exsilium | chapter 1: introductions

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chapter 1: introductions

So, I get that you guys called everyone here from... all these different worlds for this war.

[adell has managed to operate the video on this thing and somehow avoided breaking it. he's operated cellphones before in the netherworld, and... okay, isn't completely technology stupid; after all, televisions and stuff exist too.

he looks at the camera questioningly.]

So what's with the big feasts and dances and all that? I mean, if that's all we're gonna do, you can just send me home now. If you called me here to fight, then let's fight. And if someone'd like to work out and spar with me in the meantime, that'd be great too.

Standing around doing nothing just isn't my style.

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They don't have that kind of control with their technology. They may never have it. I don't feel this Initiative is actively trying to keep us in this world. Entice us and bribe us to stay here? Yes, it makes sense. In this world? They would stop the leavings if they had that control.

what leavings?

[LISTEN ADELL WAS PRETTY SURE HE UNDERSTOOD HOW THIS WORKS AND NOW HE DOES NOT.]

People aren't held here indefinitely. It's not that stable, the mechanism that brings us here. We can be snapped back into the time we came out of at any technical time. Check the records: you'll see the numbers. Presuming they aren't all dead, and the few who leave and return and remember are showing an actual trend instead of an exception beyond their own memory retention.