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What a waste of time.
[ a rather gruff voice complains before the picture has turned on and become focused, revealing the speaker's face. he looks slightly more irritated than usual, though there aren't many who would recognize that. ]
We're supposed to talk to each other using these things, huh? [ he turns away, seemingly annoyed at the very ( Read more... )
[ a rather gruff voice complains before the picture has turned on and become focused, revealing the speaker's face. he looks slightly more irritated than usual, though there aren't many who would recognize that. ]
We're supposed to talk to each other using these things, huh? [ he turns away, seemingly annoyed at the very ( Read more... )
You're right, asking wouldn't do much good. These gods aren't too good at listening.
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I'm sure they're listening just fine. They just don't care what we have to say.
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True enough. [At least, he has no reason to assume the gods can't hear what any of them say. They either aren't paying attention or they just don't care.] Anyway, no one's gotten anywhere so far by trying to talk to the gods, or by looking for a way out. I'm not telling you to give up, but don't expect it to be easy.
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[ though even he's not sure just how far he'd be willing to go or what things he would do to leave this place, he's already begun to consider rather dark options. ] Do you know what people have done so far? All I've heard of is searching for an exit that doesn't exist.
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If you have any better ideas, I'd love to hear them. [Not that he hasn't contemplated doing something more drastic, he's just not sure what he could do that would have any real effect.]
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They care about this world. [ that's the most obvious thing he's seen so far. ] If you want someone's attention, go after what they care about.
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At the second part, he nods again.]
The more people do what the gods want, the more this world grows. New things pop up overnight sometimes. So it seems like resisting does do something, if only because they don't get whatever power they get from it as often. [This makes sense to him, anyway. He looks thoughtful for a second.]
I wonder what it would take to actually get their attention. [He's not willing to put everyone here in danger over a maybe, but there has to be something they can do that would make the gods notice.]
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That's the question, isn't it? [ even asch doesn't know how far he'd be willing to go yet, though he's already begun to consider extreme options. not knowing or associating with the people here might have made things easier, a fact he now realizes, but unfortunately it's too late to take that back. ] It all comes down to what you're willing to do. There must be things they won't simply ignore.
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As for what he'd be willing to do, that is the question, isn't it?]
I won't put people here in danger. [He doesn't know them all, and he doesn't necessarily like them all, but when it comes down to it, everyone that got dragged into this place is in the same unfortunate boat.] I don't care about the place itself, though. I just wonder how big a disturbance we'd have to cause for it to get noticed.
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I see. [ if that could be avoided, he would have preferred it too... but he's already given in to the belief that any attempt to strike at the gods put everyone at risk. when there were choices were simply compliance or disobedience, he would always choose the latter. ] If you wish to avoid causing unnecessary danger, you can start small and escalate things until they can no longer ignore you. [ ...that was the safe and slow approach though, and time was always a concern. ]
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Sounds like a good plan. [Though maybe he somehow caught that thought about time being a problem. Or maybe he just remembers what the original post sounded like.] But let me guess--that's not fast enough for you, right? [This isn't judgment in his voice; he understands needing to get home as soon as possible. But as of right now, he doesn't quite trust this guy not to do something too drastic.]
For what it's worth, time seems to work a little differently here than you might be used to. [Not that he'd quite figured it out, but it certainly isn't as straightforward as time passing the same way in other worlds as ( ... )
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No, it's not. [ he had no reason to hide it. ] I have a lot to think about, but I don't plan on taking nothing but small steps either. [ within reason, but still rushed... was that even possible? it came down to his own judgment, which most back home at least would know was prone to recklessness. ]
What do you mean...? [ he hadn't heard of that, but it was an interesting thought. ]
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As for that question, it's a little difficult to answer.] I can't say I really understand it, myself. When I got here, someone else I knew was here already. The last thing she ( ... )
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...I see. I've heard that... someone I know was here previously as well. [ now that he thought about it, if luke had been here at some point in time, asch certainly didn't know about it. luke's absence from their own world would have been noted; he would ( ... )
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