text, un: lucina ( backdated to a day before their escape )

[tolight]

Hello, Audentes. For those of you I have yet to meet, my name is Lucina. I come bearing news.

I have spoken to a Zymandis agent. They are here, alone, and the jewelcomms are what notified her to our presence; she was willing to answer my questions, and in return, asked the same of me. The following is what I learned:

They seem believe that the Timeline is ill; the multiverse no longer has the energy to sustain itself, and will eventually meet its demise. Given this, their mission is to destroy everything, so that the Timeline will be reborn stronger. [ Those familiar with her should know there's a certain level of anger in her tone, text or otherwise. ] At least, this is what their Timeline.exe has told them— not only so, the original Timeline.exe, as well as its "update", were created by the same individual: Theodor Arbatel, their "Leader".

If anything requires clarification, I will try my best to answer them.

( ooc. the thread is here for the curious. while i've gotten a lot of info the thread is currently incomplete, so there may be delays in getting to questions from characters!! otherwise feel free to threadjack / etc. )

Comments

[fateality]

Damn right it is. Glad you agree.

[ofobedience]

So by my understanding, if they happen to be right, and the collapse of the multiverse if things go on as they are now leads to the death of all life anyway, but the culling of worlds now would lead to a chance for its continuation further down the line, it's all right for the former to happen as long as you get to go on living?

[It's not even a judgment really, just his difficulty understanding how this logic makes sense.]

[fateality]

That sounds about right, sure.

[ofobedience]

I see. At least that puts paid to the idea that you're all acting on supposed morality or the desire to uphold the imagined greater good.

[He thinks he gets the perspective now, which is something.]

[fateality]

Hey now, I know what I'm about. If nothing else, I don't claim to have the higher moral ground on much of anything. I'm a professional thief.

[and liar and gambler and basically just a criminal but there you have it]

[ofobedience]

Oh, I'm not judging you. As something created solely to destroy, it's not as though I can take the moral high ground myself. I was just curious about your perspective.

If it was an argument for the preservation of life on a grander scale, after all, there's the possibility that perspective is flawed. If it's only yourself that you're interested in preserving, it makes enough sense to me.

[fateality]

Nah. It just boils down to me.

Well, me and one other guy, but that's about it. The rest of the world or universe or whatever's not really done much for me, so I'd rather just worry about my own survival and his in any case.

[ofobedience]

Fair enough. It's a more satisfying and logical answer than I was expecting. An improvement on the fanatical, ideological sort at any rate.

[fateality]

'Fraid you aren't escaping that from this lot anytime soon. But I guess you know that.

[ofobedience]

Alas, I'm very much aware of it. I frequently wonder whether I'd be better placed somewhere else.

[fateality]

Too bad you're stuck with us anyway.

But I feel that, I really do. I'm not really cut out for thinking the way they do.

[ofobedience]

I suppose I could always request a transfer.

[But you know..he's been here for over a year and still hasn't done that. Besides, what's to say that he'd fit in anywhere else, either? At least he knows what he's getting here, frustrating as it may be.]

But, well. I suppose there's some merit in knowing I'm not the only one who's mindset is misaligned with the rest of the group.