Fortress of Meropide - Group Chat

[loupmorque]

MEMBERS:

{ A group chat made for people living in Meropide or for its regular come-and-go visitors. }

Comments

[tonberrykin]

They deserve to have brains unrotted by people who think the Earth is flat and that raw meat and only raw meat is a legitimate diet for a human being.

We can be better to them than the world was to us. Always look to do good. Don't shock site people unless they're a threat to your existence.

Hold old men gentle like hamburger.

[moderni]

This world has different standards for many things, but 34 still isn't "old" here.

[tonberrykin]

If you want me to pick a good nursing home for you when you're ready to go in two years time you'll run from this place and never look back

I'm trying to protect you here

[moderni]

Somehow I think I'll manage.

[tonberrykin]

): you reject the ghilley's kindness
you kick him like the football
jail for guildmaster
jail for 1000 years

[moderni]

Kindness would be offering to explain any terms that are too confusing to Google.

[oh is this a new skill? we're learning to escalate now?]

[tonberrykin]

If I explain things you already know that's mansplaining so how am I supposed to know what you do and don't know I'm not psychic yet and you're smarter than I am so for all I know you know what I know and then I'm the jerk

You and the Duke never ask me to explain things

[moderni]

If I asked you to explain everything you said that I don't completely understand, every conversation would quickly spin off track.

[Because they're so good at staying on track otherwise.]

And I'm sure it would quickly grow wearying for all involved.

[tonberrykin]

Our conversations have tracks???

[ news at 10?

and hm, the second half of that message. Ghilley types a couple of things.
that makes it sounds like i'm exhausting to talk to haha
aww you almost hurt my feelings
sorry ]

but don't we have such fun down those winding, wending paths

[moderni]

...Sometimes?

Be careful I don't call your bluff. We can always see how long it takes you to give up and send me back to the search engine.

[tonberrykin]

It's your time to waste, my guy.
I don't lose gay chicken.

[moderni]

[He almost went for Google for that one, it'd be easy and convenient

but that's literally this conversation, so]

"Gay chicken"?

[fine, let's call that bluff]

[tonberrykin]

[ welp

here we go ]

okay so first of all you need to establish what chicken is

chicken's a children's game where you dare other people to do something, and the first person who backs down is the loser and a chicken--the biggest example is like, movies where two teenagers with sportscars drive the cars towards each other, and the first one to veer off loses, right

[moderni]

Oh! That's an activity that exists at home as well, yes. I'm not aware of what name the participants give it.

[A beat, because he's not stupid and several pieces are falling together quickly.]

So then in context, "gay chicken" would be flirting until one person backs down out of fear for their image?

[tonberrykin]

[ clever girl. Garlean? clever Garlean. ]

That's the purest form of gay chicken, you got it! I also use it to indicate any sort of 'this requires someone to be more stubborn than someone else' activity that I (or other strong-willed wiggly-hand flavor of not wholly straight folks) might be participating in.

[moderni]

Duly noted. That sort of unorthodox use of language is by far the most difficult thing to keep up with, and the most difficult to search cleanly as well. So I'm sure I'll continue to have questions in the future.

[tonberrykin]

Oh yeah people smarter than me have made all sorts of gushing and or angry tangents about how language has evolved under the effect of memes and how deeply referential online culture has gotten and there's no clean Rosetta stone of internet humor to bring it all together yet.

[ except loss.jpg, but that's a ten part lecture series. ]

[moderni]

Some people are far too wary of a little novelty.

"Rosetta stone"?

[tonberrykin]

Change is bad mmkay.

So back in the old days people had to figure out how to translate languages to each other, right?? Especially old dead languages with not many active speakers or... knowers... so eventually old dudes with nothing better to do did digging good and found a slab that actually had three different versions of the same thing inscribed on it, so it was a thing of like 'here's how you translate language a to language c'.

And now it's a set of super expensive computer software to help people learn languages, but it doesn't have a vaguely threatening cartoon owl to condescend to you if you don't do your Japanese lesson, so who's to say if it's any good.

[moderni]

I...see. An important archaeological find.

I don't understand the relevance of the cartoon owl.

[tonberrykin]

this is Duo! he wants to teach you mediocre Spanish and if you miss a day or three he'll send you five condescending emails and potentially kidnap your family :D

[moderni]

So it's a last resort for those who have no family left, then.

[He's probably clocked that this is a joke. He's not serious, right?]

[tonberrykin]

They still have organs. Fingers. Toes.

Pets. Houses. Friends.

[ ... it is a joke, right? ]

[moderni]

So many things vulnerable to a sharp avian beak. A pity.

[tonberrykin]

So many things one man can lose if he's not up to date on his Swedish.

It's 10 PM, do you know where your children are?