[Dragonmail: Heimdall]

[transfer_student]

[Sent after Artemis eventually has had enough of him]

Artemis is awake, but he isn't particularly interested in you.

His 'backstory' didn't take, if you were wondering.

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[inchesofevil]

[Hello there mixed feelings. He's actually willing to play nice with Nova over this]

Shit.

I was worried what would happen. The company that runs the game just got shut down, so I was afraid everyone who wasn't self-aware yet just vanished. It's good to know they didn't.

How's he taking it? Not well, probably.

[transfer_student]

What does it mean that the company got shut down?

Not well. But I decided I wasn't interested in your advice about it.

...Unless you have any that's really good.

[inchesofevil]

The game doesn't exist anymore. We can't connect to Zenderael.

I'm glad he didn't disappear instead. [but like double-glad that Artemis isn't interested in him]

I don't. Handle it however you think he needs it handled. It's hard to say what he'll do without any of his backstory coming through right.

[transfer_student]

The game doesn't exist anymore?


... So you're back to being ordinary people.

[inchesofevil]

We were always ordinary people. We just lost the ability to create and control people in Zenderael.

[transfer_student]

That ability made you different than ordinary people.

Well, it's gone now, anyway, and the worlds are smashing together more and more every day.

Are you almost ready to become enemies in earnest?

[inchesofevil]

I disagree. The fact that we are and always have been ordinary people is what made that ability so upsetting to you.

I'm fully intent on joining a guild once the merge gets that far. We can't be proper enemies until then.

[transfer_student]

I'll wait until you join a guild if you send me a picture of yourself with proof that it's you.

I'd be upset if you were a demigod, too. Are you already missing getting to tell people what to think?

[inchesofevil]

Fine. Deal. [except he's not actually going to hold to it]

Upsetting wasn't the right word. Insulting.

[transfer_student]

Quit trying to correct me. I don't care what you guys are. I care that you spied on me and that important parts of my life were shaped to give the two of you something to snicker at.

[inchesofevil]

Nova, I do not have the energy for your hang-ups right now.

Write me when you have something important to say.

[transfer_student]

[fury transitions quickly to demoralization and gloom but he's still angry enough to want a parting shot]

Who knows. Maybe I'll stop by.

[inchesofevil]

[Nope, he knows you're still in the game because you just said you talked to Artemis earlier today, and it's not likely you both ported over at the same time as soon as the game went down]

[keeping his rifle close anyway tho]