[video]

[10_20_15_5_50]

Dirge!

I have got some information for you. Oh, have I ever.

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[Video]

[dirge]

Oh? Hand it over then!

[Video]

[10_20_15_5_50]

There's still no easy out outta our---understanding. We've got a medium? Great.

[Sam's expression twitches towards something that's like a smile, insofar as it shows teeth.]

That medium's going to be no help to you if I'm haunting you, what with there being the one reason I would.

Re: [Video]

[dirge]

[Oh, so she saw that eh?]

And why not? She told me she had the power to do so.

[Video]

[10_20_15_5_50]

For one thing, the consequent haunting would be your own damn fault, for another, someone who deals with angry ghosts is not going to be sympathetic to someone creating them, and for another yet---since it seems like the thing most likely to hit home here---some self-interest?

Re: [Video]

[dirge]

Why does it matter if its my fault or not?

Ah, I have that part figured out. [He does not understand sympathy, but he understands coercion.] All I have to do is make her my friend. And then she has to help me. Its part of the deal.

Self-interest? You think she may charge me?

[Video]

[10_20_15_5_50]

Did she not say something about doubting she should even be talking t'you if you're doing something that involves angry ghosts?

I think she may refuse to help you with ghosts if you kill anybody, as a way of discouraging you from killing anybody.

Re: [Video]

[dirge]

Well.... She said she wasn't sure.

But she can't refuse! She has to help me if she becomes my friend. And that's exactly what I intend to do, you see?

[Video]

[10_20_15_5_50]

Not being sure about talking to sets some solid implications for actually-acting-on-behalf-of.

She seems like a nice person. Like a good person. Murdering someone would probably cost you her friendship---and probably other friends, since that's some serious shit!

Re: [Video]

[dirge]

[Dirge huffs a sigh from his vents, the tip of one wing flicking.]

Do all humans have the same morals as autobots? [This is starting to frustrate him a little. Maybe this is why they always seem to team up with Prime's army.]

[Video]

[10_20_15_5_50]

[She turns her hands up in exasperation.]

Moot point, man, and beside the point mattering most, here.

Re: [Video]

[dirge]

I can't understand what you all have against taking a life. Aren't there other humans you'd like to get rid of that stand in your way?

Re: [Video] /totally sticking his nose in here. And totally not late

[knight_light]

Dirge, what is this all about?

BETTER LATE THAN NEVER

[dirge]

I'm having trouble getting the new human to be my friend. I need her because she can get rid of ghosts.

[knight_light]

Ghosts...what ghosts? [He knows...or can guess, but he wants to hear Dirge say it.]

[dirge]

Ghosts of witches. Who've promised to haunt me if I kill them or anyone else!

[video|private to Sam]

[knight_light]

Are you all right? [making sure]

[video|private]

[10_20_15_5_50]

I am moderately pissed and kind of concerned for my future well-being, but otherwise peachy.

[beat]

Pretty sure Dirge is trying to determine what he'd really risk by murdering me.

Re: [video|private]

[knight_light]

[He...offlines his optics a moment.]

Do you know why?

[video|private]

[10_20_15_5_50]

Oh yeah.

This began when I was trying to convince him that, despite our adaptability, farming humans was an awful idea. That convincing conversation sorta segued into an effort to explain why eating people is wrong and while I was trying to cover the moral aspects, Dirge got testy and declared he'd eat whatever he wanted. I said that if that included people---human or any others---there would be problems. I listed some, he didn't seem to take them too seriously...

...so I said that if he ate anybody, I'd take his sense of taste away. And explained he didn't have an easy out in offing me, because I'd haunt the hell out of him.

Re: [video|private]

[knight_light]

[Heeeee's going to wipe a hand down his face.] Oh dear....

[video|private]

[10_20_15_5_50]

More like 'oh, ostie.'

Wing?

Re: [video|private]

[knight_light]

Yes?

[video|private]

[10_20_15_5_50]

[Sam sighs and then speaks, very seriously.]

I'm not a bad person, and I'm not a bully, and I never threatened anybody with a whammy before or since... but I couldn't be cool with anything less than every deterrent I could toss onto the table.

Re: [video|private]

[knight_light]

[He gives her a smile.] I don't think you're a bad person, Sam. You tried what you felt was best.

...Though I do have to wonder how human farming first came up.

[video |private]

[10_20_15_5_50]

[She smiles back.]

It's not like I thought you would, but I still wanted to say it.

The very first time I talked to Dirge, he asked me how it could be that there were so many humans all over when we're so fragile. I explained that we can manage in almost any environment, and that the requirements for population growth were pretty modest, and that is where he went with it. Go fig.