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W-we - HA!!! - i-it’s, we have! We, I, w-we have g-guests!! We have p-people, in - in our -- asking us!! I h-HAVE t-them back, they’re back!! O-oh, they, they’re b-back after s-so so long, t-they’re.... they’re BACK!!
H-ha HA HAHA HAAA!!! HAAAAA!!!! THEY’RE BACK!!! Oh, oh, I, we, I c-can’t believe it, after - after s-so so long, after SO long, they’re b-back and --
A-ah ah ahh!!! We, we c-can’t, we can’t believe it!!! HA!!!!!
Haa... ha ha.... .. hm?
..... w-what are, what do you mean? Y-you’re so, so tricky today. I, I suppose it’s been a long time now, but we... we talked, it hasn’t been since the.... the beginning. Unless you mean, of the end, in which case y-yeah... how many years has it -
...... ...... “dash”....?
.... w-wait a - wait a sec -
..... ...... t-they’re.... they ....... oh my g-god.
It’s not a trick? Is it, it’s not just, oh - oh my -
- y-you better not be - HA!! It’s, it’s -- really?!
.....d-dear, we have - we have guests!
....are we - are we sleeping? Ha.... ha ha! Haha ha ha!! HA!!
.... ah ha ha... oh, uhm.
Don’t know, to be... to be honest, dear. To be.... we don’t know. Are we? Oh, how do... how do you know you’re not, ever? We haven’t slept in such a long time, or maybe we’re always asleep, maybe we’ve never woken up.
I believe those are called... nightmares, you know!
Haaaa.... ha ha ha....
.... o-oh! Oh, sorry. I f-forgot I had them closed, uhm. Sorry.
It... it bothers, to h-have them just open, w-when it’s just me!
C-can you see alright? I t-think our left... wait, no. Our right one is working better... at the moment. Hmm... yeah, right.
Let me know, uh. When you’re done looking?
...... ..... .... ha! Ha!
..... y-you certainly sound, ah. What’s the word? .... tricky? You sound rather tricky today. Did... did we do something... ? D-don’t remember....
.... ha! Was wondering... how long it would take you to, to join in.
No, a-as you said, there’s no one, no one out here in field H. Or, or is this field L? Y-you would know better than... than I would, after all. I’m just... so forgetful, sometimes, a-as you know.
Ha! Ha....
As they have been.... for quite some time now, they are empty. It’s... it’s just us here.
.... b-but then again, has it ever not been? J-just us, here? Even when we were locked up, for so, so, so long... wasn’t it always just us?
Wasn’t it..... ?
..... there really is.... no escaping this desolation, huh?
It hangs around us... in the air, in the clouds, in the grass and dirt.... more than being alone, even - desolation. All-encompasing loneliness....
Perhaps that was our curse in the end? More than the destruction of resources, of our health and hands, of our life... the destruction of connection.
If only..... ..... .....
(( a promo-image for my retelling of Lowan Quade’s story - please go give it a gander if you will! update notices will be posted to @lq-at-school for a while and also, on twitter for those of you there!! ♥ ))
hey kids! it’s ya friendly lqmod, morie, here with a big ol update - i’m working on an official comic telling of Lowan’s story! what!!
over the years i’ve been coming back to lowan’s tale (as y’all know), but unfortunately the medium itself of tumblr askblogs is.. not necessarily the most presentable format for a story. especially since i never adopted a tag like i did with lq prime’s blog - to view this story chronologically, you have to go back to page, uh, 415? and just click previous?? which is not…great, at all! especially since lowan’s story has a lot of good bones to it, and was a story i genuinely enjoyed exploring and sharing with y’all - but the sharing ability of it has diminished greatly over time, unfortunately.
i decided recently to continue exploring and sharing that story - reworked from the beginning, as a stand-alone tale. there’ll still be the core of lowan’s story that y’all have enjoyed over the years, of course- and i do plan on adding a sort of interactive element to this tale too, later on - but i want this to be something that can be accessed easily, and shared, and enjoyed.
so, yeah! if you’re interested in this, please give my silly child a gander, under the new title of:
i’ll be sharing when i update to this blog for the prologue + first chapter or so, but you can also follow @riverwakecomic on twitter to get updates and whatnot!!
thanks much!!
~morie
H-ha ha..... l-let’s see. I don’t really know w-what you mean by ‘level’, b-but I mentioned before that I’m, uh, n-not an adventurer? I-if that answers your question.
