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[impure_tale]

To my beloved readers: The worlds from which we come are imperfect. I need not tell you this. I believed myself to have seen the extent of human atrocity in my lifetime, and we come here encouraged to commit still more. To them that are newly come, this is your warning. You will be challenged. You will be abused. You will be tortured. All they want is for you to not be you. It's not just about ridding yourself of goodness. It's about a loss of integrity. It's about breaking the balance. Nature is equally infused with beings of good and evil and their similar acts.

You are what you are, and these people will endeavor to reverse that. They want your anger and your despair.

But remember that in our imperfect worlds -- worlds where suffering is very real and sometimes unimaginable -- there is also good. There are moments of deep pleasure, of warmth, of beauty, serenity, contentment -- I daresay even love. You, and your cabins, are the last vestments of those worlds. Your homes. Cherish them, and cherish yourselves, because that's what they want to take from you.

I bid you remember, and that you resist. Even a beautiful memory is worth fighting for.

Do not be afraid, my treasures. If you are not afraid, then they cannot win.

(ooc: The Marquis is an Inmate again -- and one who is almost always confined to his cell and targetted for abuse, because he's a rabble rouser. He encourages the other Inmates to keep their integrity and resist, to remember home fondly, to share their experiences. SOOO touchy feely compared to his old style, but it's about sticking it to the man, people.)

Comments

[yourunichase]

What. the. hell?

[impure-tale.livejournal.com]

Are you well?

[yourunichase]

I'm pretty fucking sure I've gone insane at this point.

sexby trolls with puritanism.

[accountsettled.livejournal.com]

Anger and despair?

No, I want your obedience to God, that is what I want.

Even when he's resisting teh EVILs, this never changes.

[impure-tale.livejournal.com]

There is no God.

good for your atheism, marquis.

[accountsettled.livejournal.com]

You shall burn in the fires of Hell for your blasphemy. You shall be punished for your sin.

[acid_rayne]

YOU'RE BOTH AS FUCKING BAD AS EACHOTHER.

[impure-tale.livejournal.com]

Why Rayne. If I didn't know any better I would think you were warming to me.

[with_discipline]

You are only doing yourself a disservice, Marquis.

and he's still a perv

[impure-tale.livejournal.com]

You sound as though you are in fine spirit today, T'pol.

Perhaps you'll come and correct me. I'm sure a lady of your ingenuity would have no trouble finding a good switch.

[with_discipline]

I doubt we have the same switch in mind.

[major-west.livejournal.com]

Well.

Now it'll be another fortnight before you're allowed to have visitors. Why do you insist on doing this?

[impure-tale.livejournal.com]

What would you have me do, sparrow?

[major-west.livejournal.com]

Give your treatises to me. I can pass them along.

[ace-hits-daleks.livejournal.com]

Give it a rest, you tart!

Nobody wants to hear that old load of panty guff...

[impure-tale.livejournal.com]

When has that ever worked? Honestly.

[ace-hits-daleks.livejournal.com]

Since the alternative's more fun.

Voice - Younger and quite terrified

[subtlescience]

They can kill us. They can do worse things...


Y-you shouldn't say things like this. You should stop.

Please, erase it all. Please.

Voice

[impure-tale.livejournal.com]

My cherub, we are already dead. Some of us dead of natural causes, some because we have learned there are more important things than our lives.

Be brave. We are with you.

[vampish_aleera]

Your words, as ever, provide me with soothing thoughts, Sir...

So very lacking, my appetite for darkness has become, yet this world and my own, in equal, are ceaseless in their needs to ignite it, once more.

They do not understand it provokes only tiredness.

But you remind me why. You provide me with memories of comfort. No matter what I become, this, I shall not forget.

Private

[buywithme.livejournal.com]

A beautiful memory is one thing, change is worth fighting for.

Still, you're a poet, Marquis.

Private

[impure-tale.livejournal.com]

Change is the only thing constant, Comrade.

Stay the course.

Private

[buywithme.livejournal.com]

I'll believe that when I see it.

The same to you.

[young-idealist.livejournal.com]

Can't you just shut up for once?

[impure-tale.livejournal.com]

Was that your rebuttal?