-You walk into the dinner with a cyborg turtle under your arm. You didn't know if this would work...but you were kinds hoping it would. So you approach the person to seat you and ask-
"excuse me, would it be possible to talk to a sprite that no longer exsists if I have his components with me?" -You hold up the turtle a bit- "but without the pain of his last moments as a sprite if possible....oh and some kind of fish stew for me and lettuce on the side for him"
"excuse me, would it be possible to talk to a sprite that no longer exsists if I have his components with me?" -You hold up the turtle a bit- "but without the pain of his last moments as a sprite if possible....oh and some kind of fish stew for me and lettuce on the side for him"
"actually having him in both forms might be interesting if that's alright"
"Oh! Hey Gur! Didn't expect to see you in here today. How's it going?"
-you take a seat with them, setting snappy carefully aside while you waited on his Sprite form and the lettuce for him-
-you take a seat with them, setting snappy carefully aside while you waited on his Sprite form and the lettuce for him-
-You wave over to snappy-sprite pointing to one of the seats next to you-
"Hey snappy over here!"
-Man this was a little weird that you had 3 "versions" of a sort of your sprite all here at the same time. Weird, but also kinda cool-
"Hey snappy over here!"
-Man this was a little weird that you had 3 "versions" of a sort of your sprite all here at the same time. Weird, but also kinda cool-
"Gur, are you jealous? Your suddenly making that face again" -You kid with him- "anyways play nice, snappy helped and protected me for a long time, and he still is my turtle"
-You turn back to snappy-
"I'll explain what happened....prototyping you with the lantern...ended really badly. It was way too much for you to handle, and using it's power...you ejected yourself from the sprite and became a regular turtle again. Then....I prototyped myself to see what happened....and I met my denizen through it. We chatted for a bit...and then I was kicked out of the sprite and it got reset back to it's original non-prototyped form. I tried to see if you wanted in again...but after the lantern incident, you seemed scared of it so I decided not to. Hence why you are also a regular turtle here on the table. After that well I needed a new sprite that would understand the land...so i prototyped a smart golem...and what ended up being a piece of my denizen himself, hence the Gur sprite here behind me, quite literally my denizen in a sprite form"
"However I missed being able to talk to you, so when I found out about this place I asked if they could make that happen but without your pain from the lantern and all that....so i think they grabbed you from time just before we did the lantern thing"
"think I covered everything Gur?"
-You turn back to snappy-
"I'll explain what happened....prototyping you with the lantern...ended really badly. It was way too much for you to handle, and using it's power...you ejected yourself from the sprite and became a regular turtle again. Then....I prototyped myself to see what happened....and I met my denizen through it. We chatted for a bit...and then I was kicked out of the sprite and it got reset back to it's original non-prototyped form. I tried to see if you wanted in again...but after the lantern incident, you seemed scared of it so I decided not to. Hence why you are also a regular turtle here on the table. After that well I needed a new sprite that would understand the land...so i prototyped a smart golem...and what ended up being a piece of my denizen himself, hence the Gur sprite here behind me, quite literally my denizen in a sprite form"
"However I missed being able to talk to you, so when I found out about this place I asked if they could make that happen but without your pain from the lantern and all that....so i think they grabbed you from time just before we did the lantern thing"
"think I covered everything Gur?"
