malnosso | [Locked to Residents]

Greetings, Luceti. I see you've managed to open the proverbial Pandora's Box. I was wondering when that would happen.

More seriously, however- no doubt most of you have noticed the widespread issue that's resulted from that decision. Some might even recall a similar experience occurring years ago. If you're concerned about the affected residents meeting their unfortunate ends once again, well, that's unlikely. Death wouldn't be a particularly beneficial alternative to what you've unleashed this time.

However, there's still the matter of sorting out the spirits now. I'm interested in hearing what you lot have already tried when it comes to dealing with what you've unlocked, but my advice for getting the black spirit to relinquish control is to let the rest do the work for you. Last time this happened, I was able to fix it, but it's beyond my power now.

Discuss it amongst yourselves, trade your theories; I'm sure you'll come up with something. I'll help with what I can. Sooner would be better, though- I make no promises that my former comrades won't take measures to deal with you if this isn't resolved internally within a few weeks.

[ooc: arright kids, true to John's word, he'll be overseeing the discussion. He won't be telling people how to fix this problem, but he'll answer whatever questions he can and give some advice here and there. see what you can work out amongst yourselves and feel free to ping me if I'm needed and don't show up. if nothing comes up within a week, we'll throw you a more obvious bone or two. tally ho~]

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And the fact that you're claiming the two can't be separate at all is just ridiculous.

Chaos is violent and destructive. Change can be that, but it doesn't have to be.

[Normally she might have been less determined here but her spirit is just boosting her normal preference for not-chaos.]

Your insistence that chaos is violent and destructive shows a profound misunderstanding of what chaos actually is.

A sadly mortal misunderstanding, I suppose.

How would you define it, then?

Chaos is the engine of change. Violence and destruction are potential results, and sometimes necessary. Without destruction removing the old, there will be no place for the new. But change is any deviation from the static, from the norm, and that too is driven by the fundamental force of chaos.

Small changes can have large, unexpected results.

Perhaps this will make more sense as a basic example, and one mortals have managed to come up with:

Edited 2013-06-03 04:25 (UTC)

[There's a good twenty minute delay here because she's trying to solve that out and chaos theory doesn't exist in her world yet.]

[The page is actually filled with her various scribblings and scratches as she tries different things, she obviously knows her way around numbers but...]

But you can't solve that.

It has already been solved. I can loan you the book if you like. The point is that the inputs and variations thereof yield chaotic results.

Represented thus.

Chaos can also be quite beautiful.

I think I would like to read that.

Not that I am agreeing with you, of course.

Maths don't lie, Asami.

Come find me. I shall have the book when you do.

I suppose we'll see.

Ikki can probably tell me where to find you?

I should think so. She knows my normal haunts.

Alright.

I will fly by and get it.

I shall keep a weather eye out.

[ooc: Should we handwave her swinging by to get the book, or play it out?]

(Up to you, could be fun to thread out but I'm always flexible if you're busy, etc. Hit my appointments if you feel like it?)

what does that even say

[ she can't even be bothered to capitalize or punctuate her confusion is so intense

are those words

are these mysterious viking runes or ]

Translated, it means: small changes can have large and unexpected effects.

That is one factor of chaos.

Oh!

Like the spirits possessing us?

Even smaller changes.

The classic example is that a butterfly flapping is wings will cause it to rain half a world away, just from a minor disturbance if the air currents.

Does that really happen? Because that seems like there'd be a lot of rainstorms all the time, since butterflies flap their wings a lot.

It might. Or perhaps a butterfly flapping its wings at just the right moment will cause, through a long chain of events, an Empire to fall. It is more an example of the interconnectedness of all things, and the way even a tiny change can make an enormous difference in time.

...That sounds like a poem.

That is what I am.

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