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hadriel2019-05-30 09:30 am
lingeringhope) wrote in hadriel2019-05-30 09:30 am
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I am sure you have seen the ships, as have we. It is time for a decision. Thanks to your efforts and knowledge, we have options - they are few, but I think any of them could succeed. But each has unknowns and possible dangers. Please take all of these into consideration before you make your decision.
First, we could use the Door to send the Null away to another facet of this wide multiverse. This would keep us safe, and allow us to stay here, in our home, in order to rebuild and restore our people. However, while we have more control of the Door, we only have so much. We can't choose where to send the Null, so they could end up anywhere, including in a universe that one of you is from. Also, while we would try our very best, it would be difficult to ensure that each and every Null scattered across the worlds is caught in this. It is possible we may miss some.
Second, we could use the Door to transport ourselves to another universe. Like the first option, we cannot be sure where we would end up. We would be safe from the Null, but possibly find other dangers. In addition, only those of us gods currently in the city would survive - there would be no option to resurrect our fallen comrades or hosts. With the hosts you have restored to me and our own essences, we could rebuild, but it would take a very long time.
One additional note for the first two options: after carrying out either one, we would need to shut the Door down permanently. To leave it working would be to invite the Null to find a way through it to us. We would send you all home first, of course, but you would never be able to return here or leave the worlds that you return to.
Finally, we could use your skills to infect the Null with a sort of virus. I will admit that my unfamiliarity with technology makes the details of this difficult to understand, but the essence of it is that a group of you would return to the communications relay found on the previous world and use it to broadcast a program that would alter the Null themselves. There are two options here, as well: use it to shut the Null down and therefore kill them, or use it to alter them and imbue them with emotions so they would no longer need or wish to destroy us.
These last two options are the most dangerous for you, and I would ask for volunteers to carry this out if it is chosen. It would allow us to stay here and rebuild our species, and it would potentially allow the Null to survive, though of course that may also be a danger someday. It would also allow us to maintain the Door, which would give you the option to come and go as you pleased. However, the ethics of destroying or permanently altering another species must be considered. Do we have the right to do this against their will? Do we have the right to commit genocide?
Please take your time to consider these options. I believe we can hold out long enough for an educated decision, rather than one made foolishly and in haste. And thank you, all of you, for everything that you have done. None of these options would have been possible if not for your hard work and ingenuity. You have accomplished incredible things and given us a chance when we had none.
First, we could use the Door to send the Null away to another facet of this wide multiverse. This would keep us safe, and allow us to stay here, in our home, in order to rebuild and restore our people. However, while we have more control of the Door, we only have so much. We can't choose where to send the Null, so they could end up anywhere, including in a universe that one of you is from. Also, while we would try our very best, it would be difficult to ensure that each and every Null scattered across the worlds is caught in this. It is possible we may miss some.
Second, we could use the Door to transport ourselves to another universe. Like the first option, we cannot be sure where we would end up. We would be safe from the Null, but possibly find other dangers. In addition, only those of us gods currently in the city would survive - there would be no option to resurrect our fallen comrades or hosts. With the hosts you have restored to me and our own essences, we could rebuild, but it would take a very long time.
One additional note for the first two options: after carrying out either one, we would need to shut the Door down permanently. To leave it working would be to invite the Null to find a way through it to us. We would send you all home first, of course, but you would never be able to return here or leave the worlds that you return to.
Finally, we could use your skills to infect the Null with a sort of virus. I will admit that my unfamiliarity with technology makes the details of this difficult to understand, but the essence of it is that a group of you would return to the communications relay found on the previous world and use it to broadcast a program that would alter the Null themselves. There are two options here, as well: use it to shut the Null down and therefore kill them, or use it to alter them and imbue them with emotions so they would no longer need or wish to destroy us.
These last two options are the most dangerous for you, and I would ask for volunteers to carry this out if it is chosen. It would allow us to stay here and rebuild our species, and it would potentially allow the Null to survive, though of course that may also be a danger someday. It would also allow us to maintain the Door, which would give you the option to come and go as you pleased. However, the ethics of destroying or permanently altering another species must be considered. Do we have the right to do this against their will? Do we have the right to commit genocide?
