#2922

Sketch a Day 2922-Amused Ozzie- 3/2/24

Well, maybe a little. She was a lot spookier in their previous conversation, when she kept alluding to her 'coercion' of Nannasprite and the Consorts. In this conversation, she's acting pretty normal, if understandably nervous.

EB: and you want to use your powers to break the game, and i still don't really understand why, and… EB: bluh. TT: I'm not actually trying to caricaturize a grim sorcerer. TT: There's still a perfectly intact piece of my mind which realizes how ridiculous it is to be flying across rainbow oceans with a couple of magic wands and a salamander in a little cowl. TT: And it wasn't without swallowing a little embarrassment that I revealed I was using a crystal ball just now. TT: It's all pretty absurd. TT: And yet, TT: It's been fun, and above all, practical. TT: For solving our problems.

I had to paste this entire exchange, just to point out that Rose didn't answer John's implied question at all. He points out that she still hasn't explained her plan - and she simply acknowledges how silly this whole situation is, and leaves it at that.

EB: ok, yeah, you're right. EB: i guess i just started worryin'…

John responds as if Rose has answered his question - but she hasn't! She's dodged it, continuing a pattern between these two that can't be accidental. Rose really doesn't want to tell John what she's up to.

EB: maybe later, i will drop by your planet again and rescue you, thus breaking the spooky spell put on you by your nefarious, shadowy masters. TT: Swoon! EB: that way you will stop being so grimdark and ominous, and basically completely off the deep end in every way, as is now painfully obvious to anyone with a brain. TT: I will do by best to occupy myself as benignly and unmagically as possible until you show up.

John, this is all hilarious, but that actually is what's happening!

Listen to me, John! This actually is the case!

EB: please write some happy stories in your journal, about lively horses, and conspicuously not about wizards, or sadness. TT: … "Happy?" TT: What is this strange, unsad emotion of which you speak?

I mean, she's obviously not literally being possessed. This is still the same Rose we've known since Act 1 - she's just being manipulated, and her skepticism doesn't seem to be helping her realize this.

Aradia told her the score, pretty much directly - but Rose is in too deep now. She's going to see this through, whatever 'this' is.

EB: what is this treasure, anyway? EB: and how's it gonna save us! TT: You'd probably be disappointed if I described it. EB: tell me anyway! TT: Ok. TT: It's called The Tumor.

Well, it certainly sounds like what you'd call a broken, corrupted universe seed.

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