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compnetwork2012-11-21 11:33 am
darkbaptist) wrote in compnetwork2012-11-21 11:33 am
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1st Conception - Video
[The communication starts with a hissing sound, like you'd hear in a low burn, and then focuses on the source of the noise: two skillets being set down on the burners of a stove. Around the counter viewers can make out cooking ingredients: a stick of butter, margerine, salt, eggs, chocolate, a whipping spoon. After a few seconds Hikawa begins to speak.]
As odd as it might seem to introduce myself in such a way, I would like to take a survey. A survey dealing on culinary tastes, you might say, to see what people would prefer.
It will be a simple choice focusing on two types of simple egg dishes. Most people seem to enjoy eggs, whether they be scrambled, poached, sunny side up, or what have you. But now matter how you might enjoy them there is a single base for all of them: butter.
[On camera the man takes a knife and, cutting a part from the block of butter, puts it into one of the skillets where it begins to melt.]
Not only does butter add flavor to the egg, but it keeps it from sticking to the pan and being burnt. But for the sake of those who perhaps don't like butter, let us try another substance to take its place. Let us say...chocolate.
[Hikawa breaks off a chunk of the chocolate in front of him and puts it in the other skillet. It begins to melt, sizzling a bit. Afterwards Hikawa breaks four eggs, putting two in each skillet and stirring each one as he continues to speak.]
While one might experiment in cooking, cooking also has rules that in the end cannot be denied if you want a satisfactory meal. You can replace some things in a dish, but you can't replace others, and if you go to far in your experimentation you make a dish none can enjoy instead of all.
So tell me. Which would you prefer. The eggs made with butter-
[He focuses the camera, showing a skillet of neat, well-made scrambled eggs.]
Or the dish made with chocolate?
[The other skillet, however, is not fairing so well. Much of the chocolate has burnt and stuck to the sides of the skillet, while turning the eggs it has mixed in an ugly brownish color. It seems to have failed as well to keep the eggs from sticking to the pan, as much of the eggs themselves is burnt into the metal of it, leaving streaks of white and yellow gunk along with burnt brown.]
As odd as it might seem to introduce myself in such a way, I would like to take a survey. A survey dealing on culinary tastes, you might say, to see what people would prefer.
It will be a simple choice focusing on two types of simple egg dishes. Most people seem to enjoy eggs, whether they be scrambled, poached, sunny side up, or what have you. But now matter how you might enjoy them there is a single base for all of them: butter.
[On camera the man takes a knife and, cutting a part from the block of butter, puts it into one of the skillets where it begins to melt.]
Not only does butter add flavor to the egg, but it keeps it from sticking to the pan and being burnt. But for the sake of those who perhaps don't like butter, let us try another substance to take its place. Let us say...chocolate.
[Hikawa breaks off a chunk of the chocolate in front of him and puts it in the other skillet. It begins to melt, sizzling a bit. Afterwards Hikawa breaks four eggs, putting two in each skillet and stirring each one as he continues to speak.]
While one might experiment in cooking, cooking also has rules that in the end cannot be denied if you want a satisfactory meal. You can replace some things in a dish, but you can't replace others, and if you go to far in your experimentation you make a dish none can enjoy instead of all.
So tell me. Which would you prefer. The eggs made with butter-
[He focuses the camera, showing a skillet of neat, well-made scrambled eggs.]
Or the dish made with chocolate?
[The other skillet, however, is not fairing so well. Much of the chocolate has burnt and stuck to the sides of the skillet, while turning the eggs it has mixed in an ugly brownish color. It seems to have failed as well to keep the eggs from sticking to the pan, as much of the eggs themselves is burnt into the metal of it, leaving streaks of white and yellow gunk along with burnt brown.]
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......Huh.
Um. Well. Then let that be a lesson to you about wasting nature's bounty. Hmph and for shame and all that.
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The only end result of such behavior is, I believe, the wasteland that I'm told lies beyond this city.
