hadriel | THREE ❢ VIDEO

What a nice welcome after such a long time away. You creatures never disappoint with how angry you get.

[Rage is back, back again. Go ahead, tell a friend. She's giving a nonchalant smile that doesn't quite reach her eyes -- it's hard to be pleased about being well fed when you've just spent six months scouting in enemy territory.

In fact, her face goes to neutral as she picks up again.]

First things first: We don't know for certain how the Null were able to find us, but we did discover at least part of the problem: there's a mole in the cave.

[Her voice goes cold when she makes the statement, and it pretty much stays that way for the rest of this post. Also, no, she wasn't trying to make a pun or a clever reference to the city being underground.]

This is the only way for the Null to consistently be able to chase us through space. [And not just because Fear sucks.] Hope and Sorrow's investigation should turn up more information about that. Would that you'd all voted for me, but like my brethren, I'll defer to your decision.

Second, it would seem your strangely shaped bodies have inspired our pursuers. We found them experimenting with bipedal robotic bodies that move the way you do. By the way, that doesn't exactly help anyone's case here. Clearly, they're finding you useful to a large extent.

[She's suspicious as hell, in effect.]

Finally, the Null's objectives have changed. They've constructed prisons capable of containing us no matter the form we take, and not only that, but they'll be able to use us to power their operations. I know some of you will see this as justice, but before you jump to such a predictable conclusion, consider this: our interference aside, the power my siblings and I gain from you is used to keep you alive and comfortable. We're able to coexist. What the Null want is our absolute confinement for their selfish purposes. Think for a moment about what that means. You all seem to like Delight. How would you feel if someone locked her up in a small space to do whatever they want with her?

[She's angrier now, more emotion in her voice and face. The silence after that question is short, but it's long enough for her anger to cool again.]

The mission was too dangerous for us to obtain more information than that. Given we're actively being betrayed by someone here, I wasn't inclined to share any of this with you, but I suppose it isn't fair to leave all of you in the dark because of one person or small alliance's actions.

[She leaned much more heavily towards not wanting to tell the residents, but Delight would tell them, and Rage is the last person who wants to disappoint Delight at all.]

Consider this a gesture of goodwill.

[With that flat, clipped sentence, she cuts the feed.]

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The ghosts of our loved ones event was pretty messed up. [But that wasn't making them do anything. Jo pauses for a moment.]

Guess before I got here Rage was getting people to kill each other.

Ghosts of your loved ones? Like, actual ghosts?

And my opinion of her manages to sink to an even lower place.

They were sucking energy from us, so eventually they could've been solid. [At least, that's what it seemed like. Jo missed out on that death, thanks to Jason.]

I doubt she cares.

Okay, that's weird. I've never heard of anything like that before. Whose fault was that one?

Probably not, but I can still feel superior.

I don't know. [She knows it made her sad, so maybe Sorrow, but she doesn't voice that.]

It's all we have, right?

Yeah. They fuck with us, so we get to feel superior to them and tell ourselves that we'd never do that to another person.

Hopefully.

Well, I know I did some fucked up shit when I was a Reaper, but. I thought I was doing the right thing, y'know?

Yeah, I know.

Life and death are hard. I don't get why some people here act like dying's no big deal.

Hope brings people back. I think they forget about it usually being permanent.

I dunno how to remind them. But a lot of people are apprently cool with it being just a minor annoyance instead of a major tragedy.

I don't know if there is a way, unless Hope does something and it changes.

Probably not, then. 'Cause I can't see Hope backing out on the "go back to life free" card.

Yeah.

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