1.1.01.01.037: sacrifices for the good of the collective.

[needshumility]

You know, ever since that port, I've been thinking about Violet.

Comments

[betrayalswager]

Your world sounds quite... interesting.

[Actually, he thinks you're insane and babbling incoherently over the network, but he's willing to humor your ravings for the moment.]

[needshumility]

Interesting is an odd way of putting it.

[betrayalswager]

You think so? It sounds completely different from any other period in history.

[needshumility]

I don't know much about other periods in history - and what I do is from people here, and I can never tell how accurate that is - so it doesn't sound unusual to me where it might to you.

[betrayalswager]

Of course. You've never known anything else. And yet, for all of that you do not speak like an uneducated man.

[needshumility]

I had a tutor for a while.

But compared to most of you, I am pretty uneducated. We're taught to... abide by the Rules, be polite members of society - everything else I mostly learned myself since getting here.

I think... We were raised to be ignorant, not stupid.

[betrayalswager]

In other words, you were raised in under a totalitarian regime.

Who controls the people? This.. 'Colourman', was it? What a strange appellation.

[needshumility]

...From my understanding of the word, yes.

The Rules control the people. The Colourman is... a representative of National Colour. They're, I suppose, the highest officials there can be. They decide who gets put on the Grid, make Univisual colours from scrap, perform Ishiharas and... numerous other things I can only guess at.

[betrayalswager]

And you want to overthrow them.

It seems you and I share common interests. How do you intend to do it?

[needshumility]

Me and Jane do, yes.

I intend to become a Colourman. Jane has other friends who will help her, and we have to find out as much as we can about the truth before we can stop it. That, so far, is the extent of our planning. That I know of.

It was Jane's idea first.

[betrayalswager]

This Jane sounds quite ahead of her time. The name is familiar... she's here too, isn't she?

Private
Perhaps we should meet for dinner sometime, the three of us. In my world I was a revolutionary as well. Of course, the political climate is very different there, but I still think there are things we can learn from each other.

[needshumility]

Yes. She's the red-haired woman shouting at me right now. Mister Sexby's warden.

[Private]

I would have to discuss it with her, but I know we both try and gain as much... experience from the Previous as possible. I'm sure she wouldn't object.

[betrayalswager]

You sound rather used to it.

[Private]

Of course. Take as much time as you need. It's not as if any of us are going anywhere.

[needshumility]

She's good at standing up for herself. I don't see a problem with it.

[Private]

Quite true. Except I think my inmate might graduate soon, but that's a complicated matter, and I need to talk to him but maybe now isn't a good time.

[betrayalswager]

That's an invaluable quality in a revolutionary.

[Private]

No, now perhaps might not be the best time. A few days isn't very long to wait, though.

[needshumility]

Quite.

[Private]

No, I'm sure we'll have it worked out by then.

I'll get back to you, Mister...?