On considering going to imperial_saga

[ubermensching]

And once more it should appear you would like me to tread upon the stage presented, albeit a new one, and far more unfamiliar than the others. I find I must wonder occasionally at your sincerity on these endeavors, but you seem rather intent on this one, don't you?

Well then. It has been a while, hasn't it? Shall we step out once more, and see what might await in the new world?

Comments

[namedforcat]

It sounds like that place will keep you out of trouble if anything.

[ubermensching]

I quite disagree. There will perhaps be a need for a great deal of "trouble" before order can be restored.

Hello, Nigredo.

[namedforcat]

Wilhelm. If it's all the same to you I would prefer not to be called by that name. Are you and your mun going to adequately be able to re-spin your webs there?

[ubermensching]

As you so wish then, Gaignun Kukai.

Perhaps not as immediately strong as before, but I don't doubt it will be adequately reaffirmed in time. I would not let mankind fall into destruction back home. I will not let it fall into such here.

[namedforcat]

But I wonder, in such a universe as that, would your recurrence be necessary? [Hell yes meme land knowledge]

[ubermensching]

While the threat of dimensional collapse does not exist, a different corruption does.

As a last effort, a recurrence may, in fact, be acceptable in order to avoid the lower dimensions complete corruption by the Rift.

[namedforcat]

I would comment that that would seem to be swatting fly with a laser cannon, but 'the Rift' sounds rather ominous.

[temptestament]

*Possibly AU!Wilhelm, meet definitely AU!Allen. Who isn't wearing his mask because he doesn't have to and it's stupid looking.*

It sounds like it's going to be right up your alley, at least.

[animus_sorrow]

Do you think that they'll be ready for you, of all people, Wilhelm?

[ubermensching]

It's an area tainted with foul energy, giving birth to the undead and corrupting any living creature or organism that enters it.

I rather think it a problem that needs to be dealt with immediately.

[ubermensching]

As much as anything is so far apart from home, yes. I suppose it might be.

Hello, Allen.

[ubermensching]

Given time, yes.

I think they quite could be.

[animus_sorrow]

I'm sure that you're right. You've never been wrong, after all. Not in my experience at any rate.

[ubermensching]

...No, I haven't been.

If you should admit this, then why did you continue to oppose me? If you and Yeshua had but conceded to my plan, at least some of the steps I had been forced to take may have been averted.

[animus_sorrow]

...

[Of course it gets to that.]

Humans deserved a chance. No matter how small a chance it might have been, they deserved it.

[ubermensching]

They did. And so I gave it to them. And, eventually, they did not disappoint.

But it took time. To have ascended when you and Yeshua wished to do so, to have used Zarathustra to ascend to the Higher Dimensional Domain...it would not have worked. They were not ready then.

[namedforcat]

You sound like you have a plan.

[ubermensching]

A broad one, yes.

In truth, the way I operated back home would work here, as well. A few things would need to be modified, this is true, but the basic essence of it could remain the same.

The world, despite all its variations, is in earnest not too varied at all.

[animus_sorrow]

I couldn't have waited. Anima was so close to activating. I had to try.

[namedforcat]

You said immediately. I suppose immediately for you means something very different then everyone else.

[ubermensching]

It will be rather quick for me, yes. A year or two, perhaps, at the very most.

I am a fair man, Gaignun, and I will give humanity it's chance to combat the Rift without a recurrence. If, however, their endeavors should prove fruitless, I will step in and do what must be done.

[ubermensching]

Let us say they had ascended Mary. What then?

Mankind would still have been unprepared for what they'd see, uncertain, unknowing of what to do. Even if the ascent itself did not cause a collapse, the arrival would have.

Containing and stopping that initial activation was the only practical action.

[namedforcat]

I know Wilhelm. While I don't agree with your methods I know you mean the best. Somewhat. [Death has given him a different perspective]

[animus_sorrow]

Mankind can surprise us. Perhaps they may have bee unprepared but they're so adaptive. I don't know what would have happened, I can't have known.

I just... wanted to help.

[temptestament]

Wilhelm.

I take it you already know what you're going to do there?