Lyra & Alex: BLOW UP THE GAS STATION

[20:15] <Lyra_Bel> ===== BEGIN =====
[20:16] <Lyra_Bel> "... Should we go start the fireworks thing instead of just talking about stuff other than the fireworks thing?"
[20:16] <Alex_> "i mean lets be real"
[20:16] <Alex_> "we can do whatever we want for as long as we want"
[20:16] <Alex_> "We have no time limit"
[20:16]  * Lyra_Bel gives him a look
[20:16] <Lyra_Bel> "What're you thinking?"
[20:17] <Alex_> "well im just saying we can talk or blow it up it really doesnt matter"
[20:18] <Lyra_Bel> "Guess that's true.  D'you wanna keep talking, then?"
[20:18] <Alex_> "not really"
[20:18] <Alex_> "lets go blow stuff up"
[20:18] <Lyra_Bel> "Heck yeah!"
[20:19]  * Lyra_Bel and Alex finish heading back to the gas station
[20:19] <Lyra_Bel> "Alright.  Last chance to loot whatever y'want, so go nuts"
[20:22] <Alex_> ((whaty is even in there))
[20:22] <Lyra_Bel> ((I dunno, it's just a regular gas station))
[20:23] <Alex_> I grab all the candy, food, and drink and shove them into a bag, then i captchalogue the bag.
[20:23] <Lyra_Bel> ((Pretty much anything you could reasonably find in one))
[20:23] <Alex_> "wanna be efficient you know?"
[20:23] <Lyra_Bel> "Of course.  Only so many cards to loot things into"
[20:25] <Alex_> "yeah you get it"
[20:25] <Alex_> "ready to blow it up?"
[20:25] <Lyra_Bel> "One sec"
[20:25]  * Lyra_Bel conjures her shovel, then recaptchalogues all the other stuff that got ejected by doing so
[20:26]  * Lyra_Bel then uses it to smash a random window
[20:26] <Lyra_Bel> "Always wanted to do that"
[20:26] <Lyra_Bel> "Okay, now I'm good to go"
[20:26] <Alex_> Alex leans over the counter and pops open the register.
[20:26] <Alex_> He takes all the stuff inside
[20:27] <Alex_> "Nice! always wanted to do that too"
[20:27] <Lyra_Bel> "Yay for senseless looting and violence!"
[20:27] <Alex_> "Yay!"
[20:27] <Alex_> Alex punches out a window too
[20:28] <Lyra_Bel> "Woo!"
[20:28] <Alex_> "WHOO"
[20:28]  * Lyra_Bel starts captchaloguing broken glass
[20:29] <Alex_> "isnt that gonna spray out at some point
[20:29] <Lyra_Bel> "Yeah, probably.  But I have a plan"
[20:30] <Alex_> "great that always gives me confidence"
[20:30] <Lyra_Bel> "Oh, hush.  This one's a good plan"
[20:30]  * Alex_ makes the motion of touching but doesnt actually do it
[20:30] <Lyra_Bel> ((Touching what?))
[20:31] <Alex_> like poking
[20:31] <Lyra_Bel> "Hey, I'll spray you with glass"
[20:31] <Alex_> "but i thought you had a plan!"
[20:32] <Lyra_Bel> "The plan is to spray you with glass"
[20:32] <Lyra_Bel> "I also need a rock though"
[20:32] <Lyra_Bel> "S'a complicated plan"
[20:32]  * Lyra_Bel ducks outside to grab a random rock
[20:32] <Lyra_Bel> "Okay there we go.  Trust me, this is a good idea"
[20:32] <Alex_> I just watch.
[20:33] <Lyra_Bel> "M'basically MacGyver here"
[20:34] <Alex_> "who?"
