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[Raid][Dave]: emoooooooooooo

[Raid][Solace]: I’m not being emo. Ruins are not just about loss, they’re about time

[Raid][Solace]: You’ve got things that used to be something

[Raid][Solace]: And now they’re something else

[Raid][Solace]: I find it kind of hopeful

[Raid][Dave]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xilOgjeEwPg4

[Raid][Orcarella]: It’s not emo to like stuff.

[Raid][Dave]: lol

[Raid][Ialdir]: I totally get it, Kit.

[Raid][Ialdir]: You get a real sense of history

[Raid][Mordant]: made up history

[Raid][Ialdir]: In some ways, that’s even cooler.

[Raid][Morag]: Yeah, man, anything can be real history.

[Raid][Ialdir]: And it’s not just about the lore. I’ve been playing these games for nearly twenty years so it’s kind of my history too.

[Raid][Jargogle]: Some of us actually have history, children.

[Raid][Ialdir]: It was right after Desert Storm and I was stuck in this crappy army base in the middle of nowhere, and all I had was a battered old IBM, and a copy of Legends I, Pirates Gold, and fucking Myst.

[Raid][Ialdir]: So basically it was the most miserable time I’ve had in my entire life

[Raid][Dave]: soz man

[Raid][Solace]: *hugs*

[Raid][Ialdir]: Anthariel was one of the major quest givers in L1 and she used to hang out in this rose garden with her own theme tune.

[Raid][Ialdir]: I hadn’t seen roses in a year

[Raid][Ialdir]: And Raziel’s sort of falling in love with her

[Raid][Ialdir]: I’d never seen something like that in a game before

[Raid][Ialdir]: And it reminded me that there was more to life than being shot at in a desert.

[Raid][Ialdir]: This garden we’re in now is that garden.

[Raid][Ialdir]: So that’s important to me.5

“That’s a lovely story, Jacob,” said Bjorn. “But perhaps we can do the fight now.”

[Raid][Jargogle]: I am Bjorn’s complete lack of sensitivity.

[Raid][Ialdir]: I’m good, let’s raid.

Things finally came together and the Council of Tears went down.

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