to all;

[righteously]

Okay, look. We need to talk.

What the hell is going on around here? That whole 'make the summoned run around like trained jackasses' thing? Not kosher.

Before I say anything else, I'll be the first to admit, I didn't let the bug loose. It was a bad call, somebody got hurt, and I'm sorry. I really am. If I could go back knowing what it did, I'd have let it out in a heartbeat.

But that's the thing, isn't it? I mean, seriously. Let's break this whole thing down.

Those douchebags running the Free Cities (or Thorne, or Solvunn) drag us in from wherever we were, without asking, against our will.

A highly reclusive nation decides to let us come hang out for a Disney vacation in their deeply secretive community as a gesture of good faith.

At a time when Summoned from all three factions coincidentally happen to be hanging out in the same reclusive ass place, something mysterious and terrible happens. I don't know about the rest of you, but I, for one, am shocked it didn't go as planned.

Instead of sending guards, the Free Cities sends us freaking couriers with the most useless note in the history of the goddamn planet telling us to release a device we know nothing about, without telling us what it does, just that we need to be real friggin sketchy about it.

When not everybody obeys without question like good little soldiers, one of our own gets hurt, and they shake the shame finger at us like it's our own fault? Are you kidding me?

First of all, if they can send couriers they can send their own friggin guards to handle crap like this. Or, hell, have the damn couriers release the things, they have hands, they could've prepped the packages their own damn selves instead of foisting it off onto the people who didn't even ask to be here in the first place.

Second of all, even if they COULDN'T, how about they slap in a goddamn paragraph or two on what the thing is? If everything's all hunky dory, and all that little bitch does is provide a protective shield, who CARES if a note that was gonna SELF-DESTRUCT ANYWAY gets read over somebody's shoulder?

This whole thing reeks of grooming us to start following orders without full intel. Surely nothing will come of that. Except, oh wait, Libertas just got friggin' bombed. The continent's going to war, and we're getting played.

And here's the other thing: I'm pretty sure Free Cities kids weren't the only ones running around doing sketchy crap during the happy fun werewolf party. Thorne, Solvunn, you two wanna weigh in here? Bueller? Anyone?

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Comments

[shadowthief]

How do you propose we stop them? They are nations that have been on the brink of war for decades, centuries, long before any of us were pulled here, and this is quite clearly a first strike. Retaliation is sure to follow, and what besides war can be expected in the wake of it?

[harmonian]

We can start by not letting them divide the allegiances of the Summoned.

Tell me, if you had to pick just one nation to rally behind, which would it be?

[He's already made his own choice.]

[shadowthief]

I find it curious you pose no division among us Summoned, and immediately ask which faction to choose to back. That's the very definition of division, is it not?

That said, my allegiances have nothing to do with these nations, nor this war I did not ask to be a part of, but have been so gracelessly dragged into the middle of.

[harmonian]

None of asked to be in this mess, but we're in it.

The nations will seek to divide us. While we may be powerful together, we would pose no threat to any one of their armies. If we rebelled we might find ourselves fighting a war with all three. A war like that would destabilize the entire world.

That's something to consider, don't you think?

[shadowthief]

I'm aware of that.

The nations have sought that from the moment they summoned us to their respective cities. We are but tools to them, means to ends, nothing more.

Choosing a faction is as good as conscription in their war. I don't wish to be anyone's soldier.

[harmonian]

Admirable.

But then what will you do?

Be a conscientious objector? I've known governments that jailed people for refusing to participate in military service.

[shadowthief]

I suppose time will tell.

[She and her people have some interesting things in the works, but it's no more than an idea at the moment.]