text; un: onychinus

[nightplumes]

I want to know as much as anyone can tell me about these individuals who have managed to create so much trouble here. The Doctor, the Knight, and the like.

For the purposes of a personal project.

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un:happyaround

[roundandaround]

Hm... I know they're otherworlders too, or at least I think they all are. They came way before any of us did. Some might've even come way before, but I dunno any more than guessing at stuff we found.

[nightplumes]

What 'stuff' would that be?

[roundandaround]

Like how there were really old things in the Hell Dimension so the portal to there would've been open for ages, and someone betrayed the dragons maybe 70 years ago.

[nightplumes]

[Hmmm.

Doubtless he could discover such things himself, but a little local knowledge doesn't hurt either.]

Well arent you a clever one. It sounds like you have your ear to the ground about whats going on around here.

What else can you tell me?

[roundandaround]

[???]

Uh... I know they don't all work together all the time. Or maybe even like each other. When the riots happened back in May, it was just the Doctor's own followers trying to break him out of prison. The other guys, like the Knight and them, were doing their own thing with the sun and not even helping.

[nightplumes]

Thats not surprising.

[Waiting for a crack in another's armour so you can step in is a standard tactic.]

But it sounds like none of them have managed to make much ground on the others.

[roundandaround]

What do you mean by that?

[nightplumes]

When competing powers push against one another, a stalemate rarely stays in place for long.

[roundandaround]

So like... because they're not friends, eventually they'll be enemies if they manage to beat us? But I don't want it to get to that point. We gotta save the world.

[nightplumes]

'Friends' and 'enemies' aren't usually applicable terms to people in these kinds of power struggles.

[roundandaround]

I don't get it. I mean, we're already enemies.

[nightplumes]

Are you?

What do you think being someone's enemy means?

[roundandaround]

They wanna destroy the world, and we wanna stop them. They're always working against us and trying to hurt us. That's what it means.

[nightplumes]

Destroy the world? Now why would they want to do that?

[roundandaround]

I dunno. I wish I did know.

[nightplumes]

[Interesting.]

Have they made such a statement outright or is this simply a matter of public opinion?

[roundandaround]

It's just the stuff they've done so far, and how Herakles-san thinks they might've been the ones who wrecked his world too.

[nightplumes]

Interesting. And to what end does one utterly destroy a world? There's no reason to do it unless you're getting something out of it.

[roundandaround]

I wish I knew that too. Then maybe we'd be able to stop them better than we are.

[nightplumes]

Perhaps I can kick a hornet's nest or two and see what falls out. If I find the time.

[roundandaround]

I know some people have found important stuff on explorations in the Segments!

[nightplumes]

And how might an interested party gain access to information about those discoveries?

[roundandaround]

Jean-san posts about it a lot, and I think maybe there's stuff in the guilds? Since that's where we report everything.

[nightplumes]

Then I'll be sure to go and take a look.