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[ What's better than not sleeping in the early hours of the morning? Finally poking around on the network and continuing the trend of not sleeping. ]

hey so new guy here
sort of i guess
for the second time anyway?
or maybe it was more than that and i just can't keep up haha

right okay
a couple Qs for the pros

1. is there a catch to all this?
don't get me wrong but the whole moonlacing thing ?????
and just being here in general i guess
seems like some weird buildup to plot outta left field
can't be any worse than a few games i've played but you know

2. how often do people just leave and come back and can you ever get those memories back?
is there a way to like pass that stuff on?
mostly asking for a friend
that friend is not me this time lol :)

and uh
less a question and more a request i guess
if anybody's looking for someone to help with whatever drop me a dm
got plenty of skills but if it's photography i'm totally your dude

oh yeah the name's prompto by the way ✌️ let's be friends 🐤✨

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hi abel 😊

that's good to know at least
people being friendly i mean
seems like it so i was hoping they might be able to answer some questions you know?

not sure what you mean by too good to be true
but it's definitely a little better than the last place i was

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We're basically intruders in this world, even if we don't mean to be. But they readily accept us, give us free places to live, employ us. Resources I'd think would be better used on their own people.

Maybe Chroma really is that important and we really are the ones doing them a favor. It feels like it's too easy to become comfortable here, but maybe that's just my own previous experiences talking. Don't look a gift horse in the mouth, right?

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no kidding
not that i'm ungrateful or anything but it just seems a little weird they don't ask for anything besides chroma or whatever

but maybe you're right
maybe it's super important and they don't care about anything else
so why not take in a bunch of people that just randomly happen to show up

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Sounds too nice to be true, but the Prismals really have seemed genuinely friendly so far. I almost feel bad second guessing them.

Generating Chroma is still a lot to ask, so maybe that's the catch. Holding hands with a stranger doesn't sound so bad but more... intimate activities produce larger amounts more efficiently. If there wasn't someone else here I knew from home it would definitely be a lot more daunting.

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i don't think it's about feeling bad
they might not even know what's happening
that's kinda how it was in the place i'd been before this

but yeah that does make it easier if you're close to somebody
i have friends here
it's just weird getting that comfortable

[ "again", but he doesn't add that. ]

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Maybe you're right. It's all pretty overwhelming, I guess I just don't really know what to make of everything yet. But at least we have friends here to help explain things, even if I'm not sure either if I should be glad they're here too.

[Cain isn't really helpful at all, but it's nice for Prompto at least.]

By another place do you mean home or are there other alien planets like this one out there? I don't think anyone's really talked about it but it makes sense there might be more...

You don't have to answer, sorry. I'm just curious.

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i know the feeling
but more than anything at least you're not alone at all?
that could get pretty scary

and nah
it was another place completely
not sure if it was an alien planet since it sort of reminded me of home
just a lot more messed up with the way they did things

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Scarier than I think the people here that are alone are willing to talk about. So even with the weird sort of guilt that comes along with it I'm still grateful.

And something else to be grateful for, maybe. Despite all the unknowns here we at least seem safe enough to question them.

Or become photographers in our spare time.

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ah yeah
i guess you're right about that too

still makes me wonder though...
not that stuff like that is something i'd be able to figure out on my own
just things to think about i guess??