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hadriel2019-05-30 09:30 am
lingeringhope) wrote in hadriel2019-05-30 09:30 am
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fifteen ✤ voice
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.
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 31
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%)
voice, private
[it's not easy for her, either. the White Triangle had a goal: survival of the fittest. which just happened to be them. funny how that works out, isn't it?]
...all right. I'm changing my vote.
voice, private
Honestly, so many people seem to be on board with destroying the Null that you probably don't even have to change your vote.
voice, private
Maybe. But maybe it's also time for me to take a stand. That my world's way of doing things isn't perfect, as much as it likes to pretend that it is. That if we'd responded in kind to the White Triangle, they'd have never destroyed Trom. And never have attacked Earth. How many lives could've been saved, but weren't?
voice, private
There's not much we can do about the things that happened back home, but at least we have a chance to make a difference here.
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[a pause]
Anyway. I kind of killed somebody recently. So I can do it, if I have to.
voice, private
Wait like, a person? Who? When was this?
voice, private
It was . . . during one of the things the aliens did. They brought over someone who was hurting a friend. I didn't think he'd stop, so I--so I killed him.
voice, private
[He's curious, but he's also sure that this can't be easy for her to talk about. He's not going to press her for details, but damn.]
Is this friend of yours doing okay now?
voice, private
[it is hard to talk about, but she's afraid that this will fester inside her if she doesn't talk about it]
He's [a weak chuckle] seen better days.
voice, private
[He figured the whole killing thing itself was forbidden enough, is there something even more forbidden than that? He's kind of curious, but also MMMMMM that sounds like some BAD SHIT.]
voice, private
...maybe? It's. Pretty gruesome.
voice, private
If you want to talk about it, I'll listen. If not, I can roll with that too.
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[Let's hear this gruesome tale of gruesomeness.]
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I, um. Slipped my arm into his chest and. Partially solidified to grab a hold of his heart and tear it out.
It hurt him. It hurt me. [a pause] It hurt him worse.
voice, private
[He's silent for a moment, not because he's being all judgmental or anything but because he's trying to work out the science behind literally ripping a man's heart out of his chest. How did you get it through the ribs and muscle Tinya HOLY SHIT OKAY you just don't GET more hardcore than that.]
Wow though, that's... that's intense.
voice, private
[she partially phased it through those. he felt every moment of the pain of his heart being ripped away. and he deserved it]
It--it was. I'm having a hard time. Dealing with it all.
voice, private
...We still have a little time before this all kicks off. You wanna meet up somewhere? We could hit the Speakeasy or something, just hang for a bit?
voice, private
Y-yeah. Meeting at the Speakasy sounds like a good idea. Hanging sounds nice.
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