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[Jade looks like he's freshly out of the shower, but there's a contemplative look in his eyes. He normally doesn't share his thoughts, but the last curse and seeing the effects of people completely changing personalities based on headwear has made him think.]

I wish I could say I was old enough for a mid-life crisis, and given the circumstances, it's impressive more of my head isn't grey, but I digress.

The last curse has got me thinking. Vatheon has more power over us than we'd care to admit. The basics of our genders, personalities, and even full bodies have been changed and swapped up so many times it seems that it's almost curious Vatheon has not done anything more sinister; at least not more openly. Yes, the occasional change is cumbersome, but at it's core, many of the curses seem far more... I don't wish to say lenient- but not as bad as the Lamufao, with all its power, could be.

[A pause for thought as he presses his towel to the back of his neck.]

Which brings me to the question that everyone's been asking over and over since we arrived: Why us, and what is the purpose? I've heard its for a experiment, that we help charge the Coral -though it's failure recently seems to counteract that. I do not wish to say we've grown complacent, but I hear the questions asked less and less-specifically because the answers either simply do not seem to exist, or are nigh impossible to find.

My own question is this:

What would you do, if you weren't really you? If the you that exists in this place is not the you that exists on your own world; if the you now is simply a fabrication of the Coral, its purpose unknown; being changed from body to body, or being molded by the curses simply because the body is not yours in the first place.

Would you remain in your home, or would you make the effort to change your circumstances, find your real body and your home?

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Indeed. The idea of being able to die and come back to life is an odd one as well.

I find that the more I think about it, the more I'm beginning to think that Vatheon is simply building up to something larger. With the Bubble cracking, it might have tried to do something too early.

An odd one, but not impossible. Depends on the universe. The fact that it happens at the hands of the scientists and the coral means we're vulnerable, though.

Most experiments of this scale would have a larger goal in mind. But explain to me where the bubble having cracked comes into play in this theory of yours.

in the scheme of things, the idea that the Coral pulled us here because it needs batteries seems far-fetched, given the amount of energy it'd need to pull us here would likely not be equaled by anything we put out.

As for the Bubble cracking, [A pause for thought.]

The Bubble's energy seems to flow oddly, fluctuating seemingly at random, given that we haven't found any patterns just yet. We are supposedly here to keep the Coral, and thus the Bubble, alive. However, with how many of us are here, the Coral was temporarily unable to sustain the Bubble.

It stands to reason that either the Coral runs off another source of Power, or the Lamufao attempted to do something and prematurely ended up using all its power.

It stands to reason only if you don't accept the explanation we received about it, and the data that seems to back it up, after that whole debacle was on its way to being solved. It sure as hell sounds like you mistrust it.

I have good reason to mistrust something that continually toys with my life.

[He adjusts his glasses.]

In any case, things are easily manipulated against our favor. I don't see a reason to trust those who have trapped us here.

If you don't want to differentiate between them, then that's your prerogative. As I remember it, though, one of those people handing out information is just as trapped as we are.

To my understanding, the locals are just as much a part of Vatheon as the Coral is.

If they were, they wouldn't need marks, would they?

Not necessarily. It could simply be a mark imprinted on anyone who sets foot in Vatheon; a way of tracking living beings.

And so theirs are just different because it's a way of keeping track of natives rather than people from other worlds, by your reasoning.

I'd have to study the locals more closely to asses their participation or lack thereof in curses.

Do that. A theory's better with shitloads of evidence to support it, even if I don't quite believe yours yet.

[Jade chuckled.]

Certainly no one's asking you to.

By presenting it, you're making the argument that it's believable. Therefore, your job is to make me believe it.

I claimed no such thing.

[He chuckled.]

I presented something to think on, a question, if you will; theories, conjectures.

Fair enough. But your proposal of an answer to that question is different enough from popular ideas to count as a countertheory, as far as I can tell.

I'm not allowed to think differently from popular opinion?

Hardly. But the popular theory is currently the one that best fits the ideas of Occam's Razor, so you'll have to make a good case against it.

If I see it as necessary, I will.

Edited 2013-07-06 04:10 (UTC)

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