[FELID_FACTOR]

[skinstealer]

5/10/316
[Group Conversation Created]

[WAYWARD_RAMBLER]: Okay...is everyone here?
[ASPIRING_RAM]: yes, i’m here
[KNIGHT_FAN]: Yes
[WAYWARD_RAMBLER]: Okay.

[WAYWARD_RAMBLER]: Thank you both for agreeing to this, I figured it’d be easier to talk with you both in the same room than hop between DMs back and forth like we have been.
[KNIGHT_FAN]: DMs?
[ASPIRING_RAM]: direct messages
[KNIGHT_FAN]: Oh
[KNIGHT_FAN]: Got it
[WAYWARD_RAMBLER]: First off, you two are the only people on FF that know about me being homeless, got it?
[WAYWARD_RAMBLER]: And that’s something I don’t want getting out. The only reason why I even mentioned it is because it’s relevant to the plan. 
[WAYWARD_RAMBLER]: Which, I am risking a lot to come and do, so I’m going to put a lot of trust in the two of you, and that’s saying a lot considering we’ve only known each other for…
[ASPIRING_RAM]: two weeks?
[WAYWARD_RAMBLER]: Two weeks.
[WAYWARD_RAMBLER]: But I want to help, and while it’s a big risk, I also don’t have a lot to lose, however that works out. 
[WAYWARD_RAMBLER]: Can you work with me on this?
[KNIGHT_FAN]: I wont tell anyone
[KNIGHT_FAN]: You really think you can get us out of here
[WAYWARD_RAMBLER]: I can’t promise anything. But your situation sounds bad enough for me to want to try.
[WAYWARD_RAMBLER]: I’ve spent a long time running around and being unable to fix anything for anybody, especially myself, but I think this is possible.
[WAYWARD_RAMBLER]: Way more possible than the people holding you want you to believe.
[ASPIRING_RAM]: your secret’s safe with me, too
[ASPIRING_RAM]: it means a lot that you’d be willing to risk this for us, so thank you for that
[ASPIRING_RAM]: and for reaching out. i don’t talk to anyone on the forum, never have, so this is a big step for me as well
[ASPIRING_RAM]: knight fan was my first real life friend ever, and now you’re my first online friend.
[WAYWARD_RAMBLER]: I...appreciate hearing that. Not even the people I’ve talked to for longest on the forums know about me being homeless, and I don’t know how they’d take it, so your secrecy means a lot here.
[KNIGHT_FAN]: Why havent you told them
[WAYWARD_RAMBLER]: They come from...very different lives.
[WAYWARD_RAMBLER]: They’re great people!
[WAYWARD_RAMBLER]: And god knows they go through hard stuff, one of them went through a TCP session for god’s sake.
[WAYWARD_RAMBLER]: But they have secure jobs and housing, and as far as I know, have for as long as they’ve been spawned. 
[WAYWARD_RAMBLER]: I don’t want to say they haven’t been through shit, because they have, both of them absolutely have, I think everyone on the forums has to a degree…
[WAYWARD_RAMBLER]: But I don’t know what they’d think of me if they found out that I’ve been on the streets for five years, let alone that I don’t remember what happened before then.
[WAYWARD_RAMBLER]: At best, they’ll be overly worried about me, and I don’t know if I can deal with that.
[ASPIRING_RAM]: are you afraid of us being overly worried about you?
[WAYWARD_RAMBLER]: Are you?
[ASPIRING_RAM]: well...no, you seem to be handling this well
[KNIGHT_FAN]: Yeah
[KNIGHT_FAN]: You sound like you know what you’re doing
[WAYWARD_RAMBLER]: Truth be told, I kind of don’t, but I’m trying, and I know enough.

[WAYWARD_RAMBLER]: The image I’ve built up for these friends doesn’t really line up with that. Not on purpose, but they think I’m just some...travelling photographer who gets caught up in adventures.
[WAYWARD_RAMBLER]: Not someone who has to do whatever it takes to survive.
[KNIGHT_FAN]: I know what its like
[KNIGHT_FAN]: To survive
[KNIGHT_FAN]: They almost kill me so many times and it is so horrible
[WAYWARD_RAMBLER]: I know. We’re going to try and get you away from that.
[ASPIRING_RAM]: i have it a lot easier in the palace than knight fan, but there have still been times where i’ve been injured by decorum and her fits of impulse. 
[ASPIRING_RAM]: and seeing the way knight’s been treated has really opened my eyes to how we need to leave. i’ve wanted out for years but this really sealed it for me.
[KNIGHT_FAN]: Wait
[ASPIRING_RAM]: what is it?
[KNIGHT_FAN]: If we’re going to be meeting up
[KNIGHT_FAN]: Can we share names
[WAYWARD_RAMBLER]: Uhhhhhh
[WAYWARD_RAMBLER]: Only if you promise to also keep that a secret.
[KNIGHT_FAN]: I do
[ASPIRING_RAM]: i’m also fine with that
[KNIGHT_FAN]: Im Cecilia
[ASPIRING_RAM]: darling, but i don’t know if i’m keeping that eventually
[WAYWARD_RAMBLER]: Wispy. Please don’t tell anyone.
[KNIGHT_FAN]: That’s a pretty name
[WAYWARD_RAMBLER]: Thanks.
[KNIGHT_FAN]: Wait
[KNIGHT_FAN]: Types too
[WAYWARD_RAMBLER]: God, okay, but I already know yours. Memory type.
[KNIGHT_FAN]: Candy type
[ASPIRING_RAM]: serpent type
[WAYWARD_RAMBLER]: Are we good now?
[KNIGHT_FAN]: Yes
[KNIGHT_FAN]: We are ready

