☠ - First skull

[2xgun1eyekind]

Dearest adventure journal,

Its a pleasure to make your acquaintance and im sure itll be no time before this tooled volume is filled to the brim with accounts of all sorts of marvelous adventures accrued in this mysterious castle! Though i guess you could say i feel like a real heel for blowing out of the game with my friends like that. I never even had the chance to make amends with jane! Damn it if i had you i would have jotted down that code LICKETY-SPLIT! Then i could have sent it off without a hitch instead of looking like an even bigger buffoon to my dear friend. Whatever it was i bet she would have been thrilled by my selfless gesture of friendship.

Oh well. I guess theres no sense crying over spilled milk now. Those guys will do just fine without me. I have nothing but complete faith in them! And who knows? Maybe this is the way the time travel my friend mentioned comes to pass! Yes im sure of it. By the time i get back jane and dirk ought to have cooled down and itll be just like old times!

Whops. Sitting around moping sure isnt getting any exploring or daring do accomplished is it? Well then my esteemed compendium lets get on with it and see what kind of hazards we can unearth!

Comments

1/2

[cyan_maid]

[...No.

NO.

Really, Paradisa? REALLY?

At least she's in a ridiculous mirror world with painted roses and tea parties with the weirdest guests and not immediately subjected to FREAKING JAKE.]

2/2; Written

[cyan_maid]

Jake.
Jake, the journal is not an adventure journal.

[2xgun1eyekind]

Jane what the dickens are you doing in my journal??

Not that im not absolutely tickled pink to see you found my chumhandle on this thing or that youre even getting my messages at all!

But i had the idea this damnblasted thing was a little bit more private in nature.

THAT ICON.......

[cyan_maid]

Oh for goodness sake. I bet you didn't even flip through the thing yourself, did you?
It's got entries from all sorts of people in it.
I'm assuming you don't remember coming here before? Not that it would actually be your fault if you don't.

1/idk give her a moment

[goingrogue]

[ Oh.

She would know that font and particular way of speech anywhere.

On one hand FUCK YEAH JAKE.

On the other hand...

She told Jane she was going to punch him. Not that she actually meant to punch him, just...]

ell oh ell

2/

[goingrogue]

jake u doofus thats not how it works
ur sposed to talk to other ppl
like this ;)
c its super easy

JAKE

[goingrogue]

u can also do private stuff so only i can see like this
c how private this is
jus make sure you put MY name in
like: ROXY
got it

ROXY

[2xgun1eyekind]

Roxy!! Jane said you were here too and here you are! How did you and jane get here before i did when i was just talking to you? Who knows! It must be timey wimey business and its better not to ask.

Though i guess that means mr strider is somewhere around here too...

JAKE

[goingrogue]

o yea ther is all kindsa timey wimey shenans up in here
just when u think u got it all figured out
it throws u for another timey wimey loop
jane is ahead of me and i have this distinct feelin u r now too
it would figure im all here left in the dark
ud be rite bout dirk tho he is here too
but thats not what i wanted 2 talk to u bout
jane gave me the dl
well maybe not all of the deets but thats not whats important
shes rly upset but its good 2 c that u want to make it up to her tho idk if thats such a good thing rn

[wagers]

Ok, I remem8er you. Vaguely.
Though I never really knew what your deal was.
Do you even have a deal to 8egin with?
Is that a thing I should 8e expecting at this point?

[2xgun1eyekind]

[Blue senses tingling...]

Well im sorry to say my memories of ever being here before are something to be desired! Which is to say i dont remember a fucking thing about this place.

So i guess i could introduce myself again and we could take it from there?

The names english jake english. Adventurer duelist and a dapper gentleman if i may say so myself. And you would be??

[wagers]

[Tingle over there!]

Eh, no one ever does, so I'm not going to dwell on that.
I h8 when people expect newcomers to know these things and act all omnipotent with whatever details they picked up from them. It's so annoying!
8ut in any case, yeah, I can do the introduction thing. Pretty sure that's all we ended up doing last time.
Haha, may8e once we get acqu8nted, you'll leave again! Wouldn't that 8e hilarious?
In all seriousness, the name is Vriska Serket! Keep that name in mind 8ecause I am going to 8e the 8est troll you're ever going to come across.

[2xgun1eyekind]

Serket you say??

[Oh no, here he goes. Jake memory, engage. Subject: ethereal blue fanged vixens. Sure, it's not hard for him to drum up that name.]

You wouldnt happen to know a miss. aranea serket would you???