[20:34] <Lyra_Bel> "Dude from twenty-first century movies.  Made a buncha stuff out of weird supplies"
[20:34] <Lyra_Bel> "I think"
[20:35]  * Lyra_Bel removes a sock from the hoodie pocket inherent in all God Tier outfits, then puts the rock in it, followed by emptying the captcha card full of glass shards into it as well
[20:35] <Lyra_Bel> "Like a flail full of broken glass"
[20:36] <Alex_> "I think youre definitely ding that"
[20:36] <Alex_> "just summon a legit flail"
[20:36] <Lyra_Bel> "No.  It's not the same.  I wanna hit my enemies with a sock"
[20:36] <Alex_> "Sure sure"
[20:36] <Alex_> "Of course"
[20:37] <Lyra_Bel> "Don't patronize me, you know it's a good idea"
[20:38]  * Lyra_Bel spins her new weapon a few times
[20:39] <Alex_> "Ive always liked the satisfying thwak of a large sheet of wood or metal"
[20:39] <Lyra_Bel> "Reasonable enough.  Grab a shelf or something"
[20:39] <Alex_> I rrip up the counter.
[20:39] <Lyra_Bel> "Never really been strong enough to manage it myself, but cheap shots've always done the job for me"
[20:39] <Lyra_Bel> O.O
[20:40] <Alex_> "and the fact you can just like..."
[20:40] <Alex_> "cheat and shti"
[20:41] <Lyra_Bel> "Eeyup.  Cheating solves problems too"
[20:41] <Lyra_Bel> "But there's really not much that compares to flinging your sock at someone and then they start screaming because there's glass in their eyes"
[20:41] <Alex_> "ill take your word for it."
[20:42] <Lyra_Bel> "Fair enough.  You can stick to the thwacking, then"
[20:42] <Lyra_Bel> "To each their own"
[20:43] <Alex_> "ill just make sure you are safe to hit them"
[20:43] <Alex_> 'how about that?"
[20:43] <Lyra_Bel> "Deal"
[20:43]  * Lyra_Bel smiles
[20:43] <Alex_> Alex smiles to
[20:44]  * Lyra_Bel catches herself after a few seconds, and wipes the expression off her face
[20:44] <Lyra_Bel> "Well then!"
[20:44] <Lyra_Bel> "Time to blow up the world?"
[20:44] <Alex_> "wait world
[20:44] <Alex_> "i thought just the gas station"
[20:44] <Lyra_Bel> "Ah, same thing.  Blow up the only notable feature on the world"
[20:44] <Lyra_Bel> "Not like we'll be coming back here again, right?"
[20:45] <Alex_> "i guess"
[20:45] <Alex_> "damn..."
[20:45] <Alex_> "leaving for good"
[20:46] <Lyra_Bel> "I mean, we *can* come back"
[20:46] <Lyra_Bel> "But is there anything worth returning for?  Haven't really had any good memories of the place"
[20:46] <Lyra_Bel> "Well... not many"
[20:47] <Alex_> "true"
[20:47] <Alex_> "there were some fun times."
[20:47] <Alex_> "getting that suit was cool"
[20:47] <Alex_> "...can we captchalogue that guy and get him to be our tailor?"
[20:47] <Lyra_Bel> "Alex, Lanased threatened to kill us both for no reason"
[20:48]  * Lyra_Bel blinks
[20:48] <Lyra_Bel> "Okay yeah, maybe he *would* be worth keeping in that capacity"
[20:48] <Alex_> "yeah but damn that was a nice suit"
[20:48] <Alex_> "plus we could get him to come around"
[20:48] <Lyra_Bel> "I guess.  Clothes shopping again can be on the agenda, if y'want"
[20:50] <Lyra_Bel> "Or just nab the guy and bolt from the millions of angry mini-spiders that are sure to come after us when we do?"
[20:50] <Alex_> "yeah"
[20:50] <Alex_> "or we could tell him this entire like"
[20:50] <Alex_> "world is dying"
[20:50] <Lyra_Bel> "Servitude or oblivion.  Makes sense"
[20:51] <Lyra_Bel> "... As long as we don't force him if he chooses to die, though"
[20:52] <Alex_> "Im ok with that"
[20:53] <Lyra_Bel> "Sweet.  Guess we head over there now, so we don't accidentally blow him up first?"
