UNTITLED SMP
UNTITLED SMP
Characters present: Joco, Cinder, Pyrite, Finch
Date: 12/3/23
Season: 3
[18:13:06] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Yeah. Not sure what change I expected.
[Joco, Finch, and Cinder stand around the Void hole near Joco’s home. They peer down into the blackness of the void below, as well as checking around for any change in the surrounding area.]
[18:13:32] <✦[rp] Cinder> Really? You're sure nothing else has changed?
[18:13:22] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> I'm pretty sure the number of bugs living down here has increased, somehow
[18:13:32] <✦[rp] Finch> Well! thats a good thing maybe. at least
[18:13:34] <✦[rp] Finch> uhm
[18:13:42] <✦[rp] Finch> maybe its just.. taking a little bit?
[18:13:54] <✦[rp] Cinder> Finch, you said the plants should have helped
[18:14:03] <✦[rp] Finch> yes i did!! it loved plants
[18:13:59] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Finch you recall that. Last world, before it took, it infected.
[18:14:05] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Literally nothing has been infected.
[18:14:08] <✦[rp] Finch> well uh
[18:14:10] <✦[rp] Finch> hm.
[18:14:13] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> We don't actually know if it liked the plants
[18:14:29] <✦[rp] Cinder> It's the void. Honestly, I don't think it likes anything
[18:14:36] <✦[rp] Cinder> I dont think it can 'like'
[18:14:21] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> it seemed to grow regardless of feeding.
[18:14:30] <✦[rp] Finch> it always seemed to go for the plants first..
[18:14:43] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Because they were hanging into the vast crevice
[18:14:52] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Of course it ate the closest, most fragile stuff first
[18:15:08] <✦[rp] Finch> well. uh..
[18:15:13] <✦[rp] Cinder> So what now then, huh? This isn't working. Evidently
[18:15:24] <✦[rp] Cinder> we can't just sit around and wait, right?
[Finch’s ears flick straight up.]
[18:15:24] <✦[rp] Finch> oh! i know i know!
[18:15:27] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Oh?
[18:15:34] <✦[rp] Finch> I have an idea. well. i was given an idea really uh
[18:15:42] <✦[rp] Cinder> given?
[18:15:48] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Please share
[18:15:56] <✦[rp] Finch> i was trying to.. save this idea incase this didn't work out.. considering where we'd need to go to get them but
[18:16:14] <✦[rp] Finch> someone in malfaction has a couple items brought over from the last world
[18:16:25] <✦[rp] Cinder> What kind of items?
[18:16:26] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Oh
[18:16:49] <✦[rp] Finch> flowers! the void loved flowers. something it'd give them to people! like me! i got some.. i didn't uh. bring any. i don't think ollie would've allowed it
[18:17:06] <✦[rp] Cinder> it would.. give them to people?
[18:17:09] <✦[rp] Cinder> how does that even work
[Joco whips towards Finch.]
[18:17:01] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Someone brought void flowers??
[18:17:06] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> From the other world?????
[18:17:12] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> The. Infection flowers???
[18:17:25] <✦[rp] Finch> yeah!
[18:17:28] <✦[rp] Cinder> im sorry, infection flowers?
[Joco shakes their head, turning to address Cinder.]
[18:17:30] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> It caused them to sprout in front of folks. Wither roses.
[18:17:34] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> They. Hurt, to touch.
[18:17:39] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> They attacked people with wither roses.
[18:17:48] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> The Void did.
[18:17:49] <✦[rp] Finch> i put them in flower pots!
[18:18:00] <✦[rp] Cinder> how would someone bring them, then? If they hurt you?
[18:18:06] <✦[rp] Finch> i dunno!
[18:18:15] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> They don't hurt once itemized
[18:18:38] <✦[rp] Finch> either way! it's the best shot we have right now of getting this whole thing going
[18:18:47] <✦[rp] Cinder> so someone has something from your last world, the one with the void end. Something that came FROM the void?
[18:18:55] <✦[rp] Finch> yes!
[18:19:07] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> So we could maybe use it as a seed.
[18:19:09] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Huh
[18:19:17] <✦[rp] Cinder> Why didn't you bring this up earlier, finch?
[18:19:18] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> And why didn't you. Share this immediately??
[18:19:25] <✦[rp] Finch> well. its in malfaction
[18:19:26] <✦[rp] Finch> and you know
[Finch pauses.]
[18:19:37] <✦[rp] Finch> i really didn't want to go there
[18:19:43] <✦[rp] Finch> for obvious reasons
[18:20:02] <✦[rp] Cinder> Malfaction isnt entirely dangerous. You know, not in and of itself. We would be fine
[18:20:10] <✦[rp] Cinder> and if you dont want to go, someone else could
[18:19:56] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Who has it, Finch
[18:20:09] <✦[rp] Finch> either way the person with these is uh... pyrite i think? something like that for a name
[18:20:28] <✦[rp] Cinder> pyrite. Im not sure im familiar?
[18:20:30] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Pyrite.... the flytrap from the wedding?
[18:20:40] <✦[rp] Finch> i think?
[18:20:49] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Huh
[18:20:56] <✦[rp] Cinder> flytrap? Like the plant or are we being metaphorical
[18:21:02] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Their head was a flytrap
[18:21:10] <✦[rp] Cinder> huh, fascinating
[18:21:13] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> I'm pretty sure that's not. What they always look like? Maybe?
[18:21:20] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> No idea!
[18:21:22] <✦[rp] Finch> either way if we're going im going. i wana see these things myself. plus.. don't want you two tracking back something here that'd be bad for everyone. that's why i'm going with you!
[18:21:24] <✦[rp] Finch> to make sure you dont!
[18:21:25] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> We're visiting them, Finch.
[18:21:47] <✦[rp] Cinder> I think we can take care of ourselves, Finch. But we'd be glad to have you along
[18:21:34] <✦[rp] Finch> can never be too careful
[18:21:56] <✦[rp] Cinder> I admit ive not really gone into malfaction much
[18:22:06] <✦[rp] Finch> that's probably for the better, cinder
[18:22:03] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> I've been there a bit.
[18:22:10] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Quite dark.
[18:22:13] <✦[rp] Finch> and cold
[18:22:16] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> And then you surface, and it's too bright.
[18:22:18] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Snowy.
[18:22:25] <✦[rp] Finch> and it has prince in it which is just bad news
[18:22:39] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Hm
[18:22:46] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> I don't visit because it hurts my eyes.
[18:22:31] <✦[rp] Cinder> I don't like it there. Reminds me of... An old place. Not a fan
[18:23:05] <✦[rp] Cinder> but I'll go now, obviously. If you guys are doing something to do with the void, I need to be involved
[18:23:07] <✦[rp] Finch> either way we're going to have to go there if we want to find pyrite
[18:23:08] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> We'll have to take baths after we visit.
[18:23:16] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> I do lava baths, usually
[18:23:21] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Especially after going to the place
[18:23:47] <✦[rp] Cinder> With fire resistance involved, I hope
[18:23:49] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Nah
[18:24:03] <✦[rp] Cinder> doesn't that hurt? I know we come back, but
[18:24:18] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Yeah. I'm used to it
[18:24:26] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> There was one world with no water. Only way to get clean.
[18:24:33] <✦[rp] Cinder> you're deceptively hardcore, joco
[18:24:33] <✦[rp] Finch> thats concerning
[18:24:41] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> I'm not hardcore! I respawn!
[18:25:00] <✦[rp] Cinder> it was metaphorical
[18:25:03] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Ah
[18:25:07] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Anyways!
[18:25:14] <✦[rp] Cinder> do either of you know where pyrite lives?
[18:25:18] <✦[rp] Finch> .... no..
[18:25:21] <✦[rp] Cinder> or where they keep their things?
[18:25:22] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> ... malfaction?
[18:25:25] <✦[rp] Finch> i kinda hoped one of you knew
[18:25:35] <✦[rp] Cinder> i dont even know who that is
[18:25:46] <✦[rp] Cinder> why would I know their house??
