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[saynotoballs]

[There is a lump of blankets on the communicator, wiggling around, feeling for the buttons, before it finally settles on video mode. It isn't hard to tell it's N, though. The fluffy tuft of green hair poking out from underneath the lump of blankets is a dead giveaway. There's a pair of legs, clad in train-patterned pajama pants, poking out from

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[dai_mon_dai]

Whooooa that's so cool N!

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[saynotoballs]

[He turns to the communicator after grabbing his blankets back and sprawling across them]

I only wish I could have discovered it under better circumstances.

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[dai_mon_dai]

Well yeah, but you know what they say: "A true man grows tallest in the soil of adversity."

...or something. [Sage nod]

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[saynotoballs]

The richness of the soil affects human growth in your world?

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[dai_mon_dai]

Huh? What, no! It's a... a metaflavor!

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[saynotoballs]

Metaflavor?

I hope you do not mind my asking, but I have never heard such a term...

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[dai_mon_dai]

It's like... when you say one thing but you mean something else. I think.

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[saynotoballs]

...you mean lying?

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[dai_mon_dai]

No! A man doesn't lie! I mean... like if I said your hair is grass 'cuz it's green, but it's not really grass. It's supposed to be poetic or something.

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[saynotoballs]

[And the light goes on upstairs]

Illustrating images or concepts via abstraction...I see.

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[dai_mon_dai]

I guess so? I suck at Creative Writing.

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[saynotoballs]

Do you? I thought 'metaflavor' was very creative!