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[presgarddihellis]

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[tailsofwoe]

And does this one have a name?

[presgarddihellis]

It did. It currently doesn't.

I spent some time as a wandering magician like this.

[tailsofwoe]

Going to show me a trick?

[presgarddihellis]

If you'd like. After we discuss business, of course.

[tailsofwoe]

Mm, of course.

On that note, what exactly happened? All I've heard about it so far is that you "found things in common."

[presgarddihellis]

Well, that is more or less what it was. It was an icebreaker challenge of "find out what the people you're sitting with at this table have in common". We had to name up to five different things and if we managed to find the thing that we had in common, according to them, we'd get the full extra points and thus win.

It's a little difficult to sit at a table with similarly minded people.

[tailsofwoe]

Let me guess: by "similarly minded," you mean "similarly secretive"?

[presgarddihellis]

A bit like this table.

[tailsofwoe]

[ Huffs. Touché. ]

At least this one isn't being graded with our memories at stake.

[presgarddihellis]

True. And I feel as though, for the sake of not losing memories, you would be more cooperative about some of our commonalities.

I admit, I was being overly playful for the situation and one was a bit resistant to one of the suspected similarities.

[tailsofwoe]

[ Sighs. ]

From the way you're talking about it, I assume you didn't win.

... What was the similarity?

[presgarddihellis]

I haven't an idea what our host thought it was.

But I strongly suspected none of us were human. But I was being frivolous and made the claim that we were all human. Mr. Warden was a good sport about it, but he also said he didn't want to submit anything that could be a lie since it may have resulted in other consequences.

So we opted for something else like "we all are mistaken for something we are not".

[tailsofwoe]

When you make it that broad, it feels like it could apply to almost anything.

[presgarddihellis]

Which is likely the reason that person agreed to it.

I was actually more surprised he agreed to "we have all taken a life".

[tailsofwoe]

[ A slight eyebrow raise. ]

Yes, that does feel like it tells me something about the priorities of the people at your table.

[presgarddihellis]

Doesn't it?

Miss Eowyn was with one of the winning groups, so she received the extra coin and flashlight. I believe people will be testing those out in short order.

[tailsofwoe]

Mm, good to see everyone being proactive. I'll have to check in with her at some point as well.

You mentioned something about an interruption at the start?

[presgarddihellis]

Ah, yes. Right.

A Miss Pewter was introducing the event when a Miss Halogen drop kicked her out of the way and led it instead.

[tailsofwoe]

Oh dear. In-fighting? That could potentially work to our advantage.

[presgarddihellis]

Hm. Potentially.

They're still not the real problem, however. Merely the intermediaries. Much like the girl Constance who keeps getting dropped through portals, though I think she's much newer to the whole thing.

[tailsofwoe]

Intermediaries, yes, but intermediaries who theoretically have direct access to the problem. The same could be said of Constance with the Paragons.

[presgarddihellis]

It's a bit strange... those two had names.

But Constance claimed to not remember a name. I was the one who offered her one.

[tailsofwoe]

Mm, that part makes sense enough to me. The way she tells it, Constance was on the player side, like us—whereas the other two were essentially GMs, right? What's stranger is why a player would be kept around past their cycle at all.

[presgarddihellis]

To become a GM.

Serve the Evocated and regain what you have lost or maybe even come into your own power.

If you've lost so much that you can't even remember that you, too, were the player once, then there is only forward on that track.

[tailsofwoe]

... Do you believe that's the truth behind the Paragons themselves?