USH'S MATRIX GAME 2006 FIFTH ASSIGNMENT- 'The Pagoda'

"They simply have analyzying powers far greater than us...so much that we believe the likes of Oracle to be able to tell the future...but it is not any mystical advantage....they are simply superior to us in many ways."

"You speak with ignorance, Hephaestus. To forecast is at the heart of it. As it..."

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"... happens, those who came on my journey last time were given the answer, had they..."

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"... the wit to see it."

"Then you'd probably rather be speaking with Azrael."

During this time, Mors tries to discern what this massive feature in the room is.

"What happened to you and your factory after we led the Agents into your realm?"

"And possibly give a straight answer for a change?" San adds when Mors asks his question.

Burn is silently fuming at the back of the room.
He has taken to pacing back and forth angrily gripping his Ingrams.

"What's wrong, Burn?" Sirin asks, toting her M16.

"You would not understand a..."

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"... straight answer, which is why we programmes try to..."

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"... encourage your understanding. If you fail to do..."

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"... so, the fault is yours, not ours."

"Do you have a lesson for us, Melitus? But we lack time, end of Matrix is approaching soon."

"If I had a point to make, perhaps..."

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"... I have alrady made it, but it was again unheeded."

It's a bed. A large, four-poster bed.

Cloud, getting annoyed, looks up at the cieling and rubs his eyes with two fingers, "We haven't got time for this..."

Berserker tries to see what is on the bed.

"Why would you keep Heph alive if all he was going to do was get the key that could eventually open the destruction of all the Matrix. Wouldn't you be worried about your own well being enough to keep us away from it?"

"Logical thought is not your strong suit. Think of what would have..."

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"... happened if Hephaestus had not recovered the key."

"It would have gone to someone else," Sirin says, "like Jericho."

"And that would have been the end of all things. Have none of you..."

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"... considered what pawns you have been in thia plan?"

"You mean, you wanted all this to happen? You wanted us to wipe out humanity?" Cloud asks, puzzled.

"Do not be foolish. My existence depends on Humanity. Nor..."

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"... was the plan mine, I merely did not obstruct it by disposing of Hephaestus."

"You let me live because I would get the key...which meant that we would eventually do everything else that we have done, in order to save Humanity and the Matrix."

Mors looks closer at the bed from his vantage point behind the glass.

"Yeah I get that part, we are pawns."

"Still you have other pawns and humans aren't exactly reliable we could have just as easily decided to leave and let the Matrix die."

"So you were just playing the odds with us"