[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

[awreck]

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

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

[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]

... Right. We can do that.

STILL

[terraboo]

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

[Written with a steadier hand.]

[terraboo]

That's terrible.

[dovedive]

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

[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.

[terraboo]

The weird part is it's only so consistent. There's plenty of finished things here - shelves and our beds, for example. It's like it only provides things needed to finish things?

So that's really odd.

[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?

[dovedive]

Huh. Now that you mention it...

I've been so focused on the frustrating things I couldn't have completed that something so obvious went right past me. I wonder if there's some kind of rhyme or reason for what they will allow finished.

[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]

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...

[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.

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[angel_of_baal]

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

[terraboo]

So far it seems like what is complete is things that are most needed to be complete to function. Sleep, food, clothing by most reasonable definitions.

Re: text

[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.

[aetherweaver]

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

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

[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]

Oh right I should sign too huh.

That might be good at some point. There seems to be skill training going???

- Laina Guthart

[aetherweaver]

Yes, there is - though I think that's for skills related to the library. As for weaving, I'm quite good at that myself.

[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.

[dovedive]

So when you put that sort of logic onto it, this place has the possibility to make more sense than it first seemed.

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[defyingreality]

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