9/2 posted after the explorers return to the station

[stophit]

persephone was a giant ass monster and the cult leader was horny for it

if you got anything from the cult you should fuckin burn it. [...] wait if it's a plant maybe put it in a bag and like. give it to research. but seriously that shit should get burned cause it's zombie brainwash monster parts

Comments

[crawlwaller]

Ok that's fair [...] ok so the sage stuff got to everybody's heads and then Persephone just like beaconed everybody out to her and then Sal got her and she turned off her beacon and without the sage stuff her beacon won't work again [...] right?

[stophit]

kinda sounded like something changed. like maybe it was normal and cool for awhile and then all of this happened. idk. he seemed confused as fuck cause there's no way there was anything normal and cool about harvesting sage off a monster

[crawlwaller]

Maybe it was the mist or the storm or moles got to them or Ernest Waters or idk who even knows maybe nothing changed maybe it was just shifty all along and she found a shifty Renfield and then all this

[dorinlee]

[...] Is it bad to say I hope it was the latter?

[crawlwaller]

I don't think that's bad but why do you hope that

[dorinlee]

I just think [...] if they were actually friends before or if Persephone was different before and something outside of her control changed her, that'd be sort of awful?

[crawlwaller]

Yeah that's fair [...] idk the whole thing is weird like either she manipulated him the whole time or something got to her and changed or manipulated her on purpose or not on purpose [...] I feel bad for him and if it's the change thing I feel bad for her too

[dorinlee]

Yeah. I feel bad for him too. Either way. [...] I know he put a lot of people at risk and he caused a lot of trouble, but he wasn't thinking straight. Hopefully he'll come out of it soon.

[crawlwaller]

True believers though right they can do a lot of damage [...] I hope he learns a lot from all this though

[dorinlee]

Yeah. [...] But I hope so too. Everyone deserves a second chance, right?

[crawlwaller]

Yeah [...] As long as he stays away from the riftlands and Persephone anyway

[dorinlee]

That's what it seemed like to me. But [...] I guess it's hard to know for certain.

Maybe Research will be able to make sense of it?

[crawlwaller]

[...] Cool you got to see all that go down though even if it probably wasn't great

Hopefully bc I know I won't haha

[dorinlee]

[...] I didn't see all that much. It was raining so hard and it was so dark, I don't think I could pick 'Persephone' out of a cryptid lineup. Plus, I was more focused on keeping everyone out of the way. [......] Annie was super cool, though. [...] And the others too!

Yeah. I won't either. They didn't cover psychic sage in nursing school.

[crawlwaller]

Ah yeah that's fair the rain definitely did not make things any easier still though good job to you and your whole team

If they were gonna cover it anywhere it should've been liminal school but maybe I just skipped class that day lol

[dorinlee]

[...] Thanks, Linus. [...] I heard you guys saved half of Colchester! So remember to give yourself some credit too.

I was too much of a dork to skip and I don't remember it being covered either; IRIS needs to work on that curriculum.

[crawlwaller]

I don't know about half but I'm glad we kept them away long enough for you all to do your thing

I didn't actually skip much either like it's a lot harder to get away with at a boarding school ...

[dorinlee]

That's true. They know where you live. [...] Where'd you go to school?

[crawlwaller]

[Name of school] how about you

[dorinlee]

Shawangunk Ridge Educational Facility. It's in New York, not far from here.