[20:53] <Alex_> "oh true true"
[20:53] <Lyra_Bel> "Kinda have a bit of a pattern with that"
[20:54] <Lyra_Bel> "Even though Brofessor *totally* survived all along"
[20:55] <Alex_> "what was up with that anyway"
[20:55] <Lyra_Bel> "Remember Juan, right?"
[20:56] <Alex_> "yeah"
[20:56] <Alex_> "oh time travel isnt it"
[20:56] <Lyra_Bel> "Bingo"
[20:56] <Alex_> "I dont want to know"
[20:57] <Lyra_Bel> "It's kinda simple, really"
[20:57] <Lyra_Bel> "But okay, if you're sure"
[20:57] <Alex_> "alright fine what happened"
[20:58] <Lyra_Bel> "Well.  I bugged Juan to lemme use his time machine to go back to a bit *before* we threw Bro off"
[20:58] <Lyra_Bel> "And then I caught him, and captchalogued him"
[20:58] <Lyra_Bel> "*Then*, I replaced him with one of those dead copies from when we tried to alchemize him back to life"
[20:59] <Lyra_Bel> "And then I also caught that one box that disappeared before it could explode, so it can't ever show up again to bite us in the collective butt"
[21:00] <Alex_> "wait the evil box"
[21:00] <Alex_> "what was int hat"
[21:01] <Lyra_Bel> "No clue!  And we'll never have to find out, since it and the bomb are both safely stowed away in my sylladex"
[21:02]  * Lyra_Bel smiles, very clearly proud of herself

[21:11] <Alex_> "wait, can we see whats inside?"
[21:11] <Lyra_Bel> "Um.  There's sorta a live grenade in the card with it"
[21:11] <Alex_> "whyy"
[21:12] <Lyra_Bel> "Because we attached a grenade before we threw it off the cliff"
[21:12] <Lyra_Bel> "Remember?"
[21:12] <Alex_> "riiight of course"
[21:12] <Lyra_Bel> "Though to be fair"
[21:12] <Lyra_Bel> "We can totally take one measly grenade"
[21:12] <Alex_> "true true"
[21:13] <Lyra_Bel> "Worth it?"
[21:13] <Alex_> "I dont know"
[21:13] <Alex_> "i mean how did we even get it"
[21:14] <Lyra_Bel> "The gods plopped it into our sylladices to screw with us"
[21:16] <Lyra_Bel> "It's your call.  I kinda commandeered the first, um..."
[21:16] <Lyra_Bel> "... The first date.  So this one's up to you what we do"
[21:18] <Alex_> "i mean"
[21:18] <Alex_> "i dont know if its a good idea if the gods put it there to fuck with us"
[21:19] <Lyra_Bel> "That's fine too"
[21:19] <Lyra_Bel> "Same with your box, "Patience" or whatever it said"
[21:19] <Alex_> "oh right"
[21:20] <Alex_> "wait have i been patient enough"
[21:20] <Lyra_Bel> "No clue.  Wanna find out?"
[21:22] <Alex_> "somewhat"
[21:23] <Lyra_Bel> "Your call"
[21:23] <Alex_> "though being cursed by the gods..."
[21:23] <Alex_> "eh i got a god here"
[21:23] <Alex_> ";ets do it"
[21:24] <Lyra_Bel> "Woo!"
[21:25] <Alex_> "alright
[21:25] <Alex_> "
[21:25] <Alex_> "pull it out and ill kick the grande"
[21:26]  * Lyra_Bel very carefully removes the captchalogue card from the bottom of her sylladex, and then puts it on the top instead
[21:26] <Lyra_Bel> "Okay now s'not gonna chuck everything at us"
[21:26] <Lyra_Bel> "Now then!"
[21:26]  * Lyra_Bel decaptchalogues Pandora's Box and the live grenade
[21:27] <Alex_> Alex kicks it!
[21:27] <Lyra_Bel> Some wall or other explodes, probably
[21:28] <Lyra_Bel> "Now then.  You wanna open it, or me?"
[21:28] <Alex_> "I will."
[21:28] <Alex_> "it is my thing"
[21:29] <Alex_> I carefully open the box.
