Khonshu

"By The Other, you truly are the most terrifying thing of all... a true believer." --Hazel Ninegate

On May 7th, 2024 he obtained half of The Philosopher's Stone from Hazel Ninegate to further the goals of The Society of the Golden Crescent.

[17:10] * Khonshu has moved to: [ Undisclosed Location ]
[17:11] * Khonshu [Undisclosed Location] has Matsuo and Devyen tied to comfortable chairs in an all-white room with no discernable details. It's almost like sitting in the void.
[17:11] * Matsuo Shin has moved to: [ Undisclosed Location ]
[17:11] <Khonshu> [Undisclosed Location] I trust you both are feeling better after your treatment.
[17:11] * Devyen has moved to: [ Undisclosed Location ]
[17:12] <Matsuo Shin> [Undisclosed Location] ......
[17:12] * Matsuo Shin [Undisclosed Location] glares
[17:12] * Devyen [Undisclosed Location] says nothing, but appears visibly shaken.
[17:12] * Khonshu [Undisclosed Location] 's face is shadowed except for his eyes, and so his expression is unreadable.
[17:13] <Khonshu> [Undisclosed Location] I was going to have you killed, after all, your mental excursions were proving... dangerous. But now that you're in my possession and your powers are neutralized, there is no need for such a crude action.
[17:13] <Matsuo Shin> [Undisclosed Location] .....you're mad
[17:14] * Khonshu [Undisclosed Location] sits and steeples his hands. "Why do you say that, last son of Quinox?"
[17:14] <Matsuo Shin> [Undisclosed Location] what you're planning to do...is an abomination
[17:15] <Khonshu> [Undisclosed Location] Is it?
[17:15] <Khonshu> [Undisclosed Location] Are you saying that the world you loved was an abomination?
[17:15] <Devyen> [Undisclosed Location] You can't...you can't go back to the past. Its...not logical.
[17:15] <Khonshu> [Undisclosed Location] Logical. Hmm.
[17:15] <Matsuo Shin> [Undisclosed Location] your plan has nothign to do with the world I love....
[17:16] <Khonshu> [Undisclosed Location] How is the present "logical"?
[17:16] <Khonshu> [Undisclosed Location] Everything is on a knife's edge.
[17:16] <Khonshu> [Undisclosed Location] The world is burning.
[17:16] * Matsuo Shin [Undisclosed Location] just looks at Khonsu with cold eyes
[17:17] <Devyen> [Undisclosed Location] Change...evolution...that is what the world is. WE can't go back, we must move forward!
[17:17] <Khonshu> [Undisclosed Location] The people are divided. Sold out by their leaders. No one Cares.
[17:17] <Khonshu> [Undisclosed Location] The people at the top hoard Everything.
[17:18] <Khonshu> [Undisclosed Location] Leaving scraps for those below, for whom survival is ever-more expensive and impossible.
[17:18] <Khonshu> [Undisclosed Location] Slavery is returning in all but name.
[17:18] <Khonshu> [Undisclosed Location] Except this time the slaves won't even have places to live.
[17:19] <Khonshu> [Undisclosed Location] You say you want "change" and "evolution".
[17:19] * Matsuo Shin [Undisclosed Location] just looks at Khonshu
[17:19] <Khonshu> [Undisclosed Location] Fine. I'll hear you out.
[17:19] <Devyen> [Undisclosed Location] You talk the same...as those who opposed my mother did.
[17:19] <Khonshu> [Undisclosed Location] How would you "evolve" past this, young one? What would you "change"?
[17:20] * Khonshu [Undisclosed Location] listens carefully.
[17:21] * Khonshu [Undisclosed Location] remains impassive, patient.
[17:22] <Khonshu> [Undisclosed Location] I wait to hear your solution, young Devyen.
[17:22] <Devyen> [Undisclosed Location] I don't know...all I can do is what I believe is right. I am no longer a prince, so I live just like any other human on this world does. I have my powers, my alien strengths...but it is not my right to overthrow these people and their world!
[17:22] <Khonshu> [Undisclosed Location] So then your answer is... to do nothing.
