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

[ofobedience]

All right. But what I'm interested to know is, in a hypothetical situation where we have access to hard facts that Zymandis' plan to destroy in order to build again is the only way for the multiverse to go on functioning in some form or other, in comparison with a slow collapse that ends all life permanently, where would you stand then?

[pummelling]

Does it matter? Like you said. It's hypothetical.

[He doesn't know.]

[ofobedience]

It matters in as much as I'd like to know the answer.

[pummelling]

...

Fine. I don't know what it'd be, not yet. Happy?

[ofobedience]

Not happy, no. Only curious. None of you make any sense to me.

[pummelling]

All right. That makes us even.

[ofobedience]

Ha ha. I suppose I'll just keep trying.

[I mean, it looks like he's stuck with Audentes. So he may as well, at the very least, try to understand their perspectives.]

[pummelling]

If you really are, I'm sure we'll meet in the middle.

Eventually.

Or we keep bickering on the comm network every time something happens. We need SOME form of entertainment around here.

[ofobedience]

Well. There's certainly something to be said for entertainment.

[pummelling]

It's that or staring idly at the cell walls 'till we bust out. Much as I love watching grown adults snipe at each other like a bunch of kids on the playground, it's more than high time for us to get out of here.

[ofobedience]

Now that, at least, is something we can both agree on.