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[fuckcable]

Am I the only one who thinks it's suspicious how, in the weeks around the Emperor's murder, our presence is suddenly graced with a pair of queens, a princess, a prince, and whatever that horned kid is?

It's not the first grouping I've noticed.

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[alwaysmother]

Suspicious in what way?

[fuckcable]

I think the entire foreign royal population was brought in around her death, plus or minus a month. We all get the routine about being brought in to fight a war, but you're the only one I'd bet on in a fight.

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[demon_brat]

As in the Hazelwood Emperor potentially knowing that this is coming, or as in -something- having more of a hand in choosing who is going to be taken here than previously thought?

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[fuckcable]

The latter. I don't think Emperor Eshai knew that it was coming. The whole thing was too sloppy. Besides, she wasn't about to line up all the f.o.b. foreigners to take her place. No one gives a shit if they have experience; the kedan aren't all that fucking fond of us as a whole. I don't see them throwing roses at the reigning foreigner, do you?

No, it's either coincidence or -something- is messing with the random algorithm. It could be simple. The turtle woke up half the city with her telepathic crying. Maybe all the grief and magic fucked more up than our sleep. Maybe -someone else- is trying to rub it in our faces.

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[friendstime]

That's suspicious? [Huh.] Maybe the turtle guy likes royalty?

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[fuckcable]

If it was only that he liked royalty, he'd find royalty more often.

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[spideyfanone]

I'm new so I can't really say how weird that is, but the multiverse is really wacky like that. Everybody's the queen of something bizarre somewhere.

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[fuckcable]

There's only a few hundred foreigners here, out of the infinite number available in all of time and space across the multiverse...

And we have two fuzzy, blue elfs.

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[laylaknowsstuff]

no. the horned kid is a troll.

what other groupings? you've been here longer than me

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[fuckcable]

The horned kid bitches about his royal blood. He's something; I just don't know or care what. Probably full of shit.

I wouldn't know about that, Layla Miller. You should check out the archives. Maybe you'd learn something.

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[iguanasolution]

That would imply someone has a hand in choosing who comes to the turtle and who doesn't from all the different worlds.

[Which honestly makes him uncomfortable. Why would anyone choose to have him here? And why did they choose to bring Nico and Hazel just to take them away weeks later?]

What other groupings have you noticed?

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[fuckcable]

Generally, people that know each other seem to arrive with too much good timing. The overarching pattern is the number of people that claim or demonstrate superhuman abilities.

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[littlecousin]

Hey, I was here first.

[Nita totally has precedence, not that she cares. Actually having to do royalty things would cut into her screwing around time.]

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[fuckcable]

Okay, so you and the talking pony princess are outliers. Happy?

[fatedchaos]

It's really not the only time a group of royals have arrived here. There have been a bunch in the year I've been around this place.

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[fuckcable]

The current count is 8 in two months. How high do you need it pushed before you'll believe that it's an influx?

It's not like the system isn't already capable of targeting specific qualities.

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[snehjerte]

Is that bad?

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[fuckcable]

[... fine, he'll be nice because she's new and young.]

No. It's interesting.

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[cmdreffingshepard]

People sometimes show up in clusters from the same world, and with other people they know. It makes sense that one royal might bring in a few others, if they're family.

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[fuckcable]

Some of them are family, but even those aren't all from the same universe. There's at least two universes in these numbers, likely more, and more than one planet.

[watcheslanterns]

Maybe it's just a coincidence?

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[fuckcable]

If it is, it's unbelievable. Most teleportation isn't random.

Not here;

[alphatar]

[She is judging this anonymous text incredibly harshly right now.]

Not here;

[fuckcable]

[Simmer down, Heidi. Calling attention to a cluster in a supposedly random field shouldn't get your braids tied in knots.]

[solo_patria]

...Now that you make mention of the fact.

That does imply there is, of course, a bid for power set up or ordained somewhere along the way. Enough to warrant some investigation yet? It SEEMS they are confused as we were upon arrival, but of course that does not show what they are doing away from the public eye...

[fuckcable]

Isn't the whole reason that we're here to fight some ancient demon that's making a power play?

Do you know how the teleport/cloning works? Because I don't yet.

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[detectus]

Possibly.

But at the same time, the concern borders a"post hoc ergo propter hoc" fallacy. There's some correlation in timing but I've seen nothing to indicate it's anything other than random.

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[fuckcable]

I admit that I'm seeing it in hindsight, but I think the onset was several weeks before the Emperor's death.

You don't get points for the Latin. This ain't debate club.

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[alpha_squad_leader]

[Still bundled up, Vic just frowns down the at the keys before looking up at the camera. He'd do text but that would mean taking off his gloves and he's in no mood for that.]

What makes you think it's so suspicious? You said yourself there have been other groupings.

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[fuckcable]

Other groupings that haven't coincided with life on the turtle. This is a new combo.

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[ixis]

Might as well add a wizard-king to your list of remarkable arrivals, then.

Are any of the others you've mentioned vying for control of this fair land, I wonder?

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[fuckcable]

And a fucking wizard-king. Does anyone else want to get in on this train? I'm up to 9 now, and the rest of you are still saying "No, there's no pattern here!"

You would have to ask them. I think Emperor Evandau might have something to say about it, but the guy's a moron.

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[hanssome]

I can't say for sure I understand the circumstances in which we're brought here, but that certainly is an undeniable pattern that you've pointed out. [So helpful.] I'm not sure I want to know the intentions behind it, I had always thought we were here to offer help.

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[fuckcable]

[He can't decide whether to be grateful for the supported or to headtilt at the ascot.]

When the only explanation we have is from the same people who abducted us, there's no way to be certain.

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[unconchonable]

wwhatevver that horned kid is
im assumin you mean me
im a flippin prince as wwell asshole but wwhat is this
you got somethin against royalty or somesuch you plebeian animal

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[fuckcable]

No, I have something against trying to read a foreign language when assholes can't type and spell.

Thanks for the clarification on your title.

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[puppetfetish]

its ironic.
i like it.

[fuckcable]

You have no idea what 'ironic' means.