Aftermath, Continued

[velesdonnersen]

 [Phone Call, Locked to the DA]

[Tarvek is finally beginning to get angry.  He's not a fast fury sort, and he's surprisingly peaceful given a chance, but he's got two dead friends laid out on his home-office sofa, and he's waiting to see if Mayfield has the grace to give them back now that it's had it's fun.  He's the sort of fellow who wants

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[velesdonnersen]

[He's just rumbling with angry.]

But, Harry, here's the thing: we can't really protect them... and what we do...

Harry, blue-fire! If we don't act, Mayfield may hurt the people we love. But if everyone's been exactly right, then Mayfield will do that anyway. Mayfield can hurt them, drone them, kill them, and it will when it wants to, and we can't actually do a verdammt thing about that. We can't change it at all.

The only thing we can change is whether we let Mayfield make us do the dirty-work ourselves, or make it do the job on its own.

I'm sorry. I do think the DA is worth having. Lighting and hail, I joined because I think so. But...

Ach! I need more information. I need to know whether cooperating with this verdammt town actually ever does any good. Because if it doesn't -- if the sum total is always negative -- then I don't understand why we should play along.

[pants_yourmove]

How... how can you not think it's evil?

You haven't been here long enough to judge... you haven't heard half of what it does.

[velesdonnersen]

It's not anything that makes sense, so far, and until I know what the blue-fire it does and how it works, I'm going to try to leave room open for it to be a whole lot of things -- including a stupid mistake someone made that needs fixing

[pants_yourmove]

It tortures us, it mocks us and it seeks out what we care about and uses it against us.

If you don't think that's evil, you're not helping.

I don't know what blue fire has to do with anything, but I know groups like the DA at least try to help. They want to fix this as much as anyone else and make sure we all make it.

[velesdonnersen]

Yes, and you might notice I joined the DA. That doesn't mean I have to stop thinking or asking questions -- and it definitely shouldn't mean that I have to simply interpret this place by your rules. That just a form of droning myself and saving Mayfield the trouble.

That's what bothers me about this entire stupid weekend: how much of this is a matter of people actually helping Mayfield? And why? Resistance can take a lot of forms, but most of them begin with saying "No. I won't do that."