You aren't gods. Your powers limited, your supplies are finite. You keep telling others to stop focusing on individuals, to stop being so ... centrist.
You don't run experiments, test, whatever and then throw them away. We are experiments that you are trying to consolidate and redistribute when this third party, this "beyond the barrier" aspect, takes us "home."
It isn't for our benefit. It's for your benefit that you restructure us when we are killed. Because you need us to be bombarded by experiments that are half yours and half this third party's, or else you would be on the front lines yourself. You're just as trapped as us, but your numbers are stagnant.
I have to wonder if you understand the phenomenon of new arrivals arriving who all know each other in their own worlds. But that isn't the point.
You want us to figure out why these experiments do what they do. Without looking at individuals, or being completely centrist in our observations. Which means looking for commonalities.
Our common traits are our wings, our barcodes, and the fact that we are still here, within the barrier. You most certainly don't have barcodes, because you aren't being tracked like cattle.
That leaves the wings and the barrier as commonalities.
You know the problem with doing an information dump and poking me for confirmation? You can't be sure exactly what I'm confirming when I say "you're half right."
Another theory. You have spoken intimately of some of the Filial here, namely this Tyr, as if you were once in favorable relations with them. The wings that everyone has are what keep us alive here because Luceti is otherwise inhospitable to us -- not because you have tampered with us at an internal level, but because the environment is hostile. Everything that happens here, that has affected the original Filial so badly -- that third party was here prior to your arrival.
Well, you are still scientists. That much is true. But there are different facets, different opinions, floating around. The ones who demand to know who is giving us information are likely the same who were taunting us in the beginning. Though it might be best to give them a name. It certainly wasn't John -- he doesn't prescribe to using ... hearts.
You want to get out. John wants to continue research, but is willing to go against the tide.
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When we took ill from our wings falling apart... That was when the barrier was completely down. The barrier isn't powerful enough to withstand everything that anomaly beyond the barrier leaks out.
It affected us terribly, but no one died. But you-- There was no word of if any of the Malnosso were affected.
Yes, the shift. When we went past where the barrier used to be, there was nothing. There was a void space. And yet, there's now an entire desert out there -- with ruins that your scientists were researching.
Not to mention the fact that powers were restored to normal during the duration. Death penalties disappeared... And then the barrier returned, and our powers were weak once again, but not as weak as before.
Assuming that the barrier that keeps us safe from this anomaly also reduces our strength ... the barrier was weakened.
But that doesn't explain the death penalties. Unless what we referred to as death penalties were a Malnosso-made catalyst to protect individuals when death weakens their resistance to that anomaly.
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I can still see that void in my mind. We should have had the flyers attempt to explore that void.
Interesting. [He does enjoy the leading along, Jacob. It's been since Caesar disappeared a long time since anyone's given him reason to feel irritated in this way.]
There's two options -- the death penalties are, or are not, a construct of the Malnosso. The fact that John is creating antidotes seems to lean towards the affirmative. But the anomaly negates those effects.
I suppose the question is, what is the point of the death penalties?
...So you use our deaths as opportunities to test the anomaly's ability to negate effects.
[Something tells him he probably should be surprised by this. But he really isn't. The cynical edge of his personality always knew they were disposable in some form.]
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You don't run experiments, test, whatever and then throw them away. We are experiments that you are trying to consolidate and redistribute when this third party, this "beyond the barrier" aspect, takes us "home."
It isn't for our benefit. It's for your benefit that you restructure us when we are killed. Because you need us to be bombarded by experiments that are half yours and half this third party's, or else you would be on the front lines yourself. You're just as trapped as us, but your numbers are stagnant.
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You want us to figure out why these experiments do what they do. Without looking at individuals, or being completely centrist in our observations. Which means looking for commonalities.
Our common traits are our wings, our barcodes, and the fact that we are still here, within the barrier. You most certainly don't have barcodes, because you aren't being tracked like cattle.
That leaves the wings and the barrier as commonalities.
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Your numbers are stagnant. Possibly even declining, depending on if your lifespan differs greatly from ours. You need results.
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Back to the wings, then...
Another theory. You have spoken intimately of some of the Filial here, namely this Tyr, as if you were once in favorable relations with them. The wings that everyone has are what keep us alive here because Luceti is otherwise inhospitable to us -- not because you have tampered with us at an internal level, but because the environment is hostile. Everything that happens here, that has affected the original Filial so badly -- that third party was here prior to your arrival.
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[He coughs again, and now he's thinking aloud.] Hn... What changed? Why did they decide to observe the village?
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The Filial were already in decline when you arrived. We were lied to when we first arrived.
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You want to get out. John wants to continue research, but is willing to go against the tide.
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When we took ill from our wings falling apart... That was when the barrier was completely down. The barrier isn't powerful enough to withstand everything that anomaly beyond the barrier leaks out.
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Yes, the shift. When we went past where the barrier used to be, there was nothing. There was a void space. And yet, there's now an entire desert out there -- with ruins that your scientists were researching.
Not to mention the fact that powers were restored to normal during the duration. Death penalties disappeared... And then the barrier returned, and our powers were weak once again, but not as weak as before.
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But that doesn't explain the death penalties. Unless what we referred to as death penalties were a Malnosso-made catalyst to protect individuals when death weakens their resistance to that anomaly.
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I can still see that void in my mind. We should have had the flyers attempt to explore that void.
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And the rest of what I was saying?
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I suppose the question is, what is the point of the death penalties?
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[Something tells him he probably should be surprised by this. But he really isn't. The cynical edge of his personality always knew they were disposable in some form.]
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