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Nutty times around here, huh? It's nice to see things happening, even if it's stuff like "spaceship crashing into building you call home, inevitable relocation into a room with three other people." There are worse things.

[Grump grump. She just sounds dry. It's a little overcrowded here for a girl who likes her privacy, but whatcha gonna do...]

And now a trip home. Or a try for it. What good news for everyone who doesn't want to be here, maybe - if it works they could as well just install a revolving door and kick the people who won't have with fighting in a surprise war right back home. It could make life pretty difficult for the Initiative if it works out, if nobody'll stick around from the goodness of their hearts, or whatever.

It's the first time I've seen a place manage that though. So that's something.

Anyhow, welcome in to all you new people, I hope the Hold has been kind so far. If you're homesick cheer up, it could be so much more terrible around these parts. The group missions aren't so bad. You got armed and you got money and maybe you won't even be here a long time. The future looks bright, right?

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Mm, yeah. I'm glad those rebellions people were cooking up kind of didn't go anywhere, though.

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That would have been a disaster all around.

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I dunno. It's the best world I've been through.

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Huh. I don't hear that from humans very often...

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Well... I'd belong at home. But otherwise, it's the best world I've traveled to.

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Belong? Interesting. I've given up on that concept myself.

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I guess it's an optimistic one.

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It's certainly an appealing notion.

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It's where I was born and raised. I belong there if I belong anywhere.

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Do you think it's possible? To go back to an existence without ever-looming threat of interdimensional grubnapping?

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Maybe if you get some memories taken out before going.

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That's what I don't understand about the claims that even if we've been here our original timelines won't change. Can't our memories effect our behavior?

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I don't understand how time works anyway, I guess. Or, well, they can't really know, can they?

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I hear something different from everyone I ask...

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They can't pick who they bring in. How much can they really know?

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I have a conspiracy theorist friend who thinks they're just telling us that they can't pick.

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Well... I'm not sure it's wise to speculate so freely on this thing, where they keep an eye.

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I'm not particularly worried. In my experience the worst that they ever impose is community service - and with their limited resources it's not as if every single statement will be monitored anyway, especially ones relatively low in outright belligerence like ours. If anything, public remarks are less likely to draw suspicion than private ones, aren't they?

Her suspicions were mostly founded on the idea that for random selections we're not rank incompetents, is all.

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True, but I dunno. If anything, it seems like asking for trouble.

Anyway, you're right about that... there's a decent proportion of people who can help with a war around here. But why lie about that?

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Reduces indignation in some, doesn't it?

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I guess that's a point for lying about it. There's enough indignation already.

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Though the claim of randomness also incites some accusations of incompetency.

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If somebody's incompetent I guess that's better than them being picky and dangerous.

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Yeah, I'd rather not be the subject of humans' malicious experiments.

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I think they really are in need of us, at least. I think the other side is worse. [Or Rin wouldn't have stuck around...]