[21:29] <Alex_> ((what now))
[21:29] <Lyra_Bel> ((I guess I'm your DM up until Mike takes over?))
[21:29] <Alex_> i guess so
[21:30] <Lyra_Bel> ((Or we can leave it vague and just tell him you have an undescribed item))
[21:30] <Alex_> nah alex is gonna want to break it out and see whats up
[21:30] <Lyra_Bel> Fair enough
[21:30] <Lyra_Bel> In that case, the box contains...
[21:31] <Lyra_Bel> A pair of ornate golden gauntlets, each with a bright green emerald set into the back of the hand
[21:33] <Alex_> "AM i thanos?"
[21:33] <Lyra_Bel> "Who?"
[21:34] <Alex_> "comic book character with a gauntlet.
[21:34] <Alex_> I pick themup and put them on
[21:35] <Lyra_Bel> You are now equipped with the PYRITE GAUNTLETS
[21:35] <Lyra_Bel> "Huh.  From your time, I guess"
[21:35] <Alex_> "i dont even think so"
[21:35] <Alex_> "but ok
[21:36] <Lyra_Bel> "Could be mine.  But never really been much into comics"
[21:36] <Lyra_Bel> "RPGs were my poison of choice from game stores"
[21:37] <Alex_> "ah ok"
[21:37] <Alex_> I hold my hands up
[21:37] <Alex_> "what do these do"
[21:37] <Lyra_Bel> "No idea"
[21:37] <Lyra_Bel> "But they do look cool"
[21:37] <Alex_> "damn who needs pimp rings i got pimp hands"
[21:37] <Lyra_Bel> "... Did Thanos have a cape, too?"
[21:38] <Lyra_Bel> :P
[21:38] <Alex_> "no but he was an alien"
[21:38] <Lyra_Bel> "Huh.  Cool"
[21:38] <Alex_> "actually did he?"
[21:38] <Alex_> "I dont remember"
[21:38] <Alex_> "its been a while since my comic phase"
[21:39]  * Lyra_Bel removes her computer glasses and offers them to him, a webpage open
[21:39] <Lyra_Bel> "Google says no"
[21:39] <Lyra_Bel> https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9d/Thanos-guardians.jpg
[21:40] <Alex_> "Well what do you know"
[21:40] <Lyra_Bel> "That puts you at more of a hero than him"
[21:41] <Alex_> "i mean he looks like  space pimp if ive ever seen one"
[21:42] <Lyra_Bel> "Blue and scarred?"
[21:42] <Alex_> "well also with cool gold armor in a big chair"
[21:43] <Alex_> "but ignoring spce prostitution"
[21:43] <Alex_> "Im gonna punch something"
[21:43] <Alex_> I punch something
[21:43] <Alex_> A wall
[21:43] <Lyra_Bel> The wall takes a ton of damage and dies horribly
[21:43] <Alex_> "cool"
[21:43] <Alex_> does it taking more damage than it would have?
[21:44] <Lyra_Bel> Sure, why not
[21:44] <Lyra_Bel> Your punches are basically plot-tier already, so let's call these T6 glovekind
[21:44] <Alex_> Nice
[21:44] <Lyra_Bel> 6d4+Str damage, light, and a certain secret bonus
[21:45] <Lyra_Bel> Which I will let you know once it becomes relevant
[21:45] <Alex_> Oh nice
[21:46] <Lyra_Bel> If you don't have it already then they also come with a glovekind kind abstratus, I guess
[21:46] <Alex_> thats always good
[21:46] <Lyra_Bel> "Well that worked"
[21:47] <Alex_> "i... guess so"
[21:47] <Alex_> "so should we blow something up"
[21:47] <Lyra_Bel> "Heck yeah!"
[21:47] <Lyra_Bel> "Other than the walls!"
