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[einselective]

[If she was an actually good public speaker, there might be a clear lead-in to this discussion, introducing the problems and exactly why these thoughts came up. Unfortunately, Marian expects everybody else to make the same intuitive leaps and skip straight past the boring explanation that everyone knows, kidnapped from our own dimensions, trapped, used for food, etc etc.]

If our positions were suddenly reversed, and we had full control over the Door and the parasites who currently run our lives, what would you do? Would you simply see the Door destroyed after everyone who wanted to go home was sent back, or would you leave it intact? If you stayed here instead, what would you do? Would you let the gods be, or would you interfere in any way with their conflict with the other aliens of this place on one side of the other? Are there other options you'd consider?

Explain your rationale clearly, regardless of the position you'd take.

Oh. Any idiots planning to argue that 'the gods are wonderful people, really' [enjoy an overly saccharine simpering impression there for those few words] spare us all your Stockholm-syndrome induced mawkish blithering. Nobody wants to hear it, least of all me.

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[wormintheglass]

I would change the parameters. I'd rebrand this place as a tourist resort. I would very likely let the gods be - they all have useful qualities, in the right time and place. People would pay a fortune to come and fight monsters in Silent Hill if they could be assured of leaving alive.

[einselective]

Do you have a response that isn't an unfunny attempt at a joke?

[wormintheglass]

Why would I be joking? Are you unaware of the existence of horror movies and thrill rides?

[einselective]

Let's assume for the sake of argument that it isn't a joke then. [What a waste of time.] Why? Money, is that really it?

[wormintheglass]

Not remotely - though it does come in handy for paying staff and the like. No. I'd do it for the sake of doing it. For having a place that would offer an utterly unique experience for every soul who touched it - for the joy of redecorating and repackaging and selling the experience.

And having my name over the door, of course.

[hearthebell]

I've thought about it a fair amount since arriving. I'm not living, where I'm from... so I believe that if I couldn't change that, I'd bring someone here and just keep things that way.

[einselective]

Leave the Door alone, and the gods to their own devices, then? Why?

[hearthebell]

No. I'd destroy the door. By "keep it that way," I meant that I would prevent things from changing further where we are concerned. If this is hell, he deserves it, and I think it would be tolerable if I knew I could keep him here forever.

[einselective]

[That's an odd answer... but then again, he's an odd fellow.]

What about the gods? Do they continue to have their 'events', or they starve? If confronted by their enemies, would you want to interfere? Why or why not?

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[drabsolutelynot]

You seem particularly fired up today, Marian.

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[einselective]

Are you going to suggest what you'd do, or not?

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[drabsolutelynot]

[He can't hide a look of amusement but he yields to the question]

Well certainly I wouldn't choose to stay. As for the Door, I'm afraid it may have to go. It seems to have a penchant for not only bringing them here and sending them away, but also for bringing them back again.

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[einselective]

[Marian nods in agreement. Honestly, that would be (and in a similar situation had been) her choice, but...]

What about the "gods"?

[einselective]

Isn't this what the network is for? Frivolous discussion that won't matter to anyone but the bored participants involved?

[Someone clearly got up on the wrong side of the bed this morning. Or, you know, barely slept at all.]

[einselective]

Are you going to answer the question or are you just here to waste my time like Miss Tourist Trap up there?

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[lifetothefullest]

[This sounds like exactly the type of post for a nosy psychologist to get surely unwantedly involved in.]

I notice you didn't say what you'd do.

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[einselective]

That's right.

Well?

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[lifetothefullest]

If you're going to ask the question, shouldn't you offer your own answer to it?

[He's being a huge hypocrite here but NEVERMIND THAT.]

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[einselective]

If I was set in my answer, I wouldn't be asking the question in the first place.

Typical. You ask for well-reasoned arguments around here and get back nothing but self-centered psychos and grade-school level 'you first' responses. I don't know why I expected anything more.

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[hasitsthorns]

What Bianca said, actually.

Before you get all in a tizzy, too, some of us don't have worlds or lives to go back to. So I'd stay, if I could, and let the gods keep doing their thing. [ She would interfere with their war, too, if they were in danger. But she knows Marian doesn't want to hear that. ] Maybe there'd be more displaced people like me out there across all these different universes that'd want to stay too. Everyone else could come and go as they wanted, for a price. Whatever that would be. [ She doesn't care about fortune or fame attached to her name. ] It could be... kind of nice, I think.

[einselective]

[Marian has a superb memory, so don't think she's forgotten their exchange a long time ago where she... might have completely flown off the handle at Rosie's sympathies. Still...]

"Nice". [She snorts.] Maybe.

So you don't think there should be any consequences for what they've done to some of us, against our will and wishes?

[hasitsthorns]

I'm of the belief that an eye for an eye makes the world go blind.

When I retaliated against the people who wronged me the first time, they responded by beheading my only friend and then hunting me for thirty years so. And that was just the first time. In my experience, it doesn't work out.

[einselective]

[Well, compared to what she perceived as unfounded sympathies for their kidnappers before, at least that makes sense from a personal perspective>.

And honestly, that sounds like a pretty awful thing to happen to someone.]

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I don't know if I can agree with it, but I get what you're saying.

It's just unfortunate that as things are now, they're going to keep hurting people because they can.