I w-was being escorted because, w-well. I’m n-not an adventurer! O-or, a guard, or a wizard (despite some of y’alls beliefs...), or anyone who can, er. Really defend himself against.... y-you know, nasty folks? Bandits, and thieves, and evil wizards, and dragons! There’s lots of things out there that could snap ol’ bean-pole me right in half.
A-anyways though! S-so, I needed to travel to Errspire, t-to... to do some research. O-on a topic. So, I posted a notice up on the board at Kyel Light-Bearer’s place, asking for some protection, and wouldn’t you know it, those adventurers showed up the very next morning! H-ha ha... I’ve never really done anything like that before, s-so it was really surprising, b-but they were a nice group and all. O-one of them was actually a.... oh, the name escapes me, b-but you ever hear of those bird-folks from the Air Plane? I’ve never seen one in person before - though I’ve seen a good number of different folk pass through Torch - and, well, one of them was one of them! Looked damn near like a peacock, but tall and person-like. There was also a lil’ gnome girl with a mouth on her, and a girl that looked just a lil’ bit like Alitoma... a half-elf, I think? And, and a human girl like me, but she damn turned into a wolf!!
Adventurers are wild, aren’t they?
....ah, s-sorry to ramble! I think I’m good on escorts f-for now, though. I think either I’m gonna ask those adventurers again if t-they’re still around, or maybe I’ll just make another posting at the Inn.... so, uh, if you’re really eager, keep your eyes on the board I guess?
H-ha ha.... I mean, I’m not an adventurer, b-but I’m not totally incompetent, you know..... I, uhm, g-got shot. B-by a bandit gang I ran into in the woods, actually! Er, n-not just me, I had a group of adventurers I h-hired to escort me, w-which I mean, t-that’s probably why I’m still talking to y’all, instead of being, you know. Dead! H-ha ha.... ha..... hrrrm.
I don’t know w-who, uh, apparently really really didn’t want me to go to Errspire, b-but I have a f-faint idea why... well, more of just. Uhm... a hunch. N-nothing official, and I p-probably shouldn’t talk about it much in public, in case certain people hear about said hunch, b-but. I don’t think it was r-random, I guess?
I’ll leave it at that....
(critical miss!)
T-to, uhm, to be honest I’ve heard both g-grey and blonde? Or, uh, “oatmeal”, that used to be a popular one w-when I was young ‘n all... b-but, but it’s always been this color, yeah?
I’m beginning to think, uhm, t-that some of y’all have me confused with a wizard or something! H-ha ha...we do have some ‘round here, but it ain’t me.
? ? ? ? ? ?
I-i’m sorry? I m-mean, it’s, it’s n-not terribly c-cloudy or anything r-right now actually, i-it’s, it’s p-pleasant out, a-and, uhm.... I m-mean, I d-didn’t get shot in a, a w-what you said, I g-got shot on the r-road south! T-to, to Errspire f-from here.....
B-but I’m, uh... I’m d-doing.... g-gardening! A-and, and just living, a-and, and... a-and I d-don’t know who you’re w-with but p-please don’t shoot me I’ve already had e-enough arrows for a g-good few tendays!!
Oh! H-ha ha, d-do I really look like an adventurer t-to you? I m-mean, I do have m-my dagger and all, b-but I’m r-really not much for, y-you know. T-that sort of lifestyle.... still though, in a pinch I t-think I can hold my own! ...for a while at least!!
Oh wait, I, uh. I’ve b-been told that I have an AC of.... of 10, w-whatever that means? I don’t think it’s really g-good or anything, though. L-like I said, n-not an adventurer!
Er....? I-i’m sorry, I don’t know what you’re taling about? I-i, uh, I’m n-not married or anything....
Hmm hmm.... failing to be a g-gardener, as of late! S-seriously... w-what would be the opposite of a green thumb? B-because, that’s what I am! A dead thumb. S-strawberries should not be this hard to grow, r-right?
I w-would almost think, uhm, t-that my garden’s b-been cursed, or something? B-besides daffodils I’ve never managed to grow anything. A-and it’s not the soil here or anything, b-because I’ve seen Elie’s garden, and hers looks just find, and everyone else is fine too, so... I d-dunno!
M-maybe I should try to get someone to, y-you know. D-detect the garden, s-see if anything’s been cast on it. W-wizards and clerics can do that, right?
Er, h-hello there!!
Y-yeah, I’m, I’m pretty alive if I do say so myself! I-it was just an arrow, after all? I mean, it did go pretty deep and, and I’m not t-terribly used to being shot or anything, a-and it was pretty shocking and all but, y-you know, it’s not.... ah. Y-you don’t care about all t-that, probably.
....uhm. I’m s-sorry, c-can I help you with anything?
