In Which Ziquno goes missing for over an hour and comes back, changed?
[07:44:42] AG: Oh, ahem, ZIq?
[07:45:13] AA: Not like zomeone elze iz uzing ziz handle
[07:45:38] AG: Oh, ... how rude
[07:45:53] AG: Oh, I was MErely questIonIng whether or not you were around
[07:46:13] AA: Vhy vould I be logged on to Trollian if I veren't around
[07:46:47] AA: And, zorry for being rude, I guezz
[07:47:20] AG: Oh, you could have been attacked when you dIdnt expect It or drop It whIle you were dIstracted
[07:47:26] AG: Oh, there are endless scenarIos
[07:47:50] AA: I zeapoze
[07:47:58] AG: Oh, do you?
[07:48:03] AG: Oh, It seems you do not really
[07:48:12] AG: Oh, thats besIdes the poInt
[07:48:22] AA: And vhat iz ze point?
[07:48:30] AG: Oh, :l
[07:48:34] AG: Oh, I was gettIng there
[07:48:45] AG: Oh, how have you been gettIng along In your land?
[07:49:07] AA: It'z
[07:49:16] AA: It'z fucking veird iz vhat it iz
[07:49:50] AG: Oh, how so?
[07:50:14] AA: I zink ze vhole planet iz made up of gearz, made 'from' gearz
[07:50:30] AA: but I can never zee very far becauze of all ze fucking zteam
[07:50:41] AA: But anytie I'm ztanding on zomezing, it'z a gear
[07:50:50] AA: I need to climb zomevhere, gearz
[07:51:03] AG: Oh, Is that a problem?
[07:51:31] AA: I haven't zeen anozer living zing here zat hazn't tried to attack me and zuz, died horrible for ze attempt
[07:51:56] AG: Oh, I see...
[07:52:07] AG: Oh, well... what do you suppose you wIll do?
[07:52:26] AA: I zink I'm uppozed to find my anzeztorz veaponz here
[07:52:39] AA: Zo I've been looking pretty much everyvhere for zem
[07:52:47] AG: Oh, what makes you thInk that?
[07:53:23] AA: Ze journal
[07:54:08] AG: Oh, what If Its a lIe?
[07:54:24] AA: Zen it iz a lie
[07:54:39] AA: but I have not been led aztray az of yet
[07:55:52] AG: Oh, well then
[07:56:03] AG: Oh, follow your story then
[07:57:03] AA: Zat'z pretty much it zo far, vandering around ze land of zteam and clockvork, killing impz
[07:57:38] AG: Oh, sounds lIke a dazzlIng experIence
[07:57:38] AA: trying to find a pair of daggerz
[07:58:06] AA: Right, like you're life haz been a blaze of adventure zince ve lazt talked
[07:59:26] AG: Oh, most lIkely more so than yours
[07:59:48] AA: enlighten me zen, vhat have you been doing?
[08:00:29] AG: Oh, not a thIng
[08:00:41] AG: Oh, but MY not thIng Is more plesant to ME
[08:00:46] AG: Oh, than your not a thIng Is to you
[08:00:54] AA: of courze, hov zelf centered of you
[08:01:11] AG: Oh, how Is that self centered?
[08:01:33] AA: It juzt iz
[08:01:43] AG: Oh, how?
[08:03:39] AA: I don't knov hov okay?! Maybe becauze I vaz fluzhed for you before you decided zat I'm not fucking pitiable enough to even try to tolerate and I'm ztill trying to vork zroguh ome very unfamiliar emotionz.
[08:03:43] AA: By myzelf, I might add
[08:03:51] AA: Zince my morail iz FUCKING DEAD
[08:04:17] AG: Oh, ...
[08:04:34] AG: Oh, wow great blaME ME for all of your problems
[08:04:43] AG: Oh, because ME talkIng to you rIght now Is not toleratIng you
[08:04:53] AG: Oh, and I PERSONALLY kIlled you moIraIl
[08:05:55] AA: I knov it doezn't make zenze, okay?
[08:06:10] AG: Oh, do you?
[08:06:11] AA: I knov it'z irrational and ztupid but I'm angry, at everyfin
[08:06:38] AG: Oh, well takIng It out on ME Is just the rIghteous thIng to do
[08:06:42] AG: Oh, go for It
[08:07:16] AA: Ugh, could you *try* to be zympazetic, for even a zecond?
[08:07:31] AG: Oh, as you wIsh
[08:07:36] AG: Oh, here It coMEs
[08:07:44] AG: Oh, here coMEs the sympathy you so desIre
[08:07:53] AG: Oh, aaaaand there It goes
[08:07:57] AG: Oh, wIth all the other shIts I never gave
[08:08:34] AA: Vhy are you being zuch an AZZHOLE about ziz?
