7 ~ However, it took me quite a bit longer to realize [written/action]

[menial]

To those that knew it, it looks like the crazy RPG hit-points-and-magic stuff has gone home. Sorry for those who were close to it. I don't think it left any notes or belongings for anyone, but I'm sure it'll be better off where it came from.

['What a cartoonish Shift this was. Not that I will ever forget my valorous deeds, but can we get back to ... Actually, forget it. Nothing serious. If more Shifts that are par for the Haruhi-course happen, it can only be a good thing.']

Seriously -- everyone all right out there? Sounds like a more than average number of people have been leaving fair Luceti lately. Though I guess variation is itself average, in said fair Luceti.

...Anyone know where the name "Luceti" comes from, anyway?

['...You know what, I'd better stop rambling right there.']

Comments

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[mydearapple]

Touching words. I'm sure it will be missed.

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[menial]

If you'd like to say a eulogy for it, get in line. Spots are filling up rapidly.

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[mydearapple]

Afraid I'll have to pass. I'm not one to get sentimental over things like that.

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[menial]

Very cruel of you, I'm sure, when dear friends are leaving.

['...Which is true. Rise-chan, for example.']

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[mydearapple]

What can I say? People come and go all the time. It gets a little old after the first few months.

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[menial]

Well, I guess you'll forgive me, still being in what one might consider the first few months, by some standards.

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[mydearapple]

But of course. Everyone is different, after all. Even if you're taught to expect it, it doesn't always make it easier to accept.

[...you know, unless you're Caesar.]

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[menial]

Though you yourself are congenitally able to deal with it, huh?

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[mydearapple]

I both expect it and accept it.

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[menial]

Very monastic of you.

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[mydearapple]

Something like that. The discipline is necessary for my livelihood, you could say, but it's not very interesting.

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[menial]

What kind of livelihood would that be, then?

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[mydearapple]

I'm a war strategist. See? Not very interesting.

[...or maybe he's just too lazy to explain.]

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[menial]

Really? Sounds like you could get a book deal with that.

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[mydearapple]

As long as I don't have to write it. But people don't usually care about those things until you're dead, right?

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[menial]

Depends on how interesting the wars you're involved in are. I guess.

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[mydearapple]

It would be a shame if people thought of them as interesting, don't you think?

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[menial]

Do you do that because it's boring, then?

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[mydearapple]

I do it because it's my responsibility. You should never let a bunch of idiots fight a war.

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[menial]

Well, I guess the same people will be actually fighting it either way.

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[mydearapple]

That's why they have to be nudged in the right direction. Someone has to know what they're doing.

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[menial]

How did you learn what you were doing, then?

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[mydearapple]

From people who teach. What kind of question is that?

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[menial]

Well, others could do the same, that's all.

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[mydearapple]

I never said they couldn't. I simply stated the reason I can't dwell on departures so much.