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[ghostfromthemachine]

all right. so. hypothetically speaking
if a being somewhat reliant on the acknowledgement of others arrived here, the way certain types of gods or spirits are
where would be some good places for them to put an offering bowl to get attention?
I'm talking obvious, but not obnoxiously in the way or anything like that

asking for a hypothetical friend www

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[ghostfromthemachine]

[ ... ]

kidnapping would probably be for the best in this case regardless, actually
he actually passed on due to an accident a few years ago
but we got to meet again in a place kind of like this one?
so I'll always be hopeful that maybe something like that will happen again

[roundandaround]

Oh... Sorry. I really hope so, then. It sounds like you really care about him too.

[ghostfromthemachine]

I do
sorry, I didn't mean to be a downer
I'm sure we'll meet again someday, one way or another, so I'm not too fussed about it

[roundandaround]

That's a good way to think! That kinda stuff happens, after all, with people reuniting even after ages and ages.

[ghostfromthemachine]

exactly!
I've probably got all the time in the world and reincarnation exists, in the worst case scenario www

[roundandaround]

Oh, that's true, huh? Plus we come back to life here anyway. Even if dying still isn't fun or anything, nobody wants to do it.

[ghostfromthemachine]

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L M A O

please hold a moment for her response, she's gotta go into a mad cackling fit on her end ]

I can agree that dying is not a fun experience
regardless of whether you stick around afterwards or not

[roundandaround]

It doesn't look like it. But at least adventuring is fun otherwise, so it's okay! I try not to think about the scarier stuff.

[ghostfromthemachine]

is it? it's a little outside what I'm used to
I know we're encouraged to do it, but I'm not sure how to feel about it...

[roundandaround]

I didn't do a lot at first either, but there's easier and safer quests if you're just starting out! Sometimes businesses in town will even do sponsored quests as promotions, it's kinda silly. But for the actual adventuring, I think it's important. And fun, too, you get to see all kinds of stuff.

[ghostfromthemachine]

[ MMmmMMmmmmm ]

a lot of it seemed like fighting
which isn't necessarily a bad thing or anything?
I just

[ a pause ]

I have complicated feelings about fighting anything that's just trying to defend itself
even if it is doing harm

[roundandaround]

Yeah... Even if nature is my friend, it's still sad and painful a lot of the time. Everyone hunts each other to live. It's how it is, but it hurts too, so I dunno. I just do what I can to make sure we don't get hurt.

Some monsters aren't really like animals, either. There's glamour monsters, who want to steal anything beautiful so they might try to take your head or something, or other stuff that gets all Darkness-fied. Sometimes the fighting's with people, too, like corrupted fae or cultists or people like that. But I don't like killing people.

But exploring is fun, and there are some quests where no one has to get hurt at all! Like if you gotta get a Bearry's berry, you just need to be nice to them and trade them some food for it.

[ghostfromthemachine]

the thing is
in my experience, "monster" is a pretty subjective term

[ ...but maybe she doesn't want to get into that, actually. no, thinking about it, she really doesn't. ]

anyway.
gathering quests do sound pretty harmless.

[roundandaround]

Huh... I guess that's true. I mean, even "human" means different things to different people here. And there's people who'd say they're monsters, too.

Yeah! Unless they're dangerous, but the dangerous ones get marked. Sometimes something'll attack you when you're trying to get something, like there's these crows that shoot magic at you if you're out in the Autumn Segment trying to get gold because they wanna hoard it.