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[willrevile]

I'll always gamble on more chances.

And if the planet is stabilized, and we return, Darma said the cat's out of the bag. We're going to have to deal with the fallout from the natives - some of which worshiped the 'moon' and saw us as divine, some of which hated us already.

[nineteenfortyfive]

I've had my fill of riots and torture, thank you very much. Makes it tempting to just live out in the wilderness, doesn't it?

[willrevile]

Full of monsters and insta-death fog? Pass for me.

Besides, we've got a responsibility to these people.

[nineteenfortyfive]

I'm sure there's somewhere lighter on the death and swamps with bones buried in them.

But you're right.

[willrevile]

Like up here where everything's clean and air conditioned? I dunno, I like Khalo, too.

It's a shame. We're culpable in the manipulation, even though we didn't ask to come here, just because we've benefited so much. I doubt any of the natives will be getting a quick resurrection.

[nineteenfortyfive]

It's fine up here until I remember I'm in bloody space and feel like I can't breathe. And I missed out on the trip to Khalo. [There was no way, at that time, that she could leave Theon's side.]

No. Though perhaps that can change if they're made aware of the truth.

[willrevile]

It was interesting. Very peaceful, though probably because you get to get stoned to get in.

There's no way around them being aware at this stage, I don't think.

[nineteenfortyfive]

I'm forever heartbroken I missed the group trip.

We're all in danger of the Storm. I hope the Natha will welcome them into the fold as they did with us. The natives here aren't as magical or colorful as some of us, but surely they can be accommodated if this world too is now on the brink.

[willrevile]

I can't tell if that's sarcasm or not.

I hope so, too. I know the tradeoff is we're not reproducing, our population is comparitively controlled - but we can't know how much better or worse they'd be able to handle their own problems if they were never interfered with.

[nineteenfortyfive]

😉

God knows how many of the problems these cities have had over the past year have been worsened by our presence. Or bettered, for that matter.

[willrevile]

Trying to wipe each other off the map may be inevitable, but it's more complicated than that, even in the time I've been here. We'll just have to take it one step at a time. And hope everybody can play ball; I feel like we'll need to be a functional united force to get through it.

[nineteenfortyfive]

Good thing we have people like you.

[willrevile]

Just doing my job same as you, doc.

[nineteenfortyfive]

Just as long as your job doesn't often involve your foot rotting.

[willrevile]

You're a little squeamish for a doctor.

[nineteenfortyfive]

That was a unique case and you were out for the worst of it.

[willrevile]

That's not the worst injury I've ever had. Up there, though.

[nineteenfortyfive]

You can't say that and leave me hanging.

[willrevile]

The worst isn't that interesting, honestly. I got stabbed with a huge knife in a shit place in my shoulder and even with all our advanced tech, it still needed an annoyingly long period of plain old time and rest to fully heal. I was the only loser half the crew had ever seen wearing a sling.

[ The worst is actually DYING but he never speaks of it. ]

[nineteenfortyfive]

Poor man, having to actually heal like a normal person. That must have been terrible.

[willrevile]

Normal is relative. And, hey, if it had happened a hundred and fifty years before, I probably would have lost all use of the arm.

[nineteenfortyfive]

And you'd likely not have a foot in my time.

[She's thinking more 18th century. She's done her part in saving limbs that any surgeon at the time would have simply lobbed off.]

[willrevile]

Which time is that?

[ She's pinged a couple different cultures, for him. ]

[nineteenfortyfive]

[This is why you don't text instead of sleep.]

1968 or 1766. The latter is more my time than the former, but I was born in 1918. Time travel shouldn't be all that strange to you, considering everything.

[willrevile]

It's not strange, no. And that's not surprising to hear from you; it explains a lot.