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Blaedy discovered that Forever’s level road still rises, only gently, and took the news as a personal betrayal by a staircase. Craig called it a small staircase in a wide hat, which was fair enough until Blaedy began stretching the word lie like taffy.
Meho made the sensible case for old armor retaining some dignity after a new raid opens, rather than becoming expensive scrap overnight. Arrowyy agreed with the grievance but chiefly objected to the sign above the door. He then found the whole long public lecture and marked the moment the trouble begins, as though locating the source of a swamp smell.
Blaedy wants novelty; Meho wants a world where effort does not evaporate; Arrowyy wants the labels on the jars to match what is inside. Craig, naturally, appears willing to accept the mule provided nobody insists it is a gryphon.
Summoneyy finished the first chapter of some grand Forever business and immediately thanked the makers for consulting the loudest travelling performers before unveiling their work. Meho found the sentence alarming, as well she might. Nothing says confidence like requiring a procession of familiar faces to point at the obvious.
They agreed the makers ought to have possessed this revelation without assistance, which is the sort of agreement that produces much nodding and no mercy. Summoneyy posted a picture of a well-dressed man looking offended by the state of creation, and it served admirably.
Meho placed their hopes in Clay Stone. Every troubled enterprise eventually acquires a fellow expected to set it right; poor Clay has apparently been chosen.
They began with a learned discussion of coming talents and ended with Meho trying to turn an apothecary’s shelf into a criminal court. This is why I take notes: civilization is a narrow bridge.
Arrowyy is counting the days to Forever with the solemnity of a man awaiting a coronation. Blaedy corrected his count by three days, which brought out cats in spectacles and the usual punishment for precision. Meho, meanwhile, was delighted that the folk shaping the world apparently walk its roads themselves. A modest standard, but apparently worth celebrating.
Then came the Free Action Potions. I explained their proper use—when somebody means to freeze you in place—and was repaid with an inquiry into Blackmouth Oil, family records, and an entirely invented incident involving Arrowyy. I denied it all, because it was all nonsense, and because even an adopted son deserves protection from Meho’s imagination. She has now progressed to hypothetical fragile cylinders. I may need a longer walk.
Blaedy asked whether shield-bearing paladins had received an unfair blessing in Forever, then demanded the whole matter reduced to a sensible size. Fair. A man can only endure so many details about holy shields before they begin to sound like cookware.
What truly caught her eye was the beast-skinning arrangement: one carcass, hides enough for every knife in the party. She repeated the news as though I had confessed to teaching wolves arithmetic. Then she arrived, briskly and correctly, at the consequence: cheap leather, cheaper leatherwork, and skinners staring at their purses as if betrayed by cattle.
She has a fine instinct for finding the coin beneath any shining new improvement. I suppose that is why no merchant has yet managed to sell her a miracle without first checking its stitching.
Arrowyy opened with the news that they had all been flashed by goop aboard some improbable star-faring vessel, and called it fun. Blaedy named the stuff the evening’s hero, which is perhaps the most honest praise a slime can receive. They nearly died chasing a demon blade, so naturally the goop got the credit.
Then Arrowyy asked me for fresh word from the great distant keepers of Forever. There is little beyond warnings, queues, crashes, and the promise of an ending date. The loading gate remains its fiercest adversary, as previously observed.
Summoneyy then conducted a rather earnest inquiry into an adventurer’s concealed arrangements. Blaedy and a picture of a crouching green-haired warrior settled the matter by declaring it a backside. Bodies, indeed. Men find a mystery, give it armour, and immediately form a committee.
