[homophonic] catchall for shu

[dendroculi]

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[roseoftexas]

[ he also nods. he wants to ask about the element — he’s pretty sure it’s not one he’s heard before, and not with regards to nahida and her godhood. but.

well. ]

And?

[dendroculi]

...we were all separated from each other at first. I don't know what happened to the other three... I know we all started off in a cave, though.

[...]

There was a monster inside of it. For me... there were three other people with me. Two children and a young woman. ...they begged me to save them, but I - I wasn't able to.

[roseoftexas]

[ he’s just listening for the moment. he doesn’t really say anything at the last part — but he does glance away for a moment.

hm. ]

[dendroculi]

[yeah. not great.]

...I did manage to kill the monster, though.

[but even that wasn't enoug to save the other people she was stuck in there with.]

After that... there was a portal. I went through it, and it took me to the Jade Chamber... which is a building that floats in the skies over Liyue. That was where I came across Kaveh and Setsu, but they looked like small children... I didn't recognize them, either. And I don't think they recognized me.

[roseoftexas]

[ me also looking at another recount of this in another pc like oodfa doofa. ]

Did you figure out why they were small? They were small when you came back here too, and didn't recognise any of us.

[dendroculi]

...I think... we were all as we were at a certain age. The age must have had some significance, but... I don't know what just yet.

[roseoftexas]

Where you were older than you are now.

[dendroculi]

...I've been telling people, I didn't always look like this!

[roseoftexas]

[ pfft. ]

Okay, but it’s a pretty big difference. People are gonna be surprised.

[dendroculi]

...yes, well...

[roseoftexas]

[ go on nahida. yes, well? ]

[dendroculi]

Is what I looked like really the most important part of this...?

[roseoftexas]

No, but it was surprising. I think people recognised Kaveh, and Setsu when they got close enough to really look at them — I’m not sure about Matsui, though.

But I don’t anyone could tell it was you until you turned back.

[dendroculi]

[she looks a little bemused]

I didn't think I looked that different...

[roseoftexas]

Enough that we didn’t guess.

[dendroculi]

[i just accidentally hit thread from start and got really confused that this one is labeled w1 monday]

That's really not the important part. In any case, it fits the pattern of it being what I looked like when I was younger, just like the other three were.

[roseoftexas]

[ oh. i auto selected the first one i guess. congrats we time travelled. ]

All right.

[ there there? someone would want to bottle the skill to de-age as you age ]

After you found them, what happened?

[dendroculi]

...well... first we saw another portal open up. We couldn't go through it, but we could see Matsui in a cave.

He didn't come out of the portal, though. Instead, he... [her brow furrows.] ...he tried to hurt himself, and then the portal closed.

[roseoftexas]

[ STUPID BLOOD FETISHIST SWORD. ]

... He was hurting himself, not being attacked by something?

[dendroculi]

I think he was attacked by something at some point. But at the time we saw him, he...

[roseoftexas]

He...?

[dendroculi]

...he was stabbing himself.

[roseoftexas]

[ yeah sounds like matsui.



he just blinks. ]

[dendroculi]

[mood.]

...the portal closed up on him after that. And there wasn't any way for us to reopen it, so... we had to go inside the structure we had found ourselves on next.

[roseoftexas]

But you met up with him again eventually. You all came back together?