entry twenty nine: the revolution script is a lie

[pleasesmirk]

Gods, even when alternate versions of you attempt due methods of control, you can't do it properly. At all.

As much as I hate to admit it, that delusional version of myself's last post was... right. I am better than that. Part of me thinks I ought to show you all my watch house just to show you what I think you're worse than.

I'd also like it

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[mystakenpromise]

Do you need any help?

[pleasesmirk]

I'm alright, Sirrus, really. You alright?

[mystakenpromise]

I suppose. I did not die and I was not hurt.

Thanks in no small part to you. Or...him.

[pleasesmirk]

I would have done the same if it were me. But if it were me, I would have not gotten involved in such a ridiculous and chaotic attempt at insurrection.

[mystakenpromise]

Chaotic, yes. Ridiculous? Maybe not.

[pleasesmirk]

Chaos is always ridiculous, and bound to end in bloodshed.

[mystakenpromise]

Sometimes bloodshed is necessary.

[pleasesmirk]

Yes, Sirrus, but not in support of insurrection.

[mystakenpromise]

But that regime...the wardens. Surely there were extenuating circumstances to consider.

[pleasesmirk]

...you mean their incompetence? They're incompetent here too. Neither lot could, or can, keep order, but creating more chaos was not going to fix anything.

[mystakenpromise]

Incompetence is no fault of theirs as individuals, but rather their inability or choices not to work together as well as they could.

[pleasesmirk]

Certainly true, I'm not denying that. For both Barges. But it is no excuse to take up arms against them and merely spread the chaos further.

[mystakenpromise]

No. It was not good to do it in that way.

[pleasesmirk]

I cannot quite comprehend how the other version of me was so sold on it.

Although, actually, knowing John Keel, I can see how. Which is a little disturbing, as a thought.

[mystakenpromise]

Who is John Keel?

[pleasesmirk]

A police sergeant from Pseudopolis. He thought he could tell me, us, how to run our city.

He had the right intentions, and did very well for a man who had the eyes of a brutal mass murderer, but he didn't understand the situation.

And, turned out to be a murderer. He's the man who killed me.