August Catch-All

[loopsiedaisy]

Who: Siffrin + ...also Siffrin Stardust, Shoka, Archnemon, Reuben, maybe more!
What: Quest quests quests, and even some not-quests! There will be top-levels here... in a little bit...
Where: FRESH NEW WILDERNESS, the new Outpost, and also all the way back in the Canopy at the front desk.
When: Throughout August
Warnings: Siffrin's usual warnings, general ~peril~

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[telewarped]

... Loop. [She sounds the syllable out carefully, considering it—and then she snorts.] Yeah, not gonna lie... It kinda sucks.

[As a not-so-secret giver of silly nicknames (Frinrin could confirm themself), she doesn't actually hate it though, really. It's sort of cute? Maybe it's short for something. Lupin? Guadalupe...?

Siffrin's real reason for disliking it isn't lost on her, however.]

Oh. Right... [Siffrin did call them loops, didn't they? Not Replays, as Shoka sometimes called them in her head. It's yet another bizarre connection, snagging in her mind on the others.] Yikes. Might as well call 'em Torment Nexus, huh?

[... Too soon? Siffrin looks unnerved, preoccupied by something.]

... "At first"? [There's an unspoken question in that echo: are you sure it doesn't have something to do with it? Did you ask?]

[loopsiedaisy]

[Oh no. They're being called out.]

I mean... it can't have anything to do with it, right...?

What kind of person would go through a time loop and then call themself that...?

[Haha... ha.....]

[They absolutely haven't realized that they're doing this, but they sure are weirdly confident that "Loop" chose their own nickname, huh.]

[telewarped]

Didn't say that they did.

[It could be related some other way, maybe? Who knows?

... Wait.]

Did they come up with that nickname themself?

[loopsiedaisy]

[Um. Did they...?]

[Siffrin is sure of it, so Stardust must have said something about it. But they absolutely can't remember what it was that gave them that impression...]

[That's really nothing new with their memory, though.]

It sounded like it...

[telewarped]

[Shoka studies Siffrin for a moment—but if she finds anything in their expression, she gives no indication of it.]

And that's the best they could come up with? Woof.

[Her tone is light, but inwardly that bizarre, not-quite-right feeling lingers with her. Something's fishy, but she can't put her finger on what. Not yet.

She starts to fidget with another furniture-piece, distractedly trying to find anything that might fit into the remaining mystery-notches.]

Well... Like I said, you could always ask Stardust about all that stuff. Might be nice... to have someone around who literally knows where you're coming from, right?

[That is, if Stardust is even from the same place at all.

After a beat, she adds,] Or... I guess I could ask. If you want. Unlike some people, I don't really care what anyone else thinks of me. I'll weird out whoever.

[It sounds almost like a threat.]

[loopsiedaisy]

[That is so absolutely a threat.]

No, I'll ask, I'll ask!

[It would be even weirder to have someone else ask for them!! Also how dare Shoka call them out like this.]

[They're not very hopeful. Even if Stardust really is from the same place as them, he wouldn't remember it. Just like they don't. But maybe... maybe it would be nice to ask about Vaugarde...?]

[...hahahaha! No it wouldn't!! Not when Siffrin's the reason it must be frozen in time right now!!!]

[They'll. They'll think of something else to ask about. Poteria, maybe. And then it'll turn out that Stardust has no idea what they're talking about, and they can tell Shoka he doesn't know, and neither of them will have to think about the weird coincidence anymore.]

[For now! They go to fetch some more likely pieces and join Shoka in trying to fit them in.]