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[seeingscarlet]

[Obviously no one's happy with how this has played out. They may have a way off this deserted rock but it's another promise from yet another group of strange people that if they play along for just a little longer, they can go home.

And after being stuck here for almost a year and a half (technically more if you count the weird party moon), Wanda's faith in all of these strangers, however well-meaning, is pretty much slim to none.]

If the Savrii can't send us home quickly, I think we should try to stay together. I am not sure I trust anyone else.

[She shrugs.]

They mean to help, but they are not the first.

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[a_shadow]

Do you suspect incompetence, or deceit?

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[seeingscarlet]

I don't think anyone knows how to fix their own technology as well as they tell us.

[Sounds like no one knew creating the Moira was going to cause this much of a problem, and yet here they are.]

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[inconsequence]

Given the history we seem to have with those that offer their "help," I have my doubts that anyone out here can truly be trusted to help us without concealing some ulterior motive.

[No creature in the universe is truly unselfish.]

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[seeingscarlet]

Or just failing.

[Because they at least belong in this plane of existence. Everyone the Ingress sort of kidnapped has a much more personal motivation to not screw up.]

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[beautifulspaceraptor]

That seems to be the going trend here, doesn't it?

[ A lot of withheld information, a lot of promises without a solid backing. A lot of misery and death.

A LOT of misery and death, Spirits. ]

I'm up for staying together if that turns out to be true. It'd make coordinating resources a lot simpler.

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[seeingscarlet]

And it will be easier to take care of each other if something happens.

[If? Maybe when is a better word.]

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[brokeassgoing]

We'd be stupid to trust them, especially since they came for us originally.

[a harrumphing sound]

Sticking together'll at least make us tough targets.

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[seeingscarlet]

And make us harder to forget. It is easier to tell one or two to keep waiting than a large group.

[potentialed]

I hope you mean "stick together" once we're off this rock. Staying here is not an option, Wanda.

[ As cool as some of the caves are, there's little supplies and food. The materials here also aren't very serviceable, from what he understands.

He sighs and shakes his head. ]

I don't like it either. But if they have a way, that's better than refusing them. It's something.

[seeingscarlet]

[Wanda makes a face. Of course they can't stay.]

There's no food here, no other way out. But I don't think we should just hope everything will be better if we go with them. We have to try to look after ourselves.

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[fluidsea]

I haven't been onboard as long as most have but...

If we can't get home by trusting these people, then we may have to think up of other solutions. That's just a new person take on it anyway.

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[seeingscarlet]

I am not saying we shouldn't let them help. But we can't sit and wait and do nothing for ourselves.

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[kuekuatsu]

[It doesn't really come as a surprise that people are not so trusting of the band of strangers they met. That someone voices it out loud is even less surprising.

Logan raises an eyebrow slowly at the young woman:]

Might not be a bad idea. There's strength in numbers.

The question is, do you really trust everyone that was on that ship?

[Why yes, Logan's faith in humanity is pretty low. He's got his mutant family that he trusts blindly, but the rest...it might be difficult to change his mind at first.]

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[seeingscarlet]

No. [She doesn't even hesitate.] But we want the same thing.

[Common goals do not trust make, but whenever things have gone wrong, it's the crew pulling together that's kept them alive. Wanda can appreciate some basic level of competency at very least.

It's more than the Savrii have going for them.]

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[ex_forcechoke292]

[The statement is met with a fair amount of unhidden skepticism.]

But do they? Are we sure they mean to help? We don't know anything about them.

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[seeingscarlet]

You remember what I can do, yes?

They think they can help, or that they know the best way to help. But so has everyone else.

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[pubcrawl]

[ He needs a sign to hang between his horns that reads 'hello, I'm new here'. ]

Who came before them?

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[seeingscarlet]

We've already had two sets of captains.

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[shiro2hero]

I agree about sticking together, but what do you mean, they're not the first?

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[seeingscarlet]

We changed captains several months ago.

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[grandpaladin]

Not the first, eh?

Something bad happened with the first, I would guess?

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[seeingscarlet]

None of them understood what they were doing, I think. That's why we're here.

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[krasnayapautina]

There's something to be said for numbers. [A beat.] And looking over one's shoulder often to be alert enough to question the motives of others.

[As in, yes she may be newer here but she still agrees with the general sentiment of this post.

Also paraphrasing words from the not-so-distant past (well, by her memory) -- words that would be somewhere in Wanda's future.]

Doesn't make a 'lesser of two evils' route any less annoying, though. That, I don't have a solution to.

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[seeingscarlet]

I will feel better if the Avengers stay together at least.

[She sighs. Being jerked around like this is annoying but at least they'll have a proper place to live again.]

I know they aren't lying, but it still doesn't make me feel better.

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[shadowblends]

Staying together would be the best idea in that situation, ja.

[A beat.]

What do you mean by 'they are not the first'?

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[seeingscarlet]

You are newer, yes? We've had two sets of captains.

[buyeverything]

Why would they help us? Seems we've just been convenient workers, or at least that's what I've gotten from hearing about things before the crash. Who says that'll change once they bring us to this new place?

You're right not to trust them, for all we know they'll usher us into their nice little home world and make us slaves. We can't take anything they say as fact.

[Sure that's a bit much, but who says they won't? From what he's gathered these Savrii aren't the same people as the ones who'd been running the ship before hand, so. Why trust them? Why trust any of this.]

[seeingscarlet]

The people here aren't lying. But the people in their home... [She shrugs. She can't read someone she hasn't met in person and, really who knows what these people's higher-ups have in mind that they don't know about.]

We can run, if it's bad. We'll die if we stay.

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[ventifact]

question is, will they let us?

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[seeingscarlet]

I don't know. And I don't know what they would do if we refused.

[Keep running if it's bad is as far as she's gotten. There's a limit to how productive her paranoia can be without more information on this place.]

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[notglitching]

Implication: trust for network.

[...or maybe not. As usual, Rinzler's skimming the unsecured replies, and the user's been honest with at least one of her allies. They aren't that, and he doesn't expect much, but he adds a video feed anyway: helmet angling in pointed skepticism.]

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[seeingscarlet]

I trust us to survive. We have managed so far.

[So no, it's not quite the same thing as blind faith in everyone. But even Rinzler is good in a fight if it comes to it, and as much as she may personally dislike him, she has to respect competency. There's been such a shortage of it this entire trip.]

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[sketchycharacter]

I agree. Like it or not—and a lot of us don't like it—we've at least been able to work with each other. Wherever we're going, the people have no reason to care about our interests.