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[sicklysweet]

what's the history between tenkohime and toraguma, anyways? or the enma and aaitengu.... our dear faction leaders seem to have a web of messy, tangled relationships, don't they?

ahat do you think happened? do you think tenkohime and toraguma were together but she left because he was... unsatisfactory? or is it something more or less mundane?

i'd be interested to hear what your thoughts are... it's not like we'll get any answers from them any time soon.

[Does he actually care about the truth? Absolutely not. He just thinks it would be funny.]

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[fibrillate]

Oh, interesting... I see, I see. I guess that would be what foxes are known for, after all.
Do you think that's somebody the people who report to Toraguma could use against him, if they wanted to?
I'm sure there have to be some Shutens who aren't exactly afraid of him, and who are maybe a little cleverer than their faction might say...

Ha, listen to me. I'm not trying to sow discord here or anything. I just think all of this is really interesting.
I've had to report to interesting people before, but I haven't seen so many different people all trying to work together. Not quite like this.

[sicklysweet]

i don’t know. probably, but will they be stupid enough to try to take him down on their own is a more important question.

i hope so. it’d be funny to watch.

it’d ruin this illusion of togetherness so neatly. people will only cooperate until they realize there’s no benefit to it, so it’s only a matter of time.

[fibrillate]

Ah, do you really think so? That's a little grim... you don't think there's a reason that people would be willing to work together towards something greater?
With all due respect, I don't know if I believe that.
I don't know if we've all figured out what that "something greater" is yet, but I think it's possible to find that for all of us here.

[sicklysweet]

if there is, it's not a reason i would know. not even the end of the world can get people to cooperate... and how do you think it goes, when you're trying to keep your world from being destroyed and not everyone wants to play nice?

[He says this like he himself is not part of the problem... but he's arguably more cooperative than, say, Mithra or Oz. Arguably not the worst, which doesn't say much.]

so unless there's something bigger than that out there, i think cooperation is something you shouldn't count on.

[fibrillate]

Mm. I suppose that part is inevitable.
I wish it could be... evited, but there will always be people working towards selfish destruction rather than saving as many others as possible.
As though a rising, boiling sea will somehow spare them while drowning the others.

I hope we aren't going towards an annihilation event HERE, though.
Or I would like to think we have enough people of sound mind to band together and prevent that, if we are.

[sicklysweet]

well, we’re already in hell. i doubt we have to worry about ceasing to exist in our entireties. as to what’s really going on, who knows?

but all it takes is one person who doesn’t want to play along to ruin it for everyone

[fibrillate]

Then let's hope we either stay long enough to avoid that one person who wants to cause chaos for everyone,
Or we all fulfill our contracts and return home before they're able to do anything too miserable.