ITP: Chess and Other Games

[mind_over_metal]

[--oh oh oh man, it’s the worst feeling, like one of those slow-motion disasters in the movies, where you walk in on something and you immediately know that you’ve walked in on something, the awkwardness hits before your foot touches the ground for your next step but it's too late for you to turn around, the inertia is already carrying you forward

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[godwinner]

He's cheating.

[godwinner]

[ turning his face away from the contact ]

Of what. I'm a weapon, but I can at least point myself in the necessary direction.

[goddamnemperor]

[laughs, dropping his hand]

I have seen weapons, and you are hardly one of them. A weapon isn't allowed to think. You, however, have done ample thinking since you killed your creator.

[godwinner]

[ bitter laugh ]

So I can think. I'm still what he made me. You said it yourself, I'll be Magneto and Erik Lehnsherr will cease to be. It's what I can do for them.

[goddamnemperor]

Ahh, but yourself? It's a little disheartening to see a man fall into disrepair. I see the necessity of a weapon though. I am not so idealistic to pretend they are not needed.

[godwinner]

[ has nothing to say to this ]

[goddamnemperor]

You want to be a leader. So lead.

[godwinner]

I've no intention of doing otherwise.

[goddamnemperor]

All leaders are human, in the end. [smiles] At least, they have humane weaknesses.

[godwinner]

Humane. There's an ironic word.

[goddamnemperor]

I am clinically known as an Abomination. Irony is everywhere.

[godwinner]

An abomination and a god.

[goddamnemperor]

Are not Gods Abominations to begin with? They have never helped before.

[godwinner]

I don't disagree. But, they both do the dirty work.

[goddamnemperor]

Dirty work? But we all do dirty work to accomplish our goals. My father wiped out civilisations to do his.

[godwinner]

I mean that I imagine the work of gods and abominations to be similar. But we might have different definitions.