Oh, but death would have to outdo my own spite. I can assure you, it is a high bar.
[ something something he's going to go home and die something something ]
Hm, perhaps it was your significant weight that numbed them. I understand it can have this effect.
[ mean girls!!! ]
Oh, you see, I would agree, but my people are a world away. I know this is shocking, but the people here are not mine. I make no claim to leadership here. [ yet ]
Maybe death will take a far more light-handed method. For example, by seducing you with promises of a life that far exceeds anything your mind could possibly dream up.
[ silco, king of the underworld. eresh would cry. ]
You certainly have an imagination on you. I would correct that normally during banquets, the food is not there to eat but to admire. I figure I should let you know, lest you embarrass yourself by stuffing yourself full.
Ah, all that waste, of course. What better way to show how frivolous and wasteful you all are, if not by wasting that which others struggle to obtain.
Like my people, for example. The ones who do all the work, make all the products that industry thrives on. Those who struggle for food to eat, clean water to drink, breathable air. We are stronger and more driven than those who waste could even imagine. We create and we flourish despite it all.
Whether you have heard it before or not, the fact that Death may already have a foot in the door with you still speaks to something, am I wrong? [ as they say, it's always easier the second time. ]
I will be sure to pass your message along one day. But, since we aren't in the empire, you will have to forgive me for being unable to do anything but offer my condolences. [ to which there are actually none. ]
I see. You do all sound rather reliable. Trust me, nobles tend to be far more focused on their own internal affairs. Considering the food may be poisoned, perhaps you all are being spared. I admit, the most shocking thing about all of this is... you have people to call as such.
I expected you to be a much lonelier, solitary man.
It speaks to how it often leaves through the same door empty handed, certainly. I suppose it is one way to find me amenable to its charms, by giving me its job.
Oh please, do not worry about the condolences. They would be as meaningless as your food, apparently. All for show. [ JESUS BOYS COME ON ]
Come now, Callisto. Are you not a leader yourself, or is that all a lie? Can you thin of someone more [ lonely?? ] solitary than the one who holds it all in check from the top? Or in our case, the top of the bottom.
[ Like the lightest waste rising to the top of the sump. ]
Or maybe Death genuinely thinks it's time for you get some much needed rest.
How impudent. My condolences are quite rare, you should have taken it while you had the opportunity. [ lol. ]
Is it so lonely when you have all but steeled your resolve for it? Besides, whether it be ten years or ago, or now... isn't it a fact that there are no more or less people who stand beside such individuals? I merely meant that you thought highly of your own people.
[ These two are HATERS but hey at least they're mutually hating. ]
Ah yes, because I think so little of the rest of you? Perhaps you should instead consider, that I find my people impressive, by contrast. Many of them I have worked alongside, and fought alongside for most of my life. Those I think poorly of are the ones who have betrayed our cause.
[ Cause, huh? Well that's... a bit more serious. ]
Nonsense, you love it so much you can hardly contain yourself.
[ he can tell even through text. π«° ]
I did not say that. I simply thought you expressed more emotion today than you did than when you gave a grieving child a sword. [ he says as if he played no part in that. ] Your cause?
... and how noble a cause would that be for it to come up now?
You and I must have very different definitions of that word.
[ He doesn't even say it. ]
Please, that grieving child had lived an easier life than any of the children I've known. [ Silco, as always, is so callous.]
I do not make it a point to tell everyone my cause upon meeting them, Callisto. We have had hardly the conversational time. My cause is to give my people more than runoff, an independent state free from those who refuse to even breathe our very air. It is a cause for many of us, but I have been the one leading it for a very long time.
Love? You are entirely correct. I suppose I should have used a much more realistic word between the two of us. Thoroughly enjoyed? Couldn't get enough of? You'd die for it?
[ dw, he got you. ]
I suppose his life wasn't all too miserable. At the very least, it isn't the end. Thanks to you. [ but, should the kid be thankful when he now lives within neo tokyo in just a precarious a situation as any and with not much more hope than he had in his own hometown? the only difference was now they begged for scraps from the outsiders too. aka, callisto isn't much better in his assessments. ]
Is that so different than acting as the emperor of your very own kingdom? [ the point being on acting. to be honest, while it may sound like treason in some ways, callisto isn't the tiniest bit offended. ]
Delusional, are you? To put words in my mouth like that.
