One of the younger kids from the shive knocks on your door, breathlessly gives their message, and runs off before you can even open it. A friend is asking for your advice on the source interpreter, about some kind of game. Ah, so Apoc has come crawling back, have they?
You head to the shive, which is on the other side of the market square, closer to the lakeshore. The scholar who was occupying the source interpreter is finally gone (as are all the other scholars, weirdly enough) so you can magnanimously receive Apoc's retraction and start the--hm. This isn't Apoc.
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LA: Thanks. I'll wait.
CL: Salaam aleykm, Tahomaz. What brings you to my conversational doorstep? I was expecting AC.
LA: Mariyam, great. It's about this game.
LA: Why were you expecting AC?
CL: I imagine they must be getting impatient. It's been almost an hour since I had to pause our conversation, and I know how eager they were to start the game.
LA: They started playing with Zevvie a while ago, dude. Both of them have taken off to the most poisonous locations they can find, for whatever the angels want with them there.
CL: An, I told them I'd be right back!
LA: Well, you weren't right back, were you?
CL: It makes a little bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy if you say you're not meant to play with me and then go play with someone else as soon as I have to leave for a moment!
LA: So they were doing their prophecy schtick again.
CL: Apparently it's written that they're going to play with Zevvie first. I don't understand why they're so happy to defy the laws of the Name until this stupid book comes into it.
LA: All right I know I baited you into that one, and I'd love to listen to you rip into Apoc for the seven hundredth time, but I do actually want to catch you up on this game.
CL: Don't let me stop you.
LA: If you stop being a jackass, we've got a deal.
LA: So far what we know is that after you make a bridge to the next person, they'll get a map showing your house and somewhere you have to go. So far they've both been places that can kill you, so if you have anywhere like that it's probably where you'll be going. Personally I don't know of anywhere that dangerous near me, but I guess I'll find out.
CL: We're not concerned that these dangerous places will kill them?
LA: This is going to sound real annoying, given that we've spent the last two years making fun of Apoc for saying I've been seeing the future in my dreams, but I'm starting to think it wasn't actually complete nonsense.
CL: I beg your pardon??
LA: Granted. I've gotten what I think is independent confirmation. Zevvie made something that's been showing up in my dreams, and there's absolutely no way I could have seen it somewhere else. It pretty much had to be shown to me by the angels for one purpose or another.
CL: It is supposed to be a very important game. But I still don't believe that they're true visions of the future.
LA: Because you don't believe the future is foreordained.
CL: Certain events... might be predicted, especially by divine beings. I just don't think we'd be shown them without any preparation or intent on our part. If any child can be given such dangerous knowledge, it threatens all order.
LA: That's what I thought, minus the moralizing, but it is kind of hard to think of another solid explanation. Also, we're not children.
CL: You were when you started having these dreams.
LA: Fine, point to you.
CL: Stop keeping score, it's obnoxious. Would you say that most of what you've seen is frightening?
LA: Uh... not really. Sometimes I see us fighting monsters or doing other dangerous stuff, but I wouldn't say it's all that scary.
CL: Perhaps it's only you they're right about. Perhaps my dreams really are something else.
LA: Woah, what? You've been having visions too?
CL: I don't think so. They're just nightmares, and I never remember them. Exorcism never helped, nor any of the amulets I made.
LA: If you never remember them, how do you know they were nightmares?
CL: I don't remember what happened, but I woke up terrified. If that's the future, I'm not looking forward to getting there.
LA: Maybe I'm seeing the cool parts and you're getting the scary parts?
CL: Since I don't remember them they're not actionable anyway, it's a moot point. But what did you see that made AC and Zevvie want to go to such dangerous places?
LA: AC obviously didn't need any encouragement, but I told Zevvie I saw a panacea. Maybe a moshia, in the hands of some kind of spirits. Or angels, I guess. As long as they can find those spirits they can be cured of any poison.
CL: And this is the game?
LA: I guess! I'll be straight with you, I thought we would be playing this game by sitting at our source interpreters, so I have no idea what to expect. We just have to play to find out.
CL: In that case, I'll finish your bridge.
CL: Salaam aleykm, Tahomaz. What brings you to my conversational doorstep? I was expecting AC.
LA: Mariyam, great. It's about this game.
LA: Why were you expecting AC?
CL: I imagine they must be getting impatient. It's been almost an hour since I had to pause our conversation, and I know how eager they were to start the game.
LA: They started playing with Zevvie a while ago, dude. Both of them have taken off to the most poisonous locations they can find, for whatever the angels want with them there.
CL: An, I told them I'd be right back!
LA: Well, you weren't right back, were you?
CL: It makes a little bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy if you say you're not meant to play with me and then go play with someone else as soon as I have to leave for a moment!
LA: So they were doing their prophecy schtick again.
CL: Apparently it's written that they're going to play with Zevvie first. I don't understand why they're so happy to defy the laws of the Name until this stupid book comes into it.
LA: All right I know I baited you into that one, and I'd love to listen to you rip into Apoc for the seven hundredth time, but I do actually want to catch you up on this game.
CL: Don't let me stop you.
LA: If you stop being a jackass, we've got a deal.
LA: So far what we know is that after you make a bridge to the next person, they'll get a map showing your house and somewhere you have to go. So far they've both been places that can kill you, so if you have anywhere like that it's probably where you'll be going. Personally I don't know of anywhere that dangerous near me, but I guess I'll find out.
CL: We're not concerned that these dangerous places will kill them?
LA: This is going to sound real annoying, given that we've spent the last two years making fun of Apoc for saying I've been seeing the future in my dreams, but I'm starting to think it wasn't actually complete nonsense.
CL: I beg your pardon??
LA: Granted. I've gotten what I think is independent confirmation. Zevvie made something that's been showing up in my dreams, and there's absolutely no way I could have seen it somewhere else. It pretty much had to be shown to me by the angels for one purpose or another.
CL: It is supposed to be a very important game. But I still don't believe that they're true visions of the future.
LA: Because you don't believe the future is foreordained.
CL: Certain events... might be predicted, especially by divine beings. I just don't think we'd be shown them without any preparation or intent on our part. If any child can be given such dangerous knowledge, it threatens all order.
LA: That's what I thought, minus the moralizing, but it is kind of hard to think of another solid explanation. Also, we're not children.
CL: You were when you started having these dreams.
LA: Fine, point to you.
CL: Stop keeping score, it's obnoxious. Would you say that most of what you've seen is frightening?
LA: Uh... not really. Sometimes I see us fighting monsters or doing other dangerous stuff, but I wouldn't say it's all that scary.
CL: Perhaps it's only you they're right about. Perhaps my dreams really are something else.
LA: Woah, what? You've been having visions too?
CL: I don't think so. They're just nightmares, and I never remember them. Exorcism never helped, nor any of the amulets I made.
LA: If you never remember them, how do you know they were nightmares?
CL: I don't remember what happened, but I woke up terrified. If that's the future, I'm not looking forward to getting there.
LA: Maybe I'm seeing the cool parts and you're getting the scary parts?
CL: Since I don't remember them they're not actionable anyway, it's a moot point. But what did you see that made AC and Zevvie want to go to such dangerous places?
LA: AC obviously didn't need any encouragement, but I told Zevvie I saw a panacea. Maybe a moshia, in the hands of some kind of spirits. Or angels, I guess. As long as they can find those spirits they can be cured of any poison.
CL: And this is the game?
LA: I guess! I'll be straight with you, I thought we would be playing this game by sitting at our source interpreters, so I have no idea what to expect. We just have to play to find out.
CL: In that case, I'll finish your bridge.