I'd rather recruit the Maiden to my side, personally. Should my successor turn out to be someone ill-willed, I wouldn't want them to have more than one Maiden power in their arsenal.
[ murder's fine. look, she's done it before. plenty of times. ]
[ That's why he likes her. As well as he likes anyone, anyway. ]
Personally I wouldn't worry that much about things that happen after I'm gone. And in your case, if the alternative is letting her destroy humanity, it sounds like you wouldn't have a successor anyway.
So if the recruiting doesn't work out, I think you'd be wise to keep that in mind as an option.
Oh, please. It's hardly about being noble, I owe it to them.
[ she catches onto that bitterness -- it's something she hasn't heard out of them yet, not while they're speaking one on one like this. sounds like she hit a nerve. she'll keep that in mind.
moving on though: he does pose an interesting question. ]
The pictures I got last Tuesday weren't indicative of any sort of progression, if we're going off of the assumption that they weren't edited. That being said, it's hard to say for sure with so many uncertainties. If I had to pick? I'd think that everything's on pause.
[ clearly she's just been lucky because resentment is like 90% of his being ]
It wasn't very clear to me either, though I suspect that if time were progressing normally, they wouldn't have had a very big window in time in which they could have taken that picture.
[ Though given that suicidal dipshit and the other person from his world, they're clearly able to pull people from different points in time, so it stands to reason that they could travel to different points as well. Who's to say that wasn't a photo from well in the past? ]
In that case, what do you think happens when we die here? "We" as in a general collective, of course -- I have no intention of dying here, and I'm sure you don't either.
[ at the mention of death, her answer is simple: ]
Of course not.
[ she doesn't have plans to die anytime soon, unlike, well, a certain suicidal dipshit. ]
I'm almost certain The Lady is gaining something from all of these deaths. She wouldn't have made the game otherwise. ... At the very least she'll have more corpses to experiment on.
What that means for ourselves and our homes, however... That's something I'd need to think on.
Oh, certainly. But yes, that's the part I'm curious about. Does anyone who dies here then disappear from their own world? Or are the versions of us here just duplicate copies that no longer have any effect on what happens in the places we came from?
[ ...Is he now a fractured version of himself, basically. ]
I think they're probably obscuring the answer to that question on purpose to give themselves more leeway on coming up with motives.
When they first introduced themselves to us and said they'd make these murders "worth our time", I asked her what she planned to do to make it worth mine. She said she'd look forward to seeing if I accepted her proposal when the time was right to offer it, or something like that.
Obviously what they offered this week wasn't it, so I wonder if they don't have something in mind specifically targeted to each of us.
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[ murder's fine. look, she's done it before. plenty of times. ]
That's not a bad suggestion otherwise.
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Personally I wouldn't worry that much about things that happen after I'm gone. And in your case, if the alternative is letting her destroy humanity, it sounds like you wouldn't have a successor anyway.
So if the recruiting doesn't work out, I think you'd be wise to keep that in mind as an option.
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[ she takes another sip of her tea, then: ]
But you do have a point. I haven't heard of anyone obtaining two Maiden powers before, but I've seen someone try with little success.
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Yes, that's very noble of you, and I'm sure there's no way that preoccupation will someday put your own odds for survival at risk.
[ There's a hint of bitterness there about something, but he takes a drink and moves on. ]
Are you worried about how things are progressing without you right now? Or do you think time is paused in our worlds while we're here?
[ It doesn't seem like they've ever gotten a very clear answer on that. ]
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[ she catches onto that bitterness -- it's something she hasn't heard out of them yet, not while they're speaking one on one like this. sounds like she hit a nerve. she'll keep that in mind.
moving on though: he does pose an interesting question. ]
The pictures I got last Tuesday weren't indicative of any sort of progression, if we're going off of the assumption that they weren't edited. That being said, it's hard to say for sure with so many uncertainties. If I had to pick? I'd think that everything's on pause.
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It wasn't very clear to me either, though I suspect that if time were progressing normally, they wouldn't have had a very big window in time in which they could have taken that picture.
[ Though given that suicidal dipshit and the other person from his world, they're clearly able to pull people from different points in time, so it stands to reason that they could travel to different points as well. Who's to say that wasn't a photo from well in the past? ]
In that case, what do you think happens when we die here? "We" as in a general collective, of course -- I have no intention of dying here, and I'm sure you don't either.
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Of course not.
[ she doesn't have plans to die anytime soon, unlike, well, a certain suicidal dipshit. ]
I'm almost certain The Lady is gaining something from all of these deaths. She wouldn't have made the game otherwise. ... At the very least she'll have more corpses to experiment on.
What that means for ourselves and our homes, however... That's something I'd need to think on.
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[ ...Is he now a fractured version of himself, basically. ]
I think they're probably obscuring the answer to that question on purpose to give themselves more leeway on coming up with motives.
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[ because that's not a question she would have asked herself. (least not until this week's motive) ]
That's most likely the case, but either way, I'll see if I can get an answer from The Lady regarding alternate selves and realities.
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[ He raises an eyebrow at that second part. ]
You know, that almost makes it sound like you're on friendly terms with her.
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[ she shrugs. ]
Civil, at best. Probably because I haven't gotten on her nerves yet.
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[ And his problem is that he finds her really fucking annoying. ]
I'm still waiting to hear that offer she said she'd make me, though.
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[ now that piques her interest. ]
What offer are you talking about?
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[ He takes a drink and sighs. ]
When they first introduced themselves to us and said they'd make these murders "worth our time", I asked her what she planned to do to make it worth mine. She said she'd look forward to seeing if I accepted her proposal when the time was right to offer it, or something like that.
Obviously what they offered this week wasn't it, so I wonder if they don't have something in mind specifically targeted to each of us.