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[impure_tale]

I have to say I am somewhat surprised; I have been so long since graduating that I suspected the Admiral was awaiting me to finish the play before he would assign me. It is a special irony that I am not only wrong, but have had my assignment made within theatrical circles just the same. I am surprised and in a way honored.

Monsieur Iago, you and I are going to have to have a little chat.

[Filtered to the Cast and Crew]

To my theatre troupe: Owing to the fact that a vast majority of you are in need of time to recover, group rehearsals are postponed for the time being. If any of you require my aid, or lessons or exercises from me to help you get back into the proper mindset to act, I am happy to provide, should you ask.

[Private to Pavi]

Paviche?

Comments

[impure-tale.livejournal.com]

These are not assumptions. These are warnings, and it is not I that will have to worry about resting easy if I decide that you are behaving toward me in a manner contrary to what I have made clear is your only path. You'll have to just forgive me if you think I am concluding too quickly, but as you yourself have said, your reputation precedes you.

[inhumandog.livejournal.com]

So it does.

And you are not forgiven by me, though I can only think you do not care at this point. What happened only took place because the weak willed congregated in one place. They chose their own paths.

[impure-tale.livejournal.com]

You can't play that card with me, boy. Speaking as someone who actually was unjustly accused of influencing terrible deeds, there is a fundamental difference between speaking openly in broad terms, or of fictional occurrences, and speaking in the hopes of catalyzing something untoward.

[inhumandog.livejournal.com]

I hoped for nothing. An experiment without parameters. Or, to perhaps make it more relevant to your mind, it was a play. An improvised play where the actors knew very little information about their parts. They fell into their pit because they assumed, because they trusted, and because they are very, very much human.

[impure-tale.livejournal.com]

You do realize that if a word of that were true you would not be here right now, oui?

[inhumandog.livejournal.com]

No.

I am here because my experiments worked out much better than even I had anticipated.

[impure-tale.livejournal.com]

Very well. I'll bite. If your deeds were little more than experiments, then we'll put that to the test.

By tomorrow, you will relate to me the development and results of your experiments, using scientific method. Hans Christian Oerested's steps of Observation, Hypothesis, Deduction and Experimentation should do quite nicely. That was devised a little after your time, but you will find ready sources in the library to aid you, I am sure.

If you're not too busy setting it on fire, that is.

Make me a believer, Iago.

[inhumandog.livejournal.com]

Consider it done.

[impure-tale.livejournal.com]

I'll consider it done when I have the work in my hands.