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[rhygret]

Sooooo.

Here's a bit of an awkward question:

How many of you guys have someone you don't exactly like holed up in one of those pods? And I don't just mean like "wow that guy's a dick" I'm talking more along the lines of "this guy is a GIANT dick and he will definitely try to kill us [ read: him ] when he wakes up."

Is there any way to...I don't know, pull the plug out of the pods? or something? Do you think we'd get in trouble for that?

[ A little casual accidentally-on-purpose murder never hurt anyone right? Like especially when it's for the greater good, which this totally is. ]

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[beatupgrass]

I'm taking a wild guess that's probably right. Darma didn't pick and choose who gets to live and who gets to die, so if we take it upon ourselves, she's gonna be piiiissed.

Theoretically. If it was something she'd allow, we'd all frickin' get one person we don't want to wake up as an incentive.

[insurgent]

oh

[ so this is more of a die trying than a one-for-one situation. ]

so no guaranteed death for death
she's underestimating how many will die if they awaken

[beatupgrass]

There's this tiny, minuscule chance she'd just kill them herself if they don't act right.

Or if they're incentives are like "control over the entire planet and the deaths of millions." Have I mentioned they seem to be able to read our frickin' souls? 'Cause I didn't say what I wanted when I agreed to this.

But Celestials aren't wired like we are, so I dunno.

[insurgent]

I said I wanted weapons and didn't get any, so they don't seem too loose with gifts.

[ hopefully that's the cut-off for more sinister incentives, though her request didn't cause alarm, either. would dangerous asks be honoured in due time? ]

What's a Celestial?

[beatupgrass]

In simple terms, it's a god. Just not the kind anyone does all the bowing and praying shit to- those don't exist. These guys are just big, arrogant cosmic beings who do weird things sometimes.

[Rocket talks like he's an expert. In reality, his entire exposure to Celestials is the five minutes he's been on Ego's planet, some stories from Yondu, Knowhere's existence, and a brief video montage in the Collector's museum that he was half paying attention to.]

[insurgent]

so
very dangerous

[ great. now the extra bad guys have jedi powers or whatever. ]

guess we need to find something to bargain with
or someone better with technology

[beatupgrass]

Maybe I'll just start building my own weapons. It's always done me well in the past.

[He's 2/2 on Technology MacGuffins That Saved The Day here. Assuming the bomb works.

It's a big assumption, but he'll take it.]

[insurgent]

i could help with that

[ mainly because she wants a slice of the preemptive murder pie. ]

[beatupgrass]

It's always nice to meet someone who ain't squeamish about this kind of thing.

...which, to be honest, seems to be most of us. It's kinda awesome.

[insurgent]

sometimes this kind of thing is necessary.

[ and it's nothing, compared to what she's lived and seen. for some people, death is a kindness, given what they've done to others. ]

we should be able to figure something out
together

[beatupgrass]

One way or another, I always gotta embrace teamwork. I think somebody's trying to tell me something.

[insurgent]

it sounds sentimental, when you put it like that

[beatupgrass]

You can't hear it, but I'm gagging right now.

[insurgent]

you made me gag first