24th Crystal: [Voice]

[cladinthedark]

Before you make a decision on the offer, consider carefully just what they've written.

Aside from the sheer unlikeliness of them allowing us to depart, note that they claim that while we are here, our homeworlds are waiting for us, that our presence is being missed and our continued existence here will cause troubles back home.

To those who have others from their homeworlds here, particularly ones who arrived in Luceti much earlier or later than yourselves, don't you find that claim... strange?

Comments

[expello.livejournal.com]

"The letter is a lie."

-- is what it likely is.

[vulcanblazer.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it is. I saved my world from its threat, and it was peaceful when I was taken. ...And time's supposed to stand still for your home while you're here, isn't it?

[voice]

[blue-velocity.livejournal.com]

Exactly. S'why I'm not buyin' it.

[Written]

[dragoon-pride.livejournal.com]

That may well be... but it doesn't change my own decision.

[rubyeyes-ryuhou.livejournal.com]

Yes, I do find it strange. Someone who recently arrived from my world had no idea that I was gone for over a year and a half. He said he'd seen me six months ago.

[floralprophecy.livejournal.com]

Yes, that does contradict the claim that time is stopped in our worlds while we're here.

[aero-dienamic.livejournal.com]

It is a little odd but, what I was thinking is that... if I were to return, what exactly would I be returning to? I'm dead after all... or, I'm supposed to be.

Because they apparently have to debate over EVERYTHING.

[lunarborn.livejournal.com]

I agree that it's strange and not at all characteristic of our captors, perhaps there is some truth to the letters.

If we are indeed merely an experiment, perhaps the experiment is failing and we need to be sent home to rectify a larger danger caused by abducting us in the first place.

It is not terrible to have hope.

[Voice]

[eidolon-soul.livejournal.com]

I find all of it strange and suspicious. It probably is just a way to get our hopes up and lure us into something worse. I won't deny that the lure of returning home is a powerful one, though.

[cladinthedark.livejournal.com]

Well, it would seem there's at least one blatant lie in it.

[cladinthedark.livejournal.com]

That last point is what I was referring to. How can our presence be missed if events, including the ones we are involved in, seem to have gone the same way?

[voice]

[cladinthedark.livejournal.com]

Precisely my thoughts on the matter.

[Written]

[cladinthedark.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't dream of trying to convince you otherwise, Kain.

[Largely because he knows that his placement on one side of an argument will probably have Kain move to the other side just out of principle.]

[cladinthedark.livejournal.com]

And you're not the only one with experiences like that. That gives us a direct contradiction with what they've said.

[cladinthedark.livejournal.com]

Exactly. And if there's one lie in their claims, there can easily be more.

[cladinthedark.livejournal.com]

Yes, you probably would be sent to the afterlife... so I guess there's no need for you to consider the letter in the first place.

[cladinthedark.livejournal.com]

It's not that I think it's impossible that a situation would arise where our removal from Luceti would be beneficial to the Malnosso. It's a contradiction to what we know already that's been written into the letter itself that gives me pause.

Consider. When you arrived, the rest of us had already been here for some time. But back home, you didn't notice any disappearances. In fact you'd seen some of them merely days, hours, or minutes ago.

But the letter claims that our presence back home is being missed while we're here.

[Voice]

[cladinthedark.livejournal.com]

I quite agree. But the contradiction in the letter to what we already know to be true is what clinches it for me.

[Voice]

[eidolon-soul.livejournal.com]

And yet, Cecil and Kain sound as though they've already made up their minds. I'm not sure what Rosa thinks yet, but if Cecil goes...she wouldn't stay. If they all go and there's trouble, I don't think I could live with myself should I remain behind.

[themoonuplifts.livejournal.com]

It's more than strange, but we don't know how time flows or anything.

[voice]

[blue-velocity.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the whole future gettin' messed up thing is what got me. We're all from different points in time, and nothin' changed back home just cuz some of us are here.

[vulcanblazer.livejournal.com]

That's a good point too... I didn't think about that, considering I think I'm from the furthest in the future of anyone I know here. So if things back home happen the way they're supposed to, despite us being trapped...

...Yeah, this is whole thing is a grade-A crock of bullshit.

[truthspuppet.livejournal.com]

You have a point. It could be a trap considering all they said in the letter. But none of us really know what goes on while we're gone, besides it's been two years, they could be finished their research.

[floralprophecy.livejournal.com]

I just hope no one actually falls for this.

[Voice]

[esper-flight.livejournal.com]

That did give me pause. Not once did any of my friends here ever mention my sudden disappearance during our travels together, not like this.

If it is true, then there is something important I need to do at home that I can't avoid, but...why would we get this help now?