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[420blazeit]

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13:37 pm

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" 미안하다!
I'm not here right now,
but leave a message and I'll get back to you asap!
♥ D.Va"

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[420blazeit]

How formal~ do we need to say that too?

[crossmyheartandhope]

Solid as stone, huh? S'pretty solid.

I'm cool with saying it, too. But... full disclosure, technically a couple more than just us four know some of this already. I been trying to dig up more info, and I had to give a little to get a little, so... do I gotta have, like. Different terms or something?

Pretty sure I never done a contract before, I wanna make sure I'm doing it right.

[leaveofabsence]

The agreement we have made is that I will not share it outside of the designated four. Since it is your information, I do not claim any right to it and you may use it as you see fit.

To my understanding, you just wish to consult me on the information you have available. And perhaps I may be able to provide some insight into it since I have been in different parts of Hell, even if my memory of those places are fuzzy at best.

[420blazeit]

Here's to hoping. [ smiles at zhongli. ] Alright, time to info dump. [ the floor's yours, hurricane. ]

[crossmyheartandhope]

Okay... so.

[Deeep breath]

Long story real short, a while back some of us went to heaven and met an angel while we were there. He was kinda high strung, but a real good guy. We came back here, but then we met up again this other time, and he tried to help bust everyone out of the city. By bust out of the city, he kinda like... broke the city. And we got to run around in hell proper for a while, after.

But right after that, the demons grabbed him, and they were gonna try and make him, like... fall. And use him to get into heaven, or something? But then we saw him again, and it looked like he busted out? Only... me and Nem tried to call him not long ago, and he super didn't bust out. He's just, like. Been there, this whole time, and it looks real bad.

[Hesitates, and glances at Zhongli]

...I know you don't do like... heaven and angels and whatever. That all make sense so far?

[leaveofabsence]

So your ally has been imprisoned, and you do not know what state he is in.

[420blazeit]

Yeah. And, like, I think the Liars had him initially... but somehow he got into the hands of the Vengeance people. I remember Hadassah mentioning this real vague like. I've never met him, but I kind of get the feeling he'd be super turned off by mean, since I'm all [ makes a motion at her everything. ] but he's Hurricane's bud and even if he's kind of, like, not the brightest he's definitely got a good heart.

[crossmyheartandhope]

I mean... I kinda do know what state he's in? And the answer is, not great. Like super not great.

So we gotta get him outta there like ASAP, right? So me and Nem did some digging and tried to call someone who might have some answers. Only we got this, like... mushroom demon. And the stuff she told us was all in like... jumbled poetry? So it's real hard to understand what she said, and we been trying to figure out where to go from here.

[leaveofabsence]

I see.

May I see this poetry?

[420blazeit]

Here’s to hoping you can make some sense of it.

[crossmyheartandhope]

Yeah, for real.

[Handing over a notebook open to this page]

Took us a while to track it down, but we figured out she was saying parts of the lines from this.

[leaveofabsence]

[ He reads over the poem. Once. Twice. Three times.

Unfortunately the symbolism here is lost on him as it matches not the tales and lore of Liyue. ]

Does the snake have some cultural meaning here that I am not aware of?

[420blazeit]

Yeah. Snakes are generally considered evil incarnate, since the Devil took the form of a snake in the Garden of Eden to trick Eve into biting the forbidden apple that basically lead to all things bad.

[crossmyheartandhope]

Yeah... the whole thing's this real famous story, from the book that talks about angels and demons and whatever.

...you wanna read it? I got a copy.

[leaveofabsence]

It appears I will need the context if I wish to unravel the rest of this poetry.

[420blazeit]

Might be a good idea to read the Bible for the context, but it’s pretty long.

[crossmyheartandhope]

He can probly get by with just the one part for now. Brb - I got the spot marked.

[Please hold he's going to duck out of the room real quick,]

[crossmyheartandhope]

[He's back in just a minute, holding a book that's open to this page]

This's the one.

[leaveofabsence]

. . .

I see.

So knowledge is considered forbidden. Or perhaps it is that fact that knowledge allows humans to have no more need of their gods.

[420blazeit]

I think it's a bit of both. Like, we can know some things, but not all things, because then, yeah. I don't know if God was trying to protect man, but... well it's really just a catch22.

[crossmyheartandhope]

Yeah, I don't really get it? The Bible's kinda weird.

Like what kinda god goes "I made this one tree, and there's this fruit that's real tasty, but you better not eat it, even though I put it here in this garden where you totally hang out all day and even though I coulda put it like literally anywhere else on the planet if I really didn't want you touching it our nothing."

[leaveofabsence]

One who believes in a certain level of control over his followers.

[420blazeit]

I think it was kind of a test too, since it was the tree of knowledge or whatever, and eating the fruit would tell you everything. So you could either live in paradise knowing next to nothing or know tons of stuff but, have the freedom to choose how you live.

[crossmyheartandhope]

... still kinda a dick move.