[Text Post] Wait WHAT?!

[terraboo]

[In the same fine calligraphy as before, the lines slightly rougher as if the writer's hand were shaking, the following message is posted:]

What do you mean we don't even get to keep anything from our journey to that world?

What's the point of going into weird alternate worlds if we can't come out with loot?! Doesn't this place know adventurers have that as the number-three rated motivation for their work?!

There's already so much annoying and problematic about this whole thing, but that on top?!

Damn it, I had plushies and I wanted to keep them...

[The last couple periods drag off down the page a bit...]

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[ohaiyo_isekai]

[He’s laughing. Laina cpuldn’t bring home her seedling plushie and Hikaru is laughing.

With her, where she can’t hear, but still.]

You know, those aren’t difficult to sew. I couldn’t manage a Seedling, the rose petals are too complex, but how do you feel about an austrech or owl-bear?

- 光

[terraboo]

... Right. We can do that.

STILL

[awreck]

I can't believe loot gremlins exist in real life.

What are the top two rated motivations even supposed to be?

[terraboo]

Good for communities is number one, followed by the comically overbroad "it's good work."

[Written with a steadier hand.]

[awreck]

Frontloading the list with the charitable ones does make the loot thing seem less selfish. But what happened to the work being the reward in and of itself? Not that I blame you for wanting loot.

[dovedive]

My guess is that everyone knows an adventure isn't complete without the loot so as per it's hatred for completed items, no loot for the masses.

- Nice
奈斯

[terraboo]

That's terrible.

[dovedive]

Tell me about it. The hatred for completion in this place is driving me insane.

[aetherweaver]

If you draw me a picture I can probably sew you one... I think I've figured out how to make stuff stay around.

[terraboo]

I've been offered this, and I should probably try to create something myself I guess. It's more the act of doing the consumer thing being pulled from me that hurts really.

[aetherweaver]

I can understand that. ... If you want lessons, I can help teach you.

- Nara'a (apologies for not signing my name earlier)

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[angel_of_baal]

...you wanted to bring things back from that horrific experience?

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[terraboo]

L-look I wasn't one of the ones who wound up on the therapy ship thing. I was on entirely different side of the issue and managed to have some vaguely positive experiences amidst the terror of befriending someone and then they suddenly go all weird and then-

[The written note stops for a bit, before:]

I'd have appreciated the chance to make the best of some of it.

[angel_of_baal]

Oh.

[Long pause time, because he hadn't considered that possibility. All he knows is he met his brother who, unlike him, looked very much like himself, and Curze had tried to kill him. Multiple times. Sibling rivalry wasn't supposed to work like that!]

I'm sorry.

The hardest part of life is not letting the memories we cherish become diminished with what comes after. [His pride in his Legion, his affection for his brother Horus, and Horus's betrayal of a secret... it was hard to deal with.] Anything you craft here would possibly not do the work you want, as it would be a mere simulacrum of what you valued. But you can maybe have more of those experiences here.

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[defyingreality]

Oh hard agree. What's the fun of any game if you can't bring home a prize?

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[terraboo]

Mind, given all the chaos that happened in that story... What game does this place play?

[She's FROM a game, so this definitely shifts her thinking.]

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[defyingreality]

Reality isn't as dried cut as people assume it is?

Honestly though, I wouldn't know. I spent most of my time hanging out on a roof going 'amazing' at every single thing people were doing.

[text]

[bestofall]

[In flowery script:]

I too am outraged! My hopes and dreams are dashed in a world without wheeled shoes.

- Festival, King of Entertainers

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[terraboo]

... Oh, right, rollerblades were a thing.

[She may have managed to miss the existence of Heelys entirely.]

It's just. REALLY annoying.

[text]

[bestofall]

Is that what those wondrous devices were called? It sounds so...violent! Were you also robbed of the gods' chariots for your lovely feet?

- Festival, Entertainer of Kings

[aetherialshackles]

[Erich's people are hardly materialistic, but he gets it. He was fascinated by some items he gathered during the little jouney and now they're gone.]

Your choice of words is fascinating
yet I do understand your point of view.

As for 'plushies', don't you think it'd be possible to recreate them?

- Erichthonios

[terraboo]

[Laina's own views may be colored by her sense of adventurer social expectations.]

I'm a girl from a sailboat-age society who was taught on the memes of the post-information-age due to a weird divine cursblessing, if I'm not managing interesting choice of words, what even is my life?

... Cursblessing makes me think of turducken.

[aetherialshackles]

Oh, I do at least know what a turducken is. Quite the fascinating creature, when I was young I was chased by one. I think their concept was then re-elaborated into various multi-head creatures-

I may be rambling about it because it's the only thing I truly understood between the many you said. Well, beside your gender and your affinity for living at sea.

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[scienceofthearcane]

[ The handwriting is jagged, but Viktor is actually making an effort, so it's still legible. ]

I think part of the magic that created the library would be the same kind of magic that gets created when you read. If you are reading about something, you wouldn't have the physical object that's described to take with you.

- Viktor

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[terraboo]

... That's logical. I mean, sure.

It still sucks.

- Laina Guthart