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[windsofwar]

Who: resident dragon man and you
Where: Lobby
When: 184 morning

Good morning, everyone! I've decided now is the best time for us all to have another debate, now that our guests have been excused.

As many of you know, most of those guests were like me. Damned from other shows, instructed to take part in the show to make it more entertaining. During the week, we all saw and did many things, and hopefully, no one is holding much of a grudge.

Especially toward Future is Now, because I offered to murder, but they refused, and tried to protect as many people as possible, and we still were victorious, some how. So they should be applauded!

That aside, there was also that. . .live. As someone who has also stabbed a child, it made me think. How exactly do I want to reach my goals, and what should I sacrifice to get there? Personally, I don't think my stance has changed much, but we definitely shouldn't stab children. Only deimos! So I apologize for my brash actions from before.

So my question for the rest of you, even though violence can't be completely avoided here, when is it an appropriate first choice of action? I imagine many of you may have had to make extremely hard calls this week, so I have to wonder. Please discuss.

Comments

[rollplayinghouse]

I have no idea, but probably not. It's not exactly a competition with him, she just wants attention.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

It's at least somewhat of a competition. If they are both going after the same title.

[rollplayinghouse]

That's where the whole mother/son thing comes from, I think. If she's really god she'd just smite any pretenders to her throne or whatever, but if she pretends he's her son she doesn't have to answer any awkward questions about why she lets him keep doing it. You have to understand that she doesn't actually want to prove herself, she just wants to assert herself and have everyone agree.

And of course C can't help but play along no matter how stupid it is.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

And you have no intention with agreeing with her, of course.

[rollplayinghouse]

I indulged her a little before, but this is where that got us, so... She's clearly not interested in returning the consideration.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

...

Who is close to her on your unit?

[rollplayinghouse]

...Man Eater, probably...

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

They are the only two of the original five.

[rollplayinghouse]

Mm. He gave a live celebrating her when she came back and everything.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

. . .

How is he handling this whole situation?

[rollplayinghouse]

...He's not having a great time. It's the fact that they did it in the middle of the game while we were all getting our limbs torn off that's the biggest thing for him, I think. They weren't even thinking about how it could affect the rest of us. Well, that's a big thing for me too, but it put a lot of stuff on him especially.

He's also pretty pissed off at Amaranth, for the same reasons I am. Right after they were revenge-killed she decided to casually suggest to Requiem that when they came back ZRAEL should lock them out of the dorms until they turned gray and Damned forever.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Mulls over that first part a bit. Hmmmmm. Storing those thoughts away for later]

Ah. So she's that kind of person.

Can't say I'm overly surprised.

[rollplayinghouse]

I guess I'm not overly surprised either, but I didn't think she was that aggressively self-righteous.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

She had a paladin vibe.

Maybe my lawful good sensor is getting rusty over time.

[rollplayinghouse]

... Do you run into a lot of those kinds of people?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Self-righteous? Yes.

Don't you?

[rollplayinghouse]

Self-righteous, yeah. Most of the people here are pretty invested in convincing themselves they're doing the right thing. But I don't know if I'd say "lawful good," whatever that means. And most of them don't feel so justified they go out of their way to tell someone to erase their unitmate from existence.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Yes.

Well most people also have a filter between their brain and their mouth.

[rollplayinghouse]

I'm guessing you're also not her hugest fan...?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Mixed bag.

She's very dedicated. Driven. Even a little pushy which I don't mind.

But she was also fairly open about not agreeing with my vision on how to run things around here even as she was trying to form something mutually beneficial. A smarter person wouldn't have said anything.

[rollplayinghouse]

...To be fair, I'm also basically like that. Which she mentioned.

I don't think I act all righteous about it in the same way, though.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

So you're saying minus the righteousness - you'd probably get along just fine.

[rollplayinghouse]

That's a pretty big minus.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

I wasn't implying that it was minor.

[rollplayinghouse]

Mm. Well, it's probably true in general that the people I have the most conflict with are the type of people I'd get along with best in different circumstances. It's like that for you too, isn't it?