[There's a long pause, about two minutes or so, before he responds to that.]
You remember what I said to you the first day we met, about how you can't ever really trust anyone?
I don't trust him, not completely. That would be insane. But I do think some of the things he wants to do in the long term have merit to them and I
I don't want to be a monster. I've seen what she corrupts people into and if joining up with the lesser of two evils is going to keep me from being that far gone then you can bet your ass I'm going to do it. We can't fight her on our own. It's like bringing a whole mess of butter knives to a gun fight. We -need- someone who's also got a gun.
[He's being a little more frank here than he was on the network; there he has to present things as well as possible if there's any hope of anyone actually wanting to join up. Privately, he's a little more cautious, if no less optimistic. There's some downsides to every choice in this scenario but at least this choice gives him the option of doing something more than sitting around twiddling his thumbs and waiting for a rescue that's never coming.]
<hadron> instead of writing out a history section from now on i should just put 'shit went hinky'
You remember what I said to you the first day we met, about how you can't ever really trust anyone?
I don't trust him, not completely. That would be insane. But I do think some of the things he wants to do in the long term have merit to them and I
I don't want to be a monster. I've seen what she corrupts people into and if joining up with the lesser of two evils is going to keep me from being that far gone then you can bet your ass I'm going to do it. We can't fight her on our own. It's like bringing a whole mess of butter knives to a gun fight. We -need- someone who's also got a gun.
[He's being a little more frank here than he was on the network; there he has to present things as well as possible if there's any hope of anyone actually wanting to join up. Privately, he's a little more cautious, if no less optimistic. There's some downsides to every choice in this scenario but at least this choice gives him the option of doing something more than sitting around twiddling his thumbs and waiting for a rescue that's never coming.]