![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Sure, I can play games. ...Do you really think you're ready to host one?
Do what you do? Set up rules and contestants and make them compete for glory of an unnamed source of glory or power? Of course.
Yeah but you wanna be part of the spectacle too. Can you sell it and get people to play, or even just come watch?
I commanded armies. It can't be that difficult.
I've got total faith in you. You just have to be charismatic enough that even if people don't like you, they'll hang on your every word.
That's simple. People don't like me, and yet they followed me.
It's not gonna just be people in the military. Look around. That's gonna be a boon to you but I think this is probably gonna require you to let your hair down a little too.
I said I would do whatever it took to graduate you and I meant it. We're doing this.
You think playing a game will graduate me?
Hardly. But I think you need to empathize more with your people and to do that effectively, you must see things through their eyes.
A little like that, yes. But if possible, I'd like to expand more on things specific to you.
Don't think the Admiral is gonna schedule a field trip back to Sakkar any time soon.
No, don't you see? You don't have to be on Sakkar. You just have to do what I tell you.
That really depends on the game, whether that's how it winds up going.
Scratch that; I wanna see what you're planning.
And I want you to get you off this ship so I can help my people. ALL my people, including you.
See now you're just stalling on the details. Is this part of the game?
I've already told you the game. I will put you in a position of one of your gladiators and construct my own obstacle course.
Make it out alive and I will grant you whatever you want.
Make it out alive and I will grant you whatever you want.
[ Hands on hips ] Oh, so when you program in death scenarios, it's suddenly character building.
See, you put it that way and all I'll do is graduate so I can have the extra privileges.
[ He's joking, clearly; he can't keep a serious face that long if he doesn't want to hold it ]
Look, I hear ya. And sure. Let's try it out. You know I'm up for anything. [ Besides inventory. ]
[ He's joking, clearly; he can't keep a serious face that long if he doesn't want to hold it ]
Look, I hear ya. And sure. Let's try it out. You know I'm up for anything. [ Besides inventory. ]
If that's what it takes, then I can become a domineering force to be reckoned with.
[he gives a relieved grin]
Brilliant. I'll meet you in the Enclosure in an hour.
[he gives a relieved grin]
Brilliant. I'll meet you in the Enclosure in an hour.
What, that wasn't what you were going for already?
Page 5 of 6