[Text] @zobrien

[flying_fish]

[Zed isn't in the best of moods since another person he cared for disappeared, so he's taken to drink. Not that the alcohol has ever helped him, but it has him thinking about home...and some not so pleasant business back there.]

There's an item back home that operates like the Chinese gu. Except instead of venomous creatures, you insert humans. It is said that once the ritual is complete, it will lead to the destruction of the world.

The humans inside are forced to kill each other and mix together until becoming one being. The skin disappears while the skeleton, muscles, and organs fuse together. They're neither dead nor alive because of the magic that binds them.

Let's say the item broke, and a part of the conglomerate was separated from the whole. The humans that make up this "specimen" are children. Do you destroy it to prevent the ritual from being completed?

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[flying_fish]

[Klaus deserves all the fanboying.]

I'm sure you two would get along. However, he tends to rely on his [absurd] strength to bypass most situations.

How so?

[poetry_in_motion]

I try not to do that. I'd much rather plan ahead and only use physical force when necessary.

You're very level-headed and kind. From what you've said to me, your leader is much the same.

[flying_fish]

I'm sure he's the same, but there are many things in Hellsalem's Lot that can only be solved with brute force.

I have always been level-headed. As for kindness, I would attribute that more towards an increased social life. I did not interact with many people until I had joined my group not long ago. It would be my first friend, Leo, who has rubbed off on me.

Nevertheless, I am glad you see me in such a way.

[poetry_in_motion]

The more you tell me about your world, the more grateful I am to have come from one less dangerous.

[ He says, even though his Yokohama is essentially the definition of danger. ]

I feel that outside influence can bolster existing kindness, but it needs to be there in the first place.