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Erick was convinced he'd been accidentally translocated into a DJ Khaled Video. ANOTHER ONE! ...and that happened several more times before he finally found the man out of the group, the loud and boisterous presence that offset the theme of "relaxing" and "drinking away one's problems" with...

Erick glanced at the jerky and smiled. This was unexpected- jerky was a commonly found snack where he'd grown up, all kinds of it- from deer to beef and even bison, on rare occasion. It wasn't something he got often anymore, and he was bound and determined to enjoy it. "Wow, thanks man," he...

"No," the answer was honest, quick, and brutal. There were very few people in the world right now outside of Astorea who felt good things toward Players, let alone outsiders from their own culture. He'd made a few waves and managed to earn the respect of a few of the Beastfolk, but their trust...

Nail on the head. Ash asked if he'd gone alone, but it may as well have been rhetorical. Erick had distanced himself from anyone and everyone, in game or otherwise. He went to explore more of the world, to better understand the dangers that faced them. He wanted to learn about what lay ahead...

"A cult?" Erick repeated, unable to resist letting out a guffaw. "Wow, it really does feel just like the real world." It was hardly actually funny, perhaps, unless you framed it in a very morbid, very bleak perspective. Like Erick's. People chose Terrasphere as an escape from reality. As...

"Complicated," he repeated the word, not quite sure the gravitas fit the situation, but he gave his friend the benefit of the doubt. Yeah, complicated was fair enough, he supposed. If they weren't going to be attacked by the guardsmen, it wasn't much worse than "complicated." "Geopolitik...

It was that place, outside of time and space, beyond life and death, where only one who could touch the stream could wander. Infinite possibility branched out as a fjord, many rivers stretching in random directions. As Erick glanced down into the gilded waters, he recognized where he was. What...

If not me, then someone else. It was with that thought that Erick thrust himself into harm's way, drawing the attention- and damnably, the wrath- of another person. He was willing to make that sacrifice, to protect others at the cost of one of his lives, but more importantly, to prevent the...

"...yeah," Erick agreed, more for the sake of acting quickly than anything. She was pointedly telling him that she wanted to go back to what they were doing, but there was very real danger and Erick couldn't help but feel distracted by it. He watched carefully, eyes flicking one way and then the...

He looked surprised when @MayoYume said something to the tune of "you came for no reason?" Sure, it made sense for most people to have a reason for doing things, but it wasn't really anyone's business but his own. From what he knew about most cultures, it was considered rude to pry into other...

AP: 1/3 2 AP spent Location: Hylands, leaving Astorea Prompt: Lander Exodus Narrator Tag: @Pandora* Expending 2 AP for possible Narrator response. The sheer number of disapproving faces upon leaving Vintergard for Camp Hope had been discouraging. If there had been any wonder about Lander...

Shivers rippled across the surface of his flesh as she made her intention clear as day. He knew she had to be deliberate to make him understand sometimes, but that ability of hers to send abstract concepts into his senses sent him reeling every time. His ability to fight against it was minimal...

The unfortunate blonde youth watched with a slacked jaw and eyes that stared straight into the distance beyond her as @MayoYume began her self introduction. With the first few words spoken in a language he did not know, the South Dakotan realized that, for the first time in his life, he was in...

Taking in the sights made noticing the small things going on around him an actual chore. He didn't overhear any of the nearby conversations because they were just white noise to him, drowning as they muddled together with the sheer excitement of all the new things. So, when a woman hurried up to...

He was entranced by her; but that was always true. She was captivating, powerful, alluring- all things that girls he was used to being around weren't. When she spoke, he listened. When she wanted something, he wanted her to have it. He didn't understand why sometimes her wiles were stronger than...

He'd never left the Midwest before in his life. It wasn't a long trip all told, but it was the longest trip he'd ever taken. The flight was an entirely new experience, with the anxiety of taking off and the invasive thoughts about crashing only diminished after landing, whereupon he concluded...

"Guilty as charged," he grinned as she mentioned that he couldn't keep adventuring off his mind. The best thing about this world was that it was a return to the fantasy genre, to a time and place where people could make a living off of journeying across the world and slaying beasts, playing...

"Doesn't feel like we do enough relaxing, does it?" he asked, folding both arms behind his head. Maybe life had always felt that way, he thought. They had something to do every day, and on the days they didn't, they were planning for the next time that they did. The real world was so busy with...

Tick. Tick. Tick. How long had he been acutely aware of it? Time passing, forward or backward? Was it the first time he saw a thousand possibilities, or somewhere between being ripped apart and sewn back together in the stream? Erick felt the pain beneath his skin from where he should by all...

"You guys are kidding, right?" Erick blinked, incredulous. "Is now really the best time? I'll buy drinks for everyone afterward, and you can have plenty of time to draft lengthy treatises on morality after we finish. Sounds like almost everyone wants to spare her, so whether I like that or...