The War of Each Against All

[Kaschei]

"I did. I made them with rare herbs, some of which no longer exist in this day and age." Kaschei replies with some pride.

"Yes, she is in the dungeons. She may be unconcious since some of the other, less important torturers were ordered to deal with her early this morning. Make sure she suffers, since we don't want the feminists to think that we have forgotten that they exist..."

[Kaieka]

Kaschei stroked my ego by calling me one of the "important" torturers, this pleases me greatly. It makes me want to do a great job at torturing Bjork. I smile and leave his office, heading down to the dungeons.

Aparently, I have forgotten that I am only wearing a black bathrobe, but all should be well.

[Kaschei]

Kaschei is pleased that she will do a good job and returns to reading the spells. He makes a mental note that he has to gather more herbs for another batch of homemade shampoo.
He starts writing a list of the ingredients that he will need.

[Zex]

I walk up to Lemminkainen feeling kind of down.
"You know Lemminkainen, sometimes I just want to go home. I don't like it here. This place just isn't for me. I kinda wish there were others like me here."

[Lemminkainen]

"Uh, why are you here, Zex?"

[Zex]

"i have a mission. when i crashed here i said i wouldn't leave until Red Infinity falls. i guess...i have friends here too."

i kick at a rock.
"it's just been so long since i have met any other aliens like myself. no offense, but you earthlings are really lame and backwards."

[Lemminkainen]

"I just miss the old days. I miss when it was Hope and us traveling around the world. The world seemed smaller then and a lot easier to understand. I miss Genki too. We don't fit in here with these religious rebels. We need our own place. This is like....this is like...the Fellowship has been broken."

[Zex]

"i miss how things used to be too. so, where do we go from here?"

[Lemminkainen]

"Maybe we should just find Hope and try to help her with whatever she is doing. That's what we started off doing."

[Zex]

"no lemminkainen, we have to find our own place in this world. I'm going on an adventure. i'm going to bring Genki back from the dead. i am going to find that place where Ukko lives and i am going to get some answers."

i pat Lemminkainen on the back.
"i'll see you in a few months. don't do anything stupid."
i walk off into the forest to start my own adventure....

[Lemminkainen]

"Bye Zex, I'll uh...miss you!" I call out after him. Now I am alone. What do I do? Maybe, I could visit people I know...like Swan or Ilmarinen. Even Zex has a purpose. What do I have?
I pull out my kantele and play a sad song.
"Where is my place in the world?"

[Zex]

i walk through the woods and think about the good times i had with Hope and everyone. those times were hard but they were the best time in my life. i never had such good friends. but now all of that seems so far away. maybe it was all a dream and really i have just been alone.

"i'm starting to get too deep and sensitive."

i blast some logs with my laser gun and i feel a little more like myself.

[Lemminkainen]

I spend some time thinking and go back inside the farm house. There are some religious rebels sitting around so I decide to sit with them. I guess I have had a lot of religions in my life. I am pretty old, so in the beginning, I worshipped Ukko like a lot of Finnish people. Then when years went by, I became a Lutheran, which is the common protestant denomination in Finland.
I don't know what I am now. I believe in the gods, since I have met a lot of them.

[Zex]

after walking through the forest I find myself in town. i start walking around seeing if there is anything to do. i go to a cafe and order a rootbeer float and look out the window at the people passing by on the sidewalk.
"life isn't so complex for people. they just do. living without thinking."

[Lemminkainen]

"So hey everyone, you're all...like religious...that's cool. I used to be a follower of Ukko. That was a looong time ago." I say to the religious people.