[18:25:46] <✦[rp] Finch> i really do not want to.. stay.. in malfaction longer than strictly necessary
[18:26:02] <✦[rp] Cinder> well, seems we may be stuck blindly wandering unless we can find some directions
[18:26:07] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Hm
[18:26:37] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Maybe the. Do we have location logs in the hub or did I imagine that.
[18:26:49] <✦[rp] Finch> i don't know
[18:26:51] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Like. Logs in the hub. Of different portal coords.
[18:26:53] <✦[rp] Finch> if we do i haven't checked
[18:26:59] <✦[rp] Cinder> There's signage, at least. There might be enough to find our way?
[18:27:16] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Well!
[18:27:23] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Sooner we try, sooner we fail
[The three walk to the hub together, braving the heat of the nether. They enter inside, where they find a book waiting for them.]
[18:31:38] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> A directory!
[18:31:47] <✦[rp] Cinder> hey, good call!
[18:31:48] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> ...
[18:31:51] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Malf has no entries
[18:31:54] <✦[rp] Cinder> well shit
[18:31:59] <✦[rp] Finch> well. that isnt. Good.
[Joco flips around in the book.]
[18:32:01] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> OH They're in the north log!
[18:32:18] <✦[rp] Finch> well that's good at least
[Joco pulls out their communicator, typing in the coordinates as they murmur them outloud.]
[18:32:22] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> -55, 55 178
[18:32:24] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> OK
[18:32:27] <✦[rp] Cinder> Okay, we have an idea of where to go then?
[18:32:34] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Why are they. In the north tunnel.
[18:32:37] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Huh
[18:32:40] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> off we go I guess
[18:32:29] <✦[rp] Finch> lead the way!
[18:32:33] <✦[rp] Cinder> I'll follow your lead
[They wander down the North tunnel a bit, Joco looks confused as they check the coordinates against what’s on their communicator.]
[18:33:07] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> This is. z178.
[18:33:19] <✦[rp] Cinder> that doesnt sound right
[18:33:27] <✦[rp] Finch> this most definitely doesnt seem correct
[Joco holds up a finger, and flies off over the Chuck E Cheese.]
[18:33:21] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Wait here, crazy kids
[Finch and Cinder stand around quietly for a moment before Finch pipes up.]
[18:33:31] <✦[rp] Finch> so uh
[18:33:36] <✦[rp] Finch> assume you've been well?
[18:33:56] <✦[rp] Cinder> Yeah, well enough. I've been visiting Joco's void hole a lot. And... Not much else
[18:33:59] <✦[rp] Cinder> you?
[18:34:31] <✦[rp] Finch> uh. haven't been doing much either. well besides going on a rescue mission for my dad's husband- you. know about that right?
[Joco touches back down, he shakes his head.]
[18:34:29] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> I have NO idea where the portal is, gang
[18:34:33] <✦[rp] Finch> oh
[18:34:34] <✦[rp] Finch> well
[18:34:39] <✦[rp] Cinder> Shit
[18:34:49] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Hm
[18:35:01] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> I'll. Try again.
[18:35:03] <✦[rp] Cinder> do you think the directions are wrong?
[18:35:05] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> -55, 55, 178
[Joco flies off again, and Cinder watches them go. They tuck their wings closer to their back, ruffling them slightly. He looks back at Finch.]
[18:34:46] <✦[rp] Cinder> and no? Rescue mission? is he okay?
[18:35:16] <✦[rp] Finch> well he's not really okay still... but
[18:35:27] <✦[rp] Finch> at least he's no longer in malfaction! really bad for you, and he's living proof
[18:35:53] <✦[rp] Cinder> Well, I'm glad hes back. i havent got to meet him yet
[18:36:07] <✦[rp] Finch> you aren't missing much I think.
[18:36:00] <✦[rp] Cinder> do you like him?
[18:36:11] <✦[rp] Cinder> he's your dads husband but. You dont refer to him as your other dad
[18:36:17] <✦[rp] Finch> because he's not
[18:36:18] <✦[rp] Cinder> sorry, that might have been insensitive
[18:36:27] <✦[rp] Finch> no no you're fine. he's just.. kinda there
[18:36:14] <✦[rp] Finch> well he's my dad's husband
[18:36:49] <✦[rp] Finch> dad cares about him, and I guess we were neighbors once. but
[18:37:01] <✦[rp] Finch> he just kinda exists, don't feel strongly about him one way or another
[18:36:52] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Hey gang
[Joco flies in, taking off their wings as they land.]
[18:37:00] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> God. Hate flying in this place.
[18:37:04] <✦[rp] Finch> oh hi joco!
[18:37:04] <✦[rp] Cinder> Any luck, Joco?
[18:37:05] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Worst. Worst ever.
[18:37:15] <✦[rp] Cinder> shit
[18:37:15] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> So. I went to the coords. I did. And there's Nothing.
[18:37:17] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> So.
[18:37:23] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> I vote. We wander the malf tunnel.
[18:37:34] <✦[rp] Cinder> Okay, so someone logged them wrong. Maybe on purpose or maybe just. Really bad navigation
[18:37:49] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Considering they're in the wrong tunnel. And the wrong coords.
[18:37:59] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> I think maybe just bad navigational skills.
[18:37:31] <✦[rp] Finch> we're gonna have to walk through malfaction aren't we.
[18:37:45] <✦[rp] Cinder> the tunnel shouldnt be too dangerous, should it?
[18:37:51] <✦[rp] Finch> hopefully
[18:38:00] <✦[rp] Cinder> can skulk even survive in this heat?
[18:38:08] <✦[rp] Finch> i.. dont know
[18:38:11] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> I sure hope not!
[The three of them head back down the North tunnel to the Eastern Malfaction tunnel. Cinder raises her eyebrows at the emerald wall.]
[18:39:01] <✦[rp] Cinder> thats. gaudy.
[18:39:05] <✦[rp] Finch> yeah
[18:39:06] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Incredibly!
[18:39:12] <✦[rp] Finch> and inconvenient
[18:39:19] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Someone made a mistake here. Huh.
[Joco points out a path to the side.]
[18:39:50] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Do we.
[18:39:56] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Hm
[18:39:57] <✦[rp] Finch> i guess
[18:40:04] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Do y'all see what I'm seeing?
[18:40:09] <✦[rp] Cinder> their infrastructure is a lot... messier than ours
[18:40:19] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Oh yeah no that's monarchies for you
[18:40:19] <✦[rp] Cinder> but yeah, im seeing that fucked up path
[18:40:56] <✦[rp] Cinder> if you needed more proof nothing good comes of monarchies, i guess this place is it
[18:40:15] <✦[rp] Finch> it looks like a path
[18:40:22] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Not that one, Finch
[18:40:28] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Look up past it.
[18:40:35] <✦[rp] Finch> i dont see anything
[18:40:47] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Hm.
[Joco points up past to a glowing patch of land in the distance. Finch squints hard, blinks, and then pulls back.]
[18:40:50] <✦[rp] Finch> oh
[18:40:52] <✦[rp] Finch> that.
[Cinder fidgets slightly.]
[18:41:06] <✦[rp] Cinder> do we need to get up there?
[18:41:10] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> We might check that out.
[18:41:10] <✦[rp] Finch> maybe?
[18:41:15] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> If we find nothing down here
[18:41:22] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Any tunnel is better than. This thing.
[18:41:58] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> I see a portal up there.
[18:42:05] <✦[rp] Cinder> it seems the best shot we have?
[18:42:07] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> How in the world.
[18:42:16] <✦[rp] Cinder> I know you're used to lava baths but I would like to avoid it myself
[18:42:12] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> One second
[Joco flies up to the top, checking out the portal.]
[18:42:23] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> IT'S BROKEN
[18:42:34] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> IT'S A BROKEN FRAME
[18:42:46] <✦[rp] Finch> well at least theres a way in?
[Joco points down the hall.]
[18:42:50] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> I see a hole. In the wall over there.
[18:43:02] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> That's a portal
[18:43:04] <✦[rp] Finch> OH!
[18:43:07] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Finch, go espionage
[18:43:10] <✦[rp] Finch> joco. I think. uh. cinders stuck
[Cinder shuffles awkwardly on the ground, their wings flickering behind them.]
