Dear @unendingUroburos - Caliborn- could of course sense the dissonance in time between here and there. He didn’t know, of course, that most of it was my own work- pruning here, splitting there. Placing a certain cane back into his care for my own future acquisition. All in all, accounting for certain absences. But regardless of how little time it had been for him, fighting through that first white orb tipped tower taking only hours from his perspective, *I* had been waiting for quite some time for him to turn it on. And now, he has, and the ball is rolling. And it’s time for us to talk! [Like so!] LIKE SO. WHAT. [Oh, don’t worry about it. Anywho, hello, dear boy.] OH. YOu. I REMEMBER YOu. THE SINISTER SEEMING BITCH. WITH THE HARD TO READ WHITE TEXT. WHO SENT ME THE CODE FOR AN OMINOuS JuJu. [Yes, yes. Mistress Frame, humble guide and loving mistress, at your service. I’d recommend you don’t disparage the white text, seeing as currently that is the color yours is.] WHAT. NO IT ISN’T? I CAN SEE THAT IT IS GREEN. WITH MY EYE. [Well, on your end yes. Really, we should have used the pesterchum format again for this, but that takes time, and some people are lazy.] WHAT THE FuCK ARE YOu TALKING ABOuT. [Again, dear boy, don’t worry about it. What you SHOULD focus on is the matter of your game! And I am here to guide you on it.] OH. RIGHT. SHOuLDN’T I HAVE. A FLYING GHOST THINGY. TO TELL ME ABOuT IT? [Yes, but her spritely instincts to guide you are currently being contested by her disdain for you. And the only other option is the author, and I’m just straight up NOT letting that happen. So you get me, instead! You may say thank you.] WHY WOuLD I DO THAT. WHEN I NEITHER LIKE. NOR TRuST YOu. [Hurtful, but you will eventually. For a time, at least!] OKAY. FINE. I FEEL LIKE QuESTIONING YOuR WEIRD AND CONFuSING PHRASING. IS ONLY GOING TO GIVE ME A FuCKING HEADACHE. WHAT THE FuCK IS THIS TOWER. THIS DOES NOT SEEM TO MATCH. ANYTHING I KNEW ABOuT THE GAME PREVIOUSLY? [Correct. You and your sister’s game is unique. A result of the timeline you inhabit, the particular nature of your classes and aspects, and the influence of greater forces. This tower is the first of many. An activator that sends a signal to others- your sister has one as well, she reached it right before being compelled to sleep. Don’t worry about the details of that event, that’s something I had to…tweak. I really should write that recap…] YOu ARE DIGRESSING. INTO VAGuE BuLLSHIT AGAIN. IF THIS TOWER IS AN “ACTIVATOR”. WHAT DO THE REST DO. [Excellent question! One I, of course, knew you would ask. Each one sends a signal to Skaia. A marker of how close you are to beginning your true quest. Naturally your sister’s towers will do much the same. Once you have activated all of them, you will gain access to your Denizen and be granted the opportunity to make your Choice.] THAT MuCH. FITS WITH WHAT I’VE HEARD BEFORE. I’M GuESSING THAT. THERE IS GOING TO BE CHALLENGES AND ENEMIES GETTING TO THESE TOWERS. LIKE THERE WAS THIS ONE? [Very much so. And much harder, as well. Fortunately for you, you get a small reprieve in that you only have seven towers to activate.] I DON’T MIND CHALLENGE. THAT IS FINE. BuT. ONCE I MAKE A CHOICE. THEN WHAT. I KNOW WHAT THE PuRPOSE. OF THE REGuLAR GAME IS. TO MAKE A uNIVERSE. IS THAT STILL WHAT’S HAPPENING HERE. [Not quite. Not entirely inaccurate either. Really, it depends on the choices, both capitalized and otherwise, you and your sister make. This session is unique, as I said. A variety of factors interweaving. Once the towers activate, a much longer, more exciting quest awaits each of you. Technically cooperative, functionally more of a race- if I have my way, at least. You two very much *will* have the opportunity to create something by the end of it. I intend to guide you into creating something beautiful, and in some sense…you already have. Heehee.] OH MY GOD. ARE YOu FuCKING INCAPABLE. OF SAYING SOMETHING THAT ISN’T OMINOuS. AND THREATENING. [Not really!] FuCKING GREAT. IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE I SHOuLD KNOW. BEFORE I GO OFF TO. TuRN ON TOWERS? [No, no. Nothing at all, dear boy! You’ll find a convenient return portal has activated at the base of this tower, right back to your room. If and when you ever need to speak to me, simply activate it here! And I’m certain, which I do mean in the truest sense of the word, that you will find I have facilitated your connection with certain events in between your questing. Ah, I do have one thing to say, though.] GREAT. WHAT IS IT. [Calliope.] --unendingUroburos has been knocked unconscious on the tower keyboard-- [Magnificent.]