audio (after shield is repaired and things are settling down at the end of the area)

[coffinturk]

[ Vincent isn't one to mince words. The message is relatively short and precise given its content. ]

We are all changing.

[ Yes. That is correct, Valentine. ]

The marks that appear are connected. But the changes are different even when two people seem to be becoming the same type of monster.

Contact me with the changes you are experiencing and the sigil's appearance. I will make a record.

Deliver it however you wish. Your thoughts on the changes are welcome.

Comments

[coffinturk]

I'll do what I can. Not everyone's suited for it.

[ For a gun or for combat. ]

Having non-combatants on the field with unpredicatable transformations is a liability.

[ As for mention of Sera and her circumstances, it had been heard and is of particular interest. But he plans to speak about it privately later. ]

[iron_stomach]

Seems like they should be weeded out then.

[coffinturk]

[ The answer is neither stern nor disapproving. ]

That's not how it works here.

[iron_stomach]

Maybe it should be. There's enough going on without shouldering a bunch of dead weight too.

[coffinturk]

You'll find most people here won't hold that opinion. Seems you came from a harsh reality.

[ It seems Vincent understands to a degree. Agree? Unlikely, given his willingness to consider solutions for what Heat calls the dead weight. ]

[iron_stomach]

Most people are idiots. The Junkyard wasn't that bad once you knew what you're doing. But we were supposed to have Nirvana.

I keep being told this isn't it but aside from the rest of the tribe being missing, this place is pretty damn great.

[Noncombatants had their place. That place wasn't on the battlefield, or mucking things up rampaging around berserk because they can't manage their own diets.]

[coffinturk]

Where I'm from, there was the Promised Land. There were a lot of theories of what it was. You could also say it was meant to be different things to different people.

Nirvana seems to be the name of a place here. But where we are, where we're going, will be different for everyone.

[ He doesn't say anything about calling people idiots. Some people just are in his opinion. Even if Vincent and Heat may have different opinions on who those are. ]

[iron_stomach]

I'm pretty sure where we are is the same for everyone here, except in the way that you can't stand exactly where someone else is standing.

...suffering from the trauma of bad physics meshing?

[coffinturk]

Nirvana is probably the same in this place for everyone, yes.

The rest was a metaphor on how they will get there.

[ There might have been a pause to wonder whether that was a jest about standing in the same place, or... surely not. ]

/jitters around until unoverlapped terrain is found

[iron_stomach]

By driving. Obviously.

[There are nuances to the implications of a Promised Land, of Nirvana, that Heat misses very obviously. He treats it like it's only a destination, no spirituality attached at all.]