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[Frigemall]

"Questions.  Yes.  Sorry your Holiness.  Um...  "  Looking somewhat nervously and the hissing device in the Pope's hand, "Well, first, is that thing live?

"Of Course it is live, it would be useless otherwise, but as I just stated, it will only go off when and if I desire it to. At this moment you are safe ... at least from me."

Second, with the vastness of the Nexus what compulsion is there for hostilities to arise between Avatars or Houses?  I have only been here a short time and, so far, everyone I have met, with a few exceptions", Brerix gives a slight grin in Shamus' direction, "have been friendly and helpful.

Mostly what compels people here is boredom and ego, when eternal life is granted to some fairly diverse and in several cases unstable personalities, conflict is inevitable. When you start throwing in a lack of consequence and great potential for power, it is like the proverbial powder keg.

 
Third, is there anything to be gained from such a conflict? 

There can be. The only thing you can do to another avatar when they offend you is make their life less comfortable and possibly restrict their capability to harm those you care about. Conflict brings about solutions. I am hoping I can kick start some solutions.

 
Third, what is the origin of this animosity that has brought your two houses to such discord?
And fourth, what manner of resolution would prevent this war that you say would cause so much collateral damage.  Potentially being among the collateral I would be interested in this being avoided all together."

Actually this would be fourth and your next point would be fifth. There has been some animosity building between our houses for quite some time, however it really started when they were granted some extremely powerful abilities by their progenitor. When they began abusing these abilities, as it is human nature to do, I took action to protect my house and friends. The progenitor did not like this and declared war on my house. In return my progenitor declared war back. It will only be resolved when these issues are resolved. I do not see that happening easily. When those with power and ego become embroiled in a grand conflict, it usually take catastrophic measures to resolve them. As far as avoiding them, I am not sure you can unless you hide in a hole somewhere. Best bet is to choose a side and do your best to help it towards a resolution.

::Looking to the Pope then back to Brerix.:: "Have you a virgin packed away somewhere you could sacrafice in the name of some ancient pagan god? That might sate some of them. And that collateral damage you speak of, at the worst everything will be back to normal after an hour. So who cares? Thats another reason for the conflict, there are no real consequences, yet. So where are you from? Did i ask that? I dont recall....."

"By the way 'Hi Zod', I did not mean to not be sociable."

[Mark]

"Very well.  I choose...Outside."  Brerix turns and begins walking away from the assembly of Avatars.

[Socket]

"Very well.  I choose...Outside."  Brerix turns and begins walking away from the assembly of Avatars.

"Wuss."

*Socket walks back towards the group looking around for something*

"Hey Frig, how goes the war?  Vlad invited me and I'm really psyched about it.  I should have a few toys ready by then that'd be great for felling a few trees.  Speaking of wood, anybody seen a telephone pole laying around here?  Kinda long and thick with some old blood stains..."

[TheonlyShamus]

"Socket weren't you useing a telephone pole back at the unified circuit? I belive you were cause then you froze up and we all walked off."

[Frigemall]

"Wuss."

*Socket walks back towards the group looking around for something*

"Hey Frig, how goes the war?  Vlad invited me and I'm really psyched about it.  I should have a few toys ready by then that'd be great for felling a few trees.  Speaking of wood, anybody seen a telephone pole laying around here?  Kinda long and thick with some old blood stains..."

Frig'emall watches Brerix walk away and shakes his head. "I hope you can avoid it if you so choose." to Socket after the wuss comment. "I am not sure I blame him, he is still new to the Nexus and would just be cannon-fodder if he took an active role."
"You lost your telephone pole? It is a rather large thing to lose, I would guess it is not in your back pocket, unless you have a portable hole or something. " The Pope looks around to see if it is in an obvious place. "The war is going slowly right now. I still have to sit down with Vlad to go over where we go from here. I just hope it goes better than the one you were planning last year."

[TheonlyShamus]

he is still new to the Nexus and would just be cannon-fodder if he took an active role."

"He's no more new then myself. He's just asking to many questions, and not wanting to hear the answers if he doesn't like them." 

[Socket]

"Socket weren't you useing a telephone pole back at the unified circuit? I belive you were cause then you froze up and we all walked off."

"Riiiiiiight.  I'll check there next."

Frig'emall watches Brerix walk away and shakes his head. "I hope you can avoid it if you so choose." to Socket after the wuss comment. "I am not sure I blame him, he is still new to the Nexus and would just be cannon-fodder if he took an active role."
"You lost your telephone pole? It is a rather large thing to lose, I would guess it is not in your back pocket, unless you have a portable hole or something. " The Pope looks around to see if it is in an obvious place. "The war is going slowly right now. I still have to sit down with Vlad to go over where we go from here. I just hope it goes better than the one you were planning last year."

"Even cannon fodder is a necessity in any war.  Any time my enemy is not shooting at me is another opportunity for me to shoot at him.  Yeah, my attempt at throwing a war kinda fizzled.  I guess most people need a cause or something to fight for.  War for war's sake is just out of fashion these days.  Now back in the old days that's what we'd call entertainment!  You'd get transported halfway across the solar system both ways through asteroid fields sharing a data stream with 15 other people just to fight a war and were happy to have the opportunity.  Kids these days have it easy."

[Frigemall]

"Even cannon fodder is a necessity in any war.  Any time my enemy is not shooting at me is another opportunity for me to shoot at him.  Yeah, my attempt at throwing a war kinda fizzled.  I guess most people need a cause or something to fight for.  War for war's sake is just out of fashion these days.  Now back in the old days that's what we'd call entertainment!  You'd get transported halfway across the solar system both ways through asteroid fields sharing a data stream with 15 other people just to fight a war and were happy to have the opportunity.  Kids these days have it easy."

"Well, you will not have to go far for this one I suspect. Let me guess your combat boots had holes in them and you only had enough ammo to sink a small battleship instead of what would be appropriate?"

[Frigemall]

"Alright then, back to work." An explosion resounds through the area and when the smoke clears, The Pope is simply no longer there.

[TheonlyShamus]

"Yeah Just like Frig i need to do some preperation before the gathering." *Shamus tips his hat to the ones that are left, walks over to his speeder popping his gun into a hatch, jumping in and drives off*

[Socket]

"Gathering?  What Gathering?"

[TheonlyShamus]

"Gathering?  What Gathering?"

*before shamus jumps into his craft and pushes a few buttons he yells out* "Winter Gathering man its coming up soon dont forget about it." *then he drives off*

[Socket]

*sigh* "How do I always manage to miss the memo?"

*Waves at anyone remaining before heading off towards the Unified Circuit*