[CONTINUE + 4] INTRO

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[After so long a trip, you're all finally here. Taken through a hidden passage inside of the very mountain itself, you find yourself standing in front of a field of flowers, growing well due to the open roof above it. If you look up, you can just make out the shimmering colors off of the barrier - looking almost like the shine off of a soap bubble.

Try not to trample on the flowers as you approach the open, purple gate. And remember to wear your masks, now that you're here!

...Still, the sight of the yellow flowers waving in the wind....such a cheery sight fills you with determination for what's to come.

Welcome to the Underground.

...Again. The loop happened again, and you're here. Everything is the same.

Someone who was dead is alive again.

The trial...it was...you remember only up until Gilgamesh was FOUGHT against, and then...nothing.

You feel you shouldn't try to remember anything beyond that.

Not only that, But more monster names have faded from your memory.

...When will this end?]

Comments

[homeecspacecop]

[That's why she's named Red!]

I don't think that's why she's named Red, Drew.

[backspacing]

[Okay, that gets her to smile.]

[homeecspacecop]

[Victory!]

[soupervillain]

Why else would she be named Red?

[ Her favorite Pokémon character? ]

[homeecspacecop]

Because that's her name?

[soupervillain]

Who names a kid Red?

[ I dunno, Giovanni, who names a kid Johnny Soup? ]

[homeecspacecop]

Lots of people are named after colors? [There were two people in our class in middle school named Aoi.]

Yeah. And we used Aoi as the name for Inaba, didn't we?

[soupervillain]

Oh yeah. Different languages. That's a thing that exists in this world.

[ He's still never quite going to be used to that. ]

[homeecspacecop]

... your world is so weird.

[soupervillain]

How's that weird?! Our powers are based on specific words! It wouldn't make any sense if everyone didn't speak the same language!

[homeecspacecop]

But that doesn't make sense! Soup is soup, even if you say it in Japanese.

[Soup is a loanword, Chuuta.]

Huh?

O-okay maybe not Soup, but something like fire! It's the same thing!

[soupervillain]

Okay, first of all, I didn't invent my world's rules! Apparently some guy named Brendan did that.

Second, what about what you just said? Aoi? That means both blue and green, right? There's no English word for that, so if your epithet was "aoi", you wouldn't be able to use it when you were speaking English! Or - like, "ice cream"? That's one thing, but it's two words in English, and you can't have a two-word epithet! That'd just be messed up!

[homeecspacecop]

Brendan sounds like an American.

[Creampuff's name is in Italian.]

Oh! Drew says your name is in Italian.

[soupervillain]

Huh. Well, I do make a mean Italian wedding soup...

[ Why does his world have Italian wedding soup, but no Italy? Like so many other things about Giovanni, it is a mystery! ]

[homeecspacecop]

Your name is in another language but other languages don't exist.

Your world is weird.

[soupervillain]

It's in another language in this world! In my world it's all part of the same language! That's my point!

Also, your world has aliens! Now who's weird?!

[homeecspacecop]

My world is weird too! But you can't have every language be part of the same language!

[soupervillain]

Can so!

[ Ooh, look at Dr. Zamenhof over here. ]

How do you even talk to other people in your world if you gotta learn a bunch of new languages every time?

[homeecspacecop]

There's like a hundred million people in Japan! I can talk to any of them!

And we learn English in school but I was bad at it.

[soupervillain]

Yeah, but what if you wanted to talk to someone in, like, Canada? You'd have to learn Canadese!