ace catchall

[disingenuous]

still devastated by his death 10 years later

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[selfimmolation]

...Yeah. I've never liked sitting around not doing anything.

[ this surprises no one ]

[disingenuous]

I thought you enjoyed sitting alone with your thoughts and waxing philosophical, Ace.

[selfimmolation]

[ JUST KILL HIM NOW ]

Ha, ha. That's already what half of these games are about.

[disingenuous]

You must be an expert already then. Tell me about what could possibly justify any of this.

[selfimmolation]

I don't know. The entire collection of crazy rewards they offered up?

[disingenuous]

Were you tempted by any of them?

[selfimmolation]

No, but it's not some kind of secret virtue or something like that. I've got everything I need back home.

[disingenuous]

You must love your world very much. Or at least the slice of it that you made your home.

[selfimmolation]

The slice part. [ one piece is a dystopia, ] Besides, if you get it from something like that, there's no saying it's gonna stick. Maybe some jackass auditor will show up and ask if you've really earned it.

[disingenuous]

[ that makes her smile a little. ]

That'd undermine their whole premise, wouldn't it? If another auditor comes to audit their audit. What a vicious cycle... That'd make them so pointless.

[selfimmolation]

Are you trying to pretend they aren't pointless now?

[disingenuous]

Of course not. It's been pointless from the beginning, but we're still here.

[ and she hates being part of something like that. she knows she's not alone in that. ]

[selfimmolation]

[ sighing ]

And we'll be here until it ends. Is it too much to ask the auditors show their face at any point in this?

[disingenuous]

If we're lucky, at the end. If we're not hopeful about luck, we can try to find a way to force it somehow.

[ emphasis on somehow. ]

[selfimmolation]

Maybe if we're disruptive enough, it'll summon them.

[ lightly. there's no saying what disruptive would be anyway!! ]

[disingenuous]

That's something a number of us would be good at. You, I assume, especially.

[selfimmolation]

Disruption sort of comes with the pirate territory.

[disingenuous]

I had a small hunch. Do pirates in your world also hunt for treasure?

[selfimmolation]

Yeah. What's the point of being a pirate if you don't have daring adventures that end in riches?

[disingenuous]

I didn't want to assume. You seem happy with the riches you already have... and those seem to be less of the monetary kind.

[ it's his hat and taste in fashion. ]

[selfimmolation]

It's more about the adventure for me. We get plenty of money from our territories anyway.

[ SO HE LOOKS POOR TO YOU????????????????? yea ]

[disingenuous]

You own territory?

[ she'd tell him to his face, if it came up in conversation. ]

[selfimmolation]

Not really... own? Islands who raise our flag are under our protection. We collect a fee, but we protect them from other pirates, or any kind of crime or trouble that could happen under that banner.

[disingenuous]

That sounds like you're your own form of government. Is your world one where pirates aren't running from the law?

[selfimmolation]

[ sorry that just. makes him laugh ]

It's not that. We're in a stretch of the ocean the government doesn't really rule over--too dangerous waters. So most of the islands there are split between what people call the "Four Emperors of the Sea"--the four most powerful pirate crews that oppose the world government.