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[fatalissimo]

So do you guys ever still think about how bizarre this place is, or do you pretty much just get used to it after a while? It's weird as hell, the stuff you just start accepting after a while – you don't even think about how most of us came from a place where cats don't hatch out of eggs.

(...I say "most" because some jerk out there's going to pop up and prove me wrong, you just watch. Even if you also hatch your damn cats, I'm pretty sure there's something here that's out of the ordinary.)

I don't know if there's much point to this, but there's not much point to anything that goes on around here, anyway. I don't know, even if this place is better than whatever's going on back home, sometimes you miss being useful, too. Another thing to get used to, I guess.

...No, really, I am getting sick of the kittens-from-eggs thing. I'm going to have more cats than I do Swablus at this rate.

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[stitchedupbodyguard]

You're not the only one that still thinks this place is weird as hell.

But, I guess I have to be fair. A lot of weird shit happened back home, now that I think about it.

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[loveisanopendoor]

If you wanna talk weird, I'm sure there's much more ridiculous things going on here than just having cats come out of eggs. Seriously, have you seen Grimer?

And it may not be home, but don't say you're not useful. It's just in a different way from what you're used to.

[fatalissimo]

How weird are we talking?

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[fairy_tale_trainer]

Cats come from eggs here? What are Swablus?

[fatalissimo]

Oh, god, I'd forgotten those things. Aren't Grimers those...piles of sentient sludge that came to life because of something to do with the moon? ...Ew.

As for the usefulness thing, it's not like I'm pining really hard or anything. I'm just suited for some pretty specific stuff and it's weird to not have that here.

[fatalissimo]

Oh, hey. Did you just show up or something?

[fairy_tale_trainer]

This morning. I've only met a few pokèmon so far.

[stitchedupbodyguard]

That egg thing. It happened once back home... but with people.

[fatalissimo]

Oh, wow. Well, I'll tell you right now that it's probably going to suck for a while unless you have friends or something, but it's not too bad after that. People here are generally okay. The place overall's pretty safe. Some people are idiots, most of them are at least sort of useful. Pretty standard stuff.

But yeah, the cats come out of eggs because pretty much everything comes out of eggs. I have yet to see anything that doesn't, actually. Swablus are birds, though, so it's a bit less weird for them. I've got a bunch.

[fatalissimo]

...You guys hatch people.

[WHAT DO YOU EVEN SAY TO THAT.]

[loveisanopendoor]

Those are the ones! And then they evolve into even bigger piles of sludge. How weird is that? And that's not even the weirdest one I've seen. Look at this guy.



I don't even want to tell you what it sounds like, either. Anything I can do to help, though?

[stitchedupbodyguard]

No!


It was part of an experiment my big sister was doing.

[fatalissimo]

...Okay, why did she want to hatch people?

[fatalissimo]

...You can start by telling me what the actual hell that thing you just showed me even is. It looks kinda like a flounder?

[stitchedupbodyguard]

She said it was supposed to be a more efficient way for people to give birth, or something.

Apparently, it went very badly.

[fatalissimo]

...You know, the worst part about that is that I'm actually not sure if it would be or not, if you could actually get it to work.

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[glaciates]

I wish I could tell you when I started to accept just how crazy everything is here, but I honestly have no idea when it happened. Maybe by the six month mark? No, I think it was earlier than that. Eventually you just can't take the amount of ridiculous things that are happening here and you just learn to accept everything. I think it happens pretty early for most people.

I've been here a long time and I still miss being useful. I guess that's something that's not going to change for me, but my life's been pretty hectic.

[TO UNDERSTATE IT SLIGHTLY]

Were you breeding Espurrs?

[fatalissimo]

I think that's it, though - it's not really the usefulness so much as it is how slow everything is here. I'm used to there being a lot of stuff to do, even if I couldn't do what I was trained to do right away; there's nothing that really compares here so it kind of feels like there's not a lot of point to anything. I don't know, I'm probably not making too much sense but I think you probably know what I mean.

...As for the Espurrs, my horse really likes my cat. And I hate that there's any reason in any world whatsoever for that sentence to exist.

[glaciates]

I do, yeah. I had some issues like this back home too. It's why I joined the military in the first place. I thought I'd be useful there. So I understand where you're coming from. There really isn't anything close enough here.

Oh. I'm really sorry. That sounds horrifying.

[fatalissimo]

...You're not as sorry as I am, believe me.

...Anyway, you said there wasn't a lot else to do where you're from, though, right? It's all military stuff.

[glaciates]

Yeah. The military's also got a pretty tight leash on alchemists, so if that's something you want to pursue, you've got to go through them. Some alchemists don't affiliate with the military, but it's easier if you're trying to do research.

Outside of that there's... farming? Rush Valley's got automail, but that can be difficult to learn.

[fatalissimo]

So you've got a couple of things that are ridiculously hard to learn and...cows.

No wonder you went into the military, Beastmaster, that sounds like it sucks.

[glaciates]

I'm not going to try denying that. It sucked. I'm really glad to be here, even if cats do hatch from eggs.

[fairy_tale_trainer]

Speaking of useful, I am sure you are far more useful than you have given yourself credit for. You have already helped me out!

Do you know how long it takes to navigate these routes? I've never been outside a city before.

[fatalissimo]

It's stuff like this that makes me wonder what you'd think of the place I came from. I'm not sure if you'd like it or if the sheer amount of stuff going on would make your head explode.