[21:47] <Alex_> "i mean theres only 2 left"
[21:48] <Lyra_Bel> "The secret is that we were the explosion the whole time"
[21:48] <Lyra_Bel> "It's us"
[21:49] <Alex_> "Im so happy"
[21:49] <Alex_> " always wanted to be one"
[21:49] <Lyra_Bel> :P
[21:49] <Lyra_Bel> "We're the bomb"
[21:49] <Alex_> "I am the bomb"
[21:49] <Alex_> "alrigjt get pout the explosives"
[21:50]  * Lyra_Bel rearranges her sylladex, then puts down 40 cans of gasoline
[21:50] <Lyra_Bel> 32*
[21:51]  * Lyra_Bel does the same with her remaining grenade, explosive rifle bullets, and then as many penmade bombs as she can sustain
[21:52] <Alex_> "nice"
[21:52] <Alex_> "so i have a lighter"
[21:52] <Lyra_Bel> "We should... maybe back up a smidge first"
[21:52] <Alex_> "thats true"
[21:53] <Lyra_Bel> "To the air, like you said?"
[21:53] <Alex_> "oh yeah"
[21:53] <Alex_> "carry me"
[21:53] <Alex_> I put my arms at my sides
[21:54]  * Lyra_Bel attempts to carry Alex
[21:54] <Alex_> "wait wait"
[21:54] <Alex_> "wings"
[21:54] <Lyra_Bel> "Yeah might be easier"
[21:54] <Lyra_Bel> "No offense but you're sorta heavy"
[21:54] <Lyra_Bel> "And I'm a wimp"
[21:54] <Alex_> "no problem"
[21:55]  * Lyra_Bel instead swaps pens and gives Alex an intricate pair of feathered wings
[21:56] <Lyra_Bel> "Now lead the way"
[21:58] <Alex_> I shoot into the sky
[21:58] <Alex_> "WHEREE IS SAFE?"
[21:58]  * Lyra_Bel follows
[21:58] <Lyra_Bel> "NO IDEA"
[21:58] <Lyra_Bel> "I'M JUST GONNA GO WHEREVER YOU DO, BUT KEEP YOU BETWEEN ME AND THE EXPLOSION"
[21:59] <Alex_> I fly a bit farther and give a thimgs up
[21:59] <Alex_> thumbs
[22:00]  * Lyra_Bel goes to him, then very carefully hides behind him
[22:00] <Alex_> I get the lighter and say
[22:00] <Alex_> "alright waht now"
[22:00] <Lyra_Bel> "I got the firecrackers to light it"
[22:00] <Alex_> "would you like to do the honors?"
[22:00] <Lyra_Bel> "Just gotta... launch them at it until one blows the world sky-high"
[22:01] <Lyra_Bel> "Nah, I blew up the mountain.  This one's all you"
[22:01] <Lyra_Bel> "Or we can take turns, see who manages first"
[22:01] <Alex_> "Got it"
[22:01] <Alex_> I take one, light it, and toss it.
[22:01] <Lyra_Bel> ((I guess we need a dicebot?  Or d'you just wanna say eventually they land one and boom goes the dynamite?))
[22:01] <Alex_> ((rolled a 14))
[22:02] <Alex_> ((im just using an app i have))
[22:02] <Lyra_Bel> ((Fair enough.  What's the DC to hit a gas station from this far away?))
[22:02] <Alex_> 16?
[22:02] <Lyra_Bel> ((Sure))
[22:02] <Lyra_Bel> I got a 3
[22:02]  * Lyra_Bel drops the firecracker
[22:02] <Lyra_Bel> "Well crumbs"
[22:03] <Alex_> "thats your turn!"
[22:03] <Alex_> 8
[22:03] <Alex_> Alex makes an eh lob
[22:03] <Lyra_Bel> "Oh c'mon!"
[22:03] <Alex_> "eergh"
[22:04] <Lyra_Bel> "I totally coulda gotten that one"
[22:04] <Lyra_Bel> "If I'd-"
[22:04]  * Lyra_Bel critfails, and it blows up in her face
[22:04] <Lyra_Bel> For 3 damage
[22:05] <Alex_> "eheheh nice"
[22:05] <Lyra_Bel> "This was a stupid idea"
[22:05] <Alex_> I toss another, 11.
[22:05] <Alex_> misses by a bit.
