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[riptidequeen]

WELCOME TO YOUR PRIVATE CHANNEL, LAPIS LAZULI|ULTRAMARINE. FOR SECURE COMMUNICATION, USE 056.06.156.56 *** ULTRAMARINE has joined 056.06.156.56 <ULTRAMARINE> Hello?. <ULTRAMARINE> Oh this is kind of like Peridots thing. <ULTRAMARINE> This is fine.

Alternate user name(s): MirrorTrapped

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<ULTRAMARINE>

[riptidequeen]

Okay. What is it then?

<cellist>

[ikonsuit]

It's clear to me that you're lacking something.

I can help you find it.

I have a facility. We have food, shelter, training rooms fitted to test anyone. If hunting is an issue, I'll be happy to supply plenty of men for you to drown in toilets, or whatever it is that you do.

In short, I'm assembling a team. These are skilled people all after the same goal. I want you to join us.

<ULTRAMARINE>

[riptidequeen]

Okay first of all, what goal? My current goal is to just not screw up while here and not get killed.

I'm also not really one for being in a group of strangers either.

<cellist>

[ikonsuit]

Our goals are more or less the same.

Get to know them and they won't be strangers.

<ULTRAMARINE>

[riptidequeen]

I can do that alone, you know.

And I only drowned one guy in a toilet once, sheesh.

<cellist>

[ikonsuit]

Ineffective.

You say that as if once isn't too many times.

<ULTRAMARINE>

[riptidequeen]

To you maybe, I've been doing fine thus far.

I've drowned a lot of people, sometimes you got to flash it up.

<cellist>

[ikonsuit]

I'm glad to hear it. I wouldn't wish for anyone's failure.

Is your goal only to survive? Do you have any hopes of returning to your home?

<ULTRAMARINE>

[riptidequeen]

Considering there are people who have been here longer than me, and they still haven't found a way out of this place?

Sometimes just surviving is all we can do.

<cellist>

[ikonsuit]

Survival is more than complacency.

But we can try for more. I'll be here when you're ready.

<ULTRAMARINE>

[riptidequeen]

I wouldn't hold your breath if I were you.

<cellist>

[ikonsuit]

I have... incentives.

<ULTRAMARINE>

[riptidequeen]

And?

I'm good.

<cellist>

[ikonsuit]

You don't even want to know what it is?

Could be a water slide.

<ULTRAMARINE>

[riptidequeen]

I don't need a water slide.

And if you want to tell me what it is, nothing is stopping you.

<cellist>

[ikonsuit]

Does anyone?

Christmas sweaters.

<ULTRAMARINE>

[riptidequeen]

A what-mas sweater?

<cellist>

[ikonsuit]

[ Congrats, you got ALL of his eyes squinting. ]

Christmas.

<ULTRAMARINE>

[riptidequeen]

[And she thinks he's making fun of her.]

Sounds made up and fake.

<cellist>

[ikonsuit]

It's a holiday created by corporate conglomerates to incentive consumerism and to give the appearance of sustainable capitalism.

And reindeer.

<ULTRAMARINE>

[riptidequeen]

So...

Made up and fake. Got it.

<cellist> ( cw: Christianity talk )

[ikonsuit]

There's a religious aspect. Some guy named Jesus H. Christ is rumored to have been born in a barn sometime around the 25th of December between 6 and 4 BC.

The guy, Christ, performs miracles and comes back from the dead. After being in Ryslig, that's a pretty common occurrence. He's not so special.

<ULTRAMARINE>

[riptidequeen]

... Okay.

I still don't get it.

<cellist>

[ikonsuit]

Most people don't.

The bottom line is that people see it as an opportunity to come together and share gifts with one another.

Becomes a lot more simple if you think of it in those terms.

<ULTRAMARINE>

[riptidequeen]

Oh, like a wedding then?

Or a funeral?

[Yes, Lapis somehow knows about those but not Christmas.]