＄03-00-09-17-3-1

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[charaSet A 1098124210 1 Beryl]
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[charaSet C 1098213600 1 Morgan]

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After arriving in the British Lostbelt, all I found were vast stretches of nothingness, and the Tree of Emptiness towering over them.
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There was no sign of anything resembling a country. This “what if” version of Britain had ended in abject failure long ago.
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Whatever history it may have had was long since gone. Looks like Wodime was all worked up over nothing.
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Still, none of that changed the fact that I was bored out of my skull.
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So I did what any good Crypter would do and decided to summon a Servant.
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＠Servant
I am Morgan the Fairy Queen, a Ruler.[sr]I have come in response to your summons.
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＠Servant
You there, descendant of witches, are you my Master?
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＠Beryl
...
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[lr]I couldn't have made a worse first impression.[sr]She saw through me in a single glance.
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Still, I'd managed to summon Morgan.[sr]Morgan, the Fairy Queen!
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The woman who made King Arthur's life hell.[sr]The dread witch who brought Camelot to its knees.
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If anyone could keep things interesting, it was her. I could even take her to the other Lostbelts to mess around there.
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＠Beryl
I sure am! Nice to meet you, Morgan! You and me? We're gonna have lots of fun together!
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[lr]As long as I could keep killing people,[sr]it was all good as far as I was concerned.
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So I welcomed Morgan into the fold, put my trust in her, and decided to turn in for the night.
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＠Beryl
...Huh?
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[lr]I went to sleep in an open field, and woke up[sr]in a bed so fancy it almost made me sick.
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＠Morgan
Welcome to Faerie Britain, Beryl Gut.[sr]Did you sleep well last night?
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＠Morgan
The Tree of Emptiness is dead. The Foreign God's plans are no concern of mine.
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＠Beryl
Huh? What're you[line 2]Whoa, you're right! It really IS all dried up and dead! The hell were you thinking!?
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＠Morgan
I have no further use for it. Faerie Britain is no longer a Lostbelt.
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＠Morgan
And while I myself am no longer a Servant...
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＠Morgan
I am willing to keep you on as my husband, Beryl Gut.
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＠Morgan
This would purely be for appearances' sake, but the pretense will benefit us both.
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＠Beryl
Hang on. What the hell's going on here?
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[lr]In the span of a single night, this barren[sr]island had become a civilized nation.
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There was no way I could tell Wodime that, so I gave up and accepted Morgan's offer to be her husband.
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＠Beryl
The next six months were crazy.
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＠Beryl
Tam Lin Tristan[line 2]Baobhan Sith, took a liking to me after I told her about Proper Human History.
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＠Beryl
It was pretty cute the way her eyes would always light up when she pestered me to tell her more about the “outside world.”
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＠Beryl
She was especially taken with fashion, and had a particular fascination with the latest shoe designs.
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＠Beryl
I'm guessing she'd never found anywhere to belong in the land of fae.
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＠Beryl
Later, we built the National Slaughterhouse Theater in the dowdy old city of New Darlington.
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＠Beryl
There, we put on every fun kind of show we could think up.
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＠Beryl
Faeries hated Baobhan Sith well before I came along. I just poured fuel on that fire.
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＠Beryl
Ohh... I see. That must be what happened.
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[lr]After thinking it over for a while, I figured[sr]out what was going on.
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I'd summoned Morgan from Proper Human History, but when I woke up the next morning, this Lostbelt's Morgan had taken her place.
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There's no way there could be two Morgans in Britain. She's always been one of a kind.
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So at some point, Proper Human History Morgan must've transformed into Lostbelt Morgan.
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＠Morgan
Correct. When you summoned me, I saw what had become of this British Lostbelt.
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＠Morgan
Even in this hypothetical world, Britain still collapsed two thousand years ago.
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＠Morgan
This, I could not allow.
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＠Morgan
In an instant, I grasped both what had taken place in this Lostbelt's history, and the mechanisms of Chaldea's summoning system.
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＠Morgan
I deciphered the secrets of Rayshifting, and used them myself.
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＠Beryl
I knew it! Hot damn, you really are a monstrous genius among monstrous geniuses, aren't you!?
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＠Beryl
You Rayshifted yourself back in time and rewrote Britain's entire history!
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＠Beryl
And you did it all within a few hours of me summoning you! DAMN, girl!!!
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＠Beryl
Oh, so, is that what that was all about?
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＠Beryl
Were you in a hurry to fix things 'cause this place couldn't have come about as long as I knew about the old Lostbelt?
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＠Morgan
...True. I did need to alter the past while your consciousness was shut down.
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＠Morgan
Information is the only thing which can be Rayshifted.
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＠Morgan
To Rayshift a living person to a Singularity, one must first use a Coffin to transform their body into Pseudo-Spiritrons[line 2]pure information.
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＠Morgan
Impressive though this theory of magecraft is, it is only made possible by Singularities existing outside normal space-time.
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＠Morgan
However, that is still no more than a way to correct distortions[line 2]a system that can only function within the confines of a Singularity.
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＠Morgan
Rayshifting is not time-traveling, and thus cannot be used to alter the past.
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＠Morgan
However...I already existed in this Lostbelt.
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＠Morgan
I was here in Fae Era 4000, as the faerie of paradise sent from Avalon.
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＠Beryl
...I see. So you sent your own knowledge back into the past.
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＠Beryl
Servants are Ghost Liners...which is just concentrated information when you get down to it.
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＠Beryl
Of course, even a Servant would normally disperse as soon as they Rayshifted anywhere that wasn't a Singularity...
