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[livlaughlove]

[in the usual handwriting so neat and uniform it may as well have been stamped on the paper if it wasn't for the lines appearing in real time...]

Hey everyone. It's Livio.

I thought it would be a good idea to have a spot to collect our knowledge of what to do and not to do around here. Specifically, rules the forest seems to abide by or hold us to. Such as "don't touch the trees."

If you can add any explanation, like the logic behind something, or consequences to be expected if we break a rule, that would be appreciated.

Even if something seems obvious, please share it. Some of us are newer than others. It's safer to be redundant than let someone get hurt out of ignorance.


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Comments

[amethystic]

When the fog isn't lifted, you have to ask to be let in to harvest anything, and pay reverence for its generosity after. By which I mean say thank you and don't be sassy about it.

sorry-

[lupusxylem]

Are you kidding me?!

[livlaughlove]

Staying on topic would be prudent.

Re: sorry-

[amethystic]

i fucking wish do you KNOW how debasing this is for me as a witch
ITS NOT EVEN THE ACTUAL FOREST ITS JUST SOME PIECE OF SHIT POSSESSING IT

[lupusxylem]

I'm on topic, I'm asking a question!

[Kindof]

[oleaeuropaea]

[Look at him not staying on topic.]

what's wrong with saying thank you when you take something a plant has given you?

[lupusxylem]

Speak for yourself, I'm a Priest.

I'd sooner fucking starve than start worshiping the god damn forest.

[simplicitas]

[In the shittiest handwriting possible:]

hi livio-hyung its Elsword! Ive been here the longest I can help

You have to say thanks before you take anything like fruits, sticks, or fish from the river. With the fish you have to take the remains like the bones to the river and put it back in. the river gardeean asked us to do it. I think the rest is becausse the forest gets mad if you dont.

Dont touch any black vines/plants/other things like that. Thats how you get corupted like me. Also dont sass the forest it does NOT like this I have been haloosinating for MONTHS but i think thats because of the corupshun.

Zaleeyah likes cheese and marshmellows and things that melt. That has nothing to do with the forest but hes friendlier if you feed him. Also he likes hats too.

If you die you go to a place called the garden and you have to give something up to return to life. Try not to die please :(

The forest likes to play games with people. Refusing to play means it will corrupt you. I killed one of its minyons last year and thats how I got corrupted despite not touching anything wierd.

If you get corupted cutting off the limb just means it will regrow with wood and vines and stuff like Nene so dont do that.

The gardeeans are our friends like Moder and Zaleeyah and the river gardeean so you have to be respectful to them because they are here to help protect us. They say you have to call the creeture in the woods "the false god" or it gains power.

Words also have power here which is why you say thanks and why you have to be careful what you wish for because they can be very literal about this.

I think thats it!

[amethystic]

we don't have to go that far YET
just
have to be fucking formal and flowery about asking and thanking it and both are a MUST if you actually want to get anything done

[lupusxylem]

Are you listening to yourself?

The FOREST has done nothing but try to kill us all the entire time we've been here.

[simplicitas]

One time i told the forest to go fuck itself and i had horrifying nightmares for weeks

[lupusxylem]

So it wants us to be all nice and sweet and ~thankful~ to it while it tries to kill us.

Fucking fantastic. I hate it here.

[livlaughlove]

Thank you. Sorry about them.

When you say harvest, do you mean food, wood, animals, or something else?

[oleaeuropaea]

we don't know why, though. maybe there's a chance some great offense was committed.
it wouldn't be the first time a plant got a little violent because it was wronged.

[Nai DNI.]

[lupusxylem]

Maybe it should go fuck itself.

[amethystic]

( there's a dot of ink like someone was going to reply but froze before ripping the pen away

and then silence, for what feels like an agonizingly long time, for her. maybe only a minute or so for him. )

I know. I was there.

You just don't remember anymore.

[oleaeuropaea]

[A line is drawn from "If you die you go to a place called the garden and you have to give something up to return to life. Try not to die please :(" to a blank space. A series of question marks follow.]

I never saw a garden.

[lupusxylem]

I don't believe that. It's toying with us, needle-noggin. If it really wanted to enact some kind of revenge, itd just kill us all off and be done with it, not do whatever the hell this is.

[amethystic]

What tyrant doesn't want dolls that are grateful to be abused? It's not the first I've had. Just the worst yet.

[amethystic]

I'm a witch and apothecary so I forage and harvest a lot of different herbs and other plants. Also berries and stuff, because they are delicious. I haven't done any hunting since Heimr usually can provide anything I need, or I can just get someone to fish for me, but I wouldn't be surprised if that's the same.

[amethystic]

Was it at the castle? When you died.

[simplicitas]

Yeah but for now we have to be decent to it because otherwise it gets mean to everyone, i dont care if its just me suffering but i care if other people do :(

[simplicitas]

Oh

I'm sorry :(

Its nice to meet you again :)

[livlaughlove]

Thanks, Elsword. This is exactly the sort of thing I was after. What is hyung? Is there anything I can do to help you, even for a while?

I heard not to refer to it as anything consistently. But "the false god" is helpful to say?

Do scales and medallions count as things taken from the river? I hope the River Guardian accepts belated thank yous.

[amethystic]

( ... )

I'm sorry. I'm not ready for this yet.