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Isabella Mariel Swan Ψ "Aether" ([personal profile] subtly_artistic) wrote2013-06-01 01:46 pm

in which the bells have a lot to think about

Amariah recites the entire conversation she and Callahan had to the assembled Bells and Jokers that evening, after Aether has gotten back from the dining hall.
dark_light: (m ~ frowny)

[personal profile] dark_light 2013-06-05 11:19 pm (UTC)(link)
"If we touch this universe again later it will be because we can kill whatever stops it being plausible to kill big things," says Amariah.
autokinetic: (j ~ enh)

[personal profile] autokinetic 2013-06-05 11:20 pm (UTC)(link)
"Which of us grew up in military school, again," says Aegis absently.
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[personal profile] pythbox 2013-06-05 11:21 pm (UTC)(link)
"...Do you guys not come from worlds where legendary figures are hard to kill, isn't that the definition of a legendary figure, do you just not have any?"
lifes_sake: (staredown)

[personal profile] lifes_sake 2013-06-05 11:22 pm (UTC)(link)
"Hard to kill, yes," Cam says. "So hard to kill that causality stops working to cheat so you fail at killing them, no."
dark_light: (h ~ unimpressed)

[personal profile] dark_light 2013-06-05 11:23 pm (UTC)(link)
"Not even necessarily hard to kill," shrugs Amariah, "I almost killed Alethia's god by accident."
autokinetic: (c ~ c'mon)

[personal profile] autokinetic 2013-06-05 11:24 pm (UTC)(link)
"Peace barely has legendary figures and they go down as easy as anybody of the relevant skill level. My Sue beat the shit out of Mazer Rackham one time."
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[personal profile] pythbox 2013-06-05 11:25 pm (UTC)(link)
"Who's Mazer Rackham?" asks Celo, predictably.
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[personal profile] autokinetic 2013-06-05 11:26 pm (UTC)(link)
"Won the war before the one me an' Sue won. Figured out how the buggers worked, took out one ship, disabled their whole fleet like that," she snaps her fingers.
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[personal profile] pythbox 2013-06-05 11:39 pm (UTC)(link)
"Cool," says Celo. "...Sorry, did I distract us from talking about our helplessness in the face of the perverse cosmos?"
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[personal profile] dark_light 2013-06-05 11:41 pm (UTC)(link)
"The point is this is just a perverse little corner of the broader cosmos, and 'hubris' is relegated to fiction as a concept there," says Amariah. "Aether will be much happier. She should probably shadow one of us for a while to get used to the idea that Bells can do the things that Bells are wont to do, though."
lifes_sake: (restless)

[personal profile] lifes_sake 2013-06-05 11:41 pm (UTC)(link)
"...You're a field," Cam says to Celo abruptly. "A garden. Do you transplant?"
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[personal profile] pythbox 2013-06-05 11:43 pm (UTC)(link)
"Uh - no," he says.

And pauses.

And says, "Fuck."
autokinetic: (h ~ rapt)

[personal profile] autokinetic 2013-06-05 11:46 pm (UTC)(link)
"...Well, you can go away from it, though, right? You went to Milliways before. Do you need to be in your garden a certain amount or can you just go wherever as long as you have enough sex, because, I mean, there are ten and three daemons of you. Plus Nona apparently."
Edited 2013-06-05 23:47 (UTC)
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[personal profile] pythbox 2013-06-05 11:48 pm (UTC)(link)
"...Fucking at Milliways does help my field... so far," he says dubiously. "I don't know if it'll always work that way, I don't know if it'll work if I go through to another world, I don't know I won't just suddenly die if I stay extraplanar too long."
autokinetic: (o ~ pissed)

[personal profile] autokinetic 2013-06-05 11:49 pm (UTC)(link)
"This world is such bullshit," says Aegis.
dark_light: (h ~ unimpressed)

[personal profile] dark_light 2013-06-05 11:50 pm (UTC)(link)
"Maybe you can room at Milliways, and Aether can hold the door so you can go check your field occasionally..."
lifes_sake: (vexed)

[personal profile] lifes_sake 2013-06-05 11:51 pm (UTC)(link)
"I hate this fucking place."
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[personal profile] pythbox 2013-06-05 11:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Celo shrugs. "I'm willing to try visiting other worlds, anyway."
autokinetic: (k ~ unclear)

[personal profile] autokinetic 2013-06-05 11:53 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yeah, 'course you are, but - I dunno, you don't look torchable, maybe your field would if we looked at it, maybe the admin could make it work regardless? I dunno."
dark_light: (l ~ pensive)

[personal profile] dark_light 2013-06-05 11:55 pm (UTC)(link)
"Or he could stay and Aether could go and they could see each other as Milliways allows," says Amariah. "There's options. I just - maybe you can just be a mental healer clamping down on every third thought you have, but you could do more than that, Aether."
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[personal profile] pythbox 2013-06-05 11:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Celo hugs her.

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