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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?

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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.

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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]

....
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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?

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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.]

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Huh... Never thought about it that way, but yeah, I guess you could be right.

[ Applying real life logic to fantastical situations... Right up Gwen's alley, really. ]

[onerthes]

SO, then. I guess I am a nerd too. [She giggled.] Not that I mind. I rather like hurling lightning bolts at people who annoy me. It's a nice trick to have up your sleeve.

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Man, if all nerds could do that, there would be a lot less bullying going around...

[onerthes]

I suspect so! If they only new the kind of power that a mind could unleash, they would be terrified indeed! Trembling even!

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I feel like opportunistic battle-nerds could really go on a rampage and do some real damage... That's dangerous kind of talk.

[onerthes]

Fear the powers that the nerds keep secreted away in their minds. They will probably rule the world one day.

[Too late, Vira-Lorr. Just ask Bill Gates.]

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Oh, don't worry about that. All the richest people on Earth are already tech nerd billionaires. Bill Gates, Elon Musk, the Zuck... They can buy and sell us all.

[onerthes]

The Zuck? Is that some sort of demented stage name for a masked vigilante? [No, no it wasn't.] I suppose I'm not too surprised though. They have the mental power, so they make all the best inventions, which leads to making all the wealth of the modern world. Of course several have power.

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Nah, it's just a stupid nickname for Mark Zuckerberg. He invented Facebook, which kind of started the whole social media craze.