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[brightlining]

...I suppose you think you're clever.

If this is what you choose to do with your spare time, I hardly see a reason to stop you; it's a pointless but harmless path for you to follow. So be it. But any sort of long-term placement is a fool's errand. You have enough to do already, concerning these games you like to play; you know what happens when you stretch yourself too thin.

For the time being, however, I'll thank you for thinking of me, and tell you to keep your head up; even if I don't have much faith in you - and for now, I don't - we've only just met. If you don't justify that lack of faith, it will fade over time.

[...Yes, Garth, the mun will indeed try to check herself before she wrecks herself. Hello to you, too.]

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[thetyrant]

[Logan feels like his mun could learn something from Garth's mun. Logan's mun regrets nothing and reminds Logan that he's hilariously easy to torture.]

Thinking they're clever is what they do best. Fascinating how wrong they usually are, but I hope yours is worthy of your faith.

[brightlining]

[...He really can't say that he's surprised; that tends to be the general consensus most of these muns have come to. We torture the ones we love and all.]

Given her past choices, I find it doubtful that she will be. But for the time being I'm trying not to judge her; perhaps eventually she'll prove herself worthy of respect, if not faith - one can exist well without the other.

[thetyrant]

I suppose one can respect a wild dog while knowing not to trust it, yes. They often prove themselves such.

[brightlining]

While I can acknowledge your point, I wouldn't stoop to comparing the one in control of my fate to an animal. Refer to yours how you will; I just don't see how that's supposed to be in your best interest.

[thetyrant]

[Ha, touche, but:] She'll do what she will regardless of what I say of it. I can neither help nor harm my own position. [He can't decide whether that's comforting or terrifying.]

[brightlining]

[Well, that's something of a point, though likely not in the way you intended it, Logan.]

It seems to be an unwinnable situation, as far as you're concerned. The more you cooperate and go quietly, the more likely she will be to put you in a situation that isn't necessarily to your liking; the more you balk, the more amused she'll be at doing the same.

I don't know if it's that you can neither help nor harm your own position, so much as it is that no matter what you do, you're going to harm it.

[...today's daily dose of optimism, everyone.]

[thetyrant]

[Logan's lips quirk, his expression settling to something halfway between sardonic and resigned.] Perhaps there is comfort to be found in knowing what will happen no matter what.

[brightlining]

Take comfort in the knowledge that your trials will not be infinite; they're only infinite if you allow them to be. And once one passes, there's further comfort to be found in the experience you've gained from them.

I wouldn't consider your situation hopeless. Just unpleasant. And unpleasant situations can be overcome with time.

[...his voice hasn't exactly softened very much, but at the very least it's far less pointed. That has to count for something.]

[thetyrant]

[Something clicks wrong, and Logan forgets which situation they're talking about. There goes the hand, his left hand clenching and flexing slowly as he feels his heart speed up. He can practically hear the Crawler's voice.]

If only that were true.

[immorally]

Oh.

[And for a good long moment (read: about two seconds) that's all that he says.]

Of all people, why would anyone choose to invite such an insufferable bore into their head?

[NOT THAT HE'S BUTTFURIOUS OR ANYTHING]

[brightlining]

[..."Oh" just about sums up the entirety of this encounter, and it hasn't even begun yet.]

I would suggest that I'm here because some of them seem to have some sort of common sense; however, I fear the implications may end up going over your head.

[immorally]

Well aren't you a witty one? And here I was thinking this little encounter would bore me to tears.

[He couldn't be any more sarcastic if he tried. ...Which he's doing, but that's not the point.]

"Common sense" isn't what I'd use to describe one picking up you, my dear.

[brightlining]

[Thank you for so adeptly proving his point up there, Reaver. He needed that today. Shall he put it in words you'll understand this time?]

I won't fault you for that, if only because "common sense" seems to be something you're unfamiliar with. Though perhaps you'll surprise me one day.

