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[metalica]

[ The post comes across with a name that, really, no one will recognise. It's one word, simple: ＡＤＬＥＲ. Thank goodness for the text option so he has no need to attempt to hide his voice or face; for now his name is enough. ]

Tell me about your world. Your wars. Your powers. Tell me about the things that you fight for, what you continue to cherish even here.

Educate me.

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[vrykolakas]

My world? As sprawling, brutal and unfathomable as the next. Personally, I go under the banners of good sense and freedom enough to do more than survive.

What about you?

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[metalica]

Mine is a world where the great race, the stronger, is experimented on, tortured, for the sake of humanity.

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[vrykolakas]

Oh, humanity.

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[metalica]

You seem as unamused as I.

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[vrykolakas]

Perhaps. Perhaps not.

Don't mistake me. My citizens are humans, and I have very nearly, very literally, gone to hell and back for them. I was once one too, though that was a long, long time ago. They're as cruel and as stupid as any race of any world. But they're numerous enough and therefore arrogant enough to believe that they are the default, and all others are aberrations. Who wouldn't be?

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[metalica]

Which is why we must prove otherwise. We must rise up and show them that we're the stronger, the better, that we deserve the same power, if not more. That is my duty to my people.

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[vrykolakas]

Horseshit. There's no better when it comes to people en masse. If you think there is, and that it resides in your underclass, it's because you're either deluded or they haven't got the freedom to be as pointlessly vicious as any other sentient being.

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[metalica]

I will make it better.

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[vrykolakas]

How?

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[metalica]

Force.

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[vrykolakas]

And then?

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[metalica]

Change. The opposite of how we're living now.

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[vrykolakas]

No one's tried that before.

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[metalica]

I will be different.

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[vrykolakas]

You hope.

Do you consider, perhaps, that it's time to leave your home behind? The situation here isn't comparable.

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[metalica]

No.

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[vrykolakas]

Then you'll fail.

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[metalica]

We shall see.