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WELCOME TO YOUR PRIVATE CHANNEL, CCC-REDHORSE. FOR SECURE COMMUNICATION, USE 134.64.202.69 *** CCC-REDHORSE has joined 134.64.202.69 <CCC-REDHORSE> This is Reira Akaba! <CCC-REDHORSE>I'll try to answer you but sometimes I'm busy or sleeping, so I don't think about the message right away.

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[ Vriska's quiet for a bit. ]

...Yeah. It makes a lot of sense.

[ She goes quiet for a bit longer. ]

...I don't know how to fix that--shit like that. I finally just... gave up and left.

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Umn... [...Oh. ....She didn't quite expect to hear that. She sits up from where she already was, and for a moment considers offering a hug... ...but instead, decides something else.] ...You start with little things, [she instead says, looking away.]

...I guess the park wasn't really little, but... ...that didn't make everyone happy either. ...But...

...when I talked to Rin, he said it would be better to try helping other nymphs with places they liked, so I'm trying to do that now, and... [...And she's getting off topic. The point is!]

...The Fourth can't make everyone happy right now. ...But he doesn't have the power to do everything he wants to do for them, right now either. ...But if he wants to really fix things...

...I think the best way to start-for anyone to start-would be to start with the things we know we can all do to help make things better.

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[ Vriska ponders this angle. ]

Like what?

I get some of the big problems, buuut we just went over how nothing can be done about those, not right now at least--can't fix the hunger, can't undo the transformation shit (not that I'd want that, but... whatever, I know it bothers some people)--and I have no idea what the "little" problems would even be.

What needs fixing that we can actually fix???

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....Hmmmm... [She doesn't really know. But as for the little things...]

...What kinds of small things bugged you before?

...Just small things that didn't seem important for everyone else.

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Uhhhh... Well I guess... hm.

[ Vriska has to think about this one pretty hard. She kinda likes this place? This is exactly why she asked you, Reira! Her own list of complaints is almost nonexistent.

Almost. She does manage to come up with a handful of petty gripes after several minutes' worth of consideration. ]

I guess my tail was annoying before I got used to it. It's still inconvenient sometimes--the way it has a mind of its own and all, you know? It gets in the way. Not real often anymore, buuuut as long as we're focusing on petty complaints...

...How much people here whine about shit? When it's stupid shit anyway.

[ She thinks a bit more. ]

Most of my complaints were just "the Fourth keeps screwing over neutrals", but He just apologized and that's all I'd ask for, soooo... Also not sure that counts as a "small thing". ...Yeah, that's not a me-thing, that shit ticked off a ton of people. So that's off the table here.

[ THINKING! There's gotta be something... ]

...Not knowing for sure if somebody's actually gone or if they just haven't crossed paths with you recently? That's kind of annoying.

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Probably lots, but I guess they don't do it on the network a lot.

...But maybe if we find ways for people to feel better about those things, that will be better. I like being a kelpie a lot...and others like being monsters too!

So we just have to find how to help others like it, then. Or to make other things nicer, like the weather...

[That. Is also not small.]

Um... ...I think that the Fog Priest has the obelisk stuff though...