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Only one city? In the entire world? [Like the Lunar Palace on the Moon? Maybe his world was in decline, too?]
It's quite brilliant, for something created by humans! Nothing like Lunarian technology, but it's a start, right? And I'm certain you'll be able to make even more advances in the future.
[Gently, she closes the lid on the device.] I do wonder, though, what is the purpose of providing the new arrivals with these devices? Why provide us with a means of communication if the natives so fear us? Would they not worry about us plotting against them, or something like that? [Not that Rosa herself puts any stock in such a notion.]
It's quite brilliant, for something created by humans! Nothing like Lunarian technology, but it's a start, right? And I'm certain you'll be able to make even more advances in the future.
[Gently, she closes the lid on the device.] I do wonder, though, what is the purpose of providing the new arrivals with these devices? Why provide us with a means of communication if the natives so fear us? Would they not worry about us plotting against them, or something like that? [Not that Rosa herself puts any stock in such a notion.]
[He thinks over how to say it, pursing his lips before he speaks.]
Back home, supposedly I'm...well, not living any more. As far as someone says. So, I am a sort of...paradox. I am here, living, but back home, I am not. Odd. So odd. Don't feel dead, but...who really knows what that feels like?
Back home, supposedly I'm...well, not living any more. As far as someone says. So, I am a sort of...paradox. I am here, living, but back home, I am not. Odd. So odd. Don't feel dead, but...who really knows what that feels like?
[He looks pretty unimpressed.]
That sounds stupid. [Voting on everything.. isn't it easier to just do whatever you want instead of listening to everyone's feelings on the matter.]
That sounds stupid. [Voting on everything.. isn't it easier to just do whatever you want instead of listening to everyone's feelings on the matter.]
Exactly. It doesn't quite fit.
[A slight, thoughtful flick of one ear.] Right. I guess the question then would be why - was there any reason for it, or just to amuse themselves? Neither would come as much of a surprise.
[A slight, thoughtful flick of one ear.] Right. I guess the question then would be why - was there any reason for it, or just to amuse themselves? Neither would come as much of a surprise.
[She raises an eyebrow, giving him the most skeptical look. What the hell is he talking about? There's only one world.]
What?
What?
[He rubs a clawed hand through his hair, his brand new bright neon gills frilling a little.] I'm pretty sure I'm a variation of 'Merpeople' since I've totally not seen anyone else who looks like a kaiju. Damn, it's weird to think of myself as a subspecies. [he laughs, pressing his palm into the side of his face, the elbow resting on the hand thats crossed over his chest.]
--Oh, I live with two teenagers. It was sort of a temporary thing, but I think I accidentally adopted them?
--Oh, I live with two teenagers. It was sort of a temporary thing, but I think I accidentally adopted them?
This is just one world of many. I...I come from one world. You come from another. This is a...another one, this place.
[he is the best at explaining things.]
[he is the best at explaining things.]
You have a - a...
[She gestures at the shadow.] You seem sad.
[She snorts regretfully.] I don't have such a thing. I am just a woman with wings, I am afraid. But you know this place is not so bad? It is only silly things like wings and that. I don't care if they give me wings. They are pretty, no?
[She gestures at the shadow.] You seem sad.
[She snorts regretfully.] I don't have such a thing. I am just a woman with wings, I am afraid. But you know this place is not so bad? It is only silly things like wings and that. I don't care if they give me wings. They are pretty, no?
Only one. Only one...
[One can see why Royce would be flabbergasted to hear of places with multiple cities, hundreds of them, even.]
Oh, Lunarian? I...well, yes. I'll do my best.
[He steps away from her slightly to give her back her personal space once she closes the lid.]
Well, they...do plot against us, very few do, but...mostly, they are afraid. They have the right idea. They stay away because they want to survive. The laboratories are...most of us are monsters. Some are humans who want to understand our plight. Perhaps they think it is some kind of sickness, some kind of disease...
[One can see why Royce would be flabbergasted to hear of places with multiple cities, hundreds of them, even.]
Oh, Lunarian? I...well, yes. I'll do my best.
[He steps away from her slightly to give her back her personal space once she closes the lid.]
Well, they...do plot against us, very few do, but...mostly, they are afraid. They have the right idea. They stay away because they want to survive. The laboratories are...most of us are monsters. Some are humans who want to understand our plight. Perhaps they think it is some kind of sickness, some kind of disease...
[He shrugs.] That was our reality. What sounds stupid to you, well, that was...normal. Entirely normal, to someone like me.
Different worlds, different perceptions of normality...
Different worlds, different perceptions of normality...
Are you fucking with me here?
[Jade really, really, really hopes he is.]
[Jade really, really, really hopes he is.]
[Aradia laughs at his fumbling.]
I've only ever seen my own planet and Earth, but I've only seen Earth through people's memories of it. Trolls my age stay on-planet until we grow into adulthood.
[As for the game... she wasn't sure how she was going to explain something as complex as SGRUB in short simple terms, but she'd try!]
It's a bit complicated, but basically it's a magic computer game that transports all the players that are in a game session together to another plane called the incipisphere. In the incipisphere there's a bunch of quests that you have to finish within a certain time limit in order to create your new universe, or else everyone is destroyed by meteors. Every player of the game gets to have their own special set of powers to help them, as well as their own personalized planet full of individualized quests and adventures to complete in order to facilitate your growth and prepare you for the end-game battles to claim your universe. It's really really hard and most people aren't able to complete their session in time.
I've only ever seen my own planet and Earth, but I've only seen Earth through people's memories of it. Trolls my age stay on-planet until we grow into adulthood.
