We Are Our Avatars X (Closed, Ended)

[Chungus]

Femesh Daer Area - Day 10 - 16:59​

Timea listened to Anik explaining, being quiet for a time, afterwards. She then let out a hiss, though one that could still be produced with a human voice box. "You lied to me... ", she then snarled, softly. "You said you were only going to talk to her, not said her free."

Turning to face Anik, she continued. "Is taking her out to meet someone talking? I very much don't think it is!" On saying "talking", Timea prodded Anik on the sternum, more forcefully than the playful pokes she usually gave, though not hard enough to do any harm.

 

[Silence]

Femesh Daer Area - Day 10 - 16:59

"I wasn't planning on taking her out." Anik said, disquieted. "I am sorry. Really. Sorry. I sensed her heart faintly ... it was nearly not there. I was ... I don't know what I was thinking. My emotions took over."

She let herself be prodded, not trying to stop it, nor stepping back to ease it, even though Timea hurt her a little bit. "I was not lying to you at the time. I was ... never. I would not. I did not want to. ... Punish me. I deserve it."

 

[Chungus]

Femesh Daer Area - Day 10 - 17:00​

At Anik's Timea looked Anik over, reading her body language and facial expression, finding it somewhat difficult to just take Anik's word for it. Seeing Anik spoke truthfully, Timea let out an lengthy, exasperated groan. "Oh, please! Don't act like some child. Do you think your being punished would make anything better? It won't!"

Not really waiting for an answer, Timea turned around, closing her eyes, and doing a breathing exercise to try and calm down.

 

[Silence]

Femesh Daer Area - Day 10 - 17:00

"I'm ... sorry." Anik said quietly, not knowing how she should take that statement.

She stood there, waiting until Timea had calmed down, not saying anything until she had. Even though she now felt close to crying again, she held it back, not wanting to appear even more like a child.

When Timea finally seemed a little bit more calm again, Anik said, hesitantly: "So ... is there even something to make it better? I feel like shit, I don't know what to do."

 

[Kirke]

Mountain Camp - Day 10
You stand up, staring Quan Chi in the eyes. You are furious, and beyond that you feel a very strong urge to rebel. [color=0066cc]"How much of what is me are you willing to erase? Because if you want a willing, happy slave? You're gonna erase it all."[/color]

 

[Chungus]

Femesh Daer Area - Day 10 - 17:02​

Timea went through the breathing exercise for two minutes, and would have liked to do more, but a rumbling stomach broke the flow of the exercise. Groaning, Timea rubbed over her eyelids, taking a moment to reply once Anik spoke. "I don't know... . I don't know any more." She was still very much angry, but her voice sounded more calm. Her anger, too, moved to the situation as a whole, rather than solely being focused on Anik. "I wish we could just ignore this problem and hope it goes away. Maybe... this should have been done from the start."

Shaking her head, Timea softly said, "damn it all", then began walking again, moving slowly.

 

[Silence]

Femesh Daer Area - Day 10 - 17:02

"You are right." Anik said, still unsure. As Timea began moving again, she followed, not wanting to say more, but feeling like she had the obligation to do so.

WIth a shaky voice, she said, while they were walking. "If we get attacked - we need to solve this problem right there, in one way or another. So nobody can appear out of thin air again. Catching and rendering Quan Chi harmless ... if he does not just leave us alone - is probably what we would have to do then.

And I can't just give up on Shara. But ... I won't go out of my way to do more, either, as long as I am with you. If we are really lucky, we can hope we don't meet them ever again. ... I'm sorry for all of this. You ... you can keep me away from things, if you think I would fuck up again. I'll hate not knowing about things, but if you think it would be more safe ... just don't tell me."

 

[Chungus]

Femesh Daer Area - Day 10 - 17:03​

"We're in this situation precisely because of a lack of confiding in one another. We don't need more clandestine actions like this. You made a mistake, and it made me angry. But... I suppose I made the same one; making a decision on my own that affects us both." Timea commented, clenching a hand into a fist, holding it for a while, then blowing a sigh, and relaxing it. "Was it right? Who can say. What's done is done. We must learn from these mistakes, so they are not made again. I don't want us to drift apart like this."

After speaking, Timea went over Anik's suggestion on how to deal with the situation, thinking.

 

[ShindoL Shill]

Vala - Day 9 - 06:20

"It's just guards, as far as I'm aware." Ana replied.

[hr]

Femesh Daer - Day 10 - 16:48

The guards, and many of the citizens and sailors, stopped to stare as the metal ship began moving through the water.

 

[Silence]

Femesh Daer Area - Day 10 - 17:03

"You did not know I knew Shara ... your mistake is more understandable." Anik said. "But you are right, what is done is done." Sounding a bit more relieved, she added: "I don't want us to drift apart, either. So thank you ..."

After a bit of a pause, Anik said more quietly, while Timea was still thinking: "I hope I never repeat my mistakes. Learning from them is, I guess, all I can do."

 

[Gearhead mk2]

Vala, day 9, 6:20
"Right." Robin sounded thankful.

Camp, day 10, 16:48
"I do not want you to be a mindless thrall. Those come and go easily. What I want is for you to be an effective, obedient agent."

