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Travelers Assemble! [Jaunt]

All right, Travellers, we have a goal and a way to get to it. There is a portal in a park near the pogemon HQ that leads to a similar landscape to the one we're aiming for. I'm clearing the area and we can use it as a launch point. What do people know about this Nevermore character? Weaknesses, layout of the castle, guard numbers and types - any information is good information guys.

And let me know who's coming to the portal and whether or not you've signed up with the Guardia. There's some good material and supplies there if you need them and it will allow you to move about freely.

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I spoke with a member of the council.

They believe they have a way to finally stop Nevermore, using Sealing Pogs after he's been weakened. With enough energy put into them, they should be able to stop Nevermore from being able to be released from his pog.

Can Nevermore not be destroyed?

I don't know that it's our call. We're not part of either local government. If they have a way to put him out of commission without killing him, that's the more humane option.

It seems clear that we are meant to stop this invasion from overtaking this world. Merely stopping one with such goals, let alone one with the means to accomplish them, is more than likely only going to delay the inevitable.

But the pogemon government and the human one are already in the process of finding ways to stop this from happening again. If he can be permanently enclosed in a pog, they might even consent to us taking the pog with us, effectively removing him from this world entirely.

It's not that I don't agree that he is deadly and dangerous, and if he succeeds would spur others of the same mindset to pour out of the woodwork. But we're going to stop him. And unnecessary killing is cruel and sets us up to be tyrants to any and all worlds we come across. It's not our job to do the planetary governing for them. It's our job to make sure that this incursion is stopped and the planet is safe to make their own decisions.

Unnecessary? This is a creature that is willing to murder children on the street. I would find death a more suitable punishment and far less cruel than trapping anything anywhere for all eternity, least of all a pog. If you wish a lesson on tyranny, look to Nevermore.

Again, not for us to decide. Sorry, but that's not something I'm willing to budge on. I'm no stranger to tyrannical rule, but I am not going to condone a precedent of waltzing into a world, killing someone off because we think it's best, and vanishing again to leave the place in chaos.

I am speaking from experience. Ages of experience. We have been thrown into the midst of the beginnings of a war. If you do not have the heart to kill than you should not consider yourself a soldier, let alone one who wishes to lead.

You are assuming several things there that you know nothing about. I may not be over 400 years old, and I may use guns over swords, but that doesn't meant that I don't know how to fight.

I do not doubt your courage or your skill or your experience. But when the question was asked, who is going to lead these people, no one stepped up except Zed. I don't think either of us want that.

Look. We're going to need your help. As one of the only two of us to actually fight Nevermore mentioned earlier, swords are not going to help against a creature of stone unless your blades are made of plasma. I want to work with you, not against you. Can I count on your swords to defend out troops against backstabbing?

Knowing how to when and how to fight, and knowing when and how to kill are two very different things.

I am not so foolish to abandon a cause due to a disagreement, but if the opportunity presents itself to end this once and for all, be it for myself or for anyone else, than it should be taken. I have... negated stone before. Not with my swords but by other means, though I have never turned that ability upon another living thing.

I'm not going to try and make you do anything you don't want to do. You have to answer to your conscience and me to mine. I'll look forward to seeing you where you think you'll be the best help.

No decisions should be made at all until we return from our scouting mission. Rushing in without a plan would be foolish.

Agreed. It sounds like we have access to a castle map, if you'd like a look before you go. But no one under my advisement will be launching any assaults until we have more intel.

That would be beneficial, yes. Drizzt and I will be returning to liminal space shortly to prepare. Where should we go to look over the map?

Someone's taking a captured burger pogemon to liminal space and he has the original map. You could look at it there. Or if you're coming to the portal, I'll have one ready for you there as well. Your choice.

We will meet them in liminal space, as we will be there already.

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I'm not sure. But she said that this was the only way to make sure that he was stopped.

If he can die than it is not the only way.

Not all creatures can.

Demons need to be in their own plane to be truly killed. A lich stores its power outside of it's own body. If there is a way, we should find it.

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We don't have the time for that.

Nevermore was presumed dead twice over. I don't want this world to have to suffer a third return.

All the more reason. Simply trapping a creature of this power is almost guaranteeing a return. Even if it is centuries from now.

I trust that the leaders of the world that has suffered him twice over have a better understanding of the situation that we do. Sealing him and leaving him in their hands to work on a way to permanently destroy him is a far better option than risking him simply reviving after yet another failed attempt to kill him, and starting this cycle all over again.

There is merit to your words and I understand what you are saying. I still do not believe it is a thought we should completely set aside. Should an opportunity come, we should take it.

If we can be assured that it will work, yes.

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