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

[hungryman]

No violence but genocide is fine? That's messed up.

Re: DISCUSSION

[heron]

It is an unusual system.

Re: DISCUSSION

[hungryman]

Sounds like it could use some changes...

Re: DISCUSSION

[heron]

It is not that simple.

Re: DISCUSSION

[hungryman]

Seems like it never is. There's always something to fight against I guess.

Re: DISCUSSION

[heron]

I cannot fight my very being, but that is all right. I don't mind breaking my bones to punch idiots.

Re: DISCUSSION

[hungryman]

Heh... it sounds fun. Other than your bones breaking.

Re: DISCUSSION

[heron]

It was very liberating.

Re: DISCUSSION

[hungryman]

How about throwing people? There's ways to hurt people without getting as hurt yourself... let the ground do the talking.

Re: DISCUSSION

[heron]

I suppose I could pick them up and drop them.

Re: DISCUSSION

[hungryman]

That... works I guess, but I meant more of a...

[throws an imaginary person over his shoulder]

Like that. He deserved it anyway, sneaking up on me like that.

Re: DISCUSSION

[heron]

I don't have the physical strength for that. And it is not possible for me to get it. My diet is limited.

Re: DISCUSSION

[hungryman]

I think there's ways around that, but I don't... remember them yet. You use their balance against them somehow, doesn't take much strength.

Re: DISCUSSION

[heron]

It is still impossible for me.