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[gordianknots]

I find it a little strange that you keep fretting about lack of activity and then proceed to laze about and refuse to rectify the problem. If your complaint (on occasion, as I have noted) is a lack of other cast members, then seek them out and do so without worrying about the impression you make. If it's unfamiliarity with others within the community, then either sit and consume the appropriate media or find other avenues for communication and actually use them. Inaction, while a form of action itself, only perpetuates what exists. It's foolish, and I have to admit that even this is a childish thing to do.

However if it takes plain writing for you to plan out what must be done, so be it. But please make this the first and last time you air such complaints. I've had a number of younger Clock Tower students with better clarity towards their problems.

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[answerer_sword]

I would like to as well. Frankly, I think she is laughing at the incidents that I cannot remember well. The ones where I was under some form of mind control.

[gordianknots]

[criiiiiiiiiiiiinge]

That may explain it, although I'm sorry to hear that you've been in that situation. Multiple times.

[answerer_sword]

I am used to it. It is something my mun likes to do.

[gordianknots]

All the same, it's not fair to put anyone through those sorts of situations.

[answerer_sword]

She is a mun. I have little choice in it.

[gordianknots]

True, and complaining doesn't accomplish anything.

[answerer_sword]

Usually, I try my best to treat it as another mission.

[If there is anything she is good at, it is taking her missions without complaint.]

Though I hear it is possible to negotiate sometimes. Unfortunately, I have never been good at that.

[gordianknots]

That's...likely a better approach than I have taken.

[To not be argumentative is too foreign an idea.]

[answerer_sword]

I think she should pay more heed to the arguments of an experienced magus.

[gordianknots]

That was my first argument. Went over great, as you can see.

[answerer_sword]

Did she not understand your logic? Or was she willfully ignoring it like my mun sometimes does?

[gordianknots]

In all honesty? The response is usually, "No, this is fun." Doesn't leave much of a room for an argument.

[answerer_sword]

It seems muns often resort to those forms of justification.

[Not like either of you can do anything about it.]

[gordianknots]

Mostly because they don't allow room for wiggle room, I imagine. I can't say I'm surprised that it's a common response.

[Nooooooooope. The only option is to wade through the madness]

[answerer_sword]

I suppose that the only hope you can hold for them is that they play you in character.

[gordianknots]

And how has that gone for you?

[answerer_sword]

The results varied during the early years. I think she might have a good grip now.

[gordianknots]

Years, well, there's an advantage.

[answerer_sword]

It feels like years to her, at least.

[It was a little easy to lose track of time with backtagging and all that.]

[gordianknots]

I see. You've still got time well over me, regardless.

[Unless you want to talk about the sheer amount of fic.]

[answerer_sword]

Is it ever awkward then, being a relatively new muse?

[When her journal had been created, she had treated it as a mission. Therefore, if there was any awkwardness, it was buried under her desire to accomplish the tasks given her.]

[gordianknots]

There was much more writing before an account, so no, not so much. It's stranger functioning with people completely alien to the world we're used to, honestly.

[And that's very much the truth, because in writing things make sense, and there is comfort. Here, not at all, and flailing around like an undignified crane smashing into a wall is not what Waver enjoys.

Also, he misses teaching.]

[answerer_sword]

I suppose the writing was of the serious, introspective sort.

[She nods.]

I have encountered various forms of strange magicks in my games. I would think that an experienced magus like yourself would be more interested. After all, you would be able to grasp the ideas described better than I.

[gordianknots]

Yes and no, I suppose. Moreso focused on the progression of events of the fourth grail war - title, new friends, taking apart the grail and the aftermath of angering the association [which REALLY MAY OR MAY NOT have involved a close sealing designation buuuuut she doesn't need to know about that bit.]

Well, I'd be willing to listen and try and give a diagnosis.

[answerer_sword]

That sounds interesting. I hear humans sometimes publish their memoirs. Perhaps you should try the same?

[She takes a moment to think.]

Under what conditions is it possible to perform magecraft without circuits?