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Texts From Folknight

Welcome to Folkmore's Texts From Last Night meme!

Because it's still April and Thoth is still amused, consider this round two of the Initial Misfire Edition. Initial messages maaaaay go to the wrong person! So not all hell breaks loose, replies carry forward with whoever you've reached, but you might be texting your innermost intoxicated or sleep deprived secret to someone you don't even know.

If you'd like to opt out of misfires, please include this in your top level (by prompt or overall). Otherwise, enjoy indulging Thoth's amusement and building some new CR.

This meme can be used as a branch off from our Test Drive Memes and be used as game canon or just for casual fun in the setting! You do not need to be in our game or be invited to play on our TFLN. This can be a great way to meet current players for future invites, get a feel for the setting, or just have some fun.

This can be used for samples on our applications and as spoons for players accepted into the game.

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Comments

[getscooperation]

[ a terrible idea, best to rethink that ]

It's been a very strange decade. Although the participants may change, the motives are more or less the same. Sad, really, that so many powerful people are so small-minded.

[miniroth]

[Orders are orders!]

It definitely sounds strange, if you'll forgive me for saying so. Wouldn't you think the newest one would look at all the failed previous attempts, and decide this isn't going to work out?

[getscooperation]

[ again, please rethink that ]

You would think. But I don't think many people who want to take over the world and/or murder swathes of other sentient life suffer from an excess of sound reasoning.

[miniroth]

[Impossible!]

I can't really disagree with that. Our current war going on where I'm from mostly revolves around one company trying to put power plants down in places people don't want them.

Most figure it's kind of silly to keep forcing it on people and I suppose it is, but here we are.

[getscooperation]

[ perhaps consider why considering otherwise is impossible, then? closed minds, etc. etc. ]

Why don't they want the power plants? Are they harmful to the population in some way?

[miniroth]

[What's the point of brainwashing kids if they learn to make their own choices??]

As far as I can tell, differences of opinion. I can understand it, you have someone else come in and drop their stuff in the middle of your corn field and then tell you it's all theirs now.. and you can pay for the privilege of using their power..

[getscooperation]

[ So they can light their brainwashing institution on fire later and watch all the pretty lights? ]

Sounds pretty brutal.

[miniroth]

[That's a foregone conclusion!]

I am told the proper word for it is 'capitalism'.

[getscooperation]

[ a + (it's a joke, get it?) ]

That's a system, not a description of the system. How would you characterize it?

[miniroth]

[if sephiroth understands jokes, shinra denies all knowledge of it]

Predatory, but not without at least some measure of improving lives. With industrialization comes sanitation, better roads, better water quality, easier access to shipping food and so on.

[getscooperation]

Are better roads really a benefit if there are less people to travel on them?

[miniroth]

It's not my place to question the decisions of those much older and more experienced than I am. Understanding is not required, only obedience.

[getscooperation]

[ YEAH, that's what she THOUGHT had happened to this kid.

Natasha mentally curses vividly in several languages. She only responds, ]

To be a good SOLDIER?

[miniroth]

Of course. If you can't rely on the people you're handing very dangerous weapons to, what good are they?

Still, it's not like mako reactors are going to be put here, so I suppose it's not really important. And if someone wished to, the Fox would likely put a stop to that fairly quickly. I'm tough, but I can't fight actual gods.

[getscooperation]

It's good to have realistic expectations. Have you been here long?

[miniroth]

About a month, by my estimate. I didn't keep track at first, no reason to. Yourself?

[getscooperation]

About the same. It's been an adjustment, but fortunately there are people from my world here to help with that. What about you?

[miniroth]

There are, but I think by their time, I'm dead. They're about fifteen years out.

I don't think it's going to go well.

[getscooperation]

You don't think what's going to go well?

[ Sounds. SUPER CASUAL about being dead. Which. Ugh. ]

[miniroth]

[If the science department accomplished nothing else, their thoroughness at making sure he doesn't have issues with his life and purpose is unquestionable!]

Dying. If we deal in killing so often, but when it comes to our own end someone doesn't want to tell you, never mind how, it seems ominous. Maybe it was particularly embarrassing?

[getscooperation]

[ Oh jeeze, kid. ]

It's difficult, isn't it, when others are making choices about what you want to know? They may simply not want you to worry. They may think it will negatively impact you. They may think it is not your business since you are not yet your future self. Or you may have slipped dramatically on a banana peel and fallen headfirst into a sewer for a particularly embarrassing death. [ No, wait, she goes back to erase that part. Still a kid, and she doesn't want to be too encouraging with the worst part about death being the embarrassment. (That, she hears her sister say, would be a shitty way to die.) ] Would you rather they tell you?

[miniroth]

Yes. If I'm old enough to be sent to war I'm old enough to know how that turns out. Wouldn't you want to know? Just so you stop imagining all the options?

[getscooperation]

If someone had already spilled the beans? Yeah. I think I'd want to know. Even if that likely has its own frustrations.

Did they say why they didn't want to tell you?

[miniroth]

No. I expect it's because I'm young. This ridiculous notion that I need to be 'protected'. Everyone looks at me and sees a kid.

Do you know if, when the Fox finally lets us go, we keep what we've gained here? Knowledge, or belongings?

[getscooperation]

It wouldn't hurt to ask them why they won't tell you. Whatever they say will be more information than you had before.

I have friends who hope that's the case. But there is no empirical data one way or the other. If you consider her stated intentions, however, there does not seem to be much point in developing potential in isolation.