PART ONE

[soulping]

[The lights dim and you are no longer in a classroom, but a low key bar. An older gentleman from behind the counter is looking at you as if waiting for your next order. La Torre's voice comes from nowhere in particular:]

Today I have a story for you. Have you ever heard of the Human Condition? It's a conceited study of what traits innately make a human being a human being. Some say it can be defined as humanity's capacity for good and for evil. If a person has an infinite capacity for good then, like a mirror image, they must have an infinite capacity for evil, right?

There was a man. He was sitting at a bar. He couldn't accept the reality of his world. It was his lot in life to wish for a different lot; he was a selfish, small man. He drank. He drank to forget. He drank to obfuscate his understanding. He drank so he didn't have to accept.

You are sitting at a bar. Why are you drinking?

Comments

Re: DISCUSSION

[pawper]

I guess it could be that, too.

But that's kinda silly, isn't it? Lecturing about drinking when that's what the game is about?

Re: DISCUSSION

[grandstanding]

I expect it's to make you feel bad about yourself later.

Re: DISCUSSION

[pawper]

That seems a bit....pointless.

Re: DISCUSSION

[grandstanding]

He's an Echo. Of course it's pointless.

Re: DISCUSSION

[pawper]

Some of them aren't so bad.

But I guess it says a lot about this particular one.

Re: DISCUSSION

[grandstanding]

Nothing nice, either.