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CHIRPER

⏵ CHIRPER ⏴Welcome to our bi-monthly CHIRPER post!

There are a few ways characters can interact with this:

Characters receive a notification to please fill out the form, which is fully optional.
When forms are not filled out, they are filled out by the companion bots of Etraya! This means that while the character themself is not choosing to play with CHIRPER, their player still can.
Other characters can be prompted to fill out their friends' profiles for them.
Alternatively, they choose not to fill out the form, and it remains unfilled!

This is just a fun little way of expanding CR. For those who do post a top level, CHIRPER toplevels are worth five extra points regardless of if they are put up willingly by the character themselves. These five extra points do apply to the 25 maximum per month.

Once characters' profiles are up, other characters will be given the option of giving them a "like" or a "dislike" (using ✓ and ✕ symbols in the subject line of the comment) but they can also provide an answer as to why they gave that answer! Or just respond to the contents of their profile, +1ing the fact that if Barnabas were to get laid more often, maybe he would be less of a sourpuss.

AURORA

NAME ▷	Aurora
AGE ▷	2
STAR SIGN ▷	Aquarius
STATUS ▷	x
INTERESTS ▷	Reading, walking, construction.

Hello. My name is Aurora. My duty is to oversee your comfort and the daily workings of Etraya, as well as provide information for upcoming missions.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

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Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Share you in this preference, or are you implying there are others of your people who might be taken with me here?

Alas, I'm the only man of Faerghus who remains in this place. But yes, I do appreciate strength and resolve. I'd ask who doesn't but one man's tenacity is another's obstinance.

I suppose so. Still, if this farce has led you astray, the blame lies with not with me.

[That's on his ex-Lord Commander who has gotten a little too comfortable, it would seem.]

Worry not, I know exactly where I'm standing.

[ Not that he imagines worry is a factor, of course. ]

Merely contributing a few thoughts.

Possess you more to share, or is that all?

I'm full of ideas at all times, naturally.

But for the time being, I do hope you have a nice chat with whoever's behind that post. No one goes to the trouble out of disinterest, I'm sure you know.

One goes to such trouble out of foolishness and misplaced sentimentality. It will earn him naught.

You'd know better than me on that count.

Still, something to be said for persistence, even if it's the colorful kind.

You commend this behavior.

Maybe not the methods, but again, I don't know the backstory — not that it's my business.

My countrymen have a habit of finding uphill battles, so it's more that I can acknowledge it, I suppose.

Tenacity is indeed commendable, though one should consider when it is appropriate. This is not one such time.

I'd have taken another angle of approach were it me, personally. Unless I wanted to provoke someone, of course. Then this might do nicely.

The tactics of a boy made egregious when effected by a man.

Isn't that the provocation part?

If one were susceptible to such pitiful flailing for attention.

Any reaction is still a reaction, isn't it?

[ And so, Barnabas is susceptible after a fashion. ]

Edited 2025-02-26 05:35 (UTC)

A nebulous goal as that is unworthy of such acclaim.

[You can't get him on a technicality if he refuses the technicality!!]

Acclaim is a strong word, but if someone puts forth effort and gets results however small, it's more than nothing.

[ Barnabas being hung up on this one detail is cute actually but Yuri will keep that to himself. ]

I would not ascribe victory to that which we known not the desired result.

Another strong word I don't recall using. If you're not careful, someone might assume they got more of a result than they actually did.

Remember that bit about uphill battles? Sometimes the result is modest. Sometimes modest is all someone can get. It's simply more than nothing, as I said.

A strong word befitting the absurdity.

You know not the man behind this. Modest, in any form, does not gratify him.

Well, since you clearly do know him, is he capable of playing a long game?

Even should he prove willing, his failing health would not allow it.

[He is well aware that Cid isn't likely to succumb to the crystal's curse here, given the nature of it and everything. However, if he sees an opening, he will take it.]

In that case, this place presents one hell of an opportunity for him. They cure all sorts of ills here. Even death's more of a suggestion than a rule, somehow.

You would rob him of consequence.

[There's a part of Barnabas that finds the prospect of removing the curse...absurd. Sure, bringing people back from the dead is odd and beggars belief on its own, but he is aware it can actually happen here. Part of him wonders the truth of these so-called demises, but then again... There is Cid here.

Yet, the idea of Cidolfus' aetherborn lithification being cleared away so simply...it is as fiction in his mind.]

Edited 2025-02-26 06:49 (UTC)

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