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G2BattleConvoy The Hope, The Hero from Installation 07 Since: Mar, 2017 Relationship Status: What is this thing you call love?
The Hope, The Hero
#1279376: Oct 21st 2017 at 10:05:58 AM

(cheeky smile) I was only making a joke, ma'am.


Doesn't that get confusing eventually?

"We all fail. We all make mistakes. That is what makes us human."
RegularDefender MAYONNAISE from Blighty Since: Nov, 2012 Relationship Status: Singularity
MAYONNAISE
#1279377: Oct 21st 2017 at 10:24:29 AM

Taking all possibilities into account would be madness.

It's the duty of an oracle- when someone asks of a prediction- to give the most likely outcome...

Which oftentimes, when you find us being vague... it's because we're not entirely sure.

And we like to be correct, and usually telling someone exactly what will happen- will mean the opposite occurs.

No repeat business.

But I'm not an oracle by trade.

Only nature.

I'm a surgeon otherwise.

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Randomman5 "The Perfect Villain Doesn't Exi-" Since: Oct, 2011 Relationship Status: Forming Voltron
"The Perfect Villain Doesn't Exi-"
#1279378: Oct 21st 2017 at 10:26:05 AM

"...Ah."

G2BattleConvoy The Hope, The Hero from Installation 07 Since: Mar, 2017 Relationship Status: What is this thing you call love?
The Hope, The Hero
#1279379: Oct 21st 2017 at 10:38:53 AM

So where are you from, then?


You're an oracle and a surgeon? That must come in pretty handy, actually.

"We all fail. We all make mistakes. That is what makes us human."
RegularDefender MAYONNAISE from Blighty Since: Nov, 2012 Relationship Status: Singularity
MAYONNAISE
#1279380: Oct 21st 2017 at 10:41:07 AM

Biologically an oracle, yes.

But professionally a surgeon.

And I suppose it has some perks.

Knowing what decisions will make the patient more likely to survive ahead of time...

But it doesn't make a difference when medical knowledge will do the same thing.

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G2BattleConvoy The Hope, The Hero from Installation 07 Since: Mar, 2017 Relationship Status: What is this thing you call love?
The Hope, The Hero
#1279381: Oct 21st 2017 at 11:35:04 AM

So, professionially, being an oracle is, I'm assuming, redundant?

"We all fail. We all make mistakes. That is what makes us human."
RegularDefender MAYONNAISE from Blighty Since: Nov, 2012 Relationship Status: Singularity
MAYONNAISE
#1279382: Oct 21st 2017 at 11:38:45 AM

It is, when it comes to being a surgeon.

If anything it's useless when it comes to that.

Sure, I could with my added abilities- make sure i categorically cannot fail by removing all elements of my own mistakes through accidental cuts, by removing the branches that I can take where I make a mistake and fail.

But with human error such things can come down to seconds, and I'd spend perhaps so much time before a 'perfect' operation such as that, that the patient may have died in the wait.

And the effort is wasted.

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G2BattleConvoy The Hope, The Hero from Installation 07 Since: Mar, 2017 Relationship Status: What is this thing you call love?
The Hope, The Hero
#1279383: Oct 21st 2017 at 12:04:21 PM

...Oh. I guess that would be a problem.

"We all fail. We all make mistakes. That is what makes us human."
RegularDefender MAYONNAISE from Blighty Since: Nov, 2012 Relationship Status: Singularity
MAYONNAISE
#1279384: Oct 21st 2017 at 12:10:18 PM

I made it as an aside but...

That is the ability I have learned in addition.

It's also why you saw me holding this knife with my eyes closed.

-he produces the knife again-

I see fate as a web of possibilities, stretching out onto an endless horizon.

Every choice, possibility- all of it contributes to divergences.

However, unlike other oracles- I found out how to "cut" the branches away.

Thus, I streamline my fate.

I remove possibilities artificially.

Thus... I actively alter what fate may throw at me.

For example, were I the type of man to kill for pleasure- I could make sure I would never be caught by removing the possibility.

In that case- something may happen that will make it so that I cannot be a proven murderer.

Evidence being destroyed- the unreliability of human memory making eyewitnesses useless.

Et cetera, et cetera.

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Randomman5 "The Perfect Villain Doesn't Exi-" Since: Oct, 2011 Relationship Status: Forming Voltron
"The Perfect Villain Doesn't Exi-"
#1279385: Oct 21st 2017 at 2:10:35 PM

"Michigan."

