.001 ♒ chronicAugustus began pestering...? [TEXT]

[chronomancer]

i think this is a stupid thing to ask
but i cant think a any other wway to phrase it
so

wwhat are wwe evven Supposed To Do here?
just
not get culled by monsters at night an eat wwhatevver they feed us an just
survvivve





thats it?


[...someone is not taking well to being "aimless". Help? Also, if you want to run into him he's in the Network terminal closest to 1-10. I'm cool with action tags.]

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[chronomancer]

...jade.

[orphans]

Intriguing, to say the least.
Noww, wwhat kind of skewwed wworld is it that YOU hail from?

[chronomancer]

pretty damn screwwed up last i checked
enough i cant tell if bein here is inprovvement or not
you?

[orphans]

And your symbol wwould be "♒", correct?

[jussssssst to make sure...]

[chronomancer]

[...oh god.]

...yes

[orphans]

To answwer your question:
A wworld wwhich just so happens to include the alleged extinction of jadebloods for one's treachery, one in wwhich scumbloods do not share a sign of royalty, and evverything is as it should be.

[chronomancer]

[Mass extinction wat. And then.]

...wwho
wwho are you
exactly


[He has a feeling but it is a Bad feeling and he really wants to confirm before he adds another item to his list of "Reasons why hiding under my roomate's bed is a perfectly sensible, reasonable and rational idea."]

[orphans]

Your ancestor, if the sign is anything to go by.

[chronomancer]

oh
oh wwow
im


[Honored. Terrified.]

...im sorry

[orphans]

[what]

Don't apologize. Just don't go out of your wway to make me regret evver putting my genetics to the gene pool.

[chronomancer]

[To lie or... who are we kidding:]

i wwill do my best not to

[orphans]

[he is... becoming accustomed to the idea of all his descendants being fuck ups.
he blames it on the dilution of his genes that must have occurred within the incestuous slurry. clearly.

also if text could convey just how weighted his statements are...]

If that's truly the case, then you wwon't.

[chronomancer]

[...no pressure, huh.]

i understand
i wwill not bring shame to your genes

[floreatnoctem]

[So lineface, and so warningly-]

Dualscar. Really.

[Not that big a deal, good sir.]

[orphans]

What?

[floreatnoctem]

Is now really the time for such things?

[orphans]

There's never not a time for such things.

[floreatnoctem]

There is a time and place for everything. However now is not the time for any of this.

Let the boy be.