The Second Trial [text + video]

[terezi_pyrope]

[When she awakens, it's to a very unpleasant yet equally forcibly pleasant morning -- which is actually more like in the afternoon.]

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[And now she hits the video function where she takes a wave; she was sitting on top of a building. For a while she accidentally has it upside down.]

I wanted to also ask if anyone else has been experiencing "seeing" any weird things. Something like places or objects that are not supposed to be there?

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[terezi_pyrope]

[hey, that's just how it is!!

in the face of all of this, she whips out ichijou's book, and checks it herself. then, frowns slightly.]

I cross-referenced it, but it would be nice if we had an account from someone whose left the town and not had a prolonged stay. Including the part where they're not getting a...

[that's what the plan was. to give you a boner. booooner, because seriously that's what it sounds like what ichjou's getting over resarci in this book.]

...well I don't know. A weird human fetish with one of the main criminals.

But that sounds a bit more relieving--but I don't want to be responsible for another unnecessary death. I'll tell you the exact discrepancy if you insist you're prepared to face the consequences in case our memories here do end up carrying over.

[chainsawspistice]

[... Fetish.

Another?? But she'll button her lips under the assumption that it will all be explained shortly.]

As prepared as my limited foresight allows me to be.

[terezi_pyrope]

It's the simple fact you have the Matriorb. It's destroyed in my time by a doofus named Eridan Ampora. That wasn't very hard to figure out, once he started his wand at people and going nuts with it. A wand you created...but you couldn't have known he would use it like that.

[well it was at first, but shh.]

Don't worry, you end up stopping him by force later on. But, that's what tipped me off.

[chainsawspistice]

[oh mothergrubber, she already made that wand for him in her timeline]

I...

See.

[if she ends up stopping him by force anyway it should be okay if she does it just a little earlier before there's any destruction of any important one-of-a-kind race-saving orbs right]

[terezi_pyrope]

[sigh, she knew this was a bad idea!!]

...Kanaya, I warned you. And now that I'm assuming you're thinking of doing things about it, I'll have to advise you against it! Even the slightest deviation from what's happened will cause a split from the alpha timeline. You'll be in the split that's the doomed timeline. Tempting, I know, but it's not worth it to watch everyone die in front of you and being unable to do jack shit about it.

[chainsawspistice]

How can you be certain your timeline isn't doomed to begin with?

[terezi_pyrope]

[in a way, she kind of doesn't. but she highly doubts it.]

...I have made the correct choices, and so has everyone else, to prevent that to be a thing. Besides, we would have ended up dead already, and we're already so far along that I think it's pretty impossible.

[chainsawspistice]

[Uncertainty clouds her thoughts. To know of and allow such a thing to happen...]

Then the troll race is doomed to extinction.

[terezi_pyrope]

Is it really? You say that with such a finality, but I can see why you would, not knowing what lies ahead. Even if it's more trouble.

But we'll survive! We have to, for our sakes and for the ones who haven't.

[chainsawspistice]

Sorry. It's just that... guarding and nurturing the matriorb was my one and only task. [Set forth by her lusus, no less.]

For it to be destroyed by a wand of my own design is an almost unthinkable irony. I effectively shot myself in the foot... Only things might have been better if I had actually literally shot a hole in my foot. At least then, I might have never alchemized that wand, and there may have been a chance of the matriorb's survival.

[terezi_pyrope]

[she nods slowly.]

Even so, you couldn't have known. At least, before now.

It's not your fault.

It would be nice if we could prevent it from happening. But paradox space seems to like to step on us to keep from there being any achievement of most of our goals that happened to do with things before we started playing the game.

[chainsawspistice]

[...]

I guess.

[She turns again. This is something she has to think about.]

Thanks for telling me. Later.