[17:23] <Khonshu> [Undisclosed Location] and you... Matsuo Shin?
[17:23] <Khonshu> [Undisclosed Location] Have you a solution?
[17:24] * Khonshu seems to have an edge of angry frustration in his voice as he asks that.
[17:24] <Khonshu> [Undisclosed Location] ^
[17:25] <Devyen> [Undisclosed Location] So what if it is? After the Sol Kingdoms fell to Chaos, Earth has endured without our interference! This world does not need another Silver Millenium!
[17:25] <Matsuo Shin> [Undisclosed Location] ...I am a scholar
[17:25] <Khonshu> [Undisclosed Location] ... "endured."
[17:25] * Khonshu [Undisclosed Location] says that almost spitefully.
[17:25] <Matsuo Shin> [Undisclosed Location] ...I want to lead by example...not force it down other people's throats
[17:26] <Matsuo Shin> [Undisclosed Location] if i do that then i'm no better then any other dictator
[17:26] <Khonshu> [Undisclosed Location] Do you know what "endurance" means? "To put up with."
[17:26] <Khonshu> [Undisclosed Location] To "suffer".
[17:26] <Khonshu> [Undisclosed Location] Yes, yes Matsuo.
[17:26] <Khonshu> [Undisclosed Location] There are others in the Society who think like you.
[17:27] <Khonshu> [Undisclosed Location] They pursue incrementalism. Hoping that they can slowly plant seeds that will one day blossom into change.
[17:27] <Khonshu> [Undisclosed Location] And, if we had enough time, I would be in their number.
[17:27] * Khonshu [Undisclosed Location] stands, and begins to pace, sounding agitated.
[17:28] <Khonshu> [Undisclosed Location] But you don't understand!
[17:28] <Khonshu> [Undisclosed Location] We are almost out of time as a species.
[17:28] <Khonshu> [Undisclosed Location] The nuclear clock is almost to midnight. The world is polluted beyond belief. There's s[BLEEP]t being pumped into the Thames.
[17:29] * Matsuo Shin [Undisclosed Location] just watches
[17:29] <Khonshu> [Undisclosed Location] People can't afford to EAT.
[17:29] * Khonshu [Undisclosed Location] turns back ang gesticulates almost desperately
[17:30] <Khonshu> [Undisclosed Location] Do either of you think I woke up one day and just decided "Oh, I need to DESTROY EVERYTHING?"
[17:30] <Khonshu> [Undisclosed Location] NO.
[17:30] * Matsuo Shin [Undisclosed Location] watches
[17:30] <Devyen> [Undisclosed Location] No species lasts forever. The Silver Millenium itself was proof of that. 9 worlds of species were eradicated in a matter of minutes.
[17:30] <Khonshu> [Undisclosed Location] I desperately wanted someone, anyone else to come up with an answer.
[17:30] <Khonshu> [Undisclosed Location] Yes they were.
[17:30] <Khonshu> [Undisclosed Location] Are you saying we should just TAKE IT.
[17:31] <Khonshu> [Undisclosed Location] If so, you are the monster here!
[17:31] <Khonshu> [Undisclosed Location] *I* want humanity to SURVIVE.
[17:31] * Matsuo Shin [Undisclosed Location] narrows his eyes
[17:32] <Khonshu> [Undisclosed Location] But centuries of accreted social .... hierarchy has ruined everything.
[17:32] <Khonshu> [Undisclosed Location] Shin. You're a scholar, you say. What happened to Rome when they could no longer feed the people?
[17:33] <Khonshu> [Undisclosed Location] Or Egypt. Or any other great power for that matter?
[17:34] * @Khonshu lets that question hang in the air for a minute.
[17:35] <Khonshu> [Undisclosed Location] ...Structural change right now is impossible.
[17:35] <Khonshu> [Undisclosed Location] The powers at the top use their military and economic power to tip the scales of justice.
[17:36] <Khonshu> [Undisclosed Location] Any attempt at reform is shut down.
[17:36] <Khonshu> [Undisclosed Location] Humanity literally can't endure this much longer.
