letsplayamurder | Endgame: Part 2

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Endgame: Part 2

The week goes on. A small miracle, how quiet it is. With no motives or attacks to speak of, you can breathe a sigh of relief even when a tension gripes the air. So few of you now, what exactly would you do were Typhon to return and decide the game was over? Was Athena always going to be out of reach? And what exactly did she want you to find in the center of this mountain temple, anyway?

Questions abound, and no answers.

...Until this morning. The sky itself is clear with very few clouds, but something still falls into your home. Not "physically," though, it's more of a feeling. The sensation of some great power entering this space. Everyone will notice it, and the way it passes by, sinking beneath the floors - all the way to the bottom level.

And there it ends up, waiting for someone brave enough to investigate.

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I know what that is, but I don't think it applies here? That's warring nations, right?

Well, they didn't write any for whatever the hell this is.

Either way, you know. Solitary's literal torture, so maybe... not that.

...This is one of those things where we're supposed to be "morally better" or something, huh.

[sounds fake]

Listen, if everyone decides to kill her, I'm not going to complain about it.

[Aoi might, but, you know.]

But... yeah.

[Yeah, there's. Just a half-second glance over at Aoi.]

You know what. I want her fucking deader than she is already, but as long as she's fucking out of our hair? Whatever.

[Nodding his head in solidarity.]

Long as she isn't tryin' to raze the world again or anything, I'm fine with keepin' her alive.

[Hell, he mostly just wanted to kill Typhon this whole time because he's a bullheaded prick. This Athena he... Well, he doesn't exactly want to be buddy-buddy with her but. She's less grating to listen to than Typhon.]

If she tries again I'm definitely personally putting her in the ground. ...Or whatever the equivalent for god ghosts is.

It does seem rather silly to me... but Lebkuchen's argument is sound. She'd simply come out more of a nuisance than she is now.

Ugh. I suppose that's a point. We've already opened this thing once, no guarantee someone else won't later. Assuming she doesn't just Rita Repulsa her way out on her own somehow.

It is perfectly survivable.

[ Don't worry about it! ]

There's plenty of torture that's survivable, yeah.

It just seems extreme.

[ She's not even necessarily in favor of doing that here, just.

Well. Anyway. ]

But I do agree with you. An imprisoned enemy will always return eventually.

[he shrugs]

Starfleet and Federation psychological experts made that call. And the Cardassians did it to the Bajorans as punishment sometimes. So I can't say I think it's wrong.

[mildly, just as a factual statement but not exactly something he'll be stubborn and argue about.]

But torture or not, I agree. It's just asking for trouble.