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[onerthes]

It certainly sounds like it would be disorienting. I can barely imagine what it would be like, to suddenly find myself as a bear.

[variantcover]

Very disorienting. At first, I was still thinking like me. But as time went on, my thoughts got more and more... well, bear-y. All I wanted was to eat or sleep, or rub up against a tree or something.

[onerthes]

That... ok, that sounds both very disturbing and at the same time very simple. I can't decide if I would have been horrified or mostly ok with it.

[She'd embraced it like Yogi off to raid a picnic basket.]

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Not gonna lie, it was... kind of nice? To not have to worry about human shit for a while.

Of course, then it was over and back to Creepsville bullshit. I got trapped in an egg and when I came out I was my evil future self for like half a month.

[ She definitely killed... a lot of people. But that's not a good topic for polite conversation. ]

[onerthes]

I... heard about the eggs, or read about them. The less said about those things, the better. I had a few bad experiences with them apparently.

[She'd definitely read about having been killed by something that came out of one of those things.]

[variantcover]

Oh? You remember that, or someone told you?

[onerthes]

Apparently... according to Moira and my notes, one of those multicolored eggs let out a monster that killed me by surprise. I'd rather not discuss that too deeply, though.

[variantcover]

Oh, yeah, no, sure. That sounds like seriously triggering stuff.

[onerthes]

Triggering triggering... nope, I have no...

What does triggering mean?

[It was definitely triggering. Don't worry, though. She wouldn't be sharing.]

[variantcover]

Oh, triggering is like...

When you have a real bad experience with something, and just hearing the word or talking about that thing makes you super anxious and uncomfortable. That's being triggered.

[onerthes]

...ahhhh, I learn something new every day. Even more than usual today. No, this is definitely triggering, heh. No sharing today. Good news is that they're gone so we're safe from them, right?

[variantcover]

Yeah. No more eggs, no more lack-of-cats making everyone go crazy... Things have really quieted down around here... Except for the carnival stuff.

[onerthes]

I'm definitely pleased with both being gone, even if I never want to see another clown in my life.

[variantcover]

Yeah, that wasn't the best Stephen King novel that could've come to life. I'd much rather kill Cujo than go snooping around in sewers.

[onerthes]

Uhhh... Wait, this is a novel we're talking about? What is a Cujo exactly?

[variantcover]

Those shapeshifting clowns in the sewers were straight out of the Stephen King book It.

And Cujo is a big monster dog, from a different Stephen King story.

[onerthes]

... somehow, I'm no longer surprised that something that is here might be in a book somewhere. This place almost seems like a work of fiction.

[variantcover]

See?! Finally, someone who sees things the way they are.

[onerthes]

I think that it's more "Why not if anything is possible in this place." I'm quite certain I'm in a book around here somewhere.

[Video game, actually, but thankfully she'd forgotten about all that.]

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Or a movie, or a cartoon. Hell, you could be someone's Dungeons and Dragons character. It's a big multiverse! I was in a comic book before I came here!

[ She's not a comic book character, though. She's 100% real. ]

[onerthes]

....
....

Do I even want to know what Dungeons and Dragons is?

[She absolutely could. Probably a Magus or a Warlock.]

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It's a nerd game for nerds.

[ Gwen, you're a total comic book nerd. Stop judging. ]

You make up a character then pretend to fight monsters and stuff. There's a lot of math involved.

[onerthes]

... so people play games where they pretend to be people who fight monsters like I already do, but there's a great deal of math? That is ...

very unusual?

And what is a nerd?

[variantcover]

Yeah, basically.

[ She's doing a shitty job explaining it, but that's the basic rundown. ]

A nerd is someone who's really deeply obsessed with a thing. It's usually something academic, but you can be a comic book nerd or a theater or music nerd. Being a nerd used to mean you were really unpopular and people bullied you, but now that superhero movies make billions of dollars in the box office, being a nerd is sort of cool all of a sudden.

[onerthes]

Oh, so a wizard might be a magical nerd then? Haha, that's not so bad now is it?

[Because if you wanted to be good at magic, you actually had to be obsessed with it and studying it constantly, one way or another. So most good mages would have to be nerds, particularly as it was usually a bit of an academic study.]