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intro log.

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( AND SO IT BEGINS. )

There's nothing but the clatter of train tracks, and the odd feeling of almost floating.

When you wake, it's hard to tell exactly what it is that you're missing - only that you are. There are pieces that aren't quite right, even if you're not sure where those pieces would normally be. Pieces of what, exactly....? Well, if you had to put a word to it, it would be - yourself, probably.

The place you've found yourself in is strange, certainly. It's probably worth exploring a bit. Though it just as easily seems that the only form of welcome or explanation that you have, comes from nothing more than a slab of marble.

Well - that, and all the people who seem to have woken up alongside you, lost and also probably Doing Their Best™.

There's no need to fret that much though. It's hard to say exactly where you're going next, even though some places might feel a little bit more like a clue, but what you do know is one unshakeable thing:

There's still much more ahead of you.

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—Are you a wizard?!

[this is now the best day of his life?]

[Hunter is now one of his favorites.]

Hah, a cultivator! We deal with spirits, primarily - and the usual manner of things that come from that side.

You cultivate spirits.

[Something seems to occur to him at that exact moment, and in an awed, almost reverential tone of voice:]

Oh my god you're a Ghostbuster.

[He says, to this man who has clearly stated he doesn't know what movies are.]

[Why do people keep doing this to him this is the WORST!! ...Is what he'd think if he wasn't Wei Wuxian, probably. Instead he just finds it hilarious. All these comparisons he knows nothing about still means there are cultivator-adjacents in other worlds, which is interesting too!]

I suppose so? Well! If it's their job to help the dead pass on and get rid of anything volatile and threatening, anyway.

Oh my god. Okay, I have so many questions, uh... Okay, for starters! What do they look like? Are they—

[he

gets so excited that he drops the melon. rip, cantaloupe. i don't know how sturdy cantaloupes all but i'm making the executive decision that it's in pieces now.]

—Oh, shit. I...

[BYE MELON.]

Haha, whoops! [Hm. Well, some of these pieces are still good?? He's bending down to pick up one of the bigger chunks that came into contact with the floor on the rind side since he has Some standards, inspects it for floor particles, and takes a bite.]

—Ooh, a good one! This one's sweet. Anyway, what kind of questions? What do what look like - spirits? The undead? There are a lot!

[He just. He just moves right along. Like there isn't broken melon at their feet that he's now eating.]

[Well. If you're going to eat a melon off the ground, that's probably the most socially acceptable way to do it, but all the same:]

I can get you another cantaloupe if you want... There are probably tons around, you know? Especially since that was my bad. Sorry.

[Since this store is huge. Anyways!]

Okay, new first question. What's the difference between and spirit and the undead?

[He has like, a tiny scrap of sense sometimes, see! Teeny tiny... So small. He seems perfectly content with his floormelon though, and shakes his head.]

No need to apologize, this one's fine! I already know it's sweet and I don't want to waste time trying to find another sweet one. What if I open it and it's watery? That would be the worst. Do you want some?

[He... holds his out... Not that he actually expects this poor kid to agree.]

Ah - that's a good one, though. The spirit is the essence of a person! The undead typically just involve the physical part - the body. You can divide it further though, if you want! Technically, demons and ghosts come from humans, spirits and monsters come from plants and animals.

Uh, no. No, I'm good.

[Moving on quickly!]

So it's just the body coming back, not the soul... Like a zombie, basically? I mean, the undead type. So if a spirit does come back, it's not from a human?

[He's still clearly interested, but not enthusiastic enough to forget WWX's movieless life. The Evil Dead reference will wait for now.]

[He just shrugs in a very SUIT YOURSELF way, like Hunter is truly missing out by not eating this damn floor melon.]

Zombie? I suppose! [He's learned a new and vital word in this moment.] Fierce corpses are among the undead - animated bodies, but without the spiritual consciousness.

[He taps the side of his head for emphasis. The dumb kind of zombie...]

Mm, but that's more or less it, yes! Sometimes we call everything not of the living a spirit, just because it's easier to simplify for people who don't deal with these things, you know?

Yeah, without the consciousness! Like, just wandering around because they want to eat brains. That's a zombie. God, I wish we had a DVD player... I could teach you so many things.

[He still hasn't explained what a movie is, but in his defense he got distracted by ghosts and melons and forgot.]

[AND WEI WUXIAN WON'T REMIND HIM because ???? for some reason instead of asking for explanations directly he just likes making a game of putting two and two together, apparently.]

There might be one in here, right? We can go look, see if we can find it!

Yeah, fair enough. I probably missed it somewhere along the way... I mean, this place has everything else, right? It'd be weird if it was just missing that one specific thing.

[Narrator voice: it is missing this one specific thing.]

["Surely we can't be that unlucky!" they think, being that unlucky.]

Is this sort of thing normal where you come from, too? Stores this big with just about anything you could ask for inside of it? Haha, it's so much more convenient than marketplaces! And no one's here to trick you into buying sprouted potatoes, either - how nice.

[It's been 13+ years and he STILL REMEMBERS YOU, POTATO MAN.]

Grocery stores? Yeah... Did they not have them where you came from?

[He's slowly narrowing down on what time period WWX is probably from, but then he gets distracted by potatoes.]

Wait, someone did that to you? That sucks.

They don't - only marketplaces. Vendors come from all over to sell their wares, but even the biggest one I've ever been to hasn't had quite so much variety!

[HE'S AMAZED...

ALSO YEAH. YEAH. Let him TELL YOU about his fuckin POTATO ADVENTURES.]

Isn't it just the worst? How terrible! There I was, obviously a man with no money - did you know I was called Brother Poor? Isn't that just the saddest thing? Anyway! There I was, just trying to get some potatoes for supper that night. No radishes! Only potatoes! And yet, the only potatoes being sold were sprouting already. So I said I'd take them, but only at a discount! And would you believe it? He wouldn't even give me that!

[There are a few things of note here, but. Holy shit.]

People called you Brother Poor? That's awful!

[BE MORE OUTRAGED ABOUT HIS POTATOES!!]

When it comes down to it, kids are the most merciless and brutal of all, aren't they?

[Betrayed by his own fuckin A-Yuan.]

...Right.

[It's a joke, but like, from firsthand experience he isn't that wrong. It's been a wild day!! So he's moving on quickly.]

Did you end up changing his mind?

[Please stop getting bullied by children, Hunter... Please.]

Who, the potato seller? Nope! Isn't that just the worst? I'd never patron his cart again if I could help it, but Yiling isn't the biggest city and there's only one real marketplace.

[A sigh! His life is so hard.]

I guess it's radishes from now on.

[Very solemnly.]

You wound my heart! I can't stand radishes, and yet, it always seems to come back to radishes in the end... I should have just submitted to my fate and gotten them from the start!

[Then Wen Qing wouldn't have had to threaten his pathetic life!!]

I think I know a way to make it up to you. Mind if we take a detour to the snacks?

[he's going to show him a whole new world... of junk food]

[Please, THIS IS WHAT HIS LIFE NEEDS... He's immediately looking curious and excited because of course he is.]

I don't mind at all! Lead the way.

[He will follow and try not to get distracted by every other item they walk past.]

Sure thing.

[Snacks, snacks... Off they go to make bad food decisions. Once they reach that aisle, he's gesturing towards the huge bags of various kind of food.]

Does anything look good?

[He says, as if WWX is going to recognize anything that's there.]

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