Text ➥ June 19th ➥ Evening

[sermonize]

I apologize for this, but Sollux Captor is no longer in Death City. From what I understand he had been here for quite some time and had made quite a few friends. This is the reason I am sending this message out.

Perhaps we will be fortunate enough to have him within these walls once more.

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voice

[sermonize]

No, it really doesn't. No one has figured out the workings of BREW.

voice

[redregrets]

At least he's not in immediate danger when he gets back. And he's with Aradia, and she's godtier, so unless he does something spectacularly stupid, he'll be alright.

voice

[sermonize]

Aradia?

voice

[redregrets]

Oh, have you not met her? She's a rustblood and she's godtier, or at least she is on my point on the timeline, so she's got wings and time powers. She and Sollux have been close forever. I'm pretty sure they were actually seeing each other for a while, before she died. And now that she's alive again, and they're alone together, they're probably involved again somehow.

voice

[sermonize]

Died... Then alive again?

voice

[redregrets]

Yeah, it's kind of a game thing. Vriska killed Aradia before the game even started so she was a weird ghost sprite thing during the game. She was also a freaky robot for a while. ...Don't ask.

In Sgrub, you have multiple lives, you get your regular life, and then you have a dreamself on Prospit or Derse, and they sort of act as an extra life, and also you become them when you sleep. Anyway, Aradia's dreamself through some serious of shenanigans managed to die on her quest bed, which meant she went God Tier. Once that happens, you get to prance around in a fancy outfit, you gain a pair of wings, and you can't be killed unless it's a just or heroic death. I never got the chance to do that, since literally the second I woke up on Prospit I was fucking slaughtered by Jack.

voice

[sermonize]

This Game is far more complex than it should be.

voice

[redregrets]

You got that right. On the most basic level, yeah, it has the power to bring someone back from death and make them mostly invincible, unless they die justly or heroically. And obviously their game powers get an upgrade. It would have been cool to go God Tier just to see if I have any.

voice

[sermonize]

You doubt that you have abilities granted by the Game?

voice

[redregrets]

Yeah. I do. My title's a joke, I've always thought that. The game just gave it to me to mock me. Even though a lot of my friends are God Tier now, most of them could access some level of their abilities before they reached it. Me? Nothing.

I thought maybe the dancestors could help, but no, apparently Kankri didn't know what to make of his Blood powers either. According to Aranea, he was kind of a failure as a Seer of Blood. I think I've got the Knight part down, at least. Kick some ass and protect my friends. Easy. But I don't think I have any abilities because I've been as powerful as I can get by game leveling standards without going God Tier for a while, and I haven't gotten any sort of powers.

voice

[sermonize]

Shouldn't that be a good thing? That you are so strong at this point in the Game that it deems your abilities not needing to be awakened just yet?

I'm certain you'll find them when it is necessary. Is that not how these things work?

voice

[redregrets]

...I don't think it works like that. Maybe there was some quest I needed to complete to get them, that I overlooked somehow, I don't know. It's just really fucking irritating that I can't be of more help. God knows what they even do. Knowing my luck, if I do ever figure out what they are, they'll be completely useless.