Perhaps I should be clearer. The "forest" is merely a bunch of trees, plants, blah blah blah. It is the Creature within the forest that gives it its sentience, thus the colloquial term. I'll speak plainly from now on, but keep in mind that the forest itself serves as the Creature's eyes and ears. Rid yourselves of the Creature, and you rid yourself of the forest's sentience, and the forest itself can simply be.
[He adjusts how he's sitting, less casual, more straight-backed posture and squared shoulders. His tail curls over his lap, arrow-tip flicking.]
The fog was the Creature's jail. It keeps it in the forest so that the Creature cannot reach the outside world, and some sort of barrier that I cannot ascertain the source of is keeping the fog from seeping into the Grove. With all of that being said, the Creature's influence is more corrupting than everything here, [take a shot every time he says "corruption" or some variant, you will be hammered by the end of any thread with him,] and has thence affected the fog. So, while separate from the Creature and the forest itself, the fog is a similarly evil force now. It has yet to spread the forest's corruption into others, but just breathing it in caused my systems to work overtime to purify it. The state I was in when I left the fog on the New Moon wasn't entirely due to my ongoing fight with Moder, but rather because trying to "fix" that much ambient corrupted aether weakened me.
I imagine for all of you here, extended exposure to the old fog would have gradually killed you, albeit at a faster rate than it would have killed me, had I remained in there. This new one is a mystery to me.
[Deep breath, next answer:]
There are many evil creatures in the forest. Moder was only onto me because she wanted Nene, and I was purposely trying to kill her to keep her out. Nene said that 9S and Elsword fought one of those creatures — the river guardian. The wolves that attacked are creatures of the forest, as are many other things.
Did you think I was just fucking around in the fog this entire time? One beast would not trifle me in the slightest. There are combinations of monsters out there that I've dealt with over centuries.
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[He adjusts how he's sitting, less casual, more straight-backed posture and squared shoulders. His tail curls over his lap, arrow-tip flicking.]
The fog was the Creature's jail. It keeps it in the forest so that the Creature cannot reach the outside world, and some sort of barrier that I cannot ascertain the source of is keeping the fog from seeping into the Grove. With all of that being said, the Creature's influence is more corrupting than everything here, [take a shot every time he says "corruption" or some variant, you will be hammered by the end of any thread with him,] and has thence affected the fog. So, while separate from the Creature and the forest itself, the fog is a similarly evil force now. It has yet to spread the forest's corruption into others, but just breathing it in caused my systems to work overtime to purify it. The state I was in when I left the fog on the New Moon wasn't entirely due to my ongoing fight with Moder, but rather because trying to "fix" that much ambient corrupted aether weakened me.
I imagine for all of you here, extended exposure to the old fog would have gradually killed you, albeit at a faster rate than it would have killed me, had I remained in there. This new one is a mystery to me.
[Deep breath, next answer:]
There are many evil creatures in the forest. Moder was only onto me because she wanted Nene, and I was purposely trying to kill her to keep her out. Nene said that 9S and Elsword fought one of those creatures — the river guardian. The wolves that attacked are creatures of the forest, as are many other things.
Did you think I was just fucking around in the fog this entire time? One beast would not trifle me in the slightest. There are combinations of monsters out there that I've dealt with over centuries.