[after Melissa's Dungeon] post-Jaunt reveal!

[loyalrebel]

...if we ever get sent back to Pogtopia, whatever we do; stop my Overlay. He lied to everyone the entire time, and he wants nothing more than total control of both worlds. He's also willing to go to whatever lengths necessary to achieve that control.

He knew about Nevermore the entire time, and supported the attacks on the human world up until someone got killed.

He also knows about us Travelers​ and that we have powers not native to either world.

He... does not believe in allowing people real freedom.

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[ninjayeehaw]

I'll make sure t'follow through next time.

[loyalrebel]

So long as you make it swift and painless, go ahead.

[fawkestheories]

Malik, it wasn't you. I really highly doubt that if you had any control there you would have acted like that. [ He's being honest with him. He knows he doesn't know Malik except for tidbits he gathered from Desmond's memories but he couldn't believe that ANY Assassin who knew of what happened when they were reformed under Altair would have acted in that way. ]

Though, if I can, I will do my best to stop you if it comes down to it.

[loyalrebel]

You have yet to experience infiltrating, Shaun.

You also do not know how far I will go to defend something I believe in.

[hazardlight]

Fuckin' knew it.

[A beat, and then, rather sheepishly:] Or I mean, my overlay was hella suspicious, I guess.

She still was when we left, and I don't really see that changing. She'd be a half-decent ally if we ever need to deal with shit there again - tell her you don't trust him, and I really don't think she'd ask too many more questions.



Thanks for not sitting on this, dude.

[loyalrebel]

If you can get Athena to help you, she will be a steadfast Ally to saving him from himself.

She may have followed me but I do not know if she will remember Traveling if we return.

[truerevelation]

[...Kanji is so, so glad Piyo can't hear the network.]

Damn.

...so... so when he was going on about friendship and teamwork and everything... did he ever believe that? Or was that just an act and all?

[loyalrebel]

It... nothing he believes was all that black and white.

He understands the value of non-combat roles and the importance of teamwork.

[papacerberus]

I'm sorry that I failed you.

[Lupa doesn't feel that he has the right to explain what happened just yet, so all he leaves is that.]

[loyalrebel]

I am unsure of whether you could stop him from getting where he did.

[haveabiscuit]

He knew.

[The psychic voice is cold. The true amount of angry is probably bleedover from her overlay. Then again, a young person was killed and that wasn't right.]

[loyalrebel]

Some of it was his idea.

I... can say that he was honest in his upset about that young man's death. Worthless as that is in the larger picture.

[triggerhappytraitor]

So it all was an act?

[[That he was yet again 100% tricked by. Damnit.]]

[loyalrebel]

Most of it was, yes.

He did honestly want to stop Nevermore, but that was more because the pogemon lacked paitence and acted without being sure of the result.

[professorwolf]

At least he isn't alone in that school. Gale and Lethid are still there, and Gale in particular worries about Malik.

... This is one of those times where I wonder if using infiltrator mind-reading is acceptable. I don't wish to infringe on anyone's privacy, but I also don't want to leave people like that in charge of things. If I had used the ability there, we could have found out and actually done something about him.

[loyalrebel]

He is not going to stop at the Institute. Replacing the Pogemon council is a goal of his.

So long as I am infiltrating, I give you permission to do so.

The... problem is that as corrupt as his intentions are they are not terrible ones.

[senpaidol]

Ugh, that jerk! I thought I really made friends with him!

[loyalrebel]

Oh he liked you well enough, especially as it meant gaining someone who trusted him in his deceptions.

[pionero]

... Sounds like it was rough.

[ For more than one reason that he isn't going to share on the network. Some things - if discussed at all - are better left in certain places. ]

Not to mention he sounds like someone I wouldn't mind stopping.

[loyalrebel]

I agree, even if his ideas were not terrible the intent behind them is.

[photonicfighter]

What?!

[It's a few moments before she can actually compose herself to transmit anything more.]

I didn't even see it at all. I feel like I should have, but I didn't.

[loyalrebel]

Nice and kind are different from good.

He was very good at only showing people what he wanted them to see.

[leftbehindagain]

...I was afraid there might be something like that going on, but it was next to impossible to get clear information on anyone but Nevermore.

He's not even wrong that some adult oversight is a good idea, but that was really not the way to go about it.

[loyalrebel]

Oversight in general is rarely a bad idea, but it is... who is doing it and their means of doing so is important as well.

[givetheslip]

[Well now.]

I see I missed a great deal in the other world.

[loyalrebel]

Yes, you did.

I... understand things, and people, I am not sure that I wanted to.

[amadine]

That seems to be a theme of yours, to one degree or another.

[loyalrebel]

The outright lying and actively participating in bringing direct harm to innocent people was new.

The rest... I will not argue with you on.

Public -> Private (x2 protected)

[thornsofmalkav]

Oh Jesus fucking Christ. I'm sorry, Malik.

[She'll just switch it to private now.]

Are you going to be okay? I mean, after being Al Pogelim and all.

Private (x2 protected)

[loyalrebel]

I have to be.

[morbirdinterest]

How did he learn about the Travelers? Pre-existing knowledge, or was one of us less than discreet?

[loyalrebel]

Two investigators went to fight Nevermore on their own.

Nevermore was able to take their powers after defeating them, and he could tell that they were not the powers of pogemon.


...there were also at least two people fighting pogemon with swords.

[runawaystory]

Knows about the the Travelers?

...What the hell happened over there?