[Area] The Lethean Dream

For a moment while grasping Seth's hand, Rien can vaguely sense Seth and Thoren's connection somehow. Maybe Seth just squeezes too hard, who knows.
Assisting Rien to get back up, Seth hears her uncertain apologetic tone.
"Call me whatever you need to. You might want to brace yourself a little better next time."


A handful of the later seths, notably Seth, Thoren, Raphael, Shrodinger, Kusari, and a few others immediately understand the importance of The Stage. It was the device that split Seth into three different main versions of himself, each one the end product of a meddling stage production, or lack thereof.
Thanatos was the first, untouched by word of the game and paying with his life, ending his line without further dooming. Dark Beta was the second, never given a chance to see the errors of his ways until it was already too late, leading a dark and treacherous path that led to Thoren's End and That Which Transpired Afterwards. Alpha was the completed product, having the "benefit" of both stage events enlightening him, nearly at the cost of his sanity and sense of free-will. When the two representative of the latter lines discovered what the Stage had done to them, they both attempted to lash out at whoever they could. While Thanatos must have heard about it through the grape vine, he seems to be content with his disposition, including the being dead thing oddly enough.

With all this in consideration though, none of them would ever actually want that stage to ever be used against them ever again, even if it did benefit a specific later line slightly. As far as Thoren is concerned at least, it's just another shitty overcomplicated ploy by the horrorterrors to mold the seths to their liking. Alpha Seth seems to agree, remembering when he first realized just how much they had coddled him.
A strong urge to destroy The Stage rises from Thoren. It's likely the only way to stop the stage from altering them ever again. Seth counter's Thoren's destructive urge with doubt and... fear?

Meanwhile, Kusari actually speaks up between the two silent weirdoes exchanging feelings in semi-private (their facial expressions seem to tell most of the tale to those who are good at reading them).
"Hey, we can't tell what the fuck you're trying to say when you're busy staring at eachother like you're gonna kiss or stab the other. Say something for fuck's sake!"

Mutual embarrassment turns them both defensive towards the same target.
"SHUT THE FUCK UP!" they exclaim in perfect unison.
Kusari is knocked over from the sheer power of their synchronized verbal assault.
"Haha, that was amazing." Thoren laughs as he and Seth exchange a hi-five. Yet another source of power to tap into... With a perfect sync bonus on top of an unbridled passion... who knows what they could pull off together...
The success of the maneuver seems to have overwritten any previous embarrassment over the quiet moment.

"We got some serious shit here regardless." Seth says out loud. "I don't think we should do anything to The Stage until we know how to safely disable it. They might have a failsafe that could add another one of us to the crowd, at the very least..." Seth glances over towards Kusari, who happens to be getting back up after falling down earlier.
"We should focus on Zwei while we still can. A thing we might want to figure out is how to separate her from the body she is using while keeping the vessel alive." Seth stares at one of the other seths in the crowd that pulled his scythe out. He quietly puts it away.
"...That means we unfortunately cannot use lethal force against her. There's a good chance she's still missing an arm from an earlier attack, but she may have gained a replacement of some sort." Seth walks over towards Balmung on the other side of the room. "Do you have any suggestions as to where or how we should strike first?"
Suddenly remembering Micha's crazy moves from the last encounter, he turns over where she was last seen and addresses her. "Micha, are you ready?"