ubermensching: (Scheming)
Wilhelm ([personal profile] ubermensching) wrote2010-08-16 12:05 pm

Zechs

Let us continue our discourse on temptation from earlier in this week.

Who do you believe is responsible for the loss of personal limbs or memories during the trade: the post office, or those who go to make the trade. Certainly, it is the post office and whoever is in control that takes, and yet these things could not have been taken without the consent of those trading. That you did not know what would be taken is, in part, irrelevant. You knew the cost would be high.

So who is truly responsible? The post office, those trading, or both?

[Hey, Jr, MOMO: feel free to notice that daddy is sitting at the kitchen table with an eye patch over his left eye, and a spinning globe in front of him. Looks like he managed to get a neat new toy, huh?]

[identity profile] magiccaster.livejournal.com 2010-08-16 05:29 pm (UTC)(link)
[You're not her daddy |: But she'll notice]

You went to the post office...?

[identity profile] repeatsalvation.livejournal.com 2010-08-16 05:39 pm (UTC)(link)
[Oh MOMO, that'd break his heart. ...Okay, not really.]

[He nods, looking at the Realian.]

I did.

[identity profile] magiccaster.livejournal.com 2010-08-16 05:41 pm (UTC)(link)
[Wilhelm has a heart?]

Why?

[identity profile] repeatsalvation.livejournal.com 2010-08-16 05:46 pm (UTC)(link)
[He means well, he's just an asshole. A reality destroying asshole.]

I had never felt temptation before, and I was curious how it would feel to give in to it.

[identity profile] magiccaster.livejournal.com 2010-08-17 02:23 am (UTC)(link)
[Does Wilhelm with an eye patch look like Sigurd.]

But you're hurt.
Edited 2010-08-17 02:23 (UTC)

[identity profile] repeatsalvation.livejournal.com 2010-08-17 06:19 am (UTC)(link)
[Pffffft Oh Jesus I can't help but see it now.]

I will be fine.

[identity profile] magiccaster.livejournal.com 2010-08-17 06:30 am (UTC)(link)
[just as planned]

Are you sure?

[identity profile] repeatsalvation.livejournal.com 2010-08-17 05:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Positive.

[His attention is just totally focused on the spinning orb in front of him.]

[identity profile] magiccaster.livejournal.com 2010-08-18 12:10 am (UTC)(link)
[Notices it!]

What's that...?

[identity profile] repeatsalvation.livejournal.com 2010-08-18 06:30 am (UTC)(link)
An eye.

Albeit, not a physical one.

[identity profile] repeatsalvation.livejournal.com 2010-08-18 06:39 pm (UTC)(link)
What any eye does.

It allows me to see.

[identity profile] fractured-white.livejournal.com 2010-08-16 06:02 pm (UTC)(link)
I'd believe the fault lies upon he who readily offered part of himself. But such responsibility need not be negative, should the trade prove worth the cost.

[identity profile] repeatsalvation.livejournal.com 2010-08-16 06:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Agreed.

And did you make an exchange?

Gonna be on AIM tonight?

[identity profile] fractured-white.livejournal.com 2010-08-16 06:20 pm (UTC)(link)
As I admitted I would. I myself found the reward altogether unworth the price, given the unexpected technicality of its use.

Much later maybe. I should be able to get on like 10 PM my time.

[identity profile] repeatsalvation.livejournal.com 2010-08-16 06:26 pm (UTC)(link)
What was the fine print they had hidden from you?

I never asked what TZ you're in, did I?

[identity profile] fractured-white.livejournal.com 2010-08-16 06:30 pm (UTC)(link)
What they offered was but half of of the completion I so desired. They presented me with part of a link unable to connect with my other half.

Central. I live in Texas.

[identity profile] repeatsalvation.livejournal.com 2010-08-16 06:33 pm (UTC)(link)
It has always been the greatest cheat to give someone half a product.

No refunds, of course.

That's...two hours behind Easter, right?

[identity profile] fractured-white.livejournal.com 2010-08-16 06:38 pm (UTC)(link)
But of course. And the cost was one that naught but a proper link with Rubedo would be worth.

Maybe. Shit, I don't know timezones.

[identity profile] repeatsalvation.livejournal.com 2010-08-16 06:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Mmm.

Perhaps we should arrange to have dinner sometime. I'm sure your brother would be delighted to see you in person.

[You can almost hear the small smile on his face when he says that.]

I know it's 1 or 2 hours. Either way, I should still be around.

[identity profile] fractured-white.livejournal.com 2010-08-16 06:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Rubedo and I have already encountered each other, but I'll still take you up on that offer. I grow rather weary of repeatedly slaughtering these drones else I be forced to endure their so-called company during my meals. Repetition makes even the most enjoyable of acts into a chore.

[identity profile] repeatsalvation.livejournal.com 2010-08-16 07:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Would Thursday be pleasing?

Though I suppose I should warn you that there has been a change in my physical appearance.

[identity profile] fractured-white.livejournal.com 2010-08-16 07:11 pm (UTC)(link)
I'll be looking forward to it~

That's going to be interesting. I don't recall you having changed at all in the year we've been in contact~

[identity profile] repeatsalvation.livejournal.com 2010-08-16 07:16 pm (UTC)(link)
What might I say?

This town does things to one.

[identity profile] fractured-white.livejournal.com 2010-08-16 08:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Physically as well as in terms of perspective, it seems. It would seem even sensations are not spared as a price.

[identity profile] perfektsymmetry.livejournal.com 2010-08-16 06:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Both, if you ask me. The town preys on desperate people.

[identity profile] repeatsalvation.livejournal.com 2010-08-16 06:27 pm (UTC)(link)
And yet was walking into the lion's mouth and being aware of it not the fault of the prey?

Can one blame a lion for being a lion?

[identity profile] perfektsymmetry.livejournal.com 2010-08-16 07:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Both are to blame, really. People here went ahead and did it anyway, despite knowing something bad would happen, despite all the warnings. A lot of people felt it was worth it and took the risk anyway. But some people just didn't know any better. So if you ask me, yes, bother are to blame. I certainly didn't trust it.

[identity profile] repeatsalvation.livejournal.com 2010-08-16 07:10 pm (UTC)(link)
I find it harder to blame the predator for being what it is then blaming those who should know better then to trust it. And yet, I suppose that appealing to the desires of the weaker would, indeed, seem like quite a heartless tactic.

[identity profile] perfektsymmetry.livejournal.com 2010-08-16 07:25 pm (UTC)(link)
The town is just hurting already damaged people. It's just... e-everything that happens is sick and twisted. It pains me to know people fell for it or are going along with it anyway.

[identity profile] repeatsalvation.livejournal.com 2010-08-16 07:27 pm (UTC)(link)
When the short road to power is presented, there are inevitably those who follow down it.

It is merely the way man is.

[identity profile] perfektsymmetry.livejournal.com 2010-08-16 07:39 pm (UTC)(link)
People always want an easy way out... [sighs] You'd really think they'd know better by now...

[identity profile] repeatsalvation.livejournal.com 2010-08-16 07:41 pm (UTC)(link)
They rarely do.