[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...]

Comments

[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.

[terraboo]

I mean, in this case, it's stuff I purchased, with money, so a bit different than dungeon shinies, the backbone of the high-level adventuring economy.

So even stuff acquired that way is a no-go.

[awreck]

Damn. That does suck. I guess I can understand why we can't keep things in general, but if it was on our person in the end, it seems logical to assume it could maybe come with you?

What kind of plushies did you end up buying in the story?

[terraboo]

A couple pieces based on anime that I watched.

Skipping the details, it was my first chance to do anything like that, being from a different timeframe, so it was kinda special and having the actual items torn away hurt quite a bit as a result...

[awreck]

[ Wreck is starting to understand that a good chunk of the Editors here are just nerds. Which makes sense, given that... well, it's a library. ]

Yeah, I can see why in that case. I know it wouldn't be the same, but you could always have one made here? If us getting sucked into stories is going to be a regular thing, you could even use it as a way to document each story by having a plushie made for each story.

[terraboo]

Certainly an interesting idea. It seems we can also maintain a log, so long as it's one that can't be complete unless and until we're done.

[She's definitely tempted by being able to make things...]

[awreck]

I think in fairness, as long as we're stuck here, any log we keep will always be incomplete I think.

Oh, and you know, while it doesn't have the same physicality to it, you could keep a sketchbook. Then you could sketch out memories of your time in the story. I know it's not the same as getting to keep something from the story itself, but that comes kind of close, doesn't it?

[terraboo]

That's actually a good idea I should consider, true.

And yeah... The 'completeness' thing is. A thing.

[awreck]

Does it bother you? The 'completeness' thing being a 'thing.'

[terraboo]

Yes. Mostly because defining 'complete' seems really oddly arbitrary and a whole lot of things in this place seem fine.