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[ghostlocked]

[It's late when Harlan folds and decides to go to the network for a distraction. He would vastly prefer not to do this, but, well. That's why it's called folding.]

cant sleep.
tell me stories.

[ooc: feel free to threadjack and use this as a sort of storytelling free-for-all!]

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[ghostlocked]

theyre not called valar but their like small time deities ig. demon lords and faeries and shit like that. ancient spirits. etc.
they tend to be really separate from ppl tho. theyre not gonna hang out w. mortals for the most part.
some ppl worship them but i think thats bs.
theyre not gods. theyre just other things in the world. who cares?
ok but how tf did u kno anything abt unicorns then? if u knew enough to hunt them u shouldve known they were sentient. thats like thing number two to learn abt a creature id think.
wtf did u just XD me?
jfc i thought u were from bs fantasy ancient times not fucking 2003.

[so_dark_a_road]

So your demon lords, faeries, ancient spirits or whatever, they don't like mortals?

I agree with you on the nature of what you call the small time deities. They're not gods, they're just other things in the world. Ours never claimed to be gods, though.

And about the unicorns. Elves and Valar lived inside a circle of mountains, and most of the light in the world was inside that circle. That was the "civilized" realm. Outside, beyond the mountains, there was darkness, and it was inhabited by creatures of the darkness. Not all are evil, but all of them are wild, fabulous, mythical beasts. We didn't see unicorns down in the valley, they didn't come down there. We just heard occasional rumors of them, from people who didn't know much about them. My brother and I didn't think of them as being any more sacred than the deer we hunted in the woods.

There's a law against XDing you? XDD

What's the significance of fucking 2003?

[ghostlocked]

some of em dont. some of em do but not in a way thats good for the mortals. lol.
typically theyre just too caught up in their own shit to really care abt us tho. its less that they dont like us and more that we dont matter.
even some elves are like that. we have rly short lifespans by comparison. tough to get attached ive heard.
ok but if theyre all wild fab mythical beasts y would u assume unicorns were the same as deer?
and i havent seen that XD thing since 2003.
or thereabouts.
idk its been a long fuckin time man. u doin that and then talkin abt ye olde times like this shit is disorienting.
stick w. ur fantasy bs. its way fuckin cooler than chatspeak from forever ago.

[so_dark_a_road]

Those demons and whatnot sound like they can be a nuisance.

You have Elves in your world, too? What are they like?

The deer were fairly wild and fabulous, actually. Everything on the continent of the Valar was like that. Magical. It was just a matter of how magical.

The XD thing, heh. Sounds like you feel the same way about old chatspeak as I feel about old-time methods of writing. I haven't often seen another Elf use the runes since my dad invented the Elven-script in 4750 Y.T. That was about 850 solar years ago. But that wouldn't mean any more to you than 2003 means to me. And anyway, who the fuck cares?

I was using the expressions I've seen others use, like a good linguist does. Doesn't matter to me if it was from 2003 if people are still using it. . . whenever 2003 was.

But why is that disorienting to you? And wait, you think the fantasy bullshit is cool? I thought you thought it was just bullshit.

[ghostlocked]

thats an understatement.
uh ime elves tend to be assholes. sounds racist but its true.
and its just my exp. im sure there are nice elves out there. i just never see em.
they mostly keep to themselves. elves only communities and shit.
since they live for fucking ever they look down on other races.
were a waste of their time etc.
thats not racist bc ive had elves actually say that shit to me.
ur right tho. that doesnt mean shit to me.
its disorienting bc that shit is associated w. a specific vibe from my world ig.
if ur just picking it up from shit uve seen other ppl do u dont understand the context of it.
do what u want. it just sounds weird to me bc im from a place where thats a thing. or was a thing.
fantasy bs is fine depending on what it is but p much anything is cooler than early aughts internet slang.