Mimicblade: Hello, Retvik, are you busy?
Flamebearer: Not at all. Just locking up for the day. How are you?
Mimicblade: Honestly? Glad. And confused as fuck.
Flamebearer: Oh. How so?
Mimicblade: Alright, you know that UAO Corruption that attacked the Pentathax?
Flamebearer: The one that nearly killed us?
Mimicblade: Yeah.
Mimicblade: So, we detected a FUCKING MASSIVE sentient mass. Like, so fucking big it was scary. Like, the size of a fucking galaxy. Sure, that’s not that huge, we live in the Vast Dark, there’s infinite space and universes are huge…
Mimicblade: You get what I fucking mean. This Corruption was biiiiiiiiiiiiiiig.
Flamebearer: I heard the entire pentacluster next door to Patagenic and Kentarasa is infested.
Mimicblade: It fucking is.
Mimicblade: It’s a fucking hellhole. Even the Pentathax are concerned about tackling it. And they’re professionals.
Mimicblade: It’s fucking nice having them around though. Like, there’s hardly any of us. We’re kinda just a mercenary group helping the Alsyr. But we’ve got proper fucking weapons now.
Flamebearer: Good to hear.
Flamebearer: You are also welcome here if you ever need assistance.
Mimicblade: I appreciate that, friendo.
Mimicblade: But yeah.
Mimicblade: I said the Pentathax are concerned… well… they were…
Mimicblade: Alright, you had a lot of UAO stuff lately?
Flamebearer: We did, up until about an ev ago.
Flamebearer: Litvir says our last patients affected by the Unending Ancient One strain was one ev ago, a squad of five Pentathax soldiers who got very lost, and three Phantai who were doing border patrols between the Patagenic and Kentarasa borders.
Mimicblade: Okay yeah I thought you’d say something like that. Ekthris territories suddenly cleared out of intelligent corruption about two evs ago. Something moved through the Alsirian Sea just after. There was massive movement in the hellhole too.
Mimicblade: Pentathax think that the UAO cunt moved out of Kentarasa and back into the hellhole but briefly passed into Patagenic.
Mimicblade: But they also think that it stopped briefly.
Mimicblade: Arkay’s universe is in Patagenic, right? Right up north.
Flamebearer: You are making me concerned.
Mimicblade: You spoken to my kid?
Flamebearer: You see Arkay as your child?
Mimicblade: Uh… Kinda? More like, I was the cool uncle, Elksonios was Arkay’s cool older brother. Retvik and Gath were kinda like Arkay’s parents until they had a kid of their own.
Flamebearer: …
Mimicblade: What?
Flamebearer: Please don’t mention Gath.
Mimicblade: Why?
Flamebearer: It is complicated and painful.
Mimicblade: I know you were in a new universe and shit, but from what you and the ten billion Teekays have suggested, there were a ton of similarities. Did you… not have a kid with someone called Gath?
Flamebearer: No. We did not. The asshole Voidborn Kenon split us up, forced us to divorce, and Gath remarried and had a kid with someone else.
Flamebearer: Then the universe got remade and rewritten and Gath got turned into a completely different person. Who, weirdly, is dating a parallel version of my half-brother Elkay.
Mimicblade: Wait…
Mimicblade: The cursed Elkay person in your universe is related to you, not Arkay?
Flamebearer: Uh, yes.
Mimicblade: Huh.
Mimicblade: See, I have a theory that, because Kinisis kept on using the same Time Drake, and clearly her daughters did too, there’s a bunch of people who keep on cropping up. One of them is you, one of them is me, or rather, two folks called Retvik and Tenuk. The third is someone called Elkay. Or some variation of the name.
Flamebearer: Not Arkay?
Mimicblade: Nah. There might have been universes before the one our Arkay was born in with troublesome Arkays in them, but Kinisis and Kairos picked up on our Arkay and dragged him along for the ride.
Mimicblade: But yeah.
Mimicblade: You spoken to Arkay?
Flamebearer: He messaged us about three days ago, saying his universe got attacked by Corruption. But he said everyone was fine, they are just locking things down for a bit while they make repairs, and he would speak to us soon.
Mimicblade: Mhm.
Mimicblade: Friendo, I think something happened.
Mimicblade: A day is about 20-25 hours, yes?
Flamebearer: About that, yes.
Mimicblade: Yeah. Something happened then. A massive UAO sentient entity, the Pentathax called it, the one that attacked us idiots, that was part of this galaxy-sized lump. And I think it headed into Patagenic briefly. But then it left. For no real reason, as far as I can tell.
Mimicblade: Dude, as a Sect Trio guy, I am privy to so, so much information. These Pentathax soldiers that pop by, they tell me everything.
Mimicblade: I’m just saying, I think the UAO attacked Arkay’s universe. But if you said Arkay messaged you and he’s alright, then…
Mimicblade: Somehow, our kid beat it back. To the point that it retreated and left the pentacluster.
