Well, well Valaire, you seem to have outed yourself! I'm quite curious to know WHAT you're investigating now!

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<p>Oh. It&;s you. I didn&;t really expect to reach whoever I needed to reach, I guess someone miscalculated our space-time coordinates.</p>
<p>Anyway. My name is Valaire Egan. I&;m not from your planet, obviously, and what I&;m doing here is...not really important. Right now, and judging me from the Masquerade invitation I am holding, you could say I&;m here for this. Just enjoying drinks and such.</p>
<p>What do you mean, I&;m almost a week early?</p>
<p>It&;s not like I&;m here to investigate something...really!

Thank you anon!

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<p>Anyway. My name is Valaire Egan. I&;m not from your planet, obviously, and what I&;m doing here is...not really important. Right now, and judging me from the Masquerade invitation I am holding, you could say I&;m here for this. Just enjoying drinks and such.</p>
<p>What do you mean, I&;m almost a week early?</p>
<p>It&;s not like I&;m here to investigate something...really!

OH look who's back! Psh, you're obviously up to something. as long as there's nothing to do with ancient gods 8D har har Better tell us already what's it :P

Well, if you're still around by the time Masq rolls in, I'm sure you'll have fun with the dancing, drinks and food -- every year we get delicious new treats ^-^

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<p>Me? Investigating anything? Surely you misunderstood! I&;m just here for a leisure trip, it&;s not like I had something else in mind.</p>
<p>Some...silver-tongued peers of yours might tell you I managed to go and summon an elder god into a plane of existence and I only have this to tell this person.</p>
<p>IT HAPPENED ONE TIME, CAN YOU JUST LET THINGS GO?</p>
<p>Yeah, some people make mistake with dwarf booze, some with interstellar travels, for me, it&;s with elder gods. Crap happens, right?</p>
<p>Well, if I WERE investigating something, which I&;m obviously not, it would be a certain freelancer mercenary who is obvious out for havoc at your Masquerade. And if I were to investigate that kind of thing, how can I know you&;re trustworthy?

AHAHAHAHAH 8D but where's the fun in that D: AHEM. Sure, let's move on to the next topic xD

Oooh a mercenary! We've had a few issues with people being out to murder others during Masq, is he/she following that line? That could get messy quickly. Me? Erm. I've got a tiny bit of experience keeping gift exchanges information confidential, if that's of any help? XD

I'd like to say that my innocent and trust worthy face is enough proof, but soon it will be covered in a mask, so I see how that could be a hindrance.

Saaaaaay... you DID manage to corral that elder god DIDN'T YOU!?

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<p>A gift exchange? That&;s perfect. Surely matters of national security can compare to this wonderful secret keeping you&;ve been doing. Especially things that can erupt into full-blown wars between....</p>
<p>Crap. I spoke too much too soon, right? Like, it&;s not that I have much of a choice to go and do this.</p>
<p>So, what were you telling about a gift exchange?

XD Ehh even if I did try, I don't think we guys live anywhere as close as you all do! PSH.

OF COURSE! It's totally the same. World wars, interplanetary wars, gift exchanges, it's all about the secrecy! xD Ah, I was just in need of some gift information, so I did run around for a while asking questions to different people. Some of them were rightfully concerned the surprise could be ruined, but in the end it all worked out! ISN'T IT SUCH AN UNDENIABLE PROOF OF MY TRUSTWORTHINESS?! ^^

Yeah, either way I think you've spoken half of the story there, so you might as well tell the other half and maybe we can help you out. c:

I got it as well! Super excited for how this one turns out ;D

Sad that I didn't get to participate much during the Valentine's exchange. Maybe this one will be different?

So what is it that I, a lowly Squid, can help you with, sir?

I got one of these as well! I love these little mini plots. :)

(Not going to copy and paste my message since several other people have already done so.)

Ooh I got a message from Valaire as well!

I hope inbetween "not investigating" we'll have some time for drinks and some dancing once masquerade starts! :) We have some great drinks for masquerade. And, you know, if you need some help with something I'm sure we'd all be happy to help out. Subetans are pretty good at figuring out clues and such.

I got the same message as well! I love seeing plots like this appear in my gifts, they really make my day and make me smile. As a fellow Subetan, I would also love to help solve this mystery.

Well, hello again, Valaire! Full blown wars, national security? Do tell!

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<p>You know, when I implied a full-blown war, maybe I was slightly exaggerating. Our kind has a natural tendency towards exaggeration and &quot;fishing stories&quot;. That&;s how we call it, anyway.</p>
<p>So, I&;m not saying I&;m investigating a potential murder like you had in past years, but if I were to investigate something, it could be a bad diplomacy incident. Something that could make us persona non grata on your planet, and that would be terrible. For you, most likely.</p>
<p>But first, surely someone need to have a SHARP mind to get my trust, and be able to figure out eht aegimnn fo hist ceeennts. Surely you have a game or something to help you?</p>
<p>In fact, if like, five of you figure out what game it is and manage to beat my high score of four right answers, maybe I&;ll be convinced that you mean no harm and can be actually helpful</p>
<p>(but when faced with an actual challenge, run. this is what i did. i don&;t do well with timers)

And I've just passed 5/25 wins in Item Scramble xD I always forget to play this game!

Well so far I have 12 out of 25. (I would have 13 out of 25 but I left one letter off of a word. sigh

The game must be Item Scramble! My score was around 12 as well for Item Scramble in one round. I'm terrible at the challenge round too.

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<p>You know, when I implied a full-blown war, maybe I was slightly exaggerating. Our kind has a natural tendency towards exaggeration and &quot;fishing stories&quot;. That&;s how we call it, anyway.</p>
<p>So, I&;m not saying I&;m investigating a potential murder like you had in past years, but if I were to investigate something, it could be a bad diplomacy incident. Something that could make us persona non grata on your planet, and that would be terrible. For you, most likely.</p>
<p>But first, surely someone need to have a SHARP mind to get my trust, and be able to figure out eht aegimnn fo hist ceeennts *the meaning of this sentence. Surely you have a game or something to help you?</p>
<p>In fact, if like, five of you figure out what game it is and manage to beat my high score of four right answers, maybe I&;ll be convinced that you mean no harm and can be actually helpful</p>
<p>(but when faced with an actual challenge, run. this is what i did. i don&;t do well with timers)

Bad diplomacy... right. õ_o /suspicious

But sure, let's take a look at this...

Playing the 25 times, I counted 3 misses aint nobody got time to find out minion names and one miss on the challenger round, since yeah, that makes me a little anxious and I'd definitely be too slow for it anyway n_n

I didn't screenie it all, but here are 5 things... just in case :P [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

19/20 for item scrambles. I didn't even think to screenshot.

Cozypillar almost made me want to give up, but I had to forfeit bumblebadger and I didn't want two losses. I wish I had tried to look harder for bumblebader :c I could have had a perfect score :c

You know, when I implied a full-blown war, maybe I was slightly exaggerating. Our kind has a natural tendency towards exaggeration and "fishing stories". That's how we call it, anyway.

(but when faced with an actual challenge, run. this is what i did. i don't do well with timers)

Another message. Interesting. :) Well, I'm familiar with the game in question, but I'm not very good at it.

this is a plot?

Just got time finally to sit for while and I opened my gift! I see people got to item scramble before me but I got 10 out of 15 correct. I've had to stop now because of a headache. Fun to be reminded that the game existed :)