[ Callisto could do the speaking for him... (NO) ]
Perhaps the experience will continue to teach him a lesson worth learning. He will become stronger for it. [ Silco wants to see every kid get fucked up and become a monster though. Just look at jinx! ]
Oh quite different. I could be uprooted anytime if someone thought I was slipping. It is far more precarious than what you all deal with. Besides, I'm one of them. Many of us grew up in the mines together.
[ The few that are left living now. The number has dwindled to nearly nothing. ]
If not in your mouth, then pray tell, where should I have put them?
[ truly (no) him larping as silco ]
Or he will simply crumble by the next year. Not all people acquire strength at their worst hours. [ their ongoing gamble... in a year, we check back on this kid. remind me... ]
I have a hard time envisioning you as a very good miner. You're far more well-suited to being what you are now. [ whatever that is through callisto's eyes. ] As for being uprooted... well, the royal family may not be exactly what you think.
[ shoulda put them up your ass]I find words like these are best left unspoken.
If he crumples, then that is his weakness. Does he deserve to continue, if he does? My people are not given that luxury, why should he?
[ damb silco ]
I am better suited for it, the foremen would have agreed with you. To be fair, I had helped them organize. Prior to what I do now, I was quite the community builder. [ Half of one. He didn't do the community stuff, he did the planning, while the amenable half of their little operation did all the social things.
but, at the mention of "my people" again— ] Do you not think that borders on obsession? You will find most "people" like to be cut loose sometimes. [ says callisto. ]
Is that what we are calling it now? A "community builder." You did seem to do a decent job on the streets here, as well. From what it sounds, it seems the people may be easier to move here than back in your lands.
[ didn't silco say something to the effect at the gala, or was he simply presuming the man's objectives would remain the same in any place? callisto finds that people's character was the hardest thing of all to change. his own included. ]
Not just him, but your people. No one appreciates a ruler in which does not know when to leave the ball early, for example. [ who relaxes around their own boss, for example? definitely no cedrick. though that might be for entirely different reasons... like callisto totting a corpse around a noble's birthday party. nbd. ]
For you, let's hope that's the case. Well, either way, it seems you're a man full of suspicions, doubt, and zero room for trust. I am sure you will do just fine even without my advice.
... and now, you have something to look forward to in the cafeteria.
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[ death was persistent, after all. ]
Really now? And not just because your feeble thighs were far too numb to be able to feel it?
[ when an innocent christmas thread... ]
Exactly, so perhaps this is a fine time for you to spend less time questioning me, and more time focusing on yourself and your own people.
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[ something something he's going to go home and die something something ]
Hm, perhaps it was your significant weight that numbed them. I understand it can have this effect.
[ mean girls!!! ]
Oh, you see, I would agree, but my people are a world away. I know this is shocking, but the people here are not mine. I make no claim to leadership here. [ yet ]
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[ no silco has to live forever ]
And where do you think this weight derives from?
[ i'm crying. ]
Really? Perhaps if you left a better impression, you could have adopted the elves.
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[ he's TRYIN' to ]
Oh, I thought it was all those rich foods your type are so keen on consuming.
[ my irl guffaw ]
The elves? Please. Nobody is worthy of my attention like that except for my people.
1/2
[ silco, king of the underworld. eresh would cry. ]
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[ rich foods is still taking me out ]
And who are your own people, pray tell?
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[ somethingsomethingcrausomethingsomethingofferdgodhoodsilcoisnormalsomething ]
Ah, all that waste, of course. What better way to show how frivolous and wasteful you all are, if not by wasting that which others struggle to obtain.
Like my people, for example. The ones who do all the work, make all the products that industry thrives on. Those who struggle for food to eat, clean water to drink, breathable air. We are stronger and more driven than those who waste could even imagine. We create and we flourish despite it all.
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I will be sure to pass your message along one day. But, since we aren't in the empire, you will have to forgive me for being unable to do anything but offer my condolences. [ to which there are actually none. ]
I see. You do all sound rather reliable. Trust me, nobles tend to be far more focused on their own internal affairs. Considering the food may be poisoned, perhaps you all are being spared. I admit, the most shocking thing about all of this is... you have people to call as such.
I expected you to be a much lonelier, solitary man.
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Oh please, do not worry about the condolences. They would be as meaningless as your food, apparently. All for show. [ JESUS BOYS COME ON ]
Come now, Callisto. Are you not a leader yourself, or is that all a lie? Can you thin of someone more [ lonely?? ] solitary than the one who holds it all in check from the top? Or in our case, the top of the bottom.
