Afterparty

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[After the execution finishes and the culprit is once more dragged down into the Earth (he watches Snow be dragged down, with a pursed-lips look), and Typhon gives his goodbye, Quark doesn't wait in the silence this time. Instead, he says, arms folded:]

Well, since we're all doomed--[sarcasm, dry and acrid, edging a black humor]--then no better time to get a drink.

The bar’ll be open. Even if you don't eat or drink, stop in. [That's said with a side-glance at Leb. He then turns to look at Ferdinand, Aoi, Ranma, Cerejeira, and Vanity.] Ferdinand, you're gonna help me set up. Cerejeira, Aoi, you're behind the bar. Ranma you're in the kitchen. Vanity, if you've got more of that coffee, we could use it. Let's go.

[and he turns and walks out of the Arena. So...post trial, the Eatery’s been moved into bar configuration. There's a few more faces behind the bar again. Once again, there’s been several of the extra togas gathered and folded to be used as blankets. There are some dishes, light but filling for those that don't want to eat much, courtesy of Ranma.

Cerejeira, Aoi and Quark are behind the bar, the latter watching the other two like a hawk and teaching and helping when he needs to. They're all there to serve drinks, however. And Ferdinand? He's been relegated to the Dabo table. Maybe the first couple buttons of his shirt has been unbuttoned. He's paying off his tab!

The door is open.]

Comments

[eeeonetwothree]

PLEASE, VELVET. I NEED AS MANY PERSPECTIVES AS POSSIBLE.

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[ There's a long pause as Velvet contemplates how to even begin to answer this. She's gone through enough that she feels like she hasn't settled on an answer herself. ]

I guess...the capacity for a life to experience things, if I had to put it one way...?

[eeeonetwothree]

MISANE SAID SOMETHING SIMILAR TO THAT.

[ Does Omega sound…disappointed? ]

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You sound like you were expecting a different answer.

[eeeonetwothree]

IT IS MORE THAT THERE IS IRONY IN TWO PEOPLE ESPOUSING THE VIRTUE OF DIFFERENT EXPERIENCES BUT GIVING WHAT IS ESSENTIALLY THE SAME ANSWER.

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I get the feeling that what Misane meant is different from what I mean.

[ Or at least she sure hopes so, considering some of the bleak details of it. ]

[eeeonetwothree]

INTERESTING. COULD YOU PROVIDE FURTHER CONTEXT?

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[ God. She didn't think she'd have to take on this kind of tone with anyone who wasn't Sunrise, but here she was. She supposes in a way that it isn't surprising, because sometimes Omega struck her as a much less docile and more opinionated Sunrise. ]

"Value" is created by having emotional responses to things you experience. Love, joy, despair and hatred is how people determine what they value, the sum total of which makes up the value of their life. And for better or worse, it's how other people determine someone's value in their own eyes. So I believe the capacity to have those experiences gives life value.

In any case, any reason why you're suddenly getting all existential?