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[goryteller]

Once upon a time, there were two kings who lived in two separate kingdoms and sat upon two separate thrones; one kingdom was in a valley bathed in light and had bountiful harvests and green, green grass for all the livestock to live on, whereas the other was on a mountain bathed in darkness and suffered drought and famine and so forth, and many of the animals were sickly and the residents were poor. One day, after many weeks of rainfall, a powerful storm hung on the horizon, and the king in the dark kingdom offered the other king and his residents shelter on the mountain with them, for while life was difficult there, their height lent them protection from the dangerous flow of the river below, the same river that allowed the light kingdom to flourish so easily in better times.

"And why should I do that!" cried the king. "We are so comfortable where we are. How could you ask us to give that up, to live life in suffering like you?"

And when storm came, the river overflowed and swallowed the light kingdom, choking the life out of all those bountiful harvests and green, green grasses, and those who didn't drown succumbed to illness and starvation soon after.

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Comments

[goryteller]

I do not need detailed accounts of any of your campaigns.

[amoray]

your loss
those wwere the good old days
im tellin you kat you gotta be treasurin em wwhen you got em cause sooner or later theyre gonna be gone you knoww
youre gonna be lookin back and rememberin wwhen you wwere orphanin evvery fuckin body wwho evven LOOKED at you wwrong and some wwho didnt
fuckin feared master a the seas
and then youre gonna be all alone and nobodys gonna lovve you theyre not evven gonna HATE you or anythin they just wwont care
metaphorically on that orphanin bit a course i dont knoww your hobbies

[yep, this really did just turn from boasting about orphaning other children into a moral lesson into a hideous tmi feelings dump.]

[goryteller]

Thank you for not assuming my hobbies.

Anyway, I'd think being the feared master of the seas would be pretty lonely. On its own. Or, at the very least, it wouldn't win you friends.

[amoray]

yeah maybe
but its wworth it
its wworth it evven if evverybody else is treatin you like a fuckin sack a shark leavvins cause they just dont GET IT
its wworth it