video; un: mogget

[themogget]

[The cat on the screen might be familiar by now. He sits primly with both paws neatly side by side and his tail curled around him, the tip lightly flicking up and down.]

I did wonder what I was doing here at all, to begin with. [He says. The statement has the air of someone continuing an earlier conversation, though he hasn't made many outreaches on the network at all.] Summoned to another world to save a hundred others? I had no care for my own world, let alone this one or anyone else's.

[The bell that usually hangs on his collar - for those who are well-acquainted enough with the feline to notice - is now missing, though the green tear-shaped pendant is still present.]

I cared not a bit for Geardagas, either. The sheer audacity of pulling me about the multiverse like a toy is not something I have ever come to appreciate from these places that seem to 'need' my presence. [But then... Mogget looks thoughtful, as much as a cat is able to make such an expression.]

I wonder if I was too harsh in my evaluations. If multitudes of worlds and the people in them may be worth the effort after all. [His ears twitch.] Even the worst of them, if it means also saving the best, no?

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video, un: filament

[omnicrafter]

That's a familiar one. What changed your mind, if I may ask?

[themogget]

[A familiar one, she says, and he peers at her as if trying to work out what she means. Did she recognise the name of the place, or is it just the scenario that seems familiar?

Hm.]

That's my business. [He tells her, though without too much unkindness to it.] But suffice it to say that I see a certain value in existence and in mortal life that I did not before, and have a small but real desire to ensure its continuation.

I am at last free from convention hell

[omnicrafter]

That's good. I'd hate to see what'd happen if you were the actively murderous type. Apathy is far too easy to turn into callousness, after all.

I do understand feeling frustrated at being tugged around the multiverse, though. It's a bit tiring after the first two or three times of being told we're needed for something...

[themogget]

[He makes a sound that borders on amusement. Irhya is closer to the truth than she might expect.]

I have no real issue with being needed for something in its own right. [Mogget purrs out, his ears flicking back for a moment.] My issue is with being used. Something which I have found is an unfortunate similarity between here and Geardagas... though the latter was infinitely more irritating in its demands.

[omnicrafter]

Indeed, it's not unlike we're some kind of universal currency when it comes to otherworlds using us for any given purpose. How do you figure on one being more irritating than the other, though?

[themogget]

Because one feels more irritating than the other. It's really as simple as that. [He tips his head as he looks offside for a moment, and though he spoke as though the answer was entirely obvious he does venture a little more.]

Here, it feels that our help is requested, desired, but not necessarily demanded. That was not the impression I got from those in Aefenglom and the other cities.

[omnicrafter]

I... suppose that's true, though I do not know what the other cities you've been in have been like. At the very least, most of the ones I was in just attempted to integrate us into their society without demanding anything of us.

[themogget]

Hm, then perhaps we simply had a different perception of events. Not necessarily a bad thing. Different experiences produce different outcomes.

[And Mogget dislikes being told what to do, and having demands impressed upon him. The people in charge in Aefenglom were not to his tastes, and he did not like feeling as if they expected he would think he owed them something.]

I decided that I would offer assistance for the sake of others in the same situation as myself. Not because it was helpful to the natives. It has the same result, in the end.

[omnicrafter]

Perception of...? You make it sound like I was there.

[She tilts her head, unsure she's understanding what he's saying correctly.]

That seems like a fair enough reason, though. I'm of the same mind, personally; I'd much rather help those in the same situation as myself than the powers that be, even if they're not technically responsible for it this time.

[themogget]

... Hm.

[Mogget might say he never assumes anything, but that would be a lie. Mogget assumes a great deal and most by virtue of intelligence and a long life and he is not often wrong, but he peers more closely at the woman now as if his train of thought had been momentarily dislodged.

Funny, he could have sworn that he recognised her.]

Quite so. And we can't guarantee that the motives of the people asking such things of us are entirely pure, either. To say that they are, without question, would be foolish.