[ Like the lightest waste rising to the top of the sump. ]
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How impudent. My condolences are quite rare, you should have taken it while you had the opportunity. [ lol. ]
Is it so lonely when you have all but steeled your resolve for it? Besides, whether it be ten years or ago, or now... isn't it a fact that there are no more or less people who stand beside such individuals? I merely meant that you thought highly of your own people.
That's the shock.
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As should you, it seems.
[ These two are HATERS but hey at least they're mutually hating. ]
Ah yes, because I think so little of the rest of you? Perhaps you should instead consider, that I find my people impressive, by contrast. Many of them I have worked alongside, and fought alongside for most of my life. Those I think poorly of are the ones who have betrayed our cause.
[ Cause, huh? Well that's... a bit more serious. ]
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[ he can tell even through text. π«° ]
I did not say that. I simply thought you expressed more emotion today than you did than when you gave a grieving child a sword. [ he says as if he played no part in that. ] Your cause?
... and how noble a cause would that be for it to come up now?
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[ He doesn't even say it. ]
Please, that grieving child had lived an easier life than any of the children I've known. [ Silco, as always, is so callous.]
I do not make it a point to tell everyone my cause upon meeting them, Callisto. We have had hardly the conversational time. My cause is to give my people more than runoff, an independent state free from those who refuse to even breathe our very air. It is a cause for many of us, but I have been the one leading it for a very long time.
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[ dw, he got you. ]
I suppose his life wasn't all too miserable. At the very least, it isn't the end. Thanks to you. [ but, should the kid be thankful when he now lives within neo tokyo in just a precarious a situation as any and with not much more hope than he had in his own hometown? the only difference was now they begged for scraps from the outsiders too. aka, callisto isn't much better in his assessments. ]
Is that so different than acting as the emperor of your very own kingdom? [ the point being on acting. to be honest, while it may sound like treason in some ways, callisto isn't the tiniest bit offended. ]
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[ Callisto could do the speaking for him... (NO) ]
Perhaps the experience will continue to teach him a lesson worth learning. He will become stronger for it. [ Silco wants to see every kid get fucked up and become a monster though. Just look at jinx! ]
Oh quite different. I could be uprooted anytime if someone thought I was slipping. It is far more precarious than what you all deal with. Besides, I'm one of them. Many of us grew up in the mines together.
[ The few that are left living now. The number has dwindled to nearly nothing. ]
NoOoOo how did dw eat my tag up
[ truly (no) him larping as silco ]
Or he will simply crumble by the next year. Not all people acquire strength at their worst hours. [ their ongoing gamble... in a year, we check back on this kid. remind me... ]
I have a hard time envisioning you as a very good miner. You're far more well-suited to being what you are now. [ whatever that is through callisto's eyes. ] As for being uprooted... well, the royal family may not be exactly what you think.
DW PLEASE???????
If he crumples, then that is his weakness. Does he deserve to continue, if he does? My people are not given that luxury, why should he?
[ damb silco ]
I am better suited for it, the foremen would have agreed with you. To be fair, I had helped them organize. Prior to what I do now, I was quite the community builder. [ Half of one. He didn't do the community stuff, he did the planning, while the amenable half of their little operation did all the social things.
Silco, however, will not mention that. ]
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but, at the mention of "my people" again— ] Do you not think that borders on obsession? You will find most "people" like to be cut loose sometimes. [ says callisto. ]
Is that what we are calling it now? A "community builder." You did seem to do a decent job on the streets here, as well. From what it sounds, it seems the people may be easier to move here than back in your lands.
[ didn't silco say something to the effect at the gala, or was he simply presuming the man's objectives would remain the same in any place? callisto finds that people's character was the hardest thing of all to change. his own included. ]
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[ In the end, Silco doesn't care about the kid. Hell!! His own kid is here, so he's... 100% more focused on that now. ]
Of course I do. I speak the language they do. We are similar in kind, and they respond. Especially to an experienced hand.
[ Which he does have. To everyone's dismay. ] Hopefully they will continue to take guidance well.
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For you, let's hope that's the case. Well, either way, it seems you're a man full of suspicions, doubt, and zero room for trust. I am sure you will do just fine even without my advice.
... and now, you have something to look forward to in the cafeteria.
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[ Silco has the wildest nightclub in zaun and he rarely shows his face, introverted little motherfucker. ]
I did fine without your advice to start, so perhaps I will, hm?
[ Silco and Callisto are just. So mean to one another. Good for them. ]
Perhaps next time I am in the cafeteria, I will think to light it on fire. Especially if there's another picture of me on there I don't like.