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- Parctipation Activity, Session 15: Writing Story through Dialogue
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A brotherhood of steel paladin and scout are conversing about their findings in the commonwealth wasteland.
“Paladin Stone, I’ve been doing some reconnaissance on the remains of the Medford Memorial Hospital” Scout
“have you found anything there, or Anyone? Paladin Stone
“All I could find in the way of technology were broken, unsalvageable terminals, but you’re not gonna
be happy when I tell you who I saw there” Scout“spit it out, tell me what you saw!” Stone
“I saw synths and lots of them, automatic laser rifles, combat armor” Scout
“Tell me scout, do you know what they were doing there?” Stone
“From what I saw, they were just patrolling the area to look for and exterminate trespassers, as a matter of fact they almost saw me.” Scout
“do you think we can take them on scout?” Stone
“I know we can take these few on now, but you know the institute, they’ll have dozens more clanking all over the place” Scout
“That is a fair point, but we can’t let them hold that ground forever, those damned machines aren’t natural!” Stone
“Stone, if you’d like I can go in there and offline one or two and bring their heads back for us to analyze, maybe we can bring in a scribe to reprogram it as a double agent.” scout
“Hmm, maybe that could work, however, I want you to do this only if you know you can, you know we’re spread thin as it is.” Stone
“alright then stone, I’ll trek over there tonight, and we’ll get that institution drone’s head!” Scout
“steel be upon you brother!” Stone
(All Chant in unison)
AD VICTORIUM!On a Northbound train to the end of the world, there in the mostly empty last car sat two children one drastically more pale than the other.
Mneme: “Do you think the next visitor will side with you or with me?”
Marat: “You don’t seem to sympathize with those that cling to you, yet you hate when they choose me?”Mneme: “…Marat, you didn’t answer my question.”
Marat: “I think they will side with you then.”Scccccrrrreeeeeeeeeeeeeeecccchhhhhh! the sound of the breaks on the steam engine sounded and the trackless train stopped over a glistening and very vibrant city. The doors opened and a cold air flooded out and the cars in the front grew packed but the train did not take off until the very last person entered. It then resumed motion its previously quiet cars filled with transparent people asking questions. Along the corridors a lone old woman is seen making her way to the final car. She enters and meets the children who sat on opposite ends of the caboose choosing to sit next to the less pale of the two children previously called Mneme.
Mneme smiled looking pleased and began “Where are you headed?”
The old woman however was quiet and only looking out of the window, and Marat says “Where would you like to go?”
The old woman then says “I cannot remember, but I know I want to go there.”
Mneme angry that the woman didn’t answer her, simply glares at Marat who upon seeing her face decides to stay silent he didn’t mind losing but he did mind Mneme’s wraith and the skill she had in making a train ride miserable.
The old woman seeing that Marat seemed to ignore her after her response turned to Mneme and asked “Do you know where this train is headed?”
Mneme acting haughty states “I do not know where this train is heading but I can help you remember where you want to go.” she seems confident in something but the woman turns to Marat and asks ” Young boy do you know where we are headed?”.
Marat who tried to avoid participation could not ignore the visitor’s choice and tears his gaze from the window to ask the woman “I can only tell you where you need to go, I cannot tell you where we are headed.”.
The old woman almost yells “Please, dear boy tell me where I must go!” and we see Marat tell something to the woman before she hurriedly left the train at the next stop’
Mneme at this point only stares off at the view outside of the window ,she stays silent as if she had been wronged.
Mneme: “…”
Marat: “Mneme, you cannot force these people to remember who they are, most of them are self driven.”Mneme: “But, she lived a happy life! Why wouldn’t she wish to return to it?”
Marat: “If you strip someone of their memories all that is left is their character and then their character reveals their desires, that is our job.”Mneme: “But wasn’t her character good, I thought surely she would chose to go back?”
Marat: “A person’s character may be good or bad depending on the circumstances where they applied, she could’ve been a ‘horrible’ person if in the right environment.”Mneme: “But-!”
Marat: “Mneme you cannot force others to decide their fate, but you did win the bet.”Mneme: “Then because its my win, I ask that you spare that woman from purgatory.”
Marat: “She will be reincarnated then, however her character will not change.”Mneme: “Let’s make a bet.”
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