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[emet_sulk]

For a bunch of rebels and rabble-rousers none of you seem the least bit concerned that the city has not only changed but restored itself.

A week and not even a single comment. Fascinating.

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[opheliac]

awwwwwww why so glum, chum?? 🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪

[emet_sulk]

I'm not being glum. I simply find the quiet acceptance odd.

Mayhap there is some merit to the claims that the Chosen here are complacent.

[opheliac]

or maybe we like the new digs. this definitely beats the old aldrag any day!

[emet_sulk]

Ah, of course, you are from a more technological society than a magical one, aren't you?

Does this mean you won't be blowing it up again?

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[beshackled]

'Tis less the repairing itself and altering its shape that I am concerned about and more the capability it has for overwriting incorporeal aether and creating false memories... I had my suspicions before, but... 'tis confirmed now.

[emet_sulk]

Oh? You suspected even before this happened?

[beshackled]

Aye. The recordings we bore witness to looked to be of the same desert region we brought the survivors of our expedition from... yet those people did not appear to have any recollection of that which we beheld.

'Tis like a theater performance. We are set upon a purposefully crafted stage, and given parts to play.

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[solitarysoul]

none of its real anyway, it changing just helps prove that.

[emet_sulk]

You don't seem terribly distraught by the thought.

[solitarysoul]

i don't like it, but its not like being angry about it will change anything.

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[rebellions]

first time?

[emet_sulk]

Hardly. I could remake a city with a snap of my fingers.

I simply find it curious that few others seem bothered by the sweeping changes. Even the maze several moons ago did not result in such an abrupt shift.

[rebellions]

pretty sure the whole "memory manipulation" thing is more disturbing than the redecoration

[ Just a second after that message shows up, it's followed by another one. ]

ugh how do you send this?

[ ... Only to be joined by the next one a moment later... ]

ignore that it wasn't for you

[ Technology is hard, okay. ]

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[melnik]

[ To be fair, he doesn't know why anyone else hasn't publicly said very much, but as for himself — ]

Unless it's going to help us figure something out, I see no point in advertising our concerns like this.

[emet_sulk]

Well, that's precisely my point. You mortals usually stir yourselves into a frenzy over this sort of thing and start making plans. I'm almost starting to respect the one who bombed the Council building - at least THEY attempted something.

[melnik]

Mortals? OK, bigshot, why don't you throw your hat into the ring then if you're so disappointed?

I get the sense that most of us are still reeling from having our brains scrambled, but you seem to have it together, so go ahead. No one is stopping you, and if it's more thoughtful than the bombing, you may even get some cooperation.

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[laserguy]

maybe some of us don't feel like stating the obvious

[emet_sulk]

Content to continue about your day then? And you were all so eager to pool your knowledge before the city changed. Or was that moment of cooperation just for show?

[laserguy]

jesus you're obnoxious.

sure yeah, i'll be the irresponsible asshole that's totally content living my life in a city that can change at any moment.

what is reality anyway, right??

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[heir_conditioned]

After all we've seen happen, or been through, including inter-universe kidnapping, is it so out of the possibility?

[emet_sulk]

I expect that from my own world. But most men can't even conceive of a world beyond their hometown.

[heir_conditioned]

[Uh oh. World learning? He loves world learning.]

Does your world often have things happen like we just went through?

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[entreats]

Please don't say stuff like that. You're going to jinx it.

If the alternative is people doing the wildest stuff that just gets us all into more trouble than it's worth for no good reason, then I'm actually pretty glad with people being quiet for once in their lives.

[emet_sulk]

I don't control other's actions, my dear girl. Who am I to tell them not to cause more destruction?

If none of this is real anyway then what's the harm in it?

[entreats]

Look, even if you might be okay with dying just because this 'isn't real', I'm not.

Not yet, anyway. I have stuff to finish first back home. The only kind of ruckus I'm okay with is the kind that gets us back to our own worlds.