Fred, I can't try your stirfry tonight. I've got to meet someone else. Sorry about that.

[Locked to Kusanagi // Unhackable]

We have to track him down, Major.

"Now in order to kill the enemy, our men must be roused to anger; that there may be advantage from defeating the enemy, they must have their rewards."

Sun Tzu perfected warfare, the rest of us are just riding his coattails. We're all angry, but where is it going? We're just all mindlessly venting it out instead of using it.

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Erol, I think we need to have a chat.

[Locked to the Major // Unhackable]

He's been threatening to rape again. Major, I think we should have a talk with him.

The food smells of sulfur.

I expect this has something to do with the field trip you all went on.

[One instant he's perusing the buffet, the next he's in Akagi's room and handcuffed to the small Japanese boy. Batou makes a gunt of surprise and tries to move away before discovering that they're handcuffed together.

He immediately pulls out his comm and flicks it onto an open channel.]

Is there a purpose to this?

[He's interrupted by Akagi ( Read more... )

Cultural traditions and holidays are often standalone complexes, copies without an actual original. Halloween is one that springs immediately to mind. Modern holidays seem less focused on spirituality and community than on consumerism, which a late twentieth-century writer dubbed "the bastard child of capitalism and fascism ( Read more... )