audience: geto

[mygod]

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[turbulency]

You're all catching a serial killer together?

[mygod]

We were trying to keep our country from being obliterated off the map.

Because someone thought that we were beyond salvaging, and that it would be better to destroy it before we could cause more harm to the world.

[ looks at geto ]

[turbulency]

[ ... ]

It's hard to tell with the mask, but I feel like you're giving me a pointed stare.

[mygod]

I am.

[ doesn't hide it

but also: ]

I didn't blame him. I don't blame you.

[turbulency]

But you think it's wrong.

[mygod]

It goes against my own principles, which revolve around protecting life.

But I'm not some holier than thou fool who doesn't understand that some bastards are bound to die. Or that society often feels like it's made of more flaws than blessings.

[ famine still doesn't like people ]

[turbulency]

That someone you were talking about, do you think they were acting on emotion or logic?

[mygod]

A combination of both.

The logic of seeing that decision as the best possible way to move forward for greater society, and the desperation that comes with not finding any better way.

[ they frown briefly, pondering their words ]

I do not believe the sentiment born out of cruelty.

[turbulency]

[ Wow, he can really relate. ]

It's desperation, like you said. [ ... ] And when you're used to being a sacrifice, it makes sense to sacrifice others too.

[ He doesn't know if that's the case with Famine's psycho, but it is with him. ]

[mygod]

[ famine pauses. me realizing i can write meta now because you know who this is. anyway it is an interesting thing to say to someone who has always sacrificed others, but never truly views his own experience as self-sacrificial (it is. i hope dion is mad at him) ]

... do you believe it possible to break that cycle?

Or escape your own fate as a sacrifice?

[turbulency]

[ not the dion shout out

also i'm dying famine please... ]

No.

But I'm not a good person to ask about belief.

[mygod]

[ i miss u dion ]

So you lack imagination?

[turbulency]

I don't want to waste my time with daydreams about the impossible.

... Though I guess impossible isn't set in stone with those wishes floating around. [ my extremely planned and smooth segue ] Could you give me my hint for the week?

[mygod]

Very few things are truly impossible.

[ anyway, ]

Your partner.... I suppose you could say they give good hugs.

[ geto needs to test it ]

[turbulency]

[ HUH? ]

... You know from experience?

[mygod]

[



sighs ]

Yes.

[turbulency]

[ help, he smiles a little.

and then looks thoughtful. ]

Sounds like Karlach.

[mygod]

[ shrugs ]

I suppose you can find out.

[turbulency]

I'll think about it.

Do you really think these matches will give us an advantage to getting out of here?

[mygod]

They'll be able to grant you the ability to do more, that's for certain. How you use it is up to you.

Similarly for the wish that you get out of it. In the end, it's just another opportunity that you need to decide if you'll seize or not.