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The Insane Cafe 2: Rise of the Shurlups

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"I had to fight several wars to unify my home world" Stripetail replied. 'And they were bloody affairs, so humans don';t have a monopoly on war-waging" He shook his head. "War is a very nasty business , no matter what is at stake or where it is fought.. what is the more remarkable is that for many centuries , war was romanticized and celebrated. "
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After my hour is up, we'll have tied or won, so they'll be no penalty for us if I do it, besides after listening to him ream on you for 40 minutes or so, or implying that I like you, or some other nonsense, I'll be raring to smack him" Dixie replied.
 _ I never said anything about insults about him ' Stripetail replied. 'You know whom I'm speaking of, Sparx.. 5 minutes have elapsed.."
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The tourist nods, "Some species live only for war and are never really at peace." he said, remembering some species he had heard of or encountered.


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"Remind me not to go to those places "Pleekly said. "My home planet was at war for thousands of years, until the two sides finally stopped ..countless died, over a family feud nio less!' Pleekly shook his head..
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"Could you mean the evil female?" Sparx asked.

"Those don't sound like very nice creatures," Cynder said, turning her attention towards the Tourist's discussion, deciding that it would be useless trying to persuade Dixie not to flatten Sparx.

Taiga glanced towards the dining room. He didn't really care for their choice of topic, since his own race was a quite violent one under most circumstances.


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You'll just have to figure that out, Sparx, use your head, and thing, Who have been hostile to? Ten minutes have passed.
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WAr is not a pleasant topic, but is one most creatures , regardless of where they are from, are familiar with" Merlin said. Angel brought him a glass od water, and recieved a friendly pat on the head as thanks.
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The tourist nods, "Though in the universe I"m from one of them no longer exists.  The records are sealed under presidential order, but the rumors are that the former president Susan used a tardis and took care of Davros before he invented the Daleks.  The public records only show that the Daleks vanished from time, they never existed."


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"So you can use that tardis thing to change the past?" Spyro asked, immediately thinking of Ignitus who had sacrificed himself so they could defeat Malefor.

"Hey, you're supposed to be ignoring me, not asking questions," Sparx said.


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Meddling with time is strictly forbidden where I come from ,  when you change events in the past you create new dimensions from that change. ' Stripetail replied, "People in the past are not supposed to know about  what the future holds , even the ancient fates never revealed what they knew..
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"Time is not to be meddled with," Taiga said, finally joining the discussion. "Though both Nago and Wataru did use the Time Door in Castle Doran once, or twice to change the past."

Spyro sighed in disappointment. "There aren't any cases where you're allowed to change the past?"


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No, not even to save someone you love" Merlin said shaking his head. He looked at the Tourist'I'm guessing sir that your race has made special arrangements to allow you to travel thrrough time. everytime you go back and change something, even to visit, say Shakespeare, or myself, you are altering time, and creating a different dimension.."
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I'm Sue many of us would try to go back and fix things we regret in our life, Spyro, but time doesn't work that way. There are no do-overs" Dixie said sadly.
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Spyro sighed and leaned back against the chair. "I know, but I wish there were."

"Spyro, we're kind of in the middle of something here, this is no time to get depressed," Sparx pointed out.


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'Spyro, honey, you're not the only one who wishes that. I wish my old friend Marcus hadn't been paralyzed in a car accident, I often wished that I could go back and stop him from gong out that day. But even if it were possible to do that, you'd be giving up what you have to order to go back and change things. I change the past I don't meet Scooby and establish a relationship with him, and I never would have met Stripetail or you or Cynder or Sparx." Dixie said.
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The Tourist nods, "Most folks who try to change the past become part of history and end up ensuring the event they want to change does come about."

Brooklyn nods, "Goliath said you can't change the past, it is immutable."

The Tourist nods, "for most, but Time lords, and some others can change the past, though you get in severe trouble if you try and the council sends out certain agents like myself to unchange or / and ensure what happens is what should.  There there have been rumours of a few exceptions being made."  He nods to what Merlin said, "We have a special relationship with time.  Part of it is overseeing time.  I don't know the fullness of the details.  I wonder if even the lord president does.  Maybe only Rassilon does, or did." The tourist said.


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"I could change the past, but in doing so I'd sacrifice a tremendous amount" Stripetail said. "I have the ability to do so, but I choose not to do so. As many of you have stated, time should not be altered."
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Ri rould riss raving rou around Rixie, Rif rou rhanged rhe rast" Scooby said.
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Taiga glanced over at the Tourist. "That sounds exactly like what happened to Wataru. He wanted to try and erase himself from existance and instead more or less ended up ensuring he was born and also destroyed the original fangire King while he was at it."


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"I have traveled through time of course" Merlin said. "And as long as I do not actively try to change things, no harm comes of my travels. but you need great power and wisdom in order to travel though time  and not damage the flow of time.."
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"30 minutes" Stripetail called out, "You're halfway done Spyro.."
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Reep rit rup Ryro, rour're roing reat!' Scooby cheered.
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The Tourist nods, "Which some lack sadly." He said.  

"Sometimes those who should have wisdom have none." Odysseus said.