[18:43:13] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Yeah
[18:43:25] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> You espionage, I assist Cinder
[18:43:29] <✦[rp] Finch> fine.
[Cinder calls up to Joco.]
[18:43:27] <✦[rp] Cinder> I think you guys might need to carry me
[18:43:37] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Carrying.
[Joco readies to fly down, before stopping above.]
[18:43:48] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Why not. The TP command.
[18:43:55] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> The one built in to our comms
[18:44:11] <✦[rp] Cinder> oh! Yes that would be. A lot easier
[Finch calls over to Joco.]
[18:45:03] <✦[rp] Finch> i dont thin kthere's a portal in here
[Joco looks up from poking at their comms.]
[18:45:06] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> No
[18:45:10] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Finch
[They point down the hall towards the hole in the wall.]
[18:45:13] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> The. The hole
[18:45:13] <✦[rp] Finch> train's much nicer than mine
[18:45:16] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> I pointed out the hole.
[18:45:19] <✦[rp] Finch> what hole
[18:45:23] <✦[rp] Finch> ... oh…
[Cinder warps up, appearing in front of Joco. The two of them walk down the hall to join Finch in front of the portal.]
[18:45:13] <✦[rp] Cinder> what even is this?
[18:45:37] <✦[rp] Finch> well
[18:45:41] <✦[rp] Finch> who's first.
[18:45:44] <✦[rp] Cinder> are we going together?
[Joco heads through the portal. Cinder follows quickly behind, with Finch taking up the rear. They find themselves in what seems to be an underground space, with deep slate rock and gemstone ore all around them. Sculk crawls between the cracks in the rock.]
[18:46:04] <✦[rp] Finch> oh.. well. thats. Bad
[Finch points to the sculk on the floor.]
[18:46:05] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Huh.
[Joco turns around to see that the portal is in the shape of a heart.]
[18:46:11] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Oh that's so cute it's a heart
[18:46:17] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> That's normal I think.
[18:46:21] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> The portal. Is so cute.
[18:46:35] <✦[rp] Cinder> the portal is cute,. yeah, but where are we?
[18:46:39] <✦[rp] Finch> i dont.. know
[18:46:24] <✦[rp] Finch> either way i dont like that
[Joco approaches the door at the end of the hall, reaching up to knock. They wrap their knuckles on it twice, before they step onto the pressure plate, and the door slides open.]
[18:46:34] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> [KNOCK KN-] oh it's an autodoor
[18:46:47] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> There's. More sculk in here.
[18:46:48] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Hm.
[18:46:50] <✦[rp] Cinder> the skulk is all over the place
[18:46:56] <✦[rp] Cinder> its not too thick of a cover, at least?
[18:46:56] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Oh hello!
[Joco spots Pyrite standing in a long brick hallway, there is a small path that runs between two streams of running water. Sculk creeps along the walls, which Pyrite seems to be in the process of removing. They look up when they’re greeted.]
[18:46:59] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> oh hello?
[They answer Cinder’s question.]
[18:47:18] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> yes this is a days worth of growth
[18:46:58] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Hi.
[18:47:02] <✦[rp] Cinder> hi?
[18:47:05] <✦[rp] Finch> hello!
[18:47:33] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> A day of sculk? oof
[18:47:46] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> yeah. it creeps in through the cracks
[18:47:48] <✦[rp] Finch> oh.. dear
[18:47:54] <✦[rp] Cinder> you're trying to keep it back?
[18:47:58] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> This isn't. Great, huh.
[18:48:04] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> I have been
[18:48:06] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Hoes work great for removal
[18:48:09] <✦[rp] Finch> well that's good at least!
[18:48:12] <✦[rp] Cinder> thats a good sign, considering some inclinations we've seen people have towards it
[18:48:15] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> it doesnt match the color pallete of my rooms
[18:48:20] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Understandable
[18:48:28] <✦[rp] Finch> and its bad for your health
[18:48:30] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> So! Flowers!!
[18:47:10] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> We're here because Finch said someone might have Void Flowers
[18:47:15] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Are you someone who owns Void Flowers?
[18:47:18] <✦[rp] Cinder> is this pyrite?
[18:47:28] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> uh. yes and yes
[18:49:20] <✦[rp] Cinder> yeah, flowers. Finch said you had something that belonged to the void
[18:49:23] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> yes the flowers. I have them in my greenhouse if you would like to follow?
[18:49:29] <✦[rp] Cinder> gladly
[18:49:29] <✦[rp] Finch> mhm!
[18:49:32] <✦[rp] Finch> lead the way
[Pyrite pauses momentarily. They begin pulling something from their belt.]
[18:49:54] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> although real quick id like to do something? You would not be hurt by this action
[18:50:01] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> may i?
[Cinder and Finch pull back slightly, while Joco steps forward.]
[18:50:06] <✦[rp] Cinder> can I ask for more information?
[18:50:09] <✦[rp] Finch> do.. what exactly
[18:50:12] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Explain a little further?
[18:50:20] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> And, I could go first, if you're doing it with all of us.
[18:50:47] <✦[rp] Finch> joco first if you're going to do something
[18:50:52] <✦[rp] Cinder> Joco, i'm not so sure you should be so willing
[Joco turns around to flash a reassuring grin.]
[18:51:04] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> No worries, Cinder.
[18:51:21] <✦[rp] Cinder> .. if you're sure.
[18:51:25] <✦[rp] Finch> go right on ahead
[18:51:34] <✦[rp] Cinder> ill go before you, finch
[Pyrite pulls a sharp blade from their pocket. It’s made of glimmering black steel.]
[18:50:28] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> checking something minor. something to do with the flowers!
[18:50:34] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Alright!
[They pull Joco’s arm forward, slashing a shallow cut in the skin, just enough to draw blood. Pyrite pulls out a healing potion, splashing droplets onto Joco’s skin to heal it as they inspect the blood left over on their sword. Pyrite looks up and nods.]
[18:51:47] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> ok yeah I can help you
[18:51:51] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Awesome!!
[18:51:55] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> follow me!
[Finch seems slightly unnerved by the action, and waits for Joco and Cinder to go first before they follow.]
[18:51:57] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> What was that, might I ask?
[18:52:53] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> oh i was seeing if it reacted differently to blood of players,mobs, and myself. it was forged with some of the ground up flowers
[18:53:06] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Oh that's very neat
[18:53:27] <✦[rp] Finch> interesting
[Cinder moves forward to walk in line with Joco the best they can.]
[18:52:17] <✦[rp] Cinder> you all good, Joco?
[Cinder looks up at them with concern.]
[18:53:12] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> I'm fine, Cinder
[18:53:21] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> I've done. Very similar tasks.
[18:53:44] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Blood drawings, while generally more needle-involved, aren't anything new
[18:53:45] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> its reacted. oddly to prince before and I was concerned if anyone here would also get a reaction
[18:53:51] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Huh!
[18:54:02] <✦[rp] Cinder> you only checked joco, though. Why not us?
[18:54:08] <✦[rp] Cinder> not that I want my blood taken, but.
[18:54:14] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> nothing major, it just didnt destroy the blood like normal
[18:54:09] <✦[rp] Finch> at least it reacts in a way we want to prince. hurray!
[18:54:13] <✦[rp] Finch> well
[18:54:16] <✦[rp] Finch> i assume in a way we want
[18:54:19] <✦[rp] Finch> if its a bad reaction
[18:54:20] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> I mean. I assume we're all equally not prince
[18:54:31] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> right?
[18:54:35] <✦[rp] Cinder> I hope so
[18:54:39] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> better safe than sorry with what im testing with the flowers
[18:54:51] <✦[rp] Finch> i better hope none of you are prince
[18:54:59] <✦[rp] Finch> in any way shape or form
[18:55:06] <✦[rp] Cinder> what you're testing?
[Cinder trails off as ae get distracted by the sculk climbing the walls of the next room.]
[18:55:38] <✦[rp] Cinder> more skulk getting in. it moves fast
[They pass through a stone corridor.]
[18:56:08] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> dont mind the unfinished room. Itll be an aquarium!
