A tactful time after Rose's yelling session...

[truerevelation]

Alright.

So ... I ain't gotta tell anyone where we are this time, and from the stuff people were sayin' on the network, returning here ain't the biggest surprise anyone's ever had. Even if we did get the red carpet bit... Yeah, this is Questing Country - magical kinda Liminal Space dreamland. The Oracles over at the table are the best guys to ask about what this place is.

But I figure we still need to work out who is and isn't actually us. Except, uh. Wash.

[That was psychic shouting and his ears are still ringing from it somehow, OK.]

So this is Kanji checking in. Give us a yell if you're hearing this? How you're doing, all that stuff. Or if you've got powers up and goin' here... anyone else been species switched, too?

...But, uh. If you see a guy who looks like my plain Hecatite form, that ain't me. That's my old overlay, and I think he wanted his powers back or something. Hell if I know what mine are right now.

Comments

[fruitknife]

Why would you be species-switched just for showin' up?

Looks like practically everyone but me has some kinda new cute animal. Koro-chan's here, but he's just Koro-chan.

[truerevelation]

There's a thing that goes on where... if you think you need to look some way, or be some way to be a hero and do what needs doin' here, boom. That's what you get. It's how come Naoto does her guy thing.
But ... I dunno if somethin' went wrong for me. Ain't heard anyone else say anything yet...

...Shame Koro-chan ain't the Champion of Fluff or something.

[fruitknife]

Guess it depends on what you think of what you look like right now. [Or what he associates with it, but this is Shinji. If fancy words happen, it's probably because he's talking about Greece and slipping into Helios' speech patterns without thinking about it, which is fuck-off annoying.]

Yeah, if either of us is a goddamn hero it's definitely him.

[truerevelation]

... Didn't mean to talk ya down, man. Maybe something'll hit later?

And... I dunno. Could get used to it? Feelin' alright. But half-Hecatite ain't a thing that's supposed to happen without someone screwin' around in a lab.

[fruitknife]

You didn't. If one of us is a hero, it's Koro-chan. [Shinji's emotional self-image is still pretty damn awful, even after the dungeon.]

That's the rocks, right?

[truerevelation]

Right. Hecatites are the rocks, Gorgons kinda snakey with tentacles, Spartoi spikey and boney, Vodyanoi sort of ... fish... like? And Elves are ... I probably ain't gotta say.

[fruitknife]

Tall elves or short elves? [That much, at least, is worth saying.]

Guess the question is, why would you only wanna be half rock?

[truerevelation]

Tall, I guess? Not super tall, but not like pixie short.

And I didn't even wanna be only half! Can be the full thing just fine after last time. They're good at some shit, bad at other things... quick thinking but fragile as hell. Maybe that's part of it?

[fruitknife]

Faster brain without gettin' smashed to bits? Could be.