[17:36] <Khonshu> [Undisclosed Location] Why do you think the super rich are so desperate to terraform mars?
[17:37] <Khonshu> [Undisclosed Location] They are trying to escape and leave everyone else behind.
[17:37] <Khonshu> [Undisclosed Location] I was overwhelmed with despair at the state of this chaos and sought to end it all.
[17:38] <Khonshu> [Undisclosed Location] After all, I could change nothing. I was just a powerless man. No wealth, no connections. No Superpowers.
[17:38] * Khonshu [Undisclosed Location] looks bitterly at them both.
[17:38] <Devyen> [Undisclosed Location] Great kingdoms of the past who have fallen...do you not see? All you wish to do will end up the same. You seek to create another Silver Millenium, it will fall. Good and bad people will exist, and all structures are undermined. Those who seek to prevent this will always fight to maintain positions and power, but in the end they too will fall.
[17:38] <Khonshu> [Undisclosed Location] I had no super-futuristic tools that might have changed the balance.
[17:38] <Khonshu> [Undisclosed Location] Maybe so... but I will at least give us MORE TIME.
[17:39] <Khonshu> [Undisclosed Location] Then, maybe in the new world, idealists like yourself can prevail.
[17:39] <Matsuo Shin> [Undisclosed Location] will they have a choice in the matter for your grand plan
[17:39] <Khonshu> [Undisclosed Location] I don't expect to live long enough to see it.
[17:40] <Khonshu> [Undisclosed Location] Matsuo Shin, does the ordinary person have a real choice in their lives now?
[17:40] <Khonshu> [Undisclosed Location] About who gets to run things?
[17:40] <Matsuo Shin> [Undisclosed Location] ......
[17:40] <Matsuo Shin> [Undisclosed Location] I will never agree to your plans
[17:40] <Khonshu> [Undisclosed Location] All I am is another powerful man abusing my power.
[17:41] <Khonshu> [Undisclosed Location] I do not pretend to be anything other than this.
[17:41] <Khonshu> [Undisclosed Location] When I was at the end of my rope I saw her
[17:41] <Khonshu> [Undisclosed Location] The Shining Goddess.
[17:41] <Khonshu> [Undisclosed Location] The one who was infinitely better than one such as myself.
[17:41] <Devyen> [Undisclosed Location] Goddess?
[17:42] <Khonshu> [Undisclosed Location] The one who truly held the power to make change with but a wish.
[17:42] <Khonshu> [Undisclosed Location] Yes. Serenity.
[17:42] * Matsuo Shin [Undisclosed Location] frowns
[17:42] <Khonshu> [Undisclosed Location] Like it or not, the only way to save humanity now is to burn down the prison we've built for ourselves over the past ten thousand years.
[17:43] <Devyen> [Undisclosed Location] Serenity would never agree to your vision.
[17:43] <Khonshu> [Undisclosed Location] Yes, it's arbitray. But no more arbitrary than an elected "leader" suddenly deciding everyone is now at war with some other country.
[17:43] <Khonshu> [Undisclosed Location] Wouldn't she?
[17:43] <Khonshu> [Undisclosed Location] Would she really just let her people die?
[17:44] <Khonshu> [Undisclosed Location] Is that why you're here, alive, today?
[17:44] <Matsuo Shin> [Undisclosed Location] this interview is over
[17:44] * Matsuo Shin [Undisclosed Location] looks especally offended
[17:44] <Khonshu> [Undisclosed Location] ...
[17:44] <Devyen> [Undisclosed Location] She cherished all life. The good and the bad. She would not want a new Silver Millenium to be build on simply self preservation.
[17:44] <Khonshu> [Undisclosed Location] Very well.
[17:44] * Khonshu [Undisclosed Location] looks to Devyen
[17:45] <Khonshu> [Undisclosed Location] Then what would your Serenity do faced with the world of today?
[17:45] * Devyen [Undisclosed Location] lowers his eyes and looks away...
[17:46] <Khonshu> [Undisclosed Location] ..I see.
[17:46] <Khonshu> [Undisclosed Location] then it falls to monsters such as myself to do what must be done.