Are you allergic to peanuts? If not, would you like to eat a peanut butter cookie?

~♤

Grian: no, I don't think I have a peanut allergy... sure, I'll try one.

Maci: You do have a green bean allergy, though.

I have a NAME!! I'm not just "that unnamed whisperer that steals food"!!!!!

My NAME (that I DO have) is Sleepy!!!!!

-💤

Grian: I don't care about your name, just don't take my food!

Maci: Hi Sleepy!

(OOC: Sleepy messaged me and sent me art of their character, but because they wish to remain anonymous, I took a screenshot of it!)

I am SOO happy to meet you!! I love, love, LOVED watching- well, I know what happened in 3rd Life, but I guess Whisperers can't really see, can we? Hm.. Welp! It was still AMAZING what you did there in the arena! My particular favorite was the ending -so dramatically well done!

I'm Star and I got some questions.. Do you have any idea what your past was like? Do you like lemon cake? What do you prefer, pancakes or waffles? Oh, opinion on chocolate? What was it about the vex fellow? Got any saAaaAAaAaaAnd?

Ah, sorry! Although I LOVE to talk, don't wanna go on too much and bore your little self! Hee hee!

Tell the others I said hiii!

-⭐

Grian: I... didn't know you Whisperers could do that, but then again, Aster said I used to have a time machine. Also, why are you acting like that void forsaken game was entertainment?? Why is you favorite part the part when I had to kill my closest ally?? And why do you say sand so weird?? Why is it familiar?? What's going on here??!

Maci: Grian, calm down-

Grian: No! I don't like it here! This place is strange! People are weird! Everyone seems to know me but I don't know them! My mind is acting abnormal and I have a headache! I miss the desert! I miss the game! I miss Scar! Heck, I even miss Ren and the Dogwarts crew! I don't want to be here anymore!

???: BREATHE!

Grian: ack!

???: What's 5 things you can see?

Grian: uh... the mountains, the sea, the Institute down in the valley, the lake and the lighthouse.

???: Good, now 4 things you can feel?

Grian: The wind, my beating heart, the pain in my arms and wings, and- and, my sandals.

???: 3 things you can hear?

Grian: The waves down below, my own voice and, and wind chimes on the lighthouse.

???: and 2 you can smell?

Grian: the fresh air and something warm and sweet.

???: That'd would be the bread I'm baking, lastly, what's 1 thing you can taste?

Grian: uh, what?

???: I understand, this one is hard if you haven't eaten recently, we can skip it if-

Grian: sand. I can always taste sand in my mouth, so it took me a while to recognize it.

???: oh... ok... welll... now breathe... 5 seconds in through your nose, hold for 3, 5 seconds out through your mouth. In, 1 2 3 4 5. Hold, 1 2 3. Out, 1 2 3 4 5. In, 1 2 3 4 5. Hold, 1 2 3. Out, 1 2 3 4 5. Feeling better?

Grian: I, uh, yeah... who are you?

Maci: this is Ziera, the lighthouse keeper.

Ziera: I heard yelling and came to see what was going on. I know that Whisperers can be pushy, but it's fine. Don't let them get to you.

I LIED ok is THAT WHAT YOU WANTED TO HEAR!!!!! I'M A LIAR WHATEVER WE ALL LIE!!!! WAHYEEVRVRRRR !!!!!!!!

I like any kind of coffee. All of it.

So WHAT I ENJOY THINGS SOMETIMES

Why am I yelling

-💤

Maci: I don't know.

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Grian: I see these interactions in the group chat, and they feel... real, genuine, in a way I've never experienced during the games. They seem to click together, like a puzzle. And I feel... so left out. All those conversations between me and the Hermits on the communicator, they feel like a different person. Like I'm not meant to be in that life. I'm shut out from it. Alone.

Færla: you realize, that they would accept you the moment you came back to them.

Grian: . . .

~♤

Maci: yeah...

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Færla:

~Hermits Assemble~

Joe Hills - 15:34: I am going to poetry club

Cleo - 15:35: you do you Joe

Mumbo - 15:35: good luck!

Cleo - 15:36: did

Cleo - 15:36: did you just wish Joe good luck

Cleo - 15:36: with poetry club?

Mumbo - 15:37: well I don't know! What else am I supposed to say?

X - 15:37: Mumbo, I swear!

Cleo - 15:38: you do swear a lot

X - 15:38: haha.

X - 15:39: I mean, @$&%*#!?$&@&#!

Cleo - 15:40: watch your tongue, mister! This is a PG server!

Cub, Mumbo, Jevin and 3 more: 🤣

Grian: . . . He really is known for swearing a lot?

Færla: yes, it's a bit of an inside joke.

Grian: they... seem to understand each other. Truly.

