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[othersdie]

This isn't over.

The deities didn't create rules--they enforced them. Whoever or whatever is above them is, presumably, still there. The only thing that this revolution has changed is who oversees us. We're not free. Our problems aren't gone.

We can't be sure that we'll be better off. What do we know about the people who have replaced the deities? Do we know where they came from? What they truly want? Now that they control whatever power the deities had, what are they going to do with it? They've made promises, but what have they done for us? Were they any more forgiving or any less ruthless than the deities during the fighting?

Nothing gets better in the City. Maybe this time will be an exception, but I see no reason to hope for much. We'll still lose people we come to care about. We'll still be at the mercy of our captors, even if they aren't the ones we're used to.

Be careful. Don't hesitate to contact the police if there's trouble.

Comments

video;

[subecho]

You... are not of the merry-making sort.

video;

[othersdie]

[Understatement of the year.]

No, I'm not. Are you?

video;

[subecho]

I am! Let us call for wine, we have ancestors to honour. Have you any?

I have my share for you, if you do not.

video;

[othersdie]

None worth honoring. You can have my share of wine, too.

video;

[subecho]

No! We both drink for my ancestors. You, for my father's, I for my mother's.

[notscrapmetal]

Hey, the name is Deacon.

You're making a lot of sense here. This is the start of something good, something that we can make together. Keeping perspective is real, real important but if we don't celebrate and be uplifted where we can be then--then I don't know.

video;

[othersdie]

Okay. Is there a right way to do that?

[othersdie]

Deacon. If you've been in the City for long, you would know that there's nothing worth celebrating here.

[valentineluke]

Spreading it a bit thicker each time they take the podium.

[othersdie]

I'm not interested in talking to you.

[valentineluke]

Merely agreeing with the questioning of them.

(Filter)

If push comes to shove....

[vengefully]

Yeah, I doubt it'll be different even if the people who have replaced them say otherwise.

(Filter)

[othersdie]

I never intend to be that desperate.

[othersdie]

Not significantly different. Even if their intentions are good--and I have my doubts--they won't be able to change what the City is, what it does.

Re: (Filter)

[valentineluke]

Nor I. However, neither of us or anyone else for that matter, may not have a choice. This new 'regime' could be far worse than the deities.

[vengefully]

Yeah, that part never changes.

video;

[subecho]

You begin with drink... and you end with it.

You will do well. I trust in you.

[had_not_lived]

I've been wondering what they think of all this. The ones-- the other ones. Bigger than the Deities.

video;

[othersdie]

I can manage that.

(Filter)

[othersdie]

It could be. There wouldn't be much to do against them.

[othersdie]

How long have you been here?

[othersdie]

Adrastus and his mother? You'd think they would do something.

We should stock up on lemon pies.

[vengefully]

Almost 5 years. [give or take between the times he has left this place and ended up here yet again]

[othersdie]

And you remember all of it?

[vengefully]

There have been times I've left but yes, I've remembered this place each time I came back.