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thebastion2015-02-23 10:30 pm
bastionpc) wrote in thebastion2015-02-23 10:30 pm
Day 283 [OPEN]
Who: Nathaniel, Zulf, and OPEN
Open: Open
When: Day 283
Where: by the monument
What: EXPOSITION PLOT STUFF
Format: action
Warnings: Zulf
[After a couple days have passed, and everyone is getting better from both the sudden madness waves and the lovely grenade Colin had thrown, Nathaniel will go ahead and call a meeting.
He is also trying to ignore the fact that he looked less than stellar not too long ago. Let him have his pride okok]
So uh. I was going to wait until we found another core, so that I could double-check the numbers, but after the shittastic last few days- [No pun intended.] -I think everyone could use a bit of good news.
The Bastion is almost completely repaired. By my count, we only need about four more cores before it is fully functional again.
[NOTE: We're doing this in one long comment chain, just join in to the comments we have going already.]
Open: Open
When: Day 283
Where: by the monument
What: EXPOSITION PLOT STUFF
Format: action
Warnings: Zulf
[After a couple days have passed, and everyone is getting better from both the sudden madness waves and the lovely grenade Colin had thrown, Nathaniel will go ahead and call a meeting.
He is also trying to ignore the fact that he looked less than stellar not too long ago. Let him have his pride okok]
So uh. I was going to wait until we found another core, so that I could double-check the numbers, but after the shittastic last few days- [No pun intended.] -I think everyone could use a bit of good news.
The Bastion is almost completely repaired. By my count, we only need about four more cores before it is fully functional again.
[NOTE: We're doing this in one long comment chain, just join in to the comments we have going already.]
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I'll answer that one.
[His voice wasn't shaky at all now. It was crisp and clear and easily heard among the crowd; you had to speak clear on the Wall after all, sometimes your words were the only thing between someone and injury, so every syllable counted.]
Things ain't never been too good 'tween Caelondia and t'Ura, so much so that a war started out 'tween the two. Caelondia won, but I guess we were all too jumpy 'bout things we didn't understand...'bout people we didn't understand, so t'Mancers whipped up that weapon; easier t'jus' get rid o'th'boogeymen outside our walls than worry 'bout diplomacy I s'pose. I weren't 'round fer t'sabotage attempts...but I can guess people messin' round with their plans got t'Mancers' trigger fingers that much itchier. Didn't even need a reason I s'pose...weren't a good reason in the first place either, but weren't nothin' no one coulda done.
That said though, ifin' ya'll got any more griefs 'bout all this, y'take it up wit me. If yer gonna hold anyone responsible fer this mess, hold it t'the one who chose t'restoration option in t'first place.
[His face was grim, about as grim and gaunt and responsible as an 18 year old kid could muster, but he wasn't about to back down from this. He knew what he'd done, he might not have known with what Rucks told him that this could even happen, but that didn't by any means mean that he hadn't pushed the button. This was his part of the burden to bear after all.]
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The only one who needs to hold you responsible is yourself. So long as you're willin' to do that then no one should have any beef with you, especially 'cause you were only doin' what you thought was right.
[She glanced to where Colin had wandered off to, towards the hospital a second after that and then back to the group.]
It sucks... it does, I ain't gonna deny that. But there's also shit all we can do 'bout it except learn from the mistakes and hope we don't make an even worse one once this is all over.
[She's not happy about it, nor about the reasons behind it, but like hell she was going to let Kid get tossed around for admitting the truth.]
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[... and to punctuate her point, she pulls out a piece of chocolate chip jerky and noms on it]
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So...if I'm hearin' y'all right, if we do this restore thing, well all go back but with our memories intact? And we'll get another shot at preventin' all of this?
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[Zulf's tone is outright high and strangled now, and his hands are curling into fists.]
And I can't go through all of that again. [He just can't.]
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[He can't let them all down. He just can't.]
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We can't. Th-th-that's what that means, doesn't it? It means that -- that we can't fix it. Um. If we go back, we can't fix things. Zulf might, but um... if they tried once...
It won't work.
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[Rin isn't smart. She's the first to admit this, in spades no less. But she can figure out one thing from this discussion so far.]
Look, if we could all go back and warn them not to push the damn button, sure, I could see that maybe workin'. But if we reset, what happens? The rest of us are gonna go back to our worlds, right? Even if we remember this shit, I don't think any of us are gonna have any way to even get to Caelondia, let alone warn them!
... 'cept maybe Colin. And I doubt even wants to entertain the idea right now.
[She waves a hand then, looping it around in a circle.]
We'd keep goin' through the same thing, over and over again, probably worse each damn time. Yeah, I'd wanna save my friends, too, but not at the cost of repeatin' this hell.
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I mean, no way, there's no way we should go and push the button unless we know like over nine thousand percent for sure like... completely for sure that the calamity can be stopped the next time!
[she hesitated a bit, glancing at Rin. Ibuki really didn't want to get sent back to her world, and Rin was one of the few people that would know why. She'd told Rin some of that story just yesterday, after all. She liked the people she'd met on the island, true, but still...]
Besides, I...
[... might die if she gets sent back. If she ends up on that island again... and she wouldn't see anybody here at the Bastion ever again, even if she did somehow survive.]
[... but, was it really okay to put herself before the lives of... billions? Even more than that, even? At that thought, she just fell silent.]
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[He falls silent. He knows they're right, but... he misses the others so much that it hurts. The idea of never seeing them again is... unthinkable, really. He looks away, glad he's not in human form right now, or he'd probably be crying.]