[As for the game... she wasn't sure how she was going to explain something as complex as SGRUB in short simple terms, but she'd try!]
It's a bit complicated, but basically it's a magic computer game that transports all the players that are in a game session together to another plane called the incipisphere. In the incipisphere there's a bunch of quests that you have to finish within a certain time limit in order to create your new universe, or else everyone is destroyed by meteors. Every player of the game gets to have their own special set of powers to help them, as well as their own personalized planet full of individualized quests and adventures to complete in order to facilitate your growth and prepare you for the end-game battles to claim your universe. It's really really hard and most people aren't able to complete their session in time.
It sounds... lonely. I mean, certainly there are other people living in that city, but to know that you are the last remnants of the human race...
[It really is like the Lunarians, isn't it? And Rosa is equally flabbergasted that there is a world with only a single bastion of civilization.]
Sorry... The Lunarians are an advanced race of people which live on my world's Moon. They gifted humanity with advances in medicine, technology, and magic. But... they are a race in decline. I've visited what remains of their civilization. And I couldn't help but draw comparisons with your home...
[She picks up the device and holds it against her breast. She smiles, a little shyly, perhaps. She's making assumptions again, but hopefully they aren't all completely off-base.]
It doesn't strike me as a disease, really. To be perfectly honest, it feels as though we are being transformed into lesser Eidolons, to become the war-beasts of these squabbling deities and forced to fight in their petty war...
[It really is like the Lunarians, isn't it? And Rosa is equally flabbergasted that there is a world with only a single bastion of civilization.]
Sorry... The Lunarians are an advanced race of people which live on my world's Moon. They gifted humanity with advances in medicine, technology, and magic. But... they are a race in decline. I've visited what remains of their civilization. And I couldn't help but draw comparisons with your home...
[She picks up the device and holds it against her breast. She smiles, a little shyly, perhaps. She's making assumptions again, but hopefully they aren't all completely off-base.]
It doesn't strike me as a disease, really. To be perfectly honest, it feels as though we are being transformed into lesser Eidolons, to become the war-beasts of these squabbling deities and forced to fight in their petty war...
No, I am not...I'm not doing that.
[He pauses as he trues to figure out a way to put this more clearly.]
...Have you ever heard of a place called Cloudbank?
[He pauses as he trues to figure out a way to put this more clearly.]
...Have you ever heard of a place called Cloudbank?
...Like I said before, in our previous conversation, I...well, I surmise there is something that these gods are receiving from our deaths, our...decisions. Especially with the fight between the two, one would suppose that, perhaps, what occurred in Rota was just part of a larger struggle for power?
I seem sad.
[He repeats that, but he says it as if he's confirming it to himself. Yes, he is...sad. Depressed, mostly. Why wouldn't he be? He's a monster stuck in a world far from his own, which is, in all accounts, dead.]
Ah, well, I suppose, I...yes. They are. [Can't lie about that.] But it would be one thing if we had the changes, yes, but...we do have to eat human beings to survive. Can't...we can't escape that.
[He repeats that, but he says it as if he's confirming it to himself. Yes, he is...sad. Depressed, mostly. Why wouldn't he be? He's a monster stuck in a world far from his own, which is, in all accounts, dead.]
Ah, well, I suppose, I...yes. They are. [Can't lie about that.] But it would be one thing if we had the changes, yes, but...we do have to eat human beings to survive. Can't...we can't escape that.
That is what I believed, what I knew, but...I was told by another that it was true. Hardly can believe it, but if it's true...
Don't think you are dead, however. But what do I know...?
[His voice drifts off, like it's some breeze that's just passed through.]
Don't think you are dead, however. But what do I know...?
[His voice drifts off, like it's some breeze that's just passed through.]
True... It seems likely that they were involved in Rota. Those tanks exploding could have just been luck, but... it seems likely there was something else going on there.
Yes. That. She's a mermaid, she also needed water! So...yes, unfortunately. You're not quite unique, but I suppose you have others around to help you with your...erm. Common experiences.
[He raises a thick eyebrow.]
Accidentally? Are you...you feel a sort of familial feeling towards them?
[He raises a thick eyebrow.]
Accidentally? Are you...you feel a sort of familial feeling towards them?
[Pit? Well, that sounds familiar.]
Like that pit I woke up in?
[He thinks for a moment (it's hard) and then grunts. It's a slightly more amused-sounding grunt than his usual grunts. Maybe.]
Someone got lucky if they captured Nisha. Or really, really unlucky.
Like that pit I woke up in?
[He thinks for a moment (it's hard) and then grunts. It's a slightly more amused-sounding grunt than his usual grunts. Maybe.]
Someone got lucky if they captured Nisha. Or really, really unlucky.
[Her lips thin irritably at that, and if she didn't think she'd be tempted to strangle herself, she'd mock him with a curtsy just out of spite! Nynaeve can't shame herself though, not in front of a man who has already frightened her once.
He does it again in an instant, talking so casually about devouring souls. Her fist clenches her braid tight, and Nynaeve wishes she was brave enough to slap him until his fool head falls off!] That... [She breathes unsteadily, trying to keep calm even though her insides are writhing.] ...is impossible.
[Her voice spikes, growing louder and louder with each word.] You are a monster. Light! How can you say something like that so casually?!
He does it again in an instant, talking so casually about devouring souls. Her fist clenches her braid tight, and Nynaeve wishes she was brave enough to slap him until his fool head falls off!] That... [She breathes unsteadily, trying to keep calm even though her insides are writhing.] ...is impossible.
[Her voice spikes, growing louder and louder with each word.] You are a monster. Light! How can you say something like that so casually?!
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