thesphererp | 01: A thought (voice: TheOtter)

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01: A thought (voice: TheOtter)

I find it interesting that ever so suddenly things are beginning to become unraveled. Suddenly, once people who are new and different arrive. Perhaps I've been around nobles too long, but it seems to me as if someone was waiting for just this moment to do whatever it is that they're doing.

The local's darker turn is interesting too. It takes a good bit of charisma to cause so many to defend one's honor so. I'm certain I could never do it. And yet, forgoing coin out of loyalty, or so one would suspect. After all, to many a merchant, coin is coin no matter who is offering it.

It should be very interesting to see where things go from here.

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Continue "falling for it".

I wonder, is there something more to that statement?

Possibly, but I think we've given whoever might be listening enough to wonder about right now, don't you?

[Hey, look. The good guy isn't the naive guy.]

[He's very impressed.]

I'm sure they wouldn't be listening in -

[They so would. Even he would be, and he's not a bad person set on doing weird things to the place they're currently living.]

That would be very nefarious of them. Whoever they might be, which is no one because no one is listening.

Of course not.

[He used to work in politics. He knows exactly what to expect.]

But I'm sure they'd understand the suspicion.

Well, finding yourself suddenly in a place you can't leave and being treated as we're being would certainly cause rumors and suspicion.

I'm sure if they were the cause it wasn't their intent. From what I can see it's all just gotten out of hand.

And openly rebelling would just make them more suspicious, right?

Of course. If open rebellion happened we would be forced to believe that there is a nefarious person that we're duty-bound to find.

Duty-bound, huh? That's kind of extreme.

Is it? I can't say I've ever found it so when it comes to someone hurting others. If someone were to incite a rebellion they would be hurting everyone.

Sure, but sometimes rebellion is the only way to protect people.

That would depend on who was inciting it and why. Suppose someone were doing so in an attempt to gain power, that would hardly be to protect people.

Are...we not still talking about us?

I apologize, I switched to out non-existent adversaries. We would never do something so garish as inciting a riot. It just isn't in our nature.

Well...it might be, but only if it's necessary.

True, but I'd like to think that if there were a puppetmaster, which there surely isn't, they would have thought of that. Unless they thought we were all meek.

Considering they're in our heads, they should know better.

But they aren't in our heads, because they don't exist.

The adversary, sure, but the people who are holding them against us aren't.

True, I suppose we'll just have to impose a good impression on them.

[He smiles at that.]

That is one of the things I do best.

You do seem quite friendly.

[He chuckles.]

Maybe I should have gone into PR.

It's never too late.

[He chuckles at he thinks back on what his roll in the community had been, convincing people that Alexandria was a place of safety, and to come with him 'home'.]

I guess I sort of did.

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