[18:56:12] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Neat!
[18:56:13] <✦[rp] Finch> oh! thats nice
[They pass through another room, crouching through until they reach a small greenroom. Sitting on the center of the table is a sculk sensor, which clicks at them as they move.]
[18:56:24] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Ah
[18:56:29] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> You've a little guy
[18:56:29] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> anyways welcome in!
[18:56:37] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> give me one moment to grab some
[They head down to the lower chamber. ]
[18:56:38] <✦[rp] Cinder> i'm suddenly not feeling so welcome
[Finch shifts with discomfort. Pyrite returns back to the main room.]
[18:56:51] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Does your sensor have a name?
[18:56:55] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> no
[18:57:05] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Does it have.... a purpose?
[Finch gestures to the sensor.]
[18:57:07] <✦[rp] Finch> you know i know this is a controlled enviroment and all but i still dont like. that thing
[Cinder stares at it, a bit entranced, while somewhat horrified. Pyrite shrugs nonchalantly.]
[18:57:10] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> ive been dumping void powder on it to see if I can kill it
[The three seem to relax.]
[18:57:18] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Nice
[18:57:16] <✦[rp] Finch> i hope it does
[18:57:25] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> and well. prince hasnt said anything?
[18:57:26] <✦[rp] Cinder> void powder? like... powdered flowers?
[18:57:37] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> yeep
[18:57:40] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Neat!
[18:57:46] <✦[rp] Finch> interesting
[18:58:06] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> As long as it's not getting you in trouble with the Prince Collective
[18:57:54] <✦[rp] Cinder> are you noticing any changes?
[18:58:16] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> its a bit less active but otherwise not really
[18:58:20] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Hmmm
[18:58:23] <✦[rp] Cinder> weird
[18:58:28] <✦[rp] Finch> odd
[18:58:33] <✦[rp] Finch> at least its done.. something
[18:58:36] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> as a matter of fact actually. follow me real quick
[As they head downstairs together, Cinder takes the opportunity to introduce himself.]
[18:58:39] <✦[rp] Cinder> I never introduced myself before. I'm Cinder. Corroded faction
[They arrive in a small white room covered with wool.]
[18:58:47] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Oh this is fun
[18:58:51] <✦[rp] Finch> i see
[18:58:54] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Oh this is VERY fun
[In the center of the room is a small circle of stone, surrounded by four blackened roses in pots.]
[18:59:10] <✦[rp] Cinder> these are... the flowers?
[Joco pricks their fingers on the flowers on purpose.]
[18:59:21] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Yep, same as last season
[Pyrite touches the woolen walls.]
[18:59:24] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> ive noticed that wool is especially good at stopping skulk
[18:59:37] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Sculk operates based on sound, it seems.
[18:59:51] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> It makes sense that wool, a sound absorber, would be bad for the sculk.
[19:00:18] <✦[rp] Finch> well good to know wool does. something to slow it down
[Finch laughs.]
[19:00:45] <✦[rp] Finch> we could probably put prince in like
[19:00:51] <✦[rp] Finch> some wool box. maybe that'll do something
[19:00:53] <✦[rp] Finch> or not
[Pyrite pulls out a handful of roses.]
[18:59:41] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> anyways there they are
[Finch hurries forward to take them, but keeps to the edges of the room.]
[19:00:03] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> the name is a bit messed up but they seem to work about the same!
[Cinder crouches down in front of one of the roses. They stare at them with a deep fascination…like the whole world has melted away.]
[19:00:26] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> I do have more if anyone would like some? or is that stack enough?
[Cinder looks up.]
[19:00:29] <✦[rp] Cinder> I want one.
[They stand, walking over to take one from Pyrite.]
[19:00:42] <✦[rp] Cinder> I;d like to keep one with me. thanks.
[Joco walks around to each flower.]
[19:00:41] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> How much have you collected?
[19:00:58] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> I had about 4 stacks but now 3
[19:00:54] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Are they all from the source, or grown from seed?
[19:01:15] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> 3 were source and 1 was seed
[19:01:19] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Neat!
[19:01:23] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> but Ive given finch the source
[Finch waves the flowers around happily.]
[19:01:38] <✦[rp] Cinder> is there any difference between the ones grown from seed and the ones right from the void?
[19:02:04] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> not that I can tell? but I have a hard time telling them from regular roses in the first place
[19:02:12] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Understandable
[19:02:30] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> the withering damage is just a little bit stronger
[19:02:41] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Yep
[19:02:43] <✦[rp] Finch> interesting
[19:03:22] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> the two closest to the ladder are originals, the ones on the far side are seed and regular
[Joco smacks their mouth open and closed.]
[19:02:50] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> They also taste slightly different.
[19:02:55] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> When you get pricked
[19:03:02] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> I worded that weirdly.
[19:03:10] <✦[rp] Finch> ... taste?
[19:03:21] <✦[rp] Cinder> Very weirdly.
[19:03:39] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> When I get pricked. I taste copperish sorts in my mouth. But when I'm pricked by Void flowers it tastes differently than regular wither.
[19:03:40] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> oh hmm i did not think to try eating them!
[19:03:48] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> I did NOT eat the flowers.
[19:03:58] <✦[rp] Finch> i think it'd be interesting if you ate the flowers
[Pyrite gestures to the rose at their feet.]
[19:04:06] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> this one here is the regular rose
[Joco pricks themself on it.]
[19:04:07] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Tastes similar enough
[Cinder looks up to Joco.]
[19:04:11] <✦[rp] Cinder> they give me that same feeling as the hole does, Joco
[19:04:20] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Hm
[19:05:05] <✦[rp] Cinder> its like I can smell ozone, but theres no actual smell
[19:04:31] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Yeah they're flowers
[Pyrite takes a rose and shoves it into their neck.]
[19:04:43] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Neat
[19:04:45] <✦[rp] Finch> hm
[19:04:58] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> oh huh yeah they are a little more... something
[19:05:04] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Spicy but not
[19:05:12] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> yeah
[19:05:18] <✦[rp] Finch> odd.
[19:05:45] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Well! Flowers have been acquired!
[19:05:49] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> would you all like anything else?
[19:05:52] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Hm
[19:06:00] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Pyrite how do you FEEL about. The sculk
[19:06:09] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> And also.
[19:06:18] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Is your name Pyrite or are we terrible at names.
[19:06:39] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> 'Cause I've realized we never actually asked.
[19:06:42] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> its a bit annoying, but it isnt actually damaging any of the rooms so i deal
[19:06:47] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> and I dont have a name
[19:06:59] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> You don't?
[19:07:02] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Alright
[19:07:06] <✦[rp] Finch> neat
[19:07:12] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> I forgot it a while ago
[19:07:15] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Is it alright that we call you Pyrite? Or?
[19:07:22] <✦[rp] Finch> well you could always just make a new name
[19:07:22] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> OH mood I did that with my first name
[19:07:23] <✦[rp] Finch> i did that!
[19:07:25] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> oh yes that fine as a nickname
[19:07:29] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Awesome!
[19:07:38] <✦[rp] Finch> neato!
[19:07:47] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> ha! was it the isolation as well?
[19:07:51] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Legally, "Joco Serious" is just a nickname I got around 50 years ago
[19:08:06] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Not isolation in the literal sense, but enough social isolation that it just slipped the mind!
[19:08:13] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> fair enough!
[19:08:22] <✦[rp] Finch> i don't think i even had a name to begin with
[19:08:26] <✦[rp] Finch> that's why i made mine up!
[19:08:27] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Yeah?
[19:08:53] <✦[rp] Cinder> I picked cinder myself, but I still do know my old name
[19:08:59] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> oh! so you chose finch!
[19:09:09] <✦[rp] Finch> yes! thought it was a nice little string of sounds
[19:09:11] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Lovely
[19:09:18] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> and cinder! both very good names
[19:09:32] <✦[rp] Cinder> thanks!
[19:09:34] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> None of us have our legal names. Thriving.
[19:09:45] <✦[rp] Finch> whats a legal name
[19:10:09] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Legal name is a government thing. We don't have a government. Don't worry about it.
