THREE ☠ fight fire with acid

[hedonic]

[ Echidna herself is lounging in the hot springs at the moment while she dictates into the journal, her snake swimming around in the water nearby as she sips a cup of rice wine. The journal is open and nearby, although it's slightly damp from all the humidity. Her voice is musing; thoughtful. Perhaps even judgmental or mocking, it can be hard to tell from one moment to the next. ]

I find it interesting how quickly people are to turn on a construct, to blame it for their woes, when they can just as easily pack up their belongings and leave. Perhaps you won't be able to go home, or perhaps you will. Perhaps you'll find answers, or a better place to live. Perhaps you'll find death. There's a big world out there, one I've had quite a bit of fun exploring this past week.

Tell me, ordained residents of Cair Paradisa... What exactly is keeping you here? Aren't there others living out in what you call the Dead Zone?

[ ooc; Open over the journal, or in person if your character is at the hot springs! Might want to check the permissions post, especially if it's in person. ]

Comments

[takethat]

Can't say I've explored much at all, myself, but would you want to live in a place called the "Dead Zone"?

[hedonic]

Isn't that just a name the castle residents here picked for the rest of the world? What a limiting mentality.

[takethat]

Well, yeah, but I guess I assumed they picked it for a good reason.

[hedonic]

Assumption. Always a good decision.

[gentleidealist]

The Dead Zone's not an solution for people who need their powers to live. Besides, even if we abandon the castle, there's a whole city full of innocents who could be targeted by whatever comes along next.

We have to stick together, no matter where we are. If we find another option we can move, but right now, there... really isn't one.

I'm going to keep blaming the castle for the awful things that happen. You can judge me for that if you want. I don't care. I'm going to find a way home without getting anyone killed in the process.

[hedonic]

Oh, and you dub yourself the city's defenders, even though you have nothing to do with this world? They seem to have fared well enough before any of you came along, or did they? One wonders.

Blame the castle all you want. What do I care? It only makes it more amusing when people get to have all the fun they want without consequence, and don't even have to try to blame it on the building. Everyone else will do it for them.

Convenient, for mules.

[gentleidealist]

Hey, I didn't say that anywhere! Naming myself as a defender of the city and realizing those people need help are two different things. I learned a while ago that the city gets targeted a lot.

Maybe we can tell the difference. Maybe we can't. There are some things here that no one can explain. We'll find the answers-- we're not quitting just yet.

Do you always argue with weird hypothermical questions?

[Lloyd and big words... he still forgets them.]

[hedonic]

Hypothermical?

[ She can't even address the rest since it's pointless anyway, since she'll just be laughing at that. ]

[cheerupemoborg]

Not all of us have that option.

[hedonic]

You're one of the ones who survive on magic, then?

[cheerupemoborg]

No. It's my loss.

[hedonic]

How tragic. I suppose that's a very sound excuse...but also the most boring one. Moving along, now...

[ino]

[this girl was already lounging in the hot springs, and not really paying attention to the other person there, but ... she catches her rant into the journal, and she can't help but feel a little irritable, and wonder how new this woman is to be saying something like that ...

she doesn't comment, though, she just kind of narrows her eyes at her for a moment, before sinking into the water]

[hedonic]

[ Well she's definitely been keeping an eye on the blonde girl, though for once being subtle about it until she makes eye contact at just the right moment. Oh, that look excites her. The water splashed a bit as Echidna shifts, uncrossing and recrossing her legs while the serpent slithers over in the girl's direction lazily. ]

Oh my, what an expression. Did I say something to offend you?

[ino]

[she considers for a moment, eyeing the snake. eugh, snakes. unless it's crowley, it just reminds her of orochimaru 8|]

You must be new here.

[hedonic]

[ She wriggles her toes and stretches a leg out shamelessly, splashing once more for the snake to return, which he grudgingly does. Such thing as a bath house did count for a bathroom, so she was getting to fully enjoy nudity again. Her loss really was a curse... So depressing...

Oh, the pretty thing is saying something. ]

Quite. You must have missed the fanfare. Such a shame, too... It would have been more fun with three. Or should I say four? Hmmm~

[ruin_mania]

Oh, there are several reasons, but to begin with the Dead Zone doesn't have a library as the castle does.

[It's not her most important reason, obviously, but it is something she'd miss about living here.]

[hedonic]

[ Book worms are hard to reason with... Although that isn't Echidna's goal. She's just sating her curiosity and having fun with it. ]

Isn't the Dead Zone the entire rest of the map, and even perhaps beyond that? Have you explored it all?

[ruin_mania]

Oh, no one has, at least to our knowledge. I do attend every expedition that reaches beyond the border, and have coordinated several myself, in fact. Still, we haven't yet come across a better place to stay as of yet.

[exanimatus]

People are like that no matter where you go. Quick to complain, hesitant to leave.

[hedonic]

Are you any different?

[exanimatus]

I'm not complaining. [at least not out-loud.]

[inafadingcrown]

[Oh, you. But...she actually finds this conversation topic interesting. Or at least possibly illuminating.] The others you speak of are one reason- they are known to be hostile to residents. Some also stay, no doubt, for the ease of life the castle provides.

For myself, there are those here I would protect, if I can and there is much to be learned here still. Less selflessly, the Dead Zone discomforts me: I feel blinded without the use of my gifts.

[hedonic]

[ All answers she's already been given, but she appreciates Galadriel's lack of rambling. Maybe sometimes lists aren't so bad. ]

If it isn't the fair Lady. What a shame this is only through the journal...

You're a witch, then?

[inafadingcrown]

[Don't get used to it. This is Lady Exposition, after all.]

Some have called me as much, usually with the intent to cause offense. [Although, given that she really doesn't sound like she cares that much, it seems it's not a very effective insult.]

I do not see the need for labels, myself. I am as I am. But I believe many here would call me a Seer, among other things.