Vengeance

I do understand the grief you are experiencing, Dan. There isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t think of the young ladies in that warehouse. The things they say when they think no one is listening are haunting. I might not speak in lengthy dialogues to many people, but trust I hear, I listen and I care deeply. I have pledged my allegiance to @masterlock, but I have also made a silent vow to be there for the ones whose voices aren’t as loud.

I “will be spared.”

Mhmmmm. Thanks a bunch.

Who even are you? :p

You’re gonna have to get in line for that…the BOS kinda have you beat…by like, months. :p

@shinobi, though I can understand where you’re coming from, I’m at slight odds with your…methods. Won’t bloodshed just create more bloodshed?

And to add onto that….who are you targeting your vengeance upon? How far will it spread? Will it not just end with the OOA but also go to encompass all who stand alongside it?

I’ve advocated that not the entire OOA has to fall. Only selective parts of it. I’ve also never demanded blood to be shed in that process-although I’m not a leader of any sort, I’d strive in the best manner possible to topple those portions of the OOA that have caused so much chaos without needing to fatally harm anyone.

I see a difference. I don’t see the entire OOA as corrupt-defying even the words of the @masterlock at one point. I don’t want the entire OOA gone.

If your…vengeance is aimed at the whole, the entirety of the OOA, you’ve got no friend in me-and in my eyes, you’re no better than the BOS.

• This reply was modified 8 years ago by  Mustafa Said.

Let’s have a sit on this couch over here and have ourselves a chat…

I thought V was for Vendetta?

You want vengeance? Take a number and get in line…

I understand your pain. The face of the handler I saw at the end still haunts me.
But I won’t allow my pain to become an obsession. And I won’t turn against the Overseer unless given good reason.

Tonight I was shown my path in startling, blinding Technicolor.
@shinobi: you are blinded by your pain, as was I for a short time. We will talk more.
To the entire community: understand, my alliance to BOS does not waiver. In fact, I am more committed to the cause than ever now that I have truly received enlightenment. There are wonderful, wonderful people inside those walls who showed me nothing but unconditional love. Much like the love you all have shown me. There are people who are happy there, that have the best intentions and I wish them well. But there are others…
@masterlock: I am so so sorry. That is all I can say here.
@samson: you were so wonderfully kind to me and I will forever treasure that special time we spent together. But that does not alter what you are and what you do. Knowledge is power. If you gave me this knowledge and expected me not to use it then you are a fool.

@samson was quite kind to me last night as well, and he has a lovely singing voice.

Should I mention that he showed me where the OOA building is?

You know, after two visits, I have not met Samson. Or a “doctor”. Or “The Sentinel”….

There is a reason for this. I’M SURE OF IT.

Honest question, @shinobi…

Why have you vowed vengeance against Overseer? What will that accomplish?
If what happened to you was so horrible as for you to go Charles Bronson on the OOA, why is your hate not directed at the OSDM? They are the ones who are clearly pulling the strings.

• This reply was modified 8 years ago by  Andrew Kasch.

You’re welcome @shinobi. I don’t believe violence and rage are your true nature. I’m glad to see you’ve come back to yourself. My opinion is blind rage does nothing to honor those we’ve lost. We might have a chance to take down whatever evil is lurking in and around The OOA if we calculate our moves and stand together. @masterlock once told us that together we are One. She was joyous that day. She believed in all of us, not just apostles or rebels. All of us.

And then there is this other matter always lurking in the back of my mind. The constant breaking, un-breaking, re-breaking of the fourth wall. It sure complicated matters. We’ve been told since early days: “This is not what you think it is… We are not who you think we are.” I believe this wholeheartedly.

Have you ever been forced to eat the eyeball of a fish?

Surely, this would constitute some form of cruel and quite unusual punishment, culinary merits aside. Allow for a moment this allegory, and bear (or cat) with it:

There once was a woman whose cruise ship capsized, and she barely escaped with her life by fleeing upon a raft. Alone and adrift, she slowly endured the experience of facing a most lackadaisical demise through the unceremonious method of starvation. Having used up all her rations, she was left to survive by the few fish she could capture. She began by eating the flesh, and tossing aside the offal, bone, and head into the crevices of her floating home.

Soon, however, she found that this was not enough to sate her. She began to find the flesh unsatisfying, even distasteful at times. An odd urge came over her, as she found herself drawn toward the storehouse of her most recent catch, and she gave into the inexplicable compulsion to pluck out the eyeball of her gilled quarry and pop in into her mouth.

It was delicious.

When they found her, she was not who she began as when she set out upon her cruise. But after time, and perhaps some therapeutic conversation with friends, family, and one would only imagine a licensed professional, she came back into the world, forever changed, and had only one question unanswered: why, of all that she had done to sustain her threatened survival, had she turned toward the consumption of the eyeballs?

It would be a doctor who gave her the solution to this puzzle: there are certain nutrients and unsaturated fatty acids in the eyeballs of fish that cannot be found throughout its body. Stripped of acculturation by custom and social convention, she was reduced to the feral state of instinct – some part of her just *knew* that this gelatinous orb held the key to her survival, and her sense of taste adjusted itself to meet the needs of this deeply encoded urge. She overcame herself, and because of it, she was allowed to continue her experience.

Now, you may wonder at the applicability of this bizarre tale to our situation here, as the logical thread of comparison tends toward the burden of blame: who, indeed, forced her into that situation?

She bought the ticket. She went on the cruise. She chose the unsavory fate which befell her.

What we cannot presently answer is whether or not it is the same part of her which developed a penchant for eating fish eyeballs that led her to buy the ticket.

Surely, though, we can all agree that there is no place for revenge in this story.

Wait, did I miss something?

With all due respect @shinobi, you weren’t there to witness Trin’s Ascension. I don’t care who our new Oracle might have been in her previous life. That is gone. Now she is simply our Oracle with greater purpose than she ever had in her old life.

I watched her senses be removed one by one. I saw her still breathing once the ceremony was over. The rapture in @masterlock‘s eyes is a sight I will never be able to forget. She asked me to stand beside her and I am 100% committed to her and Anoch.

If you want to take down @samson, whatever the reason, I’m with you. He has no faith. He simply desires power. He is the rot that has been eating the OOA from within and we will eventually have to deal with him.

But the moment you start threatening @masterlock or speaking ill of the Oracles who empower her, I can’t sit still.

Please choose your next actions carefully. You are not our enemy.

@shinobi Sadly, @aporetic and I will always have your back when it comes to Scilon references. 😀

While we’re at it, OSDM is clearly OSA amirite?

I think you are on to something @shinobi. Not sure if its Samson or another character that is running the show but I am fairly sure that the whole institute is run by one “evil” person with everyone else being apparatchik’s in the criminal enterprise. I think the institute has some kind of secret or dirt on Addison @masterlock that compels her to obey and recruit initiates. She was so vulnerable, lacking in self confidence and hoping to please so much that she was easily recruited in the OOA herself. She probably realizes she’s being manipulated but cannot figure a way out. Extinguishing the evil one violently may be her only way out. She may even have to sacrifice herself for the many.

Samson is definitely in control over everyone within the OOA’s walls – especially Overseer.
But I have a feeling even he answers to someone.