I'd less call it "random open establishments" and more we got assigned warehouses and it was totally up to us to decorate it... or even put any furniture at all into it.
Didn't have nearly as many windows as your place, I'll give it that. Or as nice of a view outside.
I think he did. He even bothered to help us decorate ours even though he wasn't on our team.
[ lol ]
It kinda was, from what we're hearin'. It was someone in the organisers lashin' out 'cause they didn't get what they wanted, so they made a worse version of the game to try to force it to shut down for good.
Basically, we got roped into this shit 'cause of someone's tantrum.
[ alhaitham actually smiles just a little, because lol. that smile leaves as soon as he starts talking, though. ]
I heard. That was Ruby, correct? The one who turned herself into a weapon at the very end of the game.
[ he remembers kaveh's explanation—how hard it was for him to parse that experience into words while he was weighed down by guilt. wolfwood doesn't seem to have a lot of sympathy for this person/reaper/ghost. alhaitham feels the same way. ]
She was aiming to shut the game down for good, correct? You make it sound like her motives were more selfish than that.
Nah, that's not the one who was throwin' the tantrum. She's on a lower rung, where she didn't like havin' to run the game so she tried to suicide bomb the entire system down.
[ There's apparently a lot of people involved and Wolfwood is not paid enough to think about it too hard, especially since they're out of it. He does have some sympathy for Ruby? She's only seventeen and she was so stressed out by the killing game that she thought exploding the world to save the rest of the multiverse would be better. Not so much sympathy for whoever other higher-ups are out there. ]
They're two different people. We never got to meet whoever was kickin' their feet like a toddler and organisin' the game in the first place.
[ if alhaitham was ww he would be just as pissed off ]
Kaveh explained some of this, but remind me. Does this mean that there is no true safeguard to prevent this from happening again, and we are all technically still at the mercy of this anonymous, powerful, and emotionally fragile being?
[ He's obviously not happy about it either and has been trying not to voice it out loud too much, because he'd be a mega downer if he did. But yeah, as far as he can tell, the games are still on board. Reap...3? ]
[ alhaitham sighs through his nose, touches his fist against his mouth, and contemplates the floor for a moment.
yeah, it is a downer, but it's the truth. the only thing they can do is move forward from it however they can. alhaitham isn't the type to spiral or linger on what he can't control; he finds out what's within his power to change and works from there. he looks back at wolfwood. ]
We have now learned what's been going on in these different worlds, and you are all privy to valuable information about its structure and mechanics. You have also obtained capabilities that would not have been afforded to you previously. As there are multitudes of different universes, so too are there multitudes of possible ways to end these games. As far as we're aware, a solution has yet to be found. That doesn't mean it isn't out there.
[ maybe it's nearly impossible to find, but that chance is never zero. it may sound like optimism; to alhaitham, it's merely fact. kaveh, surprisingly enough, is the one who believes in anomalies. ]
Right now, you and Vash are guests in Sumeru. Contemplating such matters can be saved for a later time. Thank you for answering my questions.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
no subject
Didn't have nearly as many windows as your place, I'll give it that. Or as nice of a view outside.
no subject
[ 🙄 ]
Anyway, the more I hear about this game, the more I'm convinced that this was a controlled experiment. To what end, I'm not certain.
no subject
[ lol ]
It kinda was, from what we're hearin'. It was someone in the organisers lashin' out 'cause they didn't get what they wanted, so they made a worse version of the game to try to force it to shut down for good.
Basically, we got roped into this shit 'cause of someone's tantrum.
no subject
I heard. That was Ruby, correct? The one who turned herself into a weapon at the very end of the game.
[ he remembers kaveh's explanation—how hard it was for him to parse that experience into words while he was weighed down by guilt. wolfwood doesn't seem to have a lot of sympathy for this person/reaper/ghost. alhaitham feels the same way. ]
She was aiming to shut the game down for good, correct? You make it sound like her motives were more selfish than that.
no subject
[ There's apparently a lot of people involved and Wolfwood is not paid enough to think about it too hard, especially since they're out of it. He does have some sympathy for Ruby? She's only seventeen and she was so stressed out by the killing game that she thought exploding the world to save the rest of the multiverse would be better. Not so much sympathy for whoever other higher-ups are out there. ]
They're two different people. We never got to meet whoever was kickin' their feet like a toddler and organisin' the game in the first place.
no subject
How did you find out what their motive was?
[ the tantrum part ]
no subject
[ Their CYOAs and their weekly fragmented bits and pieces of lore that they had to keep all hush-hush and all that... ]
no subject
Kaveh explained some of this, but remind me. Does this mean that there is no true safeguard to prevent this from happening again, and we are all technically still at the mercy of this anonymous, powerful, and emotionally fragile being?
no subject
Yeah.
[ He's obviously not happy about it either and has been trying not to voice it out loud too much, because he'd be a mega downer if he did. But yeah, as far as he can tell, the games are still on board. Reap...3? ]
no subject
yeah, it is a downer, but it's the truth. the only thing they can do is move forward from it however they can. alhaitham isn't the type to spiral or linger on what he can't control; he finds out what's within his power to change and works from there. he looks back at wolfwood. ]
We have now learned what's been going on in these different worlds, and you are all privy to valuable information about its structure and mechanics. You have also obtained capabilities that would not have been afforded to you previously. As there are multitudes of different universes, so too are there multitudes of possible ways to end these games. As far as we're aware, a solution has yet to be found. That doesn't mean it isn't out there.
[ maybe it's nearly impossible to find, but that chance is never zero. it may sound like optimism; to alhaitham, it's merely fact. kaveh, surprisingly enough, is the one who believes in anomalies. ]
Right now, you and Vash are guests in Sumeru. Contemplating such matters can be saved for a later time. Thank you for answering my questions.