[ he knows he's a gut instinct type, so that makes total sense. but surprisingly, he doesn't trip on the trap! ... for now, at least. he's crouching down to start picking at part of it to get one side dismantled. ]
Well... yeah... But at least we've got something more to go on now?
[ They'll eventually end up at the tree in the courtyard where she set up the net trap before, so she'll climb back up into the branches with remarkable ease and work on untying the knots. ]
What'd you guys think about that, anyway? [ Kind of shouted from up in the tree. ] The way they just went right after him and everything.
[ The net disappears up into the branches as she gathers it up. ]
Seeing that guy all empty like that all of a sudden, it kind of reminded me of people back home. I mean, there aren't any spectres or anything involved in that; everyone pretty much chooses it for themselves, but.
[ There's some rustling up in the leaves, and then she hops back down from the tree with the net in hand. ]
If that's what they do to people, then I really want to do whatever I can to stop it.
[ Even if it's just attempting stupid jar traps. ]
... Well, now that you mention it, there is a similar phenomenon where I'm from. I know of a country with no name, where its citizens voluntarily give up their emotions, believing them to be the source of evil.
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Though even that wasn't quite as... disconcerting as what happened today.
Really? Ugh, I would have hoped my world was the only one that was that messed up... It was pretty much the norm there. Go to the capital and devote your life to the goddess, get a number instead of a name, never have to worry about anything again. People like us who rejected all that were the weird ones.
[ It's not quite the same thing, but seems like the results are probably pretty similar anyway.
Hm. ]
I dunno, you think it's anything like that here? The "source of evil" thing? Take someone who's proven to do bad things and purge it out of 'em?
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[ he knows he's a gut instinct type, so that makes total sense. but surprisingly, he doesn't trip on the trap! ... for now, at least. he's crouching down to start picking at part of it to get one side dismantled. ]
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he'll crouch down to help with the other side.]
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She'll gather up the cans or whatever as they take them off the wire! One thing they can say for these traps is they held up pretty well, at least. ]
Now that we've actually seen those things, I wonder if maybe we could catch 'em in a jar or something instead...
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[ once disarmed, he's moving on to the next ]
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Though I suppose that reasoning is how we ended up with all these traps.
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[ They'll eventually end up at the tree in the courtyard where she set up the net trap before, so she'll climb back up into the branches with remarkable ease and work on untying the knots. ]
What'd you guys think about that, anyway? [ Kind of shouted from up in the tree. ] The way they just went right after him and everything.
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I... don't know. It's was a lot to process, I'm not even sure what to feel right now.
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... Indeed. Something like this is certainly far outside my area of expertise.
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[ The net disappears up into the branches as she gathers it up. ]
Seeing that guy all empty like that all of a sudden, it kind of reminded me of people back home. I mean, there aren't any spectres or anything involved in that; everyone pretty much chooses it for themselves, but.
[ There's some rustling up in the leaves, and then she hops back down from the tree with the net in hand. ]
If that's what they do to people, then I really want to do whatever I can to stop it.
[ Even if it's just attempting stupid jar traps. ]
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[ a shiver runs down his spine at that thought ]
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[...]
Though even that wasn't quite as... disconcerting as what happened today.
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[ It's not quite the same thing, but seems like the results are probably pretty similar anyway.
Hm. ]
I dunno, you think it's anything like that here? The "source of evil" thing? Take someone who's proven to do bad things and purge it out of 'em?
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But that'd mean the entire city's adults had been doing bad, right?
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[...]
It's not out of the question, albeit a somewhat horrifying thought.