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[purrtagonist]

Soooo how's everyone feeling?

[THIS MESSAGE HAS A PURPOSE HE SWEARS]

Serious question, by the way. I talked to Astoria as soon as we got back, and she was pretty worried about the way I. . . felt to her?

[GOD PUTTING IT THAT WAY SOUND WEIRD]

She said that I brought something back with me from Struxta. Something dark, evil, heavy. . . wrong? I don't know about you guys but absolutely none of that is confidence inspiring. Wonder why.

[AHA]

She also told me that the wilting plants around the temple aren't normal. "Everything here seems to be just here. Present, alive, blooming," is what she said, word for word. She's never seen anything here die before.

[. . .]

I don't really know what she's talking about, especially because I feel just fine. I don't think she does yet either, though I imagine she's going to investigate. Just be careful, all right? And if you notice anything off about yourself, let me or someone else know.






Because if we all came back possessed by space demons or infected by robot tuberculosis I'm gonna be pretty pissed.

Comments

[purrtagonist]

Twice the entire time we were there?

[NOCTIS!! how did you not starve!!]

And now you're just focusing on semantics.

[reeliable]

[He was fed in his sleep likely, it's not like there was any taste and he couldn't very well die of starvation.]

Maybe it was so bad I blocked it out of my memory except for those times.

Hahaha, it's worth a thought!

Look, whatever Astoria was worried about, maybe it's just the rough shape most of us are in that affects the place. A lot of us went hungry or had a hard time in Struxta.

Magic is what connects us here, so maybe that's why the plants are having a similarly rough time. I don't know if that's how it works for sure, but it makes sense to me as someone who used to use magic.

[purrtagonist]

[THANK GOD FOR REAL FOOD]

Selective memory retention? Yeah, I'd buy that.

[the gray stuff was REALLY BAD]

And maybe. . . but we were all in pretty rough shape after El Minha, too. She didn't sense anything on me back then.

[reeliable]

Considering how much I don't even like to eat vegetables, I could stand to forget about the goop forever anytime now.

Maybe we're traveling too fast, zipping between worlds? Like motion sickness, for how quickly we're there and then we're not. Though we would have felt it after El Minha too then, huh..

[Now he's thinking harder about it, even if this lame cold is making it hard to concentrate.]

[purrtagonist]

Yeah. I'm pretty sure it's something we specifically picked up in Struxta.

[which. fun!!]

For now, I guess all we can really do is keep an eye out for other abnormalities.

[reeliable]

[Thanks Struxta for roborabies pnemonia.]

I don't suppose we have any doctors or healers in the Temple, do we?

[purrtagonist]

[ROBERCULOSIS]

I'm not sure about doctors, but I DO think we've got a couple people with healing magic.

[reeliable]

I wonder if they could help, if anyones health gets worse, or if it's magic that can only heal injuries.

[purrtagonist]

It doesn't hurt to ask them to try.