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Texts From Last Night

Welcome to Folkmore's Texts From Last Night meme! This meme can be used as a branch off from our Test Drive Memes and be used as game canon or just for casual fun in the setting! You do not need to be in our game or be invited to play on our TFLN. This can be a great way to meet current players for future invites, get a feel for the setting, or just have some fun.

This can be used for samples on our applications and used as spoons for players accepted into the game!

TEXTS FROM LAST NIGHT GENERATOR

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[untitledshuos]

Jedao chuckles. It could have been awful, but it was the level of thinking and skills required to succeed as a Shuos. It was far from the worst training they went through, either physically or psychologically, but it's a neat encapsulation of both.

"Some people?" Jedao questions, "Everyone has expectations, minimally, and those expectations are rules they expect people to follow. Some people have more or less power to enforce those expectations or desired means of interaction—for anything—but whether they know the rules they're trying to enforce or follow or not, we're all following some kinds of rules. It's in everything we do."

[fogsong]

Sharon falls silent briefly, nose wrinkled in thought. Truthfully, she's never looked at the world—or people, for that matter—like that before. It makes her brain buzz lightly at the front of her skull.

"Is it harder to figure out what people's expectations are here? We're all from different worlds and while I expect some overlap, I imagine we all operate under different rule sets."

[untitledshuos]

Jedao shrugs. Sometimes yes, sometimes no. It varies. In the end, people are people, but most people don't go about thinking about these things the way Jedao does. That can make it easier for him.

"It depends how cognizant you are of it and how openly people telegraph their emotional responses. Some are easy, some are hard. In some ways the similarities make it easier to bump into the differences. The more in common the more shocking the differences. Everyone has to deal with it to some degree."

[fogsong]

"I'm guessing it's second nature to you." It's something she'll personally be paying more attention to in the future but it's something she'll have to consciously be aware of. It sounds like more effort than it's really worth, especially in a place like Folkmore. But, god, it would've come in handy back home.

[untitledshuos]

"It was an essential part of my job," Jedao says. "I got sent into the hardest battles with far fewer people and resources. Smart use of them wasn't enough to win." He wasn't expected to win. That didn't stop him, whether that was on recon missions or major battles. It's how he earned his immortality. They simply couldn't find anyone as good as him.


"Might not be a magical ability, but it's as useful as one." He waggles his fingers as though to indicate any of the many abilities people bring here.

[fogsong]

He wasn't expected to win those battles. Something hard flashes in her gaze, her smile flickering, but she swallows it down. Once, the only thing that stoked that kind of rage in her had been her own suffering.

"It might be more useful than any magical ability. It can't be taken from you during a Trial."

[untitledshuos]

Jedao's eyes get a little sad, a little distant. He doesn't remember it, but he knows it must have happened. The only reason he ended up around as himself. That and Kujen preferring him this way. Sometimes the latter is a harder thought.

"No, Thirteen prefers only to take our magical abilities, it seems," Jedao says.

[fogsong]

There's a flash of sorrow in those eyes of his and Sharon leans over to nudge him gently with her elbow, friendly.

"Lucky us, huh?" It's not as sarcastic as it sounds.

[untitledshuos]

Jedao chuckles wryly. He wouldn't expect such positive recognition from Sharon toward anything Thirteen does. Not in so short a time. That's good.

"Lucky us," he agrees.