thevoidsdarkhorse | Heart Game (Continued)

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From:

lucciola

[why are all leaders crazy bitches]

... Roxy.

From:

thevoidsdarkhorse

[It is a sad truth. ):]

What?!

[Snapping and glaring at them.]

....who the fuck are you?

From:

unguilded

Ah...

[ RUDE!! ]

I'm Rook! We're here to help you in here-- or at the very least, do whatever we can.

From:

lucciola

[... 8|]

Yes, he speaks the truth. We are here to help. I am Castling.

From:

thevoidsdarkhorse

Really.

And how are you going to help?

From:

unguilded

That part remains to be seen. It's ... not a very good position you seem to be in, here.

From:

lucciola

What has happened?

From:

thevoidsdarkhorse

What happened? What HASN'T? Jane brainwashed, Dirk MIA, Jake caught and seemed to be having a break down!

From:

unguilded

[ Oh did you say Rook's favorite word. He goes silent for slightly longer than he should before he breaks it. ]

And you in here, given a choice like this. Do you think you can find a way out to find the others?

[ Glances around. ]

From:

lucciola

[yeah that... is surely a word...

what does the room look like other than a jail?]

From:

thevoidsdarkhorse

[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!

From:

unguilded

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. ]

From:

lucciola

[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]

From:

thevoidsdarkhorse

He should be there.

But probs not for a while with teleporter.

...

From:

unguilded

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

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

From:

lucciola

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

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

From:

thevoidsdarkhorse

Yes.

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

From:

unguilded

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. ]

From:

lucciola

[either option just... sounds bad]

From:

thevoidsdarkhorse

....

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!

From:

unguilded

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.

From:

lucciola

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

From:

thevoidsdarkhorse

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!

From:

unguilded

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.