text.

[camouflage]

Let's talk hypotheticals.

You're crossing a suspension bridge. You have to reach the other side at any cost. The bridge is wide enough only for one person to pass at a time.

A man approaches from the other side with a gun. How do you cross?

Comments

[lavelly]

is there a benefit to getting to know us without getting to know us?

[camouflage]

1: expedience 2: keeps it simple 3. I'm military, it's what I do

[lavelly]

intelligence gathering? anything interesting?

[camouflage]

Yeah, it's going to be a real experience working with you people.

[like it was last time.]

[lavelly]

i hadn't been informed we'd be working together at all

[Care to elaborate?]

[camouflage]

Guess I mean that in general terms. We're all waiting around to go home through the Ingress. Kind of in this together until then, huh?

['no']

[lavelly]

what does that have to do with potentially murdering a bystander on a suspension bridge in a scenario manufactured by a third party?

[camouflage]

You got me. I guess nothing except to satisfy my curiosity.

['everything']

[lavelly]

[Well, that's a very unsatisfying answer.]

got something else for me?

[camouflage]

Sure.

You and a group of others start a new life in a society entirely alien to you. You were told it's peaceful and brings new opportunities. People from your group can't get along with the locals, causing the society to distrust all of you. The more mistakes that are made, the less the society wants you there.

How do you keep the peace?

[lavelly]

[There's a significant delay before the response.]

i destroy the main power source causing a sudden disaster and making everything worse for everybody

[camouflage]

[...........................oh. well, john doesn't really think it was that big of a disaster. you know, besides the ramped up prejudice. it was kind of cold, he guesses.

he takes a couple beats to send a reply.]

I bet you're the go-for-broke type.

[GET IT but also seriously]

[lavelly]

[Ha. Ha ha ha.]

it isn't really particularly funny

[sorry for making it weird]

[camouflage]

I was being serious.

[no he wasn't but you know, it's hard to tell in text-form anyway]

[lavelly]

[Moving right along.]

i suppose i invited it with the topic change didn't i?

[Gosh Lavellan you don't even know this guy.]

[camouflage]

It was kind of sudden.

[i mean you just kind of blurted it out lavellan. granted, john kind of pushed you into a corner by typing a scenario that was literally the situation you're in.]

[lavelly]

well i suppose you succeeded in learning more than you ever wanted to know

[camouflage]

You can never know too much.

[well except when it was information concerning your death at the hands of your own son that might drive you up the wall a little or that your best friend apparently goes crazy and attaches an arm belonging to your other son to himself

wait. uh.]

[lavelly]

[MGS: a wholesome time for the entire clone family

also he's not even going to respond because he's too embarrassed. Good Talk.]