Friends at the Table Rewind

[The format of these illustrations looks like Twitter Mobile with a black and red color scheme. There is a white "the strand" logo that looks like the shapes made by string pull paint art, as described in the Road to Partizan Dialect game. The text is handwritten neatly.]

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the dread pirate exeter leap @.blingrings: rings [Image of several gold and silver rings with a hyperlink caption below that says "post 'rings.'" It is in the style of the viral "carp" meme from December 2020. Leap's profile picture is a light green circle with a skull and crossbones wearing sunglasses.]

The Curtain of Divinity (✓) @.sick_as_shit: RIP to Logos Kantel. Just because we killed him doesn't mean we can't miss him! [The profile picture is royal blue with a white stylized curtain icon on it. It looks like a corporate logo.]

Valence 🔒  @.awoooo: oh my god you're going to be the first person to ever get suspended from a strand server THEY CREATED [Their profile picture is an image of two wolves against a stormy sky - the "there are two wolves inside you" meme.]

The Curtain of Divinity (✓) @.sick_as_shit: are you kidding?? they can't suspend me, i'm too powerful

jesset city (✓) @.jessetkitty: me: i am fundamentally opposed to the divine principality my friends: understandable [The rest of the post is cut off. The profile picture is an image of Jesset from the neck up, on a lime green background. He has brown skin, short, curly brown hair, and a cute smile. There is a filter that gives him stylized cat ears and whiskers.]

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millie 🔒  @.gothgirl69420: what the fuck si'dra [Screenshot showing the account @sick_as_shit has been suspended. Millie's profile picture on this account (gothgirl69420) is an image of her from the neck up on top of a hot pink background. She has teal hair that goes at least to her shoulders, medium brown skin, and pointy teeth. She is squinting her eyes, grinning and sticking her tongue out.]

si'dra (✓) @.theboss: >:) [Si's profile picture is a black circle with a red Millennium Break symbol.]

Princess Clementine Kesh (✓) @.belltower: oomf talks a lot about open and democratic access to information for someone who couldn't be bothered to respond to my messages 🤔 make it make sense [Clem's profile picture is a light pink circle with "PRIMADONNA GIRL" in fuschia bubble letters.]

Sovereign Immunity (✓) @.thefarmer: literally just go talk to gucci oh my god [S.I.'s profile picture is the default twitter profile picture of a blue silhouette.] 

Gur Sevraq (✓) @.thefriend84673: TAke a look, y'all: IMG_4346.jpeg [Gur's profile picture is the default twitter profile picture of a gray silhouette. The image he has tried to post does not actually show up, as they have just copied and pasted the file name a la Stephen A. Smith's viral tweet.]

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million blue (✓) @.sick_as_shit: for some sort of radical utopia you'd really think this place could figure out how to make enough chicken strips so that we don't run out after 10 mins, smh. y'all should've campaigned on that [Millie's new profile pic on this account is an image of her facing away from the camera to show off her leather jacket with red "BURN THRONES BUILD TABLES" text and fire painted on the back. She has teal hair that hangs a little past her shoulders.]

jesset city (✓) @.jessetkitty: i wanted to bring it up in the debate but gur said it would distract from the message :/

apparatus aperitif (✓) @.mirrormayor: [no caption] [Image resembles a screenshot of a note from the iPhone notes app. The date at the top is 06/10/1423 at 16:00 DPT. The title, in bold, is "THE PEOPLE'S DEMANDS." The rest of the note reads: "1. Clementine Kesh gets the guillotine is jailed. 2. Free and fair elections will be held every two years. 3. Chicken strip production will be ramped up to serve all of Millennium Break. 4. Power will be held by a council of elected..." The last line is cut off. Apparatus's profile picture is of a skull made of pieces of mirror.]

millie 🔒  @.gothgirl69420: i give it 10 minutes before clem changes her profile picture to a black circle

broun 🔒  @.XxXm4rkupXxX: you woke up this morning and chose violence [Broun's profile picture is of them from the neck up, against a royal blue background. They have maroon hair in two dutch braids and medium brown skin with a reddish hue. They are making a neutral, almost-smiling expression and have black lipstick on. They also have a few patches of teal scales and large, light blue-green fins or gills in front of where their ears would be.]

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[Image looks like Twitter DMs between Milli and Broun. Above the messages is the date 06/12/1423 12:21 DPT.]

broun: hey si'dra called a meeting in the caf, meet us at the table behind that weird fake fern thing?

millie: what if i had plans. ever think of that

broun: i saved you a plate of chicken strips

millie: omg have i ever told you you're my favorite?? i'm literally always saying that to people

millie: broun is my best friend and closest ally, that's what i tell them

millie: omw :)))

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[Same format. The date is 08/60/1423 22:17 DPT.]

broun: heyyyyy

broun: can i ask you something

millie: shoot

broun: why did you decide to come to icebreaker?? and like, stay

millie: oh shit, okay

millie: i mean, i didn't feel like i had much choice to begin with? i could have run, but even if kesh didn't catch up with me i'd always be looking over my shoulder

millie: i guess when things started kicking off with the election and the strand it felt like this could be an opportunity to build something instead of breaking it

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millie: and i suppose the feeling that promises were being kept was enough, at least for the time being

broun: that's, uh. quite a leap of faith

broun: no pun intended 🙄 

millie: lol

millie: i guess so

millie: you know there are people who'd miss you if you weren't around, yeah?

millie: and i'm not just saying that because it'd be a bitch for me and si'dra to have to replace you

millie: idk, just figured you could use a reminder, whatever

I'm so lucky the single eyelash didn't break off. iirc it was a lucky accident because I'd messed something up - worked out though.

here's to the one and only time i went to gencon and got to hang out with all the lovely people there and shoutouts to @peacereturnedtothevalley for taking photos of me and to Katie for going theater mode and helping me get the flowers to hold up the crown!