 

[Kirke]

Mountain Camp - Day 10
[color=0066cc]"And to think, you could've had one, if you'd taken the right angle. Y'see, I'm a mercenary by trade, amongst other things. If you had offered something valuable for my services, say, transport back to my home? Well I would have gladly helped you. And I did offer to do just that, but then you had to go and kill me. Does it really surprise you that I'm disobedient then?"[/color]

 

[Chungus]

Femesh Daer Area - Day 10 - 17:03​

Timea let out a "hmm" at Anik's first comment, not sure if she agreed, but thinking it was best to move away from that topic. Instead, she thought on what Anik's suggestion more, and came to a conclusion.

"I'm conflicted on what you said we should do, if the sorcerer appears. We should defend ourselves if we're attacked, of course. And if he happens to get killed in the struggle... it would be unfortunate for whichever next of kin he may have, but so be it. If he's not immediately hostile, however, or still alive after a struggle, I don't feel it is right to be the aggressor. Even if what he does disgusts me to the core.

More over, it stands to reason Shara, and potentially others in her situation, would be with him. To fight, then, would also be forcing them to fight."

 

[Silence]

Femesh Daer Area - Day 10 - 17:03

"I do not want to kill him." Anik stated plainly. "For all I know, his death could mean the death of Shara at the same time." Thinking about Shara fighting for him, she said: "The thing I had in mind ... was that, if we do not at least constrain him for a while, he could just come back again any time. We would need to convince him that this is a bad idea.

... Maybe a fight would be enough, though. But this really depends on how one would go. I do not want to fight Shara ... but if she has no choice, what can I do? We could not let her leave either, not if there is the possibility of them coming back. And if she really is forced to do something like that ... I'll be honest, I really would want this to be reversed. I ..."

Realizing how suggesting too much involvement would anger Timea again, Anik thought, then said: "We need to be sure that he would not come after us again. I could at least try to sense his feelings, then, trying to figure out how much of an effect we had. And ... we would never really be the aggressor. I know it's not right. But it is right to defend ourselves, and, if his feelings are clear in that he would come back, to try and prevent this. Because it would still be defending ourselves, right?"

 

[Drakmorg]

Vala - Day 9 - 6:22

[color=9f2089]"I guess trying to force the matter is just climbing up the wrong tree after all then."[/color] Cybil replied, more speaking out loud to herself than anything else. [color=9f2089]"Thank you anyway though. It was nice meeting you."[/color] She added with a smile.

Turning to Robin she said, [color=9f2089]"Alright, let's go see if we can track down some weirdos."[/color]

 

[Gearhead mk2]

Vala, day 9, 6:22
Robin nodded to Cybil. "Thanks for the help." he told Ana, then left the library.

Camp, day 10, 16:48
"I could still take you back there once this is over." Quan offered.

 

[Chungus]

Femesh Daer Area - Day 10 - 17:05​

"It would, yes. It's the same with this other organisation that has had people appearing out of nowhere; They were warned, but if they insist on keeping on attacking us, my hand would be forced. It's like I said days ago, I believe in mercy and second chances. There that goes only so far until it becomes self-destructive." After saying this, Timea was quiet for a moment. She considered the possibility of not being able to stand against Quan Chi, and shuddered at the thought. Imagining what kinds of magic she might face send a shiver down her spine.

Putting the thoughts aside, with some effort, Timea re-focused her thought process. She stopped walking, this time stepping to the side so Anik wouldn't bump in to her. "Either way. He knew you and Shara were in the room, while you weren't followed. So we can assume he can see things that go on, from a distance. With this, I question if there is even any point in trying to run."

 

[Silence]

Femesh Daer Area - Day 10 - 17:05

"So you mean ... we should let him go after us two times? ..." Anik asked, not sure she understood. "Still, he attacked Shara ... killed her ... that was his first chance, in my mind."

Thinking about the possibilities of vision without being at a place, magic and the weird technology Timea had described were the only things she had in mind. "It may be that he can see through Shara's eyes somehow ... this does not seem to be her original body, after all. Or he has something like a crystal ball ... he would be able to track us then ... finding us because he saw us already. Fuck, this was the advantage I had thought of when speaking with Shara ... him not knowing me ... and I blew it."

 

[ShindoL Shill]

Vala - Day 9 - 06:22

"You're welcome." Ana replied, smiling back.

 

[Chungus]

Femesh Daer Area - Day 10 - 17:06​

"Just one. I don't think actions before being issued a warning should count, however. There wouldn't be much point to giving a second chance, otherwise", Timea briefly explained, moving on to the second point, afterwards. "So, either he sees through the eyes of his slaves, or sees many things, with some method we don't understand. In both cases, there really is no point in running."

Timea paused for a moment, turning to face Femesh Daer, then continued. "I think we should head back to Femesh Daer in mind. I need more food. I'll grow weak if I don't eat enough, and I do think I will need all my strength, if we would fight.

In the meantime, you should ask at the docks if Robin and his people have passed through Femesh Daer. Shara asked me specifically to look for him, so perhaps he might help. Searching will be as running in the dark, of course. ... But that's no different from what we've been doing thus far."