"Well it makes you look grumpy gur, and even as a manifestation It still seems connected to your consciousness and therefore could be argued is a part of your mind"
-You smile over at snappy, and respond to his questions-
"sorry about that, he means well but can be a bit...intense. If you get to know him though he seems like a decent guy" -You look around to see if the food you had ordered for yourself as well had magically appeared yet- "and I've had my ups and downs....been off land alot more, helping out the others with their stuff, did one of Gurs puzzles, I'm alive though. Little you has been mostly relaxing in that pond you made just before the drawing incident, I even caught Gur drawing you once. If you ask him nicely he might even be willing to show you"
-You smile over at snappy, and respond to his questions-
"sorry about that, he means well but can be a bit...intense. If you get to know him though he seems like a decent guy" -You look around to see if the food you had ordered for yourself as well had magically appeared yet- "and I've had my ups and downs....been off land alot more, helping out the others with their stuff, did one of Gurs puzzles, I'm alive though. Little you has been mostly relaxing in that pond you made just before the drawing incident, I even caught Gur drawing you once. If you ask him nicely he might even be willing to show you"
"I'd say it's a good likeness of you, and that's a relief to hear. With everything that's gone on, sometimes I feel more lost than anything else. Even amoung the other players I feel lost a lot...but it's getting easier. Oh! Also I "made" a new friend, literally. A medical AI I made to help regulate my rig, that I created a robotic body for based partially off my own body. I think you'd like him...he's very...chill"
"Yeah, I just don't see the real challange in most mazes. Most of its just wandering around till you find the right path...where's the challange in that? At least your last puzzle was creative"
"big circle slab thingy with a skull symbol....then a bunch of doors. One lead to the puzzle in a city of fractured space....another apparently just leads to death....the others I don't know yet"
"Quest bed?" -you inquire to both of them curiously-
-You quietly and awkwardly eat your stew, feeding the smaller version of your turtle a but of lettuce-
"Nah, your fine Gur. I don't mind having you here at all, as long as snappy's cool with it too. I just...apparently asked the wrong question" -You shrug a bit-
-You carefully look over the details of it-
"wow...thats really detailed. You really seem to like roses don't you Gur? That your theme and all as a denizen?"
-You ask as you consider the painting, then tilting your head at snappy over his expression-
-You ask as you consider the painting, then tilting your head at snappy over his expression-
"huh...actually I kinda had my suspicions on that one, I just wasn't going to say anything. Given your interest with them, and the form the representation of your sleeping mind took....I thought it might be a good possibility you could be either rose themed in your stylings (wich seemed a little more unlikely with your conserved nature), or plant/rose like yourself. Still thats pretty interesting. Hm...wonder if you smell like a real rose too? Do you make pollen? DO you require water and sunlight? Are you heavily rooted? Could you survive in a vase? Where does the rosey plant end and the denizen attributes begin?"
-A single word seems to pass through all of time...space...and possibility to somehow arrive at this very moment and be heard for just a second before vanishing back into the void-
"nerd"
"nerd"
"How interesting. It's too bad I won't remember all of this, I'd love to perform a study on you in greater detail. A sentient plant with such properties would be an amazing learning experience to write on"
-shaking your head with a smile, you turn back to your turtle(s)-
"oh snappy, I also met all the other sprites since we last spoke as well. They are...an interesting bunch"
-shaking your head with a smile, you turn back to your turtle(s)-
"oh snappy, I also met all the other sprites since we last spoke as well. They are...an interesting bunch"
"Alright I'll bite Gur, whats so hush hush"
-Then in response to snappy-
"Um...the wasp one seemed kinda....angry, I thought it was going to kill me the first time I saw it staring at me threw a window....The Lizard one is kinda tough looking but alright, kinda got weird vibes from hobbes while he was around though....oh and speaking of hobbes, the plant sprite seemed pretty nice. I'd love to study them more...but I haven't seen them around much, Hobbes seems to mostly ignore them...huh, with them being a plant, I wonder how well one of your roses would mix with it as a second prototyping gur? I mean, I don't think it's gonna happen, but kind of a neat little idea"
-Then in response to snappy-
"Um...the wasp one seemed kinda....angry, I thought it was going to kill me the first time I saw it staring at me threw a window....The Lizard one is kinda tough looking but alright, kinda got weird vibes from hobbes while he was around though....oh and speaking of hobbes, the plant sprite seemed pretty nice. I'd love to study them more...but I haven't seen them around much, Hobbes seems to mostly ignore them...huh, with them being a plant, I wonder how well one of your roses would mix with it as a second prototyping gur? I mean, I don't think it's gonna happen, but kind of a neat little idea"
"I don't think hobbes had anything planned. I think daxton has an idea...with all the bodies he's been hoarding...but I don't think he'd do so without hobbes's ok"
"and...our hopes huh? Our hope we develop here....but what sort of things here might give us hopes to hold on to? I mean...I get the whole..."mysterious aspect stuff" but from a scientific standpoint alot of this is hard to wrap my head around"
"and...our hopes huh? Our hope we develop here....but what sort of things here might give us hopes to hold on to? I mean...I get the whole..."mysterious aspect stuff" but from a scientific standpoint alot of this is hard to wrap my head around"
"....can I take notes?"
"and yeah...we had a bit of a...rough start, but I think thats how we've been working together as well as we have been"
"and yeah...we had a bit of a...rough start, but I think thats how we've been working together as well as we have been"
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