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[rixatus]

             

NIGHT SPEEDS BY, AND WE, AENEAS, LOSE IT IN LAMENTING. HERE COMES THE PLACE WHERE CLEAVES OUR WAY IN TWAIN.

[ ooc: as characters begin to return from their journey into the depths of the ship, :)'s post trails more activity on the tumblrs subnetworks to be followed and solved. ]

Comments

[nightblogs]

oh look the one guy who supposedly knows whats going on is saying useless shit
YET AGAIN
shut
up
no one cares about this
literally
no one

this is what you wanted right

[stimulations]

It's not generally a good idea to antagonise him.

[Not that you're known for good ideas, bro, but come on.]

hello boyfriend

[nightblogs]

because he was just trying to be our friend all along right
cmon bro

ew no

[stimulations]

No, because those who antagonise him usually end up paying for it.

[50000volts]

You should have your network privileges revoked until you decide to start making sense.

[skjalf]

This ...phantom is quoting a passage from the Aeneid.

I know not why it would do so without there being some sense to it.

[50000volts]

I don't care if it's a passage from Crime and Punishment. It still doesn't make any sense.

[skjalf]

"Here comes the place where cleaves our way in twain."

It speaks of a fork in the road, so to speak. Which road does he mean, I wonder?

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[peckish4action]

Wait wait wait, I know this one!

Thy road, the right, toward Pluto's dwelling goes,
And leads us to Elysium. But the left
Speeds sinful souls to doom, and is their path
To Tartarus th' accurst.

... man, I didn't expect to have to remember Vergil in space. So, we get to pick roads, right?

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[51stcentury]

Virgil, huh? Good memory.

So Smiley's quoting Virgil about Elysium and Tartartus, then? Wow, that's not unsettling at all...

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[peckish4action]

Standard memory-training exercises, actually, but, yeah.

What's been on the program before, do you know?

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[51stcentury]

You mean what other bull have we had to deal with from this place in the past?

[nightblogs]

ok first of all ur a nerd
second stop encouraging him

[peckish4action]

Yep!

[ Encoded 98% ]

You call it encouragement, I call it sniffing for information. To each their own?

[nightblogs]

do you realize how many people have tried to do that
0 have gotten results
0.000000000000000000

[starbuckslord]

Someone's genius is showing.

[peckish4action]

[ Good thing this was text, because somebody was blushing. ]

More like education, I guess...

[starbuckslord]

Sounds like a decent one if you're already memorizing Vergil.

It looks like someone thinks we're at a tipping point.

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[skjalf]

Ah, Virgil! I have not had the pleasure for some time.

"In no fix'd place the happy souls reside.
In groves we live, and lie on mossy beds,
By crystal streams, that murmur thro' the meads:
But pass yon easy hill, and thence descend;
The path conducts you to your journey's end."

Journey's end, you say?

[nightblogs]

no
stop
pls

[skjalf]

Whatever for?

[nightblogs]

because im pretty sure hes just behind some computer screen faceslamming buttons and laughing at anyone who tries to make sense of it

[starbuckslord]

Are we supposed to be the Trojans?

[sophically]

I sincerely hope not.

[starbuckslord]

A lot of reasons to hope that. What are yours?