The Longest Thread (Misadventures)

[Bird Furious she/her/un/important]

4 minutes ago, Dragonheir said:

“I do pretend. Even I barely know whether I’m a good person or a bad person underneath. And the only way for me to truly fail is to die.” 

The grooves had more give than the ones his father made, almost as though they might move around. When he let the cylinder run, in a mostly comprehensible chord it said “Mr. Whitlock?”, then seized up. 
“Because you’re the only person who understands me and hasn’t tried to betray me. That count for so much.” 
“It’s true. Narrators usually get to pick their names, so I decided to make a joke about Abstract’s effects on me.” 

Yeah, it was Inversion, but a witch doctor (if I recall) said it had the same effects as Mordite. 
Yup, except Rebus doesn’t bleed. Him ending up as a Fallen, though, is quite honestly an alarming prospect, given the fact that he can unleash grey goo (or worse, controlled self-replicating nanomachines that also build weapons). 
That was useful, though it would be much more so if Hacob wasn’t missing. 

"You're missing the point. We see through your pretend. You don't have any substance to you, at least not visible. You're not scary in the least, in any way!"

"Hi?" Snow said inquisitively. 

"I don't have a reason to betray you. I like you." 

"Abstract?" 

 

[Through The Living Glass She/They]

24 minutes ago, Bird Furious said:

she wouldn't have physically run into one but yes, there is a nullifying field so she would lose her disguise and such 

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm so like she wouldn't be able to narrate anymore right

so she would feel it

[Immortal Platypus]

18 minutes ago, CoderDrag0n8 said:

They can with their own.

how?

[CoderDrag0n8 He/They]

Just now, Immortal Platypus said:

how?

Uhhhh. Idk.

[Kansas Stormcursed he/him]

12 hours ago, epl2 said:

"So, are the voices different now?" Taeidin asks Cep. 

"There's less of 'em, an' they're a bit quieter. And...ah can almost remember what ah was doin' before ah woke up with the voices...ah was walkin along in a forest somewhere...an' mah head was quiet..." Cep trails off and shakes his head. "But ah can't remember anythin' else."

[Bird Furious she/her/un/important]

4 minutes ago, Through The Living Glass said:

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm so like she wouldn't be able to narrate anymore right

so she would feel it

I feel like she wouldn't unless she tried, but maybe. Up to you. 

[Through The Living Glass She/They]

4 minutes ago, Bird Furious said:

I feel like she wouldn't unless she tried, but maybe. Up to you. 

I mean but like-

idk lol

'Cus when she touched Nullite it Nullified her and she had a panic attack

So if she can feel that her Narration is being Nullified, then yeah she'd react the same

[Through the Living Heir he/him]

15 minutes ago, Immortal Platypus said:

Well, as long as the right people work together, I'm confident he could be contained.

It was probably a coincidence. wink wink  

Contained, yes. He’d do some damage, though, and probably AI-box experiment his way out unless they tried to kill him. 
No, it was not. Rebus sent the compass drone into the Dark field, wondering what would happen. 

14 minutes ago, Bird Furious said:

"You're missing the point. We see through your pretend. You don't have any substance to you, at least not visible. You're not scary in the least, in any way!"

"Hi?" Snow said inquisitively. 

"I don't have a reason to betray you. I like you." 

"Abstract?" 

Just in time, Rebus remembered that violence was not allowed at the party.  He compartmentalized his frustration, though perhaps once the party was over he could show the man what he could really do. “Visible isn’t something I can provide. All I have are words on a page, unfortunately… So I need better weapons, different substance. And I need plans, preparation.” 
The cylinder started up again. “Hello. I don’t think you’re Mr. - or is it Dr. Whitlock, but I’d be glad to talk to you.” 
Rebus smiled. It was a weird thing to be happy about, but it did make him happy. “And I don’t have a reason to betray you, either. Honestly, even if I did I probably wouldn’t. Because I like you.” 
“The weapon the Dreamsmith made me - don’t worry, by the way, he’ll come back eventually. It lets me do things with concepts, but to break my word might make me magically untrustworthy or even unable to speak.” 
I shall go to sleep now. See you tomorrow! 

