voice || fourth (hokage's bday!) wall

[fervidity]

[Like everyone else, Kushina is confused by the crap ton of new arrivals and their lack of wings. Only she's going to question the whole network about it instead of keeping it to herself. Maybe someone will know the answer.

She's hanging out by the bakery when she makes her post, so maybe you'll overhear her if you're around.]

I have a question. Why don't any of the new arrivals in Luceti have wings this month? I thought you needed them to be here.

[Silence... for a while, until there's a plucking/ripping sound and immediately afterward a loud;]

OWWWW!!

['Ttebane. She drops the journal, turning it off.]

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[voice]

[paladinlost]

But the water is still water. The air feels the same, too, and if you hunt a rabbit in the forest and eat it the meat will be the same. And while this world might not have elemental crystals that I know of, from what I understand that's more the norm than an exception.

[voice]

[fervidity]

It's still not where we're supposed to be.

I mean, there's good things about it too, even I know that. [Being one who directly benefits from it.]

And I know there are some people who even have it better here than they do in their own world. But that's your world and you can't just abandon it.

[voice]

[paladinlost]

Of course not. If I could return to my world and finish what I've started, I'd do so in a heartbeat, no questions asked. But it's not as if I have a choice, at least as far any of us know. Thus I must try to take comfort in the similarities.

[voice]

[fervidity]

What did you start?

[voice]

[paladinlost]

Battling an ancient being that intended to drop its artificial moon on our planet. Or possibly use it to consume the planet; I was taken here before I could ask questions about its exact plan.

[voice]

[fervidity]

You don't need to know his exact plan, do you? The moon just needs to stay where it is.

[voice]

[paladinlost]

The problem is that we've no idea if merely defeating that being will suffice to stop the moon's decent. I was hoping to ask how it was controlled, to stop it manually if necessary.

[voice]

[fervidity]

Maybe it's better that way, just asking instead of forcing people to do things. Even if what they're doing isn't right.

[voice]

[paladinlost]

It's certainly much kinder. But I've never seen it work. Even allies that fight us against their wills usually need some sense knocked into them.

[voice]

[fervidity]

[Not that she's against knocking some sense into people. She's a regular of that school of thought]

Yeah, but a lot of people seem to think killing is the only way to stop someone.

[voice]

[paladinlost]

...It has the advantage of permanently stopping all but the most determined threats. Still, if I'd killed everyone who ever attacked me I'd have fewer friends and family members.

[voice]

[fervidity]

[Off screen, she's shaking her head.]

That's doesn't make it right.

[voice]

[paladinlost]

What if you've tried everything else? What if even the most powerful seals, cast by the greatest mages, cannot protect innocents from a being that will never consider sparing them?

[voice]

[fervidity]

If you can kill someone then you have the power to stop them in some other way. It's up to what we do with that power that matters.

[voice]

[paladinlost]

...You are assuming that the threat is someone. Archfiends and corpses possessed by hatred are not quite so simple to deal with.

[voice]

[fervidity]

Possessed corpse?

[That sounds like something out the horror stories she reads...]

[voice]

[paladinlost]

The being that could not be held back by even the greatest seals was technically dealt with before we reached him. That did not stop the incarnation of the world's hatred from using his body to try and destroy everything.

[voice]

[fervidity]

You couldn't seal the incarnation?

[voice]

[paladinlost]

The only man nearby who might have had the necessary knowledge was quickly defeated. After that, we were too busy keeping ourselves alive to research potential sealing spells.

[voice]

[fervidity]

I guess a tidal wave enchanted in a kunai wouldn't work either.

[voice]

[paladinlost]

That would have slowed it down for ten seconds or so, perhaps. It took more attacks than I could count to take it down, and it was still quite certain it would return someday.

[voice]

[fervidity]

For a manifestation of hatred, it's got an ego.

[voice]

[paladinlost]

Perhaps with good reason, considering it attacked again not long before I was brought here.

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[fervidity]

The good thing about this place is time is pretty much on hold where we come from. So when you go back, it'll be to where you left.

And you can kick that manifestation's ass.

[voice]

[paladinlost]

That was... possibly taken care of, as a matter of fact. The person who mentioned its return missed the end of the battle against it, but we'd not heard from it in the two or so weeks that followed.