This is how you march. [OPEN to people with DOGS and the Watch + folks interested in them!]

[thewarisover]

Characters: Roy Mustang, observers and the newbies in the DOGS/people who signed up for the new job openings!
Location: The DOGS Office and all around Death City for a bit
Rating: G!
Time: November 30, 1 PM onwards
Description: Fourth formal briefing for the new kids, and separate meetings for new CIC agents, clerks, liaison officers, trainers,

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Karkat | Financial/Services Zone Leader [open]

[dungenessmaster]

[At least one of the zone leaders dropped in to check out the newbies and troll Naruto get things organized with his new favorite deputies. he skipped most of the tour and met them back at the office after it was over, since it wasn't really for him.

he skims the crowd, looking for new faces. he already met Hanabi, and he knows the rest of his group to some extent, but he has yet to run into Sakura.

but that shouldn't stop anyone who'd like to poke him!]

((OOC: Prose or action is fine by me, so switch styles if you'd prefer!))

[dungenessmaster]

Karkat nodded along as she spoke, looking peeved. Everything about Sexy rubbed him the wrong way, from her rambling speech to the way she apparently couldn't speak without subjecting him to some kind of interpretive dance. He was about to blow her off again when something she said pinged him.

"Wait... a time lord? You mean like, a hero of time?"

Oh, gog, is this going to lead to her making buddies with Dave and Aradia? XD

[iwantmythief]

She would have been disappointed to have that called a dance. She wasn't sure what it was, but she was certain that at the very least it was not a dance. "I suppose you could call him that, yes. He did quite a bit of saving all of time and space. Did you have something like that in your world?"

oh man that'd be the best CR

[dungenessmaster]

Karkat cared deeply about how offended she was by his descriptive terms. Really.

He looked at her with renewed interest. She didn't look anywhere near thirteen. Of course she could have been a veteran player -- maybe even one of HIS world's creators -- but better odds said she was just from another place with time people in it.

"Something like that. The game we played, the one that fucked with everything -- it always seems to assign time heroes in case things get so broken we need a rewind."

Yesss! Then we get the Doctor in as a father figure too.

[iwantmythief]

Nope, just another place with time people.

"Well, we are not precisely supposed to get involved in events, but that's really just a... guideline. You could say that we served much the same function, even if we were not playing a game, unless you were- are among the people who consider the very act of living a game. We tend to drop in and out of lives of people all across the universe, fix a few things, then leave."

o9

[dungenessmaster]

"Hell no, I mean a literal game instance, with quests and monsters and levels and an endgame! If you just spend all your time poofing around screwing with timelines and shit, you should talk to Aradia. She's better at time than I am. All our meddling ever did was cause us to splinter off into all these doomed timelines."

[iwantmythief]

She honestly looked seriously concerned. She took note of the idea of the game instance, and the name, but before anything else she had to ask, "Doomed timelines?"

[dungenessmaster]

"It's... stop looking at me like that, they happen! Actually, if we hadn't made a bunch of doomed timelines, we would have been royally screwed in the end, so it worked out. Like I said, Aradia had a better grasp on it than I do, but basically there's a way the story's supposed to go. Like a straightforward timeline we're supposed to follow. That free will we thought we always had? It's bullshit. But anyway, anytime something happens to fuck up the predestination, like a key person dying before they're supposed to, that timeline splinters off from the alpha. And even the people in it who didn't die or do anything wrong get wiped, because apparently paradox space hates an anomaly."

Congrats on being the first to out-talk Sexy.

[iwantmythief]

Sexy was just listening sternly. "I understand the concept, but it is still worrying that it happens. Alternate choices ought to create alternate universes, not doomed timelines. There shouldn't be such a thing. It just goes against... time. There is free will, because while some events are definitely better off happening one way, things will still carry on even if it doesn't." She had fallen almost completely still as she spoke. At the very least she seemed clam, if disturbed by the concept of doomed timelines.

I will wear my medal with pride.

[dungenessmaster]

"Maybe that's the way it works in your world, but ours was different. We had the soulbot army to prove it. One miscalculation, one significant enough deviation from what's expected, and you're basically getting mulched feet-first by a raging law of reality while some other bulgepump version of yourself goes on to do stupid things as Alpha."

[iwantmythief]

"It sounds wrong to me, but I imagine not every universe needs to work in the same manner. It just seems odd to me. I suppose it's not quite different, though it is a lot more limited with one primary timeline." The absence of free-will is the part she found most distressing.

[dungenessmaster]

Karkat still occasionally tries to rage against the destiny machine, but he's gotten pretty used to the fact that he's not in control and everything he did in the game was stuff he was supposed to do.

Yet another thing he likes about Death City, if he ever stops to think about it. Even if free will isn't allowed here either, they give a pretty damn good illusion of it.

"Yeah, and the worst part is that you never know what's going to cause you to splinter off and fuck up. But so far I've done everything I'm supposed to. ...I think."

[iwantmythief]

"I guess in any universe it is impossible to tell every possible result of every action, unless you know everything that ever has and will happened, and even then is is a very complicated thing, even if your mind is built to be able to handle it. I certainly could not manage as I am now."

Free will was defiantly a complicated concept, even in her native universe. As far as she can imagine (at the moment at least) it would be complicated anywhenwhere.

[dungenessmaster]

"One of our group had a talent for that, though. Figuring out the outcomes of decisions, seeing where certain actions would lead us and guiding us toward the 'right' one. That made it a lot easier than just hoping we were doing the right things, though we were never in too much trouble with me leading the whole operation.

But anyway, none of this matters anymore because of the way this place works. None of us have our powers here or anything."

[iwantmythief]

Sexy hummed a bit in consideration. "Really, I don't see how the loss of special ability is relevant to the determination of the 'right' path. Even if this dimension works differently, there is still the matter of survival, and I would say being good at seeing where actions will lead you will guide you to survival as well here as it would anywhere else. It is a good talent to have."

[lustrolupo]

[ Now that the orientation's done, Yuri's just wandering aimlessly about, looking for interesting people to get acquainted with. If he's gonna be working a fairly dangerous gig like this, he might as well try to figure out who he'll be working around. So when he spots the kid with grey skin and freaking horns, there's no way in hell he's not gonna go find out what's up with that. ]

Didn't see you in the meetings. [ Which likely meant that he was already a member, or a curious observer. ]