[Bird Furious she/her/un/important]

12 minutes ago, Through The Living Glass said:

I mean but like-

idk lol

'Cus when she touched Nullite it Nullified her and she had a panic attack

So if she can feel that her Narration is being Nullified, then yeah she'd react the same

Up to you 

Honestly idk and don't really care either way

11 minutes ago, Dragonheir said:

Contained, yes. He’d do some damage, though, and probably AI-box experiment his way out unless they tried to kill him. 
No, it was not. Rebus sent the compass drone into the Dark field, wondering what would happen. 

Just in time, Rebus remembered that violence was not allowed at the party.  He compartmentalized his frustration, though perhaps once the party was over he could show the man what he could really do. “Visible isn’t something I can provide. All I have are words on a page, unfortunately… So I need better weapons, different substance. And I need plans, preparation.” 
The cylinder started up again. “Hello. I don’t think you’re Mr. - or is it Dr. Whitlock, but I’d be glad to talk to you.” 
Rebus smiled. It was a weird thing to be happy about, but it did make him happy. “And I don’t have a reason to betray you, either. Honestly, even if I did I probably wouldn’t. Because I like you.” 
“The weapon the Dreamsmith made me - don’t worry, by the way, he’ll come back eventually. It lets me do things with concepts, but to break my word might make me magically untrustworthy or even unable to speak.” 
I shall go to sleep now. See you tomorrow! 

Xanther smirked. "I see you can't take a little personality. My dear boy, you need to hint at something, or everyone will be completely taken off guard when apparently they have to pay attention to something. I'm trying to help you, though I suppose, if you can't take the truth, I'll just go freeze your Protagonist in Carbonite and make you find someone new." He paused. "Actually, I wouldn't. He's no threat to me anyway, so it hardly matters that you're distracting me." 

Snow giggled. "Hi," he said again, shyly. 

"That's good to hear. Even if I'm not sure I believe you." 

"Huh," she said. "So... when do I get mine?" 

Edited May 1, 2025 by Bird Furious

[Through The Living Glass She/They]

6 minutes ago, Bird Furious said:

Up to you 

Honestly idk and don't really care either way

*hug*

okay

Tam touched the Nullifying field and gasped, jerking backwards.

She grit her teeth and clutched her hands together for a moment before relaxing.

". . . Bat . . . Bat! Wait!"

[Bird Furious she/her/un/important]

6 minutes ago, Through The Living Glass said:

*hug*

okay

Tam touched the Nullifying field and gasped, jerking backwards.

She grit her teeth and clutched her hands together for a moment before relaxing.

". . . Bat . . . Bat! Wait!"

He looked back, then came reluctantly to a stop. The fire in his veins just wanted to keep running, keep moving. There was so much potential that wasn't being used... 

"What?" 

[Through The Living Glass She/They]

2 minutes ago, Bird Furious said:

He looked back, then came reluctantly to a stop. The fire in his veins just wanted to keep running, keep moving. There was so much potential that wasn't being used... 

"What?" 

She looked away, slightly panicked but mostly ashamed.

"I can't go down there . . ."

[Bird Furious she/her/un/important]

10 minutes ago, Through The Living Glass said:

She looked away, slightly panicked but mostly ashamed.

"I can't go down there . . ."

"Is... is there a barrier?" 

[Through The Living Glass She/They]

1 hour ago, Bird Furious said:

"Is... is there a barrier?" 

She bit her tongue and nodded.

Edited May 1, 2025 by Through The Living Glass

[Bird Furious she/her/un/important]

39 minutes ago, Through The Living Glass said:

She bit her tongue and nodded.

He stepped back in her direction, hesitated, and jogged over. 

“Like… physically, you can’t come? Or is it… you know?”

Edited May 1, 2025 by Bird Furious

[Immortal Platypus]

10 hours ago, CoderDrag0n8 said:

Uhhhh. Idk.

that's what I'm saying. there needs to be some explanation for things. (Back when I did the most, we didn't need as much of an explanation, but nowadays Glass and Haly and people like keeping things consistent )

10 hours ago, Dragonheir said:

Contained, yes. He’d do some damage, though, and probably AI-box experiment his way out unless they tried to kill him. 
No, it was not. Rebus sent the compass drone into the Dark field, wondering what would happen. 