[WAYWARD_RAMBLER]: Well, no, we have a lot more to discuss. 
[WAYWARD_RAMBLER]: Like...how guarded the palace is, ways in and out, what times are going to be best for this…
[ASPIRING_RAM]: i know a way out, and a good meet up point
[ASPIRING_RAM]: but getting cecilia out is going to be hard
[ASPIRING_RAM]: she’s a lot more heavily guarded than i am
[KNIGHT_FAN]: They keep me locked up
[KNIGHT_FAN]: They say I am precious and I hate it
[KNIGHT_FAN]: It makes me feel gross
[WAYWARD_RAMBLER]: Yeah, I still hate that a whole lot. We’re going to get you the hell out of that.
[KNIGHT_FAN]: Thank you
[WAYWARD_RAMBLER]: How locked up are we talking?
[KNIGHT_FAN]: Most days Im not watched
[KNIGHT_FAN]: But if Im going to be eaten they put guards at my room
[KNIGHT_FAN]: To make sure I dont try to run
[KNIGHT_FAN]: They do it for any of the ones being eaten but they know that Im special to Decorum so they lock me up extra
[WAYWARD_RAMBLER]: Okay...we’re going to have to time this, then.
[WAYWARD_RAMBLER]: Do you know when the next time you’re scheduled for, uh...that, is?
[KNIGHT_FAN]: No
[KNIGHT_FAN]: She never tells me until right before
[ASPIRING_RAM]: she mentions it to me, though
[ASPIRING_RAM]: i know about the parties before anyone else, because she gets stressed and talks about it to her “beloved pet”
[WAYWARD_RAMBLER]: Eugh.
[WAYWARD_RAMBLER]: Our safest choice would be after a party then, ideally after Cecilia’s recovered enough that she wouldn’t be too weak to make it out of there quick, but not too far after that another party could come up. 
[ASPIRING_RAM]: yeah
[ASPIRING_RAM]: but decorum only talks about it a week in advance
[WAYWARD_RAMBLER]: That’s...not a lot of notice.
[WAYWARD_RAMBLER]: Getting a ticket out to Solitude isn’t cheap, and you have to go through Consumption to get the best deal. 
[WAYWARD_RAMBLER]: Which, frankly, is really fucking dangerous, and could have a lot of delays if I’m not careful.
[KNIGHT_FAN]: So what do we do
[WAYWARD_RAMBLER]: Well…
[WAYWARD_RAMBLER]: Given a week’s notice, I could try and get over there. A trip from Hearth to Solitude takes about three days by car, but that’s providing you have papers ready to go. I don’t. 
[WAYWARD_RAMBLER]: If I hitchhike with the right people, I could get smuggled in easy, but that requires me finding someone willing to shove me in their glove compartment and pray I don’t get detected by scrap equipment at a checkpoint.
[KNIGHT_FAN]: They have ways to check for that
[WAYWARD_RAMBLER]: Unfortunately, yes.
[KNIGHT_FAN]: Oh no
[KNIGHT_FAN]: What happens if they catch you
[WAYWARD_RAMBLER]: Nothing good. 
[WAYWARD_RAMBLER]: I might be able to figure something out, but my best shot is to start moving soon and see if I can get hookups with someone here who’s willing to smuggle me in across the borders. 
[WAYWARD_RAMBLER]: I know people like that exist, it’s just a matter of finding them…
[WAYWARD_RAMBLER]: And then we have to figure out where we’re going once we make it out of the palace...staying in Solitude is risky when you two are literally kept by a god.
[WAYWARD_RAMBLER]: I don’t think it’s impossible, it’s just...a lot. We’ll figure it out.
[KNIGHT_FAN]: Okay
[KNIGHT_FAN]: Im really scared but I believe in you
[KNIGHT_FAN]: I believe in us
[KNIGHT_FAN]: And I think we can get somewhere nice
[ASPIRING_RAM]: me as well, i know enough about the outside world at this point to know that there are places out there for people like us
[ASPIRING_RAM]: and with any luck, we can find a place for you as well, wispy.
[ASPIRING_RAM]: thank you so much for taking this chance on us.
[WAYWARD_RAMBLER]: Well...we have to stick together, right?
[WAYWARD_RAMBLER]: We got this.