[ Please check out Maya's shield. There's so much weariness and irritation as he talks about this part. ]
Sure. We wandered around some plains and found a man under a tree—he ended up having lost his mind because of his lover that left him. This wouldn't be such an issue if he wasn't so strong? He uprooted a twenty foot tree and threw it at us like a javelin.
...sure. Okay. [why the fuck not.] I'm not gonna ask why but also that sounds like he's just asking for splinters in really uncomfortable places. So okay. You ran into a crazy guy who threw a tree. Did you actually get hit with it or were you guys able to dodge?
His cousin, Astolfo, appeared and saved us and we flew on his hippogriff? Said something about how we needed to get Roland's—the naked guy—wits back before everyone suffers. Met a Saint that knew where it was, but told us we needed to do trials to prove ourselves.
These trials had people from home or campus in them.
... I did. I can maybe guess the person for the other three. We didn't have a lot of time to talk about it.
[ Based on their wounds and all? Only some, though. There's some relief that desperately tries to cloud something else. ]
Fortunately, I think they passed without having to kill them. Illusions or not... They felt very real and being forced to take a life of a friend will always be—heinous.
[dw didn't want me to have an answer, and taichi's also not sure he likes this answer because. haha! nier says something about taking the life of a friend and something in taichi's emotions flickers to...something a little like grief and something a little like anger and like exhaustion before it settles on curious and quiet.]
That's the thing about good illusions. They always feel real enough to make you the weakest. [it's bad.] But...you got past them. All of you. Was it any better after that?
[ wow ty losing my tags. Anyway, don't worry, Taichi! The other three didn't need to kill their illusions, maybe. ]
Mm... We were told that this guy's wits was on the moon, so we took a flaming chariot to a palace that was there. It was very pretty, but it was littered with. [ How does he say this. ] Lost items.
I think it showed us people we've lost, too. In a pile, I was lured in by a ribbon that looked like my sister's and I heard her voice—I saw her—then I realized a metal spike pierced my shoulder.
The spacesuits are to go to the moon, that's correct. [ Though... Nier doesn't know what space is really? Or what happens when you go there without a suit. ] My sister's ribbon was tied to the spire.
I believe at this point several items called to each one of us while what we were looking for was at the very top. I think Leo was the one resisting and climbing up to it, then Maya resisted and helped me.
[ Hence her wound. ]
... Tsuyukusa—the paladin that we were helping saved him. We eventually did get the wits and it ends like some kind of fairytale. Our reward was this.
[ Shows him this fucking paper. The half circle is cut out, by the way. Nier is pissed because WHAT IS THIS!!!!!!!!!! ]
[ Like wow. Sometimes you are just two seconds away from dying. ]
It's a shape. [ YEAH. ] Possibly. I do plan to talk to them tomorrow when I get the time... I'm not sure if we'll get to talk about it much with what waits for us ahead.
Maybe after the weekend then. I think it's important we figure out what we're working with, but I also don't think it's wrong for us to have other priorities to worry about right away.
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[ Nier...
Nier doesn't know.
He stopped trying to understand. ]
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...on horses? [hm.] Wanna tell me a little about it?
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[ Please check out Maya's shield. There's so much weariness and irritation as he talks about this part. ]
Sure. We wandered around some plains and found a man under a tree—he ended up having lost his mind because of his lover that left him. This wouldn't be such an issue if he wasn't so strong? He uprooted a twenty foot tree and threw it at us like a javelin.
... He was also naked.
[ Nier says this like it's offensive. ]
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[ So... Anyway. ]
His cousin, Astolfo, appeared and saved us and we flew on his hippogriff? Said something about how we needed to get Roland's—the naked guy—wits back before everyone suffers. Met a Saint that knew where it was, but told us we needed to do trials to prove ourselves.
These trials had people from home or campus in them.
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Should've been someone else's job, but whatever. There's always trials. [frowning!!]
...what kind of trials did you guys have? Were people held hostage for you, too?
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[ Nier doesn't like them, either. It spurs rage before it settles into mild irritation. ]
We were forced to fight them.
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Did you have to fight Kainé? [nier was in kaine's pod during their adventure, so he thinks it would make sense if it was reversed.]
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[ Based on their wounds and all? Only some, though. There's some relief that desperately tries to cloud something else. ]
Fortunately, I think they passed without having to kill them. Illusions or not... They felt very real and being forced to take a life of a friend will always be—heinous.
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That's the thing about good illusions. They always feel real enough to make you the weakest. [it's bad.] But...you got past them. All of you. Was it any better after that?
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Mm... We were told that this guy's wits was on the moon, so we took a flaming chariot to a palace that was there. It was very pretty, but it was littered with. [ How does he say this. ] Lost items.
I think it showed us people we've lost, too. In a pile, I was lured in by a ribbon that looked like my sister's and I heard her voice—I saw her—then I realized a metal spike pierced my shoulder.
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So it was a place to distract you enough to hurt you. Did you see where the spike came from? Were the spacesuits because of the moon?
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[ So yeah, Taichi. You can use the imagination. ]
The spacesuits are to go to the moon, that's correct. [ Though... Nier doesn't know what space is really? Or what happens when you go there without a suit. ] My sister's ribbon was tied to the spire.
It seemed innocuous.
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[ Hence her wound. ]
... Tsuyukusa—the paladin that we were helping saved him. We eventually did get the wits and it ends like some kind of fairytale. Our reward was this.
[ Shows him this fucking paper. The half circle is cut out, by the way. Nier is pissed because WHAT IS THIS!!!!!!!!!! ]
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What the fuck is this. [YEAH.] The other group that was gone might have the other half. We should check with them later.
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[ Like wow. Sometimes you are just two seconds away from dying. ]
It's a shape. [ YEAH. ] Possibly. I do plan to talk to them tomorrow when I get the time... I'm not sure if we'll get to talk about it much with what waits for us ahead.
[ homophobic trial. ]
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Maybe after the weekend then. I think it's important we figure out what we're working with, but I also don't think it's wrong for us to have other priorities to worry about right away.
[homophobia...]
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... I'm not looking forward to it. [ Weariness. ] Thank you for checking on me, Taichi.
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...sure. I'll check in with you again another time. Or at least I'll let you know if I learn anything new.