inthebones: (Skeptical)
Susan Sto Helit ([personal profile] inthebones) wrote in [community profile] mayfield_rpg2012-08-06 01:42 pm

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[phone]
Oh, marvelous, it's August again.  My favorite time of the year.

Students, I hope you've been working on your summer assignments.  Adult men, I hope you're prepared to be perfect gentlemen when we all find ourselves floundering in that ghastly hotel.  Anything else to expect this month?  No?  On to business, then.

I'm sure we're all very distracted by talking pony parties and pool parties and platter parties and inpourings of perpetually perplexed new populations, but has anyone made any effort whatsoever to sort out that business from last month or are we still playing the game where we ignore all interesting information in favor of smashing random objects we find in the dairy?  I don't mind that game; of course, quite invigorating, good for the vasculature, but it might be worth trying a different approach at some point in time.  I venture to suggest today, if no one's too busy holding competitions to see who looks the most absurd absent their clothing.

[action, 726 Anderson Lane]
[Susan can be found hanging up black cloaks and other assorted clothing in uniform crepuscular shades around the house where garish green was all there was formerly to see.  A welcome change, in her opinion; she'd missed her wardrobe from home, even if everything looked exactly the same as the black cloak she had commissioned here in Mayfield.

Still, she pauses for a moment as she handles an emerald-green cloak, never worn, hanging in the hall closet since the previous Christmas.  ...It goes back on the rack after a bit.  And she'll only push it back behind the others an inch or two.]


[action, park]
[A rather unusual sight in the park later on that week.  Somehow, Miss Susan the English teacher has been cajoled into reading a nice story for a small group of drones.]

And so, adding conspiracy and first-degree murder to their trespass and property damage charges, Hansel and Gretel pushed the old woman into the oven and ignored her anguished screams as they left the house of gingerbread, naturally taking all of her valuables with them as they went.  With these illicit goods, they reunited with their criminally negligent father, but not, surprisingly, their 'wicked' stepmother, who had mysteriously vanished in the space of the two nights in which the children were gone, leaving the father sole keeper of his property and remaining funds and raising suspicion as to who it was had devised the plan to leave the children in the forest in the first place.

But it doesn't matter, because they all lived happily ever after.

The End.

[The drones seem quite pleased with her recitation, at any rate.]

greyerrant: (Squinty)

[personal profile] greyerrant 2012-08-07 03:00 am (UTC)(link)
As for ignoring the interesting information, are you aware of the level of obfuscation the town's masters used to conceal the nature of what we destroyed? We were operating on a reasonable, but incorrect assumption. I have perhaps learned wisdom from it... but there was an important lesson from the destruction of the machine itself. The town is not truly omnipotent. They can be discomfited. It means that some resistance is possible.

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[personal profile] greyerrant 2012-08-07 03:04 pm (UTC)(link)
This is not about feeling better. Nor was it an excuse, I simply wished to make clear why it was done. I am not a raging berserker, it was a gamble, and it failed, but there was reason behind it, even if flawed.

That being said... we've had some confirmation about the nature of this place, of late, but the confirmation raises as many questions as it laid to rest.

In a truly virtual world of information, such as I've seen, why are we able to make great changes, such as destroying the resurrection mechanism? I cannot fathom why it could not be replaced.