week 3, wednesday w/ steph

[alchemenace]

[ hi steph wherever you are wobbling there varian is, leading her (slowly.) away to the first secluded area he can find. where? fuck you i didn't think that far. He speaks fast and in a hushed tone as he leads her: ]

I know what the Other Side is!

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[alchemenace]

Right. So, for now, we watch the mirrors carefully. Maybe we'll figure out the next step from there.

[vigilantics]

Hopefully you guys will receive another one from them, too.

[alchemenace]

That would be helpful. Maybe then I can figure out what the smudge after seeing is supposed to be.

[ frantically googles ten letter nouns ]

[vigilantics]

Right... and I assume the last three words might go with the mirror thing?

[ ... ]

Not like we have any idea what they could be. Thanks ink.

[alchemenace]

... Yeah.

[ he has no idea either smh ]

Either they were writing in a hurry, or something else messed with the ink.

[vigilantics]

A lot of the words that are blocked are don't seem to be like... too important? So I'm leaning towards none of it was meant to be messed up but it happened anyway.

But you never know.

[alchemenace]

Maybe transport from the Other Side is bad for ink.

[vigilantics]

This does change things though... I always figured this war was more complicated than what Tiger and Dragon were telling us, but...

[ she didn't think beauty and beast would still be involved. ]

[alchemenace]

But it's even more complicated than you thought?

[ mood ]

Beauty and the Beast were from the last iteration of this war. According to what Tiger and Dragon said to me, at least. I. I want to know what happened back then.

[vigilantics]

[ there's a pause. ]

It was Tiger who was killed. Stabbed in the heart in a throne room.

[alchemenace]

[ uhm ]

What?

[vigilantics]

[ she nods her head. ]

It was with a dagger. Someone saw a vision of it.

[alchemenace]

[ hmmmmm ]

... Do you think that's why they were banished? Beauty tried to end things herself?

[vigilantics]

Maybe... well, it didn't work. She came back.

[ and while stephanie had no plans to attempt to murder the crafters, it is still good to know that if anyone did try, that it. apparently would not stick. ]

[alchemenace]

It wouldn't, they've been. They've been doing this for a really long time? They said it was their role in the story, and they didn't decide how it went. There's someone higher up than them, I just know it.

[vigilantics]

Stories are usually written by someone, aren't they?

[ authors exist. ]

[alchemenace]

Right. That's what I think, too. It has to be whoever created this narrative. I asked about it but... obviously, they wouldn't answer.

[vigilantics]

Of course they wouldn't.

[ they probably wouldn't be allowed to

or they just like being vague. who the fuck knows. ]

[alchemenace]

Well, lucky for us, we apparently don't need them to tell us this stuff.

[vigilantics]

Well... we should still try, since it seems like we're going to be spending most of our time trying to figure out what the heck these letters even say.

[alchemenace]

[ what the FUCk is this TEN LETTER WORD ]

No kidding.

[vigilantics]

If you guys got these letters, then other people might too. I guess we should try to figure out who those people are.

[alchemenace]

Yes, I believe there should be at least one more letter like this, but how do we figure it out? I doubt we can just go to people and randomly ask them if they've heard from the Beast likely. [ a beat ] I mean, we can, but we should not.

[vigilantics]

We definitely should not. I guess the best way would be to feed info to people, but even then that's... very dangerous to do if you're not careful?

[alchemenace]

Ha, yeah, no kidding. Especially if there are people dedicated to making Tiger's ending come true.

[ y...yeah ]