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Marius Pontmercy ([info]pontmercy) wrote in [info]compass_network,
@ 2013-06-16 21:55:00

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Entry tags:!open, steve rogers

This place.

I've done my best to attempt to understand what this island is and what it was that I did here before, and I'm left perhaps feeling much more confused that I was when I started. But I imagine, as important as the past may be, there is no reason to get lost in it at least, not here, where everything is so unfamiliar. It is the present, as unknown as she is, where I must focus my efforts, and on the people here who are as lost as I am.

With that in mind, and with respect -- I pose the question: Why do you, any of you, think we're here?


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[info]itarille
2013-06-17 02:08 am UTC (link)
They is it a second chance. A second chance at what I don't know, or care. For those of us not looking for one it's a trap.

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[info]pontmercy
2013-06-17 02:09 am UTC (link)
Are you looking for a second chance?

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[info]itarille
2013-06-17 02:10 am UTC (link)
No, of course not. I enjoyed my life the way it was, compared to what I have learned and done here.

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[info]pontmercy
2013-06-17 02:17 am UTC (link)
Shouldn't you then think that this is all some kind of punishment?

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[info]itarille
2013-06-17 02:19 am UTC (link)
For what? What have I done in my life to earn it? Live in peace? Offer sanctuary to people who had none?

Valar, are the Noldor not punished enough already? How is it paradise for some and punishment for others?

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[info]pontmercy
2013-06-17 02:21 am UTC (link)
If you're in no need of a second chance -- if this is a trap for you, must it not be punishment?

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[info]itarille
2013-06-17 02:23 am UTC (link)
It is punishment but I do not understand why or what I have done to deserve it.

Or what my son has done, or his father. There is no reason for it to be this way.

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[info]pontmercy
2013-06-17 02:29 am UTC (link)
There are plenty who suffer who've done nothing to earn it.

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[info]itarille
2013-06-17 02:30 am UTC (link)
It is unfair.

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[info]pontmercy
2013-06-17 02:42 am UTC (link)
Life rarely takes fairness into consideration.

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[info]itarille
2013-06-17 02:44 am UTC (link)
That I know well.

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[info]antinouswild
2013-06-17 02:13 am UTC (link)
We're here to learn something. We've been brought so that we might understand. What it is, precisely, is a question only time and trial can answer.

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[info]pontmercy
2013-06-17 02:18 am UTC (link)
I imagine it might be unique to all of us. I can't imagine that what we are to learn is the same.

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[info]antinouswild
2013-06-17 02:23 am UTC (link)
I'm not so certain. Every man has his own failings, to be sure, but in the end the goal we strive for - that any higher power ordains - is the same.

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[info]pontmercy
2013-06-17 02:33 am UTC (link)
It's only that I wish I had some direction.

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[info]antinouswild
2013-06-17 02:36 am UTC (link)
I'll admit - the resources I'd have drawn upon seem not to be readily available. I do feel somewhat at sea.

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[info]pontmercy
2013-06-17 02:40 am UTC (link)
With no place to begin.

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[info]antinouswild
2013-06-17 02:42 am UTC (link)
No; we have principles, which are close enough to facts to serve the purpose. We always begin with those.

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[info]pontmercy
2013-06-17 03:13 am UTC (link)
Yours have not changed, I see.

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[info]antinouswild
2013-06-17 03:30 am UTC (link)
And how should I change that particular part of myself? I'll listen.

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[info]pontmercy
2013-06-17 03:32 pm UTC (link)
They must be influenced by what you've seen here.

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[info]prizeofachilles
2013-06-17 02:37 am UTC (link)
I think perhaps it's a gift...

At least for me, being here, no matter how strange it might be, is like a dream come true.

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[info]pontmercy
2013-06-17 02:41 am UTC (link)
For that, I'm pleased for you.

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[info]prizeofachilles
2013-06-17 02:42 am UTC (link)
Thank you, sir.

Are you new here? I'm quite afraid that with all the new arrivals, I've completely lost track.

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[info]pontmercy
2013-06-17 03:15 am UTC (link)
I've only been here a few days, have you been here long?

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[info]prizeofachilles
2013-06-17 03:20 am UTC (link)
A little more than six months, sir. Many strange things have happened, but every place has its strangeness, and this place is...kind, for the most part.

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[info]captain_srogers
2013-06-17 03:01 pm UTC (link)
A second chance sounds about right to me.

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[info]pontmercy
2013-06-17 03:04 pm UTC (link)
Did you run into trouble the first time around?

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[info]captain_srogers
2013-06-17 03:17 pm UTC (link)
In some ways, yes.

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[info]pontmercy
2013-06-17 03:18 pm UTC (link)
How so, if you don't mind my asking? I'm only trying to gain some ground, some balance, in this strange place.

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[info]captain_srogers
2013-06-17 03:20 pm UTC (link)
I crashed a plane, assuming I would die but I didn't. Instead I was found 70 years later and woken up.

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[info]pontmercy
2013-06-17 03:27 pm UTC (link)
A...plane?

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[info]captain_srogers
2013-06-17 03:30 pm UTC (link)
Yeah, airplanes, they're uh...they're kind of like big, metal things that you fly above the clouds. This one was was being used in a war and the only way I could stop it from killing millions was to take it down in an ocean.

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[info]pontmercy
2013-06-17 03:30 pm UTC (link)
That's an incredible thing for you to have done.

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[info]captain_srogers
2013-06-17 03:38 pm UTC (link)
It was my responsibility.

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[info]pontmercy
2013-06-17 03:41 pm UTC (link)
that makes it no less impressive, few men could do it.

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[info]captain_srogers
2013-06-17 04:59 pm UTC (link)
I like to think that if they knew doing so would save an entire country and protect the world from an oppressive, racist leader most men would have done the same.

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[info]pontmercy
2013-06-17 05:30 pm UTC (link)
People long for change, but all too often, they're not prepared to die for it.

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