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    Sojaveña Wilds Timeless Oasis

    Getting the stone to the dias had been... unpleasant. Despite Ridley's suggestion that Steven throw him off if there was any sign that the stone was struggling, when he started to feel himself sliding off of Steven he panicked and held on more tightly instead. Fortunately, being briefly frozen...
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    Sojaveña Wilds Northern Badlands

    Koa was right, Ridley realised shamefully. He'd lost focus, allowed himself to get carried away by the violence. Leaf was fine. She was fine. She'd just fainted. "Okay," he muttered to himself. "Okay," he repeated, louder this time, and called back to Koa: "Let's do this!" The battering from...
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    Sojaveña Wilds Northern Badlands

    Leaf went down. People in this world were robust. Ridley knew this. He'd seen people faint before and it hadn't bothered him. But now, with the shadows constantly clawing at the back of his mind, something in his chest clenched in horror to see her crumpled form. Vic's sneer of satisfaction...
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    Sojaveña Wilds Timeless Oasis

    Ridley noted Steven's moment of hesitation before he lowered himself to allow Ridley to climb on. That... made sense, he realised. He hadn't seen Steven since their ill-fated training session, and considering how that had ended, what Ridley had done... Yeah, it wasn't surprising that Steven...
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    Sojaveña Wilds Timeless Oasis

    "If you want to take someone with you, I could go," Ridley offered. "I'm the smallest here, so I'll be easiest to carry." He didn't like the look of the way the stone seemed to be straining against whatever force kept this area locked in time. It could probably continue to shield one person...
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    Sojaveña Wilds Northern Badlands

    Ridley tried to hit back against the horde, but there were simply too many of them. Anything Ridley could do felt ineffective. Leaf had mentioned the fiends were likely to scatter if their leader went down. Ridley had heard that too, and he'd also heard they could be distracted by - "Hey!"...
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    Sojaveña Wilds Northern Badlands

    If Ridley needed to fight, then he might as well try to make some money at the same time... even if the idea of playing bounty hunter struck him as somewhat comedic. The camp was strewn with spiked hazards, lying in wait to be trodden underfoot by an unwary intruder. Ridley gathered up some of...
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    Sojaveña Wilds Timeless Oasis

    Ridley contemplated that and then said, "I think you have probably read a lot fewer sci-fi novels about time travel paradoxes than I have." Completely unable to stop himself, he added, "If you want to actually test whether this is the timeline getting rewritten or just our memories changing...
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    Sojaveña Wilds Timeless Oasis

    The moment he saw his future self, Ridley felt the urge to experiment. Something small, he thought, just a change of location within the group. If he walked over from standing on the left to standing on the right, stood next to someone different, what would happen? It couldn't hurt to find out...
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    Sojaveña Wilds Timeless Oasis

    Ridley hadn't realised how many of the Wayfarers had evolved recently until he was standing in a group of them, dwarfed more than ever by their new forms. He followed Kimiko and Archie's examples, refilling his canteen from the new river, and took the opportunity to look around the new dungeon...
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    Sojaveña Wilds Timeless Oasis

    When Sybil finally called a halt to their journey, the only thing which prevented Ridley from collapsing into the dirt was the certainty that if he did so he wouldn't be able to stand up again. He wasn't sure whether this was actually the most physically awful he'd felt since arriving in...
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    Frontier Town The Wanderin' Zera

    "I'll try to get better at not throwing myself into stupid situations," Ridley agreed. It was probably too much to hope that he'd ever stop entirely, but he could at least get better at thinking first. "I haven't been much of a team player so far, have I? I'm not used to needing to consider how...
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    Frontier Town The Wanderin' Zera

    Looked like it was going to have to be fighting for Ridley then. Ugh. "That's why I suggested the rock," Ridley said. "As far as I can see, shadow seems to ramp up over time rather than hitting all at once. So you bring a friend with you, and have them stand at a safe distance, and then they're...
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    Frontier Town The Wanderin' Zera

    "That's good to know," Ridley said. "I'll have to tell people about my situation if I'm going to fight with them, but if they know there's a way they can alleviate the effects, that might. Help." Honestly, Ridley doubted that anyone would want him around in a fight considering the state he was...
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    Frontier Town The Wanderin' Zera

    "That makes sense," Ridley said. He sipped gloomily at his drink. "Fighting's going to be difficult. Powehi said that if I wanted to fix this I'd have to fight a lot to realign my aura or something, so I can't just avoid it, but I used a shadow move by accident during a friendly training match...
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    Frontier Town The Wanderin' Zera

    That wasn't the reaction Ridley had been expecting. He'd been so braced for Wes to snap at him - or even to physically attack him - that Wes's actual response left him feeling wrong-footed and slightly guilty. "I'm sorry, I know it's a lot," Ridley admitted. "You don't actually have to tell me...
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    Frontier Town The Wanderin' Zera

    "I need your help," Ridley said flatly. Honesty was probably the best policy here, right? "I did something which was... look, I assume you're aware of what I did during our conversation with Powehi, it was stupid as fuck, I'm aware of that, I super don't need extra judgement about it right now...
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    Frontier Town The Wanderin' Zera
    Threadmarks: Ch04 - Shadow Talk

    Ridley had been making nothing but bad decisions recently, and deciding to seek Wes out was probably another one. Wes had made it pretty clear after the whole shadow charmeleon fiasco that he had a low opinion of Ridley and his actions, and Ridley hadn't exactly done anything to raise that...
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    Sojaveña Wilds Silver Riverside

    Well, this had been an absolute shitshow of a fiasco. "Yeah, I'll. Get going," Ridley agreed. Be careful. The same advice Powehi had given him, and Ridley had immediately fucked that one up. "Sorry," he added, and hurried off as fast as he could without looking like he was running away...
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    Sojaveña Wilds Silver Riverside

    What? "What?" Ridley said. No, he'd been wrong actually, the only thing worse than endangering people through his own carelessness was doing that and then having those people blame themselves for it. "You don't have anything to apologise for. It was a sparring match, not a life-or-death...
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