souleaterfan320

Myriad Reality

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Systems are baked into how Existence operates. The Balkan System is run by every entity that owns a territory. Each one has System control over whichever territories they own.

@Etcetera

No, thats not what I mean. Theres got to be somethign beyond the System. Lets treat it like computers. If the Systems are the OS, what is the hardware? What is the coding language the OS operates on?

Myriad Reality

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You'd have to build a System on top of the current one, which can't realistically be done without stakeholders in the current system. More or less, to force a stacked System change on the Balkan System, you have to win the Balkan System anyway.

@Etcetera

What runs the Systems? Surely there's a source for them.

Myriad Reality

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There is. With the current System, you have to acquire a controlling share of all territories.

@Etcetera

One thats actually achievable without being a pipedream.

Myriad Reality

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A hopeless soup of Existence. No dimensions, no real limitations. System control floats between entities like bubbles and laws of reality break down.

@Etcetera

Is there a way to write in a new kind of System? Surely there must be.

Myriad Reality

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Think practically, Shinji. Romanticizing it won't get us anywhere other than death.

@Etcetera

Alright. What exactly woudl happen if I broke the system again. Would e istence be engulfed in Outside?

Myriad Reality

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It's pretty close. It would mean drowning in a sea of chaos.

@Etcetera

... I'll do whatever it takes to save existence. If I have to forfeit myl ife to do so, then so be it. I don't care the cost.

Myriad Reality

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Breaking the System isn't an option. That's almost a worst-case scenario.

@Etcetera

Breaking the system surely isnt worse that the possible extinction of all existence, unless the two are synonymous.

Myriad Reality

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What do you want me to add to your weapons? Because here's the thing, this System is an unwinnable war. It's mathematically just not going to happen. I'm not going out and killing countless beings to delude myself into thinking that I can somehow take over the System and restore what was there before.

@Etcetera

...I want to try to deconstruct amaranthine, and reconstruct it into a way that we can infuse it into my sword.

As for that second thing... I'll do it for you. That or... we can find a way to break the system. Again. There's always a way to suceed if you look hard enough.

Myriad Reality

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What kind of argument is that? Stop using hero rhetoric on me. Either you have a way and a reason for me to contribute something, or you're using me as cannon fodder.
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So what is it, Shinji? What exactly are you asking me to do?

@Etcetera

I'm asking you to help me make a weapon that can help defeat the Amaranthine, or buy us enough time to figure out how to seal them permanently. That's all I'm giving you. Like I said before, You dont have to fight. I gave up on that. I just want you to contribute something. anything.

Myriad Reality

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My life's work was destroyed! And now you're trying to figure out how to bribe me like some kind of politician. I don't want it to be worth my while Shinji, I want to know what I could possibly do to help any of you. I'm not going to go die so you can say you gave it your all.

@Etcetera

you're going to die anyways, you idiot! I too have lost. I too have suffered. I don't get to make excuses. I don't get to give up. People depend on us. When my children died, I had nothing else to lose. The thing i had fought so damn hard for was ripped from me from the very woman who I had loved. I have felt betrayal on all fronts. But I can't throw the towel in. I don't get the option. Are you going to let your failures stop you? Or are you going to rise up from the ahses a better man than you were before?