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[namusan_messiah]

It seems that what's happened to Zuko is permanent. This kind of thing happens frequently, it seems... Could it be that even the "drones" didn't always have such a strange shared personality

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[illusionkiller]

It pisses me off that I can't do anything either.

[namusan_messiah]

There's little more painful than being powerless when you're needed, isn't there?

[illusionkiller]

Yeah, it is. Even with my powers back they don't work on any of the drones or the town. I can't do anything to help.

[namusan_messiah]

You can use your powers, but not on the townspeople? What are they?

[freakinblur]

Oh yeah, people get droned here all tha time fer no reason. But it ain't always permanent. People'll who've been gone fer months come back sometimes.

....cycle 'a tha whatnow?

[namusan_messiah]

I see, I see...

Samsara is the cycle of suffering and rebirth. It's life, basically, for those who haven't attained nirvana.

[freakinblur]

Nirvana? 'Zat, like, heaven 'r somethin'?

[namusan_messiah]

It's roughly... the equivalent? It's a state of enlightenment with which you can free yourself from the suffering of samsara.

[wolf_wolves]

It never gets any easier, does it?

[namusan_messiah]

What doesn't?

[wolf_wolves]

Er, losing mortal friends. I guess this isn't quite the same thing.

[namusan_messiah]

Ah, of course... no, it's certainly comparable. It's ironic, actually. I became immortal because dying seemed so sad, but I've just watched more human friends and family die...

[bustydefense]

It's hard to know what to think about them, when we have no idea what happens to those who are droned, or why.

[namusan_messiah]

Unless I know less than I think I do, I can't imagine any theories other than that they're trapped.

[bustydefense]

Sometimes people are sent home, though their droned bodies remain here. What are they?

[namusan_messiah]

It would actually make more sense if it were just that bodies could be duplicated. That would explain why a person's true consciousness seems to disappear, wouldn't it?

[patchworksanity]

Hrm...The people here have their own lives, for sure...we're simply personalities that have been placed inside them, to assume their identities.

If you really wanted to do something for them, it would be as easy as becoming someone you're not...for if you aren't you, you're them.

The process of Droning, or something like that.

[namusan_messiah]

Er...

[BYAKUREN is confused! It hurt itself in its confusion!]

I'm not sure what you mean, sir.

[patchworksanity]

Well, it's simple.

Who are you?

[namusan_messiah]

Well, my name is Byakuren, but...