G2BattleConvoy The Hope, The Hero from Installation 07 Since: Mar, 2017 Relationship Status: What is this thing you call love?
The Hope, The Hero
#1279386: Oct 21st 2017 at 2:26:19 PM

Ah... right.


Huh. Is it a nice place?

"We all fail. We all make mistakes. That is what makes us human."
Randomman5 "The Perfect Villain Doesn't Exi-" Since: Oct, 2011 Relationship Status: Forming Voltron
"The Perfect Villain Doesn't Exi-"
#1279387: Oct 21st 2017 at 2:47:41 PM

"It's not bad. Warm sometimes but better than freezing over."

RegularDefender MAYONNAISE from Blighty Since: Nov, 2012 Relationship Status: Singularity
MAYONNAISE
#1279388: Oct 21st 2017 at 2:56:13 PM

Either way...

I'm only human.

I can only do so much.

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G2BattleConvoy The Hope, The Hero from Installation 07 Since: Mar, 2017 Relationship Status: What is this thing you call love?
The Hope, The Hero
#1279389: Oct 21st 2017 at 3:09:58 PM

Eh, I'll agree with you there. Not really a fan of the cold.


We all are, I guess.

"We all fail. We all make mistakes. That is what makes us human."
RegularDefender MAYONNAISE from Blighty Since: Nov, 2012 Relationship Status: Singularity
MAYONNAISE
#1279390: Oct 21st 2017 at 3:15:16 PM

I don't know about everyone here.

But all the same.

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Randomman5 "The Perfect Villain Doesn't Exi-" Since: Oct, 2011 Relationship Status: Forming Voltron
"The Perfect Villain Doesn't Exi-"
#1279391: Oct 21st 2017 at 3:28:49 PM

"No, me neither. So, where are you from?"

G2BattleConvoy The Hope, The Hero from Installation 07 Since: Mar, 2017 Relationship Status: What is this thing you call love?
The Hope, The Hero
#1279392: Oct 21st 2017 at 3:39:46 PM

Vingolf. And I'm not making that up. That's actually the name of Gjallarhorn's Earth Headquarters.


Hmm...

"We all fail. We all make mistakes. That is what makes us human."
Randomman5 "The Perfect Villain Doesn't Exi-" Since: Oct, 2011 Relationship Status: Forming Voltron
"The Perfect Villain Doesn't Exi-"
#1279393: Oct 21st 2017 at 3:40:17 PM

"...Never heard of it."

RegularDefender MAYONNAISE from Blighty Since: Nov, 2012 Relationship Status: Singularity
MAYONNAISE
#1279394: Oct 21st 2017 at 3:40:25 PM

Oh- my name's Jack, by the by.

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G2BattleConvoy The Hope, The Hero from Installation 07 Since: Mar, 2017 Relationship Status: What is this thing you call love?
The Hope, The Hero
#1279395: Oct 21st 2017 at 3:49:43 PM

I'm Leos. Leos Alloy.


Huh. That doesn't surprise me.

"We all fail. We all make mistakes. That is what makes us human."
Randomman5 "The Perfect Villain Doesn't Exi-" Since: Oct, 2011 Relationship Status: Forming Voltron
"The Perfect Villain Doesn't Exi-"
#1279396: Oct 21st 2017 at 3:50:39 PM

"Why's tha-oh, one second."

-She goes back to typing on her phone and scribbling notes for a few seconds-

ImmortalFaust sess10n status: l0st from a spaceship in hell Since: Nov, 2013 Relationship Status: Faithful to 2D
sess10n status: l0st
#1279397: Oct 21st 2017 at 3:50:49 PM

Eires sat in the kitchen, staring absentmindedly at the refrigerator.

[forum cryptid: it/it's]
Randomman5 "The Perfect Villain Doesn't Exi-" Since: Oct, 2011 Relationship Status: Forming Voltron
"The Perfect Villain Doesn't Exi-"
#1279398: Oct 21st 2017 at 4:00:09 PM

-Purs the phone down and does a very subdued double-take upon seeing Eires-

ImmortalFaust sess10n status: l0st from a spaceship in hell Since: Nov, 2013 Relationship Status: Faithful to 2D
sess10n status: l0st
#1279399: Oct 21st 2017 at 4:02:37 PM

They looked lost in thought, really, Misha.

Odd.

[forum cryptid: it/it's]
Randomman5 "The Perfect Villain Doesn't Exi-" Since: Oct, 2011 Relationship Status: Forming Voltron
"The Perfect Villain Doesn't Exi-"
#1279400: Oct 21st 2017 at 4:03:48 PM

"...Hm."

-Back to typing!-


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