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[Suddenly, an interruption to your regularly scheduled Network! First there's static! And then...there's an image...flickering in and out between the lines of static:]

[And then there's a voice, albeit electronically garbled:]

CITYZENS!

For too long you have suffered under the cruelties of the DEITIES.

WE ARE HERE FOR YOUR LIBERATION.

BUT WE NEED YOUR HELP.

We will make you an offer in the hopes that you will see it as proof of our good intentions and will lend us your aid.

CITYZENS! WE HAVE IT WITHIN OUR POWER TO GIVE TO YOU WHATEVER YOU MIGHT NEED OR WANT!

The DEITIES demanded TRADES of you, where they took what was most valuable to you at times when you were most vulnerable.

NO MORE!

WE HAVE IT WITHIN OUR POWER TO GIVE YOU THESE THINGS AND WE WILL DEMAND ONLY YOUR PROMISE OF SUPPORT AND LOYALTY IN RETURN!

IF YOUR POWERS HAVE BEEN STRIPPED AWAY, WE WILL RESTORE THEM.
IF YOU HAVE GIVEN SOMETHING PRECIOUS IN A MOMENT OF DESPERATION, WE WILL RETURN IT.
IF YOU LONG FOR SOMETHING FROM BEYOND THIS PLACE, WE WILL PROVIDE IT.

WE WILL UNDO THE CRUELTIES OF THE DEITIES AND WE HOPE THAT YOU WILL UNDERSTAND WHAT GOOD WE MEAN TO DO IN THIS CITY. THIS IS OUR PLEDGE OF GOOD FAITH.

ALL THAT WE ASK IS THAT YOU PROMISE TO HELP US AND SUPPORT US.

STAND WITH US! STAND AGAINST THE TORMENTS YOU HAVE RECEIVED FOR SO LONG! STAND AGAINST THE NEW CRUELTIES THEY HEAP ON YOU. STAND WITH US!

We ask so little. Together we can do great things.

[With another burst of static, the connection goes dead.]

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[ooc: Yes, this is fully legit, so saith I,

robot_mod. Characters can make a deal in exchange for their promises of support and/or loyalty to the Anonymous Movement--yes, this is unabashed bribery of the Citizens. These bribes can be anything from an item from home to curse immunity for the rest of the month to the undoing of a previous Deity trade to the removal of limitations on a character's powers. But please bear in mind that characters who ask to have their power limitations removed should still find their powers Nerfed a little (so no blowing up the City and timetravel is still going to be basically impossible). Join in! Fight on! Representatives of the Anonymous Movement will be replying to all requests!

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[ Had he been younger he would probably have jumped at this quickly. But he's far beyond that now, and there's a great deal of suspicion in him. But he doesn't really let it be heard. ]

What sort of things would you ask us to do?

[As before, the voice is electronically masked.]

Nothing beyond your capabilities or comforts. If you'll just say you support us and stand by that, that's enough for me.

We want to know that you're on our side. We can't do this alone.

You'd be surprised how much power you actually have. Why do you think the Deities are always hiding things and making them more complicated than they should be?

I don't know what I think.

I get why you're not showing your face or not using your real voice, but is there any way to meet you?

Yes, absolutely.

It might even be safer that way.

When and where?

My grandfather had a saying. "There ain't no such thing as a free lunch."

Basically, what's the catch? I don't think you've put all your cards on the table.

He's right, too.

Basically, the catch is that we want your help. If we give you want you need and want, we hope you'll use it to help us and not against us.

We're willing to take this risk. We think it's worth it.

And if you succeed and get us out? What then? Some might hold that over our heads and ask for favors later.

So what's the catch? Like you say, you're not asking much.

Not a chance.

Point is, we're as sick of the assholes running this place as we figure you are. Help us get rid of them and we'll call it square.

You can go, hell you can even stay here if you want.

All we want to do is get a little equality and fairness in this place. We're sick of it too.

What if I don't want to go home or stay here?

[Still garbled!]

Here's the catch: we give you what you want and you give us some help.

You want to get, I don't know, your fire-breath back. Awesome--we can do that. But we hope you'll use it to help us take down the Deities. That's what we want.

We know that you've all be under their thumb. We're sick of seeing that.

Cool. We can do that too.

...what?

What?

You want to go to some third place? Okay. No problem.

Well, okay, a couple of problems, but nothing we can't handle. We've got you.

What kind of problems?

Yes. But how can we trust you?

For all we know you could be created by the deities in an effort to weed out and find those that oppose them. Thus they know who to deal with to keep their social order.

In fact, that seems more likely than anything else.

What about those of us who don't have powers? What do you think we can do for you, when the time comes to take down the Deities?

It has to do with getting in and out of this place, basically.

Think about it like square pegs and round holes, okay? A square peg fits in a square hole, right? It's hard to put a square peg in a round hole--unless you make the hole bigger.

You are, and no offense intended, a square peg. To get you to a third place, we'd have to change the hole.

But we've already got someone working on how to do that. It's happened before, and it can happen again.

Anything you think you can do. We'll be glad of any of it.

Seriously. Shoot a gun at their windows. Throw rocks. Scream at them on the Network. I don't care. Anything and everything you think will work.

What's your success rate?

How are we supposed to know you aren't working with the Deities, trying to figure out which ones of us're traitors? You make sweeping promises, but all I see's a whole lot of rhetoric and not much evidence to back it up.

Really?

They've messed you guys up worse than I thought.

Not that I thought we'd get welcomed in here with open arms while girls scattered flowers or anything. Hell no. But I guess I had a little too much hope. That's youthful idealism, right? That's what Blackdog calls it, anyway.

Whatever. I'll tell you this: the Deities are so fucking mad at us right now. They're about to shit themselves they're so mad. It's so great. You saw what they did to one of their own, right? They hate us.

And they probably hate us because we're just like them, but we don't think like them.

Look, you don't have to believe me now. I wish you did. But you can wait and see too. I got nothing but time.

Right now? I'm gonna say about 75%.

You guys all keep asking me the same question. They've messed with your heads way worse than I thought. I mean, really, guy.

Okay. If someone would actually, you know, take us up on our offer, I guess I could prove it all that way.

But, hey, it's cool. You can wait and watch too. I wouldn't blame you.

Sit tight and keep an eye on things. You'll see some changes coming down.

Oh, yeah, of course. Those're the best kind of offers to take someone up on -- the ones that have absolutely no guarantee of working out, the ones that absolutely no one understands completely. You really think the people around here're that stupid?

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