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[lostapprentice]

Ben Solo

Don't call me Ben. It's Ren.

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[lostapprentice]

again, that's real logic. i don't think magic tends to follow those kinds of rules.

i did get the feeling it wasn't something that just anyone could do, though.

[matchbreaker]

Well excuse me for following the laws of physics.

Or well, trying to, I guess I've got erasing memories and bat tornadoes over here.

[lostapprentice]

see?

though now you're going to have to explain the bat tornado. is it exactly what it sounds like, or...?

[matchbreaker]

Everyone always asks me about that.

It's a tornado of bats, I really don't know what to say.

[lostapprentice]

yes, but how does it happen? do you summon bats out of thin air, do you have to have them around?

[Look, it might be magic, but he wants to know all the details behind how it works.]

[matchbreaker]

Oh I'm pretty sure bats need to be around for that?

[lostapprentice]

so you just happened to find a flock of bats at the right time to discover this new power?

[matchbreaker]

to be fair I think it was a fight between vampires, so that would happen.

[lostapprentice]

so do you actually have this power now or are you just referring to the memory of it?

[It's a little disappointing if it's the latter.]

[matchbreaker]

Well I can issue orders to bats? But I'm not sure how to practically make a tornado?

[lostapprentice]

now i'm just picturing a fairy tale vampire princess with bats instead of woodland creatures.

[matchbreaker]

Should've seen my in Magatus, then.

[lostapprentice]

was there singing involved?

[matchbreaker]

No, but I did share a cave with two pretty younger women and a wolf.

[lostapprentice]

i'm tempted to make a joke about dances with wolves. i did hear things turned out more favorably with them than anticipated.

[Although admittedly his source was... very confusing.]

[matchbreaker]

It is, actually! In the end, the whole thing was the result of some magical rabies, was how Zee called it. But really it's basically some dark energy possessing one powerful magic wolf which can split into a bunch of other wolves.

[lostapprentice]

[Wow, now everything makes a lot more sense than it did before.]

no wonder i couldn't figure out what happened from what i was told. so you cured it and the problem was solved?

[matchbreaker]

More or less. But the ending of everything was pretty suspect if you ask me.

[lostapprentice]

how so?

[He's always ready to jump on the conspiracy theory train.]

[matchbreaker]

It's a little complicated tp explain without just explaining everything, but...

There's a few questions left unanswered and one of the bigger ones is who the guy looking over the arena we fought the final fight in. The last leg of it was gathering up stones across these nine doors in order to unlock the arena and then fighting monsters in front of an audience of ghosts. This got us some material that the wolf then wears, and an unsettling journal.

[lostapprentice]

i'd find anyone who overlooks some kind of monster fighting gladiatorial battles suspicious.

unsettling how?

[matchbreaker]

The information in it.

I guess at one point, Retrospec had some internal disagreement about if they should help *every* wayward soul or not.

[lostapprentice]

that makes some sense.

[Ren has already expressed his doubts in their judgment regarding who to save, after all.]

if they're really just people with limited resources, i can't imagine they'd have the ability to help every soul they managed to come across.

i'm sure the other side said it was their moral duty or something similar to try to help everyone, even if it meant they were struggling and failing.

[matchbreaker]

No, it's worse.

They used to use souls that they deemed wouldn't get them viable resources later on, be useful, as fuel.

[lostapprentice]

[Damn. Not even he can condone that. Abandonment is one thing, but...]

that is worse. i see why you were unsettled.

i don't guess this journal discussed how that argument ended?