Animus

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Gregorias sighed as he took a sip of his tea.

He had more or less settled yesterday’s commotion but not before Agneria and Isen’roy had blasted a third of the encampment away. A vein popped when he thought about it. The young ones had absolutely no control over themselves when compared to the warriors of his days.

He looked down at the 42 medallions that laid on the wooden table before him. There were a total of 9 designs in total which symbolized the total number of teams that would be formed. These medallions represented the authority provided to them by the coalition force and allowed them to freely pass in and out of the three kingdoms as well as the authority to request for whatever supplies or soldiers they would need.

Dawn had risen and it was time to assign the 42 into their teams. Time was a precious resource; every second they wasted there was the potential of their target escaping.

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Teams were individually called into Gregorias’ tent one at a time. The 5th team to be called forth consisted of Solanne Luxone, Hazel Daphiat, Amadeus Cross, Solomon Ambrosius and Harley Hapkins.

“These medallions indicate you are representatives of the coalition force. I hereby dub you… The Babettes.”

Gregorias personally handed the medallion to each of the warriors that stood before him.

“They’ve been enchanted by the talented craftsmen of my tribe. You only need mention the name of any ally and it will lead you to them as long as they possess a medallion of their own. You could use them to locate other teams as well.”

Turning away from them, Gregorias beckoned to the hooded figure that had been awaiting at a corner all this while. He was a guide that was to lead them to beast that were to slay.

“My name is Allush and I will do my best to aid you, brave heroes. I will brief you on the way. Time is of the essence.”

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As they horses galloped as top speeds, Allush began explaining to them about their destination as well as their target. They were heading towards the southern plains located close to the Water Kingdom. To be exact, their destination was the riverport, Laewaes. Or what remained of it. The monster they hunting was named Searzon. Searzon was a quadrupedal creature the size of a small house that vaguely resembled a two headed wolf except it was incredibly more grotesque.

"Although its relatively small compared to other beasts we discovered, it is incredibly fast and is capable of using hellfire magic. I would not underestimate if it if I were you."

@TheWindel@SwarthyBard126@Eleventhfret@Diggerton@Crimson Lion

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The next team to be called forth would later be named the Jaegers. Isen’roy, Jade, Reiner and Ashaad were summoned.

Given the same instructions as the previous teams were, they were immediately sent off after they were given their own medallions. Their guide was to be Abbas.

***

Unlike Babettes, they were heading directly in the opposite direction. Their destination was The Great Forest. An expansive jungle that obtained its name from the towering trees that dwelled within it. Abbas began describing the foe they were up against.

"I'm afraid we know next to nothing about Nabsezal. It is impossible to observe it at a distance due to the forest thicket and any scout we sent up close never returned."

Nabsezal was a powerful tree monster. Though it has yet to venture out the forest, The Earth Kingdom has deemed a threat to be eliminated considering the natures of the other monsters.

@QT@wolverbells@TheDarkTemplar

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There is a boundary bromance should never cross.

Inb4 I will not be bound by language norms.

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#1: Solanne, Solomon, Harley, Amadeus, Hazel (Confirmed as 1 team).

The second team will most likely consist of Isen'roy, Jade, Reiner, Ashaad and Aerandir's soon to made character.

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I'm currently writing an IC post that skips us forward towards the next day so we get to some action!

For those that feels as if this abruptly cuts off your conversation, remark what your character would've done in the next post you make. E.g. Reiner talks to Jade the next morning over the 5 gigantic women they rejected as potential teammates. That sort of stuff. I feel 43 posts in is plenty for what was meant as an introductory period.

Secondly, regarding touching of my characters... I'd like if people were to refrain from directly controlling them. Stuff like creating a past with Isen'roy/Solomon or like Reiner/Jade is fine and fun but when you assume full control, then thats not really roleplying with others anymore, is it?

Inb4, I'm not really angry because SwarthyBard more or less kept them in character but to avoid future complications, I'm going to hold and iron fist over this matter from now on. As mentioned in the rules, powerplaying will not be allowed. The only exception to this is if the other person has given you permission beforehand.

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watafak happened.

I will read now.

@TheDarkTemplar Very well done, Ashaad is accepted. Post him in the character bin.
@Aerandir I will be forwarding the IC into the next day but don't worry, I'll fit your character right into the teams. Just try to have it up asap.

Human experimentation.

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And what I'm saying is, take that person from a third world country, offer them food, lodging, and money, and treat the fatal diseases/ailments that can easily be treated, and heck, give them all the money you would've spent on experimentation, too, why not, for the sake of conversation. Then see what sort of difference they make in the world. These are not animals we're talking about -- their lives are every bit as important as the people you're trying to cure.

