Of Councils and Conspiracies

[memoryandtheft]

We managed to make it in and out of the Council offices in one piece.

[That's the sort of statement that should sound celebratory. It doesn't. Even with the flattened affect provided by the psychic network's rendering of tone, there's an undercurrent of carefully restrained anger.]

The plague's gone. The plague's been gone for almost two hundred years. The Council's been keeping quarantine all this time in order to keep from having to admit they've been drugging people blind for no good reason for centuries. Their biggest concern right now is the fact that more and more kids are being born resistant to their drugs.

That's where the Duskling population boom is coming from. And the kids born on the wrong side of twilight - apparently, immunity to one side doesn't guarantee immunity to the other, and they aren't all that careful about making sure their shipments don't get mixed up, since an adult probably isn't going to notice any change after a few doses of the wrong thing.

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[memoryandtheft]

The Duskling market should be safe. Enough of them are allergic that there'd be a public health scandal if it wasn't.

Letting the locals know is the first step to putting a stop to things - and the more people there are to spread the word, the harder it will be for anyone to sweep this under the rug again.

[gotabadfeelingaboutthis]

Yeah, good point.

I suppose that's always how it starts. A few people find things out, spread the word, and things pick up from there, 'til no one can ignore them anymore.

[memoryandtheft]

Something like that, yeah. Hopefully it doesn't reach the "no one can ignore it" point at the crest of an angry mob.

[gotabadfeelingaboutthis]

Boy, I hope not.

I can't help having a bad feeling about this though.

[memoryandtheft]

Don't we all.

[gotabadfeelingaboutthis]

Looks that way, from what I've heard, unfortunately.

[memoryandtheft]

Have you been spending a lot of time at the Ideograph Cafe?

[That's where she's heard most of the mutinous rumblings she's been witness to, but that doesn't mean there isn't another bar or five catering to the disaffected out there.]

[gotabadfeelingaboutthis]

Yeah. It's a pretty decent place. That bad feeling is definitely common there though.