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[seeringlight]

Oh for the love of-
I suppose I see the humour of putting one, Rose Lalonde, into the district that so happens to go by the color Rose. Oh yes, how cute and hilarious it would be. Let us put Rose in Rose District. While I usually would find it amusing, my patience is nothing but fairly thin at the moment.
Could you not have waited a mere few minutes before plucking me from my spot. I had very solemn good lucks to give and this is fairly aggravating to never know of what becomes of myself and the departure of my close one.
I run a tight schedule and you have destroyed it. I was busy, considering the morbid thoughts of living a life of solitude.
No, that's wrong. You took me before I could find out whether I would cease to continue existing.
Now I will never know.
I utterly despise the curiosity of never finding out until I leave this place.
Now that I have vented, what probably looked positively insane rambling, I suppose I should introduce myself.
I am Rose Lalonde. I suppose they want me to tell you that I am Odin though. Dear me! Not only am I no longer a young, fair maiden, I even have children! The amount of shock is just coursing through my system. These clothes are also not something I would consider wearing normally. Couldn't you had perhaps added a horrorterror or two into the pattern? No? I suppose it was worth a shot.
While I'm at it, please inform me of everything you can offer about this place, how it works, and who you are. I know someone here has came before I have and I would be fairly appreciative that I can start unraveling the mysteries of this new abode as soon as possible. I have plenty of time because I have absolutely none. Now if you'll excuse.

[[OOC: Rose has a text quirk like all/most Homestuck characters do. If you have problems with her text quirk, here's an opt-out post! Otherwise, she'll be responding in a rather pretty purple.]]

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[timelike]

oh hey sup rose
guess you know what became of your close one now
ps do you think you spewed out enough word vomit there i mean
i think you couldve made that at least twice as long

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[seeringlight]

Oh. If I had known that you have gotten yourself dragged here, I would have taken that part out. I would appreciate the heads up before having to go fairly dramatic at how my poor aching heart couldn't handle the worry of her dear close one, forever gone in a curious wonder as I get myself swept away to a fantastical land.
Hopefully you enjoyed that little excerpt.
I'm so sorry. I should have obviously went off tangent to explain my denizen's role. Odin is a fairly important Norse god, after all. Shame on me. How dare I not monologue.
So I'm assuming you never got to go back did you.

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[timelike]

it was very touching
and no i didnt
but john is here and hes not dead
or he is dead idk its kinda weird
but hes talking and walking around and being an idiot like usual
anyway it doesnt matter anymore i guess

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[seeringlight]

So what you're saying is that John has been resurrected into this world.
Our John.
The one that had died due to trolling.
This all kinds of wonderful and all kinds of awkward bundled up in a glorious trainwreck of a package. I'm almost speechless. Except I'm not at all.
What do you mean it doesn't matter anymore?

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[timelike]

yep our john
brighteyed and bucktoothed as ever
i mean no need to go save egberts stupid ass if hes not dead
good thing too cuz my time powers dont seem to work here anyway

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[denies]

I don't know, I already thought their jokes started being pretty lame at the whole fairytale theme.

Still, 'welcome' to being stuck in this place, I suppose.

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[seeringlight]

Perhaps the place has a fixation on them. There are plenty of reasons it could be, but that's hardly worth analyzing.
Have you been here long?

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[denies]

I've been here for a few months now. I think that's probably longer than most people have been here, so they must have some special sort of liking for me.

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[seeringlight]

Has anything significantly changed since you arrived? Or are things fairly stagnant for the most part?

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[denies]

Fairly stagnant, honestly. The only times when big things happen is when a few of us attempt to escape or break some rules they set for us. Then they try to 'punish' us for it.

[femininetomboy]

If it's humour that the Rulers have then it's really kind of questionable...

Most information is in the letter actually. The original fairy tale denizens have died and we were taken to replace them. The Rulers of this place are really cruel and seem to have amazing god-like power. They are represented by Tarot Arcana it seems. One of them is on our side though, her name is The World.
We've only recently tried and failed to escape...

[seeringlight]

So the only real information we currently possess is in that letter? I'm slightly disappointed.
I was hoping that I could have had something more to work with. Ah well, I will just handle this like a big girl now.
God-like. Well, that is hardly a surprise given their ability to take us all willy nilly without so much as a warning.
Could you tell me about this escape and what happened after? Color me curious.

