capsuleprincess | HOI-POI 002 ✩ Voice

[Objectively speaking, Bulma is sure she has been in worse situations than what being stuck in Luceti means. But she's also sure she has been in better situations than this. It's sincerely irritating, the lack of technology around makes it hard for her to do... Anything basically. They can't really expect her to just sit and do nothing, right? But either way, there has to be a way to get materials to build some proper technology, what about those teleporters? They weren't brought from nowhere, where they?

And what's up with that draft? Sending people to war, even people who can't fight at all? What kind of retarded military Commander thinks such a thing? She could have understood it if they sent soldiers, or at least adult men, but from the looks of it they even sent children and helpless people. Makes her wonder what will happen if she has enough bad luck to be sent there without Goku around. If only she could build her machines, or find a way out of there...

Bulma has been rolling and pulling at her hair for awhile, in the room she has designated as her laboratory at the house she claimed as her own with Goku, when she finally sends a message. She's not really sure if anyone will answer, or if they will even be able to, but she supposes that there's nothing to lose after all.]

Probably this question has been asked thousands of times but, could anyone tell me what attempts have been made to get through the barrier that surrounds the designated area of Luceti? I mean, specific attempts, not just "everything we could", I'm new here so I can't know what "everything" exactly means. And has anyone attempted to study the barrier to see how it works or if it could be reproduced?

... And actually, could anyone explain what's up with the technology in this place? It goes from rural prehistoric when looking at the appliances at the houses, to modern technology with those journals and the teleporters or that battle dome.

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I never said it wasn't complicated. Actually I would be disappointed if they weren't, but that doesn't mean I'm just going to sit and do nothing.

You're right, I'm new, that's why I'm asking. Of course the logical idea is that everyone has tried all in their hands to get through the barrier, but just because it's the logical idea it doesn't mean it's the correct one. Actually seeing the answers I've got so far it's as if people don't even bother with it.

[It's annoying, very annoying. She can understand that there's a point in which all one can do is effectively just sit and wait, she has reached that point several times and some of them were in situations in which what she was waiting for was either a miracle or a sure death. But she's new, she herself hasn't reached that point. If no one even bothers to try to dissuade her with actual facts other than someone else who seems to be new as well and just hangs on the "if they are still here it must be very complicated" argument, how is she supposed to be okay with sitting and waiting. From what she sees it's as if people haven't even bothered to try, because when they arrived there was people already trapped and thus they decided to not bother with it.]

Well... look where they are. These people are in the equivalent of a civilized torture chamber. Their friends, family, loved ones. They could be taken from them in an instant whenever the Malnosso feel like it to be subjected to God knows what. I'm sure a good percentage of the village have even experienced these kidnappings first hand.

Not clinging to hope until there's definite proof is probably their way of trying to cope and hold onto whatever sanity they still have left. That doesn't make it right, but that's how it looks like to me.

Hmm, I suppose that makes sense. But how are we supposed to find definite proof that there can be hope if we don't even look for it? And for that we certainly need to hope that there is some hope somewhere.

I'm not sure...

I'm not trying to justify their way of thinking, just better understand it I guess. Most of these people probably haven't had much experience when it comes to a situation that's as mentally exhausting as this one, so it's possible they're not thinking logically to begin with.

[Bulma snorts lightly.]

I know a lot of people who wouldn't think logically even if their life depended on that. But not even once have I see them just sit down and hug their legs and do nothing when in an apparently hopeless situation. In fact it's the ones who don't think logically the ones who keep insisting on it when the others give up and decide to just wait and do nothing because it's hopeless.

Well... that may be true too, but so far, the only thing that seems to separate us from the people here and possibly their way of thinking is time.

So, over the course of the next year-- if we last that long-- we will see which mindset we start to adapt to, and if our thinking about this place somehow changes.

That's true. Who knows, we may even get new information or something that not even the residents already here had.

But I'm still not going to sit and just wait for that time to pass. It would drive me crazier than anything those guys could do.

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