[08:09:09] AG: Oh, because you see ME as one already judgIng from the blaME traIn you just hIt ME wIth
[08:09:18] AG: Oh, I am MErely lIvIng up to your expectatIons
[08:09:20] AG: Oh, ta
[08:09:21] AG: Oh, da
[08:09:30] AA: I'm zorry
[08:09:35] AA: I'm ZORRY OKAY?1
[08:10:02] AG: Oh, are you?
[08:10:12] AA: YEZ!
[08:10:42] AG: Oh, well alrIght then
[08:12:35] AA: I'm zorry Aztrum iz dead, zorry I took it out on you, zorry ze only interaction I've had viz anyfin in hourz haz been killing zem
[08:13:13] AG: Oh, I am sorry you are so Intent on pItyIng yourself
[08:20:31] AA: Vell it'z not like anyone elze iz going to
[08:21:14] AG: Oh, Im sure mokIna would
[08:21:21] AG: Oh, Altond would
[08:21:23] AG: Oh, ME?
[08:21:30] AG: Oh, not lIkely.
[08:22:07] AA: Zpending time viz Mokina iz comparable to zticking my head in a loud, zcreechy, grinder
[08:22:49] AA: zhe meanz vell but zhe'z completly inzane
[08:22:55] AG: Oh, well you would get what you want
[08:23:00] AG: Oh, that beIng a pIty party
[08:23:08] AG: Oh, beggars, choosers, blah blah
[08:23:44] AA: No, ztop talking, I am alloved to be upzet. My Morail died. It iz perfectly acceptable to be upzet about zomefin like zat
[08:23:59] AA: and he died becauze of hiz ztupid ztarz
[08:25:01] AG: Oh, well I could have told you that would happen
[08:25:05] AG: Oh, oh waIt
[08:25:11] AG: Oh, I am not supposed to be talkIng
[08:25:26] AA: *zigh*
[08:25:29] AA: Go ahead
[08:25:33] AA: talk avay
[08:25:41] AA: it'z not like I can really ztop you
[08:25:49] AG: Oh, oh
[08:25:51] AG: Oh, ooooooooh
[08:25:55] AG: Oh, thank YOU
[08:26:05] AG: Oh, thank you for ALLOWING ME to talk
[08:26:10] AG: Oh, I am ETERNALLY grateful
*Several hours pass*
[08:28:39] -- acridAggressor [AA] began trolling abducentGilderoy [AG] at 20:28 --
[08:30:36] AA: Ah, Gio, ve vere, talking veren't ve?
[08:30:41] AA: Not zo very long ago?
[08:30:50] AG: Oh, ah yes
[08:30:55] AG: Oh, Indeed we were
[08:31:39] AA: Oh good
[08:31:44] AA: Zought I had it right
[08:31:49] AA: ...
[08:31:58] AG: Oh, what?
[08:32:04] AG: Oh, what does that even MEan?
[08:32:10] AA: zo vhat vere talking about?
[08:32:37] AG: Oh, you beIng self-pItyIng or soMEthIng lIke that...
[08:32:57] AA: Vaz I? Vhat about?
[08:33:01] AA: Oh right, Aztrum
[08:33:08] AA: being dead and all zat
[08:33:37] AG: Oh, well you do not sound so broken up about It anymore
[08:33:43] AA: I don't?
[08:33:58] AG: Oh, no...
[08:34:12] AA: Vell, I am, vry broken up about it, yez indeed
[08:34:34] AG: Oh, well If that doesnt sound lIke a lIe
[08:35:11] AA: Relatively zpeaking, of courze
[08:36:14] AG: Oh, what?
[08:36:37] AA: Everyzing iz realtive
[08:36:44] AA: Life, deaz, a lot of deazz
[08:37:08] AG: Oh, you dId not seem to thInk that before
[08:37:32] AA: I lacked perzpective before
[08:37:55] AG: Oh, before what?
[08:38:42] AA: I'm zure you'd like to knov, but I'm not really free to talk about it right nov
[08:38:49] AA: Vhy don't ve talk about zomefin elze?
[08:39:24] AG: Oh, such as?
[08:39:42] AA: Vell, anyfin really
[08:39:56] AA: It'z been a long time zince I've zpoken viz anyone vho vazn't a duck
[08:40:54] AG: Oh, well you already shot down MY topIc
[08:40:57] AG: Oh, so there you go
[08:41:16] AA: Zen vhy don't ve talk about you
[08:41:54] AG: Oh, ME?
[08:41:57] AG: Oh, what about ME?
[08:42:15] AA: Hov have you been?
[08:42:26] AG: Oh, fIne I suppose...
[08:45:39] AG: Oh, what Is wrong wIth you?
[08:46:21] AA: Vhy doez zomezing have to be vrong viz me?
[08:46:31] AA: Can't I juzt vant to talk?
[08:47:33] AG: Oh, you suddenly changed your whole deMEanor
[08:47:55] AA: Not zuddenly, I azzure you
[08:48:15] AG: Oh, then what?
