A low-tech declaration - Thursday morning

[veepofchess]

[Tacked on the inside entry doors of both dorm buildings for both schools. Typed, with what some might recognize as the flag of the Black Knights behind the words.]

Prisoners of Rakuen:

I am Zero. Some of you may know me, and would ally yourselves with me. Others would seek me out and have me unmasked. What I bring to you today, however, is unity. There is one unalienable truth that unites us all in ways we need only open our eyes to see.

That one truth is that we are all united in is that we are all prisoners of the Rakuen system. We are all forced to fight our friends, family, and loved ones, to unknown ends. We are all marionettes on the strings of a faceless puppeteer that uses his power over others to enslave them and force them to do his bidding.

But this has not always been the case. There are whispers about how the last session of this game ended. Freedom is possible for those that would stand and take it for themselves. The Prefects, the Headmistresses, and indeed, even the Mayor herself are all merely cogs in this machine.

And this machine is one I will tear down piece by piece and gear by gear until nothing remains. None will be left behind, and none that oppose me will find mercy. If you would join me, seek me out. If you would oppose me, then you endeavor to continue your own incarceration.

- 0

((Read Me First!:Feel free to mingle amongst yourselves as characters begin their days with this lovely treatise! Look for your school and dorm color and tag under there!))

Comments

[merde]

[Fairy flies up to the page and she seems to be deciding whether it's more readable with or without her glasses for a moment. She decides on leaving them on, and reads.]

This is going to be a problem, isn't it. [Long-suffering sigh]

[trollofthree]

Depends. I can't see everyone agreeing to thi--

[ wait. Who said that.

... ] You're definitely a new one.

[merde]

Tear. [Politely hovers at eye level, as usual. Wouldn't want you leggy humans to have to strain your necks to see here.]

Conflict means there will be fluctuations in the availability and demand of weapons and the like, and Recette is locked into set prices. This is going to be a mess.

[trollofthree]

[ whoa she's the world's tiniest war profiteer. ]

Ah, a pleasure. I'm Gino-- hey, more to the point, I don't think this is gonna lead to open warfare in the streets or anything.

[merde]

There doesn't have to be open conflict for there to be an impact on the market.

[trollofthree]

That shop's gotta be set up to handle demands for battles, though. If anything, this increases her business.

[merde]

Yes, but there is typically a price increase associated with increased demand when all else remains the same. It's the natural flow of the market.

[trollofthree]

[ it's okay he's from a country eternally at war, he understands wartime economics a bit. ] That's assuming she can't just order more from... wherever the stuff comes from.

[merde]

We will have to see. [This is Recette we're talking about here.]

[trollofthree]

Guess we will. [ soooo. He holds his hand out, palm down, in case she wants to perch. Gino she's not a little bird ] You some kind of fairy?

[merde]

I am a fairy, yes. [What kind of question is that.] I worked with Recette back in Pensee.

[trollofthree]

[ wow she's acting like his old babysitter with the KotR ] Fairies work as shopkeepers..?

[merde]

I am a debt collector for a financing agency, actually. I came to know Recette during the process of helping her raise the funds to pay her father's debt by opening a store in her home. Our partnership became a bit more long-term than the payment of the debt.

[trollofthree]

You're a little small to be extorting money from people.

[merde]

[Speaks more sharply] I was merely collecting a legitimate debt. Her father had gone missing and the loan was in arrears, thus it fell to his next of kin.

[trollofthree]

Well, not that I want to tell you how to do your job, but isn't that next of kin a little kid?

[merde]

I did not simply repossess the house. I helped her to earn the money in increments over the course of a month. [She sees nothing wrong with what she did.] Others would not have been so kind.