I know it's not intentional, but your premise is inhumane from the very first. "You let them take the experiment, they get the hope of living." In what way is that a reasonable bargaining position? Really sit back and think about it. That's monstrous.

@mdk

Your mentality is exactly what I'm talking about. You argue how these experiments would be a violation of their rights. "Who are we to conduct such experiments on them if we wouldn't to ourselves?"

Basically thats just self-gratification. Not everyone is equal. Some people are born in shittier standards and others are born with a silver spoon in their mouth. What might sound like a horrible offer to you is a wonderful off to them. Your logic is warped when you realize all the people against these experiments due to 'ethics' don't give two shits when the headlines are about how children are starving in Africa or in Timor-Leste.

I can give you a much brighter example of what you're advocating. I have a friend who hates to share leftovers. She absolutely refuses to let anyone touch her leftovers because she doesn't like the idea of it. She said it feels like she's giving people shit she wouldn't want. That she wouldn't want people to offer her leftovers either. Thats you right now, basically you're against the whole idea of risky human experiments because you would never want someone to do that risky experiment on you.

But that logic doesn't necessarily apply to me. See, I'm hungry and I have no issues with eating that half eaten slice of pizza. But she won't let me because she doesn't like the idea of someone eating her leftovers. Thats self-gratification.

You mentioned in your first post that "actually finds a cure for anything at all". First off, directly testing drugs on humans allow you to collect accurate and immediate data as opposed to animal testing or rambling about stuff in theory. The latter is horribly ineffective because you're essentially just hypothesizing the possible effects.

Secondly, "Your panacea is made out of the shattered lives of everyone who got the shitty Drug 1.0". How did you think medical breakthroughs occurred in the past...? Because physicians back then experimented on animals and had profound understanding of chemistry and the human biology and were able to write reports on why X or Y would be effective? For example, the heart lung machine of today. It was perfected through experimenting on humans. Those humans died. Do people who require cardiopulmonary bypasses today refuse the treatment because it was a technique perfected using the deaths of other humans? Do doctors feel guilty for using it?

The real monstrous and despicable thing here is that people don't want to get their hands dirty. Everyone turns a blind eye to the obvious solutions because it would hurt their conscience. Even though these things only hold benefits for the masses; even to the ones its commited on because thats how crappy their lives are. And noone cares how crappy their lives are.

If somehow you're able to refuse these points of mine, then I will accept that I'm wrong in thinking this way.

Human experimentation.

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For some. For others it will violate the single most important ethical law in medicine -- "First, do no harm."

Now it's important to note -- human trials do happen, on a volunteer basis. I was almost placed in one (ketamine brain drip to treat regional sympathetic dystrophy -- something I'm pretty sure I didn't even have, but they were perfectly eager to sign me up anyway). One in ten of the people who volunteered for that trial got some temporary relief; all of them got, you know, ketamine in their brains, and all the wonderful things that does.

So. From a first-hand almost human lab rat -- no thanks, I'm good. The rules exist for several important reasons. Human experimentation is a smart thing to regulate, and we regulate it almost hard enough. If you fling wide that door, and if you're lucky enough to be a statistical outlier which actually finds a cure for anything at all, your panacea is made out of the shattered lives of everyone who got the shitty Drug 1.0. My advice is to take that energy you would have used on Mad Science, and instead use it to mow someone's lawn or take out their trash, or carry their groceries inside. Start with caring before you jump right to "curing at any and all costs."

@mdk

Human trial's do happen. These trials are basically one of the last steps of drug/medical developments and as I've said, they're usually only conducted when the drugs has an extremely low probability of causing harm to its user.

Your point is bringing up that openly allowing human experimentation would bring ruin to all or most of the lives that its committed on. But I digress, I'm not telling you to snatch people off the streets or anything of the sort. Rather, experiment on people whose lives are otherwise shit anyway. Take someone from a third world country, offer them prospects of food, lodging, money and the chance to make a difference in the world. You'll see very little people rejecting it. These are the people who are dying from hunger and suffering from fatal diseases/ailments that can easily be treated. Take Kwashiorkor for example. You let them take the experiment, they get the hope of living. You don't? They die anyway.

As, I've said earlier, I don't mean for these experiments to be the inhumane over exaggerated stuff you see in films. Instead, I'm advocating reducing the stringent rules of human trials. Instead of a 0.01% risk threshold, change it to 90%.

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