voice; un: eliasainsworth

[thornydisposition]

I believe I have some information that might be of use, or at least to consider.

[The voice is low and very even, having only the barest hint of a conversational cadence.]

My companion, Shuyi, and I managed to locate and capture Miz Poppy. We captured her and two of her Deemer companions, and as we began to take them back to Perdition's Rest, she had some very interesting things to say.

She reaffirmed that there was no way to safely separate a Taraxa from its host without the destruction of the latter. What is more troubling, however, was that she insisted that hers and her compatriots' mission of destruction was something which the TIMELINE.EXE asked of them.

Before we could deliver her back here, one of the other captured Deemers sacrificed himself so that she may escape in the confusion.

It is not my intention to offer this information in order to incite mass confusion or doubt, as it is quite possible she was lying. But I do not think we can completely discount that she might be telling the truth—or that she and her fellows are somehow deluded enough to believe that they are. It is, as I originally said, something to at the very least keep in mind.

Comments

[steler]

Wasn't Lloyd recorded talking about them, though?

[predomination]

The information was so minimal that it only leaves me with two options, especially considering he had to have drawn the conclusions about the Deemers and Zymandis when given all the information.

The first is that he only has a rudimentary amount of knowledge that wouldn't be valuable to us. That's the optimistic approach, of course, and given how many can be defensive of ALASTAIR, I'm willing to consider it, even though ignorance is just as unforgivable as deceit.

Or he deliberately left information out and left us here to solve the problem on our own to see how it plays out, and to gauge the changes in Zymandis's tactics over the last thousand years without any other variables. Just a raw exchange of power between us and them.

[aka what Urahara would've done if he wanted to test a new Zymandis' limits]

[steler]

So it's only speculation for now. It would be best if people prepared themselves for the option they don't wish to see, but for reasons you mentioned it seems unlikely.

[he kind of wants to leave it at that - this isnt the first time theyve talked about this and he doesn't want to waste time going in circles

BUT]

Ignorance would be an interesting case, I think. One would have to wonder if they'd willfully been ignorant after all those years.

[predomination]

It might just be as simple as believing an enemy who hasn't appeared in centuries is no longer a threat, and never bothering to prepare a contingency if that was ever proven false.

[#thousand year blood war arc]

[steler]

That sounds very specific.

[predomination]

Unintentionally, I promise. [also 90% sarcastic anyway. his sarcastic voice just sounds like his normal voice.] Honestly, you would have thought with Zymandis never being properly defeated, they would have done something.

But it's, as you said, speculation until we speak to Lloyd and gauge whether he's ignorant or lying.

[steler]

We can get back to the discussion when we know more.