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[wooden_one]

[For some reason, the person making this post is wearing his mask already. Surely someone must have explained that this network is private? (They did.)

He's also not actually dressed to blend in with this place, still wearing his white cultivator robes.

Even with the half-mask on he looks quite elegant...in contrast with the deep scowl his mouth was set in.]

Are there clothes here that aren't so...tight? [Especially around the legs! What kind of clothes are these!!] And I would like to know why there's an entire district of this place dedicated to necromancy? Isn't that sort of thing dangerous!?

[He sounds mad. Partly that's because he's concerned and that automatically means he defaults to being mad. But it's also partly because he woke up in the necromancer's district to people poking and prodding at him and he didn't like that at all.

Either way, those things combined just make him more mad.]

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[softheartedshizun]

Depends, more dangerous than the undead army that sort of... dissipated when no longer currently important?

[ Is there more to it than that? Well, Shen Qingqiu doesn't care. He's saying it how he feels like. ]

Loser pants should be easy enough to find, but generally speaking no. Might want to buy some clothes and work on something new.

[wooden_one]

As I understand it, [From what he was filled in on, anyway.] That unded army was made of the dead that weren't put to rest properly. That's different from necromancy!

{As far as he understands things, anyway. And that suggestion is fine except...]

...are clothes expensive here?

[Because he...doesn't have any of this place's money.]

[softheartedshizun]

Perhaps, but not too much. At least, following the aesthetics of this world.

[ He honestly wasn't sure about clothing, all of the clothes he had for the moment had been given to him. ]

Probably. Cloth is probably cheaper.

[wooden_one]

Even if they are similar on the surface one isn't there usually more of a price associated with bringing the dead back to life? Or is that also different in this place?

[Surprisingly, arguing about these theoretical things does a lot to calm him down. This was more familiar than literally everything else so far.]

...

[Cloth would be cheaper but he also doesn't know how to make a set of clothes back home let alone the clothes here. Finally, he just turned his head.]

...tch. I suppose it would take too long to get a set of clothes made.

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[topoiran]

In this city, the clothing is like this. Elsewhere in this world, not so much - some of us could get by well enough wearing robes. For the moment, it will need to be borne.

As to necromancy... there seem to be plenty undead warlords who rule demesnes - citadels - in this world. It would make sense for people to study the phenomenon... if that is the causality connection, of course.

[wooden_one]

If we can get by why does it been borne?

[He's annoyed! But if given a good reason he will...probably put up with it. If grumpily.]

...naturally if things are like that it can't be avoided but the lack of security would be a problem, wouldn't it? [These types of thing should be a secret shared with only the responsible.] The necromancers I met thought I was a dead body. [But he's alive!

...and also not sure how he ended up in the position he was in but the key point here is that he was alive and he woke up to being poked and prodded by strangers.]

[topoiran]

Because the places where one can make do with robes are not here. Such clothing will bar access from places that we need to be in order to make a difference. The mask, at least, might make a difference.

And you do look a bit pale, I suppose, though they really should check for a pulse. Animated dead bodies only have so much of the functionality, even though hey can be formidable fighters.

[wooden_one]

...places we need to gain access to using these false identities we've been given?

{He looks troubled which on this person still looks a little like he's annoyed.]

I know I'm pale but even I don't look like a corpse, surely.

[He knows he doesn't look good but he doesn't look that bad surely.]

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[wenderer]

Get used to it. Allegedly, "blending in" is our ticket home. So go ahead. Strip.

[ Excuse him, Wen Kexing got exposed to somebody's song and now everyone has to suffer. ]

[wooden_one]

[He recognized the username as the opening line of a poem. Automatically, seeing that made him...not relax, exactly. But it was more familiar than anything else so far.

But then the person actually spoke.]

How dare you say something so brazen! Do you not know how to write the word shame!?

[wenderer]

Is there something to be ashamed of? If anyone has improper thoughts, it is your esteemed self.

[ No, it's just you, Kexing. ]

[wooden_one]

Are you here just to pick a fight?

[Because if so, then bring it on!!!]

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[soulsrob]

Aren't so tight? [She's seen the robes and all some of the others have worn, but--

She smiles and leans in conspiratorially] I suppose I have some dresses, if you'd prefer?

[wooden_one]

[...]

I'm a man.

[He says this with all the patience of a man who very nearly has none left to spare but feels like there is some mistaken assumption that needs to be corrected here.]

[soulsrob]

[Her eyes go wide] Oh, I was aware! I mean, goodness, you are very handsome, after all. [She very carefully and deliberately does not say 'pretty'.]

But I wasn't going to judge if you'd prefer skirts. I, myself, prefer them over pants most of the time. I feel like I have much freer leg movements than the stiff pants I see most men wearing. I feel it'd be a great step forward if more men embraced them!

[wooden_one]

[His frown deepens at the compliment because he's pretty sure he's ugly (because he's a fool) so was this...was this some kind of joke? He presses his mouth into a thin line.] I am aware how I look.

[But he also can appreciate that her offer was sincere so he can't get too mad.]

I suppose it isn't unheard of for women to wear men's clothing. [So why not the other way around?] But I think I'll pass. [He's too thin faced to do something like that.]

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[scrapgege]

It's a bit different, and I do prefer my robes, but we've been told its best to blend in...

[wooden_one]

...I can understand that but do these...pants have to be so scandalous?

[He doesn't yet know the name for tights.]

[scrapgege]

They are pretty tight, it's true... but you can put a longer tunic on top? They have those! Mine goes down almost to my knees!

[wooden_one]

...I suppose that would be an acceptable compromise.

[But his tunic wasn't quite that long. Perhaps he could find someone to lengthen it.


Hahaha, of course not this stubborn fool is going to try to do it himself!]

I know this is a different...world but the clothes are so strange.

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[thesuspense]

[He has caught on to the 'easily scandalised' part, so he latches on to that.]

Do you think necromancy is more dangerous than some of these codpieces?

[Something he has just learned about and is deeply fascinated by. That's a lot of penis.]

[wooden_one]

...codpieces?

[He doesn't know what that is and his confusion looks more like annoyance. (All expressions look vaguely annoyed on him).

Did it...did it have something to do with fish?]

[thesuspense]

[This is well worth figuring out how to actually get this thing to show what he was seeing for the first time.

Nothing else has seemed important enough, but here Xue Yang is now, angling it so to beautifully capture the codpiece proudly worn by a slightly portly gentleman who just so happens to stand not far from him.]

Eye-catching, eh?

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[wooden_one]

[...

!!!]

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[wooden_one]

You--! Do you know no shame!?