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[ Soon after LILITH hands the decision to Outsiders, Ratio makes a post on the ocular network. ]

I hope you have all had ample time to rest from the aftermath of the kaiju's attack. However, it is time to turn our attention to the future. We have been given an opportunity to decide our next step.

1: Stay in Seoul and assist the city.
2: Chase after the escaped Imugi.

I imagine opinions may be divided on this front, so I would like to open the forum for discussion. Please state your choice and provide thorough reasoning for your decision. You will not convince anyone with a half-baked argument. You may respond to any comment as you please, but remember to stay civil and do not resort to derogatory or inflammatory comments. Should you break this rule, I will revoke your comment permissions.

Keep in mind that your choice will have a grave effect on the people of this planet. It is not one to be made lightly, so do not treat it with levity.

You may use the form below to keep your comment clear and easy to read.

[ ooc: This is meant to be a mingle text log! Feel free to comment on each other's posts, yadda yadda go wild! Also the form is only a recommendation, feel free to disregard Ratio's instructions and annoy him. ]

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huh. I was thinking next time it happened I'd put on my regalia, but if it still got you, not worth that effort

too bad we don't got the Tree to just pop us back out here. otherwise I'd just give up an organ and do some scrying (more or less) to see what they're all about. doesn't seem like their medical shit's really up for sudden organ removal, especially since I'd have to give up an important one

...seriously, why take away our shit. I made a guy from my lung back in the Lostbelt, can't be THAT big of a deal to give me some of that juice

whatever. we'll do it the boring way

[ ♥ no ♥ ]

then some of us die pursuing it. this is supposed to be a hard fight, right? if that means some people gotta die to take it out, so be it. it's saving that civilization too unless you want mom and all her kids to go make snacks out of that city. that's the way it was heading

besides. wasn't just a matter of mismatch of power. there was some other shit out here that made it harder than it should've been. dunno what that's all about but I got tranqed for example. someone else hunting it I guess but would have been real fuckin nice to get a heads up

I believe there exists extremes.

Then do you not believe anyone deserves abandonment?

Not at all. It was simply an observation.

RIGHT?? I know I have a temper, but it was pure burning WRATH when I came close. It made me sick with rage.

[ set is desperately trying not to miss his old powers. not his divinity, but the power to create plants and all that he'd had. you know, the stuff that had meant osiris was obsolete :) ]

Well, it is not as though I am a god that has magic abilities like my siblings I was not made with such prowess, it seems!! I am a very physical fighter, but my skill truly lies in being able to think of creative solutions. I am second to none in terms of brains.

Still. The boring and unfun way. We cannot just DIE for information, now!!

[ WOW ]

No, I simply am not desperate enough to work for free. Nor am I a masochist who touts noblesse oblige as my central dogma.

If you vote "assist", I am going to dump you into a bar that caters to bears the moment I find you.

man I wish that's what happened to me though. considering my diet you know what upchucking is like? disgusting. I took like three baths and still feel like I could take more.

[ meanwhile me, the player, like bro shut the fuck up!!!!!! SO, MOVING ON, ]

so, yeah, want to avoid that again. or give me the trick to just get the angry version. let me go on the bender this time, you're two for two considering the shimmer before we went to super sleep

I'll ask around and see what people know about them. they've fought a couple of these kaiju so far so if they haven't learned anything, they suck

actually if anyone is being nosy and reading this [ CONSIDERING HOW IT STARTED, WHY WOULD THEY!!!! ] feel free to chime in

( who the hell is gonna answer an asshole who says THEY SUCK!

spits on this post!!!!!! )

Much as I believe it to be folly, you are free to go and get yourself killed.

I will not have a god who is so afraid of losing his own divinity lecture others on why they have to die.

[ She's not forgotten his excuse for siding with his "Master" and refusing to help Chaldea challenge destiny. ]

The way humans are scared of death and avoid the very mention of it has long been a source of chagrin to me. You, however, are far too eager to accept it, Tezcatlipoca. So much so, you accept this outcome without fighting against it, without looking for an alternative.

Death has meaning because life is precious. When you treat life as a thing easily discarded, then there is no growth to be found in the conflict so important to you.

You must fight for life if you truly want death to be meaningful.

