@marcos.diaz

[heliophilous]

with everything that's gone on lately, i had a question.

if given the choice, how many people would stay here and how many people would leave? i get that it's a pretty personal question and don't feel like you've gotta answer. i'm just curious considering the way the place has changed lately and the people that have been lost.

could you live your life here? or would you leave and take your chances?

Comments

[wiccant]

I really doubt it's going to get that much worse.

Maybe. There's still people who need help.

[lighthearted]

What kind of unfinished business?

@kol.mikaelson

[gradual]

things weren't exactly going splendidly well back home. but if i had a choice, i suppose i would still choose to leave. mostly due to financial circumstances.

[motivation]

you made your point
i'd still go back

[ she's got attachments at home. johnny's back there now. d'avin, too, even if d'avin left because she's too broken, too damaged for fixing.

and she's got a quad to save. ]

i have shit i need to do

[heliophilous]

[if that's true, then the god needs something better to do.

i don't like being someone's puppet just to put me through hell.]

[heliophilous]

we were in the middle of a...conflict, i guess is the best word for it.

and i don't want to leave them alone to deal with it. it's my fight too.

[heliophilous]

you say that now.

[ let's hope you were right, billy. ]

you'd think that maybe they'd leave if that option opened up all things considered.

[heliophilous]

really?

because you're not rich here?

[heliophilous]

so do i.

my answer would be the same.

i can just see it being difficult because of those attachments and i tried hard to stay away from them when i got here.

[gradual]

is that not important to you? the ability to have whatever you want, whenever you want. money is power. and it'll certainly get you nicer clothes than these rags most of us are sporting.

[heliophilous]

i didn't have money back home.

i don't have that much here.

it's not that important to me.

[gradual]

well, it's not as if i'll simply pack my bags and leave. there's the matter of family to consider.

[heliophilous]

that's an answer i can relate to a little better.

how much family?

[wiccant]

I have a friend back home who can punch her way through multiversal barriers.
Literally.
So getting back someplace I've already been doesn't really sound that difficult to me.

[motivation]

guess you gotta ask yourself if the shit you've got to do is more important than those attachments

[heliophilous]

a handy person to have around.

let's hope this place survives that long. after what happened a few weeks ago, i'm not so optimistic for this place's future.

[ glass always half empty. ]

[heliophilous]

it is.

i can't stay no matter how much i might want to.

[wiccant]

( look he gets the attitude and the reasoning but also. )

It'll be fine.
Like everything does suck and I get it but this world won't give up that easy.

[kleptocratic]

"Rise and slay. Throw your chest against your enemy.
Stand like an arrow when the enemy's spear thuds at your feet."

That's what they're supposed to have said to Ibykon, according to the poets. They're always telling people to go and fight wars like that. I can't imagine anything more tedious.

ugh eff my terrible html

[heliophilous]

i'm already dealing with one war.

do i really want to get involved with another?

[heliophilous]

let's hope you're right.

i've seen people work damn hard to try and end a world before.

[wiccant]

I've seen many that were already in ruins.
Where civilization as we knew it was gone. Where people had gone wrong and taken over, or been manipulated into decisions they would have never made normally.
But people are strong. This place is full of heroes.
And someone has to believe in us.

[gradual]

sometimes it feels like too much family. ever get that feeling?

html, our mutual nemesis

[kleptocratic]

[ That sounds like the kind of question only you can answer, buddy. ]

That's why I have to go back.

[motivation]

do you want to?