RKS008 -acht-

[freudenstachel]

[filtered from Layton]

If you are joining me in exacting justice on the man responsible for attempting to blow up the creature, tell me your name and any special abilities you may have that would aid us

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[optimistickey]

Freudia...no. No, you can't.

[freudenstachel]

I must.

[optimistickey]

No, you don't understand. You CAN'T.

It's not going to help anyone, including you. It's not going to bring our houses back.

[freudenstachel]

If I do not, he will simply do it again.

[inthephonebook]

Yeah, how about we do that after the other fifty billion things that we need to do and are are a bit more important to survival than forming a lynch mob.

Like, I don't know, securing food, shelter, treating the sick, just throwing that out there.

[freudenstachel]

There are enough of us to divide our attention.

[inthephonebook]

No, there really aren't. Maybe you haven't been out there much sweet heart, but we just got our entire infrastructure smashed, most of our food gone, little shelter, and a majority of our population is injured to some extent. We need every able bodied person helping now.

It's a simple formula: Saving lives and survival>Petty revenge.

I can do that math, and I didn't finish High School.

[freudenstachel]

If you are not in support of this, kindly be a saint elsewhere. You need every able-bodied person helping.

[Voice Post, because he can't do much else]

[theherotail]

[voice sounds gritty and a bit worse for wear] Hey now... That's a bit... eh... overboard, don'tcha think, Freudia...?

[Voice Post]

[freudenstachel]

[with very noticeable irritation] Extreme circumstances call for extreme measures.

[Voice Post]

[theherotail]

Look, I see the extreme. Hell, I'm not going to be moving for the next... week or... [voice trails off, seemingly distracted, or maybe just passing out almost] ...whatever... but... look, even if I was, I wouldn't be going after whoever was........ responsible. This is wrong.

[Voice Post]

[freudenstachel]

[her anger is rising] This is not wrong. This is justice. While you are immobile, the people who have already pledged their allegiance to this cause will be protecting you from further stupidity.

[fullmetallic]

Mein Gott. Let me ask you a question. Did anyone in this city ever tell that man and the others involved not to do it? Because judging from what I've read on the journals--going back weeks--everyone seemed perfectly happy to have others planning a way to destroy the thing. Now because it failed, you want to lynch them. Do you people even look at your own hypocrisy?

[freudenstachel]

I told him to stop. He failed to listen.

[fullmetallic]

No, you told him he was a fool. Not the same thing, sorry.

[freudenstachel]

It is more than anyone else did. You are the one who did the research. You would know this.

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[bothareone]

[Heavy coughing before he starts.]

No, this isn't right. They tried to do something to end the problems here. I know many people got hurt, but turning around and adding to the blood shed solves nothing. You'd only be adding to the suffering that has alredy happened.

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[freudenstachel]

[a deep breath, trying to calm herself] We had no problems before they got involved. Nothing like this. We lived in times closer to peace than ever.

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[bothareone]

...The road to hell is paved with good intentions. How do you know the beast wouldn't have decided to come after us at any given time? How was it peace when we live day by day fighting crabs? People are suffering here.

The only thing you'd be doing is adding to the injuried and the countless that died in this city before we arrived here. No one can learn from their mistakes if they're dead.

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[freudenstachel]

This is its city. We are simply living in it. We may not be able to destroy the creature, but we can live with it. For now. Or we would have been able to. [trailing off; there's a grumble] More are suffering now than ever were. Cut the problem at its head.

No one can repeat the mistakes, either.