thevoidsdarkhorse | Heart Game (Continued)

Heart Game (Continued)

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[Well, it's got green cubes and pumpkins, and a weird platform of strange glyphs.]

It's not about ESCAPING. I can walk through fucking walls. It's the fact if I try, Jade will drag me back 'fore I could find anyone!

Then, maybe there's a way they'll come and find you-- Dirk, at least, if there's a chance he's still out there.

But, in the meantime you have a pretty tough choice to make.

[ Since those morals seem to be the main idea here rather than escaping. ]

[morals are such a dual-edged sword sometimes. he doesn't quite know what to say yet, bc Rook does it well for both of them so far, so he waits for Roxy to speak again]

He should be there.

But probs not for a while with teleporter.

...

Then, hopefully another path will open up for you soon enough.

What are you going to do in the meantime, though? About your powers.

That orb... is it possible to create it?

[not that I'm saying you should. but]

Yes.

Yeah, I can make it. Made the cubes, didn't I?

But do you want to? I know ... she wants you to make it for her, but what would you do, despite it?

[ His voice sounds strangely neutral, because he has an idea of where he wants to go with this. Maybe where he should. But it hits a little too close to him and he's not sure if it's the right answer for even himself. ]

[either option just... sounds bad]

....

AAAAGH, isn't that fuckin' obvious?!

You have the power to save a species, dun even to self sacrifice to do it, just gotta mediate right. What do you do? The fucking obvs choice!

Then you should, if that's what you want to do-- if that's what you'd do without knowing what would-- what will happen. Follow your heart as though nothing's threatening to cause it pain. Before anything else.

Not that it won't hurt, because knowing what you know, it will. But don't put those feelings in your choice, don't let her affect it the way she wants to. And if you're still here-- if your friends are still out there, that means there's still a chance that you can bring them back to how they should be, one day, if they exist.

... I don't even know if I'd want that for myself, knowing that that happened to me, too. Not living might definitely seem better than living as something you didn't choose, controlled by someone else. ... But I'm just me, I'm not an entire race. And if there was a chance that somehow ... they could go back to being what they used to be ... if that choice was in someone like yours' hands ... I'd just want them to do what they thought was right in their heart, no matter what it was, regardless of what a greater power wanted out of it.

Sometimes... it is better to do something than not doing anything at all. I have realized that as well.

Let her affect the way she wants to?

She WANTS me to revive them, she's using the feels I have in wanting to save people to GET ME TO DO IT?

What, you think she thought the torture would do it? It's the fact she knows I would WANT to save them that she's using.

It's not like I can't ignore what will happen. It's not as if they just fall in line, they'll be okay. She's a fucking SADIST. Carapacians are the most obedient fuckers in the world, and she still slaughtered 'em just to get to me!

Then don't do it because she wants to use your feelings, do it because you just want to do it. Because it's who you are.

Is right this moment even the only time you're capable of creating the egg? If it's not, you can still save the race without damning them to something like that.

Is there... someone else who would be able to utilize the egg? That is not her...

....that's also another problem. [She looks at the ground, frowning deeply.]

'fore the fuckin' clown showed up, she was the only troll I knew about that was still alive. Even her crew is dead.

So only a troll can do something like that?

Crew?

Her ship crew. Gog knows how she manages the damn thing.

And I don't know! I know shit all about troll reproduction, just that it involves buckets, all gender combos work, and I think that's because they have both parts.

Then it sounds like you might not need anything at all, to bring back their race, other than your power.

So stay true to yourself, and bring them back. But bring them back after you've stopped her. And in the meantime ... well, you're Roxy, aren't you? I know you can get out of something like this, even if it's tough as it is right now. If not alone, then with the people who'll support you like you always support them. Because it sounds like at least one of them has a chance to come and help-- and I bet he will, soon enough. The choices she gave you aren't the only ones, so show her that you can make your own while not giving up who you are and throw it back in her face eventually.

And perhaps there are others of her race still out there. You said a clown showed up? Is he a troll too?

How do you get that at all, it sounds like I know fuck all on how trolls actually reproduce.

Yeah, but I dunno what his deal is. I think he came from another game session with all his dead teammates.

Then doesn't that prove more exist, so the possibility exists? Don't just toss it aside because it's not completely clear just yet. I'm sure it'll become clear, one way or the other. Especially since there could be a way to save them, and you wouldn't even need to put them in harm's way, if you can stop the Batterwitch first.

Regardless of what you do and when you do it ... just make sure you do it for yourself above anybody else.

[WHAT HE SAID. Castling'll just nod]

I don't know what I want!

Part of me wants to go 'no fuck that' just to spite her, another part is like 'why does it have to be ME?', another part thinks it's all bullshit, and then there's the obvs I have to help!

And I can't just assume there IS a possibility when it's an entire race.

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