[ there is so much about keith that reminds her of a younger, more bright-eyed roy and she is just going to keep that to herself!!!! ]
Her word and the knowledge that she'll pull us along no matter if we want to be pulled along or not.
[ and then- ah. yes. there's what she was expecting to talk about since the beginning of this conversation. ]
There were quite a few people from the Coven who had been there much longer than the General and I had. But of the experiences we did go through- no. Or at least, not really. There was a general unease and uncertainty to us as a whole, but nothing that lent itself to what happened.
There's that too. We're definitely along for the ride, but at least so far once we're there we were left to our own choices and actions.
[So far. His cynicism is showing. It usually is.]
Not gonna lie, I was really hoping there were some sort of warning signs. But I guess that means we keep our eyes open. No matter how rosy Astoria tries to paint all this.
That is the catch- we can technically do whatever it is we would like to do when she sends us out like that. She wasn't in El Minha at all- which could mean it really is up to our own decisions on what happens.
Not enough of them, if there were. One moment everything was fine, another a list of our names were being read over the broadcast system.
You always need to be on your guard in these types of situations. It's usually the most comfortable-feeling places that are the most dangerous.
So far, yeah. So far our hands haven't really been forced.
Sounds like good advice. Not comforting advice, but real advice usually isn't.
There are just... a lot of moving parts with all this. And we're gonna wind up dropped somewhere else before we know it. Right now we're still trying to figure each other out on top of everything. I guess that's the one part we do have some control over. We're pretty far from being a team at this point, but we could all learn how to work together better.
I'm sorry. I tend to air on the side of realistic more than comforting.
It's a tactic that works- you keep the populous moving and they'll never really have the time to settle and start poking around at things. It'll be one world, then a break, then another, if this is anything like what we went through before.
Pulling together and working together is going to be the only way any of us will survive. It's just a matter of convincing a lot of strangers to learn to trust each other.
Realistic is way more comforting than sugar coating. That's what I think too. We've got no guarantees about any of this, and no real evidence of how far we can trust this Witch.
Yeah, that's the trick. We weren't ready for what happened in El Minha. It took us too long to react, in the end. And it wasn't a cohesive reaction. We're going to need to do better if something worse or more dangerous comes along.
El Minha was also the first world we've been to, with Astoria at the helm. There's no telling how dangerous the next one will be, or what we'll need to be prepared for.
But not everyone thinks that way, either. We have an entire crew of people here against there will who are all going to take this very differently.
Not until we're there. And even then, any dangers may not be immediately obvious.
You've got a point there. We're not a team, not by a long shot. And none of us asked for this; even the people who are on board with the Witch's plan didn't volunteer for this. We've got a lot of obstacles, that's for certain.
And it's going to take everyone who is trapped here to get passed those differences to get anything done.
There were people in the Coven - the witch from before - who were there for months, almost a year, and didn't have much more to say it for it other than experience. No information, no plan to get out, nothing.
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Her word and the knowledge that she'll pull us along no matter if we want to be pulled along or not.
[ and then- ah. yes. there's what she was expecting to talk about since the beginning of this conversation. ]
There were quite a few people from the Coven who had been there much longer than the General and I had. But of the experiences we did go through- no. Or at least, not really. There was a general unease and uncertainty to us as a whole, but nothing that lent itself to what happened.
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[So far. His cynicism is showing. It usually is.]
Not gonna lie, I was really hoping there were some sort of warning signs. But I guess that means we keep our eyes open. No matter how rosy Astoria tries to paint all this.
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Not enough of them, if there were. One moment everything was fine, another a list of our names were being read over the broadcast system.
You always need to be on your guard in these types of situations. It's usually the most comfortable-feeling places that are the most dangerous.
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Sounds like good advice. Not comforting advice, but real advice usually isn't.
There are just... a lot of moving parts with all this. And we're gonna wind up dropped somewhere else before we know it. Right now we're still trying to figure each other out on top of everything. I guess that's the one part we do have some control over. We're pretty far from being a team at this point, but we could all learn how to work together better.
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I'm sorry. I tend to air on the side of realistic more than comforting.
It's a tactic that works- you keep the populous moving and they'll never really have the time to settle and start poking around at things. It'll be one world, then a break, then another, if this is anything like what we went through before.
Pulling together and working together is going to be the only way any of us will survive. It's just a matter of convincing a lot of strangers to learn to trust each other.
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Realistic is way more comforting than sugar coating. That's what I think too. We've got no guarantees about any of this, and no real evidence of how far we can trust this Witch.
Yeah, that's the trick. We weren't ready for what happened in El Minha. It took us too long to react, in the end. And it wasn't a cohesive reaction. We're going to need to do better if something worse or more dangerous comes along.
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But not everyone thinks that way, either. We have an entire crew of people here against there will who are all going to take this very differently.
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Not until we're there. And even then, any dangers may not be immediately obvious.
You've got a point there. We're not a team, not by a long shot. And none of us asked for this; even the people who are on board with the Witch's plan didn't volunteer for this. We've got a lot of obstacles, that's for certain.
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There were people in the Coven - the witch from before - who were there for months, almost a year, and didn't have much more to say it for it other than experience. No information, no plan to get out, nothing.