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＠Beryl
But if there was someone on the other end to receive that information, like a preexisting email account...well, that's another story entirely.
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＠Beryl
In Proper Human History, you were a witch who was defeated by King Arthur and lost your hold over Britain.
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＠Beryl
As that history's Queen Morgan,[sr]you were rejected by the entire isle.
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＠Beryl
So you decided to entrust those memories, that information, to the version of yourself that was born in this Lostbelt, didn't you?
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＠Morgan
Correct. Following that Rayshift, the Morgan of Proper History[line 2]the Servant you summoned[line 2]ceased to exist.
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＠Morgan
But in exchange for her resolve, the Morgan of this Lostbelt learned the fate that awaited her.
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＠Morgan
In the first, original version of the Fae Era, the faerie of paradise was murdered...
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＠Morgan
...and all but a handful of faeries were wiped out in the Great Calamity of Fae Era 12,000.
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＠Morgan
Once I learned of that truth from my Proper Human History self, I was able to escape my would-be murderers and survive.
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＠Morgan
...I then changed the course of that destructive history, and killed the Tree of Emptiness.
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＠Morgan
Doing so would ultimately destroy this Lostbelt, but it also provided me with an opportunity.
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＠Morgan
So long as someone capable of keeping this world alive remained, this Lostbelt would transform from fantasy into reality.
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＠Morgan
That is the world in which you now you find yourself. This is the Era of the High Queen.
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＠Morgan
This land is my Faerie Britain. I built it with my own hands, and no one will ever take it from me.
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[lr]Yup, she's one hell of a woman.[sr]Probably the scariest one I've ever met in my life.
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She Rayshifted her own will into the past while I was asleep, even though it cost her her life.
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Then the Morgan from this Lostbelt inherited that knowledge, killed the Tree of Emptiness, and made a new history just for her.
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I don't like to think about this next part too much, but I probably disappeared too while all that was going on.
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I had seen the version of Britain from a 2019 where the Tree of Emptiness was still alive and well...
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...so I must have died that night after falling asleep, and the “me” thinking these thoughts is just a look-alike Morgan whipped up the next morning.
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＠Morgan
Is that a problem?
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＠Beryl
Nope! All good here!
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＠Beryl
When you've already been resurrected to suit someone else's purposes once before, why worry about a second time?
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＠Beryl
Still, things are gonna be different now. Without the Tree of Emptiness in the way, the Era of the High Queen has been firmly established.
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＠Beryl
You can't bring any more dead people back to life to iron out inconsistencies, and any outsiders who show up won't be able to mess with it, either.
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＠Beryl
You do know the Chaldeans are gonna do everything they can to destroy this Britain of yours, right?
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＠Morgan
I see no reason to be concerned with them. My enemy is your colleague...
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＠Morgan
...and Olympus's Tree of Emptiness, which now covers the entire planet.
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＠Beryl
Damn, so you're planning to go on the offensive against a distant Lostbelt next?
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＠Beryl
Granted, that probably is more urgent for you.
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＠Beryl
But still, Wodime's no pushover, you know? And those Olympian gods seem like pretty bad news too.
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＠Beryl
Besides, Wodime doesn't seem especially[sr]pitiful or interesting.
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＠Beryl
Killing him'd be a pretty big risk, and there wouldn't be much reward even if I succeeded.
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＠Morgan
...Are you saying you have no wish[sr]to fight Olympus's Crypter?
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＠Morgan
Did you not tell me that each Crypter is competing with the others?
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＠Morgan
Is that not why you were all resurrected?[sr]To vie to become the king of this planet?
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＠Beryl
Nah. I don't know about the others, but I got zero interest in being a king.
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＠Morgan
Then why did you answer the Foreign God's call? Was mere survival your only concern?
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＠Beryl
Well yeah. Imagine you suddenly woke up dead, and a mysterious voice says you're gonna stay that way unless you accept their offer.
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＠Beryl
Isn't it natural for humans to bet on any opportunity that'll mean life over death?
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＠Morgan
Not for you. You have no attachment to your own life, and neither do you place any value on the lives of others.
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＠Morgan
You live only for the moment, and seek nothing beyond that.
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＠Morgan
You are prepared to meet your end at any time. A man such as you would never awaken simply to keep living.
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＠Beryl
Ahh, you're giving me way too much credit, Your Majesty. I'm just your everyday hedonist.
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＠Beryl
Sure, living's a pain in the ass, but I can deal with that as long as there's enough fun stuff to make up for it.
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＠Beryl
Take Tam Lin Gawain, for instance. She seems interesting. It'd be fun to mess with her.
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＠Beryl
Spriggan, on the other hand, seems boring. He'd be better off as the villain of a B movie.
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＠Beryl
That's all there is to me, Morgan.
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＠Beryl
Incidentally, you seem boring, too[line 2]by which I mean you won't be any good for helping me pass the time.
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＠Beryl
So you can just relax and do your queen thing. 'Sides, I'm not strong enough to kill you anyway!
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＠Morgan
...
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＠Morgan
What about Tristan then? How do you see her?
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＠Beryl
Lady Spinel, huh. She's a jewel, that's for sure. I'm happy to take good care of a pretty young lady like that.
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＠Beryl
But...she's a dead end. She's neither pitiful, nor interesting.
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＠Morgan
...
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＠Beryl
Just the thought of harming her arms and legs makes my chest tighten up. The more promising someone's future is, the more it makes me want to ruin it.
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＠Beryl
And believe me, I'm aware of how bad that makes me sound.
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＠Beryl
I guess putting someone pitiful out of their misery is just my way of expressing my love.
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