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[lifetothefullest]

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[lifetothefullest]

We're all doing what we can. Clearing vines is just as important as anything else.

[withmeinparadise]

yeah yeah. don't gotta convince me

[lifetothefullest]

I'm just saying.

Nate went to New Tokyo to greet the new arrivals, right?

[withmeinparadise]

yeah.

[lifetothefullest]

Any particular reason you didn't go yourself?

[withmeinparadise]

not you too. look. other people can handle that.

[lifetothefullest]

I'm not saying you should've gone, I just thought you might want the opportunity to get out of the city for a bit.

[withmeinparadise]

just spent weeks outside the city.

[lifetothefullest]

I guess that's true.

[And a pause, because he wants to ask but he also doubts it'll go over well, but there has to be some reason Sam is still talking to him, right? Still, he holds off for now, instead trying--]

It wasn't exactly a return to normalcy coming back, though.

[withmeinparadise]

greener than we left it.

[lifetothefullest]

Apparently all this overgrowth first happened right after people found themselves in the other alternate world, Zerzura. Could be coincidence, but it seems a little more than that.

[withmeinparadise]

nothing about this place seems all that coincidental, if you ask me. whatever it took to get us here must've had an effect on the place. how much more's it really gotta take to get us over in some other alternate dimension?

you look at all these plants, all the animals, i wouldn't be surprised if they tried to send us on more of these little jaunts. seems like we're improving the place.

[lifetothefullest]

If that's the goal, I wouldn't be surprised either.

[And actually, now that he thinks of it--]

You've heard about the people who make the shrines to Displaced, right? They think we're touched by gods or something along those lines, and they have a big focus on nature over technology.

[And so if it really is this whole gods thing, with the new information they have, then Sam might be right; the plant growth might not be a side effect, but the point.]

[withmeinparadise]

with the tattoos? yeah, i know who you mean.
after someone around here drowned half of south america, i can't exactly blame them for being suspicious of the whole technology thing.
gotta be one helluva skill to pick up an entire city and dump it in someone's gladiator fantasy, though.



you know anyone who got dropped in the other one? zerzura?

[ since it doesn't sound like lance was "lucky" enough to have that experience. ]

[lifetothefullest]

I don't necessarily think it was them that did it, but maybe the god itself.

I know Clarke, Ren, and Jyn were for sure; anyone else around at the time also would've been involved, but I'm not totally clear on who arrived when.

[withmeinparadise]

so we really believe in that god of theirs now?

huh. talk to them, maybe.

[lifetothefullest]

No, but I'm tired of trying to explain any level of nuance--not to you specifically, just in general--about this topic, so if the consensus right now is 'gods', then fine. Gods it is.

What about, the vegetation? I'm not sure I'd get anything new out of that.

[withmeinparadise]

gods, quote unquote. seems like a bad idea to call anything that until we got no other choice.

[ but whatever, here we are. ]

nah, i'll talk to them sometime. i wanna hear more about the place.

[lifetothefullest]

You'd think that, but apparently that's a very unpopular opinion.

I think Quentin knows them pretty well, so he could probably connect you with someone you could ask questions of.

[withmeinparadise]

if people around here want to bow down in front of the first show of power they see, that's on them.

i'll see.

[lifetothefullest]

I hope it stays just on them.

I asked a few questions during the solstice festival, if any of that is useful or answers anything you might be wondering.

[He sends along the document.]

[withmeinparadise]

that makes two of us.

so every time i crack open a beer, it's an act of god? we could be making some good money off of this.

[lifetothefullest]

Apparently. Getting paid to drink sounds pretty great right now.

[withmeinparadise]

you wanna trade off on a couple rounds, that's about as close as we can get on short notice.

[lifetothefullest]

Normally I'd say yes, but I shouldn't with everything going on. Mostly people out in the city are just confused or upset, but there are some who are a little unpredictable.