#level 55

✨️🤍⚔️✨️ Level 55 🎉🥳🎉

To find yourself you must first be lost. To feel happiness you must experience pain. To discover strength you must face weakness. To know peace you must weather chaos. To build wisdom you must make mistakes. To cherish connection you must understand solitude. To grow you must accept change. To transform your story you must believe you can do so.

[“Is it on?” The camera shakes a little, revealing the face of a… bee? It looks quite odd. 

“I haven’t seen this type of technology since… that.” The bee has a crown on her head, and… hair. What. 

“I don’t remember what it was called. Though I don’t remember most things… That’s why I started The Archives, and these logs now.” It(?) has heterochromia, with one eye being a lime green and the other being a rich electric blue. 

“If anyone sees this in the future- hi, I’m Asteria! Full name Asteria Conste, but I prefer being called by my first name. Im the Queen of the Beehive, and several other things but that’s not important. Right now, I’m in a… situation I never thought I’d be in.” Asteria turns the camera around, revealing bright swirling colors, with seemingly no ground or sky. Just… colors. 

“I must admit- it’s quite an eye sore. Haven’t figured out how to escape this one yet. Unlike all the others, this one isn’t very simple. And all that lime green, yuck…” Asteria’s face is back in view, looking quite disgusted. 

“That’s… it for now. Maybe I’ll make more logs later. See you on the other side.”]

[End of Log 1.]

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[Log 54: October 16(?)]

[It look like the inside of a house, specifically a kitchen. Asteria puts the camera down on the counter, facing her. She looks… unkempt. She eyes look a little duller than before, and her hair droops down by an inch. She rummages through the cupboards, searching for anything she can eat. Eventually, she finds some honey. A rare find. She takers the jar and the camera, and sits down at the table.

“I know I’ve said this before, but it feels odd seeing the inside of a human’s house. I’m either the size of a human right now, or these… places just shrunk down to my height.” She slowly eats the honey, face blank of emotion.

“You know, this reminds me of something. Somebug I knew went to jail for… reasons I wont say. They got released and I treated them to some honey.” Asteria chuckles, eyes lighting up. 

“I even have a picture of it, but I’m pretty sure I lost it. I miss those times, no battles, no wars, no nothing.” Her eyes darken, and her smile softens. 

“Just me and my friends. In the Hive…”

The now empty jar is placed on the table, making a loud crack sound. The force was hard enough to shake the table, tipping over a cup or two. Asteria grins, nothing like how she looked a minute ago.

“Oh well! Enough reminiscing on the past, I have dimensions to explore!” She picks up the camera, “See you on the other side!”]

[End of Log 54.]

Level 55: “You’re a nerd.”

Weiwei watched over Xiao Nai’s shoulder, his laptop in front of him, code spilling out on screen.  Her textbook lying on her chest.  She should be studying for her last final of her senior year, but she was distracted by the man, webbing code quicker then most hackers.  

“You know for someone who is as popular and good looking as you are.  You’re just another nerd.”  The thought came to her and without any hesitation it spilled out.  She watched Xiao Nai’s finger stop, the code on screen ready for the next line.  

“What did you say?”  His tone wasn’t mad, almost teasing.  

“You’re a nerd.” She joked.  With that line, Xiao Nai shut his laptop, turning his attention to her.  The devilish smirk reaching all the way to his eyes.  He quickly scooped her up, textbook falling on the ground, before carrying her off to his bed.  

“What are you doing?”  She laughed, kicking her feet.  

“I’m a nerd, so I think I need to study some more.”  He replied back, turning off the light.  Darkness sweeping over, except for the slim moonlight from his window.  

“What are you studying?”  She felt the heat pool to her cheeks and throughout her body.  

“You.”  

“Stay awhile and listen” Pt.3: Chapter 1 complete

Chapter One of the seasonal quests is in the books. None of the quests offered much resistance and were almost completed by leveling and all that goes with it.

So, there’s that bit in Skyrim, where you have to travel through Blackreach. And I hate dwemer ruins because the Falmer are the only things that legit scare me in game. But Blackreach is the fucking worst. It’s huge. And one of the side quests requires looking for 30 crimson nimroots. 30. And god forbid you miss one because you’ll be combing the area for fucking ever because I DON’T WANT TO COME BACK DOWN HERE AGAIN.

Anyway, I go in, I complete the main quest, I get all the nimroots and I finally get out...only to realize, oh shit...there’s another quest that requires that stupid lexicon that I left in there and I don’t remember where the exit is because I fast travelled and there aren’t any saves from just after I got the last nimroot and--

...So yes, I had the choice of going through two dungeons again just to get back into Blackreach OR reload a quicksave where I only had 20 nimroots.