Event: Consolidation Theory, Part Four and Five

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Characters: red-marked characters and their new friends
Location: ???
Date: Morning 354, Morning and Day 355
Summary: A quiet morning and a confusing morning, or maybe they're both, or maybe they're neither.
Warnings: gore, psychological horror, warn for specifics in the subject lines

Part Four OOC Post
Part Five OOC Post

Comments

[warriorscribe]

You can never be sure of that. If everything was optional, if nothing was given away or watched without one's own permission, is that not privacy?

The technology itself isn't at fault, only the ones who decided to misuse them. All of these mistakes were made by human beings. That means there's always a different outcome. It could always be better. Because we can always be better.

[He tucks himself into a ball. This poor, fallen world, with an absolute wretch its only survivor... He remembers the thirst to destroy those who would wrong him and humanity as a whole under the vileness, an exaggerated expression of real, ugly feelings of resentment.

Vileness brought forth violent rage at Heaven and The Darkness. But never, ever Earth. Enoch's faith in humanity as a whole is absolute and immovable so long as some part of him remains, and Will's challenge prompts him to cling to it as an anchor. He'll fight tooth and nail for humanity's honor- they can get it right. They will. If the quantum theories he's been learning about here mean anything, they eventually must.]

...They lacked someone like you, to shed light on the risks. Caution is how progress is tempered, so we avoid mistakes we won't survive to learn from, like the one that destroyed this world.

[ex_this_ismydesign36]

[ Enoch was killing him here with the talk of his ability to shine light in dark places. Will believed he'd lost that light, but watching Enoch curl on himself and grasp desperately at hope was almost physically painful and Will didn't have it in him to break the man any further.

Darkness or not, he did not crush injured birds. ]

You're right, that the technology is neutral. [ He could give on that point. ] In many ways it is the pure representation of humanity's capacity for curiosity and the desire to improve.

I hope that maybe we can get to the day where our ethics, match our ability to create.

[ Then, because he could only stand to sit in his own hypocrisy for so long, Will began to struggle to get to his feet. ]

You should try to get some rest, Enoch. In case we have to go round two.

[warriorscribe]

We will, so long as we survive.

[And there must be a timeline where they had. If string theory accounts for every possibility, there must be at least one where everything goes right.

But what Will says next sobers his confidence a little. Rest for a potential round two? No. If he hadn't eaten the meal provided last time, could he have possibly caused less damage to the others? Could one of those injuries have been avoidable?]

...I would rather not be rested, if I am to be incited to attack others again. I would rather make myself more easily subdued.

[ex_this_ismydesign36]

I don't expect Miller to give us the option of subduing those of you who are marked. He didn't last time. [ Will said it gently, feeling bad but he didn't want to leave Enoch with the assumption that his physical state now would affect Miller's machinations.

Drugs and perception were funny things. ]

Try to rest.

[warriorscribe]

[He doesn't say anything, but does not provide agreement, either. The unmarked may not have fought back, but surely they must have defended against one another. And surely his ability to inflict harm was dependent on his own body's energy?

Silently, he withdraws into the bathroom again, curled behind the wall and hoping he will mitigate what damage he can. That he still has this much.]