maskormenace | 7th Oration // Video

[The opening shot is exactly the same as Dooku's interrupted last post. Same bookshelf, same lighting, same Count Dooku casually brushing some dust off his shoulder as he addresses the camera in his deep voice. It is as though he is continuing the previous post without missing a beat, refusing to be disrupted by the Porter, which is exactly the impression he wants to convey.]

Now then. As I was saying, before I was so rudely interrupted...

[Something is subtly different now, though. There's a touch of strain in the Count's smooth voice that wasn't there before, a note of tension in his face and the way he carries his body. Nonetheless, he carries on as though nothing has changed.]

It appears that the Porter's vengeance against imPort inquiries has ended, for now. But do not make the mistake of thinking that we are now safe. We remain bound by mysterious and cruel entities.

Many of us wish to be sent home. But at the same time, how many of us fear to be Ported out at any moment? Hurled away from our lives here and the friends we have made, sent back to the grim fate that may await us: conflict and humiliation, betrayal and death?

[Dooku's voice rises a bit on those last two words. He maaaaay be projecting a little here. He takes a breath.]

So let me ask you this: what does freedom mean to you, my friends? What is the heart of that word? Is it choice? Is it the ability to command your own life? If so, can we truly be called free today?

A new year is about to begin, with new challenges and opportunities. I urge you all to think carefully about what freedom means to you... and how you will seek to achieve it as we move into the future.

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[he listens, though his expression is vaguely unreadable.]

They can't do that anymore, though, right? Whatever's in the Porter won't allow it.

Precisely. Or at least, so we believe. Recent revelations suggest that we may all need to unlearn what we have learned.

Ain't that just the way when it comes to interdimensional gods that don't give no shits about time and space, huh?

I suppose it is. Few of us have ever encountered an entity like Lachesis before, I believe.

Guess I'm lucky I fucked with gods so much back home. Crazy how it's still hard for some people to grasp, though, right?

[The Count raises an eyebrow.]

Was the creature Kyogre truly a god, Archie? Or was it merely an exceptionally powerful beast?

Is there much of a difference?

Certainly. A mortal being can be destroyed. A god would be an entity of truly infinite power... invincible and undying.

[The Count knows the Dark Side offers ultimate power, but even he is not megalomaniacal enough to think that it offers godhood or eternal life.]

Hmm. Well, it was ancient and had the power to control and raise the sea. It was created by Arceus, so... a demi-god, at least.

Arceus was the... prime deity of your world, I take it?

Yeah. It's not like here where there's a buncha different ones. Arceus is pretty much the only one.

[he shrugs.]

I'm not super into religion, it's just... a thing?

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