Re: The Grand Battle [Starring Eximo Pulvis!]
10-25-2009, 12:37 PM
Originally posted on MSPA by Draykon.
Amethyst stood back up, the pain from the fall had subsided almost instantly. She looked up at Nathan, the demon lord seeming eager to hear her response.
She decided not to bother with it, and instead began fiddling with various buttons on her armband. Onscreen, the colorful interface gave way to one far more bland, as pages of some alien language appeared onscreen.
Please... help us...
She heard the weak voice again. Deciding to completely ignore the demon lord- something she hoped would simply annoy it, she instead began whispering, in address to the mysterious voice.
"Who is 'us'?"
Eximo's spirit stopped. It wasn't a concept it could consider, All it knew was it was hungry... but it did know more than that didn't it? For 'it' to be hungry, there would have to be an 'it' to be hungry.
But the girl seemed likely to help, so it expressed this.
Us is I...
We are very hungry...
"And I is who? Is there a place you come from? A place you are now?"
The spirit couldn't understand what she was getting at, but it still felt for some reason that this girl could help.
I is us--
As it whispered those words, it began to consider the paradox. Us is I, therefore I is Us. These two facts are dependent, but by stating both, no new information was created...
The concept was confusing, it addressed the other question instead.
We are here
beside you
but not beside you.
It paused again.
I am here...
Amethyst seemed satisfied with that much. "There is alot of unwatched life somewhere. I believe is it also 'there.'"
She paused for a bit so the spirit could contemplate this. 'There' to her was 'here' to us wasn't it? This seemed to make sense.
"There is a light that is both here and there. Near that light are two souls, and near those two souls is an army of souls, currently unbound and unguarded if I am correct."
The soul looked around, was the 'light' the force that had hurt it before? There did seem to be two souls there now, and-- something else. An amalgamation, like itself, but without purpose. It lay weakly, as though it had been separated from a master it knew dearly.
"That army of unbound souls is without purpose, I do not think anyone would be saddened if they were to become food."
'No one would be saddened.' Was this a good thing? Yes, this was an acceptable condition for which it may devour the souls. In fact, it may even be favorable. It didn't bother with the logic for this one, for it had been promised food.
It whispered a simply Thank you. And started off back towards the crystal.
"Oh, and just what was that supposed to be?"
The demon lord seemed to have been listening, vaguely interested in Amethyst's little 'talk.'
"A soul is a mass of sentience, however when it goes too long without a proper body, it becomes selfish, and childlike. But children are usually honest, and think about what people say. If you ask it the right questions, you can convince it to 'think' alot more than if you just let it do what it wants."
She closed out of the strange alien document.
"At any rate, it would be to my benefit if the spirits within the Weightmaw Arm are to become 'food' for some stray ghost."
Amethyst stood back up, the pain from the fall had subsided almost instantly. She looked up at Nathan, the demon lord seeming eager to hear her response.
She decided not to bother with it, and instead began fiddling with various buttons on her armband. Onscreen, the colorful interface gave way to one far more bland, as pages of some alien language appeared onscreen.
Please... help us...
She heard the weak voice again. Deciding to completely ignore the demon lord- something she hoped would simply annoy it, she instead began whispering, in address to the mysterious voice.
"Who is 'us'?"
Eximo's spirit stopped. It wasn't a concept it could consider, All it knew was it was hungry... but it did know more than that didn't it? For 'it' to be hungry, there would have to be an 'it' to be hungry.
But the girl seemed likely to help, so it expressed this.
Us is I...
We are very hungry...
"And I is who? Is there a place you come from? A place you are now?"
The spirit couldn't understand what she was getting at, but it still felt for some reason that this girl could help.
I is us--
As it whispered those words, it began to consider the paradox. Us is I, therefore I is Us. These two facts are dependent, but by stating both, no new information was created...
The concept was confusing, it addressed the other question instead.
We are here
beside you
but not beside you.
It paused again.
I am here...
Amethyst seemed satisfied with that much. "There is alot of unwatched life somewhere. I believe is it also 'there.'"
She paused for a bit so the spirit could contemplate this. 'There' to her was 'here' to us wasn't it? This seemed to make sense.
"There is a light that is both here and there. Near that light are two souls, and near those two souls is an army of souls, currently unbound and unguarded if I am correct."
The soul looked around, was the 'light' the force that had hurt it before? There did seem to be two souls there now, and-- something else. An amalgamation, like itself, but without purpose. It lay weakly, as though it had been separated from a master it knew dearly.
"That army of unbound souls is without purpose, I do not think anyone would be saddened if they were to become food."
'No one would be saddened.' Was this a good thing? Yes, this was an acceptable condition for which it may devour the souls. In fact, it may even be favorable. It didn't bother with the logic for this one, for it had been promised food.
It whispered a simply Thank you. And started off back towards the crystal.
"Oh, and just what was that supposed to be?"
The demon lord seemed to have been listening, vaguely interested in Amethyst's little 'talk.'
"A soul is a mass of sentience, however when it goes too long without a proper body, it becomes selfish, and childlike. But children are usually honest, and think about what people say. If you ask it the right questions, you can convince it to 'think' alot more than if you just let it do what it wants."
She closed out of the strange alien document.
"At any rate, it would be to my benefit if the spirits within the Weightmaw Arm are to become 'food' for some stray ghost."
Spoiler