Hmm *click To Verify That I Am Not A Robot*

Yes! I like hugs and I wanted to visit you since I've heard about you in Appri's blog!

“Ah, not surprised, they’ve been trying to organize someone to take care of the younger anons and apparently i’m one of the candidates. I’d help out whenever I could but…” She looks back at the multitude of screens on the wall, all brimming with different displays and pieces of data. Most of this looked like it was monitoring other universes. “My paws are a bit full, I wouldn’t be able to be the main caretaker, y’know? You though… so far you seem to be good with that sort of stuff.”

Logs?

Logs

<Notice: This is flooded with glitches and bloat, we've dug out a few that may prove interesting.>

024-47: Complete disconnect of Trick from oasis.

024-74: Backup systems functional

028-28: Illicit scan detected, location compromised, preparing defense rig.

028-34: Defense successfully withheld 24 Illicit items

028-35: Illicit items appear to be retreating.

028-47: Illicit jump drive charge detected, determining destination…

028-48: Code Red, destination determined to be the oasis itself.

028-49: [Intelligible]

<This was all the systems themselves got out before something crippled them. We do not know what the "Illicit items" are, unfortunately.>

🔆Ah, why hello~! I came here just to really... Only say hi! It's so good to finally meet you! I need help on something.... My anger issues. I uh.... Have pretty bad outbursts sometimes... I'm sure you saw when Ritual stabbed me. It was, well... Not pretty. I threatened a CHILD! I just- Need something to nullify my anger... And I thought you could help! Especially since we need to work in the daycare place...🔆

Trick taps her claws together a few times, as if in deep thought.

"That part really depends, your entire trait being hope makes your state of mind really fragile... a good part of controlling that is just actual practice. You know, when I was a younger anon I used to throw people over the table if they bluffed me in a game of poker."

The anon chuckles as she searches through her robe for something and eventually retrieves another card, this one with quite the number of engravings on it.

"This is a Trap!Card, it's loaded with a fatigue effect that'll go off if you do go hopeless. I know making you pass out whenever you'd normally get angry isn't the best solution but I can't exactly take your hopeless state away from you... without also taking away your hope trait."

"This one has five uses, should last you awhile, but you'd have to make a deal for it. Nothing predatory, I promise, but I can't exactly give these away for free, you understand? Localized asker spells are are really hard to make into something this stable."

can you make origami with playing cards?

"Oh jeez I didn't expect that to actually work! All this time popping into other worlds and I finally have an asker of my own, yay!" She paused to take a breath. "Yes, I can, not with the trick cards though, those are too valuable."

Well, if you think this would qualify me then you had to see me when I needed to deal with a shape and a mer that were trying to kill each other and start a war, that was chaotic, Appri's world is chaotic.

The screen snapped back into a playing card, and with another slight of hand trick, the anon made it appear as if it had just disappeared. Where exactly was it keeping those cards? Maybe up it’s sleeves? That’d be ironic. “Exactly! And we’re dealing with Appri’s younger anons, they’d likely be constantly chaotic. You’ve shown you can deal passively with a chaotic situation, so... why not? Once again Appri’d be the one to finalize things but... I think the opinion’ll be the same in that regard.”

🔆I understand completely... All I want to do is see them again.. Knowing that they're in a little.. Space.. Alone.. It must hurt.. They've been like that for ages now, but.. that's me. That's my future. My future, his present.. I did give him a little plush version of myself so he can chat with... But if we ever tried bringing HØPË out of the ROOM, they'd die immediately after leaving.. As the Mun has told us. I should really talk to them about this, but I already think the answer is clear.🔆

Trick nodded, but she wasn’t so quick to just give up, there was plausibly another way to do this… she’d only done it a few times, but maybe they’d get lucky here. “Muns can be an elusive bunch, but I've dealt with a few before, they work by claiming domains of blogspace. If that mun doesn’t intend to have HØPË ever appear again… you could ask them to transfer that specific bit of domain to you. Then you’d be able to freely enter his part of the ROOM on your own blogspace since it essentially becomes… yours.” “Honestly the territory and character rules around muns is confusing, but if anyone can work with that, I bet you can! Plus HØPË kinda… is you, so the mun might be inclined to give them to you if they’re not planning anything else.” She traced the table, and looked around the room as if looking for something that wasn’t there. “Sorry I can’t do more, muns are sorta out of my league. I’d set up a meeting but I can’t really… ask, or force a mun to show up, they just… do sometimes.”

Wait a minute, I am one of the candidates???

She finally turns to look at you. “Oh, no, but you could be! If you’re interested of course, it’s sort of a volunteer kind of thing. I’d advise you ask Appri for the details.”

🔆I-.... Yes. Yes I am.... But I can't do it now... It's too early. There needs to be a lot of time that passes before I can do something so daring... And even with all my planning, things can still go.. Awry. This really just depends upon one thing: how nice the Mun is. If they see what I'm trying to do here, then.. let's hope they won't stop me.🔆

“I see...” Trick tosses a coin between her paws, considering. If she did help you this would be a major risk to herself, and possibly tick off the mun to a universe she actually rather enjoyed visiting. But... “You seem to think I can just give you abilities, but I can’t, I just trade in spells, Hope. Luckily for you, one of those is teleporation, but you’re dealing with a mun here, and I wrote a very specific clause to operate this forward in the askverse.” “All of my cards can be denied by a mun if they wish. If the mun doesn’t want you to enter, the card’ll literally burn up in your hand, and there’s nothing I can do about that, so I don’t think breaking and entering is an option.” “I... do want to help your counterpart, but you’d somehow have to contact the @appri-dot mun, i’m not even sure how you’d pull that off. I mean unless they literally appeared in this room, how am I supposed to make a deal with a godlike third party?”

To say she looked uncomfortable at the moment would be an understatement. You get the feeling Trick would’ve tried to get the other hope out of that place on her own if she could.

<Critical Error: Command console disconnected>

<Tampering Detected, engaging reboot...>

[Thank you all for appearing in this time of need, we'll be back as soon as we are able! Apologies for the holdup, messing with our own source code is hard and also dangerous. More updates to come.]

<Channel Closed>

(@appri-dot) Strawberry is scandalized, they pout overdramatically, but can't help but grin at your trick. "That's cheating! You can't jus-"

The critter was cut off rather rudely by the entire hallway shaking, accompanied by a loud rumbling sound that caused them to quite nearly fall over, clutching your arm for support.

"T-that doesn't sound good-"

Appri-Caught (RP thread)