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[payingthepiper]

I know the reason for all of us being brought here isn't known, but I've heard that a lot of people were also brought in from war, or-- some kind of fighting. So, er, I was just wondering:

How do you fight? And what for, if you did?

And if you weren't in a war... what did you do to pass a day? Did you work, or study for school, or...? [a trail

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[longaevus]

I did, although I wouldn't be so quick to say it was necessarily a good thing.

[payingthepiper]

For a good cause, you mean?

[longaevus]

My work at home has been something that has been easily translatable here. [ In more than one respect ]

[payingthepiper]

What was it, if I might ask?

[madeinoblivion]

I fought to keep my fr- someone special protected.

But mostly, I guess I fought for me.

I didn't have a job, or a school. Any real purpose I found...has been while I've been here.

[payingthepiper]

Ah-- has that someone ever been on the island?

[madeinoblivion]

Uh-huh. She's here now.

[payingthepiper]

So now you've found a lot more purpose?

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[payback]

I think it kind of depends on how flexible you can interpret your purpose being.

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[payingthepiper]

Or how definite it was to start with.

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[payback]

It's not always a bad thing, is it?

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[payingthepiper]

Losing your purpose?

[Voice]

[gaveherwings]

I do have purpose here.

Maybe even moreso than I had back in Romdeau, even if it is far less structured, or plainly set out.

This place is rich in things to work for. Perhaps even more so, in the challenge of being foreign, in having to prove oneself to the citizens. There are so many things that could be rearranged for the better, and there is some home in the potential to actually do so. People are encouraged here, to find and to indulge their fancies, try new things out. Be reckless, with one another, without a care for any destabilizing impact.

It's almost unnerving, and easily disorienting, with how exhilarating that can be.

[Voice]

[payingthepiper]

I'd agree with the less structure, but you, er-- it wasn't like that at all where you came from, Doctor? Reckless?

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[gaveherwings]

Quite the opposite, in fact.

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[payingthepiper]

... The lack of organization - would you say it helps in creating new purposes, then?

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[quackery]

Yeah, I mostly went to school! Something like finding my purpose again, though... I don't think I really could.

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[payingthepiper]

... You don't think so? Because it was specific to something in your world?

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[quackery]

Yeah, that's a good way of putting it! What about you, though?

[payingthepiper]

That's-- kind of how it is with me, too. Although I didn't go to school back at home; I work here, instead.