... woof...

... Good luck. I... hope what I gave you helps.

... I appreciate the concern. But, in a way... anywhere is an exit, for me. I'm... subject, to the power of memory. It's a curse and blessing. I relive some of my worst moments, often... but at a time like this, I can use the magic in a more helpful manner. Remember myself being somewhere else.

Not a problem. Whatever you're dealing with down here... it sounds like you've more than earned a helping hand. Take care of yourself? And, don't worry about me. I'm good at finding my own way out.

I'll spare you some of mine. Teaching you to make them... it's harder. I'm not the runecrafter that others in my family are. I just... brute force it. (Reaching into his clothes and retrieving some papers. Each is emblazoned with a simple pattern and a large, boxy character of many lines.) (+)

I make them. Wards against intrusion, madness, possession, and outside control. ... A long time ago, I hurt some people very badly, because I was forced to. If my own strength can be used against me, I'm not... worth keeping around. So, I chose to become more than a liability.

... Haunting? If something's wrong with the folk here, it... yeah, it wouldn't affect me. I wear tags on me at all times, papers to protect myself from... external intrusion, and outside forces. It happened once, something similar, and I'm... Paranoid. (+)

(Suffice to say - the creature before her was different. Like into a beast from another land, and large - perhaps only truly comparable in size to a Dreamer of Hallownest, or perhaps even larger. This size, however, limits the stranger somewhat, in this place - something seemingly vexing.) (+)

Only in extreme cases, and... Only the mental state. If I've been feeling the physical pain then I seem to not really register it? But that's probably not right - my pain tolerance isn't THAT high.

Dark. I don’t know if that’s any good but whatever . I am now here and ready to interact I don’t know if people still do this here but ❤️ this for an interaction

Dark. Hi . I’m probably gonna make the whole layout n shit tomorrow . Im too busy playing silksong actively rn LMAO . Wish me luck

Can you two be nice to each other before I become the Joker.

Take me up on it if you change your mind. I have a friend that makes ice forever.

... I get that. I have that effect on people a lot... I usually know others more than they know me. Mind if I get you some cold, then, or are you a bit weak to that?

... there's a few people, I'm talking to. It's... hard. So many things would be so much easier, if we had less to worry about. What's got you shaky? It's only fair I hear your side of things too.

... Every me same me. I'll handle it fine, because he will. It just might take a moment.

I get that too. You're not the first one to voice it, and I'm capable of realizing it's a far more stable method. I just... rationality goes out the window when I see people hurting, y'know?

... No, it didn't. But if it'd had been up to me, I still would have done something. Call it a martyr complex if you want. I prefer it when others don't have to take the pain.

... ah. I'm... sorry. I didn't expect that. The Brownie I know, she was one of the three and a half survivors. Even though she spent half the day trying to eat chocolate. It's... not very fair to you.

. . . (Stern stare slowly fades away to a sort of quiet longing.) ... No, you know what, I can... kind of accept at least a couple timelines not having the Massacre. It'd... be nice, actually. To know that... it didn't happen to everyone.

It's definitely another me related. But not death. Just... stress, pretty sure. I must be having a really bad day if it's carrying over this hard.

... Other possibilities aren't scary. They don't affect the us that we are, right? It's just... it wouldn't be the first time, I've met a version of a friend of mine that isn't the same, in different ways. Weird stuff happens in Kemonotown. But you probably know that just as well as me.

Sibling, theoretically. She's younger than me. Blue eyes. Bolt's a bit younger than her, he has the orange ones. And I have both. I'm just... I think we might... how do I say this? Some of those dreams of mine are about a myself from another world. Things are, just... Different.

No. A curse. It's given me visions of me and all my friends dying horribly for years, despite the period in which the deaths occurred being long past. But... ... Out of curiosity, have you met, or do you know, anyone named Sparky Fritz?

Sparky. And, yeah, I get that, considering it's... what I'm used to from people named Brownie. I was... a bit ready to consider that a person I know was just experimenting with a drastic fashion change, but... your voice sounds different from her. Not different, but... different. (+)

. . . (Headache got half a shade worse. But, at the same time, it suddenly seems not very important.) I don't drink except very rarely, I don't do anything that'd get me withdrawals, and I usually resist food poisoning better because I've been building tolerance to it. Is... that you, Brownie??

... headache...

Ah? Oh, it's... no problem, seriously. See, it didn't even hit me at all - and if it did I would have been fine. ... I don't think there's anything a rock can realistically do to me, actually.

(Walking by... mostly minding his own business.) (Oh, shit, a rock is flying his - - huh. Somehow, before reaching him, it got knocked off course... ?)

"yea man im moving towns i cant with this place anymore dog"

🕶️ “ We’re rebels that play. ” 🔈 “ We don’t play!! We don’t play!! ” [ #DELTARUNERP #UTDRRP #UTRP #DTRP #MVRP ] 🕶️ “ K_K, are we players!? ” 💿 “ ... ” 💿 “ I’m a CD player. ”

Okay, good ! I don't want anyone in the US to look any closer at my town than they already do. Otherwise I fear people will get carted off for experimentation.

I really hope you're talking about someone else.

🩸I mostly just got a feeling of 'light'. Personal grudge might have kicked in.

She was telling you do do WHAT??? Sparky would just kill you.

🩸I endeavour, as always, to be incredibly infuriating. And it seemed like you were talking to someone who had very concrete plans for you. So, what else would be in character but to kick down that house of cards?

🩸If I may put a damper on the excitement to some extent - you were put in this state for a reason, yes? 🩸Perhaps analyse the words of your tormentor and decide a path forward from there.

🩸Call it a hunch. I have the oddest feeling they'll give you an explanation you'll be more than satisfied with.

🩸Temporary powerup, limited use at a time. Either that or it stops happening whenever you get full of yourself. Mindset thing - the death of many a fighter who got ahead of themselves. There's a lot of possibilities with this sort of thing - maybe ask Flower?

🩸Your eye did go a different color, though. Might want to explain why that's happening to Sparky so he doesn't overreact. 🩸Or don't - it'd be really funny.

(Gliding smoothly back from the erupting light, inspecting the display with a smile and an unblinking eye. His gaze flits over the scar - it's glowing, isn't it? And shaped in a familiar pattern.) 🩸... Glorious. For a moment I thought you'd trip at the finish line. Glad to avoid that poor outcome.

(He's planted the seeds of suspicion. That's all he really wanted to do. No need to convince one way or another, that's not his game. But allowing Angel the opportunity to start questioning... that appealed to him.) 🩸Don't let me interrupt the chat. I'm hardly qualified.

🩸I'm afraid, contrary to your thoughts, she's the one that's not letting me listen in. 🩸It's terribly rude of her.

(He ghosts through the air. Settling next to the cat in the dark. An odd grin on his face, even by his standards.) 🩸You know, Angel, I hate to say this, but I feel like you're barely talking to me at all. And yet you're talking to someone.