[19:09:50] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> i. dont think i ever had a legal name
[19:10:01] <✦[rp] Cinder> I doubt my legal name means anything anymore, anyway. Not exactly able to be registered considering... well. No matter
[19:09:50] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> ANYWAYS on the point of. Sculk.
[19:10:03] <✦[rp] Finch> right yes the sculk the main issue here
[19:10:13] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> oh yeah
[19:10:19] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Sculk!
[19:10:29] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> So. For many reasons. We would like to get rid of the sculk.
[19:10:36] <✦[rp] Finch> like the fact its dangerous
[19:10:46] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Because you are not. Supportive of it. I'm hoping you're not against that fact.
[19:10:54] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> The fact that we are. Against it.
[19:10:50] <✦[rp] Finch> and might do something horrible to us! or worse... like kill us!
[19:11:17] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> Ohhh. yeah getting rid of this weird spreading would be nice. Prince said he would look into but I cannot tell if its even slowed down
[19:11:24] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Prince did?
[19:11:31] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> yep!
[19:11:27] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> I. Hm.
[19:11:34] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> For some reason I feel like that was a lie.
[19:11:38] <✦[rp] Finch> i wouldn't trust a word he says
[19:11:29] <✦[rp] Finch> i doubt prince would do ANYTHING
[19:11:34] <✦[rp] Cinder> I don't think Prince is going to be stopping the spreading
[19:11:00] <✦[rp] Cinder> you just gave us a lot of these flowers. Not to be suspicious, but why?
[19:11:54] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> He's very set on spreading it everywhere else. Why would this space be different?
[19:12:06] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> as for gifting them. I have plenty so why not! theres not too much I can really do with them anyways
[19:13:03] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> theres not enough to really hold the skulk back from my whole base but there is more than enough for seeing how they react
[19:12:30] <✦[rp] Finch> thats fair i guess.
[19:13:40] <✦[rp] Finch> i assume for now you can just. get rid of it when it appears.
[19:13:45] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> yep
[19:12:49] <✦[rp] Cinder> Do you... trust prince? Are you friends or allies or
[19:13:40] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> I... do not know if Prince would be a friend but we are supposed to be allies
[19:13:48] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Supposed to be
[19:14:02] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Wasn't Prince supposed to be allies with Punk?
[19:14:18] <✦[rp] Cinder> I think prince was supposed to be allies with a lot of people
[19:14:19] <✦[rp] Finch> didn't stop him from locking him in his basement
[19:14:28] <✦[rp] Finch> so i REALLY advise not to trust him
[19:14:30] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> it has been a while since our last talk so im not certain of the current situation
[19:15:02] <✦[rp] Cinder> he's done some bad stuff. I would say to be... dubious of him. For your own safety
[19:14:48] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> 'Supposed to be allies' didn't keep Prince from locking Punk in a basement and starving him to infect him with sculk.
[19:15:02] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> to be fair, he would have a difficult time stopping me with some of his planned 'torture' methods
[19:15:10] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Yes
[19:15:16] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> But. That doesn't make it okay?
[19:15:40] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Being impervious to the person's torture doesn't negate the fact that they would do it if they could.
[19:15:50] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> true…
[19:16:01] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Like. I get your point of 'he can't hurt me anyways' but. The simple idea that he WOULD if he could?
[19:16:21] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> That's not allies. That's not even teammates who hate each other. That's being on not the same team.
[19:16:36] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> huh.
[Finch flicks their ears back, trying to pull back to the previously mentioned statement.]
[19:15:20] <✦[rp] Finch> he has. multiple torture methods?
[19:15:22] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> starvation does nothing to someone whos always starving after all
[19:15:38] <✦[rp] Finch> you should. probably eat more if thats the case maybe
[19:16:06] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> oh i eat plenty! apparently im glitched or something?
[19:16:30] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> oof, permanent hunger.
[19:16:00] <✦[rp] Finch> plus we dont know what ELSE he can do
[19:16:37] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> There's some species that are just Like That.
[19:16:39] <✦[rp] Finch> i'm very sorry about that
[19:17:13] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> I would hate to see you hurt because you trusted your ability to not be hurt by his shenanigans.
[19:17:05] <✦[rp] Cinder> whether or not he can do much physical harm to you. things dont stop there
[19:16:45] <✦[rp] Cinder> We want to try and stop the skulk. And stop Prince by extension. and i think we all agree that you should be careful with him
[Cinder stares down into the petals of the flower in front of them. Their gaze is intense, their words slightly sharp.]
[19:17:51] <✦[rp] Cinder> You should never place your trust in someone who holds the type of power that prince does.
[19:17:59] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Yeah.
[19:18:03] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Yeah.
[19:17:27] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> its just a bit annoying to be fair! and I would be fine to assisting with making prince not a problem
[19:17:36] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> FANTASTIC
[19:17:39] <✦[rp] Finch> Amazing!
[19:18:04] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> hes very nice when we do talk but the skulk is a bit of an annoyance as ive mentioned
[19:18:13] <✦[rp] Finch> that leaves how many malfactioners still on prine's side i wonder
[19:17:45] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> So.
[19:17:48] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Uh.
[19:18:48] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Well. I don't think Ceph is. And Punk isn't. And Pyrite, you're here.
[19:18:51] <✦[rp] Finch> punk lives with us, cephs still... did punk ever get them back? don't know. don't really care to be honest besides the fact they might stop him. and now pyrite. am i missing anyone?
[19:18:56] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> speaking of malfation, how have the others been doing? I really do need to get myself out of this hole more often
[19:19:28] <✦[rp] Cinder> I try stay away from malfaction, to be honest
[19:19:54] <✦[rp] Cinder> nothing personal, just... reminders of things
[19:18:54] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Who else is in this faction????
[19:19:11] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> I rarely see anyone outside the main 4 or 5
[19:19:30] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Y'all got a wave of new folks, too, right?
[19:19:56] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Same time as we got a few of ours
[Joco elbows Cinder in the arm. Cinder smiles and elbows them lightly back.]
[19:20:10] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> yes, Prince and... sher something? Maybe?
[19:20:24] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Hm
[19:20:33] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Coulda sworn yall got more than 2.
[19:20:39] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> possibly someone else. I really need to get out more often
[19:20:53] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Hm
[Cinder leans into Joco, whispering.]
[19:20:53] <✦[rp] Cinder> do we tell them about the holes,,,
[Joco whispers back.]
[19:21:07] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> I've been trying to get to that point for 15 minutes
[Cinder whispers back.]
[19:21:26] <✦[rp] Cinder> we're not very good at this are we
[19:20:45] <✦[rp] Finch> i kinda wish prince stayed in whatever place he was before he was here
[19:21:29] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> finch, from what hes said i think he may have already been here when we came
[19:21:47] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> im not certain but i think thats what he has
implied
[Joco interrupts, a bit forcefully:]
[19:21:18] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> SO
[19:21:30] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Not knowing who else is in this faction aside!!!!!
[19:21:31] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> !!!
[19:21:41] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Our plan!
[19:21:44] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> With the void flowers!
[19:21:45] <✦[rp] Finch> yes! our plan
[19:21:48] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> To stop the sculk!
[19:21:52] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> oh?
[19:21:56] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> We have. I'm sure you remember last world's swallowing
[19:22:33] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> i do indeed! It was very pretty
[19:21:57] <✦[rp] Finch> also hm.
[19:21:58] <✦[rp] Finch> well
[19:22:08] <✦[rp] Finch> whenever he came form in this world. he couldve just stayed there. in a hole or something
[19:22:09] <✦[rp] Finch> and died
[19:22:14] <✦[rp] Finch> that would've been great for the server
[Joco whispers to Cinder: ]
[19:22:18] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> SO close to talking about this.
[Cinder whispers back, laughing: ]
[19:22:31] <✦[rp] Cinder> almost got there
[They interrupt again, with more volume:]
[19:22:38] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> I'M SURE YOU RECALL LAST WORLD'S SWALLOWING
[19:22:43] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> How it ate! Everything!!!