At any rate, I'm not here for your entertainment in particular.

[immorally]

[...his default response of "who needs common sense when you're as amazing as me?" probably isn't the best thing to say here, um...]

I'm well aware of that. Even Hammer is more amusing than you.

[So he just won't dignify that first part with a response!!!]

[brightlining]

[Sigh.]

Still annoyed over what happened in Samarkand, I'm assuming.

[immorally]

And what would ever give you an idea like that? You stagger me with your dazzling insight, my dear.

[brightlining]

Better obvious insights than incomprehensible agitation at things that were entirely one's own fault.

[...listen, he wasn't the one who just kind of jumped on a table, pulled out a gun and yelled out a really posh version of "COME AT ME, BRO" for absolutely no reason that anyone in the immediate vicinity can figure out. Because unlike you, he actually believes in talking out his issues. When he's aware that there are issues to be talked out. We won't discuss the work done on the Spire here.]

[atrueheroine]

Chances are you'll find that this is one of many moments that your faith in your 'mun' is tested. Mine seems to enjoy encouraging me to lose mine.

[[well maybe if you weren't so angry all the time, it wouldn't be so damn funny]]

But such is life in these 'headspaces', I suppose. Things could be worse.

[[....well maybe not much worse

....

things could be worse]]

[brightlining]

In my experience, the knowledge that things could be worse is often small consolation.

[That said, however, that was a bit of an interesting statement, regarding your mun.]

I take it that you've had a rough go of it, regarding your placement.

[atrueheroine]

It's not so much that the location bothers me - it's really quite a wondrous place, with plenty of things to explore - more the fact that she's placed me in there with two men that she's well aware I despise.

[[Can you sense that she's unimpressed? Because god, is she unimpressed.]]

Apparently she finds it 'interesting' to try and make us get along. If it wasn't obvious, I feel differently.

[brightlining]

...for what it's worth, I understand your annoyance. I've had what some might call an adventure with four people that I didn't despise, but I didn't have much reason to like, either. Two of them proved worthwhile, in the end. Is there no such chance of that with you?

[atrueheroine]

[[Let her pause for a moment, thinking.]]

It's more the fact that...I don't want to allow myself to get along with them, or see them in a positive light, because if we all return back to Albion I have a duty to ensure I put a stop to their actions, preferably permanently.

[[A sigh.]]

If you see your enemies as people rather than...beings composed of qualities and actions that you despise, it becomes harder to pull the trigger. I..can't let that happen to me. Not when they're involved.

...sorry. I didn't mean to unload on you like that, when I haven't even bothered to introduce myself. I'm Page.

[brightlining]

...Garth. And it's not as though we have much say in the matter, when it comes to unloading; it seems this place is designed for it. Don't worry about it for now; if you begin bothering me, I'll let you know.

[In no uncertain terms.]

I'm no stranger to ensuring that the actions of another are stopped in dire situations; at the same time, I would be more concerned for what it would say about myself if pulling that metaphorical trigger were to ever become truly easy. Are they really so far beyond saving?

[atrueheroine]

It's not my job to 'save' them; they're doing rather alright. I'm more interested in helping the people they've stepped on to get to where they are.

[...]

If you want an answer, however, I...don't really know. In all honesty, I don't know either of them very well, on a personal level, but I know far more about them than I did when I was introduced to that place. Certainly more than I did back home, anyway.

I've already had a moment there where I couldn't bring myself to fire on one of them, even though he probably would have shot me first, because that wasn't the reason I couldn't do it. Not the main one, anyway.

I can't risk letting down those who follow me back home by letting the uncertainty over the whole situation grow.

[brightlining]

Again, I understand necessity and the potential urgency of the situation; I'm not unfamiliar with dire situations. But again, if there's that much room for insecurity in your methods simply because you see them as human beings and not entities of pure evil, then perhaps it's your methods that ought to be rethought.