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un: shinra | text
I see the companion bots have been hard at work updating our skyline of late. A neat trick, reproducing such elaborate structures — for those of you familiar with what's gone up, have you found them to be faithful recreations? Or has a little Etrayan creativity found its way in?
Aurora went out of her way to make one thing clear in her initial communication to us: that we were selected for this exercise for a reason. That begs two immediate questions: why were our worlds the ones selected for representation, and why were we the ones selected to represent them?
Our hosts are unlikely to give us those answers, as we know the selection criteria is being withheld from us. So perhaps the only way we'll make any headway is by taking matters into our own hands.
Consider, then, an exercise of our own: to share something about your world and its circumstances. At best, we might find a common denominator that speaks to our hosts' interest in us. At worst, we'll all come away with a better idea of what's at stake for each of us.
I'm not proposing a forum to advocate for these worlds' continued existence; Aurora and her contemporaries have that much well in hand already. What I am suggesting is that we all better understand our purpose here, and its implications: that should we succeed, these are the worlds that will survive, even at the expense of others that weren't so lucky as to have people like us brought here to fight for them.
Aurora went out of her way to make one thing clear in her initial communication to us: that we were selected for this exercise for a reason. That begs two immediate questions: why were our worlds the ones selected for representation, and why were we the ones selected to represent them?
Our hosts are unlikely to give us those answers, as we know the selection criteria is being withheld from us. So perhaps the only way we'll make any headway is by taking matters into our own hands.
Consider, then, an exercise of our own: to share something about your world and its circumstances. At best, we might find a common denominator that speaks to our hosts' interest in us. At worst, we'll all come away with a better idea of what's at stake for each of us.
I'm not proposing a forum to advocate for these worlds' continued existence; Aurora and her contemporaries have that much well in hand already. What I am suggesting is that we all better understand our purpose here, and its implications: that should we succeed, these are the worlds that will survive, even at the expense of others that weren't so lucky as to have people like us brought here to fight for them.
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Did you have siblings you competed with?
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No. I was my father's sole heir.
[Strictly speaking it's true! With a lot of context conspicuously left out.]
What made you stop being good friends with him?
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[... Ah, well, thinking about it now?]
It's not about competition though.
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What is it about, then? Revenge?
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[She doesn't sugarcoat it. She's going to find him, reach in and rip out his heart -- eventually. Once all of this is over anyhow.]
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[She can't help but hesitate a moment. It's not something she's keeping secret here but whew, she's had to explain basic concepts to a lot of people.]
My parents were pureblood vampires. So am I. He wasn't and when he was turned the power sort of. Got to him. And he wanted more of it.
[Yes she has a lot of guilt over that, thanks.]
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How was he turned? I assume you inherited your condition; he didn't?
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[Shamefully she hesitates to clarify why he was turned. Call it one of the few secrets she can't quite admit to yet.]
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I'm sure that didn't sit well with him.
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I don't know, I mean ... we never treated him that way. He was family to us.