altimit | .:A Brief Interlude:.

Who: Ganymede and people.
What: It's a meeting.
Where: Mac Anu, Ganymede's McMansion.
When: 10/12
Warnings: Nothing yet.
MAC ANU ~ GANYMEDE'S MCMANSION

The everpresent afternoon sunset hangs, echoing picturesque across the glass windows apparent at each spot within the large building. In a large room full of tables and what not are heaps of various cuisine settled here or there. Seafood, pastas, drinks, the like; Mediterranean style so if nobody likes that...gomen.

Ganymede has made it clear that he prefers people to be here in order to get themselves together. Sorted, somehow. They're all acting with a sort of independence he seems disinterested in disturbing, but he wants the prospect of potential solutions to be floated along.

If someone has new information they can share, well, it is encouraged. If not, he hopes that they will at least participate in some way.

It now begins.

(( OOC Note: People will not be attacked by monsters once within the McMansion, including pool area. ))

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I don't know who told you that. It's not what I think.

[He doesn't answer the rest.]

Lily told me.

[He exhales slowly.]

I think he's been trying his best to get us out of here from the start, if that's what you mean by salvation.

... that's not how it sounded to me when he spoke to me. It was... unsettling.

So, he actually wants to help us?

Mn.

[Another slow exhale.]

He had a lot of worries about what might happen to us. And he tried to show us the only ways he knew how.

The mirrors? The whispers? The armor? Those all hurt.

[Pause]

...was he responsible for the dungeons becoming strange?

[He doesn't respond to the first part.]

...Strange?

...the last dungeon I was in brought all my nightmares to this world. My home, my family...

[Sinclair trembles, squeezing tight at his knees]

I had to relive all of it. Was that Lily too?

...

I don't know. I don't think so. He wouldn't do that.

...okay. I believe you.

[He does, despite everything]

But everything else. You haven't explained his reasons for that yet.

He didn't want us to stay trapped here. He thought CCCorp's motives were going to get a lot of us hurt.

He tried to talk to people directly first. But when he started getting blocked, he has to find another way to show people the sorts of things CCCorp had access to. So he used that to try to unsettle us and make us think.

I... don't know if he's all that happy that so many people are still here.

...that was his way of helping us? Really?

[He's still exhausted when he thinks about what had happened]

Yeah.

It's fine if you don't believe me, Vogel. I already told Hien I don't have any proof.

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He wouldn't do that.

[Levi insistently chimes in to agree with his brother.

Hm.]

He wouldn't.

And how are you so sure?

[He gasps when Ganymede calls him out, realizing what he's just done.

Well, there's no going back now.]

Because. He's on our side about wanting to deal with CC Corp's bullshit. He wouldn't hurt us like that.

[Sinclair noted his experience with "strange" dungeons, but Levi's thinking of another one.]

[ ... ]

I wonder why you have that much faith in him.

[ Even as people voice their belief in him, Ganymede will simply say this.

He has no reason to believe this person is just playing 'nice' to manipulate people, after all. ]

[He opens his mouth to say something incendiary, but closes it soon after in order to properly consider his response.]

I was skeptical about him at first, just FYI. But it took getting to know him to convince me, so I'm not even gonna bother trying to convince any of you.

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[Nodding along with Levi above.]

He's not here to torture people.

[ He takes pause and shakes his head, not willing to place his trust in whoever this person is. ]

...I'll be keeping a close eye on his actions.

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[ Don't mind Michel drifting over like a ghost to offer a brief hair ruffle. ]

Some of the mirror memories were like that as well. It seems the most likely.

[Sinclair relaxes. Thanks Michel]

Mm. The voices. Those were designed to drive us insane.

[ He's glad to be of use!! ]

...I don't know if the intent was so clear. But it was done without regard for the damage it would cause, in either case.

Zelkova says not to believe everything Lily says. And...I trust Zelkova to help us more.

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[ Were they, now?

Hector chortles into his glass of wine as it all slots together, keeping his little secret to himself.

How cruel. Now he sees why CC Corp chose him to participate, if he's to believe what Sinclair says.

How. Cruel. ]