Please take your time to consider these options. I believe we can hold out long enough for an educated decision, rather than one made foolishly and in haste. And thank you, all of you, for everything that you have done. None of these options would have been possible if not for your hard work and ingenuity. You have accomplished incredible things and given us a chance when we had none.
This poll is closed.
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Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 31
What shall we do?
View Answers
Use the Door to remove the Null
2 (6.5%)
Use the Door to move ourselves
2 (6.5%)
Upload a program to alter the Null
9 (29.0%)
Upload a program to destroy the Null
18 (58.1%)
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dude you've got like the most important job don't sell yourself short
I noticed that. the null don't have very many fans
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Selling myself short is what I do.
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I dunno, it seems like everyone here is some kind of badass.
And I'm just. Bleh. Me.
I guess I was kind of hoping some of that badass would rub off on me. (not like that. perv)
No, they really screwed the pooch where that was concerned when they released their infamous Kill List and included kids.
Before that, people were willing to work with them even as just a fuck you to the gods.
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1. I'm not a perv have you met me 2. it takes more than crazy powers and blowing things up to be a badass. personally I think all of you guys working over at the clinic are the biggest badasses in town. dealing with the stuff you deal with isn't easy, I don't think I could do it.
That alone is enough for me to not want to take any risks with these guys.
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1. Yes, I've met you and no, you're not a perv. 2. I've worked at the Clinic almost as long as I've been here. Started out as a receptionist and then just kind of started picking things up along the way. Now I've got healing magic and it's like. I think I've found IT, you know? What I'm supposed to be doing.
Yeah, the Null aren't big on taking prisoners. They just fight and fight and fight until someone's dead.
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It's probably good that they don't take prisoners, in kind of a screwed up way. After what they did to the hosts, I don't wanna see them capturing anybody.
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Thanks.
No shit. That was "Secret Experiments of the SS Last Days" level shit there. Without the dominatrix fun parts. So in other words, just plain fucked up.
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okay now that's a reference I don't get, but I'm gonna assume it's bad.
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But, yeah, it's pretty bad.
Torture.
Sexual torture.
More torture.
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if we end up somewhere with movies let's just like watch nice ones.
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A sister's job is to protect her brother from fucked up Nazi porn.
Like Kill Bill volume 2?
And the new Star Trek movies?
I'm from 2003, there's gotta be a fuckton of pop culture I've missed.
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you are so far behind it's not even funny.
oh man, I'm probably behind now too. I think I've been here for almost a year, I'm missing out on so many memes
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It's all blocked.
Leaving plenty of other stuff to choose from.
Don't rub it in.
Okay, what's a meme?
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oh man I actually don't know how to explain memes. see that's something we can Google if we end up somewhere with Google after all this.
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Better off letting me trawl the dark corners of the internet and take it from there.
I know what Google is.
It's a search engine.
WAY better than Yahoo.
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I don't know if anyone even uses Yahoo anymore
like it exists still but Google's the huge thing
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NONE?
Damn.
First thing I did when my parents got the computer and the internet and I had a little privacy was look up Kirk/Spock porn.
Google's way better anyway.
Google looks for pictures, too.
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guess I just don't have an interest in it idk
was shipping like that even a thing in 2003? that is crazy
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You've gotta read fanfic if you want something hot that actually has a story behind it.
And are you kidding?
My Grandma Phyl used to publish shipping fic in fanzines back in the seventies.
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That's kind of cool though, I always just assumed that that kinda stuff was like current year stuff
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I used to love going to visit her in Phoenix.
She had tons of old fanzines she'd let me read.
So trust me, shipping and slash fic are long, old traditions.
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Man we got way off topic, why are we like this
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She's like the polar opposite from my mother.
Which makes me wonder if she was born with a stick up her ass or if it developed over time.
Cause we're awesome?
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We're either awesome or like subconsciously ignoring all of the super gigantic Bad Things going on right now.
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I wish I could meet your aunt. And you could meet my Grandma Phyl.
Why can't it be both?
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I'm pretty sure it's just subconsciously ignoring all of the super gigantic Bad Things, at least on my part.
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