[ would. julius like to hold one of her hands? she can help him with his hand problem and make it an entire arm problem, if he wishes? ...or even if he doesn't wish it. because that's what she'll do. ]
One of those solutions was to kill a monster, so, I'm giving you a monster.
[ You know what Naru, just fuck him up. No more pocket stump for him because huh! She's sure grabbed hold of him, and even as he tries to jerk and pull away, wide eyed—
(A monster, a monster, is that all they need to do? Just one monster, just the one? That's so easy, then,) ]
What were the others? And ... you never answered my question.
[ Though he can guess, they can guess, they can all guess, he wants to hear it— ]
What was the original source of the infection? What was the root of it?
[ well, if she's allowed to take his whole arm, then she's going to take his whole arm as a delightful snack. he's a monster, she's a monster... they're the same. all of the things that they've done they've wanted to do for someone else but in the end, where did it leave them, hmm? either way, her voice will be sweet and gentle even as she devours his arm. ]
Me. I'm the original source of the infection... However, if you want to make the cure you need to find the other one.
[ It's fine, if she's going to chomp his arm that means the rest of him is free to scramble away through the blinding pain of his nerves on that side being alight. But he's free that's the important part!!! Also the pain is very good for mental clarity!!! Ignore the bitten-off scream he's going to swallow down!
He's used to combat though but this??? hello??? none of them are even armed, where's a way back out]
[ is she allowed to take more because she definitely want to take more if she can. she won't though, since she's getting quite a delightful snack from all of the parts that she's been taking out of each of them.
plus a whole child! ]
No, not of me. There has only ever been one of me.
I mean one you—not here but back where everyone else is. One of you is a source. Remember? I gave you everything you needed to find and create the cure.
... all right. All right then— you say you've given us everything—
[ And if she has them surely she can feel the bite of bitter gratitude, because at least that means there's a way out of this— ]
Then give us this too. What you've told us won't mean anything if you devour us here, so: Magi, give us back the ability to leave this place on our own power, so that we can actually bring this information back to the others!
[ Wording and intent important here because he would rather them leaving be of their own volition, the image of pocketwatches, clockwork mechanisms, and familiar rifts vivid in his mind, rather than her spitting them out only after she's had her fill, and for them to get back just in time to not be able to relay anything of import. ]
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[ julius makes a good point and she will easily agree with him. though the wording of his ask of her is extremely specific compared to the others she heard. if she still had facial features that were recognizable then she would use them. for now, there's only the delight in her voice. ]
Oh? On your own?
Would want a door, a portal, or something that you can step through?
Something that won't incur further price like the ones we passed through earlier.
[ He says, through a ragged breath because I, Mauyn, can only stretch talking is a free action so far. He's also being specific because look, sometimes Contracts are what fucked your family over, and also sometimes you work for a megacorp and are inundated in business talk and clauses and subclauses, and sometimes you were raised as (REDACTED) so this kind of minutiae is— ]
One of your doors, the rifts and portals of the Chromatus I'm familiar with, a gateway we can pass through— any of them, as long as it lets us go back on our own power, and remain able enough to convey what we've learned.
[ again if they all just collectively pass out for a week as soon as they step through the hypothetical portaldoor that's no good— ]
And if you require a toll still, somehow, then take it out of me.
[ simple as that, but more importantly, she does want to drive this in because she's starting to wonder if this is not something that she should be asking for. if this is also a desire of people. or is it more that people are simply not listening to her. ]
There is no price for the wishes that I grant, please remember.
I think it's just hard for us to believe that, sometimes.
[ After all, despite herself, despite them ... there's been flashes of something almost like a will or personality there, hasn't there?
Or maybe that's just more of them imposing certain traits they want to see of whoever's responsible on a machine. They want something easy to blame, when it's really just ... Input data, receive output.
Corrupt the kernel, the base level coding, and... ]
Thank you, though. We'll ... try to remember that. And also ... We'll see you again, probably, before this is all over.
[ She's still needed to create the cure, after all, but something in the way that she responds to all of them...
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One of those solutions was to kill a monster, so, I'm giving you a monster.
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(A monster, a monster, is that all they need to do? Just one monster, just the one? That's so easy, then,) ]
What were the others? And ... you never answered my question.
[ Though he can guess, they can guess, they can all guess, he wants to hear it— ]
What was the original source of the infection? What was the root of it?
[ What wish would have led to all this? ]
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Me. I'm the original source of the infection... However, if you want to make the cure you need to find the other one.
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[BINCH!!!!]
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He's used to combat though but this??? hello??? none of them are even armed, where's a way back out ]
The other— there's a second one of you?!
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plus a whole child! ]
No, not of me. There has only ever been one of me.
I mean one you—not here but back where everyone else is. One of you is a source. Remember? I gave you everything you needed to find and create the cure.
1/2
(that strange dream, again...?) ]
2/2
[ And if she has them surely she can feel the bite of bitter gratitude, because at least that means there's a way out of this— ]
Then give us this too. What you've told us won't mean anything if you devour us here, so: Magi, give us back the ability to leave this place on our own power, so that we can actually bring this information back to the others!
[ Wording and intent important here because he would rather them leaving be of their own volition, the image of pocketwatches, clockwork mechanisms, and familiar rifts vivid in his mind, rather than her spitting them out only after she's had her fill, and for them to get back just in time to not be able to relay anything of import. ]
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Oh? On your own?
Would want a door, a portal, or something that you can step through?
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[ He says, through a ragged breath because I, Mauyn, can only stretch talking is a free action so far. He's also being specific because look, sometimes Contracts are what fucked your family over, and also sometimes you work for a megacorp and are inundated in business talk and clauses and subclauses, and sometimes you were raised as (REDACTED) so this kind of minutiae is— ]
One of your doors, the rifts and portals of the Chromatus I'm familiar with, a gateway we can pass through— any of them, as long as it lets us go back on our own power, and remain able enough to convey what we've learned.
[ again if they all just collectively pass out for a week as soon as they step through the hypothetical portaldoor that's no good— ]
And if you require a toll still, somehow, then take it out of me.
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[ simple as that, but more importantly, she does want to drive this in because she's starting to wonder if this is not something that she should be asking for. if this is also a desire of people. or is it more that people are simply not listening to her. ]
There is no price for the wishes that I grant, please remember.
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[ After all, despite herself, despite them ... there's been flashes of something almost like a will or personality there, hasn't there?
Or maybe that's just more of them imposing certain traits they want to see of whoever's responsible on a machine. They want something easy to blame, when it's really just ... Input data, receive output.
Corrupt the kernel, the base level coding, and... ]
Thank you, though. We'll ... try to remember that. And also ... We'll see you again, probably, before this is all over.
[ She's still needed to create the cure, after all, but something in the way that she responds to all of them...
Well, it's neither here nor there. ]