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[She's been reading without commenting so far, but she sees disharmony and can't resist prying at that gap a little bit more.]

So a mass protest? It will probably fail, we will probably all die, anyone who joins in without knowing that is a bigger idiot than the one who started it.

But so what? We only have a year left, we have no plans, we don't even know how to prevent these people from turning us into mindless monsters, or drones, or whatever they wish to do to us next. Never mind working out a way to defeat them all and restore our own worlds and our own bodies and our souls and walk out of here alive.

It sounds like the ending to a rubbish children's tale.

So what if we don't know Ruana's true power? She has proven that she is loathe to destroy our souls. And what are our bodies but wireframe and illusion, death doesn't matter here and crying about dying doesn't help anyone.

It doesn't matter if we fight or don't fight. Nothing is going to change, they will still hold all the power, we will still be puppets with no free will. But we still have choices, and if the choices are fight or not fight, even when fighting means dying, then so be it.

If that means we are split then so be it, because in a year we will all be dead, and there is no use in harmony or friendship.

Nothing we do matters anymore so with that in mind.

Let chaos rule.

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That sounds like a decent option, but then there's the matter of who chooses chaos and who chooses order. If the balance skews too far to one side or the other, there will be problems. As you said, order may lead to predictability and being controlled, but chaos may result in dangerous consequences for people who can't handle them.

And yet is balance not favourable to order? Which leaves Chaos at a disadvantage.

Every option is problematic, but we must all chose as we will.

In this case, I don't think it would be, given the extent and strength of chaos in this place.

That is correct. Perhaps you could say we have no choice but to choose.

Well perhaps I am biased, as I began this conversation wishing for chaos to rule.

But as long as everyone chooses, and fights for their choice, then what they chose makes little difference.

You may have another point here. Some people are under the impression that they cannot choose due to the tower's power over them. It might help to give them that the idea that they can indeed make a choice for themselves, whether it's as simple as going into this boycott or not.

Then we must let them know, which was the intention of my post, though I believe some people took it the wrong way.

Given how you framed your point as "letting chaos rule," I'm not surprised that some people took your intentions wrong. If you had simply said that people needed to choose and had the power to do so, the reactions might have been different.

I am not that great at how I word things it seems. Chaos seemed to me like the best way not to play into the administrators hands.

Who knows what is or isn't playing into their hands anymore? They surely have contingency plans for almost everything. All we can do is make our choices despite that.

I will agree with that, we must make our own choices and hope they are the right ones for us.

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