UN: Zodiac | Midmonth Post

[kaisoumods]

WHO: Everyone!
WHERE: Libra App
WHEN: October 15th
WHAT: Zodiac Network Post
WARNINGS: None!

[We've reached the second half of October. The victims of the Event Horizon have returned to Kaisou, along with some bodies. Meanwhile, the Zodiac employees have been rescued from the Unknown, but it's still open for people to explore]



Childe, Xie Lian, and Noa have joined the app. Say hi everyone!

[The post then continues on as normal.]

Hello. Thank you for using the Libra App.

Thanks to everyone that helped save my colleagues from the Unknown. Working at Zodiac isn't great, but that realm sounded like it was somehow worse- so I'm sure they appreciate it.

And to my colleagues, as a special favor I convinced Janet not to throw another potluck to welcome you back. You guys are getting doordash gift cards instead, you're welcome.

In other news.... what the hell happened to the group that went on a fishing trip? Over 20 of you going on a fishing trip sounded weird enough, but then you guys came back with dead bodies?

On second thought, maybe it's better I don't know.

Now bye.



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[As of now ICly, Even Horizon is back and the Zodiac members have been saved fro the Unknown, though you're still welcomed to explore it! Also you're completely welcome to continue backtagging both events!

Users will have the option to choose their own display names and user pics if they haven't already. If nothing is chosen, the app will use their real name and a quick photo taken of them from their camera's phone. Like always, there'll be no responses from Zodiac. And as always, feel free to keep backtagging the event logs! ]

Comments

[fionnuisce]

I'm sorry you had to deal with any of that. Never would have thought monsters to be preferable, but it sounds like you've been through hell and back a few times over.

You did what was right. I don't doubt that for a minute. [Ratio was one of the few people he'd acknowledge was just as dedicated to protecting his students.] But that doesn't make having done it any easier.

[mediocrites]

An ironic turn of phrase: supposedly, the portal led to hell, and I wasn't one of the ones who passed through it.

[He still doesn't believe in literal hell, and it's all beside the point anyway, but still. It's funny, in a miserable sort of way.]

I didn't do anything right at all. I panicked and flung his body out an airlock as soon as it sunk in that I'd done it. Only after I began to calm down did I realize that I'd destroyed my alibi. That if I were to carry her body to where she could be cleaned up and cared for as the dead ought, I would look like the murderer myself, and my explanations excuses. So I left her to be found.

I later learned her brother was the one who found her. I should have taken the risk.

[He knows it's pointless to confess all of this, that it's not really relevant. But it would feel dishonest to leave Waver with the impression that he did anything graceful or competent in that terrible moment.]

[fionnuisce]

But you still acted to protect the others. Messy though the aftermath may have been for everyone, it's the lesser of two evils next to what could have happened if he weren't stopped. Otherwise Wei Wuxian would have killed more than just her, and end up with even more on his conscience after all was said and done.

[mediocrites]

I know.

His conscience wasn't a consideration. I didn't know he'd come back to regain it. ...I thought I'd ended his life permanently. I made the choice to do so.

[And that's really the heart of it. He's a regular person who's lived an ordinary life of no particular violence, and when it came down to the wire he discovered he was capable of choosing to kill a man.]

[fionnuisce]

And given the situation at hand, you were correct to.

It might be harsh, and it doesn't help a whole hell of a lot, but it was still the right course of action.

[mediocrites]

[He's exhausted all his confessions, all his self-recriminations, all the flaws and failings he can think to unveil, and Waver remains adamant. All that remains is to allow himself to accept the comfort offered, bleak as it may be.]

...Thank you. Hearing you say so does help.

[In the end, he really had done his best, as imperfect as that best may have been.]

[fionnuisce]

I know how it feels to be stuck in an impossible situation. There's no good option there, but I really do think you chose the right one.

You're not a terrible person for it, either. At worst you're just a little obnoxious, but I think we're all guilty of that one now and again.

[mediocrites]

I've been called far worse than that, and I've no doubt you have as well.

...I don't know how I'm going to face him again. That's also a problem I didn't believe I would have. [Usually if you stab someone to death and throw them out an airlock, you don't have to explain yourself to them later.]

[fionnuisce]

Oh, much worse. Personally, I've come to take 'obnoxious' as a compliment.

I can talk to him if that might help. We already work together in POKEGO as it is, so I'm familiar enough to approach him.

[mediocrites]

It's not as if we were close before, so...my concern might not be welcome. He's simply someone I've found it interesting to converse with from time to time. Still, I don't doubt he could use some support as well, seeing as you're colleagues.

[fionnuisce]

Of course. I'll handle looking after him as well as the others, so what about you? Are you sure you don't need anything right now?

[mediocrites]

I'll be all right. ...I have somewhere I can stay when I don't want to be alone.