Jane: Answer.
uranianUmbra [UU] began cheering gutsyGumshoe [GG] at 11:17 good morning, lovely. ^u^ Why, hellooooooo. so i gUess today is finally the day yoU make everything better. :B! it is the day whereafter the legendary octet of mUtUal progenitoriety will come together and heal a great breach in paradox space. a day delivered throUgh eighty billion years and foUr distinct Universal instances worth of Unfathomable tUrbUlence. and while the emerald eye of this storm is fixed in the abyss forever today yoU are poised to escape its scowl once and for all. by skaias gUiding light, yoU may leave behind its tUrning arms of bright coloUrs and mayhem, and secUre peace for yoUr cosmic progeny for all dUration. and if yoU are to meet this departUre with trepidation i woUld Understand! bUt also i woUld ask is there nothing i can do to ease yoUr mind? Gosh! So formal today. yes. u_u; i'm afraid i am gUilty of rehearsing this pep talk well in advance. i thoUght yoU deserved a proper sendoff. D'aww. well then? is there nothing i can do? it was a serioUs qUestion. :u You needn't worry about easing my nerves. If it weren't for you, I wouldn't be nearly as thrilled about today as I am! splendid! ^u^ bUt remember i will be here to help, whilst refraining from caUsal spoilers to the best of my ability. That is reassuring! have yoU corresponded with yoUr first designated co-player yet? No, I haven't seen her online yet today. I'm really hoping Lalonde won't flake out on me this time. Have you heard from her? not the today that is local to yoU. thoUgh i do have a wee bit more troUble monitoring her than the rest of yoU. cUrioUs dark patches in transmission, hUmph. still, i woUldn't fret over it. she is as good a chUm as any yoU have and shoUld come throUgh Ultimately, even if things seem dire. If you say so. Oh! I wanted to tell you, I had an amazing dream last night! blimey! :U I believe it may have been of the sort you described. A dream of awakening, presuming I haven't just flatout lost my marbles. indeed, im sUre it was. i knew yoU woUld wake Up soon! might yoU describe what yoU saw? I was in a bright gold city. Above was a brilliant blue sky, but the horizon was dark as night. Was this the place you told me about? What was it called... Ah, shucks, does this count as a "causal spoiler?" not at all! that is a simple detail aboUt the realm yoU are aboUt to explore, withoUt directly involving yoUr fUtUre decisions of conseqUence. the place yoU visited was called prospit. it is where i have woken Up every time i have gone to sleep for most of my life. I didn't see you there. At least, I don't think I did! no, yoU woUldnt have. my prospit is an alternate version from yoUrs, in a completely different session qUite far afield of yoUr reality. if we are ever to meet in person, it is Unlikely to be while playing oUr respective games! Ok then. I mentioned this briefly to Jake, and he didn't have much to say before we parted ways. I will gather that if this is all true, then it means Jake had not awoken yet? i think this is for yoU to determine in time. what is yoUr hUnch? I don't know. But there was one thing about the dream that was very troubling. I'm becoming nervous to consider what it might mean. Understandable. bUt it will be important to practice patience today. yoU have a long road ahead of yoU, and many qUestions will be answered in time. bUt we can talk it over later. now, we both have games to prepare for! i know yoU coUld never fUlly appreciate what this actUally meant, bUt i took mUch care to sync Up these conversations with yoU on the same day that i begin playing as well. that way, we can joUrney throUgh oUr sessions together and compare notes! :u Hrm. I'm still not sure I appreciate what that means, but I appreciate that a nice gesture has been made if you say so! I guess I should just start believing all of this now, huh? Rather than learning it to be true later and feeling the fool for all my curmudgeonly skepticism? ~_u For starters, I guess I could drop my reservations about your story? will yoU :U!!! I can write off much to tomfoolery as I'm no stranger to a good prank myself. But quite honestly you seem too kind for this charade. Not the type I'd expect to trot out such persistent falsehoods beyond their humorous welcome. So what do I know! Consarn it, maybe you are an alien girl from Uranus, and together we are about to play a game which determines the fate of existence. Sign me up! oh, hee hee! bUt i never claimed to be from that planet, which is only in the far reaches of yoUr solar system. in fact i am from mUch farther away. a different Universe altogether. bUt if yoU trUly mean it, thank yoU for believing me! now, jane my lovely, let Us prepare for this adventUre. remember what i said aboUt the need for patience. patience with yoUr friends. patience for yoUr growth as a hero of life. and patience for the coming of the other foUr of legend. a hero of breath and of light and of time and of space! and if yoU still fi…
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