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We need to move. Between the energy from the Door and other concerns, we can't stay here - it's far too dangerous. Thanks to your help, we believe it's possible to use the Door to move the city rather than Fear's powers. This should be substantially easier on you.

Going back underground is still unlikely to be safe. Of the planet surfaces that we've identified as safe, there are two remaining. Sorrow mentioned them before, but I will repeat the gist of what he said, for anyone who wasn't here before - or anyone who simply didn't pay attention.

One planet is rich and lush, with enough cover from the plants and trees that we should be able to effectively hide from the Null. It is warmer and more humid than this world, if you wish for a place with a climate more amenable to your bodies. It will also provide trees, animals, and edible plants.

The other is cold and mainly devoid of life. It would also be a change of climate, but a less amenable one, rather than more. It is the first planet the Null attacked, and where we had embassies. There may still be some information there, but I can't guarantee it. In addition, it may hold dangers we aren't aware of.

These are your choices. I apologize for being unable to offer you more, but it's unlikely that any of the locations we've traveled to in the past are safe any longer.

Please make your choice.

Poll #20672 Where shall we go?

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Where shall we move the city to?

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the jungle planet
40 (50.6%)

the frozen planet
39 (49.4%)

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we're essentially voting between alien polar bears and alien malaria.
honestly neither choice sounds super great.

at least alien polar bears would be easier to fight than an alien plague.
and extreme cold can be combated as well.

true. I can punch a bear and put on a sweater. I can't punch malaria.
damn, now the frozen planet's starting to sound better.

frozen planet already sounded more appealing with the embassies involved.
plus the gods aren't going to let us freeze to death in our own homes. chances are itll just be a pain in the ass for anyone trying to leave the city.
and the cold isnt a problem for some of us.
can generate enough heat to be more comfortable than in a stuffy humid jungle.

the embassy thing sounds kind of promising, but it also sounds like a place that the Null already know about which means that our chances of being murdered by robots is probably higher.

there were null already on this planet and we dealt with them accordingly.
have been here for every attack of theirs and we survived each time.
not all of us are worried about robots. been banking on the fact that we'll be facing them again sooner or later.

Edited 2018-11-06 04:42 (UTC)

so we'll either be freezing and fighting robots or sweaty and fighting robots. we can probably take them either way, but I heard that they killed a lot of people the last time they attacked. just because we don't stay dead doesn't mean that we shouldn't worry about it.

[Peter, you have no idea how much Rey appreciates it each time she doesn't have to explain to someone why dying isn't something to sneeze at here. Not that she will say it. But spidey-vibes, have some.]

their primary target is hope. if they had succeeded, those people who died would have stayed dead. chances are theyll target him again because of his resurrection abilities and to cripple our food supply.

we werent ready for them then tho. if we're smart then we can make sure not as many are hurt next time.

[hey man dying sucks, even if some guy can magic you back to life.]

and that's why i hate playing the healer in video games. Everyone always goes after you first, might as well paint a big red target on your back.

would you say that we're ready now?

[When that magic guy can also be assassinated at any time, it's at least given Rey more than enough reason to give a damn about people getting snuffed.]

always played the tank myself. [Her brother was more of the "support" roles when they killed time with co-op stuff.

[She snorts, even if it can't be heard through text.]

fuck no. good chunk of the people here never even seen one yet, let alone know how to kill any.

god i miss video games.

i've been told how to take them down, but we don't exactly have any around to practice on. most i've seen of them is the chunks sitting around in the lab.

you been to the speakeasy? we've got an arcade in the game room upstairs.

[Just putting that out there.]

itd be helpful if that little null people decided to adopt awhile back would pitch in a few tips, but that thing made it pretty clear that it wasnt going to help killing its own despite wanting to make "friends" with us.

oh crap i haven't, i've been meaning to pop in but i never seem to find time.

[GAMES YEAAAAAA]

i almost forgot that was a thing. has it actually given us anything useful?

it's limited on games but thanks to the gods making it the machine has a combination of both retro and modern shit.

[Well, it's all retro to Rey, but since most people here who come from a similar world as herself, those games would be more up to their date.]

a little. it came to us about the fragments and the fact that the door is another god. dont know if it's brought anything else to the table.

are they like actual games that exist or did the gods make up their own weird stuff?

[Because that's clearly what's important here, all the games and shit right]

weird, okay, i think this is the first time i've heard of the door being a god. this thing is alive, like how does that even work?

Edited 2018-11-17 00:09 (UTC)

theyre real. the only game from the gods is the exact shit youd expect from them.

[As in, it's just a guy moving around a box to harp music in the background. Rey only played it once and that was all the time she needed to know she's never opening it back up again.]

not sure if "alive" is the right word. more like an ancient precursor to the gods we deal with now, like the neanderthals to humans except a being of chaos and discord. even the gods can't really figure it out - and sorrow's the only one who knew what it really was.

and i will for sure be passing on that one. maybe. i don't know, i really have no idea what to expect from them when it comes to games?

[That's probably not what he would have expected though, what even is that]

i was about to say, because like all these guys have this emotion theme going. you can't really call "door" an emotion.

theyre not what you'd call "cultured" - so expecting very little is the way to go.

[His guess would be as good as hers. She only tried it once out of curiosity. Never again...]

just a guess, but it's possible that their precursors werent powered by designated emotions. something attracted to chaos seems more like a force of nature than anything else.

sounds like a solid plan to me.

also that makes sense. i mean kind of, i still don't understand any of this weirdness so i'm like in this 'just smile and nod' mode, but that's basically how i've been since i got here.

thats probably the most tame response we get. always better than those who freak the fuck out.
been here for almost 3 years tho. thats long enough to be able to make some educated guesses and get used to this bullshit.

i do all my freaking out internally, so it's all good.

that's a pretty long time for this place, isn't it? i haven't heard of anyone being around much longer than that.

good.

it is, sort of. there are only a couple others who have been around for longer - the beginning, even. most tend to go shortly after the anti-honeymoon phase.

we don't have any control over when people leave and stuff though, right? So do they just vanish or something?

the consensus is that they go home or back to wherever they were before.
which no we dont have any control over that or else most people wouldn't even be here.

fair enough, i guess i'll just have to wait and see what happens.
assuming it ever does, i guess.

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