the present. As far as I know, it hasn't shown anything of this world. I even tried throwing some of that ice into the cauldron for the sorcerer stone's quest a few months back; nothing happened.

right?? but it fits, doesn't it? in a weird, sappy sort of way.

i saw a lot of the past. but also there was this prediction where i'm from that's been changed but i've seen it there too. or, i think it is? i've never seen the prediction myself.

but it's true that i've never seen anything from here in there before...how does that ice work anyway?

Okay first of all, if love is the answer then what kind of love? Because there is plenty of friendship and bonds and shit. Archer throws around the word "love" like it's confetti. I'm also sure that he will absolutely love anyone who pays attention to him for more than fifteen seconds.

[ BAM, roasted. ]

I don't know how the ice works, but it's served a nice purpose for checking in on our homeworlds. I know mine is still alive and kicking. [ Probably not for long, tho'. ]

he is pretty easy, isn't he?

definitely romantic love, and friendship. i did go in with big bro caramia but it's hard to say if that's familial love or deep friendship...

in the end, i think any kind of love probably counts.

it is useful for that.

is there reason to think your world isn't alive and kicking?

Love was reason the young man went into the forest to find that hen, too, which might have started all of this mess to begin with. Maybe this place is waiting for some big romantic display to restore all the color in the world too, or something like that.

[ Damn just typing that out makes it sound so... so corny to her. But if some big romantic display is actually the key, then there's nothing either Pyra or Mythra can help on that front. ]

Things are pretty bad in my world, but it's still persisting. [ That's all she's going to say about that. ]

but then he lost his feelings, right? to the point where he didn't care about anyone. is that because he forgot how to love others?

what kind of big romantic display? i feel like, if all kinds of love apply, then there have been a lot of those already. just not like, ridiculously big ones like having the entire town work together to put on a musical number to propose marriage.

[Or something.]

i see. i'm glad it's still persisting. i hope things get better for your world.

Something along the lines of a finding that hen, apparently. You know, like quests in fairy tales that this town seems to be so fond of. [ REALLY SHE.... doesn't know what to suggest. ]

Speaking of, that hen story is ridiculous. The guy was an idiot, basically putting a spell over the guy he loved. That ain't right. Maybe the hen or the forest cursed him for forcing someone to love him back. If anything was "forgotten" way back then, it wasn't love, it was common decency.

[ As someone who had been spellbound by the flowers into thinking she loved another... waking up had been hell. Fuck that shit. ]

since this all began because of that hen it wouldn't surprise me.

ISN'T IT THOUGH? like, it's one thing to impress your love by getting a magical chicken. i can't blame a guy for trying to impress. but a magical chicken that makes someone love him? that's awful.

and let's talk about that friend of his! what's with telling him about that legend as a way to help? couldn't she have suggested something else? like small thoughtful gifts? maybe writing a poem? a song???

the more i think about it, the more messed up this story becomes. maybe we shouldn't even bother finding that hen.

we should. just to return it to the forest and let it know that not everyone is like that.

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