Færla: that's not even the start of it! They can talk to each other in code and still understand each other, that's how much they understand each other. In fact, I have an example of just that!

Færla:

Keralis - 17:28: delta, alpha, bravo, 1, 2, 3, positions? Is the forty niner aware?

(what dimension are you in and have you kept the secret from X?)

False - 17:28: bravo, on standby. 2, clear.

Ren - 17:28: aye! 3.

Cleo - 17:29: positive. 1.

X - 17:29: I am confused...

Keralis - 17:29: is nothing shashwamy!

X - 17:29: You all have been talking like this all day.

X - 17:29: This isn't even proper military speak!

X - 17:30: Can you just tell me what's going on?

Cleo - 17:31: negative

X - 17:31: Oh come on!

X - 17:31: I %$&@!*# hate being out of the loop.

Cleo - 17:32: language

Keralis - 17:33: C team, status report?

Cub - 17:33: 1 8 2 2 3 0 veil northern way

(1 - first dimension, overworld, needs 8 more minutes. 2 - second dimension, nether, needs 2 more minutes. 3 - third dimension, end, is ready. Keep out of the north.)

Keralis - 17:33: roger that.

Keralis - 17:34: shashwamy, can you help me with a redstone thingy?

X - 17:35: fine...

Grian: and that was?

Færla: them planning X's surprise birthday party! No one really knows when his actual birthday is, not even him, and one meeting everyone learned that X had never had a birthday party. So, yall picked a random date to set up and celebrate a life's worth of missed birthdays!

Grian: and they decided to speak in complicated code instead of private messaging?

Færla: the challenge is part of the fun! It makes it so that the reveal is all the more sweet, with all the effort put into it. Besides, X is important enough to warrant extra effort! He's a Hermit!

Grian: . . .

Grian: do all the Hermits put in that much work for each other?

It's weird and explodes in your mouth. How dare you even recommend that. How dare.

YOU'RE TRYING TO KILL ME WITH SODA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

-💤

Maci: ok! I'm sorry!

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Færla:

Grian - 03:19: Timmy!

Grian - 03:19: Tim!

Grian - 03:20: TIM!

Jimmy - 03:20: bloody hell grian its 3 in the morning why are you texting me

Grian - 03:20: cause I'm bored!

Jimmy - 03:21: and what am i supposed to do about that?

Grian - 03:21: I don't know

Grian - 03:21: go on a flight with me

Jimmy - 03:22: we are on different servers

Grian - 03:22: video call me then

Grian: wow, I am very insistent.

Færla: he's one of your closest friends. You've known each other since childhood.

-🌄

(Ooc: so, /perhaps/ Dusk might have some not great stuff that’s happened to them that they don’t actually count as trauma (which may not be a good way to think about it…) I couldn’t decide exactly what to put them in the trauma blender with, but I’ve got ideas now and I haven’t done it in this way before so that’ll be fun)

Maci: see!

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Færla:

Grian - 20:46: Cleo!

Cleo - 20:47: yes?

Grian - 20:48: can you make an armor stand diorama for me?

Cleo - 20:48: how many armor stands?

Grian - 20:50: about 3 or 4 max

Grian - 20:51: I just want a couple guys fishing in the barge

Cleo - 20:52: 25 diamonds

Grian - 20:53: deal!

Cleo - 20:54: I'm going to use pillager heads cause I have way to many $&@#%*€ pillager heads.

Grian - 20:56: really? Still!

Grian - 20:56: It's been months sense the head hunt

Cleo - 20:57: yes, but someone flooded it with pillager heads so I still have way too many

Grian - 20:58: still have a stupid amount of spider heads?

Cleo - 20:59: yes

Cleo - 21:01: why are you up so late?

Grian - 21:03: insomnia, you?

Cleo - 21:03: zombie, and thus nocturnal, did you forget?

Grian - 21:05: kinda

Grian - 21:06: I am just a little tired

Cleo - 21:07: well get some sleep

Cleo - 21:08: just looked it up, avians need around 9 hours of sleep a day and I want you to get it

Cleo - 21:08: don't act like we haven't realized that you seem to get only 2 hours daily

Cleo - 21:09: push comes to shove, get Doc to give you sleeping meds. With insomnia as bad as yours

Grian - 21:11: yeah yeah

Grian - 21:11: I'll try to get some sleep

Grian: I gave them diamonds to place armor stands? Actual diamonds? There are useful things to use those for!

Færla: you had enough to make a diamond chandelier! No one really used those for much anyways.

Grian: . . . Cleo also called me an avian.

Færla: yes.

Grian: and said I should get 6 hours of sleep.

Færla: yes.

Grian: despite the fact that Watchers only need 2.

Færla: yes.

Grian: they don't know I'm a Watcher, do they?

[🐺]

Grian: I mean...

Maci: don't tell me you actually want to enter another death game?