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He waited for three hours.

He drank an unwise amount of Dr Pepper and sent the occasional encouraging message to the raid.

Finally…

Solace has come online.

An elf in a pretty dress and a battered hat faded slowly into existence in front of Ella.

To [Solace]: please don’t /ignore me

To [Solace]: im really really sorry

[Guild][Ialdir]: hey Kit??

[Guild][Morag]: hi raiding

[Guild][Prospero]: hi

[Guild][Caius]: hello

[Guild][Solace]: Hi guys??

[Guild][Solace]: How’s CoT?

[Guild][Dave]: were on vilicus

To [Solace]: I get it now

To [Solace]: I honestly get it

[Guild][Dave]: im ded

[Guild][Dave]: nobody stacked on me?

To [Solace]: I want to be with you

To [Solace]: In HoL

To [Solace]: And in your room

To [Solace]: And in Pizza Express

To [Solace]: And like everywhere

Drew was getting kind of desperate, so he opened up his inventory and clicked the quest reward he’d got from Sir Yips-a-Lot. Ella’s goat vanished and she lifted an oblong clockwork… thing over her head. Tinny, obnoxious music started playing, and two tiny kobolds spawned next to her, twitching and gyrating in time to the beat.

Honestly, it was less romantic than Drew had hoped it would be.

It was more sort of…stupid.

[Solace] whispers: Is that a [Kobold-Together Boombox]?1

To [Solace]: yeah

To [Solace]: its from a movie or something

To [Solace]: like not the kobolds

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