06 - week six

[afflictionmods]

WEEK SIX

Sunday starts with more aches and pains than you might be used to. Florence patched people up after Saturday’s lesson, sure, but it’s not a complete cure - not to mention it doesn’t ease the sting of betrayal. Some classmates that you thought would cooperate wound up breaking your trust in the end, and this week will be interesting with the fallout.

It’s hard to say what this week will have in store otherwise. Things are changing, and it’s not clear what this means for all of you. On the bright side, however, the creatures and places you once knew from home have suddenly disappeared, so that's less that you need to worry about. There are new areas for you to look at as well.

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FLORENCE / LORELEI

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[vivens]

[ sabo will find a particularly cozy place to settling before raising an eyebrow. ]

Are you going to report what you hear back to Lorelei?

[ you know, if she really can't hear them. ]

[affligere]

No. I will not.

[And, just to throw Sabo a bone.]

She did not tell me to do this, either.

[vivens]

[ thanks for the bone but also...huh. that's. interesting. ]

Will that be safe for you? You know, if she ends up finding out what you've done.

[affligere]

I cannot feel pain, and any destruction of my person is ultimately irrelevant because it is not like I am something that can live or die anyways, so please do not worry about anything like that.

[See? It's fine.]

[vivens]

[ frowns.... he isn't even super attached to florence but that kind of thinking is just. ]

I'm sure that there might be a few of us here who would find what you described to be distressing to them.

[ he says this calmly and gently. ]

Even if you cannot feel pain or find harm to yourself to be irrelevant, it will impact those around you who care.

[affligere]

[...]

If that is the case, then you and anyone who may find that upsetting have my apologies.

[Hm!]

However, it still means there is limited risk for what I am doing right now.

[vivens]

Okay.

[ he'll accept that with a nod. progress for our robot friend(?) ]

I have to ask why you've decided to approach us now about this. Was it really the culmination of everything that has happened? Or is it something else? I've come across some information that seems to put Camellia in an interesting light.

[affligere]

Saturday was an escalation we did not want.

[Is it really "we", though?]

There may be more interference with the project, and I...

[...

They trail off.]

[vivens]

[ hmm... sabo would argue that it probably ended the way certain people would have wanted it to.

he'll raise an eyebrow as they trail off. ]

Florence?

[affligere]

...My apologies. I did not intend to concern you.

[Anyways!]

Do you have any more questions or experiences you would like to share, Mr. Sabo?

[vivens]

Can you tell me what just happened?

[ hes not gonna let that go??? ]

...and does Camellia have good intentions? The exhibit they have in the museum seems like a show of propaganda, but I found some stuff that made it looked like they were also trying to warn people about the orbs.

[affligere]

It is nothing of importance.

[just trust them, bro.]

That I do not know for certain, nor do I know if good intentions are enough to make their actions - or Lorelei's - good in the eyes of those of you being putting under a lens. Objective things like that are not my strong suit.

[vivens]

[ :dislike: but okay. he will trust them. ]

Fair enough.

[ it is a response that requires some emotion in it so let's see if he can find a better way to phrase it. hmmm. ]

Objectively speaking, do either of them truly have the public in mind or are they after whatever answer that they seek personally?

[affligere]

[thx bro]

If I were to say… it may be a combination of both.

[vivens]

Both?

[ dislike this option!!! but also fair given the complexity of things. black, white, gray... why do so many things exist in gray. ]

In equal measures? I doubt there's an objective way to decide which is worse than the other other than by being blatantly obvious about it.

[ which sadly has not been the case?? ]

[affligere]

[there's so many shades of gray, u could say]

Yes, though I believe that may also end up a matter of opinion in the end even if one has more blatant methods or motivations... It is not something I can pass judgement on.

[vivens]

[ stop this. ]

Understandable. Unless there's a rubric of some sort that exists then it would be still vulnerable to bias.

[ and even then!!! sabo may not be Deep Into stuff like this but he is aware of enough things to understand this much. guess camellia will maintain its status of "villain" along with lorelei. joy.

though— ]

I know that Lorelei created you, but do you find yourself straying away from her influences? All of this discussion is something that you wished to do on your own, right?

[affligere]

[shades in a multiple of five, perhaps, you could say,]

This was my own decision, yes. I am allowed some measure of "independence", for lack of a better way to put it, to do things as I see fit.

[They are, after all, much more logical than a human could be.]

[vivens]

[ closes my eyes... petition to have sabo murdered. ]

But why? Do you know what reasoning you used to decide speak to us about this at this moment?

[affligere]

[🔪🔪🔪]

It seemed overdue, and like you were looking for answers I may be able to provide anyways. Otherwise, why enter Camellia’s campus?

[That’s all!!!]

[vivens]

[ bless.... and now ace and sabo will never be. ]

Logical enough and thank you for taking it upon yourself to deal with all of these questions.

[ of he says this just before he realizes there is probably something he should have checked with? ]

...there isn't any kind of danger or concern for handing off the tablet that was given to us upon arrival to someone other than us, is there?

[affligere]

[no…!! i take it back!!]

…

[They’re not disappointed, clearly, but if they could be…

Or maybe they are disappointed. Maybe this is it. This is the moment.]

Do you trust the person you gave it to?

[vivens]

[ i can't believe lav killed ace and sabo..... but you know it's fair. if they want to be disappointed with him then it's only fitting. now as for the matter of trust...

hmm.

it honestly be the best thing ever if kyle pulled a super fast one on sabo but he still doesn't think that kyle could tell a believable lie. so either he's the world's best actor or just what everyone has learned. ]

As much as I can trust anyone here.

[affligere]

[:worry:

Also, wow! What an incredible non-answer, Sabo.]

That could mean anything, Mr. Sabo. If you believe they may use the tablet for nefarious means, I could access it remotely…

[vivens]

[ he is, unfortunately, very good at them.... ]

I don't think he would use it for nefarious purposes; he didn't come off as that sort of person. However, the others here did mistreat him after I spoke with him.

[ so now sabo has no idea. :') ]