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[animusnpcs]

Does anyone else kind of want to stay here instead of go home? If there was a way to make it safe to live here, would anyone else stay?

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[Anon Text; Though we know Jason totally knows who this is.]

[no_longer_a_king]

This is the reason I wish to keep the Administrators from using us.

Every day I wonder if I should stay here or not, and take into account those who wish to stay here. Even should my world be fixed my fate back home is not one I would wish on others. [And she spends every day in fear of returning to that, even if she knows it's either that or wandering her dead world as a spirit.]

If we were treated like human beings rather than something no better than toys or insects or if we were being told what the progress is on the research into restoring our worlds, there would be less objections to staying here. As it stands right now, it feels as if several of the Administrators live in fear of one another and withhold knowledge that could be useful to all sides. How can they expect to lead if they do not even trust one another?

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[animusnpcs]

I don't know a lot about them except what they say here. Maybe they can't help it for some reason or maybe they just like being mean, but I think we should get rid of them. I just don't want this place to be destroyed doing that. I guess that's kind of selfish.

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[no_longer_a_king]

It's not selfish, no, but as far as we're aware, we have nothing to lose at this point. Unless something is done, the power is going to run out and everyone here will die. Truly. I assume that would include the Administrators. Unless Ruana decides to feed on the souls of those who returned to their worlds.

I will admit that, yes. This is entirely our fault. I would be among the first to say so, but it's a risk we have to take. If the Administrators would work with us and actually explain things to us instead of hiding everything from us, I'm sure any number of us would be willing to help. They have no faith in us and, in turn, we have no faith in them and I do not know if there is any way we can extend an olive branch, so to speak, at this point. Not after what the likes of Jason and Ruana have put so many of our number through.

[animusnpcs]

So you knew the power cores were going to break before they did? Dax would have explained, right?

[no_longer_a_king]

No. No one knew what the chips would do. All we had known was how to place them and that it was supposed to help us in the long run.

I apologize. I thought that had been made clear when people made their apologies on the Network: no one knew what the chips were meant to do.

[animusnpcs]

But then didn't he hide something from you, too? And then all of you hid something from the rest of us.

[no_longer_a_king]

We had to, is the thing. We had to keep the Administrators from finding out. Considering there was a month recently where Jason took us in and brainwashed a number of us, we had reason to believe we had to keep it as secret as possible. The Administrators constantly watch and listen to us, so we had to be very careful lest we get caught.

I am honestly still shocked we managed to pull it off.

We cannot change what has happened. All we can do now is try to fix things. I do not blame anyone for thinking we could break things, but when our alternative is true death and our worlds are already gone what is there left to lose?

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[animusnpcs]

What if Ruana does something worse to us because of it?

[no_longer_a_king]

Such as what?

[Oh, Arturia has ideas of what Ruana could do. Part of 'making the tower safe' is doing something about Ruana, after all.]