Week 4.

[azumods]

WEEK 4 Backtracking may not seem like an ideal situation, especially not given the situation on Sunday morning, but it isn't without reason or merit; after all, Lake Valor is within a reasonable distance, and perhaps more importantly, there's reason to believe that something may be there. Whether it's one of the Guardians you seek or something else entirely has yet to be seen; there's only one way to know for sure, however. So back onto Route 213 it is; you should reach Route 214 by Tuesday afternoon, and the entrance to Lake Valor by Thursday night; you may want to wait to explore the lakefront proper during the morning, however. Who knows what you may run into... You've seen at least some reasons to not give up hope as you left Pastoria; for the time being, let that hope give you strength. CURRENT LOCATION: ROUTE 214 POKEMON AVAILABLE: PLAINS/FOREST / MOUNTAINS/ELEVATED AREAS SUNDAY | MONDAY | TUESDAY | WEDNESDAY | THURSDAY [OOC: Welcome to week four of Azume; feel free to make as many top levels as you'd like and tag out to other characters! This post is for all of your interactions this week... at least until the weekend. Don't forget that a write-up is due next weekend!]

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[bloodspent]

[He tilts his head a bit.]

So if the reason why doesn't matter, Florence Nightingale participated in war so she's fucked.

[Huh.]

There is not a single person I know that wouldn't be totally boned under that sort of system. Even that girl I'm trying really hard not to disappoint. She helped her dad create bioweapons without having a choice in the matter and then was tricked into helping some guy try to end the world. She kills people, but she's putting 'em out of their misery. But if none of that matters...

[Christ.]

[eudaimonikos]

There’s literally no room for nuance. The people who make the cut generally do it by racking up some really big-ticket wins, and then dying before they can screw it up. Lincoln gets credit for helping push the Thirteenth Amendment through, gains a massive amount of points, and gets his brains blown out. Off he goes.

Oh, here, how about this? There was one case, oh, thirty years ago. Mindy St. Clare. She was a corporate lawyer so, obviously bad, but one day while coked out of her mind, she came up with a grand plan for a charitable foundation that could fight world hunger. The next day, she saw the plan and actually went and withdrew her life savings to put towards it. On her way home from the bank, bam - falls on the subway tracks and dies.

Afterwards, her sister finds the plans and actually uses the money to create the foundation. Had Mindy lived, chances are she’d have spent it all on more coke, but as it stands, the results of that momentary impulse have saved millions of lives. So - does Mindy get the credit?

[bloodspent]

...I'd guess not, because she died before she could act on it. She didn't do anything to actually help the plan along other than die before she could do something stupid.

[...?]

[eudaimonikos]

See, that’s what our side argued. Whatever angel they sent was talking about her good intentions, how the foundation was in her name and all that...

[Series of vaguely dismissive gestures]

Case got argued for a couple decades, kept Mindy in stasis that whole time. They ended up reaching a compromise. Well. It’s supposed to be one - Mindy lives in a pocket reality entirely by herself where everything is calculated to be painfully bland. She gets her favorite soda but it’s all warm and flat, she can listen to music but only the same live concert recording of the Eagles over and over, stuff like that. It comes off as a compromise because she’s not being forced to snort fire ants for eternity, but it’s really just a form of slow, isolated torment. Actually a big source of inspiration for me at one point...

[Cough. Anyway.]

So, shocker, angels make bad advocates for humanity even when they’re actually trying.