[22:05] <Lyra_Bel> "I'm a little afraid to try again"
[22:05]  * Lyra_Bel hurls one with all her might
[22:05] <Lyra_Bel> And gets a 5
[22:05] <Lyra_Bel> "... This isn't working"
[22:06] <Alex_> Alex tosses a bunch
[22:06] <Alex_> It explodes
[22:06] <Lyra_Bel> "Woo!"
[22:06] <Alex_> "Woah"
[22:06]  * Lyra_Bel launches the rest into the air to join the cacaphony produced by a whole frickin' bunch of extremely flammable gasoline going up in a fireball
[22:07] <Alex_> Alex watches and smiles
[22:08] <Lyra_Bel> It seems... Unnaturally still and quiet after the vibrations from Alex's explosion stop echoing through the air
[22:08] <Lyra_Bel> "That."
[22:08] <Lyra_Bel> "Was."
[22:08] <Alex_> "pretty cool yeah"
[22:08] <Lyra_Bel> "*AWESOME*!!!"
[22:09]  * Lyra_Bel does a flip in midair
[22:09] <Lyra_Bel> "C'mon let's go check out the crater!"
[22:09] <Alex_> Alex smiles"
[22:09] <Alex_> "thats a new side of you i havent seen :D"
[22:10] <Lyra_Bel> "Hey, I'm allowed to have fun sometimes"
[22:10] <Alex_> "i jsut havent been there for sometimes"
[22:11] <Alex_> "its been all "death destroying universe insanity"
[22:11] <Alex_> "its nice"
[22:11] <Alex_> "looks good on you"
[22:11] <Lyra_Bel> "I.  Um."
[22:11] <Lyra_Bel> "Thank you"
[22:12]  * Lyra_Bel tries to stop grinning from ear to ear, and fails miserably
[22:12] <Alex_> "come on lets check otu the crater"
[22:12] <Lyra_Bel> "Yeah!"
[22:12] <Alex_> Alex flies down
[22:12] <Lyra_Bel> There is a giant flipping crater.
[22:13] <Lyra_Bel> There may in fact not even be much of that particular cliff left
[22:13] <Lyra_Bel> I have no idea how big gas station explosions can be when they're also full of bombs
[22:13] <Alex_> "NICE!"
[22:14] <Lyra_Bel> "This is so *awesome*!"
[22:14] <Alex_> I mean if it had gas probably really big
[22:14] <Lyra_Bel> Then yeah that whole cliff is probably a good deal shorter than all the other cliffs now
[22:15] <Alex_> "jesus christ"
[22:15] <Alex_> Alex is more exited now
[22:16] <Alex_> "thats fucking aweseom
[22:16] <Lyra_Bel> The explosion blew the top clean away
[22:16] <Lyra_Bel> "That."
[22:16] <Lyra_Bel> "Was the coolest thing I've ever seen"
[22:16] <Lyra_Bel> "In my life"
[22:17] <Alex_> "id say the same"
[22:17] <Alex_> "jeeesus"
[22:17] <Lyra_Bel> "*Dude*, you frickin'-!"
[22:17]  * Lyra_Bel laughs
[22:17] <Lyra_Bel> "I'd like to see Carl or Reggie do *THAT*!"
[22:18] <Alex_> "dont fucking tempt them"
[22:18] <Lyra_Bel> "I'd like to see anybody other than those two try and do that, then"
[22:18] <Alex_> "i mean"
[22:18] <Alex_> "yeah true"
[22:18] <Lyra_Bel> "Because screw seeing those guys try and do things"
[22:18] <Alex_> Alex lays down in a less smoldering part
[22:19] <Lyra_Bel> "Is that safe?"
[22:19] <Lyra_Bel> "Like... at all?"
[22:20] <Alex_> "Nope"
[22:21]  * Lyra_Bel laughs again, then flops down next to him
[22:22] <Lyra_Bel> "Just..."
[22:22] <Lyra_Bel> "*Woah*."
[22:23] <Alex_> "yeah..."
[22:24] <Lyra_Bel> "Blowing this up was the best idea ever"
[22:25] <Alex_> "true..."
[22:25] <Alex_> "damn..."
