video: un:trienemybest

[droptheious]

WHO: Varian and you!
WHERE: Gemini app!
WHEN: Late May
WHAT: Getting weird stuff from the Goodwill
WARNINGS: None!

[It's rare Varian makes a post on the network to the app at large, but something has come up and he figures it's a good idea to... check. When the video pops on, his hairstripe is a worem which keeps wriggling around on his head. He seems to be doing his very best to ignore it.]

Uh. Hey- hey guys. I've got a quick question. I know that we've had some uh... old world stuff cropping up this month. [He does NOT wanna get into that, that had been a pretty damn bad time.] But I was wondering if anyone found items from their old worlds or... past lives or whatever, too?

[ He holds up a big red book with a sun emblem emblazoned across the front.]

This is the journal of King Herz Der Sonne. It's... it's an artefact from the world I come from. It's uh... kind of like a history book but with... secrets of Corona in it. Also people sign their names in it to proclaim their love for one another. That's- that's a whole thing.

A-anyway. It's one of the most guarded things in my world so I'm- uh- really confused that it somehow showed up here? I was wondering if anyone else had something like this show up in that weird store too? Just in case it's some... new epidemic or something.

Comments

[doublethumbsup]

AWESOME

oh yah but like if it wasnt here you TOTALLY should make your own
"hah take that i got my OWN love book and its BETTER"

[droptheious]

I mean, I guess that was always a possibility. I never really thought about it before.

But it's nice to have the real one. I haven't got a lot of my old world here. I like having a little slice of it.

[doublethumbsup]

aw dude
yeah thats great!!

are u just gonna write ur names or like
VARIAN WAS HERE WITH HIS FIANCE
kinda thing?

[droptheious]

Ha ha. Traditionally, it's just our names.

It's... actually got a nice story to it- the name writing thing, if you'd like to hear it?

[doublethumbsup]

omg yeah!! spill spill spill!!

[droptheious]

[Aww yes storytime!!! ]

Okay, so centuries ago, the kingdom of Corona- that's where I'm from- had a king named Herz Der Sonne. Corona was was war with another kingdom, Saporia. Their leader was a fierce warrior woman named General Shampanier. The war was long and bitter. It lasted years.

Herz Der Sonne built a network of secret tunnels under Corona, to allow supplies and troops to travel in secret. He kept the maps for these inside his journal- this exact book! But he also started to develop feelings for General Shampanier- and he wrote those feelings in his journal, too. On one fateful day, the king and the general were in a bitter sword fight...when she saw the love confession in the journals pages. She realised she felt the same way about him. And so they decided to call an end to the war, get married and join the kingdoms together.

Every year since, Corona has a celebration called "The Day of Hearts" where we celebrate the ending of the war and also... well, the rest is kinda like Valentine's Day. Couples sign their name in the book as a symbol of their love for each other on the day- in memory of the fact love ended the war.

[Saporia is kind of a mess with some people definitely fighting against that, but Hermes doesn't need to know about the terrorists right now. They can just enjoy the nice story instead! ]

[doublethumbsup]

[They are absolutely enjoying a nice story. They'd have gone to get popcorn if possible. Instead, they're reading this with their chin popped in their hands and grinning.]

awww like romeo and juliet! except like without the dying and the weird teenagers getting married stuff
so
not really like that except
the love? lol?

sorry i skipped all the shakespeare

but STILL COOL

[droptheious]

[ It's a great story! It's got war! It's got love! It's got a BOOK! ]

Ha ha, yeah thankfully bereft of all the death and the uh... teenagers getting married when they met like, a day ago. But it does have the warring households theming there so you're right!

It's not a holiday I really bothered all that much with back in Corona. Obviously that's a little different now, but still. It's a nice tradition.

[doublethumbsup]

man yeah what was THAT about??
and how come the priest guy didn't tell the other guy like
'oh btw shes not dead jim'
that would have solved like EVERY problem

aw
you guys are cute lol
lucky you :D

[droptheious]

Honestly, I don't know. The whole plan seemed very poorly thought out honestly.

Ha ha. Thanks, Hermes! I really do feel very lucky. He means the world to me.

[doublethumbsup]

yeah for real
talk about a plot hole right?
dude shouldve thought of that but maybe it was like
his first book

AWWWWWWWWWWWW DUDE
ur killing me heeeeeeeeeere :D :D :D

[droptheious]

I wouldn't be too open about Shakespeare's plot holes on the app. He's here you know! Shakespeare, I mean. Have you met Venti yet?

Ha sorry, I can't help it.

[doublethumbsup]

what


the coffee guy is shakespeare ?????????
i thought he just like
invented starbucks????

1/2

[droptheious]

....What?

2/2

[droptheious]

[ Oh, Hermes, you sweet blessed idiot. ]

Hermes. Hermes, no. He's a god. He's literally a god, Hermes.

I mean. Another god. He's lived a LONG time. At one of those points, he was Shakespeare.

[doublethumbsup]

uh yah? so am i?

oh
so wait
why did he invent starbucks if he was shakespeare ???

[droptheious]

Yes, I know! But so is he. Just not... Greek.

I.

I'm gonna be honest with you, I don't even know how to start to answer that one.

I think his name is just. Venti. Not

Not the drink.

[doublethumbsup]

ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh okay
i get it

[DO THEY???]





so can he like
sue them for using his name or?

[droptheious]

[ Varian is so lost right now. He regrets so much that brought him here. ]

I... honestly don't know about the legal system to even guess that one.

[doublethumbsup]

[Sorry Varian.]

ohhh yeah you know??

me either lol

[droptheious]

[ It's fine, he brought this upon himself. He only had himself to blame. ]

I'm sure there's like.

Books on it? I never really got into the law side of things.

[ Something about being on the wrong end of the justice system really does sour a person to that it turns out! ]

From my understanding of big future corporations, he probably wouldn't get very far.

[doublethumbsup]

[Good job, Varian.]

maybe theres like
big corporation law for dummies

or something
cause lol idk if ci can get through a big ol book about that kinda thing

[droptheious]

I... guess so? I expect there's a big book for just about anything these days.

Or Google. Though I prefer the old fashioned way.