I had to half-drown myself just to calm down. I think I inhaled half of the local river, just trying not to rip someone apart. Normally, I would not care to hold myself back, but when lacking focus..... it is just sooooooo not worth it.

lmao you are so GROSS why is the human body so GROSS im glad i dont have one

[ you can count on the fact that he is LAUGHING about tezca hurling up his carnivorous guts ]

Ooh, I wonder if Silco can figure out how to manufacture Shimmer here......

I would not dare presume what you had.
But I know how brightly her love of humanity shone.
And she would be pained to hear you speak such words.

This is a truth that cannot be denied.

[ He'd said a human had killed her, right? Is that why he hates them so much...? But even if that's true, this is no excuse to hate humanity as a whole. If they loved each other, Quetzalcoatl wouldn't want for him to hold such hatred in his heart. ]

Do you truly believe humans do not suffer? Do you truly believe they do not pay for their sins? Human life is a succession of struggles. They suffer, they cry, they die.

Please do not let your anger and hatred cloud your judgment. My friend saw something beautiful in you, and I shall not allow for her love to be consumed and become a beast.

[ She's not even going to pretend she's not guessed they were a couple. But to her, that's important. If the situation was reversed, she wants to believe Quetzalcoatl would do her very best to stop her love from becoming a human-hating demon. ]

[ he feels a vibe in the air... like he's being judged... best to ignore that!! ]

I do not. No matter how horrible one is, in my realm I treat all as equals.

I struggle to apply this same impartiality here in this world. However, this is what I genuinely believe.

Just eat the one we've already downed like everyone else is doing!!!!

[ LIKE A NORMAL PERSON, CHOSO ]

[ thanks buddy she knew she could count on you ]

Exactly! There's no point in dragging ourselves out to who-knows-where right now!
I know... the other one's probably had kids, or is having them, or whatever, but!!! Let's just leave it. It'll be worth it more in the long run to have the support of the people we can help.

I knew you'd get it, Eri! It doesn't matter if someone claims they're used to fighting at the expense of themselves, pushing through whatever pain, injury, and fatigue they might suffer, we still shouldn't push ourselves -- every one of us is better alive than dead.
... And yeah, exactly. If we're just seen as the type to pick up and go, without a moment to help those in need, then why should they offer us anything that might help against the kaiju in the first place? Information included!

[ give her the reigns, LILITH........ let her be a commander......... she'd be unpopular with a whole crowd for her decision but let them fight her for the spot if they want, ]

Oh, you would think that, wouldn't you!
It takes two seconds for someone with half a brain to fill it out, Izou! It's not like anyone's asking for your chicken scratch of an autograph!

Anyway, we're gonna keep getting nothing if we don't prove ourselves willing to help rebuild what we can. You have to think of the long term.

[ "emotions running high" she's perfectly calm thanks ]

Edited 2024-08-16 00:26 (UTC)

An excellent one to have. Information is powerful in the right hands; moreso than pure physical prowess.

[ Do not let your anger and hatred cloud your judgment sounds painfully like don’t kill the kind parts of you to fit into [your destiny], in that moment. It's a painful little reminder of how much Ereshkigal's heroic companion had loved humans, and him, even though he was a terrible, wicked god. It infuriates him, injures him more than Ereshkigal might understand. WOW WHAT A BLOW ]

I believe what they did to their world is ugly. They tortured it, you cannot deny that.

There are environments stripped of all beauty and balance. There are animals that do not exist anymore. How can you defend that? How can you not want to hold them accountable? Why is their suffering, their tears and death, more important than the whole? I will handle their threats, but I will not love humans.

Do not use her memory like that. Not to control me.

[ move over aventurine, ratio's his man now

jk ]

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I wish you were in the last world I was in, you would have been GREAT as an ally! Or a rival, even!

why settle for one when we can have two and then some? but also do you know what they're making the one into? burgers? skewers? nuggets???

food is food and i want to taste a dragon

yeah yeah lucky bastard, keep rubbing it in

hope he can. would be handy honestly? considering what a fucking menace you were tearing through shit, you could probably punch a hole right through a kaiju hopped up on that stuff

like I'll be honest with ya, if not for the acid thing, was thinking about getting eaten on purpose. just dive right in and tear my way out, you know? basically what me and quetzalcoatl did with cipactli. losing another limb they can definitely fix

this is a sport?

[ oh, wait. this must be what march 7th calls 'positive thinking'. so this is what it was like in nature. ]

yes. yes it is. overtime. we will finish it. and win.

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