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[withloadedguns]

[Video Post]
[You'd think this might be an ordinary video post--as ordinary as the come around here and especially on a day like this, at least--as the thing starts, rising out of the usual electric fog and darkness. But, instead, it doesn't seem to show the City at all...]

[...and, as strangely as it began, it ends again, going back into the dark as the feed ends...]
[//video post ends]

[ooc: Memory Theatre for the Cowboy (who has no idea this has hit the Network). If that embedded video doesn't work, click here. Let him know this is up for all to see. Ask him about his, um, home-made armor, I guess? Ayup.]

Comments

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[anunluckypenny]

Okay, so I don't condone violence--ever--but that was... pretty smart of you. The armor, I mean.

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[withloadedguns]

[Give him a second. This is a bit like having someone tell you that your account has been hacked and you've been posting ads for raspberry-extract weight-loss pills all day. He's going to go look at whatever he's been unintentionally posting to the Network...

...and...

...okay.]

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[withloadedguns]

[Okay. So. Yeah.

He hasn't thought about this in a good year or more...]

It did the trick.

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[anunluckypenny]

Oh... um. Sorry about that. Watching, I mean. Since memories are kind of private.

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[withloadedguns]

Seems like they're not so much anymore.

[Private, that is. I mean, if the City can broadcast the things everywhere...]

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[anunluckypenny]

Well, no, but they should be, you know?

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[withloadedguns]

Yeah. They should.

Looks like the City disagrees with your opinion.

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[anunluckypenny]

We disagree on plenty of things. A right to privacy is only one of them.

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[withloadedguns]

Is that so?

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[anunluckypenny]

Absolutely! Have you ever heard of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights?

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[withloadedguns]

... ... ...

No.

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[anunluckypenny]

Oh--that's fine! It's... basically, the City violates all of the ones that don't involve the legal system.

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[withloadedguns]

Is that so?

[He may not look it, but he's actually kinda curious about this...]

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[anunluckypenny]

Completely so! I mean, the City even skips the most basic ones--life, liberty, and security. And then there's torture, inadequate living conditions, the lack of a free education system, no freedom of opinion and expression without interference... and arbitrary arrest and exile? Pretty much the City's favorite things.

[Maybe that was over-sharing.]

...Sorry.

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[withloadedguns]

I'm not sure about that.

The City teaches a lot of people quite a few things.

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[anunluckypenny]

[The Cowboy has an opinion! Penny is all ears.]

What kinds of things?

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[withloadedguns]

How to stay out of trouble.

For instance.

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[anunluckypenny]

By making us kind of paranoid so we check for curses or invading robots or something before we leave the house?

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[withloadedguns]

Or teaching you how to duck.

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[anunluckypenny]

That's probably a more useful thing to learn, huh?

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[withloadedguns]

Sometimes.

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[anunluckypenny]

Like during gunfights?

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[withloadedguns]

Could be.

Or maybe just those days when it's raining cats and dogs.

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[anunluckypenny]

Literally raining cats and dogs? Because that's not okay.

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[withloadedguns]

Is that against the universal declaration of cats' and dogs' rights?

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[anunluckypenny]

They don't have a declaration, but there're a lot of animal rights groups who wouldn't appreciate it.

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[withloadedguns]

Long as they remember to duck.