[femininetomboy]

We've been trying, but the Rulers are really good at hiding their secrets. I've got a big set of notes about this place, but they're not very enlightening for the big picture.

Anyway... Well, some of us had the idea to build a boat and escape over the ocean. The building went very well, but when we were actually trying to leave the Rulers entered the boat and had a battle with us. It was cruel and in the end we were all captured and brought to the castle. The only Ruler on our side, a woman called 'The World' healed us and actually responded to some of our questions, but the other Rulers regained control soon after.
They punished us for trying to escape and locked each person into an individual nightmare which showed them a version of their world in which things went terribly wrong. We ended up being able to break free from those and free the others, but it wasn't very pleasant.

[seeringlight]

How morbid. So actually trying to escape is fairly futile on our part.
Yet none of us will just quietly accept the fate we are given, so escape is one of the few things we must do.
So really, we must figure out what secrets they hide from us. We could find out how they pulled us here, I'm sure.
I must say, their choice of punishment is fairly lackluster. At least for me, so I suppose there's that. Oh well. I had expected something better, but a world based on fairytales probably leads to more mundane punishments too.
Thank you though. Information like that is quite helpful.

[filtered from the rulers from here on]

[femininetomboy]

It was bad enough, so I won't complain, honestly... But I agree, gathering knowledge about both their plans and secret methods seems to be the first step from here on.
At least The World is on our side, so we seem to be able to talk without being overheard now.

[text] Hell yeah purple prose!

[beautifulmemory]

[You seem supremely frustrated! Mia considers not answering at all, but something draws her in.]

Don't worry. There's plenty to do here.

[text] The best kind of prose!

[seeringlight]

Of course. How rude of me to assume that this place is a bore.
What does one engage in here? I guess generalized activities will do.
I heard escaping is something one shouldn't consider, not that I care not for what they attempt to throw at me.

[text] Rose types in purple prose~

[beautifulmemory]

You're not the least but curious about this place? There's nothin you want to explore at all? :)

[text] The best purple prose!

[seeringlight]

Perhaps give me a day or two to scrounge up my curiosity. Unfortunately, I had spent the past few months exploring my last setting and I'm feeling fairly less curious having to explore again.

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[beautifulmemory]

Interesting. But I suppose that's not too unexpected.

Nice font, by the way.

[hammerkind]

hi rose!
it sucks that you are here, but i am glad because i get to see you!
we are in the same district thing.

and uh, more importantly. what do you mean by...
ceasing to exist?
that sounds more than a little worrisome.

[seeringlight]

Convenient. That means traveling shouldn't be too bad.
Hello, John. I am admittedly relieved to see your blue courier again. It has been too long and I thought I would forget of it with more time passing.
You need not worry about that. It's nothing of importance.
What happens in a Doomed Timeline stays in the Doomed Timeline is one way of putting it.

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[hammerkind]

yeah. about that...
sorry, rose.
dave told me a bit of what happened after, and i was not expecting anything good!
but. not as bad as it seems to have been.
i feel spectacularly shitty even though it's not really my fault.
so i guess i am kind of silly, but i am still sorry.

[private]

[seeringlight]

Honestly, I hold no ill remorse of any kind. Of course, you did a spectacularly stupid thing, but you will always be a friend. I had already resigned to the fate I held. The only thing we could do was gather as much information at that point.
The one who may require an apology if we could ever come in contact with her is Jade. Neither Dave nor I could get into contact with her after. I still wonder if there was a way to bring her into the Medium. I suppose it doesn't particularly matter though, but I still lament over what her fate was.
I think never to existing is more reasonable than forcing me into a life in which I would be alone for all eternity. So there's that.
But I'm getting the feeling there is more to your silly attempt to try and take on your denizen at your level and experience.

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[hammerkind]

well, that is kind of reassuring. i'm glad you're not mad at me.
but yeah, there is more to it.
i guess i should explain.
when i met the denizen he was wide awake. you got that much.
i guess it was like... it's hard to describe what happened.
the short version is he just talked to me a bunch about all sorts of different things.
like...
some timey-wimey shit that kind of flew over my head? but i kind of got it at the same time.
so basically, how the timeline is doomed.
and that dave was the only one who could fix it.