[Hey, it's something. Progress, of some kind. Enough to crack a smile as Barry allows himself to relax, slightly. There's still plenty to answer for, sure, but- this isn't bad. It's going okay.]
Yeah... uh, I guess the first two questions sort of answer the last? But some of this is...theoretical, sorry. Too many variables, too much we never had the resources to measure. [Barry squints, the glare of the sun bouncing off the waters stretched out before them starting to get to his eyes, a little. Man, should've brought along more sunscreen.]
You had a bounty out on the boys- we probably all have a bounty like that. With the Hunger on our heels, our original mission...stopped mattering, that much. I mean, it mattered; we still documented as much as we could everywhere we went, but- wherever we were, the Hunger was going to show up eventually. Obliterate it. Documenting things, it became more about- about preserving something, making sure we didn't forget everything that's been lost.
Before we even talked about it, I think... I think we all started looking for a way to take back everything the Hunger's taken. To- to defeat the Hunger, to make sure no more dimensions suffer the same fate ours did.
[He huffs, smile a tad self-conscious.]
It might- Okay. It sounds a little conceited, but- we knew what we were up against, at least. And from all the information we had at the time, we... we figured we couldn't die for good, if we just took the right precautions.
[He glances at Kravitz, smile gone. Barry can imagine what that sounds like; a group of mortal creatures treating death like something temporary.]
It was- ignorant and presumptuous. Of course we died. But only in the dimension we were occupying at the time. When the Hunger came, whoever was left would take the ship and gt out of there. So long as one of us got the ship out, then that-- that exact second it hit a new dimension, there we all were. In the exact same state we'd been in when we first left our world. I hypothesize it's because we haven't died in our original dimension, maybe; each time we hit a new dimension, it treats us as if we had only just left it behind... but uh, I couldn't tell you if that's even remotely accurate, really.
But we uh, we used that to our advantage. Pushed harder than we should've, a lot of the time, but it was worth it. The knowledge we gained, the experience, it was necessary if we wanted to have any chance of succeeding in defeating the Hunger.
So, yeah. Both of those- searching for a way to defeat the Hunger, making sure there was always someone left to fly the ship- that's why I asked Lup to become a lich with me.
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Yeah... uh, I guess the first two questions sort of answer the last? But some of this is...theoretical, sorry. Too many variables, too much we never had the resources to measure. [Barry squints, the glare of the sun bouncing off the waters stretched out before them starting to get to his eyes, a little. Man, should've brought along more sunscreen.]
You had a bounty out on the boys- we probably all have a bounty like that. With the Hunger on our heels, our original mission...stopped mattering, that much. I mean, it mattered; we still documented as much as we could everywhere we went, but- wherever we were, the Hunger was going to show up eventually. Obliterate it. Documenting things, it became more about- about preserving something, making sure we didn't forget everything that's been lost.
Before we even talked about it, I think... I think we all started looking for a way to take back everything the Hunger's taken. To- to defeat the Hunger, to make sure no more dimensions suffer the same fate ours did.
[He huffs, smile a tad self-conscious.]
It might- Okay. It sounds a little conceited, but- we knew what we were up against, at least. And from all the information we had at the time, we... we figured we couldn't die for good, if we just took the right precautions.
[He glances at Kravitz, smile gone. Barry can imagine what that sounds like; a group of mortal creatures treating death like something temporary.]
It was- ignorant and presumptuous. Of course we died. But only in the dimension we were occupying at the time. When the Hunger came, whoever was left would take the ship and gt out of there. So long as one of us got the ship out, then that-- that exact second it hit a new dimension, there we all were. In the exact same state we'd been in when we first left our world. I hypothesize it's because we haven't died in our original dimension, maybe; each time we hit a new dimension, it treats us as if we had only just left it behind... but uh, I couldn't tell you if that's even remotely accurate, really.
But we uh, we used that to our advantage. Pushed harder than we should've, a lot of the time, but it was worth it. The knowledge we gained, the experience, it was necessary if we wanted to have any chance of succeeding in defeating the Hunger.
So, yeah. Both of those- searching for a way to defeat the Hunger, making sure there was always someone left to fly the ship- that's why I asked Lup to become a lich with me.