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[dissemblance]

Can we all take a moment to admire the fact that 2801 technology still supports emoji functionality? 🤩 👍 🕷 💁 🩰 💫 🍆 🧊 💅 👁‍🗨 🎯 🤡 🔋 🐈 💲 🧙‍♀️ 🐦💋 🐜 👽 🕶 ⚡ 🕵🏻‍♀️ 💦 💦 💦

It seems like they're pretty set on calling us 'Hatchlings', so... hello, fellow Hatchlings, I'd like to play a game.

Two truths and a lie. I'll start.

  ① Starbucks makes the best lattes.
  ② I've never watched All Dogs Go To Heaven all the way through.
  ③ My birthdate is May 21st. What year? Every year. 😉😉😉 But my party in 2018 was 🔥🔥🔥.

Comments

[neversmall]

It counts as delicious. 😉

[sunmon]

I'm wrong, then?

Well, I certainly hope you like red. You spend an awful lot of time in it.

[neversmall]

I do like red.

...but I find it is no longer quite my favorite color. 😅

...that's a strange one. "😅" ...😅... no, I don't think that quite fit there. Maybe 😄? Hmm. 😀😁😂🤣😃😄😆... no.

Anyway, well done! Your turn.

[sunmon]

[ ok, ok, she'll look through the emoji library. ]

🧖🏻‍♀️
Some of these are strange. What is that a woman disappearing into fog?

Ok. Let's see.
1. I am a passable artist.
2. I can play the zither.
3. I've never learned to dance.

[neversmall]

I've no idea what half these things are: 🚗🚑🚍🛩✈ Strange carriages? With no horses? Odd birds?

I'd expect a mapmaker to be a passable artist, so it's a hard choice between the zither or dancing. I am going to go with number three, because it would simply be too sad if you'd never learned to dance.

[sunmon]

Unfortunately not.
I mean, I can make a passing attempt as well as anyone who hears music.
But I think the Ravkan court would be happiest if I kept my feet quite still.

1/3

[neversmall]

Court dancing is the most boring sort of dancing in the world. 😤 Too many rules and politics - no fun at all. 💩

...💩

💩💩💩

💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩

💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩

[neversmall]

[ Please excuse Nina, she is broken over the poop emoji.

Wherever she is now, she is laughing so hard that tears are coming out of her eyes, bowled over, full out snorting that this exists.

Who would have -- why?? ]

[neversmall]

[ Some time passes and she manages to type: ]

They gave it eyes! 💩

Why would they give it eyes? 💩💩

[sunmon]

Why is it cute?

[ ok now she's searching more adamantly through this library. ]

[neversmall]

I don't know!

It's hilariously awful. And somehow cute?

Why would they give it eyes?

[sunmon]

It's like it's staring at me.
💩
👹🤡🎃
👁🐽👁

[neversmall]

Oh, what's that last one! I didn't see that.

Oh, I see! You made your own with other symbols?

[ Nina'd been low key interested about this for the potential of codes from the very beginning, but this provides even MORE of a variance. Very interesting! ]

[sunmon]

Yeah!
Well see they have the pig 🐷 but then there's also the pig's nose 🐽
👁👅👁
Oh that one doesn't quite work does it

[neversmall]

This is DEFINITELY my favorite thing about this watch so far.

No - the tongue -- is that a tongue? -- is up just a little too high. I can see where you were going with it, though!

[sunmon]

They're very cute.
Saints, there's so many.

[neversmall]

I know! And they're so tiny like this, it's hard to see what they are until I send it out to you.

💃🕺

Look, dancers!

[sunmon]

Very charming.
Oh what are these: 🥑🥝🥥 ?

[neversmall]

...they look like fruit? Or a bowl, that last one could be a bowl.

[ A SIGH FOR THE WANTING OF FRUIT THAT DOES NOT NEED TO BE PUT INTO TEXT. ]

[sunmon]

Oh, you're probably right about the bowl.
Look at that.
Do you think people could write whole messages with these?
Here, let me try.
❌🌧🧗🏻‍♀️🌎🌲🍄🌺🦌🛬💥🌑

[ alina ... ]

[neversmall]

[ ...Alina, what?

She guesses the deer is some reference to the visions Alina mentioned of the stag. She's not sure what the... crashing symbol is? But she can't look at the burst of light and the sudden dark and not think of the impact Alina's power has on the fold. Something... there's something more here that she doesn't quite see.

Not a storm, but working on the world - the forest - the Fold? - and then... Nina loses it around the mushroom and flower.

She's normally good at codes, but what Alina's referencing she just doesn't see. And of what she does see, she's not comfortable discussing on an open network. ]

I'm not sure I got all that. 🤷‍♀️ You'll have to show me what you meant later. 😅😁

...oh I get 😅 now!

[sunmon]

Maybe one thing at a time, then.

[ they'll work their way up to codes. it would help, probably, if they knew one another better. ]

[neversmall]

We can work on it.

Oh look! There are waffles after all! 🧇🧇🧇🧇🧇

[ She is delighted. A Great Injustice has been Rectified. ]

[dissemblance]

😱😱😱

I've created a monster!

[neversmall]

[ ...you can't... set up a girl like that... and expect her not to: ]

💩

[ That's it, she's laughing again. Sorry, not that sorry, whoever you are. ]