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[animusnpcs]

Since you all seem to be so eager to talk to me, and I have some free time, I'll open the floor for questions.

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[animusnpcs]

We're trying to prevent all life from being extinguished from the worlds. If you believe it or not isn't my problem.

[guiltapalooza]

You can say that as many times as you want, and I still think you're full of shit.

If you cared, you wouldn't be doing this to us. The experiments, the killing, the refusing to speak to us except in carefully dispensed doses like this. One Q&A session isn't a kindness, it's an insult. We're not little pets you can collect in a cage and take out to play with when you want. We're people.

[animusnpcs]

I could send you back home if you want.

[guiltapalooza]

You don't care, do you? You think we're dumb animals.

Fine. I do have a question I want answered. The corpse that you brought here-- Feferi. You know which one I'm talking about. Is she really dead or was that another trick?

[animusnpcs]

Dumb animals aren't nearly as interesting.

Everyone from your world--and everyone from the worlds of anyone else here--is dead.

[guiltapalooza]

Then explain to me how people from our worlds show up after we do, if they're already dead.

[animusnpcs]

None of you are from the same world. Even if there is a small, inconsequential difference such as someone choosing a different breakfast one day, there is some difference.

[guiltapalooza]

What are you saying? They can't be! I saw them, I saw Xander, and Buffy, and Dawn--

How could you keep something like this from us the whole time?!

[animusnpcs]

We told you your world was destroyed, didn't we? Anyone you saw in this Tower wasn't from the same world as you, even if they were very similar worlds.

[guiltapalooza]

That's not the same and you know it. I've resurrected people with my own hands. I could destroy a world myself if I decided to.

Telling us that our worlds were destroyed-- even with all of your proof-- how are we supposed to believe you when you think it's a joke to torture and kill us?!

[animusnpcs]

I could send you home, but you'd probably simply assume that was a trick as well.

[guiltapalooza]

Because I know better! I've read the network, I've seen the backlogs, I know what happens when you send people "home"! You're so self-righteous, acting like I should know better than to doubt you--

How about you join us down here and see what it's like for a while? You're so interested in us. Observe for yourself. Try it out.

/pirated

[forsakenwood]

[ ... side-eye ]

I will take you up on that offer.

pirated back xD

[guiltapalooza]

You shouldn't. They'll just send you to a post-apocalyptic wasteland for a while and then eventually bring you back. Or a nightmare version, or something else.

Don't believe his offer.

\o/

[forsakenwood]

[ "They", huh. ]

As it is often said, that which sounds too good.

[animusnpcs]

Have you changed your mind, then?

[forsakenwood]

[ It isn't that she trusts Willow.

But the offer honestly does sound too good to be true, and contradictory to the goals of people-snatchers, besides.

Though if these comments are anything to go by, those who ran the tower appear to love their contradictions. ]

I have.

[animusnpcs]

Very well.

[forsakenwood]

What is the purpose of the different colored fluids in these collars?

[animusnpcs]

You all require different drugs to maintain your various bodies and skills properly within the Tower.

[guiltapalooza]

Don't volunteer for anything here. Don't sign up, don't write your name down, don't say yes. Don't even make suggestions.

Or be very careful if you do.

[forsakenwood]

I gather you have experience with such?

[guiltapalooza]

They like to play games. It usually ends in a lot of people dying.

[forsakenwood]

I'm sorry.

[guiltapalooza]

Not your fault. This isn't really the best way to meet someone, huh?

I'm Willow.