Flamebearer: Please do not call Arkay my kid.
Mimicblade: Oh. Sorry. Also, why?
Flamebearer: Uh.
Flamebearer: I think the relationship you and your Exaron folks had was different from the relationship I had with Arkay, Elksia and my Tenuk.
Flamebearer: Definitely different between Arkay, Litvir and myself.
Mimicblade: I don’t follow.
Flamebearer: Uh.
Mimicblade: Wait, you want to FUCK Arkay?
Flamebearer: Uh, kinda.
Mimicblade: He’s a fucking Threan-type.
Flamebearer: Are you telling me that all the different Retha sub-species did not screw each other? Because I am certain they did. You said I looked like an Ethran-type version of your Retvik, and your Retvik was a, uh, Standard-type.
Flamebearer: Plus, you are a Kronospast, I grew up alongside one, they want to screw anything that is NOT a Kronospast!
Mimicblade: Alright, fair, you got me there, bro. I… I still kinda see Arkay as a kid. I forget he’s, like, paradoxically, billions of years older than both of us.
Mimicblade: I have to ask though.
Mimicblade: Did you ever fuck your Tenuk and your Elksonios?
Flamebearer: Did you sleep with your fellow Exaron?
Mimicblade: Yeah.
Mimicblade: Retvik, Elksonios and Argyros all got… desperate. We got sent back a thousand years into the past, they thought they’d never see their loved ones again. Arkay was, ironically, underage. Oxys was a Tharen-type, he… kinda didn’t give a shit about anything.
Flamebearer: I wonder if you Exaron are the reason why the Whenvern did not allow time travel, ever?
Mimicblade: Probably.
Mimicblade: Us Exaron fucked up a lot of shit. Did a lot of good, but fucking hell, we caused some fucking carnage as well.
Mimicblade: Arkay messaged you though, right?
Flamebearer: Yes. He mentioned being offline for a bit, but he does that on the regular anyway. Litvir and I have learned to not get too upset.
Mimicblade: Your friend Litvir seems smart.
Mimicblade: Would like to meet him.
Mimicblade: Especially if you’re fucking him.
Flamebearer: By the Light, you are a horny one.
Mimicblade: I’m a Kronospast, I can’t help it. Grew up not being allowed to have sex with other Kronospasts.
Flamebearer: I am thankful that my Tenuk has settled down with Elksia. But he still asks me. And he still asks Phovos and Akah occasionally too, not getting the hint that they are not interested.
Mimicblade: Damn, you have a Phovos too? What’s he like?
Flamebearer: She. She is a Life Goddess. One of Kinisis’s daughters.
Mimicblade: Oh.
Mimicblade: Bitch fucking had kids without me.
Flamebearer: Uh…
Mimicblade: I’ll be fucking blunt, Kinisis had a thing for me. A massive thing. She wanted to fuck me, she wanted me to fill her with kids. But I was a. terrified and horny and b. smart enough not to stick my dick in crazy.
Mimicblade: How many kids did Kinisis have in the end?
Flamebearer: As far as we know, three. Epani, Yisini and Phovos. But Phovos was… accidental and abandoned.
Mimicblade: I see.
Mimicblade: I should totally meet up with you guys one day. Would be nice. Especially since the UAO seems to have fucked off and shit seems to have calmed down.
Flamebearer: That would be nice. We are always available at Savepoint.
Mimicblade: Is that the name of your flagship?
Flamebearer: It is a floating rock in the Athata Rift we have built on.
Mimicblade: You don’t have a flagship? I thought you lot had the Thantir One or something?
Flamebearer: No, Deathven somewhat confiscated it. But we have several smaller ships, which we have parked at our base.
Mimicblade: Oh, what ships?
Flamebearer: Thantir Two and Thantir Three, which are two small ships, Shield Six, which belongs to Kal and is an old Metrum ship, and Souldrainer’s Plight, which is a gift from the Phantai.
Mimicblade: That is a weird name.
Flamebearer: It is another long story. But the Phantai believe the ship is haunted, so they renamed it and gifted it to Litvir.
Mimicblade: Huh.
Mimicblade: Anyway, I’m gonna head off. My trio buddies want to celebrate and get fucked up.
Mimicblade: If I do come and visit, I’m totally bringing Yatre and Ignasi along too. Us trio idiots gotta meet up. I know you already deal with one shapeshifting cunt, your Tenuk, you’ll get to meet three shapeshifting cunts.
Flamebearer: Admittedly, Elkay can somewhat shapeshift. But he is not, as you say a cunt.
Mimicblade: Ain’t he a mimic or something?
Flamebearer: He wants to use the term Synaisthyn.
Mimicblade: Oh yeah. You mentioned that shit.
Mimicblade: Anyway, I’ll see you round. Let me know when Arkay gets back to you.
Flamebearer: It might be a few evs.
Mimicblade: Alright. No problem. Have a good one, my dude.
Flamebearer: You too, friend.
Mimicblade is now offline.