...Interesting. Considering you are the voice of experience here, that's actually fairly convincing. Too bad I don't actually have anything to give up; if I did, you might've just succeeded in changing my mind.

[He holds one hand out palm up, and shrugs.]

Then again, if I did have powers, who's to say I wouldn't have been on your side to begin with?

[Sometimes he wishes he could be more proactive about getting kitted up with new abilities, but the dubious nature of just wishing for them at a big crystal always felt a little too good to be true, by his estimation.]

So, what would you have us all do instead, then? Hold back and call the big guy's bluff? Sounds pretty risky, if you ask me.

[Which, no one did, but that's never stopped him from nattering on before anyway.]