>>@KEBECHET | TO: @ALL.

[agogenpc]

By now, you may have noticed some among your number missing. I can assure you they are being well taken care of with what supplies we have in this time of war.

Our struggle here is drawing to a close. I presume both sides would like to avoid further loss of life. The Empire-- the Regency, as you call us-- certainly would. I myself grow weary of slaughter, especially this senseless murder of my soldiers.

This can be ended. I do not have the credentials necessary to surrender. You do. Call off this useless struggle. Your people will be returned to you.

Of course, if you have questions, I beg you to ask them while we have the time. This transference into your network will not last for long.

[ooc Discuss surrender here! Threadjacking welcome.]

Comments

[lefthandfree]

Who says I didn’t?

You sure make a lot of assumptions for someone who acts like they understand us so well.

[mcscouty]

On the one hand, yeah. Pretty much. People die in war, it happens.

On the other, who knows? Some of these guys might like 'em enough to come kick your ass for them. And if you're as bad off as you say, there really doesn't seem like there's a reason not to. Why only hold half the cards if you can swipe the whole hand?

[raisedbybirds]

Ironic is the word you're looking for. You may find it in no short supply, unlike our unconditional surrender.

[agogenpc]

You have, of course, never stopped to consider that we are not blind and you are simply a small-minded bumpkin from a backwater world with little skill for calculating the scope of wars that shake the foundations of galaxies. Such is beyond your purview. When I need to throw an ax over long distances, your advice will be sought.

Your organization has killed many of mine, many very dear to me. But I suppose I deserved that, just as my soldiers deserved the disgusting fates you have heaped upon them.

[agogenpc]

Curiosity is a trait to be admired, to a point. After such, one must begin to make their own theories.

[agogenpc]

My sources.

So you tell me my spies are wrong? I will have to reprimand them.

[agogenpc]

There is a special place in hell for bloviators, though I'm sure you'll give me a point-by-point analysis of why you don't belong there, how it doesn't exist, or how I am too weak a debater to register all your myriad complaints. In truth I simply tire of the preemptive eulogy.

Though I do wonder what misguided fool told you that the aim was history's preservation. Such innocence I have not seen in a long time.

The debate between peace and chaos is such a simple one, if you cannot grasp it, I cannot help you to do so. My life is busy enough without slotting in the elucidation of a simpleton. Suffering is bad. Peace is infinitely preferable. Anything else said on the matter risks redundancy.

Your morale is something I do not wish to touch, should it become contagious and infect me with the apparent necessity of protesting its strength with suspicious alacrity from every opportunity availed.

[agogenpc]

And what wars are these?

COST's other activities, ones far less justifiable than the ones you've no doubt been told about. The creatures my operatives meet in the field are inevitably the most bright-eyed, almost endearing in their ignorance of the organization holding their leashes.

[agogenpc]

Somehow I doubt that.

[agogenpc]

A fact over which I have only the barest regrets.

[agogenpc]

Glad to be of service.

[agogenpc]

Don't undersell yourself. You have all the time in the world to repeatedly murder my fellows. The last of my soldiers you slaguthered was a was seventeen and had just signed an engagement contract, so you're aware. Her name was Tiye.

[agogenpc]

Trust does not come from nothing. You have killed several of my soldiers. The worst we have done to yours is detain them. Whose turn is it, exactly?

[agogenpc]

What would you have me do? Sing and dance? I have purpose beyond your amusement.

[agogenpc]

I never said I was bad off, only interested in diplomacy. Do you see one as necessitating the other?

[millimeter]

cool, idc

why did you take them, anyway
what do you actually want??

[mylawn]

Maybe your boss will give you the opportunity to surrender.

[raisedbybirds]

She fought with valor. Was that as manufactured as her engagement contract? Or your query?

[agogenpc]

I've yet to find the warehouse that manufactures valor. It sounds as fantastical as your accusations.

[raisedbybirds]

I'm lead to believe The Empire's idea of peace involves the submission of free will.

[northerndragon]

[Gods, Kebechet, Longclaw isn't an axe and you don't throw Valyrian steel. 🙄]

No, I've stopped to consider it. I think you're wrong.

Say what you want about my world. To defend it, I'd still give my life a hundred times over.

No one deserves to lose those who are dear to them, but why do you keep risking further losses?

[Please, nobody actually bring him back a hundred times.]

[cutlery]

Ones I imagine you may be familiar with, but unfortunately that is is not information I am inclined to share, all things considered. Another impasse, but such is the nature of conversation with two people meant to be opposed to each other, I suppose.

Which does make it a bit ironic to ask, but what activities would those be?

[gerechtigkeit]

There always are. [To quote a certain asshole of a COST member who wears a white mask and hates everyone:] Not everything is always black and white.

[widow_of_the_crag]

I have killed no soldiers.

You speak as though they are well treated and are merely guests. How do we know this is true? You haven't given us proof. You haven't shown them to us. Give us evidence that they are well.

[neutronium]

Well as you won't tell me everything--

--why would I tell you my own theories?

Can't give you an advantage.

[they aren't allies. yet.]