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[ Ken's sitting in his quarters, which he hasn't really had time to do any redecorating in yet - a clear sign of a newcomer, if the fact that you've never seen his face before wasn't your first clue. The camera's perfectly aligned and focused, he's got much better posture than one might expect from someone who looks barely old enough to be here ~~or maybe even lying about being old enough to be here, as one does~~, and the only thing that seems at all haphazard about the whole scene is the dog sitting on the couch next to him, wagging his tail cheerfully at the camera. Do dogs belong on the furniture?

Dogs always belong on the furniture, and don't tell him otherwise. ]

Hi. I'm Ken, this is Koromaru - [ - who barks.] - and we'll be joining you.

[ Yes, we. Koromaru is a hell of a dog, okay. ]

I think I've got all of the mission details pretty straight, but...I don't know, is there anything you wish somebody had told you on your first day? We've done the powers stuff before, kind of - but the space future part just feels like we fell into a comic book or something.

[ He's actually read a lot of those, but sssshhh. ]

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Dark's just another element. Or at least, that's how it works where I'm from.

[ Yeah, okay, Dark Hour, Shadows, all that stuff was bad, but it was also definitely Not The Same as being able to toss off a Mudo spell. ]

see we had light back home but not dark
unless you count the grimdark shit but that wasnt so much an element as the result of communing with eldritch horrors
void is kinda close i guess but thats pretty much just nothingness and there isnt really anything inherently evil about nothing

Edited 2016-12-18 05:45 (UTC)

Having light without the opposite just sounds weird.

light isnt really anything to do with actual light
it means like fortune or luck
and what a light player actually does with it depends on their class so its not as straightforward as your standard rpg holy light magic shit
the opposite is probably doom but again class is a biggie in how that crap gets used
id take a seer of doom over a prince of light any day

The "class" part is just making it sound even more RPG.

okay well thats because a lot of it is admittedly very rpg ish
surprise surprise the mechanics of reality are shockingly similar to video game abstractions

That seems like a gross oversimplification of reality.

[ ken, you are from an RPG shut up ]

trust me its a complete clusterfuck but im skipping the complicated parts for your sake

I'll take your word for it.