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[sageprincess]

From: Anonymous
Date: April 26th

What do you believe are the necessary qualities to have in a good leader?

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Not here, buddy... but totally here

[hypomeneo]

[You know... all this is striking chords, and Waver has pounced on this like a starving lion presented with meat...

Until.

But this also must work in the other direction. People need to know you understand and share their experience. That you’re not some distant, unreachable ideal. If they go hungry, you go hungry. Their toil is your toil.

...

... Christ, this is part of the damn problem that caused the melt that morning, isn't it? Shinkihood and Godhood are two entirely separate existences. How isolated is Iskandar feeling right now? ... is he feeling Godhood is turning him some distant, unreachable ideal?

Fuck, just fuck. Now how does he confirm this and deal with it without tipping over the proverbial apple cart in regards to certain things...

How much of the experience does he really understand?]

[action, totally somewhere else, like his Temple for example]

[towards_okeanos]

[Iskandar can discuss philosophy all day and night so he's extremely pleased that this time he didn't ignore a network post as he always does. He would have deprived himself of such an excellent occasion to have a meaningful talk on a subject that matters a lot to him. Some of the answers were really interesting. Some he simply doesn't agree with. Some are absolutely baffling. Iskandar couldn't help but smile reading the one Chikusa gave.
Quite on point, boy. Quite on point. And bold to a fault. The kid has guts. Let none say he doesn't.

But something else creeps into his awareness...

Distress.

Not the steady, familiar frustration that sometimes - like right now - Satya unintentionally broadcasts when some poor souls succeed in begging her to take them on a dungeon run and it inevitably turns into a disaster. Iskandar knows this so well he could do a voice-over of some of the more scathing comments. Starting with headless chickens with one common brain cell. That's his favourite.

So that's not Satya. That means only one option remains. He's got to leave his room and go look for Waver.

Because now he's worried.]

[hypomeneo]

[Distress is rapidly turning into grinding frustration which is being smoothed away as Waver traces the rim of a cup. Around. Around. Back to the emotional center.

What does he d--- oh. Well. Footsteps. He'd like to have more thinking time for this.

Time to close anon.

Iskandar will find Waver staring pensively at the screen.]

... hope Chikusa doesn't get in shit for that remark.

[THOUGH POINT TAKEN. VERY GOOD POINT.

Sorry, man, using you as an ice breaker. Interrogating cultists in the back of a pizza van is a bonding experience... or something.]