Voice ✞ 003 ✞

[servingfather]

I have some questions I'd like to put to the people. [There's a reason this isn't voice and that's because he's standing over the dead body of a Darkness monster.]

If you were going to affiliate with one of the companies which one would it be and why? Or what are your reasons for wanting to remain neutral? Feel free to make your answers private. [

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Video | Private | Moderately difficult to hack

[frosty_mind]

I'm afraid which company I'd work for would depend on my reasons for deciding to affiliate. My skill set is better suited to AGI, and I suspect I'd find the environment there easier to deal with.

[Unspoken: AGI's environment being congenial is actually a problem for her when contemplating affiliation. Emma's dark side would fit in very well at AGI, and she doesn't want to deal up close with that much temptation.]

However, on the whole I'm inclined to believe that SERO ... does as much evil, but accomplishes more good along the way, if that makes any sense.

Life here or life home? [She shrugs.] Honestly, my desire to be able to make that choice is stronger than my preference as to which one.

What I'd change about this place? Too much to quickly summarize, but it's the sheer waste of it all which bothers me the most.

Voice | Private | Unhackable

[servingfather]

What sort of good have you seen SERO do?

[Her reasons are excellent ones and while he could ask more about her choices Michael's more curious about what could possibly be redeeming about either companies.]

Would you rather have those you cared for brought to this world when it's been changed for the better?

Waste?

Re: Voice | Private | Unhackable

[frosty_mind]

Medical research. Pharmaceutical formulation. Darkness proofing research. [She sighs slightly.] I understand the company's overall medical ethics are terrible, but at least they sometimes accomplish something worthwhile in the process.

[A small grim smile.] Those I most recently cared for were murdered immediately before I arrived here, so I'd bring them to this world now if I could.

As to waste - children who aren't educated and whose potential is never seen. People who die from insufficient Darkness proofing. Adults willing and able to work who can't find a job or can't find one that won't require them to commute in Darkness. Land - Sector 10. [Unspoken: and it's a small island.]

Voice | Private | Unhackable

[servingfather]

If SERO didn't strike such fear then other smaller and possibly less corrupt companies could provide those types of service.

[Michael wants to offer his sympathies but he's not good at it - plus he doesn't see how it would do any good. So he says nothing.]

All of those things aren't very different from what you can find in several worlds. Children in third-world countries, families dying in their homes due to intruders, the general economy, half of the world.

Re: Voice | Private | Unhackable

[frosty_mind]

If the companies didn't do so many things in order to monopolize their specialties, many more things would be done by neutral parties. But getting from here to there is difficult.

This isn't a third-world country. This is a single city with limited space and ample resources. The fact that few of those resources go to aid the less fortunate is regrettable, but a fact of life like any other and something I only really find galling when it comes to the children.

I do find it galling that, for example, we import a significant quantity of food, and yet have a substantial quantity of land just abandoned to the monsters, and people who'd like a job nearby. People are suffering for the opportunities ignored.