[Mello has avoided approaching Sorrow directly until now, mostly because he doesn't need any additional influence from the god's namesake emotion - he remembers what Sorrow's resurrection felt like, after all. But it has become apparent that Sorrow is the one who holds the most knowledge about what Mello wants to know, and he has to at least try to get an answer.]
I understand you don't particularly care about helping those of us who have been brought here, but I wanted to ask if you would be willing to make an exchange for information. I'm told you're the one who knows the most about the Door.
I've given plenty of information on the subject away freely.
The Door is an ancient tool used by the ancestors of my species as a way of connecting us with a suitable host population. It draws on chaos and disorder because that is when emotions tend to run their highest. Those of us here no longer have the resources to build another, and not many of our species know much of anything about it. The only reason that I do is because I was, at one point, fascinated in our history and artifacts.
I refuse to close it, and I will not divulge where it is kept.
[He takes a moment to run this information through the machinery of his mind. None of it is particularly surprising, or especially illuminating.]
I can understand why you would refuse to close it, or tell us where it's located - it's in your interest to keep us here, because our emotions give you power. But do you have any control over who is brought here? You say the Door draws on chaos and disorder, but is that the only setting it has? Can it be modified?
I've been here long enough to observe that it also sends people back, as well as brings them here again. Are you responsible for how that works as well, or is it completely left to random chance?
I'm also curious how the Door operates, the mechanics of it. Is it technology? Magic? Some combination of both?
I don't know if it can be fine-tuned. It is an old artifact, and one that few of my species were even aware of at all. If there are other pieces to it, then they have been lost to us.
Given the amount of people across a vast number of universes, it seems statistically impossible that it could bring the same few in over and over again. To that end, it's likely that it taints people with its initial selection, making them more likely to be drawn in again. With the number of worlds taken into consideration, it's also likely that it functions the same with universes and places in time- opening a specific pathway makes it easier and more likely to be opened again.
It's merely a theory. I don't know everything about it... but I do know that it operates based on our abilities. We use our power more than any technology. Artifacts that our ancestors created would have been the same.
It's difficult to explain. The Door draws in on chaos and disorder. It searches for a mirror of our power source- fear, sorrow, and so on. I suppose if you were to compare it to one of the dogs you humans use, we gave the door a "scent" and it uses that to locate beings that cause, experience, or represent a similar "scent". It then draws them though its threshold.
And before you ask- I don't know exactly how the draw works. It doesn't drain any of our energies to use it. The entire process is self sufficient.
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I understand you don't particularly care about helping those of us who have been brought here, but I wanted to ask if you would be willing to make an exchange for information. I'm told you're the one who knows the most about the Door.
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What do you want to know?
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And I want to know what you would require in exchange for that kind of information.
[He knows better than to make a deal without an explicit statement of terms.]
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The Door is an ancient tool used by the ancestors of my species as a way of connecting us with a suitable host population. It draws on chaos and disorder because that is when emotions tend to run their highest. Those of us here no longer have the resources to build another, and not many of our species know much of anything about it. The only reason that I do is because I was, at one point, fascinated in our history and artifacts.
I refuse to close it, and I will not divulge where it is kept.
Will that be all?
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[He takes a moment to run this information through the machinery of his mind. None of it is particularly surprising, or especially illuminating.]
I can understand why you would refuse to close it, or tell us where it's located - it's in your interest to keep us here, because our emotions give you power. But do you have any control over who is brought here? You say the Door draws on chaos and disorder, but is that the only setting it has? Can it be modified?
I've been here long enough to observe that it also sends people back, as well as brings them here again. Are you responsible for how that works as well, or is it completely left to random chance?
I'm also curious how the Door operates, the mechanics of it. Is it technology? Magic? Some combination of both?
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Given the amount of people across a vast number of universes, it seems statistically impossible that it could bring the same few in over and over again. To that end, it's likely that it taints people with its initial selection, making them more likely to be drawn in again. With the number of worlds taken into consideration, it's also likely that it functions the same with universes and places in time- opening a specific pathway makes it easier and more likely to be opened again.
It's merely a theory. I don't know everything about it... but I do know that it operates based on our abilities. We use our power more than any technology. Artifacts that our ancestors created would have been the same.
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[Look at that, he's using his polite adult words. This is all valuable information, and it's going to give him plenty to think about.]
One more question. When you say it operates based on your abilities, what exactly does that mean? Which abilities specifically power the Door?
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And before you ask- I don't know exactly how the draw works. It doesn't drain any of our energies to use it. The entire process is self sufficient.
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[Fishing? Maybe.]
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OK. I think that's all I wanted to ask, for now. Thank you for answering my questions.