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[learninghumanity]

[Laura is walking through the now colourful land of Asgard. She looks less like someone who is appreciating the beauty of nature and more like a caged animal pacing.

She raises her communicator to give a panoramic view of a multi-hued area of the streets of Asgard, moving it around to prove her points.]

The gods cannot be relied on to keep their word. They will probably try to hold onto us for insurance.

[Pessimistic? Just a bit. But then, Laura has never been a ray of sunshine. It's not in her nature to see the bright side of life.]

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[Audio]

[learninghumanity]

That would be good. I can catch fish easily enough.

[video]

[ippotsuko]

Hmpth, yeah. From my experience, you never trust the fuckers in charge.

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[learninghumanity]

The first goal should be gaining necessities without the aid of the gods.

[video]

[holmes_fanatic]

Not laziness?

[Audio]

[burntviolet]

Are you g-going to start stocking up now?

[A pause.]

I just hope taking b-bits from their world w-won't anger the gods. Their curses can hit anyone...

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[judgmental]

I agree.

Certainly, there would be no way to do so over this network. Speaking face to face would doubtlessly be better, though one can never be entirely sure.

[He may be a little paranoid.]

[whatagoodgirl]

They've been openly dishonest from the beginning. They brought us here under false pretenses, and Odin admitted as much. I've doubted them for awhile, but... I wanted to trust them. I didn't want to be left without authority figures.

Now it looks like we have to trust ourselves.

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[learninghumanity]

A wide open area would be best. Less places for an eavesdropper to hide.

[It's not paranoia if the evidence suggests the gods really are out to get them!]

[Audio]

[learninghumanity]

I would rather be cursed because I did something to anger them than be cursed at random.

[video]

[learninghumanity]

If it were laziness, they would know without doubt that the gods will not keep their word and not care. Some people sincerely choose to put their trust in the gods.

[learninghumanity]

It would be best to start getting organized, then.

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[whatagoodgirl]

There are a lot of people trying to plan things. Merlin has been working on training and emergency procedures, and so has Conan. And...

[Setting it to private, for all the good it'll do.]

I also know two people who want to start a resistance.

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[takebow]

I don't know... Some of them seem like they might be like that, some of them seem like they might not.

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[burntviolet]

People get cursed at r-random here...?

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[machinajackass]

I was thinking something similar. With the amount of power they have over us right now, they'd never have to keep their word.

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[holmes_fanatic]

I can see that it'd be harder for people coming with worlds where gods exist and are pretty good, but still --

Ah, I guess if I understood that feeling, we wouldn't be having this conversation!

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[learninghumanity]

Then it would be best to form a strategy to destabilize some of that power.

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[learninghumanity]

I doubt they will concern themselves with who wants to stay and who does not.

[Audio]

[learninghumanity]

Many people expressed a desire to have their original powers returned to them. Some of them received them...for just a few minutes, only to die.

[Rather graphically, even by Laura's standards, but that's neither here nor there. Hanako is a gentle enough person that she won't go into details unless asked about them.]

[video]

[learninghumanity]

Gods existed in my world. Thor and Hercules were both members of a team of superheroes called the Avengers.

But not all gods are benevolent and blind trust is a bad idea.

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[learninghumanity]

I would be interested in helping. I have quite a bit of combat, tracking and reconaissance training.

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[utenamobile]

Going home sounds really tempting, though.

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[machinajackass]

Are you sure that is even possible? Aren't gods supposed to be all seeing and all knowing? They might notice an uprising coming.

[Video]

[learninghumanity]

If they were going to send us home, they should have started doing so already. Yet, more people have been arriving.

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[learninghumanity]

If they were all seeing and all knowing, they would not have needed us to fight for them in the first place.