probe | Audience: Endorsi Jahad

[She blinks as she notices them but doesn't look too startled, tilting her head.]

Well, I thought it would be a good idea to get acquainted with the... Hm, what should we call you? Hosts? Administrators?

Avatars.

[they lean against the closest wall.] Avatars of the sins.

[She blinks.]

All of those descriptors are supposed to be sins?

Apparently.

Hm? How halfhearted! Do you not believe it, then?

I'm sure they are sins, but I've never heard of this particular set. The way people talk about them makes it sound as if they're well-known.

Some of them seem strange. Despair? Pride? I don't see what's wrong with those. Or, at least, the first one never heard anybody except the person who had it.

I don't see what's wrong with pride either.

[they fold their arms.] I couldn't tell you anything about despair. The sin nor the Avatar.

Hm... Wrath said they were pretentious, but it seemed like they didn't know a good description, either. Bad luck for anyone who got stuck with them, I guess!

Mm. Pretentious is not the word I would use.

Cynical, maybe. [...] I do my best to avoid most of them.

Is that why you didn't come with the others to greet us? Or did it have something to do with whatever caused that slime?

Yes.

[helpful answer, pride]

To which part...?

[they just don't answer this time? sorry endorsi.]

[...]

Are you not allowed to talk about it, hm?

I don't want to talk about it.

The slime, or the others?

Both, but especially the slime.

Isn't it only fair that we get some kind of idea of what caused it, if it's in this building...?

You're expecting fairness?

[A sigh.]

No, but it couldn't hurt to ask.

Good. Fair is the last thing you're going to find here.

Expect people to cheat and to lie and to leave you with questions.

Including you? Or especially you, maybe? Actually, that brings me to another question... What's in this for all of you?

Especially me.

[they're not going to sugarcoat it.] I'm here for reasons I'm not going to tell you. I don't owe you anything.

Is that the same for the others?

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probe - 2021-02-11 03:38 (UTC) - Expand