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Myriad Reality

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Well, you can do what you can. Sometimes that's enough, sometimes it's not.

@Webmaster

Shinji:
Fair point.

Myriad Reality

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*Laughs to myself*
You really are an idealist, aren't you, Shinji?

@Webmaster

Shinji:
I just do my best to ensure sucess at whatever I do. If thats Idealism? Then I suppose I am.

Myriad Reality

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Reality doesn’t think much of your plans either, sadly.
*Turns to the next chapter*

@Webmaster

Shinji:
I suppose it just depends on how much you plan, and how well you plan it. Life may nit care, but if you plan for worse case scenarios, and prep for those, you're much more likely to comeout on top. Any sucesses along the way come as extra.

Myriad Reality

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*Smiles in thought*
If it all goes according to plan.

@Webmaster

True, true.

Myriad Reality

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How long do you prepare for a winter you don’t know is coming?

@Webmaster

You prepare in anticipation for as long as you think it should last. Its his duty as a father to make sure his children are well-fed and taken care of, both physically and mentally. Granted, if it were a year long winter, that would be more difficult. However, on most planets ive been on that host muptiple seasons, winter lasts aproxximately 3-5 months. Frozen beef lasts just about as long. Stock up on enough to ration throughout the time.

Myriad Reality

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Because survival is more important. Even if the son wanted to keep his friend, even if he's angry, he still ate with the rest of the family because it was his only way to survive. When life is on the line, nothing else matters.

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Shinji:
Survival is the most important thing, yes. But that doesnt mean the father's actions don't come with consequences. My advice? The father shpuldve done a bit more fishing and hunting during the active season. He couldve avoided that situation as a whole.

Myriad Reality

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*Pushes down onto your fist with my armored hand and follows with a hook into your jaw*
You may regret disabling magic here.

@Host

*the hook grates against my hardened jaw like steel on steel, rather than going through it like flesh*

Maybe, but I wont regret killing you.

*unleashes a superheated ion blast into your face*

Myriad Reality

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I'd be curious to hear what you think about the book. Is he a bad father, or did he just do as much as he could?

@Webmaster

Shinji:
The reality of the matter... from the prospective I have based on what info I have on it, is that survival comes before trivial things. You cant afford to cater to trivial things if you dont have what ypu need to live. However... regardless of survival, there are consequences to each and every action. So in a way, though the father may have saved the son's life by providing the food, the son doesnt necessarily have to forgive the father for killing his friend. Life is... a very complicated and difficult beast to master... I'd venture to say no one has.

Myriad Reality

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*As soon as you make contact, a burst of necrotic energy erupts from the metal's depths, which tugs at your lifeforce and threatens to pull you into its embrace*

@Host

*my eye emits a black, sludgy aura, a symbol carved into it. The aura eliminates any magic qualities of the energy*

You're quite the unique fighter. Allow me to meet that quality in kind.

*you find that the air around us has heated immensely over the course of a few seconds, to the point of setting any foreign body upon my person ablaze*

*my fist, now superheated, thrusts upward through you in a slicign motion*

Myriad Reality

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That's really the main theme of the book. If you choose to pursue "perfect" over "good enough," you may very well lose it all.
*Scootches closer to the fire*
After all, reality doesn't care about your perfect.

@Webmaster

Shinji:
*halfheartely chuckles at the comment*

Trust me, I understand that one.... a little too well.