entry seventy: power.

[pleasesmirk]

Seriously, let's get on with what we're supposed to be doing. I'm not standing by and listening to all of that and just shrugging my shoulders

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even though she died after being SHOT IN THE NECK

[creatingalegacy]

"The instant power over life and death?" Guns don't give you that.

[pleasesmirk]

That's what it feels like.

It feels like an assassin's dream. Inelegant, perhaps, but effective. Brutally so. Pull the trigger, don't think... it's why I hated them, but now I have it in my own hand... it's powerful.

[creatingalegacy]

You have no idea what that power really feels like. A gun is just a weapon, a stupid killing device. What you think you're feeling comes from something more.

[pleasesmirk]

Oh, I've had power. I've had authority, but this is something purer. The ability to end a life just by a split second decision. It's not a political decision, it's not just a device. It has an almost magical quality to it, the way this feels. I could take down a wizard with this. My authority could never do that.

[stopthat_destro]

Just wait until you get used to them. They aren't so impressive.

sorry, you just walked in on a small religious experience.

[pleasesmirk]

Oh, you shouldn't get used to something like this. That ruins the exquisite power behind it. Getting used to it is probably half of what's wrong with the Roundworld.

Rex has had a similar one over NANOMIIIIIIITES

[stopthat_destro]

Please, there's always something better out there. A gun's a common enough tool where I come from, and the tools of modern warfare have surpassed it in terms of true power.

and I just fail and forgot to change it.

[pleasesmirk]

That's because you take them for granted!

I'm sure there's plenty in Roundworld warfare which is far worse than this, if you treat guns so easily, but perhaps you need to go back to realising the strength and power of something so 'simple' in your mind.

[heavenonthemind]

A-Are you going to find your warden?

[pleasesmirk]

I'm following the instructions I've been given. You remember the instructions.

Why?

[heavenonthemind]

People shouldn't... they shouldn't go a-alone.

swing. is dumb. :/

[pleasesmirk]

Oh, Judas. What the hell is going to harm us now?

[Video]

[warrenwhite]

Yeah, well. That's all good, but there's no point having a gun if you can't use it.

[Warren cuts to an imagine of himself holding the gun which he can manage to grasp between two hands, but there's no way for him to pull the trigger.]

Thanks to whatever smartass organized this whole thing.

Re: [Video]

[pleasesmirk]

Well, that's unfortunate.

[Video]

[warrenwhite]

Yeah, it is. I'll never be able to use a gun again. Or like, a knife. Not enough grip.

[Video - Lolthreadjack, sorry]

[my_freeze_ray]

[IMMEDIATE OFFER]

I'll have yours!

private. - Spam?

[nodeedtoobase]

Don't touch it! Do nothing with it!

private. - absolutely!

[pleasesmirk]

...Too late.

Spam!

[nodeedtoobase]

[Edward had been trying to find Swing, and he finally stumbled onto him.] "Put it down, Swing."

Re: Spam!

[pleasesmirk]

[Swing gave him a hard look, and then glanced at the gun in his hand,] "I don't think I can, Edward."