to: all, soon after the summoned return from the alternate reality and regain their bearings

[sketchycharacter]

What the fuck

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[cointosser]

I must reiterate: what, the real and actual, fuck?

This is an exhaustion I shall never recover from.

[sketchycharacter]

Thank you for backing me up.
Can we go nap for a year? Just one?
I think we deserve that after THAT.

[cointosser]

I think we more than have earned it. I am seriously considering looking into a magic that will allow me to send myself to sleep for some unmeasured amount of time.

I do not think any length of being awake will allow me to... swallow all of this.

How are you, ser? You remember it all?

[sketchycharacter]

Drink enough beer, that usually happens with or without magic, if you don't distinguish between "sleep" and "passing out."
Me? More or less...some of the details are fuzzy. Like a camera zooming way out and filling the space with a blurred landscape.
But I remember what it felt like.

[cointosser]

I've had experience with such previously. I'm afraid delusion even through my strongest ale is not entirely helpful.

[That is to say, the memories still exist. Shrouded, blurred things that they are.]

And? Did you bring anything back with you besides memories?

[sketchycharacter]

Too bad.
Like....trinkets? Extra powers? I don't know.
I still feel like me but I don't think anyone can be completely themselves after something like that.
You?

[cointosser]

Magic. And, specifically, physical... er... well, it would be polite to say "enhancements," but I imagine that is not true for everyone.

Both, for me.

Unfortunately.

T'would be easier to think they were only false memories.

[sketchycharacter]

Put a pin in that. I'd like to say no but I'm not sure yet.
And they were definitely false because I'm pretty damn sure 800 years didn't pass for everyone we left behind here.
But I don't think it matters that much whether they were officially real or officially fake.
We lived them either way.