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[deicider]

[Just assume this is the bullet point version]

It's been a long couple of days so I'll try to make this short.

Avante's 'oath' Live hasn't been put to much use yet, but I want to make one now.

I swear to every unit that I will always work to minimize harm, and to do my utmost to prevent death and profound suffering among all units, as much as the protection of my own unit allows.

I know that sounds pretty watered-down, but I think we're better of acknowledging that when it comes down to it, we all want to protect our own units and those we care about above anything else.


I do truly believe the best thing we can do to protect our own units is to protect each other. For that we need to be able to trust each other. Despite some of the outcomes of the last game, I think it was pretty good proof that we can trust each other to do what's right, for the most part.

But a big part of trust is accountability. I've already made this clear to Taisho, but I don't intend to keep it a secret. The next time Yasuragi willfully acts to cause death or intolerable suffering to anyone here, I will kill him, outside of the games. If, before that time, we as a community establish guidelines on how to deal with what violence that we can control, or if Taisho presents a reasonable plan of action, I'll submit to that instead.


Thanks for listening. I have two things left I want to mention.

First of all, anyone who thinks this oath is common sense is free to join me in it.

Second, anyone who prefers to think there's no point in trying because we're helpless victims of the games should remember that it's the same Hosts running the games that make us all better afterward, and the same Hosts that give us our abilities. Consider carefully how much you want to continue to depend on that 'goodwill'.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Reasonable and logical.

That being said, I still don't think many people are going to take this oath with you.

[deicider]

Not even you?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

“As much as the protection of my own unit allows.” That’s your priority not mine. That is not the criteria that would force my hand.

[deicider]

What is?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

I'm not having this conversation over text. Either pick a place to meet our come to my lab.

[deicider]

I want to see your lab!

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Then by all means, stop by our dorm.

[deicider]

[Knock knock Intensity]

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Opens the door. 'Sup, Cardigan]

You should have told me you had an interest in these things.

[deicider]

if I had known you had a secret lab, I would have.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[And punching in the access code in the keypad so they can enter that lab.

Flavor text is as follows: Across from the blank room, there is another room with a prominent lock-- this one a number pad lock. Like the rest of the dormitory, it's all done in white matte and silver metal. Across from the entrance, on the far wall is a singular table— a silver slab that hovers mid-air, locked in place unless the height is deliberately adjusted. A similar white slab chair also will float, seat wherever you choose to put it. Silver robot arms for holding things-- be it projects worked on or tools can be retracted or extruded from the walls. Despite how space-age the rest of it is, the tower computer that sits beside the desk seems pretty 90s, though it does come with a slick modern monitor.]

I was tired of working out of the hospital. Their computers were garbage.

[deicider]

[raising an eyebrow.]

Wow. This cost the standard 2000?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Hmmm? Were you unsatisfied with a dorm upgrade of yours?

[deicider]

Our first one is still processing.

[They just didn't know you could get someplace... useful.]

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[]

It's not fully functional yet, but it will be in time.

Feel free to have a look around.

[On the walls, he has taped the various notes from the meeting with Exael as well as some rough scribblings of his own.

The newest addition seem to be the puzzle answers of the last Exael game with the ordering of the units written next to it]

[deicider]

[Does walk around, eventually coming to that paper.]

"Adapt to all things"...

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

The puzzle that we didn't solve in time.

And an odd answer, don't you think? Doesn't really fit with the whole Job theme.

[deicider]

[nods]

It is strange. Job was just supposed to suffer.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

But at the same time, Exael told us to find our niche. So maybe that's what it is referring to.

[deicider]

[Frowns a little because. Well. "Adapt to all things" isn't something they'd necessarily say, but in spirit it's something they'd... do, in a sense.]

It lends some credence to your theory that avante is neutral right now.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

As good knights should be. Or seem to be might be a better turn of phrase.

[deicider]

Good knights and good bureaucrats.

[Taisho had been the other team, after all.]

I wish Taisho wasn't a lost cause. [Amends,] Except for Maki. Who knows what that contract ability could do in the right hands.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Have you written off the rest of them completely then?

[deicider]

[hmmm. Takes a moment to put aside the fact that he just doesn't like a couple of them.]

I'm not expecting anything out of them.