On this next adventure, you'll be heading to The Empty Place. Accompanying you will be The Diplomat. You will be provided with basic equipment and credit for expenses. The climate is temperate, there are few monsters or other anomalies, and no population to speak of. Arrangements will need to be made to dismantle the existing infrastructure so that we can establish supply lines, and security will need to be maintained around key points (for which your credit may be leveraged and expensed). You should expect some resistance at first, but should be able to resolve any conflicts with minimal bloodshed. Should you find yourselves compromised, it is imperative that The Diplomat escapes. They will know how to devise the post-mortem report. Know that long-term success of operations will depend on the initial terms.
I promise there is a real module idea hidden in here. You may ask why I am not explaining, but it simply cannot be discussed.
Very good. Creepy through implication, what can't or won't be said. The civilizing mission so civilized it can't even acknowledge its own atrocities except through impenetrable euphemism, or a memetic/anti-memetic environment... maybe both at once depending on your point of view...
ReplyDeleteI will neither confirm nor deny, but I like where you're going with it...
DeleteThe last line made me scurry back to the beginning and re-read everything. Then I started to wonder about the italics used for "speak of" and if that was related to the idea that it simply cannot be discussed. Really intriguing!
ReplyDeleteThe italics were very intentional ;)
DeleteInsanely good - italicization never felt so creepy
ReplyDeleteThanks, I struggled a bit with where to italicize so I'm glad it worked out.
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