1 ♐ Voice ♐ A brief check up

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[Wow, Darkleer is actually communicating with the network on a whole for once instead of being a miserable hermit. Must be a special occasion. Does anyone know his wiggling day?]

Now then. Have we all cleansed ourselves of the mess and done whatever strange death rituals foreign species feel the need to do?

[Okay, maybe it is just Darkleer being a coldhearted dick. Eh.]

I believe we should focus on the more important matter here. I have seen discussions scattered throughout the network, but it would be best to have all our thoughts and speculations focused in one place on both the destruction of those so-called faeries and on the recent appearance of that Carol individual.

For those of you who are oblivious and prone to missing the obvious, things are changing in this place. It would be best to be prepared.

[Don't be fooled, he's not doing this to be nice. He's doing what any troll knows to do: looking out for himself and the few he cares about. If that means even faintly working with others, well, he'll learn to deal.]

[Also, that's all the network is getting from him. Click goes the camera!]

[Filtered to Summoner]

[Darkleer hesitates before sending this one out, although his voice is just as stoic and stern as ever.]

Since your children in particular seem to be taking this badly, perhaps it would benefit you to know that those things which followed us were nothing more than mere robots. The technology may have been organic in nature, but it was still nothing truly living. No pain, no loss of life.

That's all.

Comments

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Consider it sent.

[And away they go! He sends two copies, for both Zelos and Zelda.]

This was found more recently. If you wish to discuss more, I would recommend Karkat Vantas. He is the individual who found it.

It's my bedtime </3 Zelda wants to do some thinking anyway

[zelda_hylia]

Thank you, sir. I'm going to read these over and collect my thoughts for now.

[She takes her own SFC, giving Zelos' back to him.]

I have directed the people I thought of to this post. I will be sure to take a look at it again later to see what everyone has come up with.

nightie! we'll keep on keepin' on.

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[Zelos nods distractedly to Zelda as she goes off, opening the new documents and reading them right there as Darkleer waits. It didn't seem possible, but his scowl deepens even further.]

Figures. Doesn't look like the coral's any more of a God than we are. It might have a consciousness though. There's a tree on my world that does. But otherwise, it's like I thought. They're doing the curses on purpose and recording the outcomes, whatever that is. Maybe they cause us to put out some kind of energy? That seems to be what they're after.


[He sighs and mutters under his breath]

Maybe this place isn't all that different from home. Man people'll throw their faith at anything, won't they.

[He blinks and looks dour as a thought occurs]

You don't think they're literally harvesting whatever energy it is we give off because of the curses for their war, do you? That could have been what the fairies were for, then the opposition killed 'em.

or in my case, we'll fall asleep in front of our keyboards while trying to tag 8T

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If there's a way to communicate with it, then I can think of a few individuals who would be familiar with such things. If there are any you know, perhaps we can gather them together and discuss it.

[Darkleer thinks over that suggestion about the war and the faeries' roles in that before he shakes his head.]

If her words can be trusted, than Carol said that they were observation devices. While it's possible that they were there to harvest energy, I highly doubt it. I believe that would be the honor of the coral itself.

lol I was wondering

[chosen_gigolo]

No one I'd care to drag into this in case it goes south.

[There is no way in hell he's going to involved Colette if there's even the slightest chance of retribution from their proverbial jailers. He rubs his face and lets out a frustrated whine, flopping his head back over the top of the couch.]

This is all such bullshit! We don't have enough information.

I didn't expect this thread to explode eep

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That is why this discussion is taking place.

[A patient reminder.]

To gather information more recent arrivals do not possess, theorize, and prepare.

I know, it's daunting! I'm having trouble keeping everything straight. Maybe a summary post later?

[chosen_gigolo]

Yeah but what exactly should we prepare for? I mean, even with what we do know, we've got no idea what could be coming our way.

That would be a good idea, yeah!

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That's why I'm asking questions.

Some of the experiments performed on us with these 'curses' have been hardly nothing more than childish pranks. However, there have been differences, and other events have happened which have been considerably more dangerous, such as the kraken. If we get a general idea of what to expect, we can at least have a basic response ready. Something so that we won't be caught so off-guard.

[chosen_gigolo]

Sounds good to me. I'd hate to get caught with our pants down, metaphorically speaking of course.

[He sighs]

I just get the feeling that this is way simpler then we're making it out to be and when we do figure out how to leave, it'll have been staring us in the face the entire time.

If that Carol lady comes back, we could try and ask her what some of the stuff in the documents mean, though I'm also worried that would tip our hand considering we don't know if she's an ally or not.