[19:22:42] <✦[rp] Cinder> WE'RE TRYING TO MAKE THE VOID AGAIN
[19:23:22] <✦[rp] Cinder> I may not have been there for the last world, but I have my... own experience with the void to act on.
[19:22:53] <✦[rp] Finch> RIGHT YES ! that
[19:23:07] <✦[rp] Finch> the voids gonna eat the sculk and then we will just leave
[19:22:56] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Void vs Sculk battle!
[19:23:30] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Using the flowers as a void seed. We have void holes.
[19:23:00] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> That's. That's our plan.
[19:23:07] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> oh! more void then! consumer versus consumer
[19:23:24] <✦[rp] Finch> either i'll help make the void back off, its is. my friend. it likes me i think
[19:23:26] <✦[rp] Finch> or... we can just
[19:23:28] <✦[rp] Finch> i dunno
[19:23:32] <✦[rp] Finch> throw someone off again
[19:23:09] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> This world is doomed anyways and we want to murder the sculk.
[19:23:28] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> why is it doomed?
[19:23:33] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> I.
[Joco is visibly taken aback by this idea.]
[19:23:39] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Why would it not be doomed?
[19:24:09] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> damaged does not mean doomed
[19:24:12] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> But. It's.
[19:24:20] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> How else would we stop the sculk?
[19:24:27] <✦[rp] Finch> i cant think of any other solutions
[19:24:31] <✦[rp] Finch> beyond just killing prince
[19:24:38] <✦[rp] Finch> and trust me i'd LOVE to do that
[Finch clenches their fists together, grinning as they imagine it.]
[19:24:42] <✦[rp] Finch> over and over and over
[19:24:10] <✦[rp] Cinder> sometimes it can be better to cut out losses, run before it gets too bad
[19:24:36] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> true. cutting losses can be the better option sometimes
[19:24:47] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Yeah,,,
[19:24:50] <✦[rp] Cinder> the devil you know versus the devil you don't, you know?
[19:24:49] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> yeah.
[19:24:54] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> huh
[Joco backs up into a corner, thinking and clearly troubled. “What if it’s not all doomed?”. It’s something they haven’t considered before.]
[19:25:00] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> separating prince from the skulk would very much stop it
[19:25:25] <✦[rp] Finch> i hope we could. would make prince easier to pick off
[19:25:08] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> but that just leaves it damaged
[19:25:14] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> not destroyed
[19:25:13] <✦[rp] Cinder> and is that even still a possibility?
[19:26:28] <✦[rp] Finch> i hope we can fix it.
[19:26:49] <✦[rp] Finch> i kinda don't want to move, you know? we don't know what issues might be in the next world
[Cinder notices Joco has wandered off to a corner. They move next to them, wrapping what’s left of one of their wings over Joco’s shoulder in an attempt at comfort.]
[19:26:18] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> but as youve said. too much damage can be damning on its own so
[19:26:25] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> I-
[Joco looks up.]
[19:26:32] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> I don't think Prince is the reason Sculk is dangerous.
[19:26:51] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> I think Prince is just a tool of the sculk. I think it'd be a problem with or without the cat.
[19:26:40] <✦[rp] Cinder> the skulk is everywhere. i cant see a way out. we tried to think of a way out
[19:27:03] <✦[rp] Finch> prince is still not making it better
[19:27:12] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> No, but stopping him would do very little.
[19:27:13] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> hmm. maybe. It isnt like i know all too much of the situation after all
[19:27:15] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Surely.
[19:27:44] <✦[rp] Finch> maybe it won't help maybe it will help
[19:27:58] <✦[rp] Finch> and to be entirely honest i'm getting fucking sick of prince and his antics
[19:28:05] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> I didnt know him well, but i agree the skulk may have been a problem in the first place
[19:27:41] <✦[rp] Cinder> I don;t even care what's using what. I don't want to do nothing and wait until we get devoured. I;d rather try change something
[19:27:57] <✦[rp] Cinder> and if that;s calling the void, then its calling the void. No matter how much I hate the idea
[Joco straightens up.]
[19:27:55] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Any- Anyways!!!
[19:28:07] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Would you like to join our void pit summoning gang?
[19:28:14] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> sure!
[19:28:22] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Fantastic
[19:28:28] <✦[rp] Finch> oh great someone else on the team
[Joco bonks their head against Cinder’s horns in thanks. They pull away from him to head back up the ladder.]
[19:29:00] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Did y'all break your pits, by the way?
[19:29:03] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> I forgot to. Ask
[19:29:31] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> your pits? void pits?
[19:29:41] <✦[rp] Finch> yeah!! lots of explosions! boom! you know
[19:29:45] <✦[rp] Cinder> Yeah, I did my best.
[19:30:00] <✦[rp] Cinder> it was... strange being so close to it for so long.
[19:29:49] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Void pits! Pits to the void. Pistons were involved.
[19:29:59] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Our plan is to punch holes in a triangle, with it centered on Prince's place
[19:29:50] <✦[rp] Finch> we've been breaking holes through the bedrock
[19:29:52] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> So much TNT
[Pyrite looks mystified.]
[19:29:59] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> YOU CAN BREAK IT!
[19:30:03] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> YEAH!
[19:30:03] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> oh my god
[19:30:07] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> It's a bitch to break
[19:30:11] <✦[rp] Cinder> we can show you, if you want
[19:30:24] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> oh id love to see!
[19:30:22] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Alright!
[19:30:14] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> I broke the first hole, it's at my base.
[19:30:17] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> i need to put one in with my bird!
[19:30:26] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Your bird?
[19:30:28] <✦[rp] Finch> your what
[19:30:44] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> im making a huge birdcage with a fake bird in it
[19:30:48] <✦[rp] Finch> ...why?
[19:30:54] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> the canary called
[19:30:54] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> No I love that
[19:31:01] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Good fun concept.
[19:31:10] <✦[rp] Cinder> huh. neat
[19:31:23] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> anyways yes i would love to see the pits!
[19:31:29] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Let's go then!
[They begin to make their way through the maze of Pyrite’s home.]
[19:32:56] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> are we going through the nether?
[19:33:01] <✦[rp] Finch> i assume
[19:33:08] <✦[rp] Finch> dont wana walk through ... main malfaction
[19:33:03] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Yes
[19:33:10] <✦[rp] Cinder> its how we got here
[19:33:21] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> fair enough! its very cold out there
[They finally reach the portal, heading through together. Pyrite looks in confusion at something behind their portal.]
[19:35:12] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> why is there a hold behind my portal?
[19:35:21] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Huh
[19:35:34] <✦[rp] Cinder> health and safety incident waiting to happen
[19:35:42] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> We don't have an OSHA we're fine
[19:35:49] <✦[rp] Finch> its not health and safety yet! no sculk. no issues. for now
[Pyrite shakes their head and leads the group.]
[19:35:42] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> anyways this way all!
[19:36:11] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> my path is over here
[19:36:39] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Ohhhhhhh
[19:36:48] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> hmm?
[19:36:55] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> We couldn't find it
[19:37:05] <✦[rp] Cinder> the others flew up and i had to teleport
[19:37:11] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> It's. The coords in the directory. They're not accurate
[19:37:33] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> oh did I not change those. My apologies
[19:37:41] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> We found you anyways! Woo
[19:37:59] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> it should still just be on the other side of my portal regardless
[19:37:39] <✦[rp] Cinder> I hate how nauseous teleporting makes me but. cant exactly use an elytra with my wings like this
[19:37:48] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Yeah. I've.
[19:38:01] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> I know some tricks for strapping wings down for elytra use? But. They're not great.
[19:38:08] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Really not. Great.
[They arrive at Joco’s portal, stepping through it.]
[19:39:04] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Sorry, my portal's a bit small
[19:39:16] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> no worries!
[They travel through the mesa until they reach the void hole. The four of them either fly or swim down using a bucket of water. Joco spreads his hands as he shows off the room.]
[19:40:17] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> This is the current setup
[19:40:26] <✦[rp] Cinder> one of three, anyway
[19:40:28] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Finch decorated
[Pyrite peers down into the hole below.]
