[Ford's face lights up. He thought you'd never ask.]
Oh, not literal dungeons. It's a fantasy role-playing game! It's from my world -- and, apparently, a couple others. You use the manuals to create your characters, then play through an adventure the Dungeon Master's made up for you! Sometimes you win, annnnd sometimes the entire party dies. But either way, it's a lot of fun!
How to recreate an entire order of wizard warriors from scratch? I didn't know how to do it when I got here. Now that I know how it ends, I know even less.
[Luke sighs. It's still hard to talk about this. Partly to admit his failure, but it's not simply ego. It's the pain of revisiting the thing he knows he probably can't stop.]
He's my nephew. He was here, as an inmate. Because... [He swallows.] Because I failed him. Will fail him, in my future--I try to train him, and I fail him, and he turns to the dark side. This plan I have, this new world we're building... all we do is recreate the old one.
...that's terrible! But -- but what about all you did? There has to be a way to build a society after the Supreme Lord's death that doesn't just put the Empire back in control!
[This feels DEEPLY unfair, and he's distressed on Luke's behalf.]
It's not about ... being rewarded for what I, what the Alliance, did. If we don't have something solid, something that works, to set up in its place, the vacuum left by the Empire will be filled. And now I know that I cause my nephew to turn, and that a group that feels disenfranchised by the fall of the Empire will rise to take power.
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Oh, not literal dungeons. It's a fantasy role-playing game! It's from my world -- and, apparently, a couple others. You use the manuals to create your characters, then play through an adventure the Dungeon Master's made up for you! Sometimes you win, annnnd sometimes the entire party dies. But either way, it's a lot of fun!
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So like… the Enclosure?
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[He still doesn't quite get it, so he tries to imagine it, biting his lip for a moment.]
Wait. So... it's like when, ah, I used to pretend I was a fighter pilot in my room.
[Except with actual friends or whatever.]
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Sort of, if it had rules, dice, and 2-8 players.
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Well, that's what I meant. With actual friends.
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Aw, cheer up, Luke! I didn't find anyone who wanted to play it with me until I was in college!
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That's sort of what I'm here to figure out.
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Really? I thought for sure you would know exactly where you were going.
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How to recreate an entire order of wizard warriors from scratch? I didn't know how to do it when I got here. Now that I know how it ends, I know even less.
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You... weren't here, were you? When... when Kylo Ren was?
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(He was, but he wasn't paying attention to Kylo Ren and can't place the name.)]
Doesn't ring a bell.
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He's my nephew. He was here, as an inmate. Because... [He swallows.] Because I failed him. Will fail him, in my future--I try to train him, and I fail him, and he turns to the dark side. This plan I have, this new world we're building... all we do is recreate the old one.
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[This feels DEEPLY unfair, and he's distressed on Luke's behalf.]
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It's not about ... being rewarded for what I, what the Alliance, did. If we don't have something solid, something that works, to set up in its place, the vacuum left by the Empire will be filled. And now I know that I cause my nephew to turn, and that a group that feels disenfranchised by the fall of the Empire will rise to take power.
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I'm...so sorry.
...is there anything you can do to keep that from happening?
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I don't know. I don't know how time works, you know, once we... [He gestures.] Once we leave here.