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Who: Everyone!
What: First Annual Luceti Tournament
When: May 2nd
Where: Battle Dome
Summary: Peony has made good on his promise to set up a tournament and today is the day for all the action.
Rating: PG-13 for the violence/fighting/possible language.

Finally the promised day has arrived! As competitors and audiences alike gather for the start, the whole outside area draws the eye to the grand carpet and banners with symbols for every event. There is also a table being restocked with free snacks and water bottles for those waiting around or still finding their way. Most notably, though, is a signboard with the times for all the events and competitors.

Whether you're competing or here for the entertainment, however, it's hoped you'll enjoy the events and fight or cheer hard! Now without further ado, make your own threads or comment around and let the games begin...

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It sounds a little cynical, if layered. That's likely what makes it famous. Although, granted, I'm not that familiar with his works beyond what's come up in classes. He seemed to have a fairly large selection in the library. [But she has a tendency to gravitate towards the non-fictional selections available if it could be defined that way.]

Oh yeah, of course he does. The Bard's responsible for over thirty-five plays and over a hundred fifty poems, and people are still able to quote him like four hundred years after he died. [ Masaomi himself can actually quote more famous ones like Hamlet a bit more extensively ]

I see. You've used one or two for a school project before, haven't you?

Mmmhm. Sure did, after all, we did writing.

[Once a teacher, always a teacher...]

So that's why I had seen some of the works before. Ordinarily I don't usually look at books that aren't historical in some way, though even fiction has it's merits on revealing the creative process of times that seem beyond reach.

[Not that it matters too much in Luceti, where people could be from any time period...]

History... huh? [ He shrugs a bit and folds his arms behind his head ] That's actually always been my worst subject, like if stuff happened in the past I'm not sure I can keep focused on it.

Well, I know being a historian isn't meant for everyone. [Alas.] But what do you mean that you can't keep focused on it? You can keep other things clear in your mind, can't you?

I don't mean to diss your passion, Raine-san, but when it comes to something that happened way before I was ever born, there's a part of me which thinks "when did this thing ever matter to me."

Well, if you look at it from the perspective that a good majority of any people may take the stance that history can be ignored... the results will follow as well.

That whole "doomed to repeat it" logic?

There are certain patterns that resurface time and again no matter what sort of civilization you're looking at. And it's only after, in hindsight, when those connections are made.

But if the connections only get made in hindsight, doesn't that mean that the past can't predict the future? Because that would mean it provided foresight.

You're not meant to use it as a prediction. Only... if you see that a situation is circling a certain way, you would be able to look back on the past and try to learn from mistakes made there. The reality is that it's about as idealistic as it sounds. We learn, we adapt, we make mistakes, and then we fall into the same patterns... and yet it doesn't make it less interesting for historians to study.

[ That still sounds dull to him, to see patterns in something so far outside of your own experience. Or at least, patterns in things which aren't meant to make you emotional evoke to them. A story is meant to create a reaction, the reality of history doesn't have that sort of "taste" to steal Cilan's term to it.

Still. ]

Hmmm. Yeah, I could see it from that angle, Raine-san. Society probably doesn't advance without some attempts at it.

It doesn't. And then you also have to consider how much of the larger picture you're able to perceive, from any point of view. If you're striving for a change. Some individuals may just be concerned with living their lives in the moment... unaware of what the wider world could have in store for them. [Her expression changes, as she continues, eyes starting to light up...] And then, to come across the remains of those societies, their lost ways and knowledge ...

Lost ways and knowledge, huh? Like that old Indiana Jones stuff, where they actually knew more than we thought?

[Well, at least she's somewhat heard of Indiana Jones by now to piece together the reference...]

Exactly! Some civilizations could get very advanced before a fall, whether it's because of their advancements or do to an outside force they weren't prepared for.

If they were as advanced as say, today, though, how could they have even fallen?

Advancements aren't infallible. There are other aspects that can threaten a society.

So by that logic, society doesn't advance linearly onward? There's pit stops in that "time?"

I wouldn't call them pit stops, but if you take wars into account, or natural decline of resources in that time, there are factors there.

Mmm. So you imagine that people are going to dig up computers when they're back in the stone age?

You should never discount possibilities. Besides, we've seen the evidence with magitechnology. Once the mana is gone, the machinery becomes obsolete...

Hold up, hold up.

[ He holds ups a hand here ]

Magitechnology?

Yes? [She raises an eyebrow, as if to say did nothing stick with you from classes at all?]