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"-and we will be working more with Wonderland today, but we do have to get more quartz from Legs who..."
Clover paused a moment, as a message popped up in chat.
<Legundo> you good for me to come over?
"You good for me to come over...ye."
<TheFoolsFam> yee
"who is on his way over!"
purpleprinceblood: Ooh, I haven’t seen Legs in a bit!
varteeny: eight and clover can eat the fourth wall together
Skyshinigamialchemist: oooh, 8 visit! wonder if he’s still posessed
Clover looked right, raising xer eyebrows at chat. "Eight? What are yall talking about?"
They stretched, heading to the top of the shroom and perching on the side of the cap to wait, focusing just a bit more on chat.
purpleprinceblood: 8? Legs has some story I don’t understand, I think his cube is alive? He’s been getting bullied
Skyshinigamialchemist: Am I not allowed to chew on some of my favorite bugs
eaglewarrior161: walls guy. legs thing
varteeny: clover you would absolutely chew on the fourth wall if you found a way to and so would real guy fool
“Walls? I don’t think those would taste very good.”
Clover’s eyes traced Legs’s flight as he landed just in front of the bridge to Nether.
…even if chat was just going on about something weird again (wouldn’t be the first time, and he stood by the fact he was not a bug actually, no matter what they said), it would be fun to mess with them. And it would still confuse Legs, if it wasn’t correct. So.
Clover landed on one of the higher ledges just above Legs. “Hey Eight!”
“Hey Fo-”
And Legs froze, as if it had taken a second to process what xe had said.
“...how do you know that.”
Ahhhh, so chat was saying secrets again.
“Oh, you know.”
Legs (Eight?) just stared at him, something unreadable on his face. Hand twitching like it was searching through an inventory for something.
“You aren’t supposed to know that.”
“Well that’s never stopped me before.”
Clover’s tail swished as he hopped down to be level with Legs.
Legs’s eyes darted around, barely even looking at Clover. His eyes were always a shade of green Clover had found slightly concerning, but now his left eye was white pupiled, a color not unlike the eye through which Clover saw chat, white surrounded by the shards of soul peeking through.
But Legs blinked and stumbled back and his eyes were normal again.
“I-I have to go. Take the quartz, just pay me back in a week or something.”
The shulker was in Clover’s inventory before it could react, and Legs was gone.
“...well that was weird even for Legs.”
But she turned right again, towards chat, setting the shulker down and looking through to make sure all the quartz was there.
arrow_aw■■■me: hi 8!
wraithedoge: !!
eaglewarri■■161: you said it???
■■■■■■■■: wait i popped over from legs chat. why does fool know eight.
eaglewarrior161: hello! we don't know!
ace1diots: WUHOH
■rpleprinceblood: I think legs is having a normal day
CandyDragon5: Hi Eight. Bye Eight.+++
wraith■■■e: huh
Skyshinigamial■■■■ist: …8 is having a Normal Time, it seems
"What are yall talking about now?" Clover looked over as xe closed the shulker, eyes scanning the chat, muttering as they read. "Eight is having a normal time it seems, I think Legs is having a normal day…is he? Like I know you guys don’t know what normal is but it’s not that. why does Fool know Eight Um. Yall were the ones who mentioned Eight first. Also because I saw some new people,”
He flicked out the camera for a third person view for a moment.
“If you don’t know me, hello, my name is Clover, I’m a Fool, and I can see you guys! In case you were wondering.”
eag■■■arrior161: well did you know about him before us or not???
“Did you know about him before…You think I’m telling yall that?”
Clover laughed, sitting on the edge of the bridge overlooking Wonderland’s drop.
“Can’t be giving you guys all my secrets. And yall could’ve told me those were secrets before I said that to Legs.”
varteeny: GIVE US YOUR SECRETS WE FEED ON THEM
■■■■■■■■■■: awwww but we like secrets
purpleprin■■blood: Killing you with hammers
eaglewarrior161: we didn’t think you’d say it!
Skyshinig■■■■alchemist: But it’s more fun this way!
CandyDr■■■5: you can never trust chat with secrets++
“You can never trust chat with secrets…correct! Especially since yall start blabbing to anyone who can see you, apparently.”
He hopped off the side, the rushing air familiar past his wings.
“Also something is weird with yalls’ names, I cannot read them.”
It was largely uneventful past that. Stream proceeded as it usually did, chat and Clover pinging back and forth as the quartz was dropped in the Backlooms and the sculk and trapdoor contraption continued to grow.
At least. It was uneventful until Clover got another message.
Legundo whispered to you: what are you.
Clover smirked, leaning against one of the seats of the TV set.
“What are you…now that’s a question I haven’t heard in a while. Hm…”
arrow_awesome: well that does bring up the question and now i want to know
Skyshinigamialchemist: You’re a Bug of course!
varteeny: you’re a bug. and a leprechaun. and a dragon. and probably an eldritch horror
purpleprinceblood: You’re a goober
“Leprechaun, dragon, eldritch horror that one’s new, goober, bug. Chat.”
The camera flicked out so that Clover was staring at them once again.
“I am not a bug.”
But it drummed its fingers on the chair.
“Call me…”
You whispered to Legundo: call me clover.