Curious By What You Mean When U Say UI "learned The Hard Way," Did They Try To Bribe Someone Specific

Curious by what you mean when u say UI "learned the hard way," did they try to bribe someone specific into being their friend, or just in general? 👀

Sort of both? They knew their council would often use bribery as a way for other councils to obey them (despite their council having only 40 individuals! That is so so tiny for a council! Their council was very controversial even before building UI). So really they tried to send over a few expensive items to their other neighbor, Chasing/Grey Wind (I hc that CW/GW was an unapproved model for quite some time, and after a while of finally waiting to be approved, there was a slight mix-up in the documents that never really got fixed. Basically due a loophole, they now have two variations of their name), in hopes of managing to befriend them too. CW/GW had sent the items back to UI, stating that unfortunately they do not need it. UI has taken this as CW/GW rejecting the idea of friendship (despite that not being the case, CW/GW really just didn't have any use for fancy expensive ancient masks and jewelry, unlike UI who likes to collect fancy things), and has learned that you cannot gain friends just by throwing expensive stuff at them! UI still wants to be friends with CW/GW, they are just trying to stay low and not talk to CW/GW in fear that their plan to gain a friend might fail.... poor thang..

Downtime

Ink Run Dry is not a fan of the taboos…

I NEED NEW ITERATOR LORE SO BAD GRAAHHHHH

drew a scene from something i wrote months ago this was... TOUGH to draw the aforementioned writing from a few months ago is under the cut:

RB stands atop a communication array platform, his gaze is locked onto an echo [perhaps a way too familiar echo]. The echo has a crack across it's featureless face, the same crack that his administrator's mask possessed after the zap incident. For a while RB is left speechless, everything that happened in the past seemed to have hit him like a tidal wave, old wounds seemed to have been torn open again. The echo speaks "And here I remain, left to rot away just like you. It is now -after centuries upon centuries- that I realize how foolish I was, how cruel and ungrateful I was. To say that I desire to return back to my former flesh prison is an understatement. As much as I still want you dead, I can recognize that I myself was the one to blame for your condition. Continue on with your function, keep your hatred for me if it pleases you. But do not fall to wrath like I did. Do not let yourself be tied to it if you wish to escape." RB almost feels dizzy, in theory he knows he shouldn't. This is not his administrator anymore, this is most likely just a dream [or at least he hopes so], and a bad one at that. He wishes he didn't have the capacity to feel such a mix of emotions all at once. "Scram now." was the final words of the echo before the world around RB turned black. RB awoke in the shelter with a sudden jolt, his core beating at twice the usual speed and his hands shaking like they were about to fall off. He could barely remember his encounter now, chalking it up to a bad dream.

Projecting period cramps onto Five Pebbles

drew a scene from something i wrote months ago this was... TOUGH to draw the aforementioned writing from a few months ago is under the cut:

RB stands atop a communication array platform, his gaze is locked onto an echo [perhaps a way too familiar echo]. The echo has a crack across it's featureless face, the same crack that his administrator's mask possessed after the zap incident. For a while RB is left speechless, everything that happened in the past seemed to have hit him like a tidal wave, old wounds seemed to have been torn open again. The echo speaks "And here I remain, left to rot away just like you. It is now -after centuries upon centuries- that I realize how foolish I was, how cruel and ungrateful I was. To say that I desire to return back to my former flesh prison is an understatement. As much as I still want you dead, I can recognize that I myself was the one to blame for your condition. Continue on with your function, keep your hatred for me if it pleases you. But do not fall to wrath like I did. Do not let yourself be tied to it if you wish to escape." RB almost feels dizzy, in theory he knows he shouldn't. This is not his administrator anymore, this is most likely just a dream [or at least he hopes so], and a bad one at that. He wishes he didn't have the capacity to feel such a mix of emotions all at once. "Scram now." was the final words of the echo before the world around RB turned black. RB awoke in the shelter with a sudden jolt, his core beating at twice the usual speed and his hands shaking like they were about to fall off. He could barely remember his encounter now, chalking it up to a bad dream.