[homophonic] catchall for shu

[dendroculi]

SHU

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[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?

[dendroculi]

[she nods]

Inside, there were doors. We found... him, Jonas, Shenhe, and... and you, behind them.

[roseoftexas]

Just... behind doors?

[ he's not exactly sure what he'd been expecting to hear, after what kaveh had said to him when he came back from wherever they'd been. but-- hm. ]

[dendroculi]

...well... there were other things behind the doors, too. But that was where all of you were.

[roseoftexas]

[ he is still listening. he wants to ask about what else was behind the doors, but-- from what he knows this is the part that had shaken nahida and kaveh. or, would lead to the part that led all four of them to tell him he'd died. ]

[dendroculi]

...

[yeah. lol.]

In one of the rooms, we had to complete... a sort of challenge. There was lava. Once we finished it, we were able to retrieve Jonas. It was after we'd gotten him and Matsui that we were split up. Setsu and Matsui in the room with Shenhe, and Kaveh and I in the room with you. It was a little bit different... There wasn't a challenge this time. We each lost something, instead.

But we found you. And... after we got out of those rooms, the chamber was attacked.

[roseoftexas]

Lost something...?

[ he is still listening. ]