return

[hok_ton]

Tch. Remind me not to attempt time-travel again, time-dilation aside. A two-week visit is not worth the loss of twenty years of my own time. My children are not pleased.

At least it appears that I only lost three weeks of community time. Has anything interesting happen while I was gone?

Comments

[bonywings]

Since we last spoke, what happened? Oh... This was almost immediately afterward, but it's something I've been thinking of off and on.

Someone died. What makes them deserve it?

[hok_ton]

...who died?

[bonywings]

Someone I barely knew, and I don't think you knew either. Apparently he was hurting his sister for years. But, I don't know if he could change, or if it was too late.

tl;dr

[hok_ton]

Not knowing more of the situation, I can't really answer your question. Yet...perhaps an example would help.

Last summer, I visited a world where a monster was driving a living planet to suicide. The creature had no real reason for it - the planet loved him, as did his parents and his followers. Through no fault of his own he was unable to connect with others and his bitterness turned to anger and hatred. In his pain he hurt those around him and was unable to care for even his servants. Even though he appeared normal and harmless to outsiders, fitting in with a world he was trying to destroy, in reality death was the only kindness that we could offer him. In the end, he begged for it, because to live without a soul as he did was too painful.

As with that false Oracle, so to with many others I have seen. Even those without his excuse can live in places of pain or twisted realities such that death is the only real solution. A man who would torture his kin while pretending to be normal could easily be one of that number.

[gh0st_girl]

w0w y0u need t0 w0rk 0n y0ur accuracy

[hok_ton]

Indeed. Navigating some 20,000 years of time is surprisingly difficult.

[gh0st_girl]

i d0nt have that big a pr0blem with it
maybe because i have a r0b0t brain

[hok_ton]

That would make it simpler.

How do you deal with time-dilation and planetary drift?

[snakeinmahboot]

Twenty years?!

[hok_ton]

Yes. Its rather bothersome.

[snakeinmahboot]

How did that happen?!

[hok_ton]

I attempted to visit a friend far in my past, and was unable to correct for the time dilation between my world and his when I returned to my future.