Dictated

[kid_apocalypse]

[Here Jake, have an enthusiastic voice piping out of the journal at you.]

Wow! Are you another friend of Jane's? She's got all sorts of friends from home now, I'm kinda jealous!

[2xgun1eyekind]

Jimminy! These things have audio too?? This has to be the most state of the art ledger ive ever seen!

Anyway to answer your question indeedy! Shes been a trusted and dear friend of mine for ages! Though theres not one cotton pickin thing wrong with new friends too! I assume youre an associate of miss crocker?

[kid_apocalypse]

Ain't it though? I hear it's all run by some kind of magic!

Yup! I just got here a few weeks ago, and Jane's one of the first people I met when I came crashing in. She's been...a good friend these past few weeks.

What's your name?

[2xgun1eyekind]

Magic? Well that explains it!

Im jake and i hope this isnt too forward but a friend of janes is a friend of mine. Shes a real top notch gal!

What would you like me to call you?

[shenunigans]

hello child
this is your adventure journal
yes
i am sentient
yes
i want to be friends
listen carefully adventurer i have a mission for you
there is somebody in desperate need of help
are you up for the test or are you too weak to try
y/n

[2xgun1eyekind]

Oh goody i knew this was an adventure journal! All the bells and whistles couldnt fool me mr journal. Or pardon me is it miss?

Anyway you should know as well as anyone id never turn my back on an earnest plea for abetment! I eagerly accept your mission! What is it??

[shenunigans]

truly you have the heart and the brain of a real adventurer
not like that indiana douche anyway
i can see it in you friend
you have something real

theres someone in the courtyard in desperate need of help
theyre dehydrated and the cold is getting to them

you have to wish friend
you have to wish with all your heart that you could have apple juice to take to them

that is the power of adventure

[2xgun1eyekind]

Seems straight forward enough!

If i wish hard enough will the aforementioned juice appear for the presumed second stage of the quest which i cautiously predict will be delivery??


[Jake is so excite for this mission.]

[brohoof]

[Oh shit. He's been starting to wonder if Jake would ever actually show up here. The fact Roxy did has left him feeling hopeful, but at the same time, he didn't want to get his hopes up too much in case it was for nothing. So he's tried not thinking about it too much.

And now here Jake is. His stupid, goofy best friend is finally here.]

No, Jake. This isn't an adventure journal, as hilarious as it is to see all of the thoughts you wouldn't normally say.
People can in fact see.
It's about time you got here, you asshole. You missed Christmas, the tree was seriously lacking without your ornamental additions.
I put a skull on it anyway in your place.
Where are you at, are you in your room?
When we meet up, you should tell me more about this whole 'Jane and Dirk cooling down' thing that you mentioned.
The last time I checked, I was always cool.
Can't get cooler than already chill as fuck.
I'm glad you're finally here, bro. I was starting to doubt whether or not the castle would ever actually grace us with your presence.

[2xgun1eyekind]

[Oh shit, it's the fuzz Strider! Act natural, Jake. Somewhere in the castle, Jake tries to look nonchalant. He might even be whistling.]

Haha right you are thats dirk strider for you. Cool as a cucumber! I must have misspoke.

Anyway I guess im fashionably late to the party yet again. Strolling in after everyone else has started hobnobbing and rubbing elbows with the big wigs.

*Sighs and dusts the top of a silken top hat*

Thanks for fulfilling my representation on tree old chum! SO youve been here since before December? Jane said i was here in july but fuck me if i know a thing about that. Im still a little fuzzy on this whole time travel malarkey.

[brohoof]

I know that misspeaking is something you're prone to do, but underestimating my level of chill isn't something you normally do.
So I'm inclined to believe that there's something up that you're not telling me. So, if that's the case you probably should.
Did something happen back at home?

As for you being late, it's not really that big a deal.
After all, it is the fashionably late ones that people are usually anticipating the most.
We can always may up for lost time anyway.

I've been here since just after Thanksgiving. I'd heard about you being here in July, but you disappeared shortly after.
Speaking of that, if you do that again you're gonna get acquainted with my right hook.
So just sit down and ignore any adventurous itches you might have the urge to scratch.
At least until I know you're not gonna fucking disappear again for a while.

[psych0p0mps]

heh i can certainly vouch for there being no shortage of either adventure or hazards here
but you may want to filter to yourself if you want your tooled volume to remain private
anyway i cant help but notice your mention of jane and dirk
you wouldnt happen to be the fourth and final player from their session by any chance would you