One has to question if this cult has made this sacrifice so appealing as to invite curiosity from self-selecting outsiders, that perhaps they are intelligent enough to consider that the idea of spilling blood would make most balk at the bit?
If only in my experience, I would not rule out they will make it ever more appealing for you. Enough so you will reconsider your line in the sand.
Perhaps for the others. I cannot deny that some of their promises must sound tempting to the desperate and those in want of more that they cannot achieve themselves. Though I do think that the four of us have our own reasons to be able to resist.
[ shrugs ]
In my case, there is nothing so grand I desire that I would forsake you, or anyone else here. I know this about myself.
Would you indulge my curiosity? War posed to me an interesting question and I’d care to know your answer. If we were comprised solely of the morally bankrupt - murderers and mutilators, criminals and culprits - would you consider going through with this?
[ hmmmm. it's probably telling enough that famine seems to take a second to actually think about this. ]
Is it my turn for a wordier answer? Though if there's any concept that merits it, I suppose it's the matter of life and death.
Whether or not I think a criminal's life is forfeit depends on if all other rehabilitation processes failed. It'd be more worth considering than whether or not I'd accept killing children, admittedly. But it's not as though every criminal and murderer automatically deserves death. Some of you still count. And I suppose children can be murderers.
But I do think ultimately, I would still oppose the sacrifice of life. For myself, it is only to answer curiosity without any true, grand purpose. If I had one, maybe. As it stands, I don't.
[ okay for once in his damn life, he allows a stray thought to be caught in a filter and does not voice it out loud. but all four of you need like. a hobby. start doing jigsaw puzzles or something instead of joining blood cults. ]
Thank you, a very thorough answer and it is appreciated. So, no true grand purpose at all?
[oh you know just between jobs and thought this might be fun.
the reason he doesn't say it is because when he needed a hobby and to maybe move on from a clearly deteriorating relationship he instead went and got obsessed with ancient cursed magic too so. he can't exactly judge this.
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I can say whatever I want, as someone who comes from a place that certainly has no gods. [ but maybe they are also hangry. who knows ]
Would you not want to see such a world for yourself? Where there is no one but yourself to determine the greatest limits of your ambition and ability?
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[ every one of these NPCs is so wizard-brained. this is terrible you guys. bad things are going to happen and its going to rock.
gale shakes his head, just a little. ]
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Though I have also hit the limit on that curiosity involving blood sacrifice.
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If only in my experience, I would not rule out they will make it ever more appealing for you. Enough so you will reconsider your line in the sand.
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[ shrugs ]
In my case, there is nothing so grand I desire that I would forsake you, or anyone else here. I know this about myself.
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Is it my turn for a wordier answer? Though if there's any concept that merits it, I suppose it's the matter of life and death.
Whether or not I think a criminal's life is forfeit depends on if all other rehabilitation processes failed. It'd be more worth considering than whether or not I'd accept killing children, admittedly. But it's not as though every criminal and murderer automatically deserves death. Some of you still count. And I suppose children can be murderers.
But I do think ultimately, I would still oppose the sacrifice of life. For myself, it is only to answer curiosity without any true, grand purpose. If I had one, maybe. As it stands, I don't.
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Thank you, a very thorough answer and it is appreciated. So, no true grand purpose at all?
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but famine shakes their head ]
No. Not any longer. A few projects here and there, but the opportunity to do this instead caught me in the middle of a lull. So I ended up taking it.
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the reason he doesn't say it is because when he needed a hobby and to maybe move on from a clearly deteriorating relationship he instead went and got obsessed with ancient cursed magic too so. he can't exactly judge this.
he's judging it anyway but he shouldn't. ]
You mentioned something about being all-knowing.
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In my own world, yes. At the very least, nothing proved too difficult to understand.