Winding down

[wants_the_phd]

WHO: Roses and ?
WHERE: Rose barn
WHEN: Post-ritual evening 54 through morning 55

[Whew.





Whew.]

Comments

[wants_the_phd]

That's exactly right. If you want someone to do something for you, you've gotta persuade them that they want the same thing and that your interests are aligned. Maybe that's making their lives dependent on yours, but it could also be as simple as dispersing the right propaganda. So she can't tell us the truth about the situation due to Demon NDAs? She could just lie. Feed us the answers we want so we'd stop looking for the truth. Give us a cause to fight for and blah blah blah.

[finalbows]

[ titter, titter. ]

Don't outline too many of those steps in front of her. She could always summon a memory demon and give it all a second shot.

[wants_the_phd]

How do you know she hasn't already?

[finalbows]

...oh, that's easy.
[ suddenly sobered. ]


I find messages to myself. Often.
None of them are about her.

[wants_the_phd]

I guess that's one way of dealing with your curse...

Does it help?

[finalbows]

Well, I know that I have reasons to leave messages to myself that aren't Blossom, so that's... doing something. I guess.


_{Unless I've just forgotten the ones that are about her...? Ugh. My head hurts just talking about this out loud.}

[wants_the_phd]

Considering how many people have amnesia in this place, maybe we ought to be summoning the memory demon.

[finalbows]

Had a dream once that one would be a dragon.

[wants_the_phd]

Yeah?

[Go on~?]

[finalbows]

Webbed wings, clad in a great golden glow, a red belly and a black mane...


No legs. Which I feel, was strange. But if one begins to criticize demon morphology, they simply do not stop.

[wants_the_phd]

Sounds like a nice dream.

Did you ask it anything?

[finalbows]

[ stretches his arms far out in front of him on the chaise, and then shifts his hands so their palms are facing up. like he's begging for something. ]

"O, Demonic Dragon of Purification, if I could have of you but one boon in this life...

Strike from me all recollection of having read Lord Avon's great work, 'I Want To Be Your Canary!'"

[wants_the_phd]

[Laughs]

It's that good, huh?

[finalbows]

And better, live.

[wants_the_phd]

I wish we still had those memory coins, then.

What's the plot?

[finalbows]

The fair Princess Cornelia, and a lowly orphan of common stock, Marcus, have taken to one another through a whimsy of fate. But Cornelia's father, King Leo, is a truly loathsome despot, whom one could take responsible for Marcus' every misfortune in the world... yet he also holds the heart of Marcus' lady love in his hands.

It's a lovely tragedy, of course. Bodies dropping across the stage in the final scene...! Love, loyalty, clashes between the wants of the heart and the head turning friend to foe--! The only thing that spoils it, is that my annoying little replacement took the name of one of the characters as his own.

[wants_the_phd]

Yeah? What was it?

[finalbows]

Zidane. At least it was supporting cast. The hero's gallant friend and ally who chooses protecting the purity of their love over the practical concerns of brokering peace with a rival country.

[wants_the_phd]

[Romance sure seems like an awful lot of trouble sometimes.]

You know, Belle was looking for ideas for a performance he could put on for Rubato. Have you pitched this to him?

[finalbows]

No~. I didn't know that. But Rubato WOULD be able to appreciate it, if I had to pick out someone from the rabble who would.

[wants_the_phd]

I bet you could get a copy of the script from Red, if you don't already have it memorized.

The hardest part might be finding people who could do the performance justice.

[finalbows]

[ the look of someone who is contemplating deeply if no Shakespeare Lord Avon ever again is worse than BAD Lord Avon ]

[wants_the_phd]

If only we had those on-demand memory coins again. You could create a wall of water and play the memory on there like a hologram.

[finalbows]

If only.

[ pulls out an unused, non on-demand memory coin. tilts it to and fro. ]


You know, sometimes I wonder if we could use these for more than just a few moment's entertainment. Memories are powerful. I've used them to do terrible things before. And it feels telling... this world chooses to make them a currency that we just keep receiving....

[wants_the_phd]

Do you suppose memories are something you can spend instead of just receive? That might explain why everyone's amnesia situation varies so wildly from person to person...