mayfield_rpg | 2. Fighting a War

[A: Phone (Filtered to Children)]

[Nabuca doesn't often use the phone, he doesn't feel the need to engage in the idle chatter that most of the people here indulged in. It was like they didn't even realise they were fighting a war sometimes, like they could forget the battles waged just because people didn't always stay dead.

That wasn't a good thing in his opinion, death was a release and a rest well earned at the end of the fight. And this was a fight. Everyone here had become soldiers whether they wanted to be or not, consent was unimportant in the end, they were here now and everyone had a duty to fight or they'd never win.]

You need to stop hiding behind the adults for protection, you are all capable of fighting yourselves. The faster we win this war, the sooner we will be able to return home. If you think you are too weak or inexperienced to do this, arm yourself with the thought of freedom and home.

[B: Church (Open to All)]

[He has often heard it said aboard Hellywood that their war was a holy one, and after hearing that there was a church here, he had to wonder if the same could be said in Mayfield. It's this reason that brings him to the church, wary as he slips quietly inside and starts to look around for any signs that this place could be more than what it seems. Clearly a teenage boy stalking the pews should be questioned as to what he's doing, right?]

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No one's hiding behind adults for protection.

Alongside that, trying to take the fight to our captors is, at the moment, impossible. They're weakening, but they aren't weak enough yet to actually do damage to, and if you try to get others to start a fight with them right now all your going to accomplish is getting others hurt.

Some people seem all too happy to let others take the forefront here, concentrating on their meaningless distractions. We need everyone to fight, and then we need to strike. Waiting only gives them time to regroup.

It doesn't matter because the amount of control they have over the town prevents a forefront from being established here. They could easily just drone everyone the moment an attack is made at best, or kill them all slowly at worst. The person keeping us here is omnipotent as long as they reside in the town.

The difference is that the town is starting to fall apart. It's beginning, slowly, to come apart. They can't regroup anymore than they already have because they're on their last leg with the forces they do have.

We need to fight defensively.

Perhaps if they are already coming apart they wouldn't be able to kill or drone all of us at once, especially if we attacked en masse at their weakest points.

Sacrifices have to be made to win wars, the few that die will know they laid down their lives for victory.

It's possible but why waste the effort when we don't even know if there's a way to get home yet or if there even is a home to get to? Part of allowing them to survive is the fact that they are their screw ups are the only way we get information about where we are, what's outside, and where to go to next with things. As undesirable as that is, it's the way things are.

Yeah. I know. But you don't get the decision or the right to decide who should and if they should, let alone tell them to here.

Who are you? How long have you even been here?

[The reply is fierce and immediate, voice harsher than it had been before.]

There is a home to get to, believing otherwise is admitting defeat.

[Pah. He's not happy with this mystery caller, but he does answer anyway.]

My name is Nabuca, I've been here just shy of a month.

Other than your memories which this town can change at will and the regains people have, what evidence do you have?

Pokey Minch. I've been here two years.

How can you have been here two years and not think that an assault is the only way to go? How long will you wait and tell yourself that it's only a little longer? You're deluding yourself.

Are you really so stupid you think assault hasn't been tried in those two years?

Do you know how many revolutionaries, singular or as a group, have come and gone and been tossed away. Assault won't work. And it's only been recently that it's become clear that waiting them out is the best way to go.

Singular attacks, or even groups, are bound to fail. We need to rise up as one in a planned and disciplined attack.

[He can't just... wait.]

Impossible. It'd be hard enough to get everyone from one world to work with one another, let alone people from several dozen. And some people bringing grudges with them from their own worlds, let alone the jerks here who just want to kill us for fun despite being captives themselves.

Several people have tried to get everyone here to rise up as one before. It can't work.

Then it has to be made to work, everyone can be unified under one director if that director is firm enough in their commands.

[Believe him, he has experience in that.]

If they want to get home then they'll fight. If they refuse, then... they should be disciplined.

[He doesn't like that, he doesn't think it's right. But he knows it's the way to win, he's seen it before. And sometimes war meant doing things you didn't want to.]

You realize that's what the town does to us, right?

Do you really think the people here will react much better to a tyrant who's one of them rather than the town itself? Because I can guarantee you it won't.

[God. It seems so weird having this discussion, considering how much of it he would have agreed with before. And how he would have tried to build himself up as that kind of leader.]

The only importance is whether they obey, not how happy they are with the commands given to them.

Sometimes we all have to do things that are unpalatable in the name of the cause.

Well golly jeepers maybe if they had concrete evidence there WAS something to go back to or even something outside of here to start again they'd be more motivated! I'd love to kill the people here as much as the next guy but there's such a thing as a lose-lose situation, let alone the fact that nothing you can do can HURT THEM personally unless they will for it to hurt them at the moment.

Neither do you have concrete proof there's nothing waiting for you outside of here, so why choose to believe the option that plays into their hands? Why do you carry on if there is no home left to go to?

Yeah. You got me there. I don't.

But I do have concrete proof that direct assaults fail. You're the one who needs to provide proof they can succeed before we should have to accept your proposal. You have no right to ask us to do what we've seen fail time and time again without providing proof it can work.

You're pathetic, just making excuses for why it should be acceptable for you to sit and do nothing while others find the 'proof' you need to take action.

I don't have to justify anything to you, toolbag.

You know nothing about the situation or where you are. You seem to think that, whatever it is you did back home will work here. And I'm here to tell you it won't.

You want to attack the people running this place? Where will you start? City Hall? It's been tried. It failed. The Smith's house? Unassailable. The person who can apparently turn the town entirely on head lives there: you wouldn't be able to do a single thing. The police station? Most of the police are other captives. They're comfortable giving roles of authority to the people they've captured.

You want to organize the people here? Who'll lead them? You? Don't make me laugh. There's no one here who could band everyone or even a majority of the people together to try and attack. What you want will never happen.

As for not taking action...

[There's just a bitter laugh on his end.]

How about you bite me, jerkface? You don't know what I've seen or, more importantly, what I've done during my stay here. You know nothing about the situation or what's come before, and you don't want to. You want to blindly think that nothing has changed and the way you see the world is still relevant.

It isn't.

I was trying to be nice by telling you here instead of the kick in the butt you're going to get during your stay here. But you deserve it if you're not going to listen to reason whatsoever.

[Click.]

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