Video - Keeping Promises

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[The video opens on what could be a video game interface - a first-person view looking down from above, a courtyard with Initiative personnel taking a break from their work, enjoying lunch and the outside air, each individual bracketed with HUD reticles as they go about their business, while a variety of status indicators frame the edge of the display. Osprey's voice is heard, calm and professional.]

It has been 32 hours since I issued my demands. There has been no apology from the Initiative, nor has there been any indication that any is forthcoming.

[Osprey's sniper rifle comes into view in the frame, and the display changes, zooming in on one particular table down below, where several men are having lunch. The tracking reticle on one changes color from white to red, and the video of the man discussing the use of the mind control drug displays next to him.]

Colonel Jonathan Landry. The man responsible for the attempted brainwashing attempt.

[The video disappears, and crosshairs appear, centered on the Colonel's head. Then comes the bang, and the man's now headless body tumbles from his seat, before the video cuts to Osprey in front of a non-descript background.]

I repeat my demands. A public apology from the Initiative. Immediate cessation of the drugging. And increased openness and collaboration with the transports in the execution of the campaign against the United Earth. If no apology has been delivered in 24 hours, I will attack a new target, and then again 24 hours after that.

If there has been no apology by the time of my third strike, I will be forced to conclude that the Initiative prefers a state of guerilla warfare, and the pace of attacks will increase. I await your response.

Comments

[birdhousesoul]

Your notion of common sense sounds remarkably like my notion of 'doesn't have a blighted clue what to do, spouts cryptic rubbish at people who have the guts to take action'. Appeasement will get us nowhere. Passivity has gotten us where we are.

[why yes this is the man who spent seven years endlessly drafting a ~manifesto~ and stashing random sections all over the city]

They are our captors. They have brought us here to fight their battles for them, and if there are any defenseless among us, those defenseless souls are here for the sole reason that our captors saw fit to conscript child soldiers. The Initiative's actions from start to finish are utterly indefensible.

To take violent exception to this latest outrage — their violation of our very minds! — is neither an immoral act nor the act of a stupid child.

All the handwringing and matronly disapproval in the world won't take back what Osprey has done. You're wasting your time, at best. At worst, you're posturing for the pleasure of the Initiative.

[boughtabookstore]

Matronly?

[ YEAH that's the part she's taking offense to. ]

I don't feel inclined to attempt to reason with you. At no point have I said their actions were acceptable.

Just that this one is equally unacceptable.

Again, do not put words in my mouth. And do not assume what I think of this situation.