Just in time, Rebus remembered that violence was not allowed at the party.  He compartmentalized his frustration, though perhaps once the party was over he could show the man what he could really do. “Visible isn’t something I can provide. All I have are words on a page, unfortunately… So I need better weapons, different substance. And I need plans, preparation.” 
The cylinder started up again. “Hello. I don’t think you’re Mr. - or is it Dr. Whitlock, but I’d be glad to talk to you.” 
Rebus smiled. It was a weird thing to be happy about, but it did make him happy. “And I don’t have a reason to betray you, either. Honestly, even if I did I probably wouldn’t. Because I like you.” 
“The weapon the Dreamsmith made me - don’t worry, by the way, he’ll come back eventually. It lets me do things with concepts, but to break my word might make me magically untrustworthy or even unable to speak.” 
I shall go to sleep now. See you tomorrow! 

Well, they would probably either try to kill him or lock him up like the Witherlord, and I doubt he could escape from that.

The Prismite was ejected from the drone with considerable force as the drone approached the field.

[Through The Living Glass She/They]

7 hours ago, Bird Furious said:

He stepped back in her direction, hesitated, and jogged over. 

“Like… physically, you can’t come? Or is it… you know?”

She laughed anxiously.

"Not the first one."

Just now, Immortal Platypus said:

that's what I'm saying. there needs to be some explanation for things. (Back when I did the most, we didn't need as much of an explanation, but nowadays Glass and Haly and people like keeping things consistent )

WE DO WE REALLY DO

*cough*

[Immortal Platypus]

11 minutes ago, Through The Living Glass said:

She laughed anxiously.

"Not the first one."

WE DO WE REALLY DO

*cough*

I think it's far funnier where you just have to have a kind of possible explanation for things, but that doesn't work as well in a plot-based time *cough cough*

[xinoehp512 he/him]

On 4/29/2025 at 2:01 PM, Hawks said:

Cade looked at his hand then at him. “THE HELL!” He growled and wind flared around him as horns appeared on his head. 

“Cade stop your not gonna win….” 

“Shut it sera!! Leave your sorry *beep* out of this!!”

Bacon blinked and scrubbed out his ear. "Wow. So that's what profanity sounds like. So, Sera, what sorts of good deeds have you been perpetuating?"

On 4/29/2025 at 2:36 PM, Bird Furious said:

"They must have!" He stalked through the streets back to where he remembered they'd arrived. "It was right there. Now there's nothing but stone!" 

"Not at all, Sequence!" Symbol replied. "It's still going on." 

Symbol blinked, feeling drowsy. "Hmm?" 

She shrugged, then offered him her arm. "Go ahead. Perhaps it will provide opportunity for character development." 

Bacon gasped. "Temptress! I fear lest my partaking saps me of all my humanity!"

On 4/29/2025 at 5:18 PM, Dragonheir said:

Rebus refilled the drink and waited to see if the relevant Author would write in a body. 

Rebus chuckled a little, thinking of his outfit - and what he had just done. He didn’t say anything, though. 

Rebus was a little sad about all those thoughts. She may have been right - certainly at the beginning of their relationship he had been simply trying to benefit himself - but that didn’t mean that causing her emotional pain and watching Lady Bug do the same made him feel good. In fact, it made him feel guilty for the first time in quite a while. 

“Not that I know. I cannot lie, actually - it would literally break my word.” 

Rebus probably should have expected that. He put the compass on a little drone and moved it away from the Narrator interference. 

The young man who had been thinking at Bacon came over to speak to him. “He does make sense, in a way. You simply have to jump to several conclusions, follow an addled chain of free association, determine what is legitimate figgldygrak, and then put together the resulting rebus in a way that makes sense. Earlier, for instance, he was saying that rather than a directive, he was inverted and rooted - in other words, especially imaginary.” 
Meat stabbed him with Nonsense, and went hurdling off into the distance. “Telekinetic parkour typos? It’s him in a way.” 

Alright. Let’s get you an idea, then! Perhaps we can make a list of properties that fluctuate continuously, and then ones that do not. 

"Wow!" says Bacon. "That sounds like a lot of work." He chewed his smore thoughtfully. "So, what did that last sentence mean?"

