Etcetera

Myriad Reality

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What runs the Systems? Surely there's a source for them.

@souleaterfan320

Systems are baked into how Existence operates. The Balkan System is run by every entity that owns a territory. Each one has System control over whichever territories they own.

Myriad Reality

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One thats actually achievable without being a pipedream.

@souleaterfan320

You'd have to build a System on top of the current one, which can't realistically be done without stakeholders in the current system. More or less, to force a stacked System change on the Balkan System, you have to win the Balkan System anyway.

Myriad Reality

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Is there a way to write in a new kind of System? Surely there must be.

@souleaterfan320

There is. With the current System, you have to acquire a controlling share of all territories.

Myriad Reality

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Alright. What exactly woudl happen if I broke the system again. Would e istence be engulfed in Outside?

@souleaterfan320

A hopeless soup of Existence. No dimensions, no real limitations. System control floats between entities like bubbles and laws of reality break down.

Myriad Reality

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... I'll do whatever it takes to save existence. If I have to forfeit myl ife to do so, then so be it. I don't care the cost.

@souleaterfan320

Think practically, Shinji. Romanticizing it won't get us anywhere other than death.

Myriad Reality

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Breaking the system surely isnt worse that the possible extinction of all existence, unless the two are synonymous.

@souleaterfan320

It's pretty close. It would mean drowning in a sea of chaos.

Myriad Reality

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...I want to try to deconstruct amaranthine, and reconstruct it into a way that we can infuse it into my sword.

As for that second thing... I'll do it for you. That or... we can find a way to break the system. Again. There's always a way to suceed if you look hard enough.

@souleaterfan320

Breaking the System isn't an option. That's almost a worst-case scenario.

Myriad Reality

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I'm asking you to help me make a weapon that can help defeat the Amaranthine, or buy us enough time to figure out how to seal them permanently. That's all I'm giving you. Like I said before, You dont have to fight. I gave up on that. I just want you to contribute something. anything.

@souleaterfan320

What do you want me to add to your weapons? Because here's the thing, this System is an unwinnable war. It's mathematically just not going to happen. I'm not going out and killing countless beings to delude myself into thinking that I can somehow take over the System and restore what was there before.

Myriad Reality

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you're going to die anyways, you idiot! I too have lost. I too have suffered. I don't get to make excuses. I don't get to give up. People depend on us. When my children died, I had nothing else to lose. The thing i had fought so damn hard for was ripped from me from the very woman who I had loved. I have felt betrayal on all fronts. But I can't throw the towel in. I don't get the option. Are you going to let your failures stop you? Or are you going to rise up from the ahses a better man than you were before?

@souleaterfan320

What kind of argument is that? Stop using hero rhetoric on me. Either you have a way and a reason for me to contribute something, or you're using me as cannon fodder.
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So what is it, Shinji? What exactly are you asking me to do?

Myriad Reality

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They put Painting Dye in critical condition, david. Plus, you've done things way above your paygrade before for nothing promised in return. I dont have anything I could offer you in return. I refuse to participate in the collection of terriotories beyond those involved with the EDB, so I have none of those to give you, and whatever materialistic needs you have you can fill on your own, you dont need my assistance for that. What could I possibly give you that'd be worth a damn, David?

@souleaterfan320

My life's work was destroyed! And now you're trying to figure out how to bribe me like some kind of politician. I don't want it to be worth my while Shinji, I want to know what I could possibly do to help any of you. I'm not going to go die so you can say you gave it your all.