̷K̷𝓿𝓮𝓷𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓷𝓮

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[̷K̷𝓿𝓮𝓷𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓷𝓮 @R077ENLUCK]

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𝔂𝑜𝓊 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚𝙣'𝙩 𝙨𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝙞𝙣 𝙖 𝔀𝒽𝒾𝓁𝑒 ⨾

[̷K̷𝓿𝓮𝓷𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓷𝓮 @R077ENLUCK]

「 𝙞𝙩'𝙨 𝓵𝒶𝓋𝒾𝓈𝒽 .ᐟ.ᐟ」

[̷K̷𝓿𝓮𝓷𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓷𝓮 @R077ENLUCK]

#december

aven lashing out at mydei and herta because they dared to point out true things about him 😭 phenomenal night

[̷K̷𝓿𝓮𝓷𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓷𝓮 @R077ENLUCK]

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that, friend, is my sole freedom. approaching conversations like this with unadulterated transparency. i am a lab rat, and topaz is a lab rat, and so on down until the workers that get killed on the front lines.

this is a truth i live and breathe. the only truth.

[̷K̷𝓿𝓮𝓷𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓷𝓮 @R077ENLUCK]

ask anyone else in the IPC, and they’ll tell you their excuse for that. we’re generously using our huge pool of funds to solve everyone else’s problems, out of the kindness of our pure, magnanimous hearts.

ask me, and i’ll tell you what you already know:

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[𝕿𝖍𝖊 Herta @voidedanswers]

I understand we live in very different worlds, very different circumstances. Yet should work not be rewarded?

It would seem any reward you get is just another asset to pretty up your portfolio for the next task no?

Is that what you would call luck?

[̷K̷𝓿𝓮𝓷𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓷𝓮 @R077ENLUCK]

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that the IPC cares only for control, and it enjoys controlling its own members just as much as planets indebted to it. there has not been a single point in my career that i have been unaware of this fact; i hardly even bother trying to hide it.

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[̷K̷𝓿𝓮𝓷𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓷𝓮 @R077ENLUCK]

@sanguinecrown you killed your father, and you’re comparing me to him. pardon me while i process all of that.

i’ve always been a “sigonian thrall,” isn’t that right? did mr. dan heng tell you what happened to the other ones? what i did to them?

what part of me is “acting” like i have power?

[̷K̷𝓿𝓮𝓷𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓷𝓮 @R077ENLUCK]

pfft, you’re asking me to buy myself out from under the likes of jade and diamond. my life is worth thirty tanba, and compared to them, so is my net worth!

of course i can’t buy my way out. for every chain i hold, there’s another around my wrists—a heavier one.

[𝕿𝖍𝖊 Herta @voidedanswers]

Is that so?

Then answer me this: If money solves nearly any problem why do you still have to do dirty work?

Why do you still have to serve their whims.

If money could solve it why haven’t you bought your way out?

The answer is you can’t.

Is that right?

[̷K̷𝓿𝓮𝓷𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓷𝓮 @R077ENLUCK]

@sanguinecrown oh, is mr. stellaron ratting me out for fun now? what could you know about the power i’ve been told i have?

perhaps as a show of it, i should seize amphoreus as nothing more than a commercial asset?

[̷K̷𝓿𝓮𝓷𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓷𝓮 @R077ENLUCK]

it’s not the IPC’s fault that money solves almost every problem when you’re the one with an overabundance of it.

in fact, let me demonstrate. i’d love the opportunity to throw money at your head.

without unreasonable force, obviously.

[𝕿𝖍𝖊 Herta @voidedanswers]

Now for my next hypothesis: does aventurine’s luck match his bark or is he all bark and no bite.

Oh I almost forgot, the IPC would rather throw money at their problems than have any sort of debate that isn’t profit driven.

Oh well time for the experiment then.

[̷K̷𝓿𝓮𝓷𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓷𝓮 @R077ENLUCK]

new experiment idea: fuck around and find out.

[𝕿𝖍𝖊 Herta @voidedanswers]

New experiment idea: Prank call the ipc until they send someone after us.

…. I know it’s not an experiment, I’m just bored at this particular point in time.

[̷K̷𝓿𝓮𝓷𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓷𝓮 @R077ENLUCK]

@sanguinecrown did your voice change, just then? i’d wager, just from that, that you know all about adaptation.

how fascinating.

let’s run a little…thought experiment. if the lone survivor of a genocide ended up enabling such crimes on other worlds, would his people still claim him?

[𝕿𝖍𝖊 Herta @voidedanswers]

Problems? Answers? It should be simple to conclude.

Alas let me simplify:

Herta > Problems > Answers.

Understood? Good.

[̷K̷𝓿𝓮𝓷𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓷𝓮 @R077ENLUCK]

@DEMISED_SCH0LAR and i’d look fantastic, like you and ratio! tsk.

[̷K̷𝓿𝓮𝓷𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓷𝓮 @R077ENLUCK]

aren't you like...20s? early 30s?

...40s...?

[Anaxagoras of the Nousporists @DEMISED_SCH0LAR]

AGH! MY BACK

[̷K̷𝓿𝓮𝓷𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓷𝓮 @R077ENLUCK]

@DEMISED_SCH0LAR flying dromas? so…sunglasses to protect from how close they are to the sun…?

[̷K̷𝓿𝓮𝓷𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓷𝓮 @R077ENLUCK]

@sanguinecrown (he shakes his head, still laughing under his breath. the sound is bitter now.)

well, i’m glad you two get along.

i’m not the kid they dragged off sigonia’s sands, mr. mydeimos. he didn’t survive.

[̷K̷𝓿𝓮𝓷𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓷𝓮 @R077ENLUCK]

@DEMISED_SCH0LAR ah, well. figured i'd ask.

[̷K̷𝓿𝓮𝓷𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓷𝓮 @R077ENLUCK]

@DEMISED_SCH0LAR still wanna hear them.

[̷K̷𝓿𝓮𝓷𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓷𝓮 @R077ENLUCK]

@sanguinecrown ah, i've said too much. didn't realize you knew stellaron's friends.

(he laughs hollowly, gaze distant.)

...you don't owe me anything. the IPC just wanted to root itself in a world from inception.

and "surviving" is a stretch, my friend.

[̷K̷𝓿𝓮𝓷𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓷𝓮 @R077ENLUCK]

@DEMISED_SCH0LAR ...why not?

[̷K̷𝓿𝓮𝓷𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓷𝓮 @R077ENLUCK]

@DEMISED_SCH0LAR ...i still would. no matter how crazy - you think i don't have insane thoughts?

[̷K̷𝓿𝓮𝓷𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓷𝓮 @R077ENLUCK]

@DEMISED_SCH0LAR why not?!