On 4/29/2025 at 5:27 PM, TwinStorm said:

by the fact he played him new eyes

"Thanks." he smiled.

@Bird Furious did you respond to this?

Oh, I see. It's just a way that Bacon Narrates sometimes, what with being a bard and all.

"No problemo! If you need any new organs, just let me know. I've heard electroreceptors are all the rage."

[Keke They/he]

4 minutes ago, xinoehp512 said:

Bacon blinked and scrubbed out his ear. "Wow. So that's what profanity sounds like. So, Sera, what sorts of good deeds have you been perpetuating?

she scrunched her face confused "perpetuating... i just... help people. And keep cade undercontrol."

[Through The Living Ash he/him]

12 hours ago, Kaladin Stormcursed said:

"There's less of 'em, an' they're a bit quieter. And...ah can almost remember what ah was doin' before ah woke up with the voices...ah was walkin along in a forest somewhere...an' mah head was quiet..." Cep trails off and shakes his head. "But ah can't remember anythin' else."

"So there was a specific event?" 

18 hours ago, Dragonheir said:

Chaotic Darkness’s magic system boils down to “disintegrate everything I touch and everything in that direction”, with some additional corruption-related mechanics (turn people into withergeists through exposure to Chaotic Darkness and mess up magic systems someone corrupted already has, mainly). It messes with your mind and makes you want to destroy things, and slowly eats away at the souls of those it makes contact with, preventing wounds it inflict from being healed. Uh, and I believe one can bond with a withergeist to order them around and use the powers without being annihilated, at the cost of the slow corruption of your mind and soul, eventually making you an new withergeist. The Witherlord (the most powerful incarnation of Chaotic Darkness) has a few other powers I don’t know much about, but I’m not sure they’d be Shaping. 
That being said the Fragment of Corruption does sound like Chaotic Darkness, even if Shaping is just Chaotic, not Dark. 

The ceiling was now the floor - Taeidin was still standing on it, but it was right-side up. “Time is different there, true - years pass with those two words, while instants can warrant endless description and Authors can leave for a time and pick up the story again as though nothing had happened here. But they have merely one dimension of time, and the medium Narration uses is quite like that of their control. I can bring you briefly into Thread Perception, if you wish.” 

Rebus sent a tendril of nigh-invisible utility fog to investigate. 
Very true - I think Platypus, Thread extraction devices, time travel, Essence switching, and Balancium are the only sources. But unless you’re already a Narrator, where are you gonna get Prismite? 

"I do wish." 

[THE SEER OF ALL genderfluid]

Scale lays down “uhhhggg, I’m tired “

[Kansas Stormcursed he/him]

12 minutes ago, epl2 said:

"So there was a specific event?" 

"I do wish." 

"Ah guess so...but ah don' remember what exactly. Ah guess this is a start, though. Maybe ah can somehow get the rest o' my memories back somehow. At least ah hope. Ah'm not sure how, though." Cep shakes his head and frowns at the floor, thinking.

[CoderDrag0n8 He/They]

2 hours ago, Immortal Platypus said:

that's what I'm saying. there needs to be some explanation for things. (Back when I did the most, we didn't need as much of an explanation, but nowadays Glass and Haly and people like keeping things consistent )

Well, they would probably either try to kill him or lock him up like the Witherlord, and I doubt he could escape from that.

The Prismite was ejected from the drone with considerable force as the drone approached the field.

2 hours ago, Through The Living Glass said:

She laughed anxiously.

"Not the first one."

WE DO WE REALLY DO

*cough*

2 hours ago, Immortal Platypus said:

I think it's far funnier where you just have to have a kind of possible explanation for things, but that doesn't work as well in a plot-based time *cough cough*

That's why I made CoderDrag0n8landia. One of its rules is basically: No rules.

And... There are like 2 RP disasters that I am handling right now, Ill get back to you more later.

[Through The Living Ash he/him]

28 minutes ago, Kaladin Stormcursed said:

"Ah guess so...but ah don' remember what exactly. Ah guess this is a start, though. Maybe ah can somehow get the rest o' my memories back somehow. At least ah hope. Ah'm not sure how, though." Cep shakes his head and frowns at the floor, thinking.

"Maybe I can help."