Unethical Behavior

I have a solid lock on a serious breach of ethics taking place.

I dreamed of travel.

A friend and I were unloading our luggage at a small, regional airport and chatting about all the things that made travel uncomfortable.

I mentioned Oroborous as the perfect travel solution. It's quick, clean, requires no fee, and if you're running late, they can get you to your destination on time ANYWAY.

"So you fell for that?" my friend asked me.

What did he mean? Was he aware of something I was not?

"The thing that really bothers me about Oroborous is that there isn't anywhere private to use the bathroom. No stalls, no doors, nothing."

In horror, I woke. (And not because work just called me.)

After resetting various pieces of software, I logged into the game to check my nocturnal realization.

The tram stations all have bathrooms. Police Stations have bathrooms. Universities have bathrooms. City Hall has bathrooms. More than the normal compliment. Vanguard has bathrooms. There's one immediately behind Lady Grey in case she has to visit the smallest room between ordering various psychics rescued.

Oroborous has NO BATHROOMS. Where does Mender Lazarus go to crap?!

After my impromptu sanitation inspection, I stared at the crystal of Fire and Ice, not for the first time in trepidation, and realized the full, horrific implications of what I'd just discovered. Since the crystal could take you any where, any time, it was pretty obvious what was happening.

Oroborous was funneling the effluent of the future into the past and vice versa. Rather than deal with waste and sewage, Mender Silos is using his time traveling capabilities to force it upon the rest of history via Oroborous.

It's an almost minor detail when compared to the ability to edit history as you see fit, but typical of what we suspect of the man's work.

Oroborous must be stopped before we're all up to our eyes in whatsit!

I see three other possibilities here.

First, there's no food vendors either. If you never eat or drink anything you really don't need to worry about a bathroom.

Second, in the future we've evolved past the need for such things

Third, and most disturbing, there is that big piece of water in the middle of the zone, you know, a communal thing...gross

This thread reminds me of this.

I always pee off the edge of the platform.

But wait... Nemesis Automatons don't need to pee! Why would you guys think...? OH, right. Um, nothing to see here, Move along.

Possible bathroom "realities" in Ouroboros:

* The entire zone of Ouroboros is in a time stasis; that is while there you don't grow older, your cells don't degenerate and your kidneys go on "pause." That's the good news; the bad news is that if you enter Ouroboros with a "cross your ankles, hopping up and down need to use the potty" you're out of luck and will retain that exact feeling the entire time you're there. Now, at last, we understand Mender Tesseract's bad attitude.

* Remember all those beautiful islands with their wonderful waterfalls that descend into the mists below? Ouroboros Sewage Treatment Facilities.

* To improve the ascetic beauty of the place the bathrooms have all been located out to the islands. If you don't have flight you'd better slot enhancements into Stamina's yellow colored line.

* The lack of bathrooms was not noticed until AFTER Ouroboros was built. The janitorial staff there are the highest paid people on the payroll.

* The Ouroboros Portal itself takes care of that for you. When traveling through it it acts as a natural cleanser, removing all toxic or foreign contaminants. The argument for this is that it helps prevent viruses or diseases from one time infecting the inhabitants of another who have no defenses against it. The Portal also collects thought wave patterns, DNA samples, blood samples and a sliver of everyone's left big toe nail, but Mender Silos doesn't want to discuss the reasons for that.

* Then combine this with another fact: We don't know for sure what Kheldians in squid-form eat. There are NO Kheldian-Cuisine restaurants anywhere in Paragon or the Rogue isles. Perhaps Twilight's Son views all the visiting heroes and villains as a Bladder-Bowel Buffet?

The answer is that those other floating islands with the pools and waterfalls aren't there just for looks.

You could always be in a time statis too, time doesn't really pass in Ouroboros

Doom/Batman in 2012

The Resistance has boobs too, and better hair!

If you can go anywhere and anywhen via the pillar...

...couldn't you just go to a bathroom somewhen?

Seems to me that Oroborous has an infinite number of bathrooms across history for your convenience.

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Originally Posted by eltonio This is over the top mental slavery.

Temporal scaling. You go back in time to before you had to go to the bathroom.

This oddly reminds me of the Dragonriders of Pern stories, in which apparently, (though possibly contradicted later) the dragons void while 'between' - they're teleporting and they evacuate their bowels out "there".

I have several dragons who refused to teleport because they'd heard stories of such a thing. "I don't wanna go there if it's just filled with dragon poo!"

Doesn't make sense in that context either because of course, if they're not pooing back into their ecosystem it creates a loss of matter, and that's just ... not going to help at all. lol.