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compnetwork2012-10-10 04:14 am
getoutclaus) wrote in compnetwork2012-10-10 04:14 am
[ 2 ] [Anon Text]
[This is a particularly no nonsense post as to leave no personality behind in the message.
Not that Santa has trouble hiding his personality, but one can never be too careful with a question like this.]
Where do I sign up to join the Anoli?
Or if no one knows;
Where do I find someone who can help me join the Anoli?
Not that Santa has trouble hiding his personality, but one can never be too careful with a question like this.]
Where do I sign up to join the Anoli?
Or if no one knows;
Where do I find someone who can help me join the Anoli?
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what do you know about them?
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Top of the class, late arrival.
The Anoli blow stuff up, kill people and use Persona to kill people without Persona.
Y a Y!
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[The classic "why Sith?" question.]
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Maybe I am just a bad person at heart.
I would be lying if I said I had never wondered it myself.
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do you have time for a story?
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Always.
[It's true; he spent like half an hour in a freezer talking about magical ice while freezing to death. Classy conversations for classy people.]
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Once upon a time, an army of marauders called the Krath set out to fight and destroy innocents, burning and destroying the land before finally coming to fight an order of noble knights. The order was wise, but small compared to the onrushing horde, and the eldest and wisest fought among themselves over how best to fight this threat, or whether fighting was the solution at all, unable to come to a decision other than declaring the evil of those who would harm innocents.
A young knight, purest of heart, keenest of mind, and strongest of arm in the whole order, claimed that he could defeat the threat by infiltrating it, feigning a defection. When his mentor was killed in a sneak attack by the enemy, he in fact insisted. The eldest of the order decried this idea as walking into their hands to be corrupted into a destruction-seeking warrior, but the young knight was sure of his purity and certain that the enemy could not change his mind, and so he bade farewell to his brother and, against orders, left.
After joining, he was interrogated, tortured, and finally injected with a poison to ensure his loyalty. He accepted that. He was told to his face that the ruler of the enemy was directly responsible for killing his mentor. He accepted that. He was offered sexual comfort from one of the Krath's beautiful generals. He naturally accepted that too. Finally, he was told that another knight had been caught - an old friend who had followed him to "rescue" him from the Krath. He was ordered to execute her. He accepted readily. Anything to get more power in the Krath, that he might destroy them from within. Anything.
The friend escaped when more knights burst in in a desperate attempt to rescue her, and the young knight seized on the confusion to make his move and assassinate the ruler of the Krath, turning the whole of the Krath palace into a bloody melee. The pain of losing his mentor, the pain of the poison within him, and the stress of the battle could not stop the young knight from killing the enemy ruler, but all of it, and his attempted betrayal of his friend, broke his mind and revealed new possibilities to him. When the rescuers attempted to take him with them, he refused, attacking them. He realized that, having killed the previous ruler, he could now take control of the Krath, use them for his own ends. What had the knights ever done for his power?
Because, in the end, it became about power. First he wanted the power to avenge, to protect, but after tasting it, he realized that power for its own sake was not something he could simply let go of. And so, the young knight fought his former friends and became the ruler of the Krath, a far more deadly and dangerous foe then they had been to begin with thanks to his leadership, and proceeded to become one of the greatest threats the world had ever known.
...
Of course, I have no idea what the Anoli are like. Maybe they should be understood and reasoned with. But joining them is not the way to get both perspectives; you could simply be inundated with their words in the same way we're being inundated with the government's words now, and as Ulic Qel-Droma was inundated with the philosophies of the Krath.
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That's a pretty interesting story, actually.
Really, really interesting.
I'll keep it in mind, but I don't think it will stop me from seeking out the Anoli anytime soon.
I think I'll be alright.
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I've also got a few more legends I remember, but those can wait for another day. My name is Meetra if you want to look me up, I'm pretty sure I'm the only one in the city.