[anon, locked from Lina and Gourry]

[unluckychimera.livejournal.com]

How many people here have run into other members who are from their world, but in the past? I know I'm not the only one it's happened to.

Has anyone ever felt the urge to tell them about what's going to happen? Or to try to get to their timeline and prevent something that happened there?

((OOC: Feel free to call him out should he decide to fail at anon, since I've decided to be nice for once and let this actually lock :P))

Comments

[pink-sugargirl.livejournal.com]

I have. I did want to say something...but it could have really messed things up.

[anon forever]

[unluckychimera.livejournal.com]

I know. That's what I'm afraid of.

On the other hand, if I do one thing I might be able to save the world from being destroyed at least two or three times. Maybe I can still track that statue - no, of course not. Lina put that blocking spell on it...

[pink-sugargirl.livejournal.com]

If your world was destroyed...how are you here?

[unluckychimera.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry, I meant nearly destroyed. It's been a close thing each time, and there were a lot of deaths even though it managed to scrape through.

And I can't help thinking that even if I don't change things, this time around they might not be so lucky.

[anon forever]

[unluckychimera.livejournal.com]

I know, I know. Still, I can't help wondering... if the right actions were taken, a lot of suffering could be prevented. Something's due to happen soon that a lot of people would say ought to be stopped no matter the cost.

No Timmy Experience at all XD

[thefairynator.livejournal.com]

Don't do it. You could shift a person's Destiny.

IN A WAY YOU COULD NOT POSSIBLY IMAGINE!

It does not mean the outcome could possibly come out how you hope.

It could come out far worse.

[anon forever]

[unluckychimera.livejournal.com]

You're probably right. Still, I can't help wondering... it seems like such a small change, but if it went right, so much suffering could be prevented.

Re: [anon forever]

[thefairynator.livejournal.com]

You'd be surpised a small change could actually make it worse rather then better. Even if you have the intentions on making whatever it is you want to change, go right.

Changing the past fate of others is not to be in the hands of any individual no matter how much they may think they can handle it.

It is too great a responsibly even for myself.

[ifbymyhands.livejournal.com]

I dunno. Maybe!

[anon forever]

[unluckychimera.livejournal.com]

Maybe? What do you mean, Kano?

[ifbymyhands.livejournal.com]

I mean stuff sounds familiar, but it's so far into the past that I can't tell if it's really the same world I'm from. I'm probably just reading too much into things, huh?

[elderfrahma.livejournal.com]

I haven't had this experience dear, but some things do need to happen how they happen. If things have come through in your timeline, what right do you have to affect the choices made in another?

[unluckychimera.livejournal.com]

I think I see a way that could prevent a lot of the suffering in my timeline. It involves something that the people involved will have no way of doing until it's far too late.

[elderfrahma.livejournal.com]

But at what cost my dear? There may have been suffering, but what was gained from it? What choices were made, what people were forged or changed in it all?

Can you see how these events impacted all of the world?

[mercurialbreeze.livejournal.com]

Well...since I've just arrived I can't say that I have any personal experience to share with you.

Are you thinking about returning to your past?

[unluckychimera.livejournal.com]

... Maybe. Or at least trying to change it.

[mercurialbreeze.livejournal.com]

Fate carries a heavy burden...but you know, I don't think there are any rules that say you can't give her a hand sometimes! If changing the past means something to you, then you should go for it!

[oceanicbutterfly]

I haven't been in that precise situation, but I've met people whose futures I'd already seen.

It isn't easy to stay out of the way.

[anon forever]

[unluckychimera.livejournal.com]

You're telling me. I just... the things that are happening in that timeline lead to the world nearly being destroyed three times. Each time was only averted with phenomenal amounts of luck and far too many lives lost. It would be such a small thing to make sure that never happened...

[oceanicbutterfly]

And yet, you can't be sure of what will happen. By preventing those things, you might cause something worse. By trying to avert the world's destruction more cleanly, you might cause it. The only timeline that's known is the one that already happened.

[visestvita.livejournal.com]

I've met three thus far and had them brought to the future.

[unluckychimera.livejournal.com]

Oh? How's that affected their timeline, though?

[visestvita.livejournal.com]

I haven't looked into it extensively - however, it's likely that a great disaster was averted, quite possibly saving a whole city. But on the other hand, it's just as likely that those that would have been behind said disaster got away scot-free, able to continue doing as they wish. A double-edged sword, so to speak.