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[curingidiocy]

[ 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.

<b>Decision:</b> State your decision here. <b>Reason:</b> Be concise. Bullet form preferred. <b>Other:</b> If you have any other comment to make, do so here.


[ 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. ]

Comments

[30storieshigh]

[ It's how he shows support! Don't shame him! ]

This is good. It is not something one should become accustomed to, even when it is the clearest choice. All life holds value. We must ensure those who disregard that value are made to pay, it is our best tool to defend the rest 🛡️.

[curingidiocy]

Well said. That said, I believe more difficult choices like this one are in our future. There is nothing preventing three, four, or even a dozen kaiju from appearing at once, as far as I am aware. I do not wish to contemplate such a possibility, but I cannot ignore it out of some misplaced desire to avoid distress.

[30storieshigh]

If the situation becomes this dire I shall make the case to LILITH to restore my size. Combat inferno with another blaze, as they say 🏢🦖💥🐉🏢. I am sure they will see the wisdom in that course of action.

[curingidiocy]

I fear your shrunken size has more to do with the limitations of their technology than any conscious choice to reduce your strength. If they were capable of sustaining your natural size, they would have allowed you to do so during the fight. There are many others like you who have found their strength to be diminished upon arrival.

[30storieshigh]

This is vexing. Much of this damage could have been avoided if this was not so 😤. There must be some way to overcome this, if we can be called from other worlds than surely restoring our power is a possibility 😕.

[curingidiocy]

Yes, I believe it is a possibility, but it will require time and resources. There is a bottleneck somewhere in their technology, and resolving it will not be easy.

[30storieshigh]

As Takeda Nobushige wrote "If one never makes an effort, it will be difficult to come up in the world." 👨‍🏫

Do not be worried, I am confident in the ability of my allies to overcome the difficult tasks that require doing. None would be here were they not capable, surely there are those versed in technology amongst our number.

[ Sorry Doc he's still kind of unclear on what it is exactly that you even do. ]

[curingidiocy]

[ Whomst???? He's going to look up that name the first chance he gets when they're back on base. ]

The problem isn't our lack of ability, it is LILITH's unwillingness to share information about their technology. They do not want us to know how it works, lest one of us has the capability to reconstruct it on our own and use it for our own means.

[ Like him. He has no doubt he'd be able to reverse engineer the device even if he were given only one chance to look at it. ]

[30storieshigh]

LILITH has no reason to withhold resources that can aid us 🤔. Much human technology is dangerous, perhaps they fear its misuse. To think otherwise would be treading into the territory of the foiling heads of tin, there seems little value in such musing.

[ Tin-foil hats. Probably. Maybe. ]