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[cloakand_danger]

[Today on the network, there is a man with long blue hair. Ordinarily a grouchy fellow, today he looks calm and thoughtful.]

...So. We're all told when we get here that we're needed in order to provide power for a world in crisis, a world that can't survive any other way. We're drawn here from many worlds, across time and space, for that purpose: in order to keep this world alive until such time as it can sustain itself.

My question to you is this: what does your world use as power? My world has a great tree which produces energy known as mana, upon which all things rely to live. And indeed, we've only recently managed to end a prolonged crisis regarding the death of that tree and the need to sprout a new one. The actions that we took in the interim, to keep our world alive, could only have been regarded as desperate.

Have any of you faced similar crises in your own homes? What happened, and if it has been resolved, how?

And one other thing.

[Here, he narrows his eyes, and his tone grows colder.]

Why haven't the maintainers of Saeng Seong asked you about it, to gain from any potential knowledge you might have, rather than merely using you as a battery?

Comments

[dontthesunlookgoodtoday]

Electricity, mostly. [nooooot going into how that's produced, since given they're disconnected from all the original sources who the hell knows.]

You think that'd turn out well?

[cloakand_danger]

I don't know, and I don't see how they can, either, until it's been tried.

[dontthesunlookgoodtoday]

Guess not. It'd be a gamble, though. And if they got no response they could run entirely out of energy before anything got done.

[cloakand_danger]

They've clearly already found some kind of solution, in kidnapping us here and using us to generate energy. All I'd like to know is, how can they be sure we can't improve upon their solution? Why are they using us as pawns, rather than regarding us as potential allies?

[dontthesunlookgoodtoday]

So everyone gets home happy and no one has to be kidnapped?

Tricky. And I don't think they're going to give us any straight answers. Maybe they don't trust us with the details of how it all works behind the scene.

[cloakand_danger]

Strange of them to ask us to trust them, but not extend us the same trust, don't you think?

[dontthesunlookgoodtoday]

Comes of getting to transplant people places, I'd say. But yeah, if they really want to get us working with them properly, they could stand being a bit more open.

[his mouth pulls to one side, though. He doesn't think it'll happen that soon.]