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[arora]

Hello, citizens of Etraya.

Our next mission will begin on Friday, May 16th. For this mission, we will not be heading off world as the last couple missions have required. Instead, the companion bots and I will be working over the next seven days to set up Camp Etraya on Ochreward for all of you to attend. This camp will include multiple activities which will be mandatory for you to participate in. Additionally, while I will not be creating a barrier between camp and the rest of Etraya, the expectation will be for all of you to remain within the camp's radius during your time at Camp Etraya.

However, I understand that some of you have come from Solmara, and there is some concern regarding my sibling's absence within our sister city. I too am concerned for their well-being, as well as the rest of the citizens of Solmara. I would like to shift some of my resources to send a team to Solmara to address this, but this is not in an official mission capacity. This is not required, and will be on a volunteer-only basis. I will only be able to allocate enough resources to support transporting fifteen individuals to Solmara. I can provide some basic necessities to assist you in your trip, but will not be able to provide much more in terms of support. You will be on your own as soon as you arrive within Solmara. You will need to rely on one another, and you will need to return with enough time to fulfill five days worth of camp activities to ensure you are not avoiding mandatory mission requirements. If you are unable to return on time, there will be repercussions.

Please inform me if you wish to assist the Solmarans here. If there are more than fifteen volunteers, I will select from those who request to go.

Thank you,
Aurora

Comments

[tinflower]

I understand the purpose you're talking about is probably killing, but a gun has saved me many times. The purpose of the rifle you're making is to protect your family.

I think that part is really important.

[hexcope]

If protecting comes at the cost of another person's life, am I really doing something good?

[tinflower]

I don't know. Maybe you're not a good person for doing it. Maybe I'm a bad person because I kill people. Maybe the reason I've killed doesn't matter.

But my friends are alive. I'm alive. Someone else didn't get to kill me or do something worse to the people around me and I like that. I think that's good. I think protecting them is good.

Does it matter if it's wrong?

[hexcope]

[What Gorgug says outright is something he's still trying to come to terms with. He's not a good person. He always thought he was up until very recently, and over the course of approximately two weeks, when push came to shove- it doesn't matter if what he did was in the effort of trying to do good. He failed. He's not the selfless hero he thought he could be, and his actions prove that.]

Shouldn't it?

[A lesson in morality he was told, more than one he understands.]

[tinflower]

[ Shouldn't it? If the world wasn't filled with people willing to kill at the drop of a hat. If danger wasn't always a constant, if life in general didn't have an undeniable ugly side.

It's been three years of death, murder and mayhem. And where are Gorgug's morals? How does he feel about murder? Jayce might have a lower opinion of him, but... ]

I don't care if it does. I'll do it again.

[hexcope]

I see.

[Neither a condemnation, nor approval. Just understood. It's not like Gorgug's the only one he knows who holds those same beliefs. But there's less philosophizing why Gorgug does what he does- no causes like fighting against the oppression of Piltover, for Zaun's liberation, for revenge, or for justice. He does it to protect who he cares about, and there's something... maybe noble isn't the right word for it. Honest? Blunt?]

Let me know if you need my help with anything. Last thing I want is for any of you going in unprepared.

[tinflower]

Okay.

[ He won't. There's something uncomfortable wedged inside him thanks to this exchange. What's the point in asking for help from someone who judges what the last three of his years have been just because it's killing, end of? Even if there's uncertainty there, and even if Jayce is making a weapon for someone he cares about, but is holding his nose up in the air about it?

It-- sucks. It doesn't feel good.

He'll probably go and play really loud music over it. ]

[hexcope]

[rip friendship with gorgug]