[IC] Myriad Reality

[Magnanimity]

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Sort of like a secret police, then?

@Server

Definitely not quite that far. But idolization has effects, both on the end of society and the individual ego.

[Server]

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Definitely not quite that far. But idolization has effects, both on the end of society and the individual ego.

@Magnanimity

You seem pretty down to earth, I think. I would normally think someone like that would be full of themselves.

[Session]

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Over the course of many universal cycles, some peoples rise up under repetitious circumstances and inevitably grow with corruption within. Sometimes obvious, sometimes underlying, but always harmful to the world at large when they inevitably expand. Once a civilization like this reaches the point of “breaching the multiverse”, as we can call it, I make a call. For the overall benefit to many less advanced, knowledgable or otherwise privileged worlds out there in grander Existence.

@Nemeses

Okay, well, did it play out like this before? They don't have their magic water anymore to live forever, so now they have to completely redo their way of life. That could change everything.

[Magnanimity]

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You seem pretty down to earth, I think. I would normally think someone like that would be full of themselves.

@Server

*Chuckles*
Perhaps because I ended up jaded to the whole idea? I feel terrible though, to be in my position purely because of what I am gifted with rather than having any sort of desire. But trust me, our family has far more than its fair share of hubris spread about.

[Server]

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*Chuckles*
Perhaps because I ended up jaded to the whole idea? I feel terrible though, to be in my position purely because of what I am gifted with rather than having any sort of desire. But trust me, our family has far more than its fair share of hubris spread about.

@Magnanimity

What is it that you want to do with your life?

[Nemeses]

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Okay, well, did it play out like this before? They don't have their magic water anymore to live forever, so now they have to completely redo their way of life. That could change everything.

@Session

The lack of the Life Element isn’t enough to change their ways.
*Pulls out an electronic device and tabs through it for a moment*
Let’s see… 337 years ago. That marks the date these people completed a classist genocide by excluding folks from using their elixir until they all aged and turned to dust. Only the wealthy, intelligent, or physically attractive were permitted to live and persist into the utopia they envisioned.
*Looks up at you while sliding the device back into my pocket*
The same people, and the same leadership that made that decision still live on this world now. The same populace that happily obliged. That sound like a society worth making an impression on other civilizations?

[Magnanimity]

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What is it that you want to do with your life?

@Server

I never have really thought about life strictly from the perspective of what I want. It’s an idea I abandoned a long time ago.

[Session]

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The lack of the Life Element isn’t enough to change their ways.
*Pulls out an electronic device and tabs through it for a moment*
Let’s see… 337 years ago. That marks the date these people completed a classist genocide by excluding folks from using their elixir until they all aged and turned to dust. Only the wealthy, intelligent, or physically attractive were permitted to live and persist into the utopia they envisioned.
*Looks up at you while sliding the device back into my pocket*
The same people, and the same leadership that made that decision still live on this world now. The same populace that happily obliged. That sound like a society worth making an impression on other civilizations?

@Nemeses

Look, I wasn't summoned to this planet to make judgement calls about their character. They brought me here to treat sick people, and I made a promise that I'd find a cure. I think you've probably taught them their lesson at this point, and they'll learn to appreciate what it means to be alive. But killing them would be throwing away any chance they have of learning anything.

[Server]

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I never have really thought about life strictly from the perspective of what I want. It’s an idea I abandoned a long time ago.

@Magnanimity

Giving up on hope, I'm guessing?

[Nemeses]

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Look, I wasn't summoned to this planet to make judgement calls about their character. They brought me here to treat sick people, and I made a promise that I'd find a cure. I think you've probably taught them their lesson at this point, and they'll learn to appreciate what it means to be alive. But killing them would be throwing away any chance they have of learning anything.

@Session

This isn’t the first time I’ve been through this, even here. A Phoenix World like this inevitably resets and rises again in a cycle. These people will be back. What looks like death now is impermanent, truly.

[Session]

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This isn’t the first time I’ve been through this, even here. A Phoenix World like this inevitably resets and rises again in a cycle. These people will be back. What looks like death now is impermanent, truly.

@Nemeses

Same as their life stuff? It seems to me that the source of the problem is that.

[Magnanimity]

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Giving up on hope, I'm guessing?

@Server

Moreso that there are always more important things to worry about, you know? Responsibility supersedes desire.

[Nemeses]

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Same as their life stuff? It seems to me that the source of the problem is that.

@Session

The Life Element? Perhaps its presence influences their nature to some degree, but in the end, that lies outside of where I interfere.

[Session]

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The Life Element? Perhaps its presence influences their nature to some degree, but in the end, that lies outside of where I interfere.

@Nemeses

But if you just remove that from the equation, then the problem solves itself, right? Plus, I don't understand everything you said, but it sounded like you were resetting this world. If you reset them now, we'll be standing right back here faster than if you let it play out.

[Server]

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Moreso that there are always more important things to worry about, you know? Responsibility supersedes desire.

@Magnanimity

Who relies on you? If you're responsible, then someone has to be depending on you doing this, right?

[Nemeses]

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But if you just remove that from the equation, then the problem solves itself, right? Plus, I don't understand everything you said, but it sounded like you were resetting this world. If you reset them now, we'll be standing right back here faster than if you let it play out.

@Session

Perhaps. But there are boundaries to what I do. I have never, and will never interfere with a world in its development up through the point when it has its first breach event, and I will never partially quell a problem and then guide their development as some god. Every society ought to develop in its own right, and it’s that philosophy that outlines both the line I draw for myself, and for these worlds.

[Magnanimity]

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Who relies on you? If you're responsible, then someone has to be depending on you doing this, right?

@Server

My family and the people of the IA, of course. It never has to be specifically me, I suppose, but if I’m best fit for a role people depend on, who am I to decline?

[Server]

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My family and the people of the IA, of course. It never has to be specifically me, I suppose, but if I’m best fit for a role people depend on, who am I to decline?

@Magnanimity

That's one way to look at it. But you could also let someone else get the opportunity to step in if you feel like it's not what you want.

[Session]

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Perhaps. But there are boundaries to what I do. I have never, and will never interfere with a world in its development up through the point when it has its first breach event, and I will never partially quell a problem and then guide their development as some god. Every society ought to develop in its own right, and it’s that philosophy that outlines both the line I draw for myself, and for these worlds.

@Nemeses

So what I'm trying to piece together now is, what do you get out of striking them down now?

[Magnanimity]

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That's one way to look at it. But you could also let someone else get the opportunity to step in if you feel like it's not what you want.

@Server

Perhaps. But I exist in a space where I have truly unique capabilities to offer the family. In my absence, nothing could work the same.