Aarenis

Ochazuke mixes were a life-saver as a grad student just trying to make egg and rice taste a little different for the week, ngl 😛

Agreed with 2 or 5 tbh. My friend wanted to meet her at a recent con but couldn't take time away from her stall to do so (and also tickets), sadly 😞

Apparently there's Irn Bru fish and chips too but ngl that seems more reasonable than...sending your tuna flakes for a swim with it?

I'm a little concerned that one of our options is to do Therapy Spell as a precaution, ngl.

Wait, this is the one my bro told me to mix with tuna flakes out the can? 😱

No, but I've had to make the joking CM Punk reference whenever my colleagues are being silly 😔 Or the Village. What d'you mean let's paranoia-vote solid village reads at lylo y'all?!?!?!?

Fair. I'll back Heavy's vote. Edited to add: Tbf maybe there's no need to be too FOMO about this. We're on an adventure, we'll find awesome things regardless! Power wash enemies with our one spell of doom, take spirits in for therapy, we got this!

Based! 😄 Honestly yeah, I love it, I've got a box sitting around from the last office gift exchange because apparently I'm the super predictable guy who always asks for tea 😔 C'mon, I'm old, I'm tired, I work with [bleep] children, at least let me ask for tea 😤

Kick

I've tried Lady Grey but these days I'm more a simple Assam / Irish Breakfast fan. Just want a nice malty tea to start the day wow would you look at that thread derail!

Irony: I was reading this while steeping a cup of Earl Grey 😂

Then our therapy spell will finally come in useful!

Which part is the heresy though?

Ok but real question, are there any tea-drinkers in this thread??!?!??!

I'm feeling either the search or the activate the mechanism option. Anyone got a preference here?

This seems to me to be reasonable 😤 Hic sunt dracones!!!

There's a story here 👀

I wanna do all these and search for the hidden passage. Our game going Indiana Jones rn ngl.

Well, at least if the spirits try to depress our Watery allies we can help them build emotional resilience through therapy.

Anyone has a preference here? 😛 Edited to add: Aight imma vote to back Heavy up 💪

I'm voting for the spiritual spell just so we can finally get something that's not Water, but looks like after this, it's moving on? We going with flow path or hitting the elemental mech?

I remember when this used to be a big problem on MSN 😛 Cards on the table everyone: I'm considering just meditating until we hit 9 in Spirit as well and then try to activate the mech or examine the carvings. Then Flow Path. But tbvh I think we probably don't need 9 in Spirit for it so we could just try too (I'm maybe too cautious for my own good 😛 )

I was rocking to Era quite a few years later so I guess it comes back into fashion! 😂 Also some actually Gregorian Te Deums but I blame that on having done English Lit and the play specifically asking for it...

Thanks for the thought-out response! That game (in the spoilers) was one hell of a rollercoaster It's a little surprising to me in that compared to some of the communities I've played in, MU is actually considered a far more toxic environment, though I wonder if some of the people commenting on MU toxicity actually had this kind of toxic anti-toxicity in mind. Fair, though I wouldn't disagree with the sense it's related. I've seen similar dynamics play out in younger fandoms (by demographic) where there've been a lot of reckonings with people who come back to fandoms and then say they were pushed out and felt too intimidated to push back against aggro and then that no one cared to stick up for them. At some point it did become a sort of imperative to say something or to be part of the problem (and that sort of framing just feeds directly into the mindset you describe IMO.) Kind of want to say the shift happened around '19 but not dead sure of this, as I was in and out of those spaces. Dunno if it's a zoomer problem specifically since I think we millenials have to take a fair share of it.