[08:49:03] AA: Vhen I zaid everyfin iz relative, I really did mean everyfin
[08:50:02] AG: Oh, you are not makIng sense to ME
[08:50:24] AA: I don't zeazpect I am... zat'z vhy I zeagezted ve talk about you
[08:50:42] AG: Oh, well I have nothIng to say about ME
[08:51:32] AA: Really?
[08:51:43] AG: Oh, really
[08:51:48] AG: Oh, why would I say so otherwIse
[08:51:50] AG: Oh, ?
[08:51:53] AA: Vell, vhy don't you talk about hov your kizmeziz viz Altond iz going zen?
[08:52:09] AG: Oh, ... I have not spoken to hIm In a whIle
[08:52:19] AG: Oh, why would you want to talk about that anyway
[08:52:20] AG: Oh, ?
[08:53:56] AA: Az ztrange az ziz zoundz, I like Altond, he iz an enjoyable drinking comanion... even if he can't hold hiz liquor az vell az I can. Azide from Aztrum, I'd zay he'z one of my clozezt friendz.
[08:54:12] AG: Oh, so?
[08:55:03] AA: And you vere my firzt ever fluzh cruzh, zo I like to keep tabz on you tvo and make zure you are doing vell
[08:55:15] AG: Oh, why?
[08:56:03] AA: Becauze I have a lot of time on my handz
[08:57:17] AG: Oh, that Is an odd reason
[08:57:31] AA: Not really
[08:58:42] AG: Oh, ... If you say so
[08:58:49] AG: Oh, I fInd It strange
[09:01:15] AA: Do you?
[09:01:56] AG: Oh, I do Indeed
[09:02:10] AA: Vell, nofin I can do about zat
[09:04:00] AG: Oh, that Is true
[09:04:07] AG: Oh, or you could tell ME what happene
[09:04:09] AG: Oh, *heppened
[09:04:14] AG: Oh, *HAPPENED
[09:04:25] AA: Vhat makez you zink anyzing zignificant happened?
[09:05:01] AG: Oh, because you dont want to tell ME
[09:05:33] AA: Zat iz your reazon?
[09:05:46] AG: Oh, If It was InsIgnIfIcant
[09:05:50] AG: Oh, why would you hIde It?
[09:07:12] AA: No, I juzt find it amuzing zat your reazon for zinking zomefin happened iz becauze of my refuzal to talk about zomefin, az oppozed to ze fact zat our lazt converzation ended, razer poorly, and my connection cut out for over an hour
[09:10:32] AG: Oh, that has happened on multIple occasIons
[09:10:58] AA: Vhen I vaz under zeveral hundred feet of vater, yez
[09:11:14] AG: Oh, yes...
[09:13:11] AA: I am not undervater anymore
[09:14:15] AG: Oh, ...so?
[09:14:20] AG: Oh, Anuman breaks up
[09:14:24] AG: Oh, she Is not a seadweller
[09:14:31] AG: Oh, Astrum broke up
[09:14:33] AG: Oh, neIther Is he
[09:15:00] AA: Vhatever reazon vorkz for you I zeapoze
[09:15:13] AG: Oh, Ill go wIth the logIcal one
[09:15:17] AG: Oh, thank you
[09:16:09] AA: vhichever you chooze, can't change zomeone'z ind for zem
[09:16:20] AA: Learned zat ze hard vay
[09:16:43] AG: Oh, I know thIs
[09:17:34] AA: I uzed to zink ozervize... I uzed to zink and do a lot of zingz
[09:17:40] AA: But zat doezn't matter nov
[09:18:41] AG: Oh, so you no longer thInk?
[09:18:57] AA: I zink different zingz nov
[09:19:15] AG: Oh, such as?
[09:19:34] AA: You'll have to find out ze hard vay
[09:20:39] AG: Oh, MEanIng?
[09:21:11] AA: Meaning, you'll have to talk to me to find out
[09:22:30] AG: Oh, I AM talkIng to you
[09:23:10] AA: And you've already noticed differencez
[09:23:26] AA: My vhat obzervational zkillz you have
[09:24:15] AG: Oh, I am extreMEly talented arent I
[09:24:41] AA: Indeed!
[09:25:15] AG: Oh, you do not need to tell ME thIs
[09:25:44] AA: I zeazpect not, you've alvyz been very good at ztating ze obviouz
[09:28:33] AG: Oh, what Is that supposed to MEan?
[09:29:03] AA: Exactly vhat you zink it doez
[09:29:59] AG: Oh, alrIght then
[09:30:08] AG: Oh, Ill take It
[09:30:23] AA: Excellent
[09:30:43] AG: Oh, Indeed
[09:32:22] AA: Vell, noted changez to my perzonality azide I really zhould be going...
[09:32:29] AA: But before I do
[09:32:46] AG: Oh, ...?
[09:59:02] AA: Oh, I didn't have anyfin to zay, I juzt vated to zee hov long you'd ztick around vaiting, but I'm bored nov
[09:59:10] AA: bye
[09:59:13] -- acridAggressor [AA] gave up trolling abducentGilderoy [AG] at 21:50 --










