RE: The Ballad of Adler Young, Canto 2.5
08-24-2022, 08:22 AM
>Adler: As tempting as that is, it's best if Burnside doesn't go after her. Lana would probably turn Burnside inside out and brag about it.
>Burnside: Whoa, really? She can do that? Wow, she sounds like your kind of unseelie-
>Adler: You give her a look.
>Burnside: Uh, never mind. You can tell Adler's had a bad day(s?). You don't actually know how long it's been for him. What did she do to upset him so much? Besides the kidnapping, of coarse. Oh, but first you should probably bring Adler up to speed on what's going on over here.
>Adler: "Oh, let me guess." With how your life seems to work, the most likely scenario is you've been gone for hundreds and hundreds of years and the world as become a post-apocalyptic wasteland overrun by mutant peach-spiders and hordes of bandit tribes, and it's all your fault somehow because you are incapable of bringing any good to the world and your task will now be a thousand times more difficult.
>Burnside: As awesome as all that would be, no. Adler could tell the entire world wasn't a wasteland if he looked to see the Tulgey Wood is all still here. As for what actually happened and is happening: Exposition!
>Burnside: Whoa, really? She can do that? Wow, she sounds like your kind of unseelie-
>Adler: You give her a look.
>Burnside: Uh, never mind. You can tell Adler's had a bad day(s?). You don't actually know how long it's been for him. What did she do to upset him so much? Besides the kidnapping, of coarse. Oh, but first you should probably bring Adler up to speed on what's going on over here.
>Adler: "Oh, let me guess." With how your life seems to work, the most likely scenario is you've been gone for hundreds and hundreds of years and the world as become a post-apocalyptic wasteland overrun by mutant peach-spiders and hordes of bandit tribes, and it's all your fault somehow because you are incapable of bringing any good to the world and your task will now be a thousand times more difficult.
>Burnside: As awesome as all that would be, no. Adler could tell the entire world wasn't a wasteland if he looked to see the Tulgey Wood is all still here. As for what actually happened and is happening: Exposition!