[Text: Lera]

[jupiter_bands]

[after she gets the dragonmail from Rhys]

You have military experience, right? Do you know what kinds of potions might be helpful in the Bastan situation?

Comments

[firecracker_hopping]

All of them are good. Especially healing.

Offensive wise, you want things like acid and explosives. Can you rig up bombs?

[jupiter_bands]

Um... technically...

[firecracker_hopping]

Make some fragmentation bombs. They're good for taking out enemy infantry.

Just load an explosive one up with metal scrap. Screws and nails work in a pinch.

[jupiter_bands]

...

GROSS, LERA!

[firecracker_hopping]

Well... yeah, but it's a bomb. It's supposed to be gross.

If you don't kill them, you want them so wounded they won't get back up.

[jupiter_bands]

omg nope I'm not making anything that will go on to a life of exploding and killing an actual person!

[firecracker_hopping]

It's a war, Harriet. They're... that's what they're gonna do. They kill people in wars.

Like Rachel Hamada. :|

[jupiter_bands]

WAR IS DUMB I'M MAKING HEALS AND BUFFS

[firecracker_hopping]

Fine do what you want.

[firecracker_hopping]

[A little while later...]

Sorry about that, talking about the lady who died was kinda hitting below the belt. :(

[jupiter_bands]

If it makes you feel better I don't think you were making a very good point anyway

[firecracker_hopping]

:| Even if you do buffs and heals, or even debuffs, people are going to use those things to kill other people. Even if you give someone a healing potion, it's so they can get up and kill someone.

My point is that people are going to try to kill each other in a war and participating, even if it's indirectly, means you are helping with that.

[jupiter_bands]

Do you think it's morally wrong for me to help?

[firecracker_hopping]

No. You should help. They're bastards, they attacked an innocent town and killed at least one person who had never hurt them. The moral thing to do here is make sure they stop and can't hurt anyone else.

But I think you're trying to differentiate something you can't. If you're helping one organized group fight another organized group, it's a war. And whether it's making potions, drawing maps, or firing a rifle, it all goes towards the same end: destroy the enemy's ability to fight this war and, hopefully, the next.

[jupiter_bands]

Tl;dr!

If you don't think it's wrong then stfu and let me draw my line where I want to

[firecracker_hopping]

Oh yeah THAT philosophy is gonna be great for when you're ruling Safta!

[jupiter_bands]

Like your logic is so great!

if healing potions CAN be used indirectly in service of murder than we obviously MUST build horrible fucking shrapnel bombs instead of heals because it's all EXACTLY the same thing

yes I see now Lera you should be my adviser!!

Maybe I should just send nukes [not that she can make nukes] in case ANY OF THE BAD GUYS ACCIDENTALLY SURVIVE TO CONTINUE THEIR LIVES OF PUUUURE EEEVIL because it's totally impossible that they too have kids and families and surely all of them personally decided to attack innocents out of malice definitely not doing their jobs and nothing at all possibly to do with fucked up programming given to them by dumbasses like us!!!

:(

[firecracker_hopping]

[Oh, that stung. She throws a jar at her wall, before she turns back at her cell phone.]

Fuck you!

I didn't say its the same thing just that it all causes the same thing! No shit they all have families too, congratulations for summing up how war sucks! And yeah I never thought about people getting killed in a messy way because of orders I didn't agree with IT'S NOT LIKE THAT WAS MY JOB

How was I supposed to fucking know my alt would help all of this happen?

[jupiter_bands]

WAIT WHAT!

[firecracker_hopping]

He betrayed Bastan, some lady guy IDK named Jordan told me earlier.

[jupiter_bands]

FUCK your character betrayed Bastan?!

FUCK I need to check on the Zenderearthers!

[firecracker_hopping]

yeah :(

I don't even fucking know who to tell to make it useful

[jupiter_bands]

gimme details if you want me to try to help

sorry they are probably horribly uncomfortable details

[firecracker_hopping]

I think I wrote him wrong

He was supposed to be a person who was attached to anger over things that happened a long time ago, but couldn't act on them because of codes of honor

But then he learned he could let that go and move on and get his revenge for making a meaningful life, except he didn't buy it, he just thought he was robbed of a real existence and that the restraints that were on him were fake

So now he wants to destroy everything that held him back, AKA me, Omid, Bastan, probably Paladins too but that's a guess, he used a line from the story he was from and said he'd "write my ending with his blade"

So if I had to guess he probably helped bring down their defenses by betraying them

In short him doing all of that is my fault and I can't get there and help. Fuck everything forever

[jupiter_bands]

Sorry I didn't mean to rub that in

I messed mine up too so I was kind of talking about me

It sounds like you didn't actually make someone awful, just learning he was fake made him flip out. That is really hard to plan for.

I think maybe if you tell the Ahura what you can it would help, he's the one I'm making potions and stuff for and he is a good guy, he was my friend online before the crazy

[also a rock star]

[firecracker_hopping]

It's okay....

[She calmed down some slash had a shot of vodka]

I'm not sure. It's so fucked up, isn't it? We never asked for this, they weren't supposed to come to life, and it's like all the little things we did or didn't do are there.

I'm sorry about everything I said. I think you're a good person. I was getting defensive because of things I decided to do, not because I think you're being an idiot. You should do what you think is right.

[And see she was was right later, Lera thinks, but fuck it]

I'll write the Ahura, too. That's a good idea. Did he play Zen, too?

[jupiter_bands]

[aw man this could be her soon, with an alt doing terrible things instead of just saying them]

It sure is fucked up. I guess all we can do now is contain it

But not using the worst methods we can think of. Maybe the second worst or the third worst.

Probably not helping okay I'll stop stomping on your apology

We're cool

Sorry your alt went Monkey's Paw

[firecracker_hopping]

Yeah...

I'm glad we're okay.

Hope your alt behaves too. :( Don't lose too much sleep getting your Paracelsus on.