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The greed and selfishness of man are limitless. You can never have enough! You take and take and take and you never give back! And then you have the audacity to whine when you're trapped in war after war, you're running out of food, and you've reduced the earth to a scorched wasteland!
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Uike every other creature we share the planet with man is content to merely live on the world instead of being of the world. Content to take without giving. Even the simplest animal has a better sense of conservation than mankind does.
Yet is is my hope that such can be changed, and man can learn to be one with the world. To be the world.
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I was beginning to think you were all completely brain-dead. I'm just going to go ahead and ignore the last bit that sounded bizarrely cultish and focus on the part where you actually care about the world you have the privilege of living in.
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I have no intent of staying here longer than necessary; I have far too much to do in my world. But I beliee a world as ravaged as even this one might flourish again.
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I've got enough on my hands trying to keep the rest of your species from using my world as some sort of combination gold mine/litter box, but I can spare some time for the revival of life in this place.
My name is Viridi. Goddess of nature.
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[And to have an ally, let alone a goddess, would be a valuable resource. How long they might remain on amicable terms would depend on several variables, not the least of which being that Hikawa's way of saving the world was to reduce the world to a nearly negated and barren of all life in order for a new Reason to come and remake the world. It was hard to tell with deities; there seemed to be few creatures more finicky than they, even among the other demons that one could summon.
Still if he could maintain a relationship to the point he could call the goddess an ally, perhaps he could set his sights on extending Shijima to this world once through with his own.]
I am Hikawa, head of the Assembly of Nihilo.
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Subtlety isn't the Assembly's forte, is it?
Pretending I don't have a basic grasp of Latin roots for a moment... Tell me about your world. Do they actually listen when it's one of their own people speaking the uncomfortable truths?
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No. A voice that preaches what the mass does not want to hear is drowned out in their own droning. And yet the people of my world talk about how precious their individuality is. It's always seemed sad to me, because they wish to defend their individuality so greatly and yet they don't even possess it. Don't seem to realize they're already a singular mass in their own way, but just an inefficient one.
They're lost.
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Free will is fine and dandy, but humans are so predictable that you know what path they're going to choose 9 times out of 10 - the one that puts them on top. ...Or a place where they think they're on top. Everyone makes the same selfish decisions, and the world goes to snuff.
Humans have to change before it's too late. Before every world they occupy turns into this one.
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We hit the reset button and start over from scratch.
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In the ashes of the old world are seeds for the new. And in the end the seed best suited to start the new will grow strongest.
[Theres a heavy possibility that, conversationally, this could be a trap. But there's little point hiding his actual belief for now. It would, after all, come out sooner or later.]
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Just on humans.
The rest of the world will be fine if they get straightened out.
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I do not know how it is in your world, however, but in mine it comes down to it that man must be the one to make man choose a new path, even with the intervention of gods. And in this instance, the world must be reborn anew, or start off again in a blank slate. A Conception, if you will, a seed planted that remakes the entire world.
As it stands, it's the only way to cause true change in my world.
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Whoever thought that was a good idea sniffed a few too many poppies. The world doesn't need men any more than it needs a bubonic plague. Why is it that everyone insists on thinking a bunch of walking apes is special somehow?
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Even the Creator, from what little I know of his real nature, did not intend for it to be so. But it still is how it was, and he lacks the power to change it. The exact reasons why this should be, I do not know. There are fractions of the story known to me, particles, but I lack the full details to put it together coherently.
But in the end, even the Creator of all things in my world can, apparently, become beholden to mankind, just as much as man might worship Him.
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Nature is telling you now that that's the dumbest thing she's ever heard. Humans aren't special. At all. It's because you all think you're entitled to something that all the trouble happens at all.
My world is going to change, with or without the cooperation of the humans.
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Understand I'm not concerned about mankind being special. Merely it's survival. And that is natural instinct for any animal.
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I find it to be in the best interest, however, for mankind to start over.
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Righteous indignation just feels so good, you know?
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There is nothing good about it when you are caught within part of the problem.
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