[22:25] <Lyra_Bel> "What's up?"
[22:25] <Lyra_Bel> "You're being all ellipses-ish"
[22:26]  * Lyra_Bel gets up on an elbow to look at him
[22:27] <Alex_> "Im just getting a sort of depressing vibe"
[22:28] <Alex_> "this entire fucking world is gonna die"
[22:28] <Alex_> "i was just getting used to it"
[22:28] <Alex_> "and now im laying in a crater"
[22:28] <Lyra_Bel> "Hey, c'mon"
[22:29] <Lyra_Bel> "We get to go to a new world to stay in"
[22:29] <Lyra_Bel> "And all that's here is just hallucinations and Lanased anyway"
[22:30] <Alex_> "yeah"
[22:30] <Alex_> "but shit.."
[22:30] <Alex_> "i fought a nd bled in this world"
[22:30] <Alex_> "lived loved and fucking lost"
[22:30]  * Alex_ is getting somewhat emotion
[22:30]  * Alex_ is getting somewhat emotional*
[22:30] <Lyra_Bel> "Um."
[22:31] <Lyra_Bel> "... Alex?" She says tentatively after a moment
[22:31] <Alex_> "yeah"
[22:32] <Lyra_Bel> "S'done.  It's all done.  We're finally safe now"
[22:32] <Lyra_Bel> "There's not gonna be anymore bleeding, or losing, or anything"
[22:32] <Alex_> "i know that"
[22:32] <Alex_> "but shit"
[22:33] <Alex_> "all the people-"
[22:33] <Alex_> "so many people died and couldnt get here"
[22:33] <Alex_> "why us?"
[22:33] <Alex_> "fuck..."
[22:33] <Alex_> "Fuck this all"
[22:33]  * Lyra_Bel lies back down and sighs
[22:33] <Lyra_Bel> "Yeah"
[22:33] <Lyra_Bel> "Screw everything"
[22:34]  * Alex_ just lies down and tries not to cry
[22:35] <Lyra_Bel> "Sometimes it's hard to tell whether we should be glad or unhappy that we're in this game"
[22:36] <Alex_> alex doesnt say anything
[22:36] <Lyra_Bel> "Or guilty for being spared instead of somebody else, or *angry* at it for forcing us here and then starting to kill the others anyway"
[22:36] <Lyra_Bel> "Or just very, very bitter at a reality that progresses by killing universes"
[22:37] <Lyra_Bel> "The world sucks.  The world sucks a lot"
[22:38] <Lyra_Bel> "... S'why Lily and I were trying to focus on Tadpal so much"
[22:38] <Lyra_Bel> "If we can get the next universe in the chain to not be so bad..."
[22:38] <Lyra_Bel> "Then maybe it won't kill everyone.  Maybe it'll be a little bit softer, a little bit gentler, a little bit *safer*"
[22:38] <Alex_> "maybe"
[22:39] <Lyra_Bel> "But hope for a better future doesn't change a dismal past, does it?"
[22:39] <Alex_> "doesnt bring people back either"
[22:39] <Lyra_Bel> "Still progress built on the corpses of billions"
[22:40] <Alex_> "no pressure"
[22:41]  * Lyra_Bel snorts
[22:41] <Lyra_Bel> "None at all.  What weight of the universe on our broken shoulders?"
[22:42] <Lyra_Bel> "We never asked for this"
[22:43] <Alex_> "guess not."
[22:45] <Lyra_Bel> "Like"
[22:45] <Lyra_Bel> "We're freaking *kids*, Alex"
[22:45] <Lyra_Bel> "Who makes kids *do* stuff like this?"
[22:45] <Lyra_Bel> "Who makes *anyone* do stuff like this?"
[22:46] <Alex_> Alex just closes his eyes
[22:47]  * Lyra_Bel sighs
[22:47] <Lyra_Bel> "Least we ain't alone"
[22:48] <Alex_> "I guess so"
[22:51] <Alex_> I think now is a good time to end
[22:51] <Lyra_Bel> Yeah
[22:51] <Alex_> we can say they drifted off to sleep