[19:40:43] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> much smaller than im used too. though I assume it isnt easy to do
[19:40:51] <✦[rp] Finch> it really isnt
[19:40:54] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Yeah
[Pyrite pulls back.]
[19:40:59] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> I never did it on accident after all
[19:41:07] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> ... oh?
[Beside them, Cinder stands with their feet at the edge of the Void hole. They seem to regain that trance-like state, staring down into the void, and tuning out the others.]
[19:42:32] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> So. Yeah.
[Joco notices, and mutters softly.]
[19:42:19] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> dang it, birdy
[They reach forward and gently pull Cinder back from the hole.]
[19:42:32] <✦[rp] Cinder> oh, sorry
[Joco keeps their hand on Cinder’s shoulder as they turn to Finch and Pyrite.]
[19:42:35] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Void plan!!
[19:42:38] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Flowers.
[19:42:43] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Uh. Finch go crazy with em
[19:42:43] <✦[rp] Finch> yes!
[19:42:45] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> you might want to back away from the edge. assuming its the same as last time it isnt one of my favorite ways out
[19:42:48] <✦[rp] Finch> i will i will
[19:42:52] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> It's not the nicest way to go!
[19:43:11] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> I've. Yeah I'm not afraid to say I've fallen in there a dozen times this month.
[Finch narrows their eyes at the room.]
[19:43:07] <✦[rp] Finch> ill have to plan out the most strategious-icous-ificous place to put them
[19:43:15] <✦[rp] Finch> strategeousiousness?
[19:43:19] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Strategized.
[Cinder laughs dryly.]
[19:43:20] <✦[rp] Cinder> yeah, sorry. Sometimes it kind of just... Draws me in
[Pyrite nods sagely.]
[19:43:21] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> consumes you piece by little piece
[Finch snaps their fingers free of flowers at them.]
[19:43:23] <✦[rp] Finch> that
[19:43:37] <✦[rp] Cinder> it's not so bad, though. When I've fallen in. Its kind of like an embrace
[19:43:37] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> ouch
[19:44:15] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> hmm. like a hug is an embrace, or more like becoming a bit more?
[19:44:46] <✦[rp] Cinder> both, maybe? It's cold obviously. It's the void. But it feels,,, right just as much as it does wrong
[19:44:56] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> hmm interesting
[Finch seems to agonize over where to put the flowers. Or maybe…they just don’t want to let them go. They do have a…certain power to them.]
[19:43:31] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Finch just place the damn flowers.
[19:43:54] <✦[rp] Finch> well i cant just place them ALL down yet. we need to find the best SPOT in here to do that
[19:44:06] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Finch we have 3 holes
[19:44:10] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> 64 flowers.
[19:44:15] <✦[rp] Cinder> I'm sure anywhere will work, Finch
[19:44:16] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> 21 Flowers Per.
[19:44:18] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> At most.
[19:44:24] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Place the dang flowers.
[19:44:46] <✦[rp] Finch> furthest down is probably best
[Finch gingerly places one flower down.]
[19:44:52] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Huh
[19:45:03] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> 1 flower?
[19:45:23] <✦[rp] Finch> one will probably do. plus i have to save some for the other holes. and. plans. and.
[19:45:27] <✦[rp] Finch> don't worry about it
[19:45:29] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Finch we have 3 holes.
[19:45:33] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> At least 5 flowers.
[Finch holds the flowers tightly to their chest.]
[19:45:37] <✦[rp] Finch> one will do the plan probably
[Joco holds out a hand for the roses.]
[19:45:37] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> C'mon.
[19:45:39] <✦[rp] Cinder> Finch, we dont want to risk not giving it enough. We need more
[19:45:40] <✦[rp] Finch> ......
[Finch rolls their eyes.]
[19:45:41] <✦[rp] Finch> fine
[They plant down the other four.]
[19:46:02] <✦[rp] Finch> there's five.
[19:46:07] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Thank you, kiddo
[19:46:08] <✦[rp] Cinder> thanks
[19:46:23] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> So. This hole has its flowers.
[19:46:35] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> it is very pretty down here I have to say!
[19:46:40] <✦[rp] Cinder> is this a 'leave them and wait' situation? again?
[19:46:31] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Finch do you want to do the planting on the others?
[Finch pauses a moment before nodding.]
[19:46:36] <✦[rp] Finch> yes.
[They start nodding more vigorously.]
[19:46:58] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> And. Do we want to visit the others right now? Or just. pass out coordinates and call it good?
[19:46:42] <✦[rp] Finch> yes i want to do it myself at the others
[19:47:15] <✦[rp] Finch> pass me the coordinates of the other one and i'll do it myself
[19:47:21] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Alrighty!
[19:47:23] <✦[rp] Cinder> I mean, as long as it gets done it doesn't need to be right now.
[Finch nods.]
[19:47:44] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> I'm not sure if we're on a time crunch.
[Joco reaches for their communicator and begins typing out a message to Pyrite.]
[19:47:30] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Pyrite, I'll send you the coords, too
[Cinder runs their fingers over the petals of the void flower.]
[19:47:45] <✦[rp] Cinder> I'm keeping mine. my flower, as in
[19:47:45] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Hm
[19:47:49] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Good plan
[Cinder tucks the flower into their shirt.]
[19:48:03] <✦[rp] Cinder> ... what do we do if this doesn't work?
[19:48:13] <✦[rp] Cinder> we havent had any success yet., We cant just wait and see forever
[19:48:10] <✦[rp] Finch> i don't know
[19:48:12] <✦[rp] Finch> kill prince
[19:48:15] <✦[rp] Finch> repeatedly
[19:48:35] <✦[rp] Cinder> that's not gonna do anything, kid. as fun as it might be for you
[19:48:19] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> oh I dont know if ive said, but they do seem to repel skulk much better than other means! not much in fairness, but these 5 flowers may be able to prevent the skulk from breaking /in/ to this little area
[19:48:37] <✦[rp] Finch> so we can use it as a hideout incase things get worse
[Finch grips tighter onto the flowers.]
[19:48:45] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> We could do a hideout
[19:48:48] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> hideouts are good.
[19:49:52] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> I could search for hideouts in my freetime, I've got experience scouting them.
[19:49:05] <✦[rp] Cinder> that could be worthwhile. if its safe from skulk, it would give us somewhere to go if things get worse
[19:49:02] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> I cant say it wont be very very close though. the range in only about 2-5 blocks per
[19:49:10] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Huh
[Joco nods with admiration.]
[19:49:20] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Pyrite your science is very intriguing.
[19:49:40] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> thank you!
[Cinder speaks softly as a silence passes between the individuals standing there.]
[19:49:36] <✦[rp] Cinder> if this doesnt work. if things dont happen and we need to give up something stronger to call the void
[19:49:44] <✦[rp] Cinder> my offer from last time still stands.
[19:49:55] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Your offer.
[19:49:57] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> The.
[Joco looks down into the void.]
[19:50:09] <✦[rp] Cinder> yes, my offer.
[19:50:11] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Cinder I really don't like your offer
[19:50:24] <✦[rp] Cinder> i don't like it either. But I'm making it.
[19:50:50] <✦[rp] Cinder> if its anyone, I want it to be me.
[19:50:51] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> We'll find another way sooner than I'd throw you down the hole.
[19:51:23] <✦[rp] Cinder> Your willingness to throw me down there isnt the deciding factor. I could just jump
[19:51:51] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> please dont jump
[Pyrite clogs the hole with dirt.]
[19:51:31] <✦[rp] Cinder> ... but fine. I agree, I wont do it for no reason
[19:52:13] <✦[rp] Cinder> i dont want to do it. But if its what it takes. Who knows if this infection would follow us if we ran
[19:51:36] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> We could sooner just run away from this world, find a new one. Without summoning the Void.
[19:51:48] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> ...
[19:51:49] <✦[rp] Finch> we could always just run away again... right
[19:52:06] <✦[rp] Finch> i don't trust just running away
[19:52:13] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Why not?
