chroma | catchall for crow

[countermeasures]

i really need to remember to do visuals this game

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[chevaliered]

Hope's a free action, mostly.

[countermeasures]

A "free action"...?

[chevaliered]

Costs you nothing to hope. You don’t owe anyone, you don’t have to do anything for it. You just go “wow, it’d be nice if that happened. Maybe I’ll hope it does.”

[countermeasures]

[she nods at that]

I see... I've never heard it described as a "free action," is all.

[chevaliered]

It's more like a saying, than something literal. Like it doesn't cost anything, so it's a free action.

[countermeasures]

[she nods again]

I understand.

[chevaliered]

[ nod nod. ]

What did you think it meant?

[countermeasures]

Honestly, I wasn't sure. It just didn't make much sense to me.

[chevaliered]

… Maybe that’s a world or culture thing. Most of us don’t seem to be from the same place, after all.

[countermeasures]

Yes, that's true... but it really does make me wonder just how we all ended up here from such wildly different places...

[chevaliered]

Random bout of bad luck?

[countermeasures]

[she frowns]

I don't know about that. Taking someone from one place to another feels intentional; taking multiple someones, even morseo. Add in that some of us were acquainted with each other already before we arrived here, and I can't quite put my finger on it, but it feels... strange, to me.

...but maybe I'm worrying too much.

[chevaliered]

Oh, I don't know if I believe us being brought here was unintentional. I just think we had the bad luck to be the people they brought here.

[ a shrug. ]

We don't know enough. Plain and simple.

[countermeasures]

[she mutters to herself:]

I hate not knowing things...

[chevaliered]

Sometimes ignorance is bliss, buuut not right here and now.

[countermeasures]

You can say that again.

[chevaliered]

We'll figure stuff out. Might need to really stick our noses where they're not wanted, but that's what you have to do for the good stuff.

[countermeasures]

It sounds like you're speaking from experience, Sir Armbrust.

[chevaliered]

How else do you get the really good info?

[countermeasures]

I suppose you do have a point.

[chevaliered]

I know I do. The important part is not getting yourself in too much trouble in the process.

[countermeasures]

How much trouble do you usually land yourself in?

[chevaliered]

.... Eh.

[ he wobbles a hand. ]

[countermeasures]

[she makes a valiant attempt not to laugh]

[chevaliered]

[ just laugh, but make sure it's At Him not With Him ]