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[ex_outofcontrol435]

[Video: start. Unimpressed teenager with slicked-back hair and a cranky expression: appear.]

Okay, so either the Professor is pulling a huge fuck you on me for leaving, everyone in this town is sharing some kind of mass delusion, or I actually got kidnapped to a Japanese city in another world to fight monsters.

Someone remind me why I'm believing the third one?

[He rubs at his eyes, then looks a bit more cheerful as he keeps speaking.]

Free room and board just for beating shit up, though. The place I came from could learn from this Philemon guy. All I wanna know is if there's any other mutants around - that's Homo Superior, the evolution beyond humans, not whatever you might call mutants in some other world. As good as this all sounds, I'm not sticking around if demons are my only alternative to humans.

[And he's done.]

((ooc: rather pertinent rewrite after he got the details about the place and actually kind of liked them. facepalm.))

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[greyerrant]

So you are a mutant?

[ Asks someone who might as well be a scaled down sentinel. ]

[ex_outofcontrol435]

Yeah, that's right.

[Is this guy... in a suit of armor... just for talking on the network?]

You got serious sun sensitivity or something? Brittle bones?

[greyerrant]

My helm allows me to interface better, and I'm Astartes. I rarely remove it.

[ex_outofcontrol435]

Astartes. That's not one I've heard yet.

[Still massively side-eyeing.]

[greyerrant]

We are the protectors of Humanity against the xeno, the daemon, as well as the lost and the damned.

[ex_outofcontrol435]

Protectors of humanity, huh. [His lip curls unpleasantly.] That's a big list of threats. Good luck with that.

[greyerrant]

One of us generally suffices for the task.

[ex_outofcontrol435]

Which is wiping out anything that challenges humans, right?

[greyerrant]

Yes.

[ex_outofcontrol435]

Thanks for that taste of home. That's exactly what I missed about it - being hunted like an animal. How'd you know?

[greyerrant]

I'm not a Space wolf, I don't hunt for pleasure. So i'll just ask you a question: Do you oppose humanity or see yourself as a part of it?

[ He removes his helm, showing a face that is gene-bulked and obviously genetically altered, though he is handsome in a rough, craggy way. ]

[ex_outofcontrol435]

[Holy crap, that guy is huge. He makes Pete look like Kitty.

Pyro stands his ground, though.]

Man, considering what I just said, you think we started out opposing them? Humans are the ones that started this. We're just finishing it.

[greyerrant]

We? You are alone here. And the only war you are fighting now is the one you carry with you. So, I ask again.

Are you a part of humanity, or an enemy of it?

[ex_outofcontrol435]

[He cocks his head arrogantly.]

An enemy.

[greyerrant]

[ Loken slides his helmet back on then. ]

Then expect no mercy from me. but I shall ask you one last question. Philemon brought us here in a struggle for humanity's soul. If you stand against it...

Why did you say yes?

[ex_outofcontrol435]

I never ask for mercy.

[And then there's nothing but confusion.]

Butterfly guy? I don't remember agreeing to anything. All I remember is something about Persona.

[greyerrant]

I have been known to grant it, if asked, but you are standing against the one thing I absolutely must hew to.

[ He nods, regarding Philemon. ]

Interesting. Does the name Nyarlathotep mean anything to you?

[ex_outofcontrol435]

You can only spend every second of every day fighting to survive because of what you are for so long. [He's much more serious now, less arrogance and more simmering anger.] Sooner or later you get pissed off, and you fight back. We're not all gonna sit back and appease humans forever.

[And he gets more and more confused.]

I doubt I could even say it.

[greyerrant]

I managed it for 200 years. I'm not asking you to appease humanity. I'm asking you to rejoin it.

[ex_outofcontrol435]

I was never part of it. And honestly, from what I've seen of it, I wouldn't want to be.

[greyerrant]

In my time, even mutants are part of humanity. Those who claim to be apart from it, to be better than it, are traitors to us all. And i hunt them. Even my own brothers.

[ex_outofcontrol435]

Well, we're not from the same time. Or even the same world. So maybe you wanna back down, since you don't know half of what your kind have done to us.

But like I said. Just like home.

[greyerrant]

You stand against humanity and tell me not to do my duty? You insult me.

I don't care, if you reject your blood and heritage, and turn against your progenitors, you are the lowest sort of scum.

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[screwattack]

Cerberus, cease at once.

[An interrupting member in this conversation comes onto a video feed, voice feminine but face obscured by a helmet, not unlike Garviel himself.]

I'm afraid you're asking too much of this new arrival. It sounds to me as though he has not lost his humanity, but in his world, humanity itself has lost all semblance of decency.

I understand your bias, but don't let it blind you, warrior. You'll turn a potential ally against us.

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[ex_outofcontrol435]

Someone gets it. [He throws up his arms in frustration.] You don't experiment on us, treat us like criminals, shoot at us basically because we exist, attempt genocide, and then expect us to just shake hands.