[19:52:23] <✦[rp] Finch> i dont want to run away. if we run away we risk taking ...that thing. with us again
[19:52:26] <✦[rp] Finch> and it'd be the same thing
[19:52:27] <✦[rp] Finch> over
[19:52:28] <✦[rp] Finch> and over
[19:52:29] <✦[rp] Finch> and over
[19:52:30] <✦[rp] Finch> and over
[19:52:36] <✦[rp] Finch> same fight
[19:52:38] <✦[rp] Finch> same guy
[19:52:36] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Then we find a new way to fight it. Next world.
[19:52:46] <✦[rp] Finch> maybe next time we wont get as lucky
[19:52:54] <✦[rp] Finch> maybe next time it'll get to us first
[19:52:56] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> The benefit of a new world is that it'd be restarting the process, the world would have less infection.
[19:53:00] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> same but different
[Cinder looks over at Finch. They understand what Finch is saying, and know what it’s like to run endlessly from the same fight.]
[19:53:21] <✦[rp] Cinder> lets not fight on this yet. We have time
[19:53:31] <✦[rp] Cinder> but not all the time in the world. So we have to keep trying
[19:53:42] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> We'll figure this out. Somehow.
[19:53:32] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> The wonder of worlds is that there are infinitely many of them, so long as we're willing to persevere.
[19:53:50] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> WITHOUT sacrificing you, Cinder.
[19:53:45] <✦[rp] Finch> and what will we do if we trip
[19:53:53] <✦[rp] Finch> we make a misstep in our running
[19:54:06] <✦[rp] Finch> we fail. we die. we lose.
[19:54:16] <✦[rp] Finch> what then. without some kind of solution.
[19:54:45] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> I feel as though you're imagining the sculk as this fast predator, akin to a guardian at sea. It's more of a snail.
[19:54:51] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> A murderous snail.
[19:55:00] <✦[rp] Finch> a murderous snail can kill you if you let it
[19:55:20] <✦[rp] Cinder> so in this analogy is the void a salt circle?
[19:54:51] <✦[rp] Cinder> We cant keep running forever. eventually we grow tired. We just do it as long as we can and hope its good enough
[19:55:22] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> We won't run forever, if we must run then we can find a solution in the next world. We must find a solution, one has to exist.
[19:55:31] <✦[rp] Finch> it has to
[19:55:32] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> The void is the ocean.
[19:55:36] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> We're trying to summon the ocean.
[19:55:44] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> To kill a freshwater snail.
[19:55:55] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> The flowers are salt circles.
[19:57:02] <✦[rp] Cinder> thats my fear. the ocean is so hard to control. I hope this doesnt end with us drowning
[19:57:10] <✦[rp] Cinder> ... metaphorically. you know.
[19:57:21] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> The ocean is hard to control, but we can always run to high ground
[19:57:31] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> The tide and tsunamis only go so high
[19:57:51] <✦[rp] Cinder> i hope youre right on that, joco
[19:57:43] <✦[rp] Finch> we know the ocean. we don't know the snail
[19:58:21] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> I've seen 2 worlds killed to a supermassive tsunami. Each time, I was safe up high enough.
[19:58:34] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Alright!
[19:58:38] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> So. Snail aside.
[19:58:48] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Finch, you're. Can we trust you to actually go and plant the flowers?
[19:58:54] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Within the week, ideally?
[19:59:09] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> at least a few. at least 5 around each?
[19:59:11] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Or do we need to. Give me 10 of the flowers so I can go plant them.
[19:59:17] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Or Pyrite
[19:59:22] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Or Cinder
[Finch puffs out their chest.]
[19:59:25] <✦[rp] Finch> i will
[19:59:30] <✦[rp] Finch> ill plant the flowers
[19:59:31] <✦[rp] Finch> i promise
[19:59:37] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Yeah?
[19:59:40] <✦[rp] Finch> i'll do it
[19:59:43] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Alright.
[19:59:26] <✦[rp] Cinder> I like the thought of Joco having some. If anything goes wrong, that way we have spares
[20:00:03] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> im willing to give away a couple more? not too many but a small handful
[20:00:18] <✦[rp] Cinder> it might be good for joco to have some too. even just a few
[20:00:31] <✦[rp] Cinder> my place is small, one should be fine for me
[20:00:24] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> I'd take 1 or 2 if you're willing
[Pyrite hands Joco a handful.]
[20:00:29] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> 8! Alright
[20:00:37] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> there you go. not many but a few
[20:00:43] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Thank you, Pyrite
[20:00:53] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> youre welcome
[20:00:58] <✦[rp] Cinder> thank you for your help. it was nice to meet you. and its nice having an ally in this
[20:01:03] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Yeah!
[20:01:13] <✦[rp] Finch> thanks for all the help
[20:01:15] <✦[rp] Finch> and the information
[20:01:15] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Ally who's not a Corroded! Exciting!
[20:01:30] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Ally who's not Corroded and/or infected with sculk.
[20:01:17] <✦[rp] Cinder> an ally who wouldn't be willing to torture anyone. since prince seems to like misusing that word
[20:01:39] <✦[rp] Cinder> if you ever need somewhere to shelter. I know you seem fine, but... we have space.
[20:01:46] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> We have SO much space
[20:01:43] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> It was a pleasure to meet all of you as well! given weve never had a proper conversation before!
[20:01:50] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Yeah!!!!
[20:02:19] <✦[rp] Cinder> we'll keep each other updated on any changes, yeah? The second anything happens
[20:02:24] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Hell. You seem to like maze layouts, if you needed a place to stay you could hang out in Verde Drug. It's a maze.
[20:02:29] <✦[rp] Finch> please notify us if prince is doing anything... off
[20:02:31] <✦[rp] Finch> suspicious
[20:02:35] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Yes please do
[20:02:40] <✦[rp] Cinder> that may as well be all he does
[20:02:37] <✦[rp] Finch> worse than he usually is
[20:02:47] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> i should be fine for now! but I will try and keep you all updated!~
[20:02:59] <✦[rp] Finch> thank you
[20:03:28] <✦[rp] Pyrite?> well id best be going then! The birdcage wont make itself after all!
[20:03:33] <✦[rp] Finch> have fun!
[20:03:34] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Yep!
[Pyrite climbs back up the void hole, waving from the entrance before disappearing.]
[20:04:15] <✦[rp] Finch> you two have fun here
[20:04:18] <✦[rp] Finch> i have flowers to plant
[20:04:25] <✦[rp] Cinder> Stay safe, finch
[Finch opens their wings, and flies up and out of the void hole.]
[20:03:47] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Hm
[Joco looks back to Cinder.]
[20:03:54] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Cinder, have you met Flick?
[20:04:07] <✦[rp] Cinder> I haven't, no.
[20:04:31] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> I think it'd be good for you to meet Flick
[20:04:04] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> He's a bird fella
[20:04:47] <✦[rp] Cinder> like a human avian? like I am?
[20:04:50] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Yeah!
[20:05:00] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> A bit more. Bird than human? And no horns. Just bird.
[20:05:05] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> He's. Rather short, actually.
[20:05:19] <✦[rp] Cinder> Yeah, i mean. The horns arent from avian genetics or anything so that makes sense
[20:05:31] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Chickadee, I believe is the species he's similar to
[20:05:36] <✦[rp] Cinder> but yeah. I’d like that. It's been a long time since I've met anyone like me
[20:06:11] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Alright! I'll text him, set up a meetup time. I know he's probably busy in the mines. Or in his tree.
[They two of them head out of the hole together, and Cinder stretches, tired.]
[20:06:16] <✦[rp] Cinder> would you mind if I stayed at your place for the night? I... just dont want to make the journey home right now. I'm tired
[20:06:25] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> That's fine by me!
[20:06:48] <✦[rp] Cinder> perfect. thank you joco. for everything
[20:06:59] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Thank you for having my back there. I. Yeah.
[20:07:10] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Yeah.
[20:07:20] <✦[rp] Cinder> I understand the feeling. I'll have your back anytime. Just as you;d have mine.
[20:07:35] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Always, buckaroo
[20:07:49] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Always.
[20:07:54] <✦[rp] Joco Serious> Hug?
[Cinder eagerly gives Joco a hug, their wings wrap around Joco’s shoulders. Joco gives a strong hug back.]