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[IN-GAME CONVERSATION] - Five Pebbles, Gourmand, Survivor, Monk or Artificer. [Sky Islands - Dark Blue Pearl]

[ Returning again I see, very predictable that you would. ] [ Brought another pearl? Fine, I'll read it to you. ] [ It seems to be an old message from, Looks to the Moon and a friend. This interests me. ] === [ 1491.160 - PRIVATE ] Looks to the Moon, No Significant Harassment ] "I don't understand this at all. She left us and we don't even know what she did to cross herself out!" "Maybe she added some salt to her conduit system?" "Please, I don't wish to hear you make a mockery of the dead. I came to talk to you about my thoughts." "Bad timing I suppose, sorry Moon. If you are looking for somewhere to vent, I am here to listen." "Have you ever felt like we... haven't made any progress? That perhaps if we worked harder, we'd get to a solution that could match whatever Sliver of Straw did." "Am I wrong for that? Am I wrong for wanting to push forward a plan to finally let us rest once and for all? Is that bad of me?" "That, is a complicated question... and while you aren't in the wrong for wanting to try harder, it may do more harm than good. For everyone's sake that is." "Explain how doing better for the sake of every iterator is harmful. I perform to my maximum input constantly and I don't see how it does me any harm." "Well, for starters. What you describe as 'maximum input' is the bare minimum, for lack of better words." "You underperform, I underperform, we all underperform. The ancients never built us to find solutions to our ascension, they had their own methods under them the entire time! From what I remember, we created, we advised, and we sat there doing whatever they needed us to do. Skip forward thousands of cycles and then they disappeared." "They figured it out before we did, and here we are!" "...so, are you saying we will never be able to calculate a solution beyond our limitations?" "Now, now, don't get it twisted. You could if you want; however, you have to realize there are unforeseeable consequences when you attempt to progress an already delicate problem such as ascension." "What you are doing is fine enough as is, the bare minimum is what we're supposed to work with! Also, I think you know better than me that sustainability is favored more than exponential progress. You are a senior iterator after all." "I just dislike this system very much, I wish it could change." "Well, that’s just how it is. You can either drive yourself mad or be a cog in the machine. We all face the same fate, so why be torn over an iterator we barely knew? Why change our ways just because she found the solution first? It feels like extra work for little reward." "...I just, don't want to be a cog anymore." === [ ... ] [ I think I've read enough, little creature. ]