un: lalli | video and text (open to both factions)

[lallipop]

[The video is only about five seconds or so of footage, filmed by someone who doesn't really seem to know what they're doing. It's set in what looks like a forest--the edge of the Gods Wood, to be exact--centered on a patch of recently displaced mud and grass. In the middle is a dirty, soggy, beaten up old wooden sign, apparently dug out of said patch of mud by hand.

Written on it are the words BALANCE MUST BE RESTORED.

Then, in a separate post entirely because Lalli isn't good at this:]

found this
what's it mean?

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text | un: the warden

[unabatedly]

How did you find that?

[ Wait, there's an echo around here. ]

Did you see anyone near it?

[lallipop]

a spirit showed it to me
i'm the only one here

[That he knows of, anyway...]

[unabatedly]

Please be careful where you are. The branded could be watching.

[ Death certainly is, at least. ]

[lallipop]

okay

[He, like, seriously doubts it, but whatever.]

i know how to be quiet

[unabatedly]

I imagine you are.

Can you tell me how you found it? You said it was a spirit. Can you tell me what the spirit looked like?

[lallipop]

like a person?
it was weird
it showed me the mud and i saw wood sticking out of it so i dug it out

[It's probably not a good idea to ignore when a spirit is clearly trying to tell you something, so.]

[unabatedly]

Anything descriptive about the person? Tall, male, female, hair long or short? Did they have any markings on them?

[lallipop]

[Truth be told, he was making an effort not to make eye contact, so there's not a whole lot of detail he can give her beyond what he saw in his peripheral vision.]

tall
long hair i think
i didn't see any markings
i don't know anything else

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[potential]

Did it instruct you to dig it up?

[lallipop]

yes

[potential]

[ yikes ]

Are you able to call it back and ask it what it means?

1/2

[lallipop]

[There's a few minutes' delay, as if he is in fact attempting to do that.]

[lallipop]

no

[potential]

That is unfortunate. It leaves us only to guess what motivated it to lead you there.

[lallipop]

[Is there a way to shrug over text? Someone teach Lalli the shrug emoji.]

maybe it doesn't like the branded things

@selina

[catsy]

[hewwo, she's butting in]

It could have been killed by them. Ghosts are supposed to stick around if they have "unfinished business."

[lallipop]

[This is more conversation than Lalli's ever had in his whole life.]

it didn't feel like a ghost

[But also, like, what does he know about how things work around here.]

[catsy]

There's a difference? [this is not her area of expertise, fwiw.]

[lallipop]

spirits live in nature
ghosts are dead people

[Apparently, that is the extent of his explanation.]

[potential]

[ unfortunate the only expert he knows in this arena is not available. ]

Could you call it back? Can you call any spirits back here?

[lallipop]

i already told you i can't

text; un: bigby

[sweariff]

why

[tbh that could sum everything about this post and all its replies up: just... why.]

i mean, why did they help you? what kind of spirit was it?

[lallipop]

i don't know
a spirit

[sweariff]

and it just led you to that
in the middle of nowhere
for no reason

[lallipop]

yes