95.3 - rock is cool but the struggle is better (backdated to Monday)

[hard_talker]

[Monday evening at 10 PM finds anyone with their journal open contemplating how a sixteen-year-old kid could like a guy whose voice sounds like he smoked every day of his life - yep, "Everybody Knows" by Leonard Cohen is drifting out of the pages, and soon enough, Harry's piping up over the music, gradually phasing it out]Well, well, well! When I

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dictated;

[hellshaped]

Sisyphus was sentenced to that because he thought he was better than the gods, though. Is that part of your allegory?

[hard_talker]

[amused snort] Well, we're sure as fuck better than this castle.

[hellshaped]

[wow kid, language!!] Maybe that's why it's such a pain in the ass. Because we say things like that.

[hard_talker]

[dude, where've you been the last nine months? he always talks like that] Well, where's the proof that we're not?

[hellshaped]

[but it's ... still impolite ......] We're stuck here, aren't we?

[hard_talker]

Just 'cuz it's holding us down doesn't mean it's better. We didn't all need to randomly control people and fuck with them, right?

[hellshaped]

Maybe not better. But more powerful.

Or at least it's pulling enough strings to keep everyone in check.

[hard_talker]

I wonder if we could get away with cutting a couple of those strings before it noticed ....

[hellshaped]

If we could find them.

Then again, if we cut a string, what's to say this whole place won't unravel?

[hard_talker]

Well, if it does, we just make somethin' better, right?

[hellshaped]

Not necessarily.

Out-of-control, oppressive magic is a hell of a lot worse than controlled, oppressive magic.

[hard_talker]

You say that like a guy who's had experience.

[hellshaped]

Sure. I've been around.

[hard_talker]

So ... if somethin' like that does get outta control ... speakin' as a man of experience ... how would'ja stop it?

[hellshaped]

Blowing it up's usually been a pretty good solution.

Not sure if that would fly here, though. Ever place is different. And I'd hate to use a bomb on something there's no way out of.

[hard_talker